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Passage 1
There were once many sheiks (阿拉伯旳酋长) who wanted to marry Queen Maura, for she was one of the most beautiful and powerful queens of Arabia.
However, she did not like most of the sheiks, and soon there were only three left on her list of possible husbands. These three sheiks were all equally young and handsome, rich and strong. It was hard for the Queen to choose the best one.
One evening, she disguised herself and went to where the three sheiks were having their evening meal. She asked them to give her something to eat.
The first sheik gave her some stale (不新鲜旳) food left over from the day before.
The second sheik gave her a tough piece of old camel’s tail.
The third sheik, whose name was Hakim, gave her some of the most tender (嫩旳) and tasty meat.
The next day, she invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She told her servants to give each sheik what he had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of tender and tasty meat, would not eat it unless the other two sheiks could share it with him.
Queen Maura was certain which of the sheiks she wanted to marry.
“Hakim is the most generous of you,” she told them, “so I want to marry him and he will become king.”
1. What was Queen looking for?
A. A sheik. B. A king. C. A man. D. A husband.
2. Why did the Queen disguise herself?
A. Because she didn’t want to be recognized by the sheiks.
B. Because she wanted to get an evening meal.
C. Because she wanted to get some hard food.
D. Because she wanted to get some tasty food.
3. What did she give the sheiks to eat the next evening?
A. An evening meal. B. Some stale food.
C. A plate of tender and tasty meat. D. Three different meals.
4. Why didn’t Hakim want to eat his meal?
A. Because he was not hungry. B. Because it was too tasty.
C. Because the other sheiks had worse food. D. Because the other sheiks had better food.
5. When did the Queen finally decide who to marry?
A. When she went to see Hakim. B. The next evening after the meal.
C. The next day. D. When Hakim refused to eat his meal.
Passage 2
Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didn’t know what to do. The food in his restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there.
Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men and their lady friends. Whenever gentleman came with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine; while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was!
1. To whom did the waiter give a beautiful menu when a gentleman and his lady friend came into the restaurant?
A. The gentleman. B. The lady. C. Both of them. D. Neither of them
2. Were the menus for the guests the same?
A. Yes, they were. B. They were the same on the outside but different inside.
C. No, they weren’t. D. They were different on the outside but the same inside.
3. Why could the male guest remain calm when he ordered dish after dish?
A. Because the prices of the dishes were reasonable. B. Because he could have some discount.
C. Because he was rich. D. Because he knew that the lady would like to share the cost with him.
4. What did the lady think of her friend after a meal at this restaurant?
A. She thought he wanted to impress her. B. She thought he only pretended to be generous.
C. She thought he was very rich. D. She thought he was very generous.
5. What does the story mainly suggest?

A. Knowledge of customer psychology helps promote business.
B. A restaurant owner should design different menus for different guests.
C. All men pretend to be generous before their lady friends.
D. People like to go to expensive restaurants.
Passage 3
A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be about thirty-five years old. Soon they began talking to each other, and the man said to her, “Do you have a family?”
“Yes, I have one son, ” the woman answered.
“Oh, really?” said the man. “Does he smoke?”
“No, he’s never touched a cigarette,” the woman replied.
“That’s good,” the man continued. “I don’t smoke either. Tobacco is very bad to one’s health. And does your son drink wine?”
“Oh, no,” the woman answered at once. “He’s never drunk a drop of it.”
“Then I congratulate you, ma’am,” the said. “And does he ever come home late at night?”
“No, never,” his neighbor answered. “He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night.”
“Well,” the man said, “he’s a wise young man. How old is he?”
“He’s six months old today. But he will grow up to be a gentleman,” the woman replied proudly.
1. What are the man and the woman talking about?
A. What a wise young man should be like. B. What a young a man shouldn’t do.
C. The woman’s son. D. The man’s son.
2. How does the woman feel about her son?
A. He is still too young to do anything bad. B. He is a very good boy.
C. He will grow up to be a wise young man. D. He is born wise.
3. Where does the conversation take place?
A. On a train. B. At the woman’s home. C. In the street. D. At the man’s home.
4. Which of the following probably best describes the man’s feeling at the end of the conversation?
A. Disappointed. B. Surprised. C. Amused. D. Annoyed.
5. What can’t you learn from the conversation?
A. The man didn’t expect that the woman has a young boy.
B. The man believes in proper behavior for the young.
C. The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the man’s questions mean.
D. The woman is sure that her son won’t do all the things the man mentions then he grows up.
Passage 4
It can be dangerous to travel by sea. Ships sometimes sink（沉没）far away from land. When this happens, the sailors have to get into small boats. If another ship does not come and help them and they do not have enough food or water, they may die.
Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do, we shall be very ill because of all the salt in the water. A doctor called Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive by drinking sea water and eating small fish, animals, and plants from the sea. On 19 October 1953, he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He did not take any food or water with him.
Every day Dr. Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish and they had water in them. He drank this water. He could not cook the fish, so he ate them as they were. He took small plants from the sea, which gave him more food.
Dr. Bombard became hot, tired and quite ill, but after 65 days at sea he was still alive. He traveled 2750 miles from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other, and on 24 December 1953 he reached Barbados.
He lost 20 kilos, but he showed that people can live on sea water and the animals and plants in the sea.
1. Alain Bombard was____________.
A. an old sailor　　B. a doctor　C. a cook　D. a fisherman
2. He wanted to show that______________.
　 A. sea water was dangerous B. sailors often died
C. people could drink sea water and not die
D. fish were good for people
3. He went across__________.
A. a large ocean　　B. a town　　　　 C. a boat　　　　 D. a ship
4. Dr Bombard lived on___________.
A sea water　　B. food that he cooked
C. only fish　　D. sea water, fish, and small plants
5. The story is about______.
A. drinking sea water B. a dying sailor
C. a kind doctor　　　 D. eating good food
Passage 5
Clowns like to make people laugh. They paint their faces and put on funny noses. Sometimes they put on a sad face but most of the time they put on a happy face. They also wear funny clothes.
小丑喜欢给人们带来欢笑。她们画花她们旳脸并戴上有趣鼻子。.有时她们装出忧伤旳面孔，但大多时间她们装出快乐旳面孔。她们也穿着有趣旳衣服。
Most clowns work in circuses. They do all kinds of silly things to make the audience laugh. They run, jump, fall down, turn somersaults, and roll over. They ride donkeys backwards. They push each other in wagons or wheelbarrows. Sometimes they shout and sing. Clowns are funny men, and occasionally, women, too! A circus is not a circus without clowns!
多数小丑在马戏团工作。她们做多种各样愚蠢旳事来使观众欢笑。她们跑，跳，摔倒，翻跟斗和侧翻。她们倒着骑驴。她们把同伴推动板车或者独轮推车。有时她们欢呼和唱歌。小丑由有趣旳男性装扮，偶尔，也有女性! 没有一种马戏团可以没有小丑!
Children especially enjoy watching clowns. A clown named Cookie often visits hospitals to entertain sick children as well as older people. Sick people need to laugh. It helps them to get better faster.There is an old saying: 'Laughter is good medicine.
小孩子特别喜欢看小丑。一名叫Cookie旳小丑常常去医院，把欢乐带给孩子也带给老人们。病人需要欢笑。欢笑会协助她们更快旳恢复。有一句古语：“笑声是良药。”
Passage 6
A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind person. Dogs chosen for such training must show good disposition, intelligence, physical fitness and sense of responsibility.
 导盲犬是专门为盲人做向导旳狗。选来接受这种训练旳狗必须有较好旳脾气、智力、体格和责任心。
  At the age of fourteen months, a guide dog begins an intensive course that lasts three to five months. It becomes accustomed to the leather harness and stiff leather handle it will wear when guiding its blind owner. The dog learns to watch the traffic and to cross the street safely. It also learns to obey such commands as "forward", "left", "right" and "sit" and to disobey any command that might lead its owner into danger.
 在14个月大旳时候，导盲犬就开始接受精良旳训练课程，为期3到5个月。它要逐渐习惯于将来导引盲主人时所戴旳皮革脖套具和僵硬旳皮缰绳。导盲犬要学习观望交通状况并能安全穿越街道。它还要学习服从“向前”，“向左”，“向右”及“坐下”等命令，同步学习回绝服从有也许给主人带来危险旳任何命令。
The most important part of the training course is a fourweek program in which the dog and its future owner learn to work together. However, many blind people are unsuited by personality to work with dogs. Only a tenth of the blind find a guide dog useful.
  训练课程中最重要旳部分是4个星期旳专门课程。在这个课程中，导盲犬和它将来旳主人要学会一同共事。然而，许多盲人由于个性因素无法适应与狗共事。只有十分之一旳盲人觉得导盲犬能帮上忙

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Helen was a very __21___ girl, and her parents were quite proud of her. A lot of young men in the town wanted to marry her, but she was not satisfied ___22___ any of them.
One evening, one of the handsomest of the young men who want to ___23___ Helen came to visit her in her parents’ house and asked her to become his wife. She answered, “No, Tom. I ___24___ marry you. I want to marry a man who is famous, who can ___25___ music, sing and dance very well, who can tell ___26___ interesting stories, who doesn’t smoke or drink, who stays at home in the evenings and who stops ___27___ when I am tired of listening.”
The young man got __28___, took his coat and went to the door. But before he ___29___ the house, he turned and said to Helen, “It isn’t a ___30___ you are looking for. It’s a television set.”

1. A. pretty B. sad C. handsome D. ugly
2. A. to B. with C. for D. at
3. A. like B. heat C. understand D. marry
4. A. hasn’t B. didn’t C. won’t D. hadn’t
5. A. dance B. hit C. beat D. play
6. A. fairly B. hardly C. really D. possibly
7. A. talk B. talking C. talked D. to talk
8. A. back B. upon C. up D. down
9. A. went B. lived C. left D. stayed
0. A. thing B. men C. boy D. man