It was three o'clock. A man was walking down a high street in the north of England. He was wearing a dark suit and carrying a suitcase. His name was Terry and he and he had lived away from home for twenty years. In fact he was in prison(监狱),
Terry was feeling totally depressed because everything in his hometown had changed. The park where he used to play was now a car park. The house where he was born had dis appeared and in its place,  ironically(具有讽刺意味地)， was a bank. Terry wanted to have a cup of coffee in the old small restaurant where he used to go with his friend after school,   but it had become a fast food restaurant. He entered it,   sat down,   and asked for a cup of coffee. Then he felt sadder when he thought of what he had seen.
While paying for the coffee he found an old ticket in his wallet. It was for a pair of shoes he had taken to be repaired the day before the bank robbery 20 years ago. The shoe repairer was an old man then, so Terry was sure that he must be dead. But when he turned the cor ner of the steet, he couldn't believe his eyes. The shop was still there! And it was the same shoe repairer! He looked about a hundred years old. Terry was so happy! Terry told him that he had lived in Australia for the past twenty years and that he forgot to pick up the shoes before he left England. The shoe repairer disappeared into the back of the shop. After ten minutes he came back.
"Were they dark brown,   Italian shoes,   size 42?"he asked slowly.
"Yes!nsaid Terry,   excitedly.
"I haven't repaired them，”the shoe repairer said slowly. “You can take them tomorrow afternoon. ”
【小题1】How long had Terry been away from home?

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释或通过上下文，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。

1.More and more Chinese people are able to   (付得起)to travel abroad.

2.He was wearing a very   (严肃的)expression and I knew something was wrong.

3.Regular tests help the teacher to learn about the   (进步)of each student.

4.He   (承诺)that he would come, but he has not turned up yet.

5.Among the many   （业余爱好）of his are reading, music and tennis.

6.There is nothing there - you are just   (想象)things!

7.The little girl walked   (自信地)onto the stage, ready for her first speech.

8.-Can I help you with it?

-I am grateful for your offer, but I can manage it   ．

9.- Did you catch   I said?

- Sorry. I was answering a text message just now.

10.- It's no use having   only.

- Don't worry. Peter can show you how to turn an idea into an act.

Danish was a very lazy girl. Her mother always asked her to learn to read, __1 __she didn’t．It was disappointing．Her mother was __2__ about that．
One morning，Dinah just __3__ and was looking through the window．She saw her cousin skating on the __4__．He was wearing a pair of shoes she had never __5__ before．It was a pair of roller-skates(旱冰鞋)．Dinah thought it was interesting to __6__ on the street．She got up quickly and went outside．She asked her cousin if she __7__ try his shoes on．Her cousin said to her，”I know that your __8__ has been asking you to learn to read，but you haven’t 1earned．It is just because you are __9__．If you can read by New Year’s Day，1 will send you a pair of __10__ like this．”
From then on，Dinah read every day and began to like reading．On New Year’s Day she received a pair of roller—skates from her cousin．

I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.

Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.

Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.

1.On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.

A．find an old man with a saxophone           B．see a river

C．hear the old man’s music                D．imagine the sound

2.The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.

A．having a saxophone

B．the old man near the river

C．having a cap and a saxophone as the boy

D．playing the saxophone on TV

3.The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.

A．as soon as he got it

B．after he read the instruction

C．after he tried many times

D．after his father taught him

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The magic day.                         B．My birthday present.

C．The old man and the statue.               D．My dream of playing saxophone.

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—Now, tell me about the man who stole your neighbor’s car. What did he look like?

—Well, sir. He was tall…

—     1    

—Oh yes, and he was younger than you — only about thirty, I’d say.

—Well! And what color was his hair?

—It was brown, and short… it was similar to yours, actually.

—      2    

—No, He was clean-shaven.

—OK. Now have a look at these photos — can you see him?

—     3    

—But that’s Frankie Famham — he’s got a beard, and he’s very short!

—Hm, well…

—    4    

—Yes, the strangest thing was that he appeared to be a gentleman — he was wearing a suit… not like a thief at all.

—Hm, like this photo?

—Yes, that’s him!

—That’s Bill Mahony: he’s in prison! Are you sure you saw the thief?

—     5