31、What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.

Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not lifts.

From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury.

The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average (平均高度的) person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.

Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may have leaked (渗) into the room.

On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are these which open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement (水泥) might end with injury. Bushes and grass can help to break a fall.

1．It is more important to ________.

A. put out the fire in the burning house  B. Know the ways to escape the fire

C. jump off a burning house           D. keep the door closed

2．It is possible to escape through the windows ________.

A. if you have a long rope         B. if you are strong enough

C. if you live on a lower floor      D. if there are some bushes on the ground

3 Which of the following escaping way is NOT right?

A. You can escape through stairways.     B. You can choose fire escapes.

C. Escape from the windows which open onto a roof.

D. Use a life to come down at once.

4．Open the window so that ________ if the building is on fire.

A. you can get fresh air            B. you can call for help

C. you can easily jump off          D. you can be seen first

5．The best title for the passage is ________.

A. Escaping from the Windows    B. Save Yourself in the Burning House

C. Knowledge on Fire            D. Waiting for Help

27、根据下列短文内容，在短文上的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整通顺。

There is a family of ants   1   under the tree in front of my house. One day when I went home, I found that they were busy carrying earth. It was going to rain. They did it to protect（保护）the gate of   2   home. Just then the rain came down. I ran into the house. As I watched out of the window, I thought, “What a pity! The ants will all die in   3   a heavy rain.”

4   the rain stopped, I went out to see them. To my   5  , they were still alive and as happy as usual. The earth at the gate of their home kept the rain   6   and they were   7   again moving the earth away. It was very late, but they were   8  working hard. There was no one beside to watch the ants and tell them   9   to do. But they knew what they should do and they did it.

I think people should learn from the ants. When we see something that needs to be done, we should do it.   10   my neighbors, the ants, I learnt a lot.

24、先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词在题后横线上必须完整写出。

In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been h_________(1) in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

  New England has many t_______ (2 ) and thin, rocky (多岩石的) soil (土壤). Anyone who has wanted to start a new f________ ( 3 ) there has to work very hard. The first job is to cut down trees. The n_________ ( 4 ) job is to dig (挖) the stumps (树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the difficult job of m_________ ( 5 ) stones from his land.

  The work of removing stones never really e_________ ( 6 ), because every winter more stones appear. They come up t__________ ( 7 ) the thin soil from the rocks below. F_________ ( 8 ) have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked o______ ( 9 )for 200 years keep producing more stones. That is why stone walls are used i________ ( 10 ) of fences (篱笆) around New England fields. The stone walls are not high, a man can easily climb o_________ ( 11 ) them. But they keep the farmer’s cows from j_________ ( 12 ) his neighbour’s cows.

22、I don’t often lose things and I’m always careful with money, so I was quite surprised when I reached for my wallet and it wasn’t there. At first, I thought it was possible that I could have left it at home. Then I remembered taking it out to pay the taxi, so I knew I had it with me just before I walked into the restaurant. I wondered if it was possible that it could have dropped out of my pocket while I was eating dinner. I turned and walked back to the table where I had been sitting. Unluckily, there were several people sitting at the table at that time, so I had the waiter go over to the table to see if my wallet was on the floor. While the waiter was looking for it, the head of the restaurant came up to me and asked me if anything was wrong. I told him what had happened. He asked me to report the missing wallet to the police. I told him I didn’t want to do so; I was in a hurry because I had to reach my waiting room before two o’clock, where some people were waiting to see me. I also told him that my biggest worry at the moment was how I was going to pay for the meal. He told me not to worry about that. He asked me to write down my name and address, and he said he would send me a bill (账单).

1. When the writer couldn’t find his wallet, his first thought was that________

A. it had been given to the taxi-driver                   B. he had dropped it in the taxi

C. it might be left at home                         D. he had lost his wallet again

2. The writer thought he must have the wallet with him because___________.

A. he had paid the taxi-driver                          B. he had paid the bill of the meal

C. the waiter had seen it on the table                    D. the waiter was looking for it on the floor

3. Why do you think the writer turned and walked back to the table?

A. He would phone the police about the missing of his wallet.

B. Several people were sitting at the table at that time.

C. He wondered if he had dropped his wallet while eating.

D. The head of the restaurant wanted to know what was wrong.

4. The writer of the story is probably a _________.

A. cook                                                             B. doctor   

C. school teacher                                                    D. newspaper reporter

5. Which of the following words can best describe the head of the restaurant?

   A. Modest.                 B. Careful.                 C. Kind.                D. Clever.