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___.A. art B. French C. Maths D. geography ( )4. Ben and Emma can go swimming in the ____ term.A. summer B. autumn C. winter D. spring( )5. The word “horrible” in the passage probably means ____.A. nice B. spicy C. terrible D. salty( )6. Ben and Emma wrote one to ____.A. four children B. everybody on the Penfriends listC. three English children D. two Japanese childrenB. Answer the questions: (共6分)John Grisham is an American writer. He has sold more than sixty million books in twentynine languages. “Publisher’s Weekly” magazine named him as one of the bestselling authors. Six of his books have been made into movies.Most of his books are exciting stories about lawyers (律師) and their work. That is because John Grisham was a lawyer before.He was born in the southern state of Arkansas in 1955. He worked as a lawyer for nearly ten years in Southaven, Mississippi.One day Mr Grisham heard a 12yearold girl tell the court how she had been attacked. This made him write a book exploring what would have happened if the girl’s father had killed the attackers. He called the book “ A Time to Kill”. Many publishers rejected it before it was bought by a small pany and published in 1988.John Grisham immediately began writing another book named “The Firm”. It became the bestselling novel of 1991.Since then, John Grisham has written one book a year. All of them have been bestsellers. He no longer works as a lawyer. Today he lives with his wife and two children in Mississippi.1. How many of John Grisham’s books have been made into movies?_______________________________________2. John Grisham was born in America in 1955, wasn’t he?_______________________________________3. What job did John Grisham use to do?_______________________________________4. When was John Grisham’s first book published?_______________________________________5. How many books does John Grisham write a year after 1991?_______________________________________6. What can we learn from the passage?_______________________________________C. Choose the words or expressions and plete the passage(選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或詞語 完成短文):(共6分) A traveler came out of the airport. There were many taxis. He looked around carefully and asked every 1 name. After that he took one of them. It 2 five dollars to go from the airport to the hotel. Then the traveler asked the driver to show him around the city for a whole day. For the service, the driver wanted 100 dollars. It was very 3 , but the traveler said nothing and agreed. The driver took the man everywhere 4 . In the evening they went back to the hotel. The traveler gave 100 dollars to the driver and asked the driver 5 another day’s driving. It was another 100 dollars. The driver was very pleased.The next day they went to the same places again. In the evening the driver got the money, but he 6 a little guilty (內(nèi)疚的), because 100 dollars a day was a lot of money.“So you are going home tomorrow. Where are you from?” said the driver.“I e from New York.” answered the traveler.“New York?” said the driver. “I have a sister in New York too. Her name is Susan. Do you know her?”“She asked me to give you 200 dollars!” said the traveler.( )1. A. doctor’s B. driver’s C. teacher’s D. passenger’s( )2. A. gave B. paid C. spent D. cost( )3. A. expensive B. cheap C. hard D. easy( )4. A. sadly B. happily C. peacefully D. angrily( )5. A. about B. for C. to D. with( )6. A. felt B. were C. did D. thoughtD. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~,使其內(nèi)容通順,每空格限填一詞,首字母已給):(共6分)One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign with the words “I’m blind. Please h_______