How Much Is It
     Mrs Wilson likes to ask her husband to go shopping with her on Sundays. Her husband pays for the
things that she buys. Now they are in a shop.
     "Look, Andy. Is it a fancy hair clip?" Mrs Wilson asks her husband.
     "All right. And how much is it?" he answers and gives money to the shop assistant. When Mrs Wilson asks
him about something good or bad,he often says "All right. And how much is it?" to her.
    At about 8 o'clock pm, Andy is tired and thirsty, and he wants to have a drink. Suddenly (突然地) his wife
looks up at the moon and says, "Look, Andy. Is the moon so beautiful?"
     "All right. And how much is it?" her husband answers quickly.

(     )1. Mrs Wilson likes to go 8hopping on Sundays.     
(     )2. Andy is Mrs Wilson's husband.                   
(     )3. Mrs Wilson pays for all the things that she buys.
(     )4. Andy is hungry and wants to buy some food.      
(     )5. Mrs Wilson wants Andy to buy the moon.          

     On a Friday night, a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the sub-way station.
The music was so great that people slowed down to listen and put some money into his hat.
     The next day, the violinist came to the entrance again. He put down his hat as usual. Be-side the hat
was a piece of paper with some words on it. It said, A George Sang has put an important thing into my
hat by mistake.
     "Welcome to claim it." Soon the people were attracted by the words and wondered what it could be.
After a while a man rushed through the crowd, took it! violinist's shoulders and said, "I knew you would
certainly come here." The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?" "Lottery." The violinist took out
lottery ticket with Sang's name on it. Sang took it and danced happily.
     Sang was an office worker. He bought the lottery and won a prize of $500,000. But when he gave $50
to the violinist for his wonderful music, the lottery ticket was thrown in, too. The violinist was a college
student. This morning, he was going to fly to Vienna for high education. However, when he found the
ticket, he cancelled the flight and returned to the entrance.
     Later someone asked the violinist why he didn't take the lottery ticket to pay the tuition fee. He said,
"Although I don't have much money, I live happily. If lose honesty, I won't be happy forever."

1. Why did the young man play the violin at the entrance?

A. For pleasure.
B. To earn money.
C. For love.

2. What did George Sang put into the violinist's hat on a Friday night by mistake?

A. Money.
B. Lottery.
C. Money and lottery.

3. George Sang was very _____ to see the young violinist the next day.

A. worried
B. sorry
C. happy

4. What does the underlined word "cancelled" in the fourth paragraph mean?

A. 增加
B. 取消
C. 上升

5. What's the best title for this passage?

A. The Meaning of Honesty.
B. An Office Worker and a Lottery Ticket.
C. The Wonderful Violin Play.

     The idea of what shaking the head means is not always the same in different countries. Maybe some
visitors would be surprised when they first came to India. When talked to an Indian, he would often shake
his head. The visitors might think that the Indian did not like what they said. But, in fact, they would be
completely wrong.
     Indians always shake their heads when they talk to each other. It does not have the same meaning as
our "No". If someone wants to visit India, he should know this, or it will give him some trouble.
     One day, a foreign officer went to India on business. He hired a car and an Indian to drive it. When he
told his driver to send him to his office, the Indian shook his head at once. The office said again, and the
driver shook his head again. At last, the office, of course, got angry.
     "How dare you refuse my order?" he shouted. "Drive me to my office at once!"
     The driver answered in quite loud voice, too. "Yes, sir!" But to the officer's surprise, the driver shook
his head at the same time.
     The car started, and the foreign officer was now too surprised to say a word. He thought about it for
a while, and then he nodded with a smile, "No means Yes here!"

1. An Indian would shake his head when _____.

A. he didn't want to do anything
B. he agreed with others .
C. he talked to others

2. The foreign officer was surprised that _____.

A. the driver shook his head as he said, "Yes"
B. the driver refused his order
C. the driver drove him to another place

3. The sentence "No means Yes here!" means _____.

A. in India the words Yes and No have the same meaning
B. We shake our heads to say No, not Yes as Indians do
C. there is no difference between Yes and No

4. India is _____.

A. a developed country
B. in America
C. to the southwest of China

5. Which of the following sentences isn't true?

A Shaking the head doesn't always have the same meaning in different countries.
B. When an Indian shakes his head, he really means Yes.
C. In India shaking the head means No.

     Li Jun, a 17-year-old girl ① Shenzhen Foreign Language School, still can't believe her 10-day free training
camp in the Alps in Switzerland last month was true!
     But how did she achieve this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
     Last October, a piece of short world news in a newspaper "免費看世界②", caught her eye. When she
asked her friends if the story was real, they laughed at her, for they thought she was day-dreaming.③ However,
Li decided to apply online the following weekend.
     On December 14, Li Jun surprised her friends with an invitation letter from the program, the Pangaea Young
Explorer Selection Camp set up by South African explorer Mike Horn.
     Because of her performance during the training, Li was chosen as one of the eight young explorers to join
Mike Horn in the South Island of New Zealand in May.

1. 在①處的空白處填入適當?shù)脑~，使句意完整。
    ___________________________________________________
2. 將②句澤為英文。 
    ___________________________________________________
3. 將③處畫線的句子譯為中文。
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4-5 判斷正(T)誤(F)。
(     )4. The free training camp lasts for ten days.
(     )5. AII the friends believed what the newspaper said.

     Three Taiwanese fishermen 1_____ (save) from a small island in the South Pacific. The men 2_____
(disappear) for more than three months. They 3_____ (leave) Taiwan in a small fishing boat and planned
a week-long trip. On their fifth day, however, they 4_____ (meet) a typhoon, and it badly broke their boat.
Luckily, none of them 5_____ (hurt). After the typhoon had passed, though, they' discovered that the engine
wouldn't start.

     The wind was 1_____ 2_____ outside. Li Mei got to 3_____ after she fished her homework. Suddenly
(突然) she 4_____ that the windows of her 5_____ were open. She 6_____ on her clothes as 7_____ as
she could. She ran against (迎著) the wind 8_____ the school. 9_____ the way she 10_____ 11_____ a few
times. When she 12_____ there, she 13_____ the windows. Then she 14_____ the classroom 15_____ a smile
on her face.

A. Soon the bear came near. The bear looked at the fat young man, then it put its nose down and smelled him.
The young man held his breath. The bear thought he was dead, so it went away.
B. The friend answered, "The bear said, 'Don't trust your friend. He ran away from you when you needed his
help the most. Remember: A friend in need is a friend indeed'."
C. After a while, there was a great noise. It was a big bear. The young men ran away quickly. One of them
got up into a tree. But the other was fat and could not climb up. So he threw himself at the foot of the tree.
He thought to himself, "The bear will think I'm dead."
D. One day two young men were going through the forest. One said to the other, "We're friends. We must
help each other. If any beast comes at you, I'll stay with you and help you." The other friend said, "I'll help
you too, if a beast comes at you." They walked on.
E. The man in the tree carne down. With a smile he asked his friend, "The bear put its mouth so near to your
ear. What did it say to you?"

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