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 person came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It's five past eight.” he said. Then he went to sleep again. But soon he was waken up again because a second person was knocking at the window．“Excuse me, what time is it now？”he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told him it was half past eight．
In this way, the driver thought he couldn’t have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and stuck(贴) it on the window for all to see. It said，“I don't know the time．”Again, he lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later，a third person came and began to knock at the window, “Hey, sir.”he said, “It’s a quarter to nine．”
1.The driver stopped his car on a street side because he ______.
A. was very tired B. saw his friend
C. lost his watch D. didn’t know the time
2.The driver was woken up again by the second person ______.
A. twenty minutes later
B. twenty-five minutes later
C. thirty minutes later
D. thirty-five minutes later
3.The driver wrote a short note and stuck it on the window because ______.
A. he didn't know the time．
B. he didn't want anybody to trouble him．
C. he wanted somebody to wake him up．
D. he wanted somebody to tell him the time．
4.The third person knocked at the window to ______．
A. ask him the time
B. ask him not to sleep
C. see if the driver was sleeping
D. tell him what time it was
5.The driver ______ in his car．
A. had a good sleep
B. had no seat
C. didn't have a good rest
D. always closed his eyes
Most Americans start to school at the age of five when they enter kindergarten(幼儿园). Children do not really study at this time. They only attend for half the day and learn what school is like. Children attend elementary school for the next six years. They learn to read and write and work with numbers. They also study the world and its people. After they leave elementary school, children go to junior high school for three years and senior high school for another three years. This is called secondary education. In some places, the children go to elementary school for eight years and high school for four. In all, elementary and secondary education together take twelve years to complete excluding （不包括）kindergarten.
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1.The elementary and secondary education together take the children ____ to complete in the USA.
A. thirteen years B. nine years
C. twelve years D. eleven years
2.Most American children enter kindergarten _________ .
A. at the age of five B. to study two years
C. to learn science D. about two years old
3.In elementary school they should stay there ________ .
A. for six years B. for three years
C. for another three years D.to study hard
4.Children should study how to __________ .
A. act
B. become an astronaut
C. read and write
D. read, write and work with numbers
5.Some American children have their elementary school education for ___ .
A. five years B. four years
C. eight years D. seven years
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Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way to .One day the father to ask some friends to dinner in his house. He his son to buy some meat in town. When the son walked towards the town gate, a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn’t enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But neither of would give way to the other. They stood straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. “What shall I do? My son hasn’t yet. I can’t wait any more.” He wanted to know what was the with his son. So he left his friends at home, and went to town his son. “You may first take the home for my friends .Let me here instead.” he said to his son when he knew what had happened.
1.A. one B. another C. other D. others
2.A. decided B. decides C. decide D. decision
3.A. hoped B. told C. let D. tells
4.A.long B. wide C. high D.tall
5.A. their B. they C. them D. Theirs
6.A.gone B. bought C. returned D. been
7.A. wrong B. accident C. thing D. matter
8.A.to look for B. looked for C. to find D. found
9.A. meat B. dinner C. bread D. money
10.A. stood B. stands C. stand D. Standing
Which sign tells us the way out of a building?
A. ENTRANCE B. PUSH C. EXIT D. PULL
—__________ move it is!
—Yes! I have seen it twice.
A. What an interesting B. What interesting an
C. How interesting a D. How an interesting
These shoes cost . What’s more, they are small for me,
A. much too ; too much B. too much ; much too
C. very much ; very D. very much ; much
