Alice was a beautiful girl. She liked nothing except dressing __1__ and dancing when she was at school. Of course she wasn’t good at her __2__. But the boys were ready to help her with her lessons __3__ they liked to dance with her. And after she finished middle school, she __4__ found work in a big shop. The __5__ had a son and he wanted the girl to marry him. Alice __6__ though the young man wasn’t clever enough. And she __7__ all kinds of clothes and shoes. She lived in the beautiful house with a big garden and she __8__ did anything at home. She didn’t love her __9__ but she lived a city life.
Once Mrs. Evans called Alice. The woman said she bought a few __10__ pictures and asked her to appreciate（欣賞）them. She __11__ nothing about the art but she was afraid to be laughed at and got there in time. She saw several women there. They were __12__the pictures when she went in. She thought for a long time and said, “Look! They’re all __13__. Why didn’t you buy the new ones?”
The women looked at each other but they tried not to __14__. And when they were appreciating a picture “Tramp（游浪漢）”, she said, “I don’t think the artist could draw! Such a__15__ man had no money to have a portrait taken（請(qǐng)人畫(huà)像）!”

動(dòng)詞填空

閱讀下面短文，用括號(hào)內(nèi)所給動(dòng)詞的適當(dāng)形式填空 (必要時(shí)可加情態(tài)動(dòng)詞或助動(dòng)詞)。

Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children 1.______ (play) in the snow.

Afel didn’t understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being able 2.______ (fly) across the snow.

One day when he was twelve, Afel3. ______ (watch) TV at his uncle’s house. The program was full of snow. Not only snow – there were people flying across the snow.

“Look! They 4. ______ (fly)!” he shouted excitedly.

The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.

“They’re skiing. It needs snow,” said his uncle, “it’s the Winter Olympics. It 5. ______ (hold) every four years.”

Afel 6._________ （find）out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

“Perfect,” he thought. “Enough time for me to become a good skier. I 7.______ (go) to the Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing.”

“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?”

Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn’t move, but he practiced and practiced until he could move quite quickly.

“How will you go to the Winter Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country 8.______ (not, have) a team at all. Why 9.______ (not, do) athletics (田徑) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we 10.______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics.”

Now Afel is practicing skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.

Look! They are sitting __________ the tree.

 — _______ are my socks, Dad? I can’t find them.

— Look! They’re on your bed.

A．Where           B．What color        C．How             D．When

One day when some government officials were rebuilding a house, they found a mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to make the mice inside the hole come out. A while later they saw mice running out, one after another，but they saw two mice didn’t run away immediately. It seemed that one was trying to bite(咬) the tail of the other.
Everyone was puzzled, so they came nearer to take a look. They realized that one of the two mice was blind, and the other was trying to allow the blind mouse to bite his tail in order to pull the blind one with him to run away.
During the meal time, they started to talk about the two mice. One serious American said, “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of king and guard.”
A smart Frenchman said, “I think the relationship between them was that of husband and wife.”
A Japanese said, “I think the relationship between them was that of mother and son.”
At that moment, one Chinese asked, “Why did those two mice have a certain relationship?”
Suddenly, they looked back at the Chinese. The American, the Frenchman and the Japanese who had spoken earlier all lowered (低下) their heads in shame, and didn’t answer.
In fact, the great love is not built on friendship or blood relationship. Instead, it is based on no relationship.
【小題1】The two mice didn’t go away immediately because _______.