Today, I felt unhappy with my head full of problems, so I decided to take a walk even though I didn’t know where I would go. The most    16    thing happened when I was walking along the street.

I saw an old man, over seventy years old, sitting on a chair. He was a seller of secondhand shoes. He seemed so helpless and nobody was    17     his shoes. Then, a little girl came towards him. I heard the girl say in a/an    18     voice, “Grandfather, may I clean your shoes?” That old man    19     and passed her a shoe. The girl said, “I do this    20    I want to earn some money to buy my brother a new school    21    .”

I heard this and tears came to my eyes. To my    22   , the old man said,” Oh, little girl, just stop doing this. Come with me and I will buy one     23    you.” To see what would happen, I    24   . They walked to a    25     and there the old man    26     gave her a uniform, which must have cost him a lot. The girl was    27     and said, “Thank you so much for doing this. May God bless you.” Then she left, leaving the old man    28    .

As the old man decided to leave, I stopped him and whispered in his ear, “You are really a great hero! Thank you for your    29    !” My own sadness had disappeared. It had been    30     by the light of this moving act. I began to realize that a little act can brighten up someone’s day.

16. A. strange               B. unlucky             C. amazing            D. interesting

17. A. cleaning              B. buying               C. finding              D. taking

18. A. polite                  B. angry                C. high                  D. funny

19. A. agreed                B. sold                  C. began                D. sat

20. A. if                        B. unless               C. though                     D. because

21. A. shoe                   B. bag                   C. uniform             D. shirt

22. A. sadness               B. surprise             C. happiness          D. excitement

23. A. for                            B. to                            C. with                  D. at

24. A. left                     B. stayed               C. guessed             D. followed

25. A. restaurant            B. shop                 C. museum            D. sitting-room

26. A. really                  B. suddenly            C. slowly               D. nearly

27. A. relaxed                B. humorous          C. tired                  D. excited

28. A. crying                 B. shouting            C. smiling              D. walking

29. A. money                B. kindness            C. support             D. suggestion

30. A. driven away        B. turned down      C. talked about       D. used up

Today, I felt unhappy with my head full of problems, so I decided to take a walk even though I didn’t I know where I would go. The most   21   thing happened when I was walking along the street.

I saw an old man, over seventy years old, sitting on a chair. He was a seller of second-hand shoes. He seemed so helpless and nobody was   22   his shoes. Then, a little girl came towards him. I heard the girl say in a / an   23   voice, “Grandfather, may I clean your shoes?” That old man   24   and passed her a shoe. The girl said, “I do this   25   I want to earn some money to buy my brother a new school   26  .”

I heard this and tears came to my eyes. To my   27  , the old man said, “Oh, little girl, just stop doing this. Come with me and I will buy one   28   you.” To see what would happen, I   29  . They walked to a   30   and there the old man   31   got her a uniform, which must have cost him a lot. The girl was   32   and said, “Thank you so much for doing this. May God bless you.” Then she left, leaving the old man   33  .

As the old man decided to leave, I stopped him and whispered in his ear, “You are really a great hero! Thank you for your   34  !” My own sadness had disappeared. It had been   35   by the light of this moving act. I began to realize that a little act can brighten up someone’s day.

21. A. strange                B. unlucky                    C. amazing                 D. interesting

22. A. cleaning               B. buying                      C. finding                   D. taking

23. A. polite                   B. angry                        C. high                       D. funny

24. A. agreed                 B. sold                          C. began                     D. sat

25. A. if                        B. unless                       C. though                   D. because

26. A. shoe                    B. bag                           C. uniform                  D. cap

27. A. sadness               B. surprise                    C. happiness               D. excitement

28. A. for                      B. to                             C. with                       D. at

29. A. left                      B. stayed                       C. guessed                  D. followed

30. A. restaurant            B. shop                         C. museum                 D. sitting-room

31. A. really                   B. suddenly                   C. slowly                    D. nearly

32. A. relaxed                B. humorous                 C. tired                       D. excited

33. A. crying                 B. standing                    C. smiling                   D. walking

34. A. money                 B. kindness                   C. support                  D. suggestion

35. A. driven away     B. turned down           C. talked about        D. used up

Last July, my 12-year-old car died on California’s Santa Freeway. It was an hour before sunset, and I was 25 miles from home. I couldn’t reach anyone to pick me up, so I decided to take a bus. Not knowing the routes, I thought I’d just go east. A bus stopped. I got on and asked the driver how far she was going. “Ten more miles,” she said. There was another bus I could take from there. This clearly was going to be a long night.

     I got off at the end of the route and she told me which bus to look for. After waiting 30 minutes, I began to think about a very expensive taxi ride home. Then a bus came up. There was no lighted number above its windshield (擋風(fēng)玻璃). It was out of service, but the door opened. It was the same driver.

     “I just can’t leave you here,” she said. “This isn’t the nicest place. I will give you a ride home.”

     “You will drive me home on the bus?” I asked, surprised.

     “No. I will take you in my car,” she said. “It’s a long way,” I insisted.

     “Come on,” she said. “I have nothing else to do.”

     As we drove from the station in the car, she began telling me a story. A few days earlier, her brother had run out of gas. A good man picked him up, took him to a service station and then back to his car. “I’m just passing the favor (善意的行為) along.” she said.

     When I offered her money as a thank-you, she wouldn’t accept. “Just do something nice for somebody. Pass it along.” she said.

1 It was ______ when the car broke down on the way.

A. early afternoon      B. late afternoon            C. evening             D. night

2  The bus was running in the direction of _______ when the writer got on the bus.

  A. south                    B. north                        C. east                  D. west

3  From the passage, we know _______.

  A. the bus driver drove the writer home in her car

B. the bus driver drove the bus to take the writer home

C. there was something wrong with the light of the bus

D. the bus driver and the writer knew each other well

4 The best title of this passage should be _______.

  A. A Good Woman    B. My Experience          C. A Pick-Up         D. Pass the Favor Along

Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving 31_________.

At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was 32_________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned 33_________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, 34_________ there I sat, waiting for the light to 35_________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any 36_________.

I started wondering why I 37_________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was 38_________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no 39_________ in going through it.

Much later that 40_________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light 41_________ me. I think I stopped 42_________ it’s part of a contract(契約) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow 43_________: we don’t go through red lights.

We do 44_________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.

I was so 45_________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.

13.(    )A. fast                   B. slowly               C. carefully            D. hard

14.(    )A. late                   B. alone                 C. worried             D. afraid

15.(    )A. green         B. yellow               C. red                   D. dark

16.(    )A. and                   B. or                     C. so                     D. but

17.(    )A. return        B. change             C. start                  D. continue

18.(    )A. attention            B. background              C. direction            D. information

19.(    )A. refused             B. decided             C. prepared            D. forgot

20.(    )A. hardly        B. luckily               C. usually              D. clearly

21.(    )A. danger              B. excuse                     C. space                D. energy

22.(    )A. moment            B. night                 C. afternoon          D. morning

23.(    )A. depended on      B. looked forward to      C. stayed away from     D. came back to

24.(    )A. though              B. unless               C. because             D. until

25.(    )A. me                    B. it                      C. him                   D. us

26.(    )A. what                 B. how                  C. why                  D. that

27.(    )A. tired                  B. ready                C. proud                D. sorry

When you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.

Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all. Light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380 000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.

25. You can see the book because__________.

A. your eyes are close to it　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. your eyesight can get to it

C. it has light of its own　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. it reflects some of the sunlight

26. The underlined word “l(fā)uminous” means__________.

A. visible（可見的）　 B. all colors　　　　　　　 C. giving off light　　　　 D. sunlight

27. Which of the following is true?　

A. All the things you can see give off light.

B. Light from the book is much shorter than that from the moon.

C. Light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read.

D. The moment you open your eyes the light from the book travels to your eyes.