【1】A. Science B. PE C. English

【2】A. those who laugh at her B. her Maths problems C. how to swim faster

【3】A. Much happier B. Much sadder C. Much more tired

Suddenly an old man appeared in front of him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s trouble, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check（支票）and pushed it into his hand, saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared.

The businessman saw his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller. One of the richest man in the world.

“It can solve my problem at once!” the businessman realized. But instead, he decided to put the check in his safe. Just knowing it was there that might give him the strength（力量）to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism（樂觀精神）, he did better in his business. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. At the agreed-upon（約定的）time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to hand back the check and share his successful story, a nurse came running up and caught the old man.

“I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been troubling you. He’s always escaping from the hospital and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.”

And then she led the old man away by the arm. The businessman just stood there,________. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence（自信心）that gave him the strength to achieve anything he went after.

【1】By saying “it can solve my problem at once”, the businessman wanted to show____________.

A. he didn’t need the check B. he didn’t need to work any more

C. he must put the check in a safe place D. he could pay off the debts with the check

【2】__________ is the correct order in which these events happened.

a.The businessman did better in his business and was out of debt soon.

b.A nurse told the businessman the old man always ran away from the hospital.

c.An old man gave the businessman a check for $500,000.

d.The businessman went back to the park to meet the old man.

A. d-c-b-a B. c-a-b-d C. c-a-d-b D. d-a-c-b

【3】Which word can be put in the blank____________ in the last paragraph?

A. sad B. pleased C. worried D. shocked

【4】The best title（標題）of the passage is ____________.

A. A rich old man B. A terrible experience

C. A newfound self-confidence D. An unlucky businessman

The word “chicken” is used in so many English idioms. Do you know the following?

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

The expression“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch”means “Don’t expect that all your eggs, which have been laid, will hatch. “Hatch” is a verb, meaning the baby chicken breaks open the shell of the egg and comes out successfully. So the expression mainly means “Don’t depend on things working out just as you want them to.” this saying appears in the story The Milkmaid and Her Pail in Aesop’s Fables.

A chicken-and-egg situation

In history, philosophers（哲學家）and scientists have met this dilemma（困境）: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Aristotle thought that both the bird and the egg must have always been there. However, more recently, scientists such as Stephen Hawking have argued that the egg came before the chicken. In common speech, the term “a chicken-and-egg situation” means a situation where it is impossible to say which of two things appeared first and which caused the other one.

Don’t be such a chicken

There seems to be an idea in English, somehow, that a chicken is a scared bird. Maybe that’s not fair as most birds will probably fly away from you if you go towards them. But “Don’t be such a chicken” means “Don’t be so scared and get a bit more courage.” So if your friend fear to do something, you can say to him or her, “Don’t be such a chicken. Just have a try!”

【1】The underlined word “hatch” means “_______” in Chinese.

A. 孵化 B. 長大 C. 破碎 D. 出售

【2】While discussing the idiom “A chicken-and-egg situation”, the writer mentions Aristotle and Stephen Harking to show that_________.

A. Aristotle’s opinion was wrong

B. Stephen Hawking’s opinion is wrong

C. it’s impossible to find the right answer to this question

D. philosophers and scientists usually have the same answer to a question

【3】We may use the idiom “Don’t be such a chicken” in the situation when someone_______.

A. is not brave enough B. enjoys counting his chickens

C. has difficulty making a choice D. hopes things will work out just as he wants

【4】The writer probably appears in the __________ part of a magazine.

A. food B. culture C. travel D. sport

A. for B. as C. of D. in

A.divide, into B.be divided, into

C.divided into D.be divide into

A. one; another B. one; the other C. first; second D. one; it

A.feel boring B.feel bored

C.to feel bored D. to feel boring

A. can B. may C. must D. might

—It’s over there，between the bank ________ the supermarket．

A．on

B．and

C．to

D．with

--- Only ten minutes’ walk.

A. how long B. how much C. how many D. how far