Mrs Jackson is an American doctor. She is now in China. She works in a children's hospital in Chongqing.
She is also learning Chinese medicine there. She likes Chinese medicine very much. She loves to work for
children. She works in the day and reads English books on Chinese medicine at night. She learns Chinese from
the Chinese doctors and her Chinese friends. Now she can speak some Chinese. She can read some Chinese,
too.
     Her husband Mr Jackson is a teacher. He teaches English in a middle school in Chongqing. He works
hard, too. He works from Monday to Friday. He teaches three classes every day. Sometimes, on Saturdays
and Sundays, he teaches other English classes. He wants to make more money.

1. Where are Mr and Mrs Jackson from? 
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2. Where do they work? 
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3. What do they do?
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4. What does Mrs Jackson do at night? 
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5. Why does Mr Jackson work at the weekend? 
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     A young man and an old man are walking in the park. The old man is behind the young man. He is tired,
so he wants to have a rest. There is a chair in front of the young man. The old man sees the chair. He wants
to sit on the chair. He walks to the chair. The young man walks to it, too. So the old man begins to run. The
young man says, "Don't sit on the chair!" The old man doesn't listen to him. Now he is sitting on it. He looks
happy. The young man comes over to him. He is holding a small board in his hands. It says, "Wet Paint (油漆
未干)."

(     )1. The young man is the son of the old man.                  
(     )2. The old man wants to sit on the chair because he is tired.
(     )3. The young man doesn't want the old man to sit on the chair.
(     )4. The old man listens to the young man.                     
(     )5. The young man wants to sit on the chair.                  

     One day, on his way home, Mr Smith saw a thief carry a TV set and a recorder and go hurriedly along the
street. He didn't stop the thief.
     A few minutes later, a policeman stopped him at a street corner and asked if he had seen a thief. Mr Smith
told the policeman that he didn't. The policeman, however, soon caught the thief with the help of others. When
Mr Smith got home, he was surprised to see that it was his TV set and recorder that had been stolen.
     One day, on his way home, Mr Smith saw a thief 1_____ (carry) a TV set when he passed the street. He
didn't 2_____ (stop) the thief.
     A few minutes later, a policeman stopped 3_____ (ask) Mr Smith something about thief. Mr Smith told the
policeman that he didn't know. After he 4_____ (return) home, he found his things 5_____ (steal). And the
thief was caught by the policeman with other people.

     A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman struggle (奮力) with a large box. It was half
in and half out of her car. He was a helpful and kind of man, so he went up to the woman and said, "Let me
give you a hand with that box. It looks very heavy."
     "That's very kind of you," the woman said. "I'm having a lot of trouble with it I think it's struck (卡住)."
"Together we'll soon move it," the man said. He got into the back seat of the car and took hold of the other
end of the box. He said, "I'm ready." And he began to push hard.
     For several minutes the man and the woman struggled with the box. Soon they were tired in the fact.
"Let's rest for a minute," the man said. "I'm sorry, but it ready stuck." A few minutes later, the man said,
"Let's try again. Are you ready?" Both of them took hold of the box again. "One, two, three!" the man said,
and they went on with their struggle.
     At last, when they were very tired, the man said, "You are right. It really is stuck. I don't think we can
get it out of the car." "Get it out of the car!" The woman cried. "I'm trying to get it in!"

用所給動詞的適當(dāng)形式填空。
     A man saw a woman struggle (奮力) with a large box while he 1_____ (walk) along the street It was half
in and half out of her car. He went up to give a hand.
     The woman had a lot of trouble 2_____ (carry) it. For several minutes the man and the woman 3_____
(struggle) with the box.
     At last, when they were very tired, the man said, "You are right. It is stuck. I 4_____ (not think) we can
get it out of the car." "Get it out of the car!" The woman cried. "I'm trying 5_____ (get) it in!"

     "Ordinary" was the worst word my mother could find for anything. I remember her taking me shopping and
taking no notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dress or pair of shoes was very popular-
"We've sold fifty already this week". That was all she needed to hear. "No", she would say, "We're not interested
in that. Haven't you got something a little more unusual?" And then the assistant would bring out all the strange
colors no one else would buy. And later she and I would argue because I wanted to be ordinary but my mother
wanted to be unusual. "I can' t stand that haircut," she said, when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and
came back with a boy haircut, "It's so terribly ordinary." Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary. "Couldn't you
please wear something else?" I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents' Day in tight-fitting bullfighter's
pants and a bright pink sweater. "What's wrong with what I'm wearing? What wasn't wrong with it!" "It's just
that I wish you'd wear something ordinary," I said "something that people won't laugh at. "She looked at me
angrily and then said, "Are you ashamed of your own mother? If you are, Isadora, I feel sorry for you. I really
do."

1. What did the shop assistants expect Isadora's mother to buy?

A. Something very popular.
B. Styles they had sold out.
C. Clothes that were cheap.

2. When Isadora had her hair cut in a boy hairstyle, her mother _____.

A. felt happy with it
B. surely disliked it
C. told her to change it

3. Why did Isadora ask her mother to change her clothes on Parents' Day?

A. Because her mother's clothes were out of style.
B. Because she didn't like a pink sweater at all.
C. Because she didn't like her mother to dress that way

4. According to the passage, we know that Isadora's mother must be very _____.

A. popular
B. interesting
C. confident

5. The underlined word "It" in this passage most likely means _____.

A. the hairdo
B. the dresser
C. the boy

     James wrote a play for television about a family who came to England from India, and the play was very
interesting. It 1_____ (buy) by an American TV company. James 2_____ (invite) to go to New York to help
them. He lived in Washington, which is an hour away from New York by air. The plane 3_____ (take) off at
8:30 in the morning. So he had to be at the airport at about 7:30. He ordered a taxi for 6:30 and went to sleep.
He forgot to wind the clock, so he was late for the plane. He was just 4_____ (prepare) his coffee when the
radio sent out another news, "Reports are coming in of a plane crash (飛機墜落) near Washington airport.
A Boeing 707 fly to New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Plane number 2234..." James
suddenly turned pale (蒼白). "My plane," he said aloud. "If I haven't 5_____ (be) late, I'd have been on the
plane!"

     The old name for films was "moving pictures" in America. They still call them "movies" and they say
"Shall we go to the movies?" When we would say "Shall we go to the cinema?"
     Then one day, a boy said to his friend, "Do you like moving pictures?"The friend thought that the boy
was going to invite him to go to the cinema,so he said, "Yes. please. I like moving pictures very much."
     "Good,"said the first boy. "My father has a picture shop. He sells pictures. This evening I have to move
fifty heavy boxes of pictures from one place to another. You like moving pictures, so I'm sure you enjoy
moving the pictures with me."

1. "Moving pictures" was the old name _____.

A. for cinema
B. for films
C. for America
D. for carrying movies

2. _____  still call films "movies" today.

A. The boys
B. The British
C. The Americans
D. Young people

3. When the boy said to his friend, "Do you like moving pictures?", he meant _____.

A. Do you like to go to the cinema with me?
B. Do you like to see the films?
C. Do you like to help me move the pictures?
D. Do you like old films?

4. The boy's friend _____.

A. liked seeing films very much
B. liked to move pictures very much
C. was always ready to help others
D. liked to help people move something

5. The job of the boy's father was to _____.

A. show films
B. make films
C. sell pictures
D. draw pictures