An old gentleman whose eyesight (视力) was falling came to stay in a hotel room with a bottle of wine (酒) in each hand. On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail (钉子). So as soon as he hung them on, the bottles fell broken and the wine split all over the floor.
When a waitress discovered what had happened, she felt really sorry for him and wanted to give him a hand.
So the next morning when he was out taking a walk in the garden, she put a nail on the wall exactly where the fly had stayed.
Now the old man entered his room. The smell of the split wine reminded him of the accident. When he looked up at the wall, he found the fly was there again! He walked to it carefully and hit it with all his strength.
On hearing a loud cry, the waitress rushed in. To her great surprise, the poor man was there sitting on the floor, his face was pale and a lot of blood was running on his right hand.
1.We know from this passage that ________.
A. the old man had poor eyesight
B. the old man’s hands weren’t so strong
C. the bottles of wine were too heavy
2.Picture ________ was the thing the old man saw on the wall for the first time.
3.The nail was put on the wall by ________.
A. the old man B. a gardener C. the waitress
4.The waitress must be a ________ girl.
A. careless B. kind-hearted C. dangerous
5.The old man’s hands was badly hurt because ________.
A. the hotel’s service was terrible
B. he drank too much wine
C. he mistook the nail for a fly
完形填空：从A、B、C中，选择一个最佳答案，使短文意思完整。
At my primary school, I was one of the smartest kids there. I never , but always got near perfect scores on all my tests. I was a child genius (天才), at least in my mind. I was also music and sports. I was pretty sure that once I got to seventh grade, everyone including my teachers would be by me.
But actually, they weren’t.
When I arrived at my new class, it seemed that there was always someone else who could do than I. My grades got worse and I needed to actually be studying for my tests. I believed I wasn’t smart. I believed I wasn’t talented. I believed I .
Over the next two years, I had to work very hard for everything I did. Grades were still very low but gradually . I worked really hard but was still never the best at everything.
But do I really have to be the best at everything? All the pressure I was feeling, all that when I did wrong, that was me! I was being too hard on myself. In fact, when I did badly on a test, my classmates would never me.
No one is perfect. There will probably always be someone better than me at something. I will never be the number one at everything, and it’s really Okay.
1.A. forgot B. studied C. regretted
2.A. busy with B. tired of C. good at
3.A. amazed B. scared C. fooled
4.A. better B. easier C. slower
5.A. passed B. failed C. relaxed
6.A. improving B. fighting C. reporting
7.A. development B. excitement C. embarrassment
8.A. help with B. laugh at C. learn from
— Would you like to go to Shanghai Disneyland? It opened this June.
— ________. I’m sure I’ll have a great time there.
A. I’m afraid not B. It doesn’t matter C. That sounds like fun
— Does anybody want to share ________ on Father’s Day?
— I bought a tie for my father. He loves it.
A. what you did B. where you went C. when you shopped
— I’d like to read some Chinese classics. Any suggestion?
— Journey to the West. It’s a book ________ is about Monkey King.
A. what B. who C. that
— I’ve made much progress in grammar. The ideas you ________ worked out fine.
— Glad I could help.
A. came up with B. ran out of C. looked up to
