A HOLIDAY jet pilot (飛行員) said that he would land and call the police after a woman refused to
stop smoking.
     He warned Maureen Harkavy, "Put that cigarette out, or I'll land the plane and have you arrested."
     Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to the airline's chairman. But his replay was evenruder.
    "You seem to think you have a God-given right to pollute your neighbours's atmosphere," wrote John
Ferriday of Paramount Airways.
     (a) Said Maureen, "I only found out about it when I was checking in. I'm a nervous flyer so I lit a
cigarette during the filght. A stewardess (空姐) asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to carry on as
there was no rule against smoking on the plane." She was just finishing her cigarette when the pilot arrived.
    (b) I've never seen such an unpleasant letter. She said, "I don't think I'll ever fly again." But there was a
funny side. Maureen explained, "We were offered duty-free (免稅的) cigarette from the stewardess on
the plane!"
    (c) Mr Ferriday went on, "Believe me, you haven't. Expecially when you travel on my planes." Maureen
and her husband Michael were moved to Paramount filght just before they left Portugal. But they were
not told of the company's (公司的) no smoking policy.
     (d) "He was loud and rude,"said Maureen. "He said if I lit another cigarette he would land the plane at
Bordeaux and hand me to the French police." Later, from her home in Mosely, Birmingham, Maureen
wrote to the company and received the rude reply.

1. The second half of the story has been in wrong order. (parts a-d) Choose the rearranged order
     (重新排列的順序) which you think is right.

Ａ: a, c, b, d
Ｂ: c, a, b, d
Ｃ: c, a, d, b
Ｄ: d, a, b, c

    Farquaad, the ruler of a country called Duloc, decides that all the characters from fantasy stories must
leave the country. There is a huge green monster called Shrek who lives in a forest and all the fantasy
characters hide in his home, although Shrek doesn't want them to.
    Shrek visits Farquaad. Farquaad agrees that the fantasy characters can come back if Shrek can find the
beautiful princess that Farquaad wants to marry. Shrek goes to look for the Princess Fiona. He finds her
and discovers that at night she becomes as ugly as him. When Farquaad discovers that Fiona is ugly, he
doesn't want to marry her. But the monster and the princess get married, and the princess decides to stay
ugly all the time for love.

1. The meaning of the phrase "fantasy stories" is ______.

A. 童話故事
B. 喜劇故事
C. 恐怖故事
D. 科學(xué)故事

2. Shrek goes to find the princess because ______.

A. he wants to marry her
B. he wants to kill the princess
C. Farquaad wants to marry her
D. he wants Farquaad to let the fantasy characters live in the country

3. The princess was called ______.

A. Farquaad
B. Shrek
C. Duloc
D. Fiona

4. Which of the following sentences is True?

A. Fiona decides to stay ugly because she loves Shrek.
B. Fiona decides to stay ugly because she wants to marry Farquaad.
C. Fiona decides to stay ugly because she can't become beautiful again.
D. Fiona decides to stay ugly because she isn't the princess.

5. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Farquaad is a bad ruler of the country.
B. Characters from fantasy stories are in trouble.
C. The love between a monster and a princess.
D. Shrek saves Fiona so that he can become a hero.

     Mr. Brown is one of my friends. He can run fast and likes to show people how fast he can ran.
     One day, a thief got to his house, took some of his things and ran out of the house fast. Mr. Brown
found it and ran after him, and shouted, "Hey! Don't you know you can't get away from me ?"
     But the thief ran much faster. Mr. Brown got angry and ran faster, too. He was soon a few kilometers
away from his house, he was running hard when he met me. "Why are you running so fast?" I asked "I
want to catch a thief." said Mr. Brown. "But where is the thief?" I asked. "Kilometers and kilometers
behind," said Mr. Brown proudly, "He thought he could run faster than me, but you see he is wrong."

1. Did the thief steal (偷) anything from Brown's house?

A. Yes, he was.
B. No, he wasn't.
C. Yes, he did.
D. No, he didn't.

2. Who ran faster, Mr. Brown or the thief?

A. Yes, Mr. Brown.
B. No, the thief.
C. Mr. Brown.
D. the thief.

3. Did Mr. Brown catch the thief?

A. Yes, he did.
B. No, he didn't.
C. Yes, but he let him go away.
D. No．but his friend did.

4. What did Mr. Brown do when he found the thief?

A. He ran after him.
B. He was angry with him.
C. He caught him.
D. He stayed far behind him.

5. What does the world "proudly" mean? It means:_____

A. 自豪地
B. 難過地
C. 興奮地
D. 不慌不忙的

     It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring(凝視)into space and playing with
a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No,  but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do
and there's a simple reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
     When he woke up this morning,  Tony was  feeling great.  He jumped  out of bed full of plans for the
weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other-a great weekend. But  that was before he turned
on his computer and was unable to go online. No Internet changed everything.
     Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal(平常的)weekend without the Internet,
his mum walks into the kitchen. "Is everything OK?" she  asks. "No, mum, everything is definitely(的確)
not OK," her sad son replies. "I can't go online  and  I  have homework to finish." His mum laughs, "The
word program is still working, so what's the problem?"
     What's the problem? Tony can't believe his  own  mother  is  unable  to  see how serious the problem
really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to
go to the library but he hates the library.  It's  so  dark  and  uncomfortable. And forget homework-what
about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend,  he goes  online to email friends. Then he reads the news
to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off
with an online chess game  with  his  cousin  Helen. The  wonderful  weekend-online!  Now it's Saturday
morning and he's not going to have access to(進(jìn)入)the Internet for two whole days. He needs help.

1．Is Tony busy with the Internet every weekend?
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2．What does he usually do every weekend?
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3．Why did Tony stare and play with a piece of bread?
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4．What might his mother advise him to do?
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5．What do you think of spending a whole weekend online? Why?
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