My father often works very hard．And he doesn't often go to the   1  ．Here l will tell you a   2    story about him．

One afternoon，he   3   a ticket for the 7 o'clock film under the glass on his desk．He thought he happened to（碰巧）  4   work to do that evening and it was quite wonderful to pass the evening at the cinema．

He came back home at 6:30 and   5  finished his supper．Then he said good．bye and left．

But to our surprise，he came back about half an hour later．I asked what was the matter．He smiled and told us about what had happened．

__6   my father was sitting in his seat，a woman came and said that the seat was hers．My father was surprised．He   7   the ticket and looked at it carefully．It was Row 17，Seat 3．And then he looked at the seat．It was the same．   8    he asked the woman to have a careful look at her ticket again and to their surprise the seat shown on it was Row 17，Seat 3，too．

Why? What’s the matter? While they were wondering，suddenly the woman said，“The colors of the tickets are   9  ．” They looked at the tickets more carefully．After a while my father said，“Oh，I'm   10  ．My ticket is for the film a month ago!”

1．A．office                    B．cinema                 C．centre                    D．club

2．A．funny                    B．sad                      C．bad                        D．lucky

3．A．bought                  B．put                      C．found                    D．left

4．A．much                    B．some                   C．a little                    D．little

5．A．quietly                   B．quickly                C．suddenly                D．finally

6．A．Before                   B．When                  C．Because                 D．Unless

7．A．handed out             B．put out                 C．found out               D．took out

8．A．But                       B．Or                       C．So                         D．And

9．A．different                B．the same              C．red                        D．pink

10．A．sorry                   B．happy                  C．busy                      D．excited

Mr. Jackson was on duty that evening. It was 1 and there was thick snow outside. So few people came to the hospital and he could  2 on the bed in his office and soon he went to sleep . Suddenly someone knocked at the door and it woke him up. He got up and opened the door. In went an old man. His wife was ill and he asked the doctor to go to look her over.

　It was still 3 when Mr. Jackson came out. The old farmer walked fast and he hardly catch up with him. It was 4 for him to walk on the snowy roads. When he got to the man’s house, he was very  5  . He looked over the old woman and found she had a bad cold. He gave her some 6 and began to return to the hospital. The wind was blowing strongly and he couldn’t walk too 7 .

　And when he was near the hospital, he had a pain in his foot.

　He walked slowly and at last he went into his office, He took 8 his shoe and looked at his foot. There was much blood on it. He  9 he stepped on a broken glass. He looked at his shoe carefully and said to  10 “Luckily, it didn’t prick my shoe!” 

1.                A．hot            B．warm          C．cool D．cold

2.                A．get down       B．put down       C．lie down  D．sit down

3.                A．snowing        B．shining         C．raining   D．singing

4.                A．happy          B．difficult         C．easy D．sad

5.                A．sorry          B．afraid          C．strange   D．tired

6.                A．medicine       B．food           C．water    D．sugar

7.                A．quickly         B．carefully        C．noisily    D．heavily

8.                A．off            B．up             C．on   D．away

9.                A．forgot          B．remembered    C．understood    D．told

10.               A．him           B．her            C．them D．himself

Washington DC, the capital of the USA, is a beautiful city, but there are  1  poor and hungry people in it. 2  of them are even homeless (無家可歸的). In the northwest of the city, there is a house 3  Martha’s Table. Every day, a group of volunteers go there. They raise（募集）food, clothes and money  4  poor people. They prepare (準備) 2, 100 sandwiches, a lot of soup and cakes for about 500 people every day. They give the  5  to the homeless people.
Mrs Morley is  6  of the volunteers. She looks after more than 60 children. She  7  them stories and teaches them 8  to read and draw. The children’s parents have to work for many hours a day. They  9  take good care of them. So the parents are  10  that Martha’s Table can help them look after their children.

Mrs. Black was a famous musician a few years ago. She   1  music at a school and her students did well in their lessons. They liked her very much. Now the old woman stays at home with her husband. The old man looks after his wife well and she   2  worries about anything. And she is very  3 .

Just like some old people, Mrs. Black finds that her memory(記憶) is falling. Sometimes she   4  what she did or will do. It often gets her in trouble. Her   5  noticed（注意到） it and asked her to see a famous doctor. He bought two tickets   6  London and told her he put  7  into her handbag while she was playing the piano. The next morning, they got to the  8  just on time to catch the plane. Mrs. Black said,“I wish we had the   9  with us.”

“Don’t be a fool, dear!”said Mr. Black,“We are not going to a concert, but to see a  10 .”

“I know，”she said，“but I left the tickets on it!”

1.                A．loved          B．taught          C．enjoyed D．studied

2.                A．always         B．often           C．never    D．sometimes

3.                A．sorry          B．worried         C．sad  D．happy

4.                A．forget          B．remember      C．forgets   D．remembers

5.                A．husband        B．daughter        C．son  D．student

6.                A．to             B．in             C．from D．of

7.                A．it             B．them           C．this  D．that

8.                A．airport         B．bus stop        C．station   D．hospital

9.                A．money         B．music          C．tickets    D．piano

10.A.doctor       B.film         C.play