She did not drive fast, because she was old, but she drove well and never hit anything. Sometimes her grandchildren said to her, “Please don’t drive your car, grandmother. We can take you to the shops.” But she always said, “No, I like driving. I drove fifty years ago, and I’m not going to stop now. ”
Last Saturday she stopped her car at some traffic-lights because they were red, and then it did not start again. The lights were green, then yellow, then green again, but her car did not start.
“What am I going to do now? ” she said.
But then a policeman came and said to her kindly, “Good morning. Don’t you like any of our colors today?”
1. Mrs. Green was ______.
| A．very young | B．very old | C．very busy | D．very clever |
| A．For five years. | B．For fifty years. | C．Since she has the car. | D．Since her last Saturday. |
| A．not to eat more | B．not to drive fast | C．not to drive again | D．not to go shopping |
| A．the lights were red | B．the lights were yellow |
| C．her car did not start again | D．she liked the lights’ colors |
| A．he asked her if she liked the color of the traffic-lights | B．he asked her to stay here |
| C．he asked her what color she liked best | D．he asked her to leave right now |
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【推荐1】An elephant and a crocodile (鳄鱼) were once standing by a river. They were arguing about who was better.
“Look how strong I am!” said the elephant. “I can pull up a tree with my trunk (象鼻).”
“Ah! But your skin is not nearly so thick as mine,” replied the crocodile. “No knife or tooth can cut through it.”
Just as they were close to getting into a fight, a lion happened to pass.
“My dear friends!” said the King of all animals, going up to them, “Let me know what you are arguing about.”
“Will you tell us who is the better animal between us?” cried both at once.
“Certainly,” said the lion, pointing to the other side of the river. “Do you see the soldier’s iron hat on that wall?”
“Yes!” replied them.
“Well, then,” continued the lion, “go and get it, and bring it to me, and then I shall be able to decide between you.”
On hearing this, they set out. The crocodile who was used to the water, got to the other side of the river first, and was soon standing beside the wall.
Here he waited till the elephant came. Seeing that the crocodile couldn’t get the hat, the elephant raised his long trunk, and took it down easily.
They then made their way together back again across the river. The elephant was trying to keep up with the fast-moving crocodile on the water and became careless. When he was turning around to avoid the floating tree branch(漂浮的树枝), the elephant dropped the hat and it fell to the bottom of the river.
After seeing that, the crocodile jumped into the river again, and finally put the iron hat at the lion’s feet. The King took it up, turning to the elephant, and said, “You, because of your size and trunk, were able to get the hat on the wall. But you lost it, and you were unable to get it back. And you,” said the lion to the crocodile, “although unable to reach the hat, were able to jump into river for it and get it back. You are both wise and able in your own ways. One is no better than the other.”
1. How did the lion deal with the animals’ disagreement?| A．He ordered them to fight. | B．He made a quick decision. |
| C．He suggested a competition. | D．He asked them to describe themselves. |
| A．The tree brunch. | B．The iron hat. | C．The elephant. | D．The crocodile. |
| A．Because he wanted to avoid a floating tree branch. |
| B．Because the hat got wet in the river. |
| C．Because he was trying to swim too fast. |
| D．Because he wanted to fight with the crocodile. |
| A．Working Alone Is Better Than Working Together |
| B．It’s Kind to Help Others |
| C．Comparing with Others Is Totally Useless |
| D．Everyone Is Able and Wise in Their Own Ways |
【推荐2】Robert likes to take a walk in the park after work. One day when he was walking in the park, he heard a woman calling his name. He stopped to look around, but didn’t see anything except a little snake. Shortly after Robert saw it, it was gone.
Though Robert felt a little strange, he did not think about it too much and sat down for a rest on a bench in the park. Then he noticed the snake he had just seen climbing up the bench. Robert was too afraid to move away from the bench. Right at this moment, a woman behind him shouted, “Come here, Robert. You can’t stay on the bench like that. People will be worried by you.”
In surprise, Robert turned around and said to the woman, “Excuse me, but that’s not a very nice thing to say, and in fact some people say I’m handsome.”
“I’m not talking to you,” said the woman, “I’m telling Robert, my pet snake, to get down from the bench, not you.”
| bench 长凳 |
1. What did Robert see when he heard someone calling his name in the park?
| A．Nothing. | B．A snake. | C．A woman. |
| A．Happy. | B．Excited. | C．Scared. |
| A．He thought the woman was talking to him. |
| B．He felt ashamed for his had looking. |
| C．He thought he was not polite. |
| A．Two Roberts | B．Be Polite to Me | C．Sorry, I Made a Mistake |
【推荐3】One morning, the sun shone happily from the blue sky onto the house of Verona. The birds sat in the trees and sang, and the people of the city were beginning their daily work. The shopkeepers were opening their shops, and children were playing in the streets.
Two young men were walking toward the marketplace. They were servants of the Capulet family.
“Look at my new sword(剑), Gregory,” said one of the servants. “Isn’t nice and shiny?”
“It certainly is,” agreed Gregory. He watched as his friend, Sampson, waved the sword around. “Be careful with it. You don’t want to hurt anybody,” cautioned Gregory.
Sampson, however, was very pleased with his new sword. He continued to wave it around in the air, pretending(假装) to be in a sword fight. He thought that perhaps he would like to fight somebody with his new sword.
“Just imagine what I could do to one of those Montagues with this sword,” he laughed. “I could cut them to pieces!”
He put the sword away and the two young servants continued walking down the street, joking and laughing. Then, on the other side of the street, they saw two servants of the Montague family.
“Watch this,” said Sampson, and he made a face at the Montague servants.
“Are you making a face at me?” asked Abraham, the taller of the two Montague servants.
“Yes, I am,” answered Sampson proudly. “I can do that because my master is better than yours. What are you going to do about it?”
It wasn’t long before all the men had their swords in their hands. Soon they were all fighting.
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．The time and place of the story. | B．The characters of the story. |
| C．The content of the story. | D．The cause of the story. |
| A．To show off their new swords. | B．To do some shopping. |
| C．To help some friends with fighting. | D．To have a fight with Abraham. |
| A．shouted | B．repeated | C．warned | D．suggested |
| A．Sampson was a modest man. |
| B．Sampson’s new sword wasn’t so shiny. |
| C．The story happened on a cloudy morning. |
| D．The servants fought each other for their masters. |
| A．The two family didn’t like each other. | B．Verona was a quiet and peaceful town. |
| C．Sampson liked making faces. | D．The fights would cause some trouble. |
