Long long ago, there lived two girls named Emily and Tina. Both of them had long black hair and blue eyes. One day while they were playing in the back yard (庭院), Emily heard a tinkling (叮当) sound. She jumped up. “Listen,” she told her twin. They listened. The noise came again.
This time Tina heard it. She sat up. “It came from over there,” She whispered, looking at the zinnias (鱼尾菊) far away. They came near to find it out. Then something flew out, making the same tinkling sound they had heard before. The children looked at one another. “Was it a bee?” asked Tina. “I don’t think so,” replied Emily. “Do bees make a sound like bells?” “Let’s call it the Tinkle Bee anyway,” said Tina. Emily nodded, listening with a little difficulty. What had made that noise?
The next day, Emily and Tina
brought their cookies outside. Tina too
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her plate by the zinnias. Suddenly she caught something. “Emily!” she called. “I’ve
got the Tinkle Bee!” Emily rushed over. They sat down on the grass. Tina opened
her hand very carefully. There was that sound! Something was shining in Tina’s
hand. They smiled. Then Emily cried, “It’s a fairy (仙女)!” Tina looked down at it in her hand. It looked like
a girl. A tiny girl with wings! Tina dropped it before she noticed that
a wing was torn (撕裂). The little fairy could not fly away so
she took a piece of grass out of the ground and sat on it.
Emily and Tina were surprised at what they saw. The fairy turned to Emily and said, “Hello, I am Marabella.” Then she said again, “Marabella the Fairy.” Emily smiled. “I’m Emily,” she said. Tina said, “I’m Tina. Are you really a fairy?” “Oh, yes!” replied Marabella. “I’ve always been a fairy.”
1.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “tiny” in this passage?
A. Weak. B. Nice. C. Little. D. Sick.
2.How did the sound come out?
A. A bee behind the zinnias made the sound.
B. It came out from the fairy’s flying.
C. It came out when the fairy shouted for help.
D. The bell by the zinnias rang.
3.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. Emily and Tina found a tinkling sound when they were playing in the yard.
B. Emily and Tina were very interested in the tinkling sound.
C. How a fairy by the zinnias was saved by the twins.
D. The process of Emily and Tina’s finding a fairy.
Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.
Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked（渗漏）out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures（测量）the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves（声波）. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.
We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this “black gold”.
1.Which of the following isn’t the
way to help find oil?
A. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.
B. People measure the pull of gravity to know if there is oil.
C. Sound waves tell us where the oil has leaked out of the ground.
D. People know there is oil if it leaks out of the ground.
2.Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?
A. Oil was firstly found by measuring gravity.
B. Many things are made from oil.
C. We will never run out of oil.
D. Our lives would not be different if we didn’t have oil.
3.The main idea of the whole story is that ________________.
A. many things are made from oil
B. we must find new ways of looking for oil
C. people spend a lot of time looking for oil
D. oil is important for us but hard to find
In an American classroom, a Chinese girl was asked to
answer a question. She stood up and smiled, without making any sound. The
American teacher looked at himself and didn’t see anything funny. So he asked
her the question again. The girl just smiled but said
nothing. The teacher was angry. He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover
her embarrassment（尴尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the
question.
In a dining room in Beijing, an Englishman was careless and dropped a plate. The Chinese who had seen this began to laugh. The Englishman felt uncomfortable and even got angry. “They are laughing at me,” he thought. In fact the Chinese laughed not at the Englishman or his bad luck—whether he is a foreigner or a Chinese. The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.
1.The Chinese girl smiled in an American classroom because ________________.
A. she was asked to answer a question B.
she was asked
to stand up
C. she couldn’t answer the question D. the teacher looked funny
2.Which feeling is NOT included in the laughter when the Englishman dropped a plate?
A. Don’t take it seriously. B. Bad luck!
C. It’s nothing. D. It can happen to any of us.
3.What does the writer want to tell us?
A. Smile and laughter don’t mean the same thing to different people.
B. Smile and laughter always bring happiness.
C. American people are easy to get angry.
D. Chinese students are impolite
My earliest memory of dad is grabbing (抓住) his hand while we walked together. As I older, I remembered my father and I listened to many basketball games on the radio. I always fell asleep the game was over. When I woke up in the morning, the score sheet (计分表) with the score on it would be lying next to me. I’ll always remember that.
On cold mornings my father would drive his bread truck by the house. I used to ride on the floor of that bread truck as he delivered (分送) the bread to the stores. The and the warmth from the bread made me hungry and kept me warm. I’ll always remember that.
My father would attend all my games. One night before an important game my father told me that he wouldn’t be able to watch the game because he had to deliver the bread and it was a three-hour from his route. The next day as the game time drew near, I thought about my dad. I happened to look across the field and saw his bread truck pulling into the stadium (体育场). He tried to make the game. I’ll always remember that.
Years later I became a teacher. I’ll never forget the voice on the phone early one morning telling me dad had just been killed in a traffic accident. I could hear my heart beat in my ears. I up the phone and went back to my bedroom. After that nothing was very important to me. One day I was on the playground when a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand. His hand held mine the way I used to hold my father’s by the last two fingers. At that moment I found my in life again. You see even though my father was gone, he left something with me. He left me his smile, spirit and touch. My purpose was to use those gifts as he did. From that day I started. I’ll always remember that!
1.A. went B. changed C. turned D. grew
2.A. when B. although C. because D. before
3.A. public B. final C. official D. lucky
4.A. smell B. color C. taste D. shape
5.A. happily B. sadly C. slowly D. simply
6.A. ride B. walk C. race D. drive
7.A. successfully B. peacefully C. surprisingly D. unusually
8.A. set B. picked C. put D. hung
9.A. strange B. safe C. same D. special
10.A. pleasure B. purpose C. problem D. progress
— How was your interview with the boss?
— ________. He seemed interested in my experience, but he didn’t ask for my recommendation letter.
A. Perfect B. I’m not sure C. That’s right D. Couldn’t be better
The interviewer asked Detective Lu _______________.
A. where was the body B. when did the Valley Town murder take place
C. that he had heard of the murder D. how many crimes he had solved
