【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ur cycle!If you drop it, you pick it up! said the teacher with a smile.With that she gave her cycle to Shankar and didn39。t look to see how he39。d manage. Pretending she had confidence in his abilities, Miss Bailey turned and walked to class. We watched Shankar as he held her bike. We held our breath as we thought it was going to fall. Dinesh rushed to help. Leave it! Shankar said, and we all stopped. It seemed that his hump(駝背) disappeared as he drew himself up to his full height, and then with growing confidence, he pushed Miss Bailey39。s cycle to the parking lot. The school bell rang, and we rushed to class. Shankar was the last to enter, but we were surprised。 it was a different boy who walked in.Miss Bailey didn39。t even look at him as he walked to her and handed her the keys. From that day on, Shankar was ready to answer the questions in class, his grades went up and a smile appeared on his face.( ) 1. Miss Bailey was teacher.A. an English B. a Chinese C. a physics D. a history( ) 2. How did Miss Bailey go to school?A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By taxi. D. On foot.( ) 3. What does the underlined word It in the first paragraph probably refer to?A. Miss Bailey39。s bikeB. Parking the bike for Miss Bailey.C. Going to school by bike.D. Being a student of Miss Bailey.( ) 4. From Paragraph 2, we learn that .A. Miss Bailey39。s students disliked to help her.B. Miss Bailey didn39。t like ShankarC. Shankar didn39。t believe in his ability at firstD. Shankar didn39。t want to help Miss Bailey( ) 5. When Shankar entered the classroom after parking the bike, .A. Miss Bailey praised himB. his classmates cheeredC. his hump disappearedD. he was full of confidence( ) 6. From the passage, we know that .A. Shankar never stood at the school gateB. Miss Bailey pretended not to see Shankar and walked to classC. Parking the bike for Miss Bailey made Shankar change himselfD. Nobody wanted to help Shankar park Miss Bailey39。s bike( ) 7. It can be inferred (推斷) from the passage that Bailey______________.A. lived a fortable lifeB. had no pity on ShankarC. was hard on her studentsD. treated every student fairlyC. Choose the words or expressions to plete the passageMarx could read all the leading European languages and write 1 three: German, French and English. He liked to repeat the saying:A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life. He 2 the study of Russian when he was already 50 years old, and in six months he knew it 3 to get pleasure from reading Russian poets and prose writers.In spite of the late hour when Marx went to bed, he was always up between eight and nine in the morning, had some black coffee, looked 4 his newspapers and then went to his study. He worked there 5 two or three in the morning. He interrupted his work only 6 meals and sleep. When the weather allowed, he had a walk in the evening. During the day he sometimes 7 for an hour or two on the sofa. In his youth he often worked the whole night through.( ). with B. in C. among D. on( )2. A. took out B. took on C. took up D. talk about( )3. A. enough good B. enough well C. good enough D. well enough( )4. A. after B. through C. out D. up( )5. A. after B. before C. since D. until( )6. A. for B. after C. before D. because( )7. A. went to bed B. asleep C. slept D. sleepyD. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper wordsCharlie, the river otter(水獺), needed help. This sixweekold baby had been found wandering a 1 across a busy street. No one knows why he39。s there. But everyone knows that he39。s very w 2 He was thin, and weighed less than 1. 4 kilograms. And, the worst is, he is seriously dehydrated(脫水的). He needs to drink immediately. Or he39。ll die!More than 10 phones were got through into 911. But the soldiers there got stuck too, because they know n 3 about forting an otter! However, it was sensible for them to invite Charlie to a cagebox, and send him to the Clearwater Martine Aquarium (養(yǎng)魚的). Trainers a 4 the Clearwater Martine Aquarium were worried about the otter39。s health. But they can39。t touch e 5 a hair of Charlie because after the capture, he turned into a fighter! And the situation became worse when he found the surrounding was unknown.However, thanks to his poor health, Charlie was exhausted before the evening came. Trainers began their rescue by feeding him milk with a bottle and taking him to the clinic. After that, they warmed him up in towels and f 6 him vitamins. Charlie calmed down, and fell asleep in the arms of the trainer.Now Charlie is acting like a normal river otter. And he39。s s 7 that he can go back to his river soon.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. E. Answer the following questionsHave you ever wondered how the tradition of Halloween and trickortreating first began? All Hallows Eve, Halloween—goes back 2,000 years to Ireland, where people celebrated the start of winter. Many people thought that witches and ghosts walked in the streets that night playing tricks on people. To celebrate this, the Irish traded sweet food and dressed up like ghosts.Even today, 2,000 years later, the tradition of wearing a costume and trickortreating is still a popular custom. Although this holiday is fun for kidsand great for collecting candythere are many people who believe that bad luck happens on Halloween. I remember one Halloween when it snowed almost 90 centimeters in one night! The storm was not expected and people said that the ghost of Halloween were ing back to haunt us.The haunting is probably not true, but the snowstorm was definitely bad luck. All of the trickortreaters ended up wearing winter jackets and snow boots instead of costumes! Whether you believe in bad luck is up to you, but many scary things usually happen on Halloween.This spooky