A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket (彩票) at the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in
honesty. His victim (受害者), who picked up the ￡25,000 prize, managed to trace him, and handed over the
cash. The robbery happened when maths professor Vinicio Sabbatucci, 58, was changing a tyre on an Italian
motorway. Another motorist, who stopped "to help", stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor
found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket before driving home to Ascoli in eastern Italy. 
       Next day, he saw the lottery results on TV and, taking out the ticket, realized it was a winner. He claimed
the 60 million lire (里拉) prize. Then he began a battle with his conscience. Finally, he decided he could not
keep the money despite having been robbed. He advertised in newspapers and on radio, saying:"I'm trying to
find the man who robbed me. I have 60 million lire for him―a lottery win. Please meet me. Anonymity (匿名)
guaranteed." (保證) 
       Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls from people hoping to trick him into handing them the
cash. But there was one voice he recognized―and he arranged to meet the man in a park. The robber,
a 35-year-old unemployed father of two children, gave back the suitcase and burst into tears. He could not
believe what was happening. "Why didn't you keep the money?" he asked. The professor replied:"I couldn't,
because it's not mine." Then he walked off, spurning the thief's offer of a reward.

1. The sentence "Then he began a battle with his conscience." in Paragraph 2 implies (暗示, 暗指) all the
     following EXCEPT that _____.

A. he knew what to do as soon as he saw the lottery results
B. he hesitated (猶豫) about keeping the money for some time
C. he thought for a moment of avenging (報(bào)仇) himself on the robber
D. he came to realize that honesty is more important than money

2. The word "spurning" in the last sentence can be replaced by _____.

A. accepting
B. claiming (認(rèn)領(lǐng))
C. rejecting (拒絕)
D. canceling (刪除)

3. If the story appears in a newspaper, the best title might be _____.

A. A Thief's Lucky Day
B. A popular Maths Professor
C. A Magic Lottery
D. A Reward of Honesty

     A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy
very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and put it back into the cupboard in the bathroom.
However, his wife, busy in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
     The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened
to contain a kind of medicine for adults with poisonous and side effects. When the child broke down, the
mother hurried him to the hospital. But he finally died. The mother was shocked. She was terrified how she
was going to face her husband.
     When the desperate father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and voiced
just five words. The husband just said "I am with you, Darling". The husband's totally unexpected reaction is
a positive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. she had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was comfort and
sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
     If evervone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually
not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether
in a relationshlp, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human
relationship.

1. The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because _____. 

A. the husband was careless
B. the husband was busy
C. the wife wasn't infomed of the matter
D. the wife ignored the matter

2. What do we know about the bottle? _____.

A. It contained poison only for adults
B. It appeared like a nice drink
C. It was broken by the child
D. It was kept in the kitchen

3. The husband's attitude towards his wife can be described as _____.

A. optimistic
B. confident
C. considerate
D. generous

4. What did the writer intend to tell us about life? _____.

A. Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life
B. It is always useless finding who is responsible
C. Think of nothing and life will be easy
D. Life should give way to responsibility

     Until quite rccently, I knew only three things about my father: I knew his name, David S. Johnson, Jr.
I knew he was an only child, and I'd been told he was killed on April 12, 1945, somewhere in Germany.
     I used to come to visit my Granny. "Daddy David and his two friends were out in the fields, making
sure the way was safe for the others to follow," she told me. "All of a sudden there was an explosion. All
three of them were killed." Granny was looking down, stroking one thin hand with the other. Then there
were no words but silence.
     I began my search and collection for information about my father as my 50th birthday and the 50th
anniversary of his death drew near. I was told that the explosion had blown him to bits and I had great
difficulty collecting anything I could find about him bit by bit. Bits of information about him began falling
into my hands, my mind and my heart. Longing to know my father kept me connected to him. It was time
to transform my longing into knowledge.
     Once upon a time, he was alive, and my mother and father were in love. They were married, and they
had a child, my brother, David. Then my father left for the war.
     I was born in January 1945. On February 15 my father wrote me a letter of welcome. The letter is kept
in my baby book, "Dear Susan, you have a very good family. Your dad is sort of a less able person. Your
mother is the most wonderful person I've ever known. I've always amazed at my great good fortune to
have loved her and been loved by her. If you follow her words and examples, you may expect to meet life
in the best possible way, and your path will always be the right one. Your father, Dave."
     Black on white paper, the words are from my father. From them I grow into a person of loyalty and love.
How I long for stories that will bring him to life!

1. The writer got to know her father's story of death from _____.

A. her father's friends 
B. someone in Germany
C. her grandmother 
D. a little child

2. The author meet difficulty finding information about her father because _____.

A. it was too late for her to start the search 
B. the explosion left little about her father
C. she only found pieces of hands and legs
D. she didn't have enough knowledge to do it

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? 

A. Her parents had only one child
B. Her father died before her birth
C. Her father was a disabled man
D. The writer never saw her father

4. We know from the last paragraph that the author _____.

A. still hates her father for having left
B. is curious about her father's death
C. shows much respect for her father
D. is sure that her father may survive