One day Mrs. Harris found that there was something wrong with her bathroom, so she phoned her plumber(管子工). Three days later, he arrivd． Mrs. Harris was unhappy about his coming late. These three days brought her a lot of trouble.

“Well, you're finally arrived!” she said to the plumber. “I called you three days ago. ”

The plumber didn't mind this at all. He suddenly took a piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at it.

“Three days ago?” he sad． “That was the 21st,wasn't it? Well, I'm sorry, but I've come to the wrong place. I was looking for Mrs, Smith's house, not yours. She phoned me on the 20th. ”

1．This plumber came to Mrs. Harris's house on the (　)

A．24^th

B．21st

C．20^th

D．17th

2．We know from the story that it is not easy to (　)

A．sell new goods

B．have something mended

C．mend TV sets well

D．phone plumbers

3．Mrs. Harris called the plumber three days ago.________ on the third day. (　)

A．There was something wrong with her bathroom

B．Mrs. Harris was happy

C．The bathroom didn't bring her much trouble

D．Mrs. Harris's bathroom wasn't mended

4．Which of the following is true? (　)

A．The plumber saw Mr. Smith and found he came to the wrong place.

B．The plumber liked to sell goods and didn't like to mend them.

C．The plumber came to mend Mrs. Harris's bathroom.

D．The plumber would mend Mrs. Harris's bathroom on the 25th.

5．What would happen to Mrs. Harris if she didn't tell the plumber she had called him three days before? (　)

A．The plumber couldn't come to Mrs. Smith's house.

B．The plumber would mend the bathroom.

C．The plumber would look for Mrs. Smith's house.

D．Her bathroom would be mended three days before.

-There is someone knocking at the door.

- It ______ be Jimmy, he has gone to ShangHai .

A．needn’t         B．mustn’t          C．can’t            D．may not

A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat .He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
　　Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
　　The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
　　What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
　　Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
　　The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
　　There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
　　Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
　  Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
【小題1】From the passage we know that________.

Once upon a time a man became a great archer(射手).He asked the king to declare him as the greatest archer of the country. The king was about to do so when an old servant of the king said，“Wait，sir.I know an old man who lives in the forest. He is a much greater archer. Let this young man go to him and learn from him for at least three years.”
The man could not believe that there could be a greater archer than him，but he went and found the old man and he was! For three years he learned from him.Then one day，when he thought he had learned everything，the thought arose in him：“If I kill this old man，then I will be the greatest archer.”
The old man had gone to cut wood and he was coming back carrying wood on his shoulder. The young man hid behind a tree,waiting to kill him. He shot an arrow(箭). The old man took a small piece of wood and threw it.It struck the arrow and the arrow turned back and wounded the young man.The old man came，took out the arrow and said.“I knew that some day or other you were going to do this. That’s why I have not taught you this secret. There is no need to kill me. My master is still alive,and I’m nothing before him. You must be with him for at least thirty years. And he is very old，So go fast! Find the old man!”
【小題1】The underlined word in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to “_______________ ”.