A young man worked very hard at his lessons. He was too busy to have a rest. At last, he became ill, so he couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he always stayed awake and couldn’t fall asleep.

After some days, he decided to see a doctor.” I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do? Could you please help me?”

“I have a suggestion(建议)，”said the doctor. “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you’ll be asleep. I’m sure of it.”

The next day the man returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, how are you today? Did you try my suggestion?”

The man still looked tired. “Yes,” he said, “I tried counting one, two, three—up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some tea so that I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”

1.The young man couldn’t go to sleep because       ,

A. he was worried about his homework

B. he worked too hard and became ill

C. he didn’t finish doing his lessons

D. there was a lot of noise there and he couldn’t have a rest

2.The doctor asked the young man       .

A. to put all numbers from 1 to 1000 together

B. to take some medicine and go to bed earlier

C. to count numbers while he was lying in bed

D. to count numbers before he went to bed

3. The young man returned to the doctor’s office the next day because       .

A. he wanted to ask the doctor how to count the numbers

B. he wanted to thank the doctor

C. he was better and wanted some more medicine

D. he still couldn’t go to sleep at night

4.The young man       .

A. counted from 569 to 1000

B. counted from 1 to 1000 and fell asleep

C. counted from 1 to 569 and got up to drink some tea

D. counted from 1 to 569 and fell asleep

5.The young man      in fact.

A. didn’t understand the doctor’s suggestion

B. wasn’t ill at all

C. was not able to count numbers

D. didn’t try the doctor’s suggestion

One day a pilot and three people were in a plane. When the plane was flying in the sky, there was something wrong with it. The smoke(烟) was everywhere in the plane. The pilot told the people there were only three parachutes(降落伞). They all became worried.

"I must go because I’m the best pilot in the world.” said the pilot, then he jumped out with one parachute.

The next person said, "I must have a parachute. I am a very clever person, and I have to take part in an important meeting." he jumped out with another parachute.

Two men were left, an old businessman and a young mountain climber. By this time the plane was going down faster and faster.

The businessman said, "Young man, I am old but you’re still young. You take the last parachute. "

The young mountain climber smiled, "Don’t worry, we are both safe, because there are still two parachutes. The clever person jumped out with my backpack."

1.All the people became worried because________.

A. they couldn’t find the parachutes

B. there were only three parachutes，but there were four people in the plane.

C. There was too much smoke and they couldn’t jump out from the plane.

D. They saw the pilot jump out first

2.The clever man jumped out with______.

A. parachute                        B. nothing

C. the backpack of the climber’s   D. two parachutes

3.The word “ pilot” in Chinese is______.

A. 飞行员    B. 司机   C. 教授    D. 旅客

4.From this story, we know______ would die（死）.

A. the clever man              B. the businessman

C. a young mountain climber    D. the pilot

5.______was a kind-hearted（好心人） man.

A. The pilot            B. The mountain climber

C. The businessman      D. The clever man

完型填空

My family came to America from China many years ago. I was born in Oakland in 1989. Many young Chinese Americans don't learn much_______because our parents _______ us to learn English very well.

Chinese is a difficult language. If we don't speak it_______, it's easy to forget. Writing is hard, too. We have to remember lots of words and thousands of characters (汉字). In English, there are only 26 ______.

At home, I _______English with my family. But now, we speak some Cantonese (广东话) because we watch films _______ that language.

My mom has come to love F4, a Chinese boy band (组合). They are in the film Meteor Garden (《流星花园》). We all ______ the TV series, and we learn Cantonese ______ saying some funny words from the TV series to each other.

It's fun to speak Cantonese with my Chinese friends. It ______funny because we can't say the words just right.

Young Chinese Americans know that our culture (文化) is getting lost, so we try to _______ something.

1.A. Chinese       B. English    C. Cantonese    D. Putonghua

2.A. hope         B. ask        C. let          D. want

3.A. often         B. hard       C. quickly      D. soon

4.A. words        B. letters    C. languages    D. characters

5.A. tell         B. say        C. speak        D. sing

6.A. with          B. in         C. by           D. from

7.A. made         B. kept       C. enjoyed      D. dislikes

8.A. from          B. in        C. with         D. by

9.A. sounds       B. looks    C. likes       D. reads

10.A. stay        B. keep       C. leave        D. have

Sandy is _______at playing soccer than Simon.

A. better   B. good     C. well    D. Best

---Where would you like to go on your summer holiday, Mike?

---I’d like to go ________.

A. nowhere interesting     B. interesting anywhere

C. somewhere interesting     D. interesting somewhere

This cinema is the best one in our town, because it has the ________screen.

A. big    B. bigger    C. bigest    D. biggest

I can _______be a nurse. I’m not a patient person.

A. seldom   B. ever     C. never     D. Always.

---What’s _______most useful invention in the 20th century?

---________computer, I think.

A. the; A   B. a; A    C. the; The   D. /; The

There _______a football game this afternoon.

A. will have   B. is going to be   C. to be     D. Has

---_______.   ---I have a cough.

A. What are you?    B. What’s the trouble?

C. What’s wrong?   D. B and C.