A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went
upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long. He went
downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. "The new
trousers are too long," he said politly. "They need shonening by about two inches. Could one of you do
it for me, please?" His mother and sister were busy and none of them said anything. But as soon as his
mother had finished wash'ing up,she went quietly upstairs to her son's bedroom and shonened the
tmusers by two inches. She came downstairs without saving anything to her daughters.
     Later on. after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers. She was a kind-hearted
girl, so she went quickedy upstairs without saying anything to anyone,and shortened the trousers by two
inches.
     The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home,she also remembered her brother's
trousers. So she ran upstalrs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine the look on the
young man's face when he put the trousers on the next morning.
1. The young man's trousers were _____ for him at first.
A. a bit too long    
B. very good    
C. not too long    
D. too shon
2. The young man's mother and sisters didn't answer because they were busy _____ in the kitchen．
A. cooking        
B. making tea
C. washing clotlles    
D. washing cups,glasses and so on
3. His elder sister shortened the trousers _____.
A. in the evening    
B. after lunch
C. as soon as she had finished the  washing    
D. after she came back from the cinema
4. The next moming the young man found that the trousers were _____ inches too short for him.
A. two    
B. four    
C. six    
D. eight
5. We can imagine that when the young man put the trousers on the next morning, he Would feel _____
A. happy    
B. surprising    
C. surprised    
D. thankful

     A forest fire burned 55 square kilometers was finally brought under control on Wednesday morning.
The fire started on Sunday in Black Bear State Park and quickly spread to nearby areas.
     On Monday, police evacuated (疏散) the small town of Lawson and ordered the people to leave
their homes. The fire destroyed 20 homes in the area and caused heavy damage to 40 others. Nobody
was hurt. Officials said the damage to homes and cars was between $I million and 2 million. The
government declared the town a disaster (灾难) area.
    The fire spread quickly in the hot, dry weather. Fire fighting was difficult because of strong winds.
Firemen from 55 fire departments in the state joined the National Fire Service to put out the fire. Some
kept fighting for 24 hours. Fire engines and helicopters dropped water onto the fire. In order to control
the fire, firemen cleared a way around the fire. Police closed King road to traffic on Tuesday because
of the heavy smoke. Thousands of tourists had to drive an hour north to Queen road to pass the fire
area.
    Some people did not follow the police's order. Paul Grayson sent his wife and two children to safety,
but he stayed. As the fire came within 50 feet of his house, he started thinking," Am I foolish? Did I stay
here too long, just for a house?"

1. When and where did the forest fire start?
    The fire started ______
2. What did the police order the people to do?
     The police ordered the people to ______.
3. How did the firemen drop water onto the fire?
    They ______ to drop water onto the fire.
4. How long did the tourists have to drive north to Queen road to pass the fire area?
                                                                              
5. What kind of person do you think Paul Grayson was? 
                                                                            

     When George was thirty-five,he bought a small plane and leamed to fly it..He soon became very
good at it and made his plane do(l) all kinds of tricks.    
     George had afriend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane.
Mark thought,"l've travelled in a big plane several times,but I've never been in a small one. So I'll do."    
     They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air.    
     Whe. they came down again,Mark was very dad tobe back(2)safely,and he said to his friend in a
shaking(颤抖的)voice,"Well,George,thank you Very much for those two tnps in your plane"    
George was very surprised and said,"Two trips?"    
     ''Yes,my first and my last."answered Mark.

根据短文内容完成各题。

1. The best title of the passage should be___________________________  
2. How long was Mark's trip in the small plane?___________________________
3. 把画线的句子译成汉语：___________________________  
4. 写出(1)的同义词组：___________________________  
5. 写出(2)的形容词形式：___________________________

1. Tle singer was___________.   

A. not rich    
B. poor    
C. not famous    
D. rich and famous  

2. The parents wanted their children____________.  

A. to have a happy life  
B. to have a hard life  
C. to be teachers    
D. to be singers

3. The parents bought___________for all their children.  

A. shops   
B. banks    
C. business    
D. fine schools  

4. The singers sons____________.    

A. were good managers              
B. didn't like meir banks    
C. knew nothing of business or of work    
D. did well in tlleir work 

5. Where did parents go wrong?           
    They didn't___________.    

A.send their children school        
B.give their children much money    
C.buy businesses fortheir children    
D.teach their children how to work

     It was Christmas, and there was a big party in the house. Guests(客人) came and went, but the
party went on. Then the bell rang. Several people shouted, "Come in!" A small man opened the front
door and came in. Nobody knew him but the host(主人) went to meet him and took him to have
a drink. The man sat there happily for an hour and a half and drank. Then suddenly(突然) he stopped
and looked at the host. " Do you know?" he said. "Nobody asked me to the party. I don't know you.
I don't know your wife and I don't know any of your guests. My wife and I wanted to go out in our
car, but one of your guests'cars was in front of our gate, so I came here to find him and my wife is
waiting in our car for me to come back.

     It was Christmas Day. There was a    1    in the room. When the bell rang, the guests were    2    
   3   . A shortman    4    in. The host    5    him to    6    a     7   . The short man knew     8    
of the people. He came to the party to     9    a man, the man's car was in front of their gate. The
short man's wife was     10   in their car, perhaps she got very angry.
1. _____    2. _____    3. _____    4. _____    5. _____
6. _____    7. _____    8. _____    9. _____    10. _____

(     )1. A. Sam liked doing chores.
            B. Sam did chores only on the weekend.
            C. Sam really didn't like doing chores.

(     )2. A. Sam cleaned his room once a month.
            B. Sam washed the car every weekend.
            C. Sam never looked after his brother and sister. 

(     )3. A. Everyone did chores in Kumar's famliy.
            B. Kumar did some chores.
            C. Kumar's sister made his bed. 

(     )4. A. Sam wanted to borrow Kumar's sister.
            B. The siste agreed to help Sam.
            C. The sister didn't want Kumar to do chores at home.  

(     )5. A. Sam and Kumar plan to make a robot.
            B. They aren't going to be scientists university.
            C. No one will be happy to have a chore robot.

     It was half past five in the evening when Sarah came home form work. She walked into the
living room and looked ather three children. The children were fourteen, thirteen and nine year
old. They were watching TV.
     The room was dirty and untidy. There were empty glasses and dirty clothes on the floor.
There were cakes on the sofa. Toys were everywhere.    
     Sarah got angry. "How dirty and untidy this place is!" she said to her children. "I can't work
all day and then do housework all evening. I'm not doing the housework!"  
     And so, Sarah didn't do the housework. She didn't clean. She didn't do tlle dishes. She didn't
wash the clothes. Every evening she sat in the sofa and watched TV.    
     Two weeks later, every dish in the house was dirty. All the children's clothes were dirty, too.
Every trash can was full. The whole house was dirty and untidy.  
     Then one day sarsh got very surprised when she came home from work. The kitchen was clean.
The children had cleaned the kitchen!    
     The next day, the living room was clean, and the children were washing their clothes.   
     Sarah told the children."OK, I'll do housework again. But you must help me."    
     Now Sarah and het three children do the housework together. Then tIley all sit in the sofa and
watch TV.

(     )1. Sarah has three children.
(     )2. She was uhappy to see the dirty and untidy room.
(     )3. One day Sarah got home to find the children cleaning the kitchen.
(     )4. After Sarah did the housework again, the children stopped doing it.
(     )5. The children finally learnt that they should share(分担)the housework.

      Just before Christmas in 1971, a German girl called Juliana was flying over a big forest of America.
The plane was flying high in the sky.
      Suddenly, there was a loud noise. Juliana found herself falling through the air. She closed her eyes.
She was sure that she was going to die.
      She fell 3, 000 meters down. When she opened her eyes again, she found that she had landed in a
tree in the middle of a forest. She was not dead! To her surprise, she was alive. She was not even badly
hurt. She was still sitting in her seat. She was holding a bag of sweets. She got out of seat and climbed
down the tree. But she could see nobody else. She was alone except for a few dead bodies here and
there.
     She began to walk. At first she had nothing to eat except the sweets. Later, she found a little fruit.
She saw some monkeys eating it.
     After four days, she came to a deep river. She walked by the side of the river for six more days and
at last arrived at an Indian village. She was safe!

l. The air accident happened in _____.

A. spring          
B. summer
C. autumn        
D. winter

2. The plane was flying about _____ high in the sky.

A. there hundred metres
B. three hundred kilometers
C. three kilometers
D. three thousand kilometers

3. Juliana was from _____. 

A. America        
B. Germany
C. England        
D. India

4. The girl was not badly hurt because _____.

A. there were a lot of trees
B. she was young and not heavy
C. she was lucky
D. she had landed in a tree and was still in her seat

5. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Some monkeys saw her eating the fruit.
B. She could not see anyone else alive around her in the forest.
C. At last she came to a village in England.
D. It took the girl six days to walk to the village from the middle of the forest.

Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.
    Some like reading newspapers and o    1       enjoy novels or comic(喜剧的)books. My f    2     books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o   3     life better.
    Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful , but because they did not give up w   4     their lives were difficult .They tried to use e   5     chance to change their lives and make
the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers w   6     invented the airplane. The plane has m   7     the world into a small village. Hard work , not good luck , is the r    8    why the Wright
Brothers could invent this convenient(方便的) machine and become great people. Today we will
remember them when we see planes i   9     the sky.
    Whenever I read s  10   about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me to
march on.
This is why I enjoy reading about great people's lives.

1. ______________2. ______________3. ______________
4. ______________5. ______________6. ______________
7. ______________8. ______________9. ______________
10. ______________