Mary didn’t understand such sentences as “She is blue today”, “You are yellow”, “He has a green thumb”, “He has told a white lie” and so on. And she went to the teacher Mrs. James for help.
Mary: Mrs. James, there is a colour in each of the sentences. What do they mean?
Mrs. James: In everyday English, Mary, blue sometimes means sad, yellow afraid. A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one.”
Mary: I’m afraid I don’t understand them all. Would you give me an example for “a white
lie”?
Mrs. James: Certainly. Now I just give you some cakes. In fact you don’t like it, but you don’t want to let me know it. Instead you say, “No, thanks. I’m not hungry.” That’s a white lie.
Mary: It sounds very interesting. Thanks very much.
Mrs. James: You are welcome. Colours are meaningful. I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future. Please come to me if you have any questions.
1.Blue sometimes means sad in _______________ English.
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A．good |
B．spoken |
C．usual |
D．poor |
2.I don’t have a green thumb, so all my plants ________________.
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A．die off |
B．grow well |
C．look nice |
D．are good |
3.David is yellow and he is ___________ to climb the tall tree!
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A．happy |
B．clever |
C．brave |
D．afraid |
4.He didn’t like me to know ___________ of the accident. He told me a white lie at last.
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A．the reason |
B．the true story |
C．the meaning |
D．the answer |
5.He is ______________today. He is told that his father is seriously ill.
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A．blue |
B．yellow |
C．green |
D．white |
A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It’s 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.
But soon he woke up because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..
At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, “I don’t have the time.”
Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it’s a quarter to nine.”
1.The driver stopped his car because he ___________.
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A．didn’t know the time |
B．lost his watch |
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C．saw his friend |
D．was very tired |
2.He was woken up again by the second person ___________.
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A．a few minutes later |
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B．half an hour later |
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C．forty-five minutes later |
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D．the next morning |
3.The driver ___________ after he put up the note on the window.
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A．had a very good rest |
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B．was woken up again very soon |
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C．really forgot the time |
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D．made a phone call to the third person |
4.The third person came to knock at the window to ___________.
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A．ask the time |
B．have a sleep |
C．tell him the time |
D．ask for help |
5.According to this passage, we know that ___________.
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A．the driver didn’t have his own house |
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B．the first two persons liked the driver’s watch |
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C．the third person was kind and friendly |
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D．the driver had a good sleep last night |
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（欣赏）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（游浪汉）”, she said, “I don’t think the artist could draw! Such a__15__ man had no money to have a portrait taken（请人画像）!”
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A: How many students can you see in the reading room?
B: _______________.
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A．No one |
B．None |
C．Nobody |
D．Nothing |
I am afraid there’s ____________with the computer. Can you come and have a look?
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A．wrong anything |
B．anything wrong |
C．wrong something |
D．something wrong |
What does Mr. Liu usually ___________when he is at school?
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A．dress |
B．wear |
C．put on |
D．in |
