Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading.
After a few months, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t clean her window. It really looks terrible.”
One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!
It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through the dirty window of my heart?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
小题1: The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because __________.

A．the woman’s window was dirty

B．the writer’s window was dirty

C．the woman lived nearby

D．the writer was near-sighted

小题2: The writer was surprised that _________.

A．the woman was sitting by her window

B．the woman’s window was still terrible

C．the woman did cleaning in the afternoon

D．the woman’s window was clean

小题3: “It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.

A．I began to understand it	B．it cheered me up
C．I knew it grew light	D．it began to get dark

小题4: It’s clear that ________.

A．the writer had never met the woman before

B．the writer often washed the window

C．they both worked as cleaners

D．they lived in a small town

小题5: From the passage, we can learn _______.

A．one shouldn’t criticize others very often

B．one should often make his windows clean

C．one must judge himself before he judges others

D．one must look at others through his dirty windows.

Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.
When he was 12, his parents died. He was alone and didn't get on well with others. People always laughed at him. No one showed kindness to him. 
His only friend was a dog named Tiger. He gave his dog enough to eat and drink, but sometimes he was not polite to it. He didn't know that an unkind word sometimes could cut one's heart like a knife.
One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped to pick it up, she dropped other bags. He came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” she said kindly, smiling.
A special feeling came to him. These were the first kind words he had ever heard. He watched her until she went far away, and then he whistled to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.
“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy” he repeated the woman's words. Then in a low voice he said to his dog, “You are a nice little dog!” Tiger raised its ears as if it understood.
“Unum! Even a dog likes it!” he said. “Well, Tiger, I won't say unkind words to you any more.” Tiger waved its tail happily.
The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw nothing but a dirty boy. He washed his face carefully. Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed. From then on, he had a new life.
After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. What a great power it has!"
小题1:The boy repeated the words “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” because       .

A．he was thinking about the words

B．he didn't understand the words

C．he wanted to talk to his dog

D．he liked talking to himself

小题2:What made the boy start his new life?

A．The people laughing at him.

B．The kind words spoken to him.

C．The hard life.

D．His lovely dog.

小题3:He was feeling        when he whistled to his dog.

A．funny

B．sad

C．lonely

D．excited

小题4:Which of the following is Right according to the passage?

A．He never took good care of his friend, Tiger.

B．He usually had many friends around him.

C．He helped a young lady when her bag dropped.

D．He often washed his dirty face in lake.

小题5:What's the best title of this passage?

A．A Dog and a Boy	B．A Poor Boy's Childhood
C．A Businessman and a Boy	D．The Power of Kindness

At the beginning of 2009,Li Guilin and his wife Lu Jianfen were honored(授予...荣誉)as “People Who Moved China in 2008” in this yearly event. This event was introduced by CCTV in 2002.
Li,42,and Lu,41,were born in Han families and grew up in Ya’an City. In 1990,Li visited Erping Village(二坪村)in Liangshan of Sichuan Province, he was surprised at how backward(落后)it was. People there lived a rather poor life. The children seldom went out of the village. Li decided to teach in that village at once.
The children have to climb five wooden ladders to reach the school of Erping. They spend the week there before returning home for the weekend. “Walking on the wooden ladders is really dangerous. You can just put half of your foot in the narrowest place.Behind the ladders is the deep valley.(山谷)”
A year later, as the number of students increased, Li Guilin began to look for a new teacher. When the summer holiday was over, he couldn’t find one yet. So he advised his wife Lu Jianfen to join him.
Till now ,they have been teaching in the village for more than 18 years.Over the past years, they have taught 149 students,22 of them were from the schools of other areas because of the two kind teachers. “I’m the son of farmers,” says Li, “I know that education is the best way for a poor mountain area to change.”The couple(夫妇)will go on working at this school to help more children walk out of the mountains into happy and bright futures.
小题1: “People Who Moved China” has been held ________ till 2009. 
A. three times. B. eight times          C. ten times            
小题2:Li Guilin and Lu Jianfen are ________.
A. doctors            B. students            C. teachers      
小题3: The children have to climb wooden ladders because ________.
A. walking on the wooden ladders is really dangerous
B. they like doing that
C. it’s the only way to the school of Erping
小题4: Lu Jianfen has worked in the school of Erping since ________ .
A. 1991              B. 2002                  C. 1990            
小题5:Why will Li Guilin and Lu Jianfen go on working at this school?
A. Because both of them are children of farmers
B. Because they hope more children can have happy and bright future
C. Because they were honored as “People Who Moved China in 2008   

It was Christmas, and there was a big party in the house. Guests came and went, but the party went on. Then the bell rang. Several people shouted, "Come in!"and a small man opened the front door and came in. Nobody knew him. But the host went to meet him, and took him to the bar for a drink. The man sat there happily for an hour and a half and drank.Then suddenly he stopped and looked at the host. "Do you know," he said, "nobody invited me to this party. I don't know you, 'I don't know your wife, and I don't know any of your guests. My wife and I wanted to go out in our car, but one of your guests' cars was in front of our gate, so I came here to find him and my wife is waiting in our car for me to come back.
小题1:What’s the date that day ?
A. Monday . .B It’s December 25^th .
C. It’s Novermber 25^th   D. It’s January 1^st
小题2:Which sentence is Not true about the party ?

A．All the guests stayed there until the party was over .

B．There were lots of people at the party .

C．There were some drinks at the party .

D．Not all the guests knew each other

小题3:How long did the small man stay at the party ?

A． For an hour .

B．For half an hour .

C．For 90 minutes .

D．For a while

小题4:Why did the small man stay at the party ?

A．He was the host’s neighbor .

B．He was a friend of the host’s .

C．He wanted to say “Have fun ” to the people at the party

D．He wanted to look for the person whose car was in front of his gate .

小题5:The best title is ___.

A． A small Man

B．A Strange Guest

C．A Friendly Host

D．A funny Man

It was a Sunday morning. Peter, a seven-year-old boy, watched TV in the room while his brother Bill did his homework. Their father watered the flowers in the garden and their mother went out to do some shopping. At ten the woman came back with a heavy basket. Peter ran up to her. He wanted to know what his mother bought. He found a bag of oranges in it. He liked them very much and wanted to eat. His mother stopped him. She gave five to each son and went to cook food. Peter ate his oranges soon but his brother was busy doing his homework and didn't eat his. Suddenly the telephone rang and Bill ran to answer it. Bill's friend asked him to play football with them. And when Bill talked with his friend, Peter took two of his oranges away and ate them. Bill found it and called him out and beat(打) him behind the house. Peter didn't tell his parents about it.
The next morning Peter’s teacher, Mrs Ball, taught the students subtraction(减法). Peter didn't listen to her carefully and couldn't understand it. So he couldn't answer her questions. The teacher began to give him an example, “If your brother has five oranges and you take two from him, what will the result(结果)be?”
“He'll beat me, madam,” answered the boy. All his classmates began to laugh.
小题1:When did Peter’s mother come back?

A．At five.

B．At six.

C．At seven.

D．At ten.

小题2:How many oranges did Peter eat?

A．Five.

B．Six.

C．Seven.

D．Ten.

小题3:Miss Ball was Peter's __________teacher.

A．Chinese

B．maths

C．English

D．history

小题4:Why didn't Peter tell his parents that his brother beat him？

A．Because he knew he was wrong.

B．Because he was afraid of his brother.

C．Because his father didn't like him.

D．Because his mother let Bill do so.

小题5:Peter couldn't answer the teacher's question because___________.

A．he was not clever

B．he didn't listen to the teacher carefully

C．he was not good at maths

D．he was thinking about eating oranges

A businessman lost his wallet. There was plenty of money in it. So he makes a promise(诺言), “If someone finds my wallet and returns it to me, I'll give half the money to him.” A dustman(清洁工) found the wallet in a dustbin(垃圾箱). He sent it back to the loser. But the businessman changed his mind.
“There was still a diamond ring(钻戒) in my wallet,” said the loser. “I won't give half the money in my wallet to you before you return it to me!”
“I've never seen a diamond ring in the wallet,” said the dustman.
They began to quarrel. The businessman didn’t do what he had said. The dustman became angry and took him before a judge (法官).
After the judge heard what had happened to them, he said to the businessman, “I'm sure you are an honest man. It's true that you have lost a wallet in which there was a diamond ring. But it's also clear that there is only a lot of money in this wallet. I don't think it's yours. Wait for some time. Perhaps someone will be able to return your wallet to you!”
Then the judge turned to the dustman and said, “Take the wallet home. If the loser doesn't go to get it back in three days, it will belong to you!”
小题1:The wallet the businessman lost __________.

A．was found in a shop	B．was sent to the judge
C．was found in a dustbin	D．was never to be found

小题2: The businessman was eager (渴望) to get back the wallet because __________.

A．there was the address of an important judge in it

B．there was a lot of money in it

C．he put in it a diamond ring he had just bought

D．it was a very expensive one

小题3: Which of the following is true according to the story?

A．The businessman broke his promise.

B．The dustman asked the businessman to give him more money.

C．They began to quarrel because the wallet got dirty.

D．The dustman kept the diamond ring for himself.

小题4: Having heard what had happened, the judge ________.

A．took the side of the businessman

B．made a wise(明智的) decision

C．took pity on the loser

D．didn't know what to do

小题5: Where do you think the diamond ring was?

A．The businessman hid it.

B．The dustman kept it.

C．The judge stole it.

D．The story of the ring was nothing but a lie.

Jim is a young farmer. He was once put into prison( 监狱).
One day, he got a letter from his mother. “ I’m so worried about our farm,”she wrote.”it’s time to plant potatoes. I can’t dig (挖 ) all the fields(田地 ) by myself.”
Jim read the letter and became sad. “ What can I do?” he thought. Then he had a good idea. He wrote to his mother,” don’t dig the fields. There is much money in the earth. Don’t plant potatoes until I come home.”
Some days later, Jim got another letter from his mother. It said, “ Two days ago, about ten men came to our farm and dug all the fields. I can’t understand it. It seemed that they were looking for something. What should I do?”
Jim smiled when he read his mother’s letter. He wrote a letter to his mother at once. It was very short. Guess what it would say.
小题1:Jim’s mother was much worried about___________.

A．him	B．their farm
C．the potatoes	D．the money

小题2:In the letter to his mother, Jim told his mother not to______.

A．dig the fields	B．dig for the money
C．ask others for help	D．go to the prison to see him

小题3:Jim’s mother told him that about ten men came to dig their fields. These men might be_____.

A．farmers

B．Jim’s friends

C．prison guards( 监督员)

D．Jim’s brothers

小题4:What would it say in Jim’s second letter?

A．I will go out of prison very soon.

B．You can plant potatoes now, dear mother.

C．I can’t help you, dear mother.

D．The guards will plant potatoes.

A man went to buy a piece of meat. As he didn’t know how to cook meat, he asked the butcher  (屠夫) to tell him the way of cooking it. The butcher told him how to cook it, “But I can’t remember your words,” the man said. “Will you please write them down for me?” The butcher was kind enough to write them down for him. The man went home happily with the meat in his hand and the note (字条) in his pocket (口袋). A dog followed him on the way. It jumped at him, took the meat away and ran off. The man stood there, not knowing what to do. Then he laughed and said, “never mind. You don’t know how to eat it. The note is still in my pocket.”
小题1:The man went to buy a piece of meat in __________.

A．restaurant

B．shop

C．butcher’s

D．chemist’s

小题2:Why did the man asked the butcher to tell him the way to cook meat?

A．He wasn’t good at cooking meat.

B．He can’t cook meat very well.

C．He didn’t know how to cook meat.

D．He didn’t know how to eat meat.

小题3:In order to (为了) remember what the butcher said, he asked the butcher _______.

A．to say it once again	B．to teach him again
C．to show him how to cook it	D．to write it down for him

小题4:What happened in the end?

A．He forgot to cook the meat.

B．The dog took the meat away.

C．He taught(教)the dog how to eat the meat.

D．The note is still in his pocket.

小题5:What do you think of the man?

A．He was afraid of dogs.

B．He loved dogs very much.

C．He was a very foolish(愚蠢的)man.

D．He didn’t know how to do things.

选词填空，根据文章内容，选用所给单词的适当形式填空。其中有两个是多余的。

they，be，tell，luck，slow，say，order，come，take，put，he，watch

A little old man and his wife walked 小题1: into McDonald’s on one cold winter evening. They took a table near the back wall, and then the little old man walked to the cashier(收银处) 小题2: food. After a while, he got the food back.
There 小题3: one hamburger, some French fries and one drink. The little old man carefully divided the hamburger in half and the French fries into two piles. Then he neatly    小题4: the half of the food in front of his wife. Both he and 小题5: wife took a sip(一小口) of the drink. “How poor the old couple was!” the people around them might think. As the old man started to eat his hamburger and his French fries, his wife sat there  小题6:  him. They took turns to drink. A young man  小题7: over and offered to buy another meal for  小题8:. But they refused politely and said they got used to sharing(分享) everything.
Then a young lady asked the wife. “Excuse me, Madam. Why aren’t you eating? You   小题9:  that you shared everything. Then, could you 小题10: me what you are waiting for?” She answered in a smile, “The teeth.”

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses       Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were       there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥) , her house was       quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,      Anna took in one of the families that had lost         in the flood and she       her home with them until it was        for them to rebuild their houses.
Anna's friends were puzzled （迷惑的）when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give       so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to support .
"Well," Anna       her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I later lived found herself very poor, because her husband         in the war and she had a lot of children,        I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for         this year, so I’m going to         only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back         a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were happy to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.         was that Christmas present.”

小题1:	A．down below B．just around C．next to D．above

小题2:	A．rising B．appearing C．falling D．standing

小题3:	A．just B．already C．yet D．still

小题4:	A．so B．but C．for D．since

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

小题6:	A．made B．found C．shared D．built

小题7:	A．possible B．necessary C．important D．valuable

小题8:	A．them B．herself C．them all D．her

小题9:	A．explained to B．asked for C．talked with D．spoke as

小题10:

A．had killed B．might be killed C．had been killed D．killed

小题11:

A．for B．as C．like D．that

小题12:

A．you B．your birthday C．Christmas D．us

小题13:

A．get B．send C．buy D．make

小题14:

A．for B．from C．like D．with

小题15:

A．It B．She C．Such D．I