One day a pig went to the stable（马棚）to __41__ a good friend, an old horse, and was going to ___42__ there for the night . Night came and it was time___43___ sleep. The pig went into the straw heap(稻草堆) and lay comfortably（舒服地）. A long time __44__, but the horse was still___45___ there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse ___46____ he did not go to sleep. “Standing like this is the beginning of sleeping.” answered the ____47____.The pig found it __48___ to believe(相信) and said, “How can you stand there sleeping? It is not comfortable at all.” The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit(习性).___49____ horses, we have the habit of running quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if(即使) we are __50___.

1.A. look        B. see          C. watch            D. look at

2.A. left         B. sit           C. lay               D. stay

3. A. by           B. on           C. to                 D. with

4.A. passed      B. pass        C. past              D. was passed

5.A. standing    B. stands      C. sitting           D. lying

6.A. what         B. why         C. when             D. which

7.A. animals     B. pig          C. horse            D. heap

8. A. hardly       B. easily      C. difficult         D. easy

9.A. While        B. For         C. As                 D. Like

10.A. sleep        B. asleep      C. slept              D. to sleep

One day a pig went to the stable（马棚）to __1__ a good friend, an old horse, and was going to ___2__ there for the night . Night came and it was time___3___ sleep. The pig went into the straw heap(稻草堆) and lay comfortably（舒服地）. A long time __4__, but the horse was still___5___ there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse ___6____ he did not go to sleep. “Standing like this is the beginning of sleeping.” answered the ____7____.The pig found it __8___ to believe(相信) and said, “How can you stand there sleeping? It is not comfortable at all.” The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit(习性).___9____ horses, we have the habit of running quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if(即使) we are __10___.

O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, （a）出生于in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for （b）______________ he was born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything（c）他需要知道。

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison（监狱）. During the three years in prison, （d）he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with sudden change. （e）This made the readers surprised.

1．将划线部分（a）译成英语:_______________________________________

2．在（b）的空白处填入适当的词组:_________________________________

3．将划线部分（c）译成英语: ______________________________________

4．将划线部分（d）译成汉语: ______________________________________

5．将划线部分（e）译成汉语: ______________________________________