A. to      B. home      C. behind     D. fast       E. foreign    F. scared  G. joke       H. close     I. playing      J. so

 
One day a mother mouse and her babies were out. They were enjoying    【小題1】   games. Suddenly a hungry cat came up to them! The cat hid（藏）   【小題2】   a big tree. She could hear the mice talk. After the mother mouse and her babies knew what had happened, the cat jumped from her hiding-place and started  【小題3】  run after them.
The mother mouse and her babies began to run away. They hurried towards their    【小題4】    But the baby mice were  【小題5】  frightened that they could not run very    【小題6】   . The cat came    【小題7】    . What was to be done?
The mother mouse stopped running, turned round and faced the cat, shouting “Bow! Wow! Bowwow!” just like an angry dog. The cat was so  【小題8】    that she ran away. The mother mouse turned to her babies, “Now you see how important it is to learn a    【小題9】   language!”
Just then she heard a shout "Miao! Miao!" just like the cat.
“Oh, the cat's coming back. We must run right now.” The mother mouse called out to her children. “Haha! It's only a    【小題10】  ”said one of her children. “I have learned a foreign language.”

 

A. to      B. home      C. behind     D. fast       E. foreign   

F. scared  G. joke       H. close     I. playing      J. so     

 

One day a mother mouse and her babies were out. They were enjoying    1.   games. Suddenly a hungry cat came up to them! The cat hid（藏）   2.   a big tree. She could hear the mice talk. After the mother mouse and her babies knew what had happened, the cat jumped from her hiding-place and started  3.  run after them.

The mother mouse and her babies began to run away. They hurried towards their    4.    But the baby mice were  5.  frightened that they could not run very    6.   . The cat came    7.    . What was to be done?

The mother mouse stopped running, turned round and faced the cat, shouting “Bow! Wow! Bowwow!” just like an angry dog. The cat was so  8.    that she ran away. The mother mouse turned to her babies, “Now you see how important it is to learn a    9.   language!”

Just then she heard a shout "Miao! Miao!" just like the cat.

“Oh, the cat's coming back. We must run right now.” The mother mouse called out to her children. “Haha! It's only a    10.  ”said one of her children. “I have learned a foreign language.”

 

A woman repeated a bit of gossip (流言) about a neighbour. Within a few days the whole neighbourhood knew the story. The neighbour was deeply hurt. Later the woman responsible (負(fù)責(zé)) for spreading the gossip learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.
“Go to the marketplace,” he said. “and buy a chicken, and have it killed, then on your way home, pluck (拔) its feathers and drop them one by one along the road. ” Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, “ Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me. ”
The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
“ You see, ” said the old man, “it’s easy to drop them, but it’s impossible to get them back . So it is with gossip. It doesn’t take much to spread a gossip, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong.”
【小題1】The woman was very _________ the harm she had done to her neighbour.

A．happy about

B．a(chǎn)ngry about

C．sorry for

D．excited about

【小題2】Which of the following statements is TURE?

A．The gossip didn’t hurt anyone at all.

B．The wise man was not kind enough.

C．The woman found all the feathers at last.

D．The woman was given a lesson.

【小題3】What the wise man said has nearly the same meaning as the Chinese phrase “_________”

A．覆水難收

B．無(wú)中生有

C．欲速不達(dá)

D．得道多助

A well-dressed (衣著很好)man goes into a restaurant one day. He sits down at a table near the window.
A waiter comes up to him and says, “Can I help you, sir?”
The man says, “Yes, please. Can I see the menu (菜單)?”
“Certainly,” answers the waiter. The man wants a good meal and he wants a lot of nice dishes. After a moment, the waiter brings them to him. The man is having his meal happily. At this time, a boy comes in and sits down besides the man. He asks the waiter to give him an ice cream. The man says, “I will be back in 5 minutes.” Then he goes out. After the boy eats his ice cream, the boy stands up and goes to the door. “Excuse me, your father did not give the money for the meal and your ice cream,” The waiter stops him and says.
“Father? You are wrong. He is not my father. I do not know him. I met him in the street. He said he would give me an ice cream if I came here at twelve o’clock.”
【小題1】The man comes to the restaurant ___________.

A．to meet the boy	B．to buy a newspaper
C．to eat an ice cream	D．to have a good meal

【小題2】The man has ________ in the restaurant.

A．breakfast

B．lunch

C．supper

D．dinner

【小題3】________ asked the boy to come to the restaurant.

A．The waiter

B．The boy’s father

C．The man

D．Nobody

【小題4】The waiter stops the boy because _______.

A．the man didn’t pay (付錢) for the meal and the ice cream

B．the boy didn’t have the meal

C．the boy’s father came back soon

D．the boy wanted to run away

【小題5】Which of the following is true?

A．The boy is the man’s son.

B．The boy knows the man very well.

C．The waiter pays the meal and the ice cream.

D．The man is a cheat (騙子).