I went to my office to finish some work. It was a___1___ , sunny afternoon. After I quickly ___2___the car, I walked towards my office, when from a distance I saw an elderly___3___walking towards me.
As I came___4___, I saw that he was walking slowly and there was a look of ___5___ on his face. Clearly he was not feeling comfortable. I glanced at him and then ___6___on, wanting to go quickly and___7___ my work. I soon reached my office, completed my work and was___8___ to where the car was parked, when ___9___from a distance I saw the same man seated on the road. I quickly walked across to where he was___10___.
I saw that he was tired and exhausted because of the heat. I was___11___ and asked him where he lived in order to drop him to his house in my car. He gave me the name of the ___12___where he stayed, however the name did not seem familiar and I did not want to just keep ___13___the place. I suddenly saw that nearby were a few auto rickshaws.
My___14___ had been that the auto rickshaw drivers were the best guides to unknown places.___15___ I quickly called one of the auto rickshaws and told the
drivers to___16___ my friend to his place. ___17___
told the driver to find out where the old man’s home was. The driver had a good idea of the ___18___ to reach
his home. I then asked the driver how much the ___19___ would be, then I gave him the money.
The driver then started the auto rickshaw and as
it began to ___20___, my friend waved his hand and said softly, “Thank you.”I realized I changed the old man
as well as myself.
1. A.cold B.wet C.hot D.cloudy
2. A.parked B.pushed C.started D.fixed
3. A. worker https://www.doczj.com/doc/665453786.html,dy C.man D.boy
4. A. high B.close C.fast D.away
5. A. peace B.surprise C.pain D.joy
6. A. walked B.worked C.waited D.lived
7. A. stop B.finish C.leave
D.knock
8. A. sending B.stopping C.returning
D.singing
9. A. again B.already C.only D.also
10. A. sitting B.reading C.speaking
D.sleeping
11.A.confused B.surprised
C.interested
D. concerned
12. A. office B.road C.place D. park
13.A. searching for B.putting off
C.looking out
D.sending off
14.A.experience B.problem C.sense
D.feeling
15.A. But B.So C.If D.Since
16.A. receive B.treat C. drop
D.invite
17.A. He B.They C.You D.I
18.A.situation B.condition
C.direction
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19.A. fare B.ticket C.tuition D.fee
20.A.fly B.move C.fall D.speak
A
Because of my curiosity, I had a really exciting weekend(好奇心). I took a trip to Gloucester to see some
of the world’s most beautiful and exciting animals-whales in the North Atlantic Ocean.
After a long trip by train and bus, we got on the
ship called Privateer. On our way to see the whales on that beautiful sunny day, I grew more and more excited. After a while, we stopped and everyone on the ship started to shout because we saw whales. It was wonderful!
While we were watching the whales, a guide was giving us information about them. She told us that we saw only two kinds of whales-50-foot whales(singing whales) and 70-foot whales(the second largest whales on the earth). She also said we could easily tell different kinds of whales by their tails（尾巴）, since every whale has a different tail, just like people have different fingerprints（指纹）.
They all have names, and on the trip, we saw “Salt”and “Pepper”, two whales named by a scientist and a fisherman. They swam together all the time. Sometimes, whales came so close to the ship that we thought we could easily touch them.
I took twenty-seven photos, which was a really hard job because they moved so quickly and stayed on the surface of the ocean just for a short time. Having seen the whales was one of the chances few people ever
got. I was lucky enough to have that chance.
1.The passage is mainly about_______.
A.a trip to see whales
B.different kinds of whales
C.a trip to study ocean animals
D.different kinds of animals in the ocean
2.We can learn from Paragragh 4 that______.
A.70-foot whales are the largest in the world
B. whales have fingerprints as people do
C. there are only two kinds of whales
D.whales all have different tails
3.Seeing the whales, the author_______.
A.got close to touch them
B.gave them the names
C.tool photos of them
D.swam with then
4.Which word can best describe the author’s feeling about this trip?
A.Excited
B. Frightened
C. Bored
D.Surprised
B
Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, in 1892. Her mother was African American. Her father was part African American and part American Indian. Her family was poor. Bessie had to walk more than six kilometers to go to school.
Bessie had to pick cotton and wash clothes to help earn money for her family. She was able to save a little money and went to college in the state of Oklahoma. She was in college only one year because she did not have enough money to compete her studies. But during that year, she learned about flying. She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American female pilot, Harriet Quimby.
When she was 23, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois to live with two of her older brothers. There, she heard stories from pilots who were returning form World War ?. She decided she was going to learn how to fly airplanes. But she soon found this to be almost impossible. What flight school would admit a black woman? Bessie learned that she would have a better chance in Europe. She began to study French at a language school in Chicago.