Jim knocked on the door of the manager's office.
      "Come in,"a voice called out. Jim entered the room.
      "Ah, just take a seat, will you, Hall" the manager said.
      "In fact," Jim said, "my name isn't Hall. I've come about…"
     "Your name isn't Hall?" the manager stopped him."But that's the name I've got in my diary here.
Who are you then?"
      "Turner."
      "How strange!" the manager spoke out loudly."I'll ask my secretary about this. Perhaps she can
explain it."
      He picked up the phone. "Come in a moment, will you, Mary?"
      His secretary came in and he showed her his diary.
      "Look," he said, "you have made an appointment (約會) for a Mr Hall at nine-thirty on Monday-and
in fact. Mr Turner has come."
     "Well, sir," his secretary said." you are looking at the wrong page of your diary. Mr Hall's appointment
is for next week."
     "I haven't made any appointment for Mr Turner," the secretary went on."Well,"said the manager,
looking at Jim, "What are you doing here?"
     "I've come here about a holiday job." explained Jim."My father spoke to you about it.He said you
wanted to see me this morning."
      "Oh, you're Mr George Turner's son! Well, why didn't you say so in the first place!"

1. When Jim entered the room, the manager thought he was Mr Hall because ______.

A. Jim told him his name was Hall
B. Mr Hall had made an appointment that morning
C. the secretary told him who he was
D. the manager looked at the wrong page of his diary

2. When Jim told the manager his name, the manager was ______.

A. angry
B. amazed and surprised
C. excited
D. worried

3. The manager phoned his secretary to come in because he wanted to ______.

A. let her know that she was wrong
B. let her make friends with the comer
C. show her his diary
D. ask her about the appointment

4. Jim came to see the manager ______.

A. a week early
B. too early in the morning
C. on the right day
D. on a wrong day

5. It was ______ that made the mistake.

A. the manager
B. the secretary
C. Hall
D. George Turner

     Mrs Jones lives near her school, and she always walks there in the morning. All her students in her class
are very young. On a very cold and windy morning in October, Mrs Jones walked to the school, the cold
wind went into her eyes, and big tears began running out of them. She reached the school, opened the door
and went into the hall. It was nice and warm there and Mrs Jones was happy. But the small boy looked at her
for a few seconds, put his arm around her and said kindly, "Don't cry, Miss. School isn't very bad."

1. What is Mrs. Jones? She is a _____.

A. student
B. woman teacher
C. kind mother

2. The small boy was not _____ to understand why tears ran out of Mrs Jones' eyes.

A. old enough
B. clever enough
C. enough old

3. The young students Mrs Jones very much.

A. love
B. hated
C. enjoy

4. Mrs Jones goes to school _____.

A. by bike
B. by bus
C. on foot

5. It was _____ that day.

A. fine
B. windy
C. sunny

     One day a dentist (牙科醫(yī)生) was starting his morning work. Suddenly a man in. His face was red and he could
only say, "Quick! Quick!" The dentist thought he must be very ill. His assistant helped to make the poor man sit in
a chair. The dentist gave the man some medicine to make him sleep. Then he looked into the man's mouth and pulled
out all the bad teeth. After the man woke up, he said in a low voice, "Quick, doctor, Quick!"
      "It's all right now," the dentist told him. "It's over."
     "You don't understand," said the man. "I came to tell you your house is on fire."

1. When the man ran in, the dentist thought he must be _____.

A. over
B. ill
C. all right
D. rich

2. The man _____ after he took some medicine.

A. started to work
B. started to cry
C. went home
D. went to sleep

3. The dentist pulled _____ out of the man's mouth.

A. a tooth
B. a bad tooth
C. all the bad teeth
D. all the teeth

4. The man ran in _____.

A. because he was ill
B. because he wanted to sleep
C. to tell the dentist that he was all right
D. to tell the dentist that his house was on fire

     Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister (宰相). He said that the Minister would die the next day.
The next day, the Minister fell to the ground from the horse and really died. When the king learned this, he got
angry and sent his men to catch Effendi at once.
     When Effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, "Effendi, since (既然) you knew when my
Minister would die, you must know the date of your own death. Say it out, or you'll die today."
     Effendi looked at the king for a while. Then he answered, "But how can I know? I'll die two days earlier than
you." The king was afraid that if he killed Effendi, he himself would die after that. He thought he must keep
Effendi alive as long as possible, so he let Effendi go.

1. This story tells us ________.

A. how Effendi fooled the king
B. when the king would die
C. why the Minister died
D. Effendi knew the dates of everyone's death

2. The prime Minister died because ________.

A. Effendi killed him
B. Effendi said he would die
C. he was badly ill
D. he fell off the horse

3. Why did the king ask Effendi to tell him the date of Effendi's own death?

A. Because the king wanted to know when he himself would die.
B. Because he wanted to find an excuse to kill Effendi.
C. Because he himself had known the date of Effendi's death.
D. Because he wanted to know when Effendi would die.

4. The king let Effendi go because _______.

A. he hoped to live a long life
B. he was afraid of Effendi
C. he didn't believe Effendi's words
D. he knew he would die two days later

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Effendi played a joke on the Minister.
B. The king was afraid of death.
C. Effendi didn't know when the king would die.
D. If the king killed Effendi, he himself would die two days later.

     Bill and Simon were good friends. One summer they were on (1)h______. They wanted to sail around the
Caribbean Sea in their boat for two weeks.
     During their trip, they saw many whales. Bill and Simon were very (2)e______ because they had wanted
to see them very much. Unluckily, (3)w______ they were watching them, the whales began to hit the side of
the boat.
     Suddenly, (4)w______ started coming in, and they realized that they were in trouble. They (5)q______
jumped into the lifeboat before the sank (沉沒), and watched it disappear under the sea.
     Luckily, they had enough food and water for about twenty (6)d______. They also had a fishing line and a
machine which could change sea water (7)i______ drinking water. These two things helped them to survive
(存活) during their terrible experience.
     For the next fifty days they caught about ten fish a day and (8)a______ them. They saw about twenty ships,
but although they waved and shouted when the ships were passing, (9)n______ saw them. They were
becoming weaker and weaker. Then, just as they were beginning to (10)l______ hope, a fishing boat saved
them.

    Most children don't enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than cleaning the
rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert's mother, Mrs Black, has good and proper methods to get their
children to do housework.
    Here is an example.
    "Mum, have you worked out next week's housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards. I can't wait.
It's fun!"
    When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there
are some words like these, "sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make
beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom" and many others. Jim and Robert chose two cards
for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the weekday task board. Jim likes to
clean the bathrooms, so he picked up the card "clean the bathroom", Robert loves to make the bed. so he
picked up his favorite card. Jim again picked up "wash vegetables" and Robert chose "feed the fish". Soon
the two boys were happy to take away all the cards.
    To help the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the
parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.

1.Where is Mrs. Black living now?
                                                                                                                             
2.What had Mrs. Black put on their table when Robert shouted out?
                                                                                                                             
3.How many cards did Jim and Robert choose for each day from Monday to Friday?
                                                                                                                             
4.Who did the housework on the weekends?
                                                                                                                             
5.Did Jim and Robert do the housework happ1y on weekdays? 
                                                                                                                             

     A bus stops at a small bus stop. A man is looking out of the window (窗戶). He sees a woman. She is
selling (賣) cakes. The man wants to buy a cake, but he doesn't want to go out in the rain (雨). Soon the
man sees a boy. The boy is near the window. "Come here, boy," the man says. "Do you know how much a
cake is?" "Twenty fen," the boy says. The man gives the boy forty fen and asks him to buy two cakes. "One
is for you and the other is for me," he says to the boy. After a little while, the boy comes back. There is a
cake in his hand. He gives the man 20 fen and says, "Sorry, there is only one cake left (剩下)."

1. The man is _____.

A. on a bus
B. in the rain
C. in a train
D. on a plane

2. _____ is selling cakes.

A. A man
B. A boy
C. A woman
D. A girl

3. How much is a cake?

A. Twenty fen.
B. Forty fen.
C. Two fen.
D. Sixty fen.

4. The man has _____ at last.

A. three cakes
B. two cakes
C. one cake
D. no cake

5. Which of the following is TRUE (正確的)?

A. It is fine that day.
B. The boy is very clever.
C. The man will be happy.
D. The woman gets 40 fen from the boy.