1 . Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.

A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.

I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.

My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem as me.

1. The writer’s family began to do the game ________ ago.

A．one year

B．one month

C．two years

D．two months

2. What do you need to do “The Endless Chore Game”?

A．A card.

B．A dice.

C．A card and a dice.

D．A card and forty dice.

3. When does the writer’s family do the game?

A．In the morning.

B．In the afternoon.

C．In the evening.

D．We don’t know.

4. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．the writer only has one child

B．everyone in the writer’s family likes playing the game

C．the writer wrote this passage to parents

D．everyone in the writer’s family has to do the chores every day

2 . It was Christmas, and there was a big party in the house. Guests came and went, but the party went on. Then the bell rang. Several people shouted, “Come in!” and a small man opened the front door and came in. Nobody knew him, but the host went to meet him and took him to the bar for a drink. The man sat there happily for an hour and a half and drank. Then suddenly he stopped and looked at his host. “Do you know,” he said, “Nobody invited me to this party. I don’t know you, I don’t know your wife and I don’t know any of your guests. My wife and I wanted to go out in our car, but one of your guests’ cars was in front of our gate, so I came here to find him, and my wife is waiting in our car for me to come back!”
1. The best title is      .

A．A Small Man

B．A Strange Guest

C．A Friendly Host

D．A Big Party

2. Which sentence is NOT true about the party?

A．All the guests stayed there until the party was over.

B．There were lots of people at the party.

C．There were some drinks at the party.

D．Not all the guests knew each other.

3. How long did the small man stay at the party?

A．For an hour.

B．For half an hour.

C．For 90 minutes.

D．For a while.

4. Why did the small man stay at the party?

A．He was the host’s neighbor.

B．He was a friend of the host’s.

C．He wanted to say “Have fun” to the people at the party.

D．His wife asked him to go there.

5. What’s the date that day?

A．Monday.

B．It’s December 25th

C．It’s November 25th

D．It’s January 1st

3 . When Mr. David retired（退休）, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.

But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From room morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David’s garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: ＂If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look around. Price; twenty dollars.＂ Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. ＂I came here to retire, not to work as a guide.＂ he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

1. Mr. David’s house was ________ that many tourists came to see it.

A．so small

B．so quiet

C．so interesting

D．so big

2. Mr. David put a notice on the window in order ________.

A．to drive the visitors away	B．to satisfy the visitors’ curiosity
C．to let visitors come in and look around	D．to get some money out of the visitors

3. The notice made the visitors ________.

A．more interested in his house	B．lose interest in his house
C．angry at the unfair price	D．feel happy about the price

4. After Mr. David put up the notice ________.

A．the visitors didn’t come any longer	B．fewer and fewer visitors came to see his house
C．more and more tourists came for a visit	D．no tourist would pay the money for a visit

5. At last Mr. David had to sell his house and move away because ________.

A．he did not like it at all

B．he could not work as a guide

C．he made enough money and wanted to buy a new expensive house

D．he could not live a quiet life in it

4 . Mr. Green is quiet and doesn't like talking with people. He likes reading newspapers and playing computer games. He never exercises. Sometimes he watches soccer or basketball games on TV. He likes milk very much and drinks it three times a day.
Mrs. Green is a bank clerk(职员）.It's a busy but boring job. She works with people and money every day. So she is always tired after work. She likes to take a good rest and goes to bed early after dinner. Usually she goes to bed at 8:30 in the evening and gets up at 6:30 in the morning. Mr. Green is very happy with that. But Mrs. Green isn't, because Mr. Green always talks in her sleep.
One morning, Mr. Green sat at table and had breakfast. Mrs. Green asked him,“Why do you always talk in your sleep?”Mr. Green said,“Because I have few chances to talk in the daytime ”
The next morning after their children all went to school, Mrs. Green asked Mr. Green angrily,“Why did you scold(骂）me in your sleep last night?”“Because I'm afraid to do it when I'm awake（醒着的）.”
1. Mr. Green doesn't like ________

A．talking to people	B．playing computer games
C．reading newspapers	D．watching TV

2. Mr.Green______ drinks milk.

A．never

B．often

C．seldom

D．sometimes

3. Mrs.Green works in a _______

A．Shop

B．TV station

C．bank

D．post office

4. Mrs.Green usually sleeps____ _hours every night.

A．ten

B．nine

C．eight

D．seven

5. Mrs.Green was angry with Mr. Green because he__________

A．went to work without breakfast

B．didn't talk to her the night before

C．didn't send their children to school

D．scolded her in his sleep the night before