Standing in Hot Water

 One morning Sally told her husband, "Jack,I have an important meeting of our ladies' club (倶樂部)at Mrs Perry's house at lunch time today, and I want to go there. Fll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?"

  "Oh，that's quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?"

  "A tin(罐)of meat,and there are some eggs and vegetables and some bread here,too.”

 Then Sally went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs Perry's house, and at about three o'clock Sally came home. To her surprise, she saw her husband's feet were hurt.

  "What's the matter?" Sally asked.

  "Well,on the tin it was written—OPEN THE TIN AND STAND IN HOT WATER FOR FIVE MINUTES."

(   ) 1. Sally wanted to        .

A.     visit her old friends

B.     go to Mrs Perry's house

C.     have a dinner in a restaurant

D.     enter a parents' meeting

(  ) 2. Sally's husband had to        .

A.     buy some food himself

B.  cook dinner for Sally

C.     have lunch at a restaurant

D.     have lunch by himself at home

(   ) 3. Sally's husband had for his lunch.

A.     some eggs and vegetables

B.     some vegetables and a tin of fish

C.     some eggs,vegetables and some bread

D.     some eggs,vegetables, some bread and a tin of meat 

(   ) 4. Sally's husband's feet were hurt because .

A.      that tin of fish hurt his feet

F.      he fell down and hurt his feet

G.     he himself stood in hot water for five minutes

H.     his wife didn't tell him how to open the tin
(   ) 5. In "stand in hot water"，"stand" means       

A. put    B. push C. send    D. sink

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