One day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and wants to make some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper drags him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.
However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(观众), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd.
At the end of the day he is given a pay raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up.
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified(吓坏). He starts screaming, “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”
1.How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?
A. Hard and tiring. B. Dangerous. C. Easy and fun. D. Boring.
2.The mime’s first contact with the lion is to __________.
A. find pleasure for himself B. get the lion’s attention
C. get his pay raised D. win back his audience
3.The underlined works “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.
A. frightening B. common C. exciting D. familiar
4.From the last paragraph we can know that ___________.
A. the lion will eat the poor mime
B. the lion is also played by a person
C. the animals in the zoo are all played by people
D. animals played by people can attract more visitors
The other day I decided to teach my son about the power of small acts of kindness. He had won some lollies(棒棒糖) in a prize machine in the local supermarket, so I asked him if he would like to 46 his prizes with another child. He hesitated(犹豫) for a while because he is a(n) 47 boy, but said yes after I 48 him a bit.
A father and his daughter were 49 . I approached the father and asked if my son could give his 50 a lolly that he had won. The father looked at me in 51 and was unsure what to say. I 52 explained that I was teaching my son about the power of kindness. Eventually he said it was okay.
53 , his daughter, who was looking at us sideways(侧向一边地), 54 accept the lolly! At this moment, my son was rather embarrassed(尴尬) and then he 55 to me, “We go to the same 56 , Mum.”
Rather than say sorry to my son for embarrassing him and give up this 57 , I put a couple of lollies into their shopping bags and 58 them a great day!
When we left the supermarket, I 59 to my son, “People in the world today are not so open to 60 because their thoughts and opinions have been 61 by the past. However, we can reshape their opinions by 62 small acts of kindness. So don’t be embarrassed. Hey, they may have been standoffish(冷淡的), but I’m sure we left them 63 , moved and inspired in some way. Not only that, 64 the young girl will probably remember you as the boy with a 65 heart when she comes across you at school!”
1.A. give B. show C. eat D. share
2.A. shy B. outgoing C. handsome D. kind
3.A. praised B. encouraged C. persuaded D. blamed(责备)
4.A. far away B. out of sight C. nearby D. lost
5.A. daughter B. friend C. wife D. mother
6. A. joy B. sorrow C. surprise D. anger
7.A. only B. further C. hardly D. difficultly
8.A. Therefore(因此) B. Besides C. Anyway D. However
9.A. shouldn’t B. mustn’t C. wouldn’t D. couldn’t
10.A. shouted B. whispered(小声说) C. smiled D. cried
11.A. shop B. school C. hospital D. park
12.A. moment B. girl C. lolly D. lesson
13.A. hoped B. helped C. wished D. offered
14.A. explained B. shouted C. pointed D. cried
15.A. happiness B. kindness C. luck D. presents
16.A. turned B. viewed C. tested D. shaped
17.A. doing B. reading C. learning D. knowing
18.A. disappointed B. touched C. sad D. angry
19.A. and B. or C. but D. so
20.A. small B. big C. cool D. hot
I won’t give you any help __________ you tell me the truth. It’s none of my business.
A. unless B. since C. as though D. even though
Many of my students, __________ Zhang Hua and Li Yong, are working very hard, and we should learn from them.
A. for example B. such as C. that is D. as well
Of these two teams above, the former comes from the US; the _________ comes from England.
A. late B. later C. latter D. lately
Readers can _________ very well without knowing the exact meaning of each word.
A. get along B. get down C. get through D. get over
