One Saturday afternoon, Kate went to buy something for her sister and herself.

  ? As Kate was coming out of a____, a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green --- a good friend of Kate’s sister. Kate believe her. Then she called a taxi to send Kate home. She told the driver where she should go. Kate was _____ that it was not in the direction of her home.

   “ Why?” Kate asked. The lady smiled.

  ? When they came to a quiet road, a big rough man appeared on the road. He stopped the taxi driver, knocked him down, and threw him out of the taxi . At the same time, Miss Green took out of a knife and pointed it at Kate. She asked Kate to keep______. The man then started the taxi.

   “ Oh, my God! I’m being kidnapped(绑架),” Kate said to herself.

   She tried to escape , but not succeeded. Suddenly an idea came to her. She took out a lipstick(口红) from her pocket, wrote ‘_____’ on the window, and covered the word with her back.

  ? A few minutes later, a police car ____and the policemen saw the sign. When the kidnappers saw the policemen, they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and ran away.

   The policemen then picked Kate up and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened, they were greatly surprised. But they were also happy because their daughter had finally come back safely.

1.A. school     ? ? B. taxi       ? ?? C. shop       ?  ?? D. friend’s

2.A. sure        ??? B. excited     ? C. surprised    ?? D. pleased

3.A. healthy       ? B. alive      ? ? C. relaxed       ?? D. quiet

4.A. THANKS      B. SORRY       C. SOS       ? ??? D. OK

5.A. stopped       B. left         ?? C. passed        ?? D. turned

A young woman   1  alone through the country. It was getting dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road ,holding her hand out as if she needed a lift .

“I can’t leave her out in this weather”, the woman said to herself, so she stopped the car and opened the  2 .

“Do you want a lift?” she asked, the old woman nodded (点头) and   3  the car. After a while she said to the old woman, “Have you   4 for a long time?” The old woman shook her head. “Strange,” thought the young woman. She tried again, “Bad weather for the time   5  year.” She said. The old woman nodded. Although the driver tried some more, the lady said   6  except for a nod of the head or something else.

Then the young woman saw the lady’s hands, they were very large and with thick hair. Suddenly she knew the lady was a   7 ! She stopped the car. “I can’t see that mirror   8 ,” she said, “Would you mind cleaning it for me?” The lady nodded and opened the door.

As soon as the lady was out of the car, the young woman drove off quickly.

When she got to the next village she  9 . She found that the old lady had left a  10  behind. She picked it up and opened it. She gave out a deep breath(呼吸). Inside the bag was a gun!

1.                A．has driven      B．had driven      C．was driving    D．drove

2.                A．door           B．car            C．glass D．hand

3.                A．took in         B．got off          C．got into   D．went to

4.                A．lain            B．kept           C．sat  D．waited

5.                A．out            B．of             C．in   D．off

6.                A．nothing         B．anything        C．something D．everything

7.                A．boy            B．girl            C．woman   D．man

8.                A．quickly         B．clearly          C．carefully  D．slowly

9.                A．feared         B．slept           C．stood D．stopped

10.               A．shoe           B．box            C．handbag   D．watch

One Saturday afternoon, Sarah went to buy something for her sister and herself. As Sarah was coming out of a   46 , a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green—a good friend of Sarah’s sister’s. Sarah   47 her. Then she called a taxi to send Sarah home. She told the driver where he should go. Sarah was   48 that it was not in the direction of her home.
“Why?” Sarah asked. The lady smiled.
When they came to a quiet road, a big rough man   49  on the road. He stopped the taxi driver, knocked him down, tied him and threw him out of the taxi. At the same time, Miss Green took out a knife and   50  Sarah. She asked Sarah to keep   51 . The man then started the taxi. “ Oh, God! I’m being kidnapped(绑架),” Sarah said to herself.
She tried to escape, but not succeeded. Suddenly an   52  came to her. She took out a lipstick(口红) from her pocket, wrote “SOS” on the window, and covered the word with her
  53 . A few minutes later, a police car passed and the policemen saw the   54 . When the kidnappers saw the policemen, they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and ran away.
The policemen then picked up Sarah and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened, they were greatly surprised. But they were also   55  because their daughter had finally come back safely.

“Do you like my dress?” She asked a lady. “My Mum made it just for me,” she said with tears in her eyes.

   “Well, I think it’s very pretty, so tell me, little girl, why are you crying?”

   The little girl answered in a low voice, “After Mum made me this dress, she went away. My Dad says that she’s up in heaven with grandfather.”

   Finally the woman realized why she was crying. She felt very sorry for the little girl and held the child in her arms.

   Just before the lady wanted to go, the girl stopping crying, walked back from the woman, and showed her a spot (点) on her dress, and said, “Right here is where my Mum kissed my dress, and here,” pointing to another spot, “and here is another kiss, and here, and here. Mum said that she had put all those kisses on my dress so that I would forget my sadness.”

   The lady realized that she wasn’t just looking at a dress, no, she was looking at mother. The mother knew that she was going away. So she gave all her love to her lovely daughter and put it into the dress.

   The lady no longer saw a little girl wearing a simple dress. She saw a child in her mother’s love.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1.The little girl was crying because her mother           .

   A. died                     

B. went out with her grandfather       

C. was ill

2.The girl told the woman the spots on her dress were           .

   A. the strange designs      

B. her sadness                     

C. her mother’s kisses

3.The little girl showed the lady           .

   A. how beautiful her dress was

   B. how happy she was

   C. how great the mother’s love was

4.According to the passage, it’s clear that the woman was           .

   A. the girl’s relation     

B. a careless woman                

C. kind to the girl

5.From the story, we learn that           .

   A. a mother should take her child with her

   B. mother’s love is the greatest in the world

   C. a girl should wear a dress made by her mother

Once there was a piano player in a bar(酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.

"I don't sing," said the man.

But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!"

The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"

So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!

He had talent(天赋) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.

You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.

1.The lady asked the player to sing a song because _____.

2.Nat King Cole succeeded because _____.

3.The words "sit on" in the passage probably mean" ___________.”

4.From the story we know if you have some talent, you should _____.

5.Which could be the best title (标题) for the passage?