【推荐1】

It was raining hard and nearly dusk. I was late for an appointment in the nearby city that I knew only by GPS. Now my phone had died. The usual interstate exits were closed. I couldn’t figure out how to get where I was going or how to let my appointment know I was likely not going to make it there.

I stopped at a McDonald’s in a poor part of the town and walked up to what appeared to be a mother and her teen daughter. I’m sorry, but do you mind, is it possible for me to look up a number on your phone and then call my friends and let them know I am lost?” She handed me her phone and they told me I was lucky that she had her phone. It was getting ready to be turned off because she didn't have enough money to pay the phone bill.

The young girl and mother seemed to be clinging to each other and talked together as I made my phone call, not really paying me much attention as the people at the other end of the phone told me to come on, I was not too late, and then told me how to get there As I stood to leave, suddenly, I reached into my wallet where I don't usually have cash and pulled out all. I had a $20 bill. I pressed it into the mother’s hand and then turned to leave quickly because 1 didn’t want to take the credit for it. But not before seeing that she was crying，her daughter called after me,” Thanks, sir. You have no idea how you just helped us.” And yet, they really helped me.

1. How was the adventure according to paragraph 1?

A．Frustrating.

B．Smooth.

C．Ordinary.

D．Funny.

2. Why did the woman say the author was lucky?

A．Because her phone had power.

B．Because her phone still functioned.

C．Because she knew the people he planned to meet.

D．Because she had the telephone number he needed.

3. What can we know about the mother and her daughter?

A．They were living in the town.

B．They were also in great need.

C．They didn't pay attention to the author.

D．They often had dinner in McDonald’s.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The author must be poor.	B．The mother refused the money.
C．The author didn't want to be thanked.	D．The daughter expressed her thanks.

5. What can be the best title of the passage?

A．How to Help others by Phone

B．The Kindness Warming Strangers

C．The Story between me and a Mother

D．A Mysterious Story on a Rainy Night

【推荐2】

A man was working on his motorcycle in his yard. Suddenly it started to move. The man, still holding the hand lebars, was dragged through the glass doors, along with the motorcycle, and was thrown onto the floor inside the house. The wife ran in and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding. She ran to call an ambulance (救护车).

The ambulance arrived and they took the man to the hospital. The wife picked up the motorcycle and pushed it outside. There was gas all over the floor, so the wife got some paper towels, cleaned the gas with them, and threw them in the toilet. After he was treated, the man returned home. Not long after that he went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. Sitting there, he finished the cigarette and threw it into the toilet. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion (爆炸声) and her husband screaming.

She ran into the bathroom, and there she found her husband lying on the floor! His trousers had been blown away and his buttocks and other parts of his body were covered with burns! The wife again ran to the phone to call an ambulance. The same people came! While they were carrying the husband down the stairs to the street, one of the men asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and they started laughing very hard. One of them fell and the husband fell, too. The poor husband fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.

1. What most probably made the motorcycle start moving?

A．The man himself started it to see if it was working.

B．His wife did it for him to check if there was something working.

C．The motorcycle started by itself.

D．The man started the motorcycle without knowing it.

2. What did the wife do after the first accident?

A．She did nothing except calling the policemen.

B．She cleaned the gas with paper towels and threw them into the toilet.

C．She took the motorcycle and pushed it into the room.

D．She took her hushand to the hospital.

3. What do we know about the gas that caused the explosion?

A．The gas was from the motorcycle and could easily cause an explosion.

B．The gas was of poor quality.

C．The gas made the hushand suffer 4 accidents in a day.

D．The gas should have burned the wife.

4. The passage is most likely to be found in________

A．a survey	B．a textbook
C．a report	D．a book of funny stories

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

A．What a Bad Day for the Husband and Wife

B．A Man’s Worst Day

C．A Man Had Three Accidents in One Day

D．A Wife Burned Her Husband and Broke His Arms

【推荐2】Every Sunday morning I take a walk around a park near my home. There's a lake in one corner of the park. Each time I walk by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water's edge with a small metal cage beside her.

This Sunday, I stopped walking and went over to her. As I got closer, I realized that there were three turtles(乌龟), unhurt, slowly walking around the base of the metal cage. She had a fourth turtle on her knee that she was carefully wiping with a brush, which made me feel surprised.

"Hello," I said. "If you don't mind my nosiness, I'd love to know what you're doing with these turtles."

"I'm cleaning off their shells," she replied.

"Anything on a turtle's shell weakens the turtle's ability to take in heat and blocks its ability to swim. It can also impair and weaken the shell over time."

She went on, "I spend a couple of hours each Sunday morning, relaxing by this lake and helping these little guys out. It's my own strange way of making a difference."

"Well then, don't you think your time could be better spent? It's a waste of time. And 99% of these turtles don't have kind people like you to help them clean off their shells. So, how exactly are your efforts here truly making a difference?"

The woman smiled, then looked down at the turtle on her knee, wiped off the last piece of algae(海藻)from its shell, and said, "Sweetie, if this little guy could talk, he'd tell you I just made all the difference in the world."

1. What was the writer surprised at according to Paragraph 2?

A．Four turtles in the cage.	B．The beautiful scenery in the park.
C．A small metal cage put beside the water.	D．A woman cleaning off the turtles' shells.

2. What does the underlined word "impair" in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Make.

B．Clean.

C．Hurt.

D．Recognize.

3. Why did the author doubt the woman's efforts?

A．He thought the woman's efforts were meaningless.

B．There are so few turtles in the world.

C．The woman didn't protect the environment.

D．The woman couldn't be understood by others.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．Taking a walk.	B．The power of kindness.
C．An elderly woman's job.	D．Four turtles in the metal cage.

【推荐3】Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she took good care of him and he never did anything at home. So he had enough time when he had a holiday. A few friends of his liked gambling (赌博) and he learned it soon. So he was interested in it and forgot anything except gambling. He lost all his money and later he began to sell the television, watches and so on. His wife told him not to do it but he didn’t listen to her. She had to tell the police. He and his friends were punished for it. And he lost his job. After he came out of lockup (拘留所), he hated her very much and the woman had to leave him.
It was New Year’s Day. Mr. Lang didn’t go to work. He felt lonely and wanted to gamble again. He called his friends and they came soon. But they were afraid the police would come. He told his five-year-old son to go to find out if there were the policemen outside. They waited for a long time and didn’t think the police would come and began to gamble. Suddenly opened the door and in came a few policemen.
“I saw there weren’t any policemen outside, daddy,” said the boy, “so I went to the crossing and asked some to come.”
1. Mr. Lang was paid much because _______.

A．he was a driver

B．he worked in a factory

C．he had a lot of work to do

D．he had worked there for a long time

2. Mrs. Lang did all housework because _______.

A．she couldn’t find any work

B．she thought her husband was tired

C．her husband spent all time in gambling

D．she wouldn’t stop her husband gambling

3. _______, so he was put into lockup.

A．Mr. Lang often gambled

B．Mr. Lang was late for work

C．Mr. Lang didn’t help his wife at home

D．Mr. Lang wasn’t polite to the police

4. The woman had to leave Mr. Lang because _______.

A．he didn’t love her any longer

B．he wouldn’t stop gambling

C．he had been put into lockup

D．he was hardly sent away by the factory

5. Which of the following is right?

A．The boy hoped his father to be put into lockup again.

B．The boy thought his father needed some policemen.

C．The boy hoped his father to stop gambling soon.

D．The boy hoped his mother to come back.