A woman repeated a bit of gossip (流言) about a neighbour. Within a few days the whole neighbourhood knew the story. The neighbour was deeply hurt. Later the woman responsible (負責) for spreading the gossip learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.
“Go to the marketplace,” he said. “and buy a chicken, and have it killed, then on your way home, pluck (拔) its feathers and drop them one by one along the road. ” Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, “ Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me. ”
The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
“ You see, ” said the old man, “it’s easy to drop them, but it’s impossible to get them back . So it is with gossip. It doesn’t take much to spread a gossip, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong.”
【小題1】The woman was very _________ the harm she had done to her neighbour.

A．happy about

B．a(chǎn)ngry about

C．sorry for

D．excited about

【小題2】Which of the following statements is TURE?

A．The gossip didn’t hurt anyone at all.

B．The wise man was not kind enough.

C．The woman found all the feathers at last.

D．The woman was given a lesson.

【小題3】What the wise man said has nearly the same meaning as the Chinese phrase “_________”

A．覆水難收

B．無中生有

C．欲速不達

D．得道多助

    Mr. Brown lived in a house less than two miles from his office, so he was able to drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars were parked outside his house and there was no room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he had to walk back home. This made him very angry.
He had put up a board, which said, “ No parking” in the garden facing the road, but nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey(遵守) only a police notice with letters on a blue board:
POLICE NOTICE
NO PARKING
Mrs. Brown suggested that he could steal a police notice. He was afraid to do so. She then suggested that he could make one just like a police notice. He said he was not the police and couldn’t use the word “police”. Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters:
POLITE NOTICE
NO PARKING
“ Oh!” Mrs. Brown said, “You told me you weren’t going to use the word  “police”, but why do you use it now?” “Really?” he asked, “Look again.” She started to laugh. “You are really clever.”
【小題1】How many notice boards did Mr. Brown make altogether?

A．Only one

B．Two

C．Three

D．None

【小題2】Mr. Brown made a notice board which ________________ in the end.

A．was just the same as a police notice

B．was different in colour from a police notice

C．looked just like a police notice

D．said “ POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING”

【小題3】We can infer(推斷) that ____________ after he put up the blue board.

A．more people will park their cars outside his house

B．more policemen will come to park their cars at noon

C．fewer people will visit him at noon later on

D．fewer people will park their cars outside his house

1. HOUSE FOR SALE     Comfortable family home with a large garden on north side of town. Three bedrooms, living-room, kitchen, dining-room, bathroom. Offers over $ 35,000.
2. ASSISTANT WANTED FOR BUSH RESTAURANT
Some evening and weekend work. All meals free. Ring 3320178.
3. JOIN OUR FOOTBALL TEAM       Boys and girls wanted to play in local football team.
Aged 9-13. Meet in Green Park on Friday at 3 p.m.
4. ROOM to RENT (出租)
Small room to rent in city center flat above restaurant. Newly painted with modern furniture(家具). Near main railway station. Buses pass front door. Phone 3322108.
Mr. Black wants to live near his workplace. Mrs. Black wants a house with four bedrooms. Their children don’t care what the house is like as long as the garden is big enough. Rose, their daughter has always wanted to work in a restaurant. She thinks it is an exciting place. it’s hard work, but she isn’t lazy. You have to work on Sundays and Saturdays, but you get other days off. It’s not very well paid. But who cares about money?
Jack is a middle school student. He is thirteen years old. He finishes school at half past three, so he has plenty of time to finish his homework.
Bob, Mr. Black’s brother, is looking for a room to rent. He doesn’t care what color the walls are or how old the furniture is. He is getting ready for his drawing. So the house must be quiet.
【小題1】Why didn’t the Blacks buy the house in Advertisement 1?

A．It was on the north side of town.

B．There weren’t enough bedrooms.

C．There was no dining- room.

D．The garden was too big.

【小題2】Why does Rose want to get the job in the restaurant?

A．It’s an easy job.

B．She can get a lot of money.

C．She thinks it will be interesting.

D．She can get long holidays.

【小題3】Why can’t Jack play for the new football team?

A．School finished too late.	B．It’s in different village.
C．He’s not old enough	D．He has to do his homework.

Why are so many people so afraid to fail? Quite simply because no one tells us how to fail so that failure (失敗) becomes an experience that means growth. We forget that failure is part of the human condition and that every person has the right to fail.
Most parents work hard at preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have failed. One way is to lower standards(標準). When a child finishes making a table, the mother describes it as “perfect” even though it doesn’t stand still. Another way is to blame (責怪) others. If John fails in science, his teacher is unfair or stupid.
There’s a problem with the two ways. It makes a child unprepared for life in the real world. The young need to learn that no one can be best at everything, no one can win all the time, and that it’s possible to enjoy a game even when you don’t win. A child who’s not invited to a birthday party, who doesn’t make the honour list on the baseball team, feels terrible, of course. But parents should not offer a quick consolations (安慰), prize or say, “It doesn’t matter.” Because it does. The young should be allowed to experience failure and be helped to come out of it.
Failure never gives people pleasure. It hurts both grown-ups and children. But it can be really good to your life when you learn to use it. You must learn to ask “Why did I fail?” Don’t blame anyone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong and how you can improve. If someone else can help, don’t be shy about asking them.
【小題1】How do most parents prevent their children from failure?

A．They give them some presents.

B．They don’t tell them that they have failed.

C．They don’t blame others.

D．They help them to come out of failure.

【小題2】Which of the following can a person learn when he fails?

A．It’s impossible to enjoy a game if he misses it.

B．He is the worst of all.

C．It’s natural not to win a game and no one can win all the time.

D．His teammates are not good enough.

【小題3】The writer of this article thinks that if a child fails, parents should __________________.

A．give him a small prize

B．a(chǎn)dvise him to repeat failure

C．blame others

D．encourage him to learn from failure

【小題4】4. Which would be the best title (標題) for the passage?

A．Learning from Failure

B．Ways of Preventing Failure

C．Reasons of Failure

D．Getting Pleasure from Failure

(A) 根據(jù)句意，在答題卡標有題號的橫線上，寫出括號內(nèi)所給單詞的適當形式。
【小題1】It was raining ____________ (heavy) at this time yesterday.
【小題2】They looked at our pictures, but they didn’t show us ___________ (they).
【小題3】_________ (silent) in the classroom makes everyone nervous.
【小題4】My grandfather is in his _________ (sixty), but he is very crazy about pop music.

(B) 根據(jù)句意和漢語注釋，在答題卡標有題號的橫線上，寫出單詞的正確形式。
【小題1】Our country ___________ (進口) wool and other goods from Australia every year.
【小題2】The police looked for the lost boy ____________________ (遍及) the town.
【小題3】We are not sure if the man has a criminal ______________ (記錄).
【小題4】The silk shirt feels much ___________ (光滑的) than the wool one.

動詞填空 （本大題共8分，每小題1分）
【小題1】You had better ____________ ( not laugh ) at others because everybody makes mistakes.
【小題2】All the rules must ___________ (explain) to the players clearly before the game starts.
【小題3】---- It seems that you know a lot about the story.
---- Well. We _____________ (read) it many times.
【小題4】It is said that he devoted much of his time to _____________ (write) his new novel.
【小題5】Boys and girls, please read the guidebook carefully, or you ___________ (get) lost during the visit.
【小題6】Fifty students have entered the writing competition since it ___________ (hold) for the first time.
【小題7】He promised us that she ____________ (tell) him about the event at the proper time, but actually(事實上) she didn’t.
【小題8】Before our teacher reminded us, we ______________ (send) the e-mails.

短文填空
One day, a poor boy was selling goods from door to door to pay for his tuition fees (學(xué)費). He was hungry. He d___1____ he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost heart w___2____ a lovely young woman opened the door. He asked for a drink of water and the woman agreed. She thought he looked hungry, so she b___3____ him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe (欠) you ?” “You owe me nothing, ” she r___4___. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from my heart.”
Years later, that young woman become seriously i__5___.The local doctors all f__6___ to cure her. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists (專家) to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard, who o__7__ got a large glass of milk and a meal from the young woman, was called in for the treatment. He went down the hall of the hospital to her room when he heard the name of the town she came from. D__8____ in his doctor’s uniform, he went in to see her. He recognized (認出) her quickly. He made up his mind to do his best to save her life and pay special a__9_____ to the case. After a long struggle, the battle (戰(zhàn)役) was won. The woman n__10____ these words when she paid the pill: “ Paid in full with one glass of milk… Dr. Howard Kelly..”

完成句子
【小題1】我的電腦出毛病了，需要修理一下。
Something has __________________________________  my computer, it needs repairing.
【小題2】玩太多的電腦游戲?qū)η嗌倌暧胁缓玫挠绊憽?br />Playing too many computer games ___________________________________ teenagers.
【小題3】眾所周知， 勤奮工作導(dǎo)致了他的成功。
It is known to all that _____________________________________ his success.
【小題4】醫(yī)生說他正與疾病做頑強斗爭。
The doctor said he ________________________________________ the disease.
【小題5】當我到達電影院時，電影已經(jīng)開始一刻鐘了。
When I got to the cinema, the film __________________________________________________.
【小題6】他的房間太亂，沒有人想進出。
His room is _____________________________________ that nobody wants to enter it.

______useful dictionary for beginners of English! Where did you get it?

A．How

B．What an

C．What a

D．How a