One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about
how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying,
"You don't say! You don't say!" I was puzzled (困惑的), and I thought, "Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk
about." So I said to him, "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?" 
      "Certainly. When I'm back home, everyone will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall
is wonderful!" "Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it."
As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, "You don't say!"
      I couldn't help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" 
      "Well, I didn't ask you to do so." he answered, greatly surprised. 
      "Didn't you say 'You don't say!'?" I asked again.
      Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, " 'You don't say!' means 'Really?' Perhaps
you know little about English idioms (習(xí)慣用語)." 
      Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷正(T)誤(F)。
(     ) 1. The foreigner didn't want to listen to the writer to talk about how he was studying English.
(     ) 2. The writer was puzzled because the foreigner knew the Great Wall very well.
(     ) 3. The foreigner thought the Great Wall was wonderful.
(     ) 4. Perhaps the story happened in China.
(     ) 5. When the foreigner used the idiom "You don't say!", he meant "Stop talking!"

      Once there were five beggars (乞丐). One was English, one Turkish, one Greek, one was an Arab and one
was Persian. One day they met and decided to stay together, sharing what they had and helping each other in
trouble times.
      Soon a man passed them in the street and gave them a coin. They talked about what to do with it. At last
they decided to buy something to eat. 
      "Let's buy some grapes!" said the Englishman. But the Turkish wanted "uzum", the Arab "aneb", the Greek
"stafelea", and the Persian insisted on (堅持) "angur". They did not understand each other's language very well.
Soon they were quarrelling and even fighting.
      While they were fighting about how to spend the money, a stranger came along. He knew all the five
languages. He asked them why they were fighting. After they told him, he said, "Give me your coin. I will buy
what you want."
      He was soon back with a bunch of grapes. Each beggar was happy, as each had what he had wanted. They
all asked for the same thing, but the word for "grapes" is different in different languages.
      If people could understand each other, there would be no need to fight. 
1. Did these beggars speak the same language?
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2. What did they decide to do when they met one day?
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3. What did a man give them in the street?
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4. Why did they quarrel?
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5. In fact, all of them wanted to buy grapes, didn't they?
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     Danny fixed the little box on Eva's head. "It's a very clever machine," he said. "When a person tells a lie, this
needle here moves around. The numbers 0 to 20 show the size of the lie. Now tell me a few good lies." 
     Eva laughed, "What about? I never tell lies." 
     The needle moved from 0 to 4. "You have just told one," Danny said. "A group 4 lie, small and interesting.
Tell me a big, exciting lie." 
     "You have got an ugly face, Danny Dyson." 
     The needle fell back to zero, "No lie," Danny said. "So my mother was right then. She always said I was an
ugly child. But this is not a joke, Eva. The police use machine like this. Suppose you say you have killed
somebody. That's a big lie. It would send the needle round to 20. Think of a fat lie, like that." 
     "I hate you, Danny Dyson!" Eva cried, "Oh, how I hate you! Is that a lie big enough?" 
     Danny was fixing his eyes on the needle. "Funny," he said, "It has never been wrong before. Eva, have you?"
He fixed his eyes on her then. He didn't understand the look on her face.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Danny was a beautiful girl.
B. Eva had never lied.
C. Eva told lies sometimes.
D. Eva believed Danny was ugly.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Eva was a beautiful girl.
B. Danny and Eva were friends
C. The machine went wrong
D. Eva hated Danny

3. When the needle stayed at 20 _____.

A. Eva looked very sad
B. Danny thought the machine went wrong
C. Danny knew Eva hated him
D. Eva hated Danny

4. The writer is trying to tell us ______.

A. an interesting story..
B. not to tell lies.
C. about a wonderful machine.
D. Eva was honest.

    A magician (魔術(shù)師) was working on a ship. He had different audiences (觀眾) each week, so he allowed
himself to show the same program over and over again. There was only one problem. The captain's parrot
saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every step.
    Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of every show, "Look, that's not the same hat! Now
he's hiding the flowers under the table! Hey, why are all the cards the same?"
    The magician was very angry but couldn't do anything about it, because it was the captain's parrot.
    One day an accident happened-the ship sank! The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle
of the ocean with the parrot.
    They looked at each other, but did not say a single word for days.
    After a week, the parrot said, "OK, I give in (投降). Where did you hide the ship?"

1. The magician _____.

A. was working on a different ship
B. had the same audience each week
C. always showed the same program
D. had no problem

2. Who owned the parrot?

A. The magician.
B. The ship.
C. The audience.
D. The captain.

3. Why did the parrot understand how the magician did every step?

A. The magician taught the parrot.
B. The captain taught the parrot.
C. The audience taught the parrot.
D. The parrot saw the shows every week.

4. The magician _____.

A. was not happy with the parrot
B. did many things about the parrot
C. was angry with the captain
D. was not pleased with the audience

5. Which of the following is correct?

A. The magician made the ship sink.
B. What had happened to the ship was an accident.
C. The magician hide the ship.
D. The parrot knew where the magician had hidden the ship.

    Three men travelling on a train began a conversation about the world's greatest wonders.
    "In my opinion," the first man said, "the Egyptian (埃及的) pyramids ( 金字塔) are the world's greatest
wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And remember: the people
who built them had only simple tools. They did not have the kind of machinery (機械) that builders and
engineers have today.
     "I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful," the second man said, "but I do not think they are the
greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the
moon and brought them back safely. In seconds, they carry out mathematical calculations (計算) that would
take a person a hundred years to do.
     Then the second man turned to the third man and asked, "What do you think is the greatest wonder in the
world?
     The third man thought for a long time, and then he said. "Well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful,
and I agree that computers are wonderful, too. However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world
is this thermos." And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up. The other two men were very surprised.
"A thermos?" they exclaimed (驚叫). "But that's a simple thing."
     "Oh, no, it's not," the third man said. "In the winter you put in a hot drink and it stays hot. In the summer
you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it's winter or summer?"

1. The underlined word "thermos" means _____.

A. fridge
B. air-conditioner
C. electric fan
D. bottle which can keep liquids hot or cold

2. The three men could not agree on what the world's greatest wonder was because _____.

A. they couldn't think of anything really wonderful
B. they all had different criteria (標(biāo)準(zhǔn))
C. they could not prove that their opinions were right
D. the journey ended too soon

3. The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful-things in the world because _____.

A. they were very beautiful
B. they were in Egypt
C. they had been built with every simple tools
D. they could do mathematical calculations

4. The third man thought a thermos was the most wonderful thing in the world because _____.

A. it lasted longer than the pyramids
B. it cost less than a computer
C. he thought it knew whether it was winter or summer
D. the other two men were surprised when he told them about it

5. The third man was not very clever because _____.

A. he could not think of anything to say
B. he did not understand how a thermos works
C. he did not think the pyramids were wonderful
D. he did not know anything about computers

    One afternoon, Henry, an old man from America, telephoned from the airport to tell me that he had arrived.
He was going to stay with me. I was still at the office at the time, but I had prepared for his coming. After
explaining where my new house was, I told him where I had left the key. As I was likely to be home rather late,
I asked him to go into the kitchen and help himself to food and drink.
    Two hours later my friend telephoned me from the flat. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of
my records after having just had a truly wonderful meal. He had cooked two eggs and had helped himself to
some cold chicken from the refrigerator.
     Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice and he hoped I would join him. When I asked him if
he had reached the flat without difficulty he answered that he had not been able to find the key, but luckily the
living-room window just by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in. I listened to all this in
surprise. There is no apple tree in front of my living-room, but there is one in front of my neighbour's!

1. I knew that Henry would _____.

A. call at my office
B. arrive
C. telephone me from the airport
D. meet my neighbour

2. I asked him to go into the kitchen and help himself to food and drink because _____.

A. he was very hungry
B. he liked good food
C. I would very probably be home late
D. I disliked being bothered

3. Henry said he was listening to some of the records _____.

A. before he had a meal
B. because he had nothing to do
C. because he wasn' t hungry
D. after he had had a wonderful meal

4. When Henry telephoned me from the flat he was _____.

A. listening to some records
B. drinking a glass of orange juice
C. doing nothing
D. both A and B

5. Henry entered the house _____.

A. without difficulty
B. as he had been told to
C. through the open window
D. by opening the door with the key

    One day in the morning. Many people go to school or go to work. A dog walks on the street. It is hungry
and wants to look for something to eat.
    It stops in front of a food shop because it sees a big steak (牛排). But there is a man in the shop. The dog
waits out of the shop. About ten minutes later, the man goes out of the shop. The dog takes the steak and runs
away. When it runs along the bank of a river (河岸), it wants to have some water first in the river. When it
looks at itself in the river, it finds there is another dog with a big steak in the river. Soit wants get the other
dog's steak. At this time it starts to rain. The dog in the river is not there and there is no steak in the river, too.
But its steak drops (掉) into the river.

1. When does the story happen?

A. In the morning.
B. In the afternoon.
C. In the evening.
D. At night.

2. What does the dog look for?

A. A shop.
B. A dog.
C. A place.
D. Some food.

3. The Chinese meaning of the underlined word "wait" is _____.

A. 期望
B. 追隨
C. 等候
D. 叫喊

4. What does the dog get from the shop?

A. Nothing.
B. Some meat.
C. Some bread.
D. A steak.

5. Why does the dog drop the steak?

A. It wants to swim in the river.
B. It wants to have one steak more.
C. It gives the steak to another dog.
D. It doesn't like eating steaks.