One night Robert was on his way home from the railway station. When he turned round a ______ he heard footsteps behind him and he thought ______ was coming near. He began to walk ______. The footsteps became faster, too. He slowed down. The footsteps also _____` down. Now he was ______ that he was being followed. He tried to hide. ______ the steps followed him. He didn’t know ______ to save himself, so he jumped over a fence and found `_____ in a cemetery (墓地), throwing himself down on one of the tombs.
The man ______ followed. Robert could hear the man jump over ______. Thoughts of thieves or murderers filled his ______. Robert stood up and ______ the man who was _____` him. “What do you want?” he asked. “______ are you following me?”
“I say,” asked the stranger. “Do you ______ go home like this, ______ are you taking some special exercise ______? I want to go to the Mr. Brown’s and don’t know ______.” The station master told me to follow you as you ______ next door. ______ me for asking, but is there much to go before we get there?”
1.A. street B. park C. corner D. away
2.A. no one B. everyone C. anyone D. someone
3.A. faster B. more slowly C. fast D. slowly
4.A. put B. became C. slowed D. turned
5.A. sorry B. glad C. afraid D. sure
6.A. Sometimes B. Still C. Often D. Seldom
7.A. when B. Where C. how D. why
8.A. him B. the thief C. the man D. himself
9.A. ahead B. behind C. nearby D. beside
10.A. a bridge B. a wall C. the yard D. the fence
11.A. head B. mind C. heart D. brain
12.A. hit B. beat C. faced D. told
13.A. stealing B. following C. robbing D. meeting
14.A. What B. Why C. How D. When
15.A. never B. always C. hardly D. seldom
16.A. and B. so C. or D. but
17.A. tonight B. at night C. at the night D. every night
18.A. him B. the way C. the house D. the partner
19.A. work B. play C. study D. live
20.A. Answer B. Show C. Tell D. Excuse
Do you know how to be realistic? It is important to be realistic.In order to be realistic, you must understand yourself and the world around you. 1. You still need to challenge yourself, but if you have tried something several times, then you need to accept that maybe you can’t do it. Keep yourself firmly on the ground and read on.
2. Try new things and do your best at them, but if you find that it is something you can’ t do after many tries, accept the failures and be realistic.
Explain to others that you are being realistic in your approach. When you hit the wall, back off. You can’t continue to bang your head against the wall. 3. Some people don’t accept them, but they are there.
Challenge yourself. You need to try before you can be realistic and say, “I can’t do that.” No one ever got anywhere without trying. 4. Sometimes you need to find the one that works for you.
Follow what you believe. People may tell you that you can do something if you try hard enough, and sometimes they are right. But if you know that you can’t do it, follow what you believe.
See what is there. You don’t need to analyze everything. Don’t look below the surface. 5. Always expect what you know to be realistic. Don’t look for miracles.
A. Everyone has limitations.
B. Approach life realistically.
C. Just take everything at face value.
D. You can be realistic and just go with the flow.
E. Many things can be achieved in different ways.
F. Understand what you can do and what you can’t.
G. You must be able to see exactly what you are capable of.
Mr. Parker was born in a poor family and his father couldn’t send him to school. The boy had to help his parents to do some farming and learned English and maths by himself when he was free. Later on he was made to leave his home village and hoped to find a job in a city. And as soon as war broke out, he joined the army. He couldn’t forget his terrible past and fought with the enemies bravely. So he became a general when he was fifty. He was honest and friendly to his soldiers and often punished those who tried to pocket a portion of the soldiers’ pay (克扣军饷). And his soldiers liked him very much.
Once Mr. Parker heard from a soldier. In the letter the young man said the food in their military camp was very bad and he wished the general could go to find out the reasons, the old man went there at once, without telling anybody. He went in the kitchen and examined everything carefully and found it was very dirty. Then he went in the soldiers’ bedrooms and found there were a lot of fleas. He became angry and asked the soldiers, “What do you think of your food, young men?”
The soldiers saw their officer standing by the general and said nothing Only a new soldier said, “Very bad, sir!”
“What did you have for lunch today?” asked Mr. Parker.
“A fried chicken, some fish and pork, a cake, six eggs and I had three cups of wine.”
“Really?” Mr. Parker called out in surprise. “It’s the King’s lunch, I think!”
“So do I, General,” said the young man. “But it’s my birthday today. I paid three hundred dollars for them all in the restaurant!”
1.Mr. Parker was respected because .
A. he was friendly to everybody
B. he cared about his soldiers
C. he was strict with the officers
D. he paid attention to the soldiers letters
2.Mr. Parker went to the military camp to .
A. look for the soldier who wrote to him
B. find out if the matter in the letter was true
C. inspect the kitchens
D. punish the cooks
3.The soldiers didn’t say anything because .
A. they were afraid of the general B. they thought their foods were good
C. the officer followed the general D. the general didn’t agree with them
Have you ever heard about Ramadan?Ramadan is one of the most important festivals for Muslims. The name of the festival comes from the Arabic month‘in which it is celebrated. Ramadan is celebrated in countries all over the world, especially in Africa and the Middle East. The time for celebrating Ramadan varies each year. People celebrate it in the ninth month of the Arabic lunar calendar. During Ramadan, people must not eat during the day: from when the sun comes up to when the sun goes down, people celebrating Ramadan will not eat or smoke. When the sun has gone down, however, the celebration begins. People often stay up all night eating singing and dancing.
In late spring, many people around the world celebrate Easter. The festival is a celebration of spring and it is also a religious holiday. It is the time for Easter bunnies and egg hunts, and of course for eating lots of delicious foods. Easter is celebrated in late March or early April but the exact dates are different form year to year. People celebrate Easter in different ways: in some countries, the Easter Bunny—a big rabbit—will visit and children will go on egg hunts, looking for eggs and candy that have been hidden by their parents. In other countries, Easter is a time for children to dress up like witches and go from door to door asking for candy—much like Halloween in the US. The Easter Bunny and the Easter Egg are popular symbols of the festival.
1.Ramadan and Easter are .
A. festivals celebrated in Asia and Africa
B. the only festivals that people like to celebrate during the day.
C. two names of the year
D. festivals celebrated by people all over the world
2.During Ramadan, people do not during Easter.
A. talk B. sing
C. eat D. sleep
3.In some countries, children will go on during the day.
A. picnics B. egg hurts
C. trips D. fighting
4.The two main popular symbols of Easter are the and the .
A. Easter Man, Easter egg B. Easter Bunny, Easter tree
C. Easter Man, Easter tree D. Easter Bunny, Easter egg
In the past most Americans spent time with people of generations. Now mid-aged Americans may not keep in touch with old people until they are old themselves.
That’s because we group people by age. We put our three-year-olds together in day-care center, our 13-year-olds in school and sports activities, and our 80-year-olds in senior-citizen homes. Why?
We live away from the old for many reasons: young people sometimes avoid the old to get rid of fears for aging and dying. It is much harder to watch someone we love disappear before our eyes. Sometimes it’s so hard that we stay away from the people who need us most.
Fortunately, some of us have found our way to the old. And we havediscovered that they often save the young.
A reporter moved her family onto a block filled with old people. At first her children were disappointed. But the reporter baked banana bread for the neighbours and had her children deliver it and visit. Soon the children had many new friends, with whom they shared food, stories and projects. “My children have never been less lonely,” the reporter said.
The young, in turn, save the old. Once I was in a rest home when a visitor showed up with a baby. She was immediately surrounded. People who hadn’t gotten out of bed in a week suddenly were ringing for a wheelchair. Even those who had seemed asleep wake up to watch the child. Babies have an astonishing power to comfort and cure.
Grandparents are a special case. They give grandchildren a feeling of security and continuity. As my husband put it, “my grandparents gave me a deep sense that things would turn out right in the end.”
Grandchildren speak of attention they don’t get from worried parents. “My parents were always telling me to hurry up, and my grandparents told me to slow down,” one friend said. A teacher told me she can tell which pupils have relationships with grandparents: they are quieter, calmer, more trusting.
1.Now in an American family, people can find that ____.
A. children never live with their parents
B. not all working people live with their parents
C. aged people are supported by their grandchildren
D. grandchildren are supported by their grandparents
2.The reason why old people are left alone may be that ____.
A. the old don’t like to live in a big family
B. the young can’t get enough money to support the old
C. different generations have different lifestyles
D. the old are too weak to live with the young
3.The fact that the reporter told us shows that ___.
A. old people in America lead a hard life
B. old people in America enjoy banana bread
C. she had no time to take care of her children
D. old people are easy to get along with
4.Why do children not get attention from their parents?
A. Because they often make trouble and make their parents disappointed.
B. Because their parents are too busy to take care of them.
C. Because their parents have to take care of their grandparents.
D. Because their parents have been out of work for a long time.
Many people suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man can not see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green — a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods” but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but no color.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes (蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. Red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible(看不见的)colors around.
1.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are few color-blind women.
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking
2.This passage is mainly about ________.
A. color and its surprising effects
B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness
D. color blindness
3.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”， we can _____
A. tell orange from yellow
B. see in weak light
C. kill mosquitoes
D. tell different shapes
4.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a ________.
A. red light B. yellow light
C. blue light D. green light
