Many years ago, there was a young girl named Pepsy．She thought she was bad-looking and didn't like going   56   ．But there were times when she had to go out shopping．She was unhappy and sometimes even    57    when people looked at her face．

    One night, a strange old woman came to Pepsy's    58    . She said to Pepsy, “My child, let me help you．Put this magic flower in your hair, and you'll become   59   ．”

    Pepsy did what the woman said．Something     60    happened．She became beautiful! Pepsy was surprised to see herself so wonderful in the mirror．She ran   61  out of her house．She walked on the street and    62    everyone．She became very friendly and nice, very different from what she had been before．Almost all the people said, “Pepsy is so   63   today!”

    Finally, Pepsy returned to her home．But when she    64   the house, she saw the magic flower on the floor．She left the    65    there before she hurried out．She didn't wear it when walking on the street!

56．A．alone            B．out                  C．abroad            D．back

57．A．surprised            B．tired               C．angry            D．quiet

58．A．house              B．school              C．village               D．town

59．A．happy             B．young              C．strong             D．beautiful

60．A．strange              B．sad                  C．bad                 D．important

61．A．happily              B．sadly               C．carefully             D．angrily

62．A．went with        B．smiled at             C．looked at           D．got mad at

63．A．beautiful              B．great               C．old               D．young

64．A．left                 B．found               C．entered              D．saw

65．A．house              B．woman              C．hair               D．flower

Mary’s dime（一毛钱）

It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel   1  when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.

　　 What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly  2  the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light   3  her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.

　　  How much I  4  that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so   5  — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.

　　  I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the  6  in her old dirty dress, looking at the   7  that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt   8  and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so   9  to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would  10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”

　　 Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,   11  this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your  12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”

　　 I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,  13  look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How  14  the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,  15  I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

1.                A．disturbed       B．unhappy        C．satisfied  D．interested

 

2.                A．saw            B．remembered    C．forgot    D．described

 

3.                A．filling          B．protecting       C．attracting D．touching

 

4.                A．hated          B．loved          C．missed   D．noticed

 

5.                A．valuable        B．meaningful      C．expensive D．cheap

 

6.                A．market         B．library          C．store D．bookshop

 

7.                A．dresses         B．magazines       C．books    D．candies

 

8.                A．surprised       B．excited         C．pleased   D．worried

 

9.                A．happily         B．kindly          C．angrily   D．sadly

 

10.               A．taste           B．sound          C．feel  D．smell

 

11.               A．since          B．so             C．and  D．but

 

12.               A．apple          B．hamburger      C．dime D．candy

 

13.               A．proud          B．angry          C．calm  D．hungry

 

14.               A．grateful        B．unlucky        C．lonely D．friendly

 

15.               A．unless         B．if              C．though    D．because