1 . This is a talk by a London taxi driver.

“I’ve been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis.” “It’s a nice job most of time. you meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at 5:30 in the afternoon.”

“I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning.”

“Some very strange things happened late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the windows.” “I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came.” They thought I was a thief.

“Luckily, the woman came downstairs. She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!”

1. The driver always worked at night because it was easier to ______.

A．drive	B．make money
C．climb in through the window	D．meet a lot of people

2. The woman climbed in through the window because ______.

A．she wanted to have a sleep	B．her husband didn’t open the door for her
C．she didn’t want to pay the driver	D．she couldn’t find her key

3. The story happened ______.

A．early in the morning	B．late at night
C．20 miles outside London	D．near the police station

4. Which of the following is wrong?

A．The driver worked until between 2 and 3 in the morning.

B．The police made a mistake.

C．The woman had no money to pay the driver.

D．The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog.

5 . A man came home from work late, ________, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.

“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”

“Yeah, sure.”

“Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

“That’s ________ of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?” the man said ________.

“I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?”

“If you ________ know, I make $20 an hour.”

“Oh”, the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said, “Daddy, may I please borrow $10?” The father got angry immediately and flatly ________. After about an hour or so, the man had ________ and started to think: maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he didn’t ask for money very often anyway.

The man stepped into the little boy’s room ________. “I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier.” said the man. “It’s been a long day and I was just in a bad _________. Here’s the $10 you ________.” The little boy sat ________, smiling. “Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he ________. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled (皱巴巴的) bills.

The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to ________ about his purpose. As the little boy slowly ________ his money, the father asked ________, “Since you already have the money, why do you want more money?” “Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,” the little boy replied. “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I ________ an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”

1.

A．satisfied

B．excited

C．tired

D．surprised

2.

A．nothing

B．not

C．none

D．nobody

3.

A．specifically

B．strictly

C．seriously

D．impatiently

4.

A．need

B．must

C．should

D．dare

5.

A．refused

B．accepted

C．opposed

D．denied

6.

A．turned down

B．sat down

C．calmed down

D．put down

7.

A．quietly

B．rudely

C．politely

D．confidently

8.

A．light

B．mood

C．condition

D．company

9.

A．asked for

B．waited for

C．paid

D．worked for

10.

A．down

B．aside

C．straight

D．still

11.

A．yelled

B．said

C．sighed

D．apologized

12.

A．hear

B．worry

C．wonder

D．know

13.

A．made

B．spent

C．counted

D．lost

14.

A．actively

B．carefully

C．directly

D．curiously

15.

A．borrow

B．lend

C．buy

D．use

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1. What will the program fail to help you prepare for?

A．Employment.	B．College studies.
C．Entrance exam.	D．Independence.

2. How many ways to take the courses are mentioned in the passage?

A．Two.	B．Three.
C．Four.	D．Five.

3. In which part of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Entertainment.	B．Education.
C．Health.	D．Science.

7 . A Frenchman went to a small Italian town and was staying with his wife at the best hotel there. One night, he went out for a walk alone. It was late and the small street was dark and quiet. Suddenly he felt someone behind him. He turned his head and saw an Italian young man who quickly walked past him. The man was nearly out of sight when the Frenchman suddenly found that his watch was gone. He thought that it must be the Italian who had taken his watch. He decided to follow him and get back the watch.
Soon the Frenchman caught up with the Italian. Neither of them understood the other’s language. The Frenchman frightened the Italian with his fist (拳头) and pointed at the Italian’s watch. In the end the Italian gave up his watch to the Frenchman.
When he returned to the hotel, the Frenchman told his wife what had happened. He was greatly surprised when his wife pointed to the watch on the table. Now he realized that by mistake he had robbed the watch and it was the Italian’s.
1. The Frenchman went to a small Italian town _______.

A．alone	B．with his wife
C．with his friend	D．with an Italian

2. Suddenly he found his_______ was gone.

A．watch

B．money

C．book

D．ring

3. The Italian gave up his watch to him at last because ________.

A．he had stolen the watch from the Frenchman.

B．he understood what the Frenchman wanted

C．he had picked up the watch on his way from work

D．he was afraid of the Frenchman

4. Who was robbed of the watch on earth?

A．The Frenchman was.	B．The Italian was.
C．Both of them was.	D．Neither of them was.

8 . Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

1. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A．Go shopping	B．Find a house
C．Join his family	D．Take a vacation

2. The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_________.

A．a friend of his family	B．a Sydney policeman
C．a letter in his papers	D．a stranger in Sydney

3. What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Showed	B．Sent out
C．Delivered	D．Gave back

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．From India to Australia.	B．Living in a New Country
C．Turning Trash to Treasure.	D．In Search of New Friends.