The police officer Otchumyelov was walking across the market square. Suddenly, a shouting broke the silence. “So you bit me, you stupid brute. Biting is not allowed today!”
Otchumyelov looked towards where the sound came from and saw a workman holding a dog and showing a bleeding finger to others. Soon many people came.
“What is it all about?” Otchumyelov asked “why are you showing us your finger?”
“I was walking along here, your honour.” The workman began. “Suddenly this low brute for no reason bit my finger...I am a working man. I shall not be able to use this finger for a week or more...”
“Hmm, a sad story...” said Otchumyelov seriously. “Whose dog is it? I won’t let this pass!”
“I guess it’s General’s.” said someone.
“General’s? Hmm...Let me take off my coat...it’s too hot!” Otchumyelov questioned, “But there’s one thing I still can’t understand. How this little dog came to bite your finger?”
“The workman put a cigarette in the dog’s face, sir. I guess she bit him because she hurt a lot.”A fisherman shouted.
“That’s a lie! Sir Otchumyelov is a wise gentleman, and he will see who is telling lies.” said the workman.
“Don’t argue!”
“No, that’s not the General’s dog.” a voice came from the people around, feeling like very sure.
“I know it, too! Our General has valuable dogs, but it is just a low brute. We won’t let this thing pass!” said Otchumyelov.
“But maybe she is General’s,” the voice came again, “I saw one like her the other day around General’s house.”
“Hmm...help me on with my overcoat. Oh, yeah, she is really a valuable dog! Look how lovely she is! I am sure she will not bite people for no reason...”
“Here comes General’s cook, ask him. Hi! Is she one of General’s dogs?”
“What an idea! General has never had one like that!”
“No more talking now.” said Otchumyelov. “This is clearly a homeless dog! It must be killed right now!”
“She is not our dog,” The cook went on, “but she is General’s brother’s, who arrived yesterday.” “His Excellency’s brother is here?” asked Otchumyelov, and he showed the biggest smile. “Well, will he come for a visit?”
“Yes.”
“So...This is His Honour’s dog? Glad to hear it.. I mean...Such a lively, oh, you little pretty doggy.” said the officer, “A super lovely pet snap your finger? Hey, that’s something to be proud of, man! Rrr...Rrr...Wow! He is getting angry! Everybody, watch out!”
The crowd laughed at the workman.
1. The workman shouted because _________.| A．a dog bit him | B．the officer came |
| C．he cut his finger | D．he fought with somebody |
| A．felt hot in such a sunny day |
| B．was nervous about the workman’s pain |
| C．worried General would get angry with him |
| D．felt sorry because the workman couldn’t work |
| A．The cook would take it away. | B．The workman would kill it. |
| C．The dog would be homeless again. | D．The crowd would laugh at the dog |
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Finally, Dorothy, the Lion, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow saw the Great Oz. But Oz refused to help them if they didn’t kill the Wicked Witch of the West on the land of the Winkies. They had to go to the land of the Winkies. The Wicked Witch of the West was watching them from her castle. She had only one eye but she could see very far with it. She was very angry and decided to kill them.
She took out a silver whistle and blew it once. Wolves came from all directions and went to find them. “This is my fight. Stand behind me!” the Woodman said. He held his axe above his head. When the wolves arrived, he cut off their heads one by one.
The Wicked Witch took her silver whistle again and blew it twice. This time big crows with sharp beaks went to them. “This is my fight,” the Scarecrow said, “lie down on the ground, everyone!” The Scarecrow opened his arms wide. When the crows came, he broke their necks one by one.
The witch was furious. She took her silver whistle again and blew it once more. Thousands of black bees appeared. The Scarecrow took out his straw and covered Dorothy, Toto and the Lion with it. When the bees arrived, they only found the Tin Woodman. They tried to sting him but they couldn’t hurt his body. Soon all the bees were dead because a bee couldn’t live after it stung.
1. Why did Dorothy, the Lion, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow go to the land of Winkies?2. Who fought against the big crows?
3. What does the underlined word furious in the last paragraph mean?
4. How many times did the Wicked Witch try to kill Dorothy, the Lion, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow?
5. According to the passage, what should we do when we meet difficulties?
【推荐2】Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lived in a large red-brick house with in London. Roberta was the eldest. Father worked hard in a government office. He was never angry. Mother was almost at home, ready to play with the children, and read the interesting story to them.
These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely playroom and a dog called James. They had a happy life, but they did not know the pretty happy life in the large house was over.
The change came quite suddenly.
Peter had his tenth birthday. After dinner, Peter showed Father the toy train. Father looked it over and promised to play with it on Saturday.
At that moment, two men came to see Father. Minutes passed. Father’s voice came out from the study, loud and angry.
More time passed. Then Mother came in and said quietly, “Father’s been called away—on business.”
A week after their father went away. Mother said, “Now, we’re going to move to the countryside. It’s a little white house, called Three Chimneys.”
The family started putting things away: clothes, bowls, candles and also tables and chairs.
“We seem to be taking all the ugly things,” said Roberta.
“We’ll need them in the new house,” said Mother. “We’ve got to play at being poor for a bit.”
Peter said happily, “I do like moving! I wish we moved once a month.”
Mother laughed and said, “I don’t like moving!”
As Mother turned away, Roberta saw her face. She never forgot it.
“Oh, Mother,” she said, “how I love you! You are brave enough to laugh when you’re feeling like that!”
Then they took a train to the countryside. No one knew how long they had been in the train when Mother woke them up.
They stood in the cold night air on the dark platform. At that moment they didn’t know what the train, the railways and the station would mean to them. They didn’t know they were going to be the railway children and have a very different life with the railway later.
1. Mother took clothes and tables with them because they were ________.| A．new | B．useful | C．cheap | D．special |
| A．Roberta wanted to move the house once a month. |
| B．Roberta loved her mother more than her father. |
| C．Roberta enjoyed the new life in the countryside. |
| D．Roberta knew what happened to their family. |
| A．Children’s life may change a lot in the future life |
| B．The children wanted to know more about railways. |
| C．The children don’t like their life in London. |
| D．Parents can do more when facing changes in life. |
The men then took his mother by the rope and led her. He didn’t like this; it was like a trap. He followed them. They went down to the river, and made a camp. White Fang was amazed by what he saw the men do. They were the masters of things not alive. Their tent were especially strange and big to him.
White Fang explored the camp. He met a puppy, who was older than him, called Lip-lip. White Fang wanted to be friendly, but Lip-lip suddenly attacked him. They became enemies. White Fang’s mother wanted him to stay with her, but White Fang was curious and soon he was exploring again.
Gray Beaver was doing something important with two sticks and some grass. Women and children carried sticks and branches to him. White Fang saw something like mist (雾状物) coming from the sticks and branches, and then, something bright like the sun appeared, and grew.
White Fang went towards this bright thing with his nose, and touched it with his tongue. Then he jumped into the air, yelping. Gray Beaver laughed, and told everybody, so they all started laughing, too. Kiche started snarling loudly, but she could not get to her cub because of the rope. Poor White Fang sat there crying in the middle of the laughing men. Their laughter hurt him more than the pain.
He went back to his mother and lay down beside her. As night came on he felt sad. He missed the woods and the cave. Here, there were so many people making noise, and all the dogs. The men were always doing something, using their power. They were gods!
— taken from White Fang
1. Where did the men make a camp?2. What were these humans doing with sticks and branches?
3. What happened when White Fang touched the bright thing?
4. Why did White Fang feel sad that night?
5. What were humans like according to White Fang?
【推荐1】Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lived in a large red-brick house with in London. Roberta was the eldest. Father worked hard in a government office. He was never angry. Mother was almost at home, ready to play with the children, and read the interesting story to them.
These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely playroom and a dog called James. They had a happy life, but they did not know the pretty happy life in the large house was over.
The change came quite suddenly.
Peter had his tenth birthday. After dinner, Peter showed Father the toy train. Father looked it over and promised to play with it on Saturday.
At that moment, two men came to see Father. Minutes passed. Father’s voice came out from the study, loud and angry.
More time passed. Then Mother came in and said quietly, “Father’s been called away—on business.”
A week after their father went away. Mother said, “Now, we’re going to move to the countryside. It’s a little white house, called Three Chimneys.”
The family started putting things away: clothes, bowls, candles and also tables and chairs.
“We seem to be taking all the ugly things,” said Roberta.
“We’ll need them in the new house,” said Mother. “We’ve got to play at being poor for a bit.”
Peter said happily, “I do like moving! I wish we moved once a month.”
Mother laughed and said, “I don’t like moving!”
As Mother turned away, Roberta saw her face. She never forgot it.
“Oh, Mother,” she said, “how I love you! You are brave enough to laugh when you’re feeling like that!”
Then they took a train to the countryside. No one knew how long they had been in the train when Mother woke them up.
They stood in the cold night air on the dark platform. At that moment they didn’t know what the train, the railways and the station would mean to them. They didn’t know they were going to be the railway children and have a very different life with the railway later.
1. Mother took clothes and tables with them because they were ________.| A．new | B．useful | C．cheap | D．special |
| A．Roberta wanted to move the house once a month. |
| B．Roberta loved her mother more than her father. |
| C．Roberta enjoyed the new life in the countryside. |
| D．Roberta knew what happened to their family. |
| A．Children’s life may change a lot in the future life |
| B．The children wanted to know more about railways. |
| C．The children don’t like their life in London. |
| D．Parents can do more when facing changes in life. |
She picked up the key and went back to the door. But she was too big now. She sat down and started to cry again. She cried and cried and cried. Her tears fell on the ground and soon there was a pool of water around her.
PITTER, PATTER, PITTER, PATTER. She looked up. The White Rabbit was running towards her. He had a fan in one hand and a pair of white gloves in the other. As he ran he muttered. “Oh, the Duchess(公爵夫人)! The Duchess. She’s going to be very angry.”
Alice whispered “Sir, please”, but her voice frightened the Rabbit. He dropped the fan and the gloves and ran away quickly down a dark passage. Alice put the key on the table, picked up the gloves and the fan and started to fan herself.
“How strange everything is today,” she said sadly. “Yesterday things were normal. Did I change during the night? Am I a different girl today? If I am a different girl, who am I? Am I Mabel?” (Mabel was a girl at Alice’s school)
“No, I can’t be! I know a lot of things and she knows—well, only a few.”
…
She looked down and saw that she was wearing the Rabbit’s gloves!
“How did that happen?” she wondered. “Am I getting smaller?” She was! She was getting smaller all the time.”
“It must be the fan!” She thought, and she dropped it just before she disappeared completely.
“Good! I can go to the garden now,” she said. But when she got to the door, it was locked. And the key was on the table! And she was too small to reach the top of it!
“Oh dear!” She sighed. “What am I going to do now?”
Suddenly—SPLASH!
She was up to her chin in salty(咸的)water. At first she thought it was the sea. But it wasn’t. She was in a pool of her own tear(眼泪). “Why did I cry so much?” she said. “Now I’m going to drown in my own tears.
Then she heared a splashing noise not far away from her so she swam closer to have a look. What was it?
1. Who made the sound “PITTER, PATTER”?2. What was in the White Rabbit’s hands?
3. Who was the White Rabbit going to meet?
4. How did Alice become smaller and smaller?
5. What was the salty water?
Scrooge was a cold, greedy, mean, old man. Scrooge and Marley were business partners for years. Scrooge was his only friend and his only mourner when Marley died. He lived in Jacob Marley’s old apartment. It was very rundown.
That evening, the fog and frost hung over the black gateway to the house. And the yard was so dark that Scrooge had to feel his way along with his hands. To his surprise, Scrooge saw Marley’s face instead of the knocker（门环）when Scrooge put his key in the lock. Scrooge looked at the door knocker for several moments, and then it changed back to being a door knocker again.
Scrooge was quite scared. He quickly closed the door and then he went up to his room. It was very dark because Scrooge only had a candle. But darkness didn’t worry Scrooge, because darkness is cheap. And Scrooge liked cheap things.
Suddenly he heard a loud clanking sound. It came from downstairs. Somebody was pulling a heavy chain over the barrels in the wine merchant’s cellar. It was coming straight towards his room.
The face was the same. It was Marley, he was dragging a chain. Scrooge stared at the ghost of Marley as it stood there before him. But still he didn’t believe it was really there.
“Who are you?” asked Scrooge, calmly.
“In life I was your partner. Jacob Marley.”
“Why are you carrying that chain?” asked Scrooge, trembling.
Scrooge was trying very hard not to be scared. The Ghosts voice scared him and its cold eyes frightened him.
“I wear the chain that I made in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and metre to by metre. I wound it around myself. Does it look strange to you?”
“I had the opportunity to be kind and do good in life. But I did nothing. Now I’m dead. I regret that,” cried the Ghost. “I’m here tonight to warn you. You can still escape my fate（命运）. I’m giving you a chance... ”
—Taken from A Christmas Carol
1. Why did Scrooge have to feel his way along with his hands?2. What did Scrooge see instead of a door knocker that night?
3. How did Scrooge feel when he saw the ghost?
4. Why did the Ghost come to Scrooge’s room?
5. What do you think of Scrooge?
