Once a circle missed a wedge (楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its
missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly. It admired the flowers
along the way. It chatted with grasses. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of
them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece
that fit perfectly. It was so happy. It put the found piece into itself and began to roll. Now it was a perfect
circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses. When it rolled so quickly,
it realized how different the world seemed. Then it stopped, left the found piece by the side of the road and
rolled slowly away.
     The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are
missing something. The man who has everything isn't in some ways a whole man. He will never know what
it feels like to yearn (渴望), to hope, to come true the dream of something better.

(     )1. At first, the circle couldn't roll fast, because it wanted to chat with the grasses.             
(     )2. The circle didn't find the missing piece at last.                                                
(     )3. When it was a perfect circle, it rolled too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses.
(     )4. The circle stopped by the side of the road and enjoyed the sunshine.                             
(     )5. In some days, a man still will be perfect even if he misses something.                           

     A man hated his wife's cat and decided to throw it away.
     One day, he drove it over one mile from his home and left it in a park. But when he got home, he saw
that his wife was playing with the cat.
     The next day he drove the cat about three miles away. He put the cat out of the car and went home.
Driving back his driveway (私人車道), the cat was there already.
     The man keep taking the cat further and further away and the cat would always get home before him.
At last he decided to drive more than ten miles away. He turned right, then left, past a bridge, then right
again and another right until he thought he was far enough from home and left the cat there.
     Hours later the man was still driving home. He was lost! He called home and asked his wife, "Jen, is the
cat there?"
     "Yes," his wife answered, "why do you ask?"
     The man answered, "Put it on the phone. I'm lost and need directions."

1. The first time the man drove out, he ________.

A. sold the cat
B. took the cat home
C. left the cat in the park

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The man liked his wife's cat and often played with it.
B. Every time the man threw the cat away, it came home earlier than the man.
C. The last time the man threw the cat away, it lost its way and didn't come back.

3. Why did the man call home? 

A. Because he was lost.
B. Because he missed his wife very much.
C. Because he wanted to know if the cat was at home.

4. How far away did the man take the cat the last time? 

A. Over 1 mile.
B. About 3 miles.
C. More than 10 miles.

     A famous doctor once received a little child that was badly ill. Thanks to his skill and care, the child got
well and was soon able to get up and run about again.
     The child's mother was very thankful to the doctor, and she visited him for what he had done for her
child. "Doctor," she said, "you have saved my little son. I don't know hoe to thank you enough. I feel that
money alone cannot repay (回報(bào)) you, so I have made this little purse with my own hands, as a sign of my
thanks. I hope you will accept (接受) it." The doctor stood up and said coldly, "Madam, a little present like
that is very nice between friends, but a doctor needs to paid enough for what he has done." The lady was so
surprised and hurt so much that she could not reply for a moment. Then she said quietly, "Perhaps you will
tell me how much I should give you."
      "Fifty pounds," he answered. The lady opened the little purse and took out four fifty-pound bank notes.
She passed one of them to the doctor, and put the other three back into the purse. She put the purse into her
handbag and, saying goodbye to the doctor, went out of the room.

1. Why was the lady very thankful to the doctor?

A. Because he had saved her life.
B. Because he had saved her son's life.
C. Because he had given her some money.

2. The doctor refused the lady's purse because he thought ________.

A. the purse was too small
B. the lady wouldn't give him money
C. purses should be given between friends

3. What can we learn from the passage? 

A. The doctor got 50 pounds from the lady.
B. the doctor got 200 pounds from the lady.
C. The lady didn't pay money for the doctor.

4. According to the passage, the doctor would probably feel ________ in the end.

A. happy
B. excited
C. sorry

     Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南極站) as the only doctor in 1998 when
she 47.While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (腫塊) in her
stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn't able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn't leave the
station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn't wait for the death. But decided to fight
against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was
cancer. Without the proper wouldn't live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help
She started her own treatments (治療) after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the
long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support
of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound. Sadly. Dr. Grecn's cancer finally
returned. She died on June 23.2009.

1. Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in _______.

A. March. 1998
B. May. 1998
C. June. 2009
D. July, 2009

2. What does the underlined word "thawed" mean in Chinese?

A. 形成
B. 堆積
C. 融化
D. 覆蓋

3. When did she start her own treatments?

A. After searching the Internet.
B. After getting instructions from a merit an doctors.
C. After hearing from her paw law.
D. After becoming a member in support of cancer charities.

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Dr. Green decided to give up the treatments.
B. She sent the information about the lump to a hospital in the United Stales.
C. She wrote a book called Ice Bound.
D. Dr Green died of cancer.

5. What does the writer feel about Dr. Green's death?

A. exciting.
B.  Happy.
C. Sad.
D. Pleased.

     A passenger told all air hostess (空姐) that he needed a cup of water to take his 1______ when the plane
just took off. She said to him, "I'll bring you the water 2______ ten minutes."
     Thirty minutes later, when the passenger ring for service sounded, the air hostess ran ill a hurry.She Was
so busy that she 3______ to bring him the water. As a 4______. the passenger couldn't take his medicine in
lime. The air hostess hurried over to him with a cup of wale. but he 5______ it.
     After a short while, the air hostess came up to him with a smile," Could you please tell me what I can do
for you, sir?" The passenger turned around without any words. The second time.also with a sweet smile,
"Would you like 6______ I can do for you?" Again the passenger refused.
    In the following hours 013.the flight, each time the air hostess passed the passenger, she would ask him
7______ a smile whether he needed some help or not. But the passenger never replied to her. When the
passenger was going to get 8______ the plane, he asked the air hostess to hand him the passenger's booklet
(小冊(cè)子). She knew that he would write down terrible words about her job. 9______ still with a smile she
handed it to him.
     Getting off the plane. the air hostess opened the booklet, and smiled because the passenger wrote," How
can I refuse your twelve sweet 10______?"