Professor Green, known to the world as a scientist, is not only absent-minded but short-sighted as well. His mind is always busy        scientific problems and seldom notices what is going on     him.

    One fine day recently, he went    a walk in the countryside, but as      he has a book in his hand. When he went out , he began to read his book . He hadn’t gone far    he run into a big cow and fell down. In the fall, he had lost his glasses, without which he couldn’t see anything. He thought he had hit his head    a fat lady. “I’m sorry, Madam.” He said politely      searching for his glasses. As soon as he had     , he realized his mistake.

Soon he was fixing his mind on his book       and paid no attention to anything else. He had scarcely been walking for five minutes when he fell over again,        both his book and his glasses. This time he got very angry, seizing his umbrella, he gave the “cow” a wild blow. Then, after finding his glasses, he realized with horror that he made a second mistake. A large fat woman was fleeing from him in a horror.

1.A. to think      B. thinking         C. thinking about               D. to think of

2.A. with        B. around                C. for                                  D. at

3.A. for         B. to             C. towards                           D. over

4.A. also       B. often          C. ever                                    D. usual

5.A. when       B. while             C. just then                           D. at that time

6.A. to          B. against        C. about                                 D. onto

7.A. after       B. in            C. before                                 D. during

8.A .put it on     B. taken them off  C. put them on                D. taken them out

9.A. always     B. again               C. usually                             D. very much

10.A. holding    B. getting           C. finding                     D. losing

When I was a kid, my dad worked in a shop in the center of our town. Sometimes, I went to the shop with him and I made a little pocket money by buying things for his workmates. But I never paid attention to all the things and people around me.

One day, as my dad and I were driving to the shop, I looked out of the window of the car and I saw an old man standing at the street corner. There was a rose in his hand, he was smelling the rose. For some reason, our eyes met and we looked at each other for about twenty seconds. There was nothing unusual about this man but the meet was unusual to me. Up to that moment in my life, I had given no thought to anyone on the street, in shops or anywhere else. I had no interest out of my family.

But I was interested in that old man. For the first time I had interest in a stranger. What kind of life had he lived? Where had he been in his time?

Once a great man encouraged us to “stop and smell the rose”. Now I want to tell these words to you. Stop what you are busy with and try to fully understand things and people in your eyesight. If you don’t care about others on your road of life, then you are missing your life itself.

1.How did the writer make a little pocket money?

2.What was the old man doing when I saw him?

3.When did the writer have interest out of his family?

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

－Jim had nothing for breakfast this morning ,            ?

－           . He got up too late .

A.  had he, Yes.      B. hadn' t he , Yes.         C. did he , No .

——Bill had nothing for breakfast this morning ,       ?.
——    , he got up too late.

No one knew what        because of the thick fog.