Once there was a rich man in a village .  He never gave anything to help others.  The  31   didn't like him . One day he said to them . “ I know you don't like me . I will give everything I have to you  32  I die. Then everyone will be happy. ”
     But nobody believed him . The rich man couldn't  33  why they didn't believe him. One day he went for a  34  by the lake . Under a tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow  35 .
     The pig said to the cow , “ why everybody likes you and nobody likes me?  After I die,  I 36  people with pork , ham , etc . I give three or four things to them. But you give only one thing  37  . Why do people like you all the time and not me. ”
     The cow said  “ Look , I give them milk while I'm 38  . They see that I am generous(慷慨的)with what I  39 .  But you don't give them anything before you die .  You give them ham, pork and so on only after you're dead. People don't believe in the future; they believe in the  40 .  If you give while you are living ,  people will like you.It is quite simple. ”
     From that moment on , the rich man did all his best to helo the poor .

Mr.Green is quiet and doesn't like talking with people.He likes reading newspapers and playing computer games.He never exercises.Sometimes he watches soccer or basketball games on TV.He likes milk very much and drinks it three times a day.

Mr.Green is a bank clerk(职员）.It's a busy but boring job.He works with people and money every day.So he is always tired after work.He likes to take a good rest and goes to bed early after dinner.Usually he goes to bed at 8:30 in the evening and gets up at 6:30 in the morning.Mr.Green is very happy with that. But Mrs.Green isn't,because Mr.Green always talks in his sleep.

One morning,Mr.Green sat at table and had breakfast.Mrs.Green asked him,“Why do you always talk in your sleep?”Mr.Green said,“Because I have few chances(机会)to talk in the daytime. ”

The next morning after their children all went to school,Mrs.Green asked Mr.Green angrily,“Why did you scold(骂）me in your sleep last night?”“Because I'm afraid to do it when I'm awake（醒着的）.”

根据短文内容，选择正确的答案。（10分）

1.Mr.Green doesn't like ________

A .talking to people        B.playing computer games    C.reading newspapers     

2.Mr.Green______drinks milk.

A. never  B.often  C.sometimes

3.Mr.Green works in a _______

A.shop  B.bank   C.post office

4.Mr.Green usually sleeps_____hours every night.

A.ten    B.nine    C.eight 

5.Mrs.Green was angry with Mr.Green because  he__________

A.went to work without breakfast.

B.didn't talk to her the night before.

C.scolded her in his sleep the night before.

Maybe you're wondering how we spend our free time in the year 2059, so I, ll tell you what I did last weekend.

On Saturday morning, I stayed in bed until 11 o’clock, when my mother woke me up. “Wang Mang! Get out of bed, you lazy little pig!” she said. “You can’t lie in bed all day, and you’ve got homework to do, haven’t you?” Were mothers so annoying fifty years ago?

Anyway, I got out of bed and asked the robot to make me a quick brunch—hamburger and French fries. But the robot said, “Sorry, Mang. Your mother says I can only give you hamburgers 3 times a week, and you had 2 hamburgers yesterday. Fast food is not healthy. I suggest you have some of the dumplings I made yesterday. Or perhaps some fruit salad” You see, my mother has programmed the robot to stop it giving me the things 1 really want to eat. I feel like a prisoner (囚犯）！

After finishing my brunch, I got out my homework pad. The pad looks like a piece of paper, but it’s actually a computer. We don’t use paper much any more. Paper books are really expensive, so we usually buy cheap computer books.

I had to do my math homework on Saturday. We never need to use math in our daily lives—computers solve all the math problems for us. But our math teacher says that if people stop studying math, they’ll forget how to think and become like vegetables. Well, I want to be a vegetable. I hate math!

56. The underlined word “brunch” in the third paragraph means           .

A. breakfast and lunch    B. breakfast with milk

C. lunch with coffee      D. lunch and dinner

57. Wang Mang says he feels “like a prisoner” because          .

A. he is completely controlled by the robot           B. he has to get out of bed too early

C. he doesn’t know how to use the robot             D. he isn’t allowed to eat what he likes

58. One difference between the year 2059 and today is that          .

A. computer books are cheaper than paper books

B. children aren’t allowed to eat fast food

C. students have to do homework at the weekend

D. there is no paper in the year 2059

59. Wang Mang thinks that studying math is          .

A. interesting                 B. useless                      C. too hard                 D. too easy

60. Which can be the best title for the article?

A. A Day in the Future                                       B. A Modern Robot at Home

C. Paper Books V.S. Computers                          D. Math or Vegetables