An old man was sitting on the sofa with Mike, his 45-year-old son. Suddenly a dove(鸽子) landed on the ground.
The father asked his son, “What is this?”
The son replied, “It is a dove.”
After a few minutes, the father asked his son for the second time, “What is this?”
The son said, “Father, I have just told you. It’s a dove.”
After a little while, the old father asked his son for the third time, “What is this?”
This time Mike could not control his anger and shouted, “It’s a dove, a dove. Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? I have told you so many times ‘IT IS A DOVE’ Don’t you understand this?”
The old man silently took out an old diary, turned to a page and showed it to Mike. Though a little impatient(不耐烦), Mike began to read it.
“Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a dove landed on the ground. and my son asked me what it was. I smiled at him, said it was a dove and hugged him. After a while Mike asked me again and I did the same. Pointing to the same dove, little Mike asked me what it was 23 times and I kept on answering his question and hugging him every time.”
Something gently touched Mike’s heart. His face turned red with shame for being so impatient to his father and he hugged him tightly(紧紧地).
Your parents have given you many things in their lifetime, but you may not realize that until they are gone.
1.Why did the old man ask his son the question again and again?
A.He didn’t know the dove. B.He liked to ask questions.
C.He couldn’t remember anything. D.He tried to teach his son something in his lifetime.
2.How many times did the father ask his son the same question?
A.Twice. B.Three times. C.Five times. D.Twenty-three times.
3.What did the father do after Mike asked him the question?
A.Shouting at him. B.Hugging him.
C.Keeping silent. D.Being angry with him.
4.Why did Mike’s face turn red?
A.He was shy. B.He felt surprised.
C.He felt shamed. D.He was afraid of his father.
5.What really touched Mike’s heart according to the passage?
A.His father’s diary. B.His father’s love.
C.His father’s answers. D.His father’s hugs.
Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plan. So airlines（航空公司）offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?
To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.
However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude（海拔）we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure（气压）reduces one third of the sensibility（感觉）of our taste buds（味蕾）. So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.
All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy（辛辣的）food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.
Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.
Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.
1.In Paragraph 2, “this problem” means ______.
A.passengers stay long in the plane
B.food on the plane tastes bad
C.passengers have no food to eat
D.food on the plane is expensive
2.What do airlines do to solve this problem?
A.Get more customers. B.Offer more food.
C.Improve their food. D.Reduce the ticket price.
3.As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces of the sensibility of our taste buds.
A.half B.one third
C.one fourth D.one fifth
4.Why do scientists feel it hard to made food on the plane taste good?
A.The volunteers don’t know about food taste.
B.The volunteers don’t understand them.
C.They can’t find enough volunteers.
D.They can’t deal with the special environment successfully.
5.What is the best title of the passage?
A.Taste of Airplane Food
B.Airplane Travel
C.Scientific Research on Noses
D.The Change in Air Pressure
A teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring along a bag with ____tomatoes. Each tomato would ______a name of a person that the child hated. So the number of tomatoes in his or her bag would depend on the number of people the child hated.
When the day came, every child brought some tomatoes with the names of the people he or she hated. Some had two tomatoes. _______had three tomatoes. Some even had five tomatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the tomatoes with them wherever they went for a week. Days passed and the children started to complain (抱怨) ______the rotten (腐烂的) tomatoes let out terrible smell. Besides, those having five tomatoes, also had to carry ______bags. After one week, the children were very happy because the game had ______ended.
The teacher asked, “How did you feel?” The children started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through when carrying the heavy and smelly tomatoes. Then the teacher told them the _______behind the game.
The teacher said “This is the same situation when you carry your hatred (憎恨) for somebody _____your heart. The terrible smell of hatred will _________your heart, and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot stand the smell of the rotten tomatoes for just _______week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?
1.A.much B.a little C.a few D.few
2.A.call B.be given C.have written D.name
3.A.Any B.Some C.Every D.No one
4.A.because B.but C.so D.because of
5.A.lower B.lighter C.heavier D.bigger
6.A.often B.finally C.always D.hardly
7.A.meaning B.time C.way D.secret
8.A.outside B.inside C.beside D.besides
9.A.clean B.wash C.pollute D.close
10.A.nine B.two C.five D.one
—It will be my turn to give a speech. I feel a little nervous.
—_________.You can make it.
A.Never mind. B.Congratulations C.Look out D.Take it easy
That poor man has for three years.
A.died B.been died
C.dead D.been dead
—Sue feels stressed, and she doesn’t know ________ about it.
—She can get help from her friends, parents or teachers.
A.who to talk B.what to talk
C.what to talk to D.who to talk to
