Mr. Jones opened a shop in Aston to sell writing-paper, pencils and things like that. During the first month, very few people visited his shop. He sold little, and he could see that he was going to lose money. One night, Mr. Jones sat by the fire and was worried after another very bad day. Suddenly he got an idea. He found a piece of wood and wrote to the following notice on it in big letters:
“WHAT DO YOU THINK I GIVE AWAY PENCILS PAPER AND INK”
He put up the notice in front of the shop window before he went to bed. He slept better than usual that night.
The following day, many people came to the shop. Mr. Jones said good morning to them all with a bright smile and asked the first woman what she wanted.
She chose some writing paper and a pencil. As soon as he put them on her hands, she turned to leave the shop.
“That will be thirty cents, please,” he said.
“Why?” she asked in surprise.
“That’s the price of the paper and the pencil.”
“But your notice says it’s free,” she replied.
“Oh no,” he said, “how can I make any money if everything is free?”
She took him outside and showed him the notice “It is wrong, too,” she said. “where is the question mark after the world ‘think’?”
“There isn’t a question mark,” he said.
“But there should be one.”
“I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake,” Mr. Jones said.“You have read my notice in the wrong way.”
“Not at all,” said the woman. “It is quite easy to read. It says: What do you think? I give away pencils and
paper and ink!”
“No,” Mr. Jones said. “You should read it like this: 50 . And the answer to the question is: Certainly not! So you really have to pay me thirty cents, you see.”
1.How did Mr. Jones most probably felt that night?
A. Confident. B. Afraid. C. Unhappy. D. Worried.
2.Which of the following sentences is the most suitable for the blank in the last paragraph?
A. What do you think? I give away pencils, paper and ink!
B. What? Do you think I give away pencils, paper and ink?
C. What do you think I give away? Pencils, paper and ink.
D. Ink, paper and pencils away give. I think you do what?
3.What can we infer (推断) from the story?
A. Mr. Jones agreed to let the shoppers get things for free that day.
B. People in the town considered Mr. Jones a smart and honest man.
C. The woman paid the money unwillingly and left the shop angrily.
D. Mr. Jones’s trick proved to be a longtime success and he got rich.
You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside. So, when a person is a “banana”, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas (海外的) Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁) . He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
1.“ABCs” in this passage means .
A. three English letters B. a kind of banana
C. Chinese born in America D. Americans born in China
2. Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because .
A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outside
B. they think like Westerners but look like Chinese
C. they were born in China but go to study in America
D. they like to eat bananas
3.Which of the sentences is WRONG about ABCs?
A. ABCs may know little about China.
B. They are overseas Chinese.
C. They may speak little Chinese.
D. They are Chinese citizens.
完形填空 ,先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
A mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden. One day, she said to her ________ , “Betty, come here. Look at all these little yellow marks (斑点)on the ________of the cabbages ( a kind of vegetable ). They are eggs of a kind of insect. They are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages. This afternoon you must ________ all the eggs on the leaves and kill them. In this way, you will help us have ________ , greener and bigger cabbages.”
Betty didn’t think she could do it ________ and in the end she forgot all about it. The mother was ill for a few days and ________work in her garden. When she was well, she took Betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages. To ________ surprise, the insects have eaten every leaf. When Betty saw this, she began to ________. Then her mother said to her, “We should never put off (推迟) what we have to do today till ________ . And you must learn to deal (处理) with the bad things ________ they are small, or it will turn into a big problem.”
1.A. son B. mother C. daughter D. sister
2.A. trees B. leaves C. grass D. top
3.A. see B. look at C. find D. look for
4.A. better B. worse C. thinner D. newer
5.A. at most B. at last C. at the moment D. at once
6.A. mustn’t B. couldn’t C. needn’t D. can’t
7.A. my B. our C. her D. their
8.A. cry B. shout C. run D. work
9.A. yesterday B. today C. tomorrow D. later
10. A. but B. while C. and D. before
— I’ve decided to give up my job, Mum.
— ___________ You’d better think twice.
A. Sounds great. B. What a pity!
C. Guess what? D. Are you serious?
I found ___________ difficult to make sounds like birds.
A. that B. that it is C. it D. it is
— Isn’t that book so boring?
—___________. You can know a lot about wild animals.
A. Yes, you are right B. I’m afraid so
C. Not at all D. Of course
