One day Mr Jackson took Paul to his favourite restaurant. It was a French restaurant. The waiter was
from France. But he didn't speak to them in French."Would you like to see the menu?" he asked in a kind
way. "Yes, please," Mr Jackson said. The waiter gave them a menu each. They studied them. "You can spend
only twenty-five dollars," Mr Jackson told his son.
     The waiter asked Paul, "What would you like, young man?"
     "How much is the tomato soup?" Paul asked.
     "Six dollars," the waiter said.
     "It's very good." "How much is the duck with orange?" Paul asked next.
     "Fifteen dollars," the waiter said. 
     "How much is the chocolate ice cream?" "Six dollars," the waiter said.
     Paul added (加) it up quickly. Six plus fifteen plus six is twenty-seven. He thought he could have the
duck and the soup, or the duck and the ice cream. "I'll have the duck and the chocolate ice cream, please," he
said to the waiter.
     Paul said to his father, "My meal will cost only twenty-one dollars. Can I keep the other four dollars? His
father laughed, "No, Paul," he said. "Leave it for the waiter."

1. How did the waiter speak to Paul and Mr Jackson?

A. In a rough way.
B. In a friendly way.
C. In French.
D. Slowly.

2. What did Paul have for dinner?

A. The soup and the duck.
B. The duck and the ice cream.
C. The duck, the soup and the ice cream.
D. The soup and the ice cream.

3. How much did Paul's meal cost?

A. $ 21
B. $ 24
C. $ 25
D. $ 27

4. What did Mr Jackson tell Paul to do with the other $ 4?

A. Keep it.
B. Give it back to him.
C. Spend it on something else.
D. Give it to the waiter.

5. What does this passage tell us?

A. Paul and his father hate eating in restaurants.
B. Mr Jackson's favourite food is English food.
C. Paul was careful not to spend more than $ 25 in the restaurant.
D. Paul didn't know what to choose from the menu.

     Nobody knew why Mrs.Williams was crying so loudly in her little garden.A neighbor came over
and asked her what happened.She told him,"Someone picked many of the flowers in the garden just
now.It must be a thief!" Just then a little boy came out holding a big bunch of flowers.He told Mrs.
Williams that his mother was badly ill."I'm very sorry,Mrs.Williams.I need money to pay for the
medicine,so I picked your flowers to sell,so that I could have some money to save my mother."
When she heard this,Mrs.Williams stopped crying and said to the boy that he could come to her
garden and pick as many as he need.She wants to see his mother in good health.

1.Mrs.Williams was crying in her little garden because ________________.
2.________________ picked some flowers in the small garden.
3.The boy wanted to have some money because her mother ________________.
4.At last Mrs.Williams let the boy ________________.

　　When you go to see a doctor，he will write you a note to take to the chemist
for some medicine. Chemists are usually good at reading doctors' notes. But
sometimes doctors write so badly that even the chemists cannot read the notes.    
　　One day a man wrote to a doctor to invite him to have dinner at his house.
The doctor wrote a reply,but he wrote too badly and the man could not read it.    
　　"What shall I do?"he asked his wife,"I don’t know whether he is going to
come or not. I don't want to call him and say that I don't understand him.”    
　　His wife thought for a while and then she had an idea. “Take it to the
chemist,''she said,"He will be able to read it for you. "    
　　"That’s a good idea. ”the man said happily.    
　　He went to the chemist and gave the doctor's “note” to him. The chemist
looked at it for a long time.    
　　"Please wait a moment,sir. ''he said. Then he went to the back of his shop.
After a few minutes he came back,carrying a large bottle .He gave the bottle to
the man.
　　"Take one spoonful every day,"he said.          

1. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?  

A. Only chemists can read doctors' notes.    
B. The man couldn't understand the doctor's note so he called him.    
C. The man's wife took the note to the chemist.    
D. Even the chemist couldn't read the doctor's note.

2. What did the man do when he couldn’t read the note of the doctor?    

A. He asked his wife for help.    
B. He called the doctor and asked whether he would go or not.    
C. He took the note to ask the doctor.    
D. He didn't know what to do but wait at home.

3. Why couldn't the man read the doctor's reply ?  

A. Because he couldn't read anything at all.    
B. The doctor wrote very badly.    
C. The doctor wrote very well.    
D.We don't know the reason.

4. At last he asked_______ to read the note.  

A. the doctor
B. his wife
C. a chemist
D. nobody.

5. According to the passage,the word “chemist”means_______in Chinese.

A. 工程師    
B. 化驗師    
C. 美術(shù)師      
D. 藥劑師

        A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple tree he grew.
       One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to plant it. The farmer was pleased with
the gift, but he did not know where to plant it.
       He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree
in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near
his house, his children would take the fruit. Finally he planted the tree in his wood. But without sunlight and good
soil (土壤), the tree soon died.
       Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place. "What's the difference?"
the farmer said angrily and then told what he had thought.
       "Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed
everyone of the fruit, but also you have destroyed (毀掉) a good apple tree!"
1. What gift did the farmer get from his friend one day?
                                                                                
2. How many people are there in the story?
                                                                                
3. Where did the farmer plant the apple tree at last? 
                                                                                
4. Why did the apple tree soon die? 
                                                                                
5. Who destroyed the apple tree? 
                                                                                

  One day, Mr. Smith     1    (go) to a dinner party. He was wearing very old clothes. He came into the
room. But people in the room    2     (not look )at him. They didn't ask him    3    (sit )at the table. He
wasn't happy. But he said nothing. Mr. Smith went home quickly and put on his best clothes. He went
back to the party. Everyone in the room    4   (stand )up and looked at him. They gave him good food
   5     (eat). Mr. Smith took off his coat, and put it on the food and said, "Eat, coat!" The other
people   6    (be) surprised and asked, "What are you doing? Why do you do that?" Mr. Smith answered,
"I am asking my coat to eat food. When I wore old clothes, you didn't look at me. You didn't ask me
   7     (sit) down. Now I am wearing these nice clothes. And you give me good food. Now I see, you
    8   (give) the food to my coat, not to me."?
1.______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______
5.______ 6.______ 7.______ 8.______

     John sent his mother expensive presents on his mother's birthday every year. He liked to show her how
rich he was.
     "I must find something wonderful for her, and it must be the only one in the whole world." John thought.
     He advertised (登廣告) in the newspapers." Wanted-the best present for the woman who has everything."
     For many days his telephone did not stop ringing. People phoned him from all over the world. They wanted
to sell him"the best present". But they did not have anything that was the only one in the whole world.
     Then less than a week before his mother's birthday, a man came to his office. He was carrying a cage, and
in the cage there was a large bird.
      "This bird," the man said, "can speak ten languages and sing any pop song. There is no other bird like it in
the world."
      "I will listen to it," John said. "If what you said is true, I will buy the bird from you." The man spoke to the
bird. "Talk to me in French," he said. The bird spoke to him in French. "Tell me a joke in Japanese," he said.
The bird told him a joke in Japanese."Sing a famous pop song," he said. The bird sang a famous pop song.
      "I'll buy it,"John said. "How much do you want?"
      "One hundred thousand dollars," the man said. This was a lot of money but John paid him. Then he sent
the bird to his mother with a birthday card.
      The day after his mother's birthday he phoned her. "Well, mother," he said, "Is the bird wonderful?"
      "Oh, it was delicious, dear," she said.

1. Why did John send her mother expensive presents for her birthday every year?

A. Because he loved his mother very much.
B. Because his mother needed these presents.
C. Because he wanted to show he had a lot of money.
D. Because he was the richest man in the world.

2. How did people know John wanted the best present in the world? 

A. They rang John up.
B. They knew it from the newspapers.
C. John phoned them one by one.
D. They knew it on TV.

3. When did the man with a bird come to visit John?

A. Two weeks before John's mother's birthday.
B. On John's mother's birthday.
C. About five days before John's mother's birthday.
D. Less than a week after John's mother's birthday.

4. Why did John pay the man a lot of money for the bird?

A. Because it was such a beautiful bird.
B. Because he wanted to help the poor man with the bird.
C. Because the bird could look after his mother.
D. Because John thought the bird could make his mother happy.

5. What does the sentence "It was delicious," really mean in the story?

A. His mother ate the bird.
B. His mother let the bird fly away.
C. His mother began to learn languages from the bird.
D. His mother thought it was the most expensive present in the world.