Question

Mr. West was born in a small English town. His father had a shop there. The shopkeeper didn’t think it was ____ for his son to go to school. So he taught him how to get more money. They got much money there and then ____ to the city. Now Old West can’t manage his shop and his son, Mr. West has to do it ____ him. As he has little knowledge, Mr. West is often ____ in public and sometimes he gets into trouble. So he ____ a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors can see them ____ they go in. He often goes to the parties and carefully ____ what the learned（有學(xué)問的）men say. He hopes to make friends with them.

Once Mr. West was told that it was a famous writer’s birthday that day. He hurried there with his wife. He gave the writer some ____ presents and the old man thanked him. After dinner they began to talk about the literary works（文學(xué)作品）.

He could hardly answer any questions. The writer had to ask him ____ one, “What was Shakespeare?”

“It was a kind of drink, ” answered Mr. West. “But people do not like it now. ”

The writer had a smile and soon he stopped ____ . On their way home, his wife said, “You made a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a delicious cake, like the Chinese moon cake!”

1.A.useful B.possible C.easy D.difficult

2.A.went B.got C.ran D.moved

3.A.with B.after C.instead of D.before

4.A.helped B.laughed at C.hurt D.beaten

5.A.borrowed B.made C.bought D.wrote

6.A.because B.if C.that D.as soon as

7.A.listens to B.hears C.looks at D.sees

8.A.cheap B.expensive C.useless D.small

9.A.more difficult B.the most difficult C.easy D.the easiest

10.A.to talk B.to answer C.talking D.answering

Answer 1