I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (乌龟). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady (镇定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (坚忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.
1.The writer argued (辩论)with his son because ______________.
A.he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B.they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish
C.he tried to teach his son a moral (品德) lesson but the son had totally different opinion
D.he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.
2.Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.
A.won the race by his own hard working
B.took a risk (冒险) by agreeing to run a race
C.was not given a fair chance in the race
D.in fact did win the race luckily
3.Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.
A.boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father
B.boys who Sonny has run races with before
C.boys who Sonny has never raced with before
D.boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again
4.The writer thinks that his generation (一代人) ______________.
A.are cleverer than Sonny’s generation
B.have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation
C.are more hopeful than Sonny’s generation
D.have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation
5.According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?
A.The tortoise B.Sonny
C.The hare D.Sonny’s father
“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
1.When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.
A.at home B.sleeping C.sitting in bed D.both A and B
2.The author saved the baby _____.
A.because he was very brave.
B.because he liked the baby very much.
C.but he just happened to save it.
D.because it was the Mayor’s baby.
3.He ran in the wrong direction because he _______.
A.was a stranger there B.could see nothing
C.was not completely awake D.Both A and C
4.He put the bundle over his face and ran in order to ______.
A.save the baby B.call for help
C.protect his face D.run quickly
5.Form which group of words, we can learn the fire took place out of people’s surprise?
A.old and wooden house, a bundle
B.crashed to, fell down
C.terrible, half-awake
D.bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat
Charles R. Drew was a medical student at Columbia University in New York. Before he graduated, he wrote an article __36___ blood bank, that is, the storing of blood. Up till then, a lot of people had died from loss of blood __37___ there was no blood bank.
When the United States entered the Second World War, it became __38___ to set up blood banks. Dr Drew became _39___ of the Red Cross’s first blood bank. When the Red Cross __40___ blood banks to collect and store blood for men __41__ in battle, black American gave blood along with the whites. At ___42__ their blood was not accepted. Later blood from the blacks was ___43___ but was stored in a __44___ place from “white” blood. Although the best doctors __45___ that there was _46___ difference at all between the blood of blacks and whites, the Red Cross, with the support of the government, __47___ to separate black blood from white blood.
After the war, Dr Drew was ___48__ from Washington with three other doctors to attend a medical meeting in a southern state. In northern Carolina their car went __49___ a ditch(深沟)and Dr Drew was _50___ hurt. He had lost __51__ blood by the time a passing car took him to the __52___ hospital. But they were stopped at the gate of the hospital. “__53__him to the hospital for blacks.” No matter __54___ they said, they could not get into the hospital. They had to take him to the __55___ hospital, but on the way Dr Drew died because he had lost too much blood.
1. A.of B.on C.for D.in
2. A.though B.if C.because D.and
3. A.possible B.impossible C.unimportant D.necessary
4. A.visitor B.head C.receiver D.supporter
5. A.started B.expected C.promised D.forbade
6. A.died B.killed C.wounded D.fighting
7. A.most B.least C.first D.last
8. A.received B.accepted C.lost D.found
9. A.good B.cool C.hot D.separate
10. A.discovered B.invented C.insisted D.regretted
11. A.little B.much C.some D.no
12. A.began B.refused C.stopped D.continued
13. A.driving B.walking C.arriving D.running
14. A.from B.into C.along D.off
15. A.hardly B.nearly C.badly D.not
16. A.some B.little C.all D.much
17. A.biggest B.most modern C.nearest D.cheapest
18. A.Take B.Bring C.Send for D.Find
19. A.how B.what C.where D.who
20. A.colored B.better C.farthest D.same
--- What are you going to do tomorrow ?
----How about going to buy Michael Jackson CDs?
----- ______________
A.Take your time . B.Not at all
C.Sounds great D.It doesn’t matter.
The old man would appreciate _____ if you could do him that favour.
A.one B.it C.that D.this
It is reported that this kind of vegetables _ a lot of vitamins C.
A. contains B. includes C. holds D. keeps