B

Mr Smith was in trouble those days. He drove a car for Mr Black, a rich businessman. He worked hard and the shopkeeper liked him. But he couldn’t work when he drank too much.And once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Black became angry and was going to send him away. He had a big family and was afraid of it and promised(許諾) he would stop drinking at once. The man told him to wait to be dealt with(處置).

One Monday morning Mr Smith came into the office with badly burned ears.

“What happened to your ears?” asked Mr Black.

“Well”, said the man. “I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing （熨）clothes. She had put the iron（熨斗）near the telephone before she went to cook supper.

Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went in the sitting-room ,the phone rang and I answered the iron !”

“And what happened to the other ear?”

“When I put the iron down the table ,the telephone rang again !”

1._____,so he almost drove the car into the river.

2. Mr Smith went to watch the football match on _____.    

A. Monday   B. Tuesday   C. Saturday     D Sunday

3.We can guess           .

A. Mr Smith drank much after the match

B. Mr Smith was very angry with his team

C. Mr Smith didn’t drink those days

D Mr Smith watched the match those days

4.The ______badly burned Mr Smith’s ears.

A.telephone   B. drinking    C.iron        D irons

5.What would happen to Mr Smith ?

Mr. Smith was an old miser (守財奴). He had a lot of   16  , but he never bought anything     17 . He and his wife lived in an old house outside the town. He often went to the shop  18  in order to save some money. In the   19 , as soon as it was dark in the room, he   20 . He had no TV but bought a cheap radio and often 21 the advertisements.
The old man had no   22 , his wife was often ill. He wouldn’t send her to the hospital. He thought he would   23  much to the doctors if they looked her over. He bought a few medical books and bought some  24  for her.
One night, Mrs. Smith felt unwell. She had got a bad headache. She asked her husband to      25 a doctor, but he didn’t agree. He brought out some pills and made her  26  them. But it was no use.
The old woman began to   27  at home. Mr. Smith locked the door and went in another room and     28  there. The next morning, when he woke up, he came into her   29 to see if she was all right. But he found the poor woman had died. He hurried to the telephone, but   30  his mind at once. He ran out and shouted to the servant (傭人), “Don’t cook breakfast for Mrs. Smith this morning, Linda!”

I’m Very Sorry to Hear It

Mr Smith was old, so it was often difficult for him to remember(記) things.However(可是), he still liked travelling very much, so he and his wife(妻子) went to Spain(西班牙)every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit their friends, the Tarners.They had two young daughters.

One afternoon Mr Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. “You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren’t you?” he said to her.

“Yes, we were,” answered the girl. “We were very ill.”

The old man said nothing for a moment, because he was thinking.Then at last he said, “Oh, I remember now! One of you died(死了).Which (哪一個)one of you was it, you or your sister?”

The girl answered, “ It was me.”

“Oh?I’m very sorry to hear it,” said the old man.

閱讀以上短文,判斷正(T)誤(F)

1.The old man had a good memory(記憶力)

2.What the old man said was true.

3.The girl was very ill and died.

4.The girl didn’t die last year.

5.The girl and her sister were both very ill last year.

Mr Smith had a week’s vacation, so he said,“I’m going to the seaside by train. ”He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the railway station(車站)and got into the train. He wore a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the beautiful scenery. Suddenly, the wind pulled his hat off.

Mr Smith quickly threw(扔) his old bag out of the window, too. The other people in the train laughed,“Is your bag going to bring back your beautiful hat?” they asked.

“No,” Mr Smith answered.”But My name and address are on the bag. If someone finds both of them, he or she will send me the bag and the hat.”

1.Mr Smith went to take a vacation for   .

A．nine years         B．half a month       C．seven days        D．eight days

2.Mr Smith put his head our of the window to   .

A．see the beautiful scenery

B．say goodbye to his friends

C．throw his hat out of the widow

D．say hello to the people outside

3.Mr Smith is going to   .during his vacation.

A．visit his friends

B．see his parents

C．enjoy himself in the train

D．the seaside

4.why did Mr Smith throw his old bag out of the window?

Because   .

A．he hoped someone would find his bag

B．he hoped someone would back his bag and hat

C．he hoped his bag would bring back his hat

D．he hoped the people in the train would laugh

5.From the passage we can see that Mr Smith was a   .

A．clever man                            B．kind man

C．foolish man                            D．sick man

Many people have to work 46 . Some people do not mind. Other people think it’s terrible.
One man thinks that working at the weekends can be 47 . He is George Smith. Mr Smith works in an office, in Brighton, England.
On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. After he 48  the lift, it stopped between floors. Mr Smith could not get out of the lift. He began to shout, but 49  heard him. Then Mr Smith remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work 50 Tuesday.
There was 51    for Mr Smith to do. He had to wait until one of his workmates came to work and found him. With nothing to 52  , Mr Smith was very hungry and had to sleep most of the time.
Early on Tuesday morning, one of his workmates came into work and found the lift 53  . When the lift was opened, Mr Smith came out cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the lift for 54  hours!
Now Mr Smith says, "I only use lifts if they have 55  in them. "