It was Christmas Eve. It was very cold. A  1  girl was selling flowers on the street. Her parents were ill,  2  she had to get money  3  food. She felt cold and hungry. She  4  in front of a beautiful house. The girl knocked at the door and a man came out. She asked him if he  5 some flowers. The man said he didn’t want any. She left the house and felt tired. She sat down at the foot of  6  tall wall. She looked at the flowers. The flowers smelled very nice. She suddenly had a strange feeling. She felt she was becoming light, and slowly she began to fly into the sky. She flew higher and higher and at last she found  7  above the clouds. A group of people were coming to meet her. At the head of them was her granny. Granny welcomed her and asked her  8  she didn’t stay at home. The girl told her that she  9  to sell flowers to get money because her parents were badly ill. Granny told her not to worry and gave her  10  of beautiful clothes and delicious food. The girl laughed happily.

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One night a young American doctor was sleeping at home when his doorbell began to ring.When he opened the door he saw a man   1   outside.

“Excuse me, Doctor,” said the man.“Can you come at once to a place out of town.It’s quite far but you have a car and I can  2  you the way”

“Certainly,” said the doctor, “I’m ready.I’ll come soon.”    3  a minute, the car came.The man got into the car and they     4   off.

They drove for a    5  time, and then the man said, “Here we are.This is my home.Now I can pay you and you can go   6  to town.”

“But I must    7   the patient,” the doctor said.“Where’s the patient?” “There are  8   patients,"answered the man.“Nobody is ill.I live here, you see, and I must  9  home from the town.There are no taxis at this time of the night.Here’s the money for you.Thank you, doctor.Good    10  !

1.                A．listening        B．standing        C．sitting    D．watching

2.                A．take           B．pass           C．see  D．show

3.                A．After          B．For            C．In   D．With

4.                A．drove          B．left            C．got  D．went

5.                A．short          B．long           C．hard D．late

6.                A．away           B．quickly         C．back D．slowly

7.                A．watch          B．look for         C．see  D．know

8.                A．my            B．no             C．a    D．your

9.                A．go             B．lose            C．find  D．ask

10.               A．evening        B．night           C．idea  D．for you

Miss Brown would never forget the night when she met a robber(抢劫者) many years ago.

That evening, she went to a birthday party which   1  until two o’clock in the morning. Miss Brown walked in the  2  street alone. Suddenly from the back of the dark building a tall man with a sharp knife in his right hand ran out at her. “Good morning，lady.” the man said in a low voice, “I don’t think you wish to  3 here!” “What do you want?” “Your earrings. Take them  4 !”

Miss Brown suddenly had a   5 idea. She tried to cover her necklace with the collar(衣领)of her overcoat while she used the other hand to take off both of her earrings and then quickly   6 them on the ground.

“Take them and let me go,” she said. The robber thought that the girl didn’t like the earrings at all, only trying to   7 the necklace. The earrings would cost   8 , so he said, “Give me your necklace.”

“Oh, sir. It doesn’t cost much. Please let me wear it.”

“I am not that   9 . Quick!”

With shaking   10  , Miss Brown took off her necklace. As soon as the robber left, she picket up her earrings and ran as fast as she could to one of her friends.

The earrings cost 2000 pounds and the necklace which the robber had taken away cost only six pounds.

1.                A．ended         B．stayed          C．stopped D．lasted

2.                A．busy           B．quiet           C．noisy D．wide

3.                A．die            B．escape         C．fight D．sleep

4.                A．out            B．away           C．off  D．down

5.                A．funny          B．safe            C．brave    D．great

6.                A．handed         B．threw          C．passed   D．put

7.                A．own           B．keep           C．have D．get

8.                A．cheap          B．expensive       C．more     D．less

9.                A．afraid          B．angry          C．silly  D．bad

10.               A．hands          B．feet           C．head D．body

A lady in an old cotton dress and her husband, dressed in an old suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked into the president of Harvard’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such country people had no business at Harvard. She frowned(皱眉). “We want to see the president,” the man said softly. “He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary said coldly. “We’ll wait,” the lady replied.

For hours, the secretary didn’t talk to them, hoping that the couple would finally become tired and go away. They didn’t. And the secretary finally decided to disturb the president. “Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they’ll leave,” she told him. He frowned too. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t have the time to spend with them.

The president walked toward them unwillingly. The lady told him, “We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard, and was very happy here. But he was accidentally killed. And my husband and I would like to set up a memorial(纪念碑) to him somewhere on campus. ” The president was so surprised that he shouted sharply, “We can’t put up a statue(塑像) for every person who attended Harvard and died. This place would look like a cemetery (墓地).

“Oh, no” the lady explained, “We don’t want to build a statue. We thought we would give a building to Harvard.” The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at their plain clothes, and said with surprise, “A building! Do you have any idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly. “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they set up the university with their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

1.What did the old couple go to Harvard for?

A．They wanted to see their son.

B．They had an important meeting

C．They went to Harvard just to start a university

D．They wanted to meet the president of Harvard.

2.Why didn’t the president come out to meet the couple?

A．He was really busy at that time.

B．The secretary didn’t allow the couple to meet the president.

C．He was important and didn’t have time for unimportant people.

D．He had an important friend to meet and had to spend some time together.

3.From the passage, we can know ______.

A．the old couple were in fact rich people

B．the secretary was afraid of the old couple

C．the old couple’s son was killed in Harvard

D．the president of Harvard was kind and patient to anyone

4.The best title of the passage is “______”.

A．A Statue or A Building                    B．How Stanford University Was Built

C．A Visit to Harvard University               D．A Strange Old Couple