Mr.  Smith works in a hospital.  His medical skills are    1    and he is a popular doctor in the hospital.  And he is often    2    in the daytime.  So he    3    to have a good rest at home.  He lives in a building outside the city.  All his neighbors keep    4    except (除了) Mike,  who moved there last month.  The young man lives just upstairs.  He likes music and    5    a piano last week.  He always plays the piano after supper.  He can’t play well,  so he    6    a lot of noise.  Mr.  Smith can’t stand that. 

Two weeks later,  Mike is ill.  He    7    go to the hospital.  Mr.  Smith looks him over and says,  “If you stop    8    the piano at night,  you’ll soon be all right. ”

After the young man left,  a nurse asks,  “Does playing the piano have    9    to do with his recovery (康复),  Mr.  Smith? ” “Yes, ”    10    Mr.  Smith,  “He’s one of my neighbors! ”

1. A. good              B. well             C. bad              D. fine

2. A. free              B. busy         C. relaxed      D. boring

3. A. feels             B. decides          C. lets             D. hopes 

4. A. quite             B. quiet            C. quietly          D. quick

5. A. sold              B. buys         C. sells                D. bought

6. A. enjoys                B. shows            C. makes            D. tries

7. A. must              B. can          C. has to           D. had to

8. A. making            B. playing          C. to play          D. to make 

9. A. anything          B. something        C. nothing          D. everything

10. A. speaks           B. tells                C. talks            D. says 

One day, a young man asked Albert Einstein, the great German scientist, which the secret(秘密)of success(成功)was. The scientist   31   him that the secret of success is hard work. A few days   32   the young man asked him the   33   question again. Einstein was very   34  . He did not say  35  , but wrote a few   36   on a piece of paper and handed it to the young man. The young man looked   37   the piece of paper. On it was written: A=X+Y+Z.“What   38   this mean?”asked the young man.“A means success,”said the old scientist.“X means hard work, Y means good methods(方法),and Z means   39   talking and start to   40  .

1.A. say        B. said        C. talked    D. told

2.A. ago        B. before      C. later        D. after

3.A. easy       B. different     C. same    D. difficult

4.A. worried     B. disappointed(失望)  C. happy  D. angry

5.A.anything     B. something    C. nothing   D everything

6.A. words       B. word        C. sentences   D. sentence

7.A. on          B. after          C. at    D. for

8.A.will         B. shall         C. does   D. is

9.A. go on       B. stop         C. enjoy    D. start

10.A. do          B. read         C. work  D. look

 

Jimmy spent most of his time in the bedroom when he was in university. With his aunt’s help, the young man found a job in a park after his graduation. There’re all kinds of flowers in the gardens and he has to look after them. He thinks it’s easy and often stays in bed.
One morning the head of the park found some of the flowers were dead. He called Jimmy there and asked him the reason. The young man studied for a long time but couldn’t answer. Just at that moment an old gardener passed by and the head asked him for help. The old man studied it for a while and said,” A mole(鼹鼠)is eating their roots(根).”
“I don’t think it has something to do with the dead flowers,” said the young man, “People appreciate(欣赏)not the roots, but the flowers!”
1. What did Jimmy like doing when he was in university?
________________________________________________.
2. Where did he work?
__________________________________.
3. Did he work hard there?
____________________________________.
4. What made some of the flowers dead?
______________________________.
5. Who knew the answer?
______________________________.

One day, when my wife and I were leaving a restaurant, I heard a man’s voice from a car in the car-park. After a quick look at the ear, 1 noticed the Pennsylvania license plate (牌照) at once, so I knew they had come from far away. The young man had his head partly out of the window and spoke to me as I moved closer, "Excuse me, my wife and I are trying to find a room for the night and every place in the area seems to be filled up. Do you have any suggestions for us where we might find a room?"
Well, that didn’t surprise me. After all, it was the busy time of the year for tourism. As he spoke, I noticed that his wife was pregnant (怀孕的). 1 told them that they should just keep searching (搜寻) and wished them good luck in their search. The young husband didn’t say any other word and backed out of the car-park and headed off. We also got into our car and drove home.
After a short drive, I couldn’t get this young couple out of my mind. Here they were, traveling in a different state, tired, the wife pregnant. It was at that moment that my wife told me we needed to go back and find that couple. We went back and looked for them. We even went as fat as the mountain. I’m happy that this story had a happy ending. We found them in the end, gave them a room, and now we are close friends.
【小题1】The main problem the young couple had was that they couldn’t_______________.
A. find a place for the night              B. find a doctor
C, find their way                         D. afford to stay at a hotel
【小题2】When the writer told him to keep searching, the young husband____________            .

A．was very happy	B．continued to ask other questions
C．thanked him and drove away	D．said nothing and drove away

【小题3】We can reach a conclusion from the passage that______________ .

A．the writer didn’t agree with his wife

B．the writer’s wife was a kind person as well

C．the writer had no trouble finding the young couple

D．the young couple found a room in a hotel in the end

Alice was a beautiful girl. She liked nothing except dressing __1__ and dancing when she was at school. Of course she wasn’t good at her __2__. But the boys were ready to help her with her lessons __3__ they liked to dance with her. And after she finished middle school, she __4__ found work in a big shop. The __5__ had a son and he wanted the girl to marry him. Alice __6__ though the young man wasn’t clever enough. And she __7__ all kinds of clothes and shoes. She lived in the beautiful house with a big garden and she __8__ did anything at home. She didn’t love her __9__ but she lived a city life.

Once Mrs. Evans called Alice. The woman said she bought a few __10__ pictures and asked her to appreciate（欣赏）them. She __11__ nothing about the art but she was afraid to be laughed at and got there in time. She saw several women there. They were __12__the pictures when she went in. She thought for a long time and said, “Look! They’re all __13__. Why didn’t you buy the new ones?”

The women looked at each other but they tried not to __14__. And when they were appreciating a picture “Tramp（游浪汉）”, she said, “I don’t think the artist could draw! Such a__15__ man had no money to have a portrait taken（请人画像）!”

1.	A．him B．himself C．her D．herself

 

2.	A．classes B．English C．maths D．language

 

3.	A．when B．while C．because D．after

 

4.	A．hardly B．easily C．no longer D．happily

 

5.	A．bookseller B．shopkeeper C．gatekeeper D．policeman

 

6.	A．agreed B．hated C．preferred D．failed

 

7.	A．sold B．was sold C．gave D．was given

 

8.	A．always B．sometimes C．never D．often

 

9.	A．husband B．son C．brother D．uncle

 

10.	A．cheap B．expensive C．terrible D．strange

 

11.	A．liked B．interested C．watched D．knew

 

12.	A．looking up B．looking for C．talking about D．hearing from

 

13.	A．old B．clean C．dirty D．thin

 

14.	A．stop B．smile C．laugh D．lie

 

15.	A．busy B．clever C．rich D．poor