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Once when Tom was a boy, his mother went out for a picnic. Before she went, she said to him, “Tom, while I am away, stay near the door, and watch it a __________（1） the time. ” She said this b__________ （2） there were lots of thieves in their town. Tom sat down beside the d__________ （3）. After an hour one of his uncles came. He said to Tom, “ Where is your m _________ （4）? ”

“At a picnic,” he answered. “ Well , ” said the uncle, “ we are going to visit y__________ （5） house this evening. Go and t_________ （6） her.” His uncle then went a__________ （7）, and Tom began to think. “Mother said, ‘Watch the door all the time.’ and u__________ （8） said, ‘Go and tell her!’” He thought and t________（9）, then at last, he pulled the door down, put it on his back and went to his mother w_________ （10） it!

One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking a  1   how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very s  2   , gently shaking his head and saying “You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought “P  3   this is not the right thing to talk about. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”

“Certainly! Everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without s  4   it. The Great Wall is wonderful.” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the w  5   . And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him m  6   about it, he stopped me again “You don’t say!”

I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”

“Well, I didn’t ask you to do so,” he answered, gently surprised.

“Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say!’?” I asked again.

Hearing this, the foreigner laughed l  7   . He began to e  8   , “ ‘You don’t say!’ means ‘Really!’. Perhaps you know l  9   about English idioms（惯用语）.”

Wow! How f  10   I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.

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A small boy and his father were walking b     to their home. It suddenly began to rain h     .They did not have their umbrellas w      them and there was nowhere to hide from the rain, so they were soon all w        , and the small boy didn’t feel happy. For a long time while they were walking back to their home through the rain, the boy was thinking. Then at l    he turned to his father and said to him,“Why does it rain, Father? It isn’t very nice, is it?” “No, it i       very nice, but it’ s useful, Tom,” answered his father.“It rains to make fruit and vegetables g        for us.” Tom thought about this for a m      ,and then he a     ,“Then, w        does it rain on the road, Father?”

    The school party was only two weeks away, and our children were all as ___1___as bees（蜜蜂）getting ready for it.

  That afternoon, as I __2___from my desk, Patty was standing there. She had waited to talk to me.

“Every year the other kids are always in a p-p-p-p-play or something, singing or t-t-t-t-taking, but I g-g-g-g-get to do some ___3___work for them. This year, I w-w-want to read a p-p-p-poem, myself! Please, Miss Teresa!”

    She was so ___4___that I couldn’t（拒绝）refuse her. I had to say, “Yes, you will. ”

    I tried to find some poems for her, but ___5___of my books was of good use. At last, I worked out a poem carefully myself. The poem wasn’t beautiful, but it would ___6___best for Patty.

    After a moment’s reading, Patty had remembered all the __7___and was prepared to do the poem. However, I had to stop her from doing too fast. Day after day, we worked together after school. She made wonderful progress.

  The night of the party saw children in __8_.

  The headmaster walked up to me with a piece of paper-the program list. “There is a _9___! Look, Patty here. But she can’t even say her own name well!” I had no __10___to explain（解释） because many of my students were going up there. So I said to him, “We know what we are doing. ”

    Patty’s turn ___11___. She walked up there, neither fast nor slowly. She stood there. She began.

  I could ___12___breathe. I felt time stopped.

  She said every word clearly. She did every line nicely.

  Applause! Applause everywhere!

1A. happy                     B. busy                      C. small                     D. lovely

2 A. looked after            B. looked at                C. looked for              D. looked up

3 A. difficult                  B. important                C. boring                   D. quiet

4 A. hopeful                  B. wonderful               C. thankful                 D. careful

5 A. one                        B. some                      C. none                     D. both

6 A. speak                     B. work                      C. write                     D. look

7 A. words                    B. lines                       C. paragraphs             D. poems

8 A. trouble                   B. surprise                  C. excitement             D. danger

9A. question                  B. mistake                  C. thing                     D. reason

10 A. interest                 B. way                       C. wish                     D. time

11 A. came                   B. went                      C. ran                        D. flew

12 A. easily                   B. possibly                  C. hardly                   D. happily