【正文】 eautiful, but it is very cold. Then he said, What is this? It is a big, round piece of glass. It is beautiful, but it is very cold, too. But it was not glass. It was ice. It was on a bucket(桶) of water. John said, Who put this glass here? I am going to take it into the house. He took the ice to his father and said, This is a beautiful piece of glass, but it is very cold and wet. It was on a bucket of water in the garden. Mr Robinson smiled and said, Take it to the kitchen(廚房), put it in front of the stove(爐子) there, and dry(弄干) it. The boy took the ice to the kitchen and put it in front of the stove. He dried(弄干) his hands, because they were very cold and wet, and then he went to the ice again. He looked at it, and then he took it to his father again. He said, I put this glass in front of the stove, but it does not get drier. It bees wetter and smaller.1. John didn39。s palace in English. Then workers were sent for and a big platform(平臺(tái)) was made. With the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year and at last the pictures were ready. Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge(邊緣) of the platform, but he did not know it because he was thinking of his pictures. The worker saw everything. What should I do? he thought. Thornhill is at the very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off it and surely be killed. So the worker quickly took some paint(顏料) and threw it at the picture. What are you doing? cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.1. What was Thornhill? He was an English ____.A. writer B. king C. worker D. artist2. What was he ordered to do? He was ordered to ____.A. paint a picture for the kingB. paint some pictures on the walls of the knig39。s not a very pleasant job, why do you want to bee a dustman? Because then I would only have to work one day a week. Tom answered at once. Only one day a week? his mother said, What do you mean? and how do you know? Well, Tom replied, I know that the dustmen who e to our house on work on Thursday, because I only see them on that day.1. What kind of boy was Tom?A. Tom was a clver boy.B. Tom was a boy who didn39。t like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn39。s son to get off the horse and walk3. The two old women said it was wrong for ____.A. the farmer to ride such a tired horseB. the farmer to ride while his young son walkedC. the boy to ride instead of his fatherD. only one person to ride such a long way4. The farmer got up behind his son because ____.A. the old man said it was too hot for him to walkB. the three old men stopped them on the roadC. he did not know why he was walkingD. his son could not ride the horse by himself5. The young woman was most sorry ____.A. for the old manB. for the farmer39。t you walking? she asked, It isn39。t you see how tired boy is? So the farmer got down, and his son rode instead.\$ Next, three old men stopped them, one said, Why are you walking, farmer? Get up, It39。s faceD. a man without a beard stole the painting4. The second officer says that ____.A. Mr Hill stole the paintingB. a man with a beard, from France, stole a painting in EnglishC. an Englishman took his beard off and stole a paintingD. a man with a beard, from England, stole a painting in Paris.5. Mr Hill taught ____.A. Jack Smith French at the No. 2 High SchoolB. Jack Smith to be a first officerC. at the High School, in FranceD. French some years ago and his name was Smith, not Hill5.A long time ago people thought that the sun went round the earth. In some countries people even said that the sun was a god(神). They thought the god drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. Now we know the earth goes round the sun. It takes the earth a year to go all way round the sun. Today men even know how far it is for the earth to go round the sun. They tell us that the earth travels over a thousand miles a minute on its journey round the sun.\$ The sun is really a star. It is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon but we know that no one can ever go to the sun. It is far too hot for people to live anywhere near it. The sun is three hundred thousand times heavier than the earth and more than million times larger.\$1. A long time ago, people said the sun was ____.A. a golden horse of godB. a god on a golden horseC. a god with golden dressD. a god and a golden horse2. People can never live anywhere near the sun because it is ____.A. star ... the sun B. planet ... the moonC. planet ... itself D. planet ... the sun4. The earth travels over ____ miles an hour.A. 1,000 B. 100,000 C. 6,000,000 D. 600,0005. One year is ____A. the time for the earth to turn round.B. the time the earth travels one thousand miles.C. one circle the earth goes round the sun.D. the journey of the earth.6.The Farmer, His Horse, and His sonOnce there was an old farmer, with a horse which was almost as old as himself. He set out one morning with his son to sell the horse before it died. Father and son walked, because the farmer did not want the horse to be too tired. They met two men on the road who said, Why are you walking, farmer? You have a horse, It39。m Jack Smith. You taught me French. You haven39。s ____.A. mother B. father C. brother 4.Your Passport(護(hù)照) Please!Mr Hill arrives at London Airport, at the end of a three week holiday in France. Usually he wears a beard(留胡須). Since it has been hot there, he has taken it off(剃掉). But his passport photo shows him with his beard.\$ An office looks at the photo for a moment, and says: Will you excuse me? Please sit down. I shan39。s daughterC. pond