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It was a very cold winter night . The old man couldn’t go to sleep . He had been hungry for two days and it was so coldin his room that ice could be seen . He had to get up and begun to run in theroom until he lay down on the ground. The next morning he had to beg from doorto door. He had been to a lot of cities and knew a lot.
Once he came to a village , but the villages were allpoor and couldn’t give him anything . He was too hungry to goto another village . He thought hard and found a way . He came to a policestation and called out , “Hitler is a foolish pig (希特勒是蠢猪)!"
Out came an old policeman at once . He took the old maninto a room , gave him some bread and a cup of tea . Then he said , “Don’t say in our village , sir !”
“I’m sorry, sir.” Said the old man . “I don’t know it’s Hitler’shometown .”
“No, no , sir.”The policeman said in a hurry. “It’s pig’s hometown !”
1.The old man was ___________.
A. aGerman B. a French
C. anAustralian D. an Englishman
2.The old man was sad because ________.
A. his three sons all died during the war
B. His three sons had to join the army
C. He had no food or clothes
D. He lived in the small town alone
3.The old man got up and ran in his room to________.
A. keephealthy
B. Forget hewas sad and hungry
C. Make himwarm
D. Find a wayto forget he was hungry
4.The old man shouted outside the police station because______
A. he hated Hitler very much
B. he hoped the policeman could help him
C. he wanted to make the policemen angry
D. he thought the he would be given some food in prison (监狱)
5.Which statement is true?
A. The old policeman hated Hitler , too
B. The old policeman found that the old man his best friend
C. The old policeman would send the old man in prison
D. The old policeman liked Hitler better than pigs
D
Miss Gorgers taught physices in a New York school. Lastmonth she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to testthem to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on thephone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from acrossthe street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you andfor what reason?”
Tom at once answered, “Your brother.Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That’s very good,” Miss Gorgers answered; butthen one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gorgers said, “Yes, Kate?”
“I disagree,”Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier becausewhen it’s 11 o’clock here it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.”
1. Miss Gorgers was teaching her class_______.
A. how totelephone B. about electricity
C. about timezone(时区) D. about sound
2. Miss Gorgers asked this question because shewanted to know whether._______
A. it was easyto phone to Los Angeles
B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C. her students had grasped(理解)her lesson
D. sound waves were slower than electricity
3. Tom thought that electricity was _______.
A. slower than sound waves
B. faster than sound waves
C. not so fastas sound waves
D. as fast as sound waves
4. Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.
A. clocks in LosAngeles showed a different time from those in New York
B. electricity was slower than sound waves
C. Tom was notgood at physics at all
D. Tom’s answer had nothing to do with sound waves
5. Whose answer do you think is correct acoording to the law of physics?_______
A. Tom’s B. Kate’s
C. Both A and B D. Neither A nor B
E
It was Mondy. Mrs Smith’s dog washungry, but there was not any meat in the house.
Considering that there was no better way. Mrs Smith tooka piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: “Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then shegave the paper to her dog and said gently: “Take thisto the butcher (person whose job is selling meat), and he’s going to give you your lunch today.”

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