Bill Fuller, the postman, whistled(吹口哨) cheerfully as he pushed his bike up the hill towards Mrs Dunley’s house. His work for the day was almost finished. His bag, usually quite heavy when he set out on his road, was empty now except for the letter that he had to deliver(递送) to Mrs Dunley. She lived over a mile from that village so that, when Bill had a letter for her, he always finished his day’s work much later. He did not mind this, however, because she never failed to ask him in for a cup of tea.
When Bill entered the gate of Mrs Dunley’s house, he was surprised not to find her working in the garden. She usually spent most afternoons there when the weather was fine. Bill went straight round to the back of the house, thinking that she might be in the kitchen. The door was locked and the curtains were drawn. He returned to the front of the house and knocked hard on the door. There was no answer. Bill thought that this was very strange because he knew that Mrs Dunley hardly left the house.
Just then, he noticed that her bottle of milk, which was delivered early in the morning, was still on the doorstep. This worried him. If Mrs Dunley had not taken in her milk, perhaps she was ill. Bill walked round the house until he found an open window. He squeezed(挤) through it. Then he went into the hall. There he almost fell over Mrs Dunley, who was lying at the foot of the stairs unconscious(昏迷不醒的). Realizing that there was little he could do for her, Bill rushed out of the house, stopped a passing car and told the driver to telephone for an ambulance(救护车) as soon as he got to the village.
1.What did Mrs Dunley usually do with Bill?
A. She usually asked him to have a cup of tea.
B. She usually had a talk with him.
C. She usually asked him to dinner.
D. She usually asked him to buy some tea.
2.The thing that especially worried Bill was ________.
A. finding the back door locked and the curtains drawn
B. seeing the bottle of milk on the doorstep
C. not getting any answer when he knocked on the door
D. not finding Mrs Dunley in the garden
3.How did Bill get help for Mrs Dunley?
A. He stopped a passing car and took her to the hospital.
B. He himself telephoned for an ambulance.
C. He stopped a car and asked the driver to telephone for an ambulance.
D. He asked the driver to take her to the hospital.
She was returning from teaching out in a small community . It was a moonless night, and a heavy snow was falling.
She remembered back to when she had first started teaching out in small communities. In those days she had always picked up hitchhikers (搭便车者), until the day her sister told her of a friend who had been shot (中枪) in the head by a hitchhiker, all because she had stopped out of kindness to help him during a storm.
Her family didn’t become concerned (关心的) about her safety over the hitchhikers until the family heard the promise: “No more hitchhikers!” The snow that night was making her think back to this.
Then she saw a man waving. She slowed down for him, but now as he ran toward the car in the dark she shook with fear. Yet she thought that if he was truly in need she couldn’t leave him here in this storm.
The stranger explained that his car was dead, and she told him to get in. They drove for an hour into the next city and she took him to a telephone booth (公用电话亭). She waited until he had made a call. When he reported back to her that a family member would soon come for him, she wished him well and left.
Tears fell on her cheeks as she drove away. She felt as though she had been holding her breath for an hour. “I hope they’ll understand why I had to break my promise,” she thought.
1.What can we learn about the woman?
A. She was a taxi driver.
B. She used to be a hitchhiker.
C. She taught in small communities.
D. She seldom picked up strangers.
2.What made her family worried about her safety?
A. She had been hurt by a hitchhiker.
B. Her sister’s friend was killed by a hitchhiker.
C. There were often snowstorms on her way home.
D. Her car often broke down on her way home.
3.We can infer from the underlined sentence in the last paragraph that _________.
A. she was sorry for picking up the stranger.
B. she felt too tired to breathe.
C. she had been afraid being with the stranger.
D. she had been too careful driving in the storm.
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering(不开花的) plants.
Flowering plants can make seeds(种子). The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit.
Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores(孢子). Spores are very, very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores fall on wet and shady(阴凉的) places, they usually grow into new plants.
1.What fact does the passage lead you to believe?
A. Of all living things, animals are most important.
B. Spores are seeds.
C. All fruits of flowering plants have seeds.
D. Without plants, man will die out.
2.The paragraph following the passage will be about ________.
A. how plants can make food from air
B. how spores grow into new plants
C. why some plants have no seeds
D. why non-flowering plants are more important than flowering plants
3.This passage is most likely to be taken from ________.
A. a story book B. a novel
C. a science magazine D. a laboratory report
完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
John Brown was a shopkeeper. He sold and repaired watches in his small shop. One day his cousin, Mike, came to the shop and said to him, “I’ve lost my job. Do you________ if I work in your shop?” “Certainly not. I’ll teach you everything I know about watches,” John told Mike. For the first few weeks, Mike worked very hard. He was polite and helpful to the customers (顾客). He cleaned the shelves and ________ where everything was in the shop. John was very pleased with him. While Mike looked________ the front of the shop, John was able to work and build up the repair business in the back room.
After a month and a half, Mike asked, “Is there anything else you want to ________ me?”
“Yes, Mike, there is,” John said. “It’s time I taught you the secret of our ________ .”
“I think I know that,” Mike said. “You buy watches at one price and sell them at a higher price. The ________ in price is our profit (利润).”
“That’s true, but it’s not where we make most of our profit,” John said. He ________ a watch from the counter (柜台). “Do you think this watch is a good one?” he asked Mike. “No, I don’t think so. It’s a cheap one,” the young man answered. “We can’t make much profit from selling those. Perhaps only a few dollars each.”
“That’s where you are ________ , my boy,” John said. “Those watches make more profit than any other watch in the shop.”
“Could you tell me ________ those cheap watches make more profit?” Mike asked.
“They are really cheap, but they are always ________ ,” John told him. “We make our profit from repairing them.”
1.A. worry B. mind C. know D. agree
2.A. showed B. answered C. learned D. explained
3.A. after B. for C. at D. towards
4.A. give B. present C. test D. teach
5.A. plan B. experience C. success D. message
6.A. discount B. choice C. difference D. level
7.A. took away B. picked up C. put down D. asked for
8.A. careless B. impatient C. unlucky D. wrong
9.A. why B. when C. where D. whether
10.A. improvingB. working C. changing D. Breaking
---How would you like your tea?
---_____________.
A. As it comes, please B. Very much
C. I do not like tea D. It tastes nice
How lucky Peter was! Some policemen arrived in time and ________ him out.
A. tried to help B. managed to help
C. tried helping D. succeeded to help
