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　　Are you able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone，anywhere in the world without putting a stamp on it? With e-mail you can just do that. Using computer you can send e-mail quickly and easily. The post is much slower than e-mail. E-mail can send its message to the other side of the world in seconds.

　　E-mail is easy to use and it saves time and money. The differences in time and in different parts of the world do not matter when sending e-mail. It is twenty-four-hour service that you can send e-mail at any time of the day or night. No one has to be there to receive email. It does not matter if your friends are in bed when you send e-mail to them，or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send e-mail back.

(1)With e-mail you can send a letter without putting ________ on it.

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(2)The writer wants to tell us something about

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(3)Which of the following is TRUE?

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A．E-mail is not easy to use.

B．E-mail saves time and money.

C．E-mail comes only at night.

D．E-mail is slower than the post.

(4)When can you send an e-mail to your friend?

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A．By daylight.

B．At night.

C．At any time.

D．When your friends are at home.

(5)How long does it take to send an e-mail?

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A．Within seconds.

B．More than one hour.

C．A few days.

D．It depends on the distance.

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A．who the old man was

B．what the old man was planting

C．why the old man was planting

D．when the old man was planting

(3)The old man asked the farmer to swim across the river because________.

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A．he would give him some peas

B．he wanted him to see the peas

C．he liked the farmer

D．he wanted to tell him quietly

(4)The farmer didn't like to swim across the river，but ________.

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A．he swam across the lake

B．he went there on foot

C．he knew the old man

D．he did as the old man told him

(5)The old man thought________.

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A．the sparrows could understand what he said

B．the farmer wanted to see the peas

C．the sparrows couldn't know that

D．the farmer could help him plant peas

閱讀理解

　　I felt very sad not to be able to get the ticket for the film “Titanic” last Friday. I learned in the newspaper that tickets could be bought at the cinema box office (售票處) in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the cinema was during my 45-minute lunch time. It is a pity that the cinema is on the other side of the town, and the bus service (服務(wù)) between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip (行程) in 45 minutes.

　　Last Monday I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes, waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip so I had to go back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the cinema in twenty minutes. But when I got there, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. I found that I would not have enough time to wait in line. I caught the next bus and went back across the town.

　　By Friday I understood my only hope was to make the trip by car. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth it (值得) to see the film. The trip by car only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I reached the cinema, I was delighted to see that nobody was waiting in line. But I quickly found out that it was because they had already sold all the tickets.

1．It seems that the writer of the story works ________.

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2．He tried to go to the cinema every day but really got there ________.

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3．The word “delighted” in the sentence “I was delighted to see that nobody was waiting in line.” may best be replaced (替換) by ________.

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4．Which of the following was TRUE according to (根據(jù)) the story?

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A．The writer was too busy to have time for a rest during the day.

B．The buses running between his office and Richland Hills were always on time on Thursday.

C．He couldn't buy the tickets any day both before and after work hours.

D．It always took him about twenty minutes to get to the cinema by bus.

5．Choose the best title of the story.

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It was Mother’s Day. John was so busy with his work that he couldn’t go back home. When he walked by a flower shop in the evening, an idea came to his mind. “I’ll send Mum some roses (玫瑰).”
While John was picking his flowers, a young man went inside. “How many roses can I get for only five dollars, Madam?” he asked. The shop assistant told him that roses were as expensive as forty dollars a dozen (一打). Maybe he would be happy with carnations(康乃馨). She told him they were a lot cheaper than roses.
“No, I have to have red roses,” he said, “My mum was badly ill last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, it has to be roses, as the rose is her favorite.”
After hearing this, John said he would pay the rest of the money for the young man. Moved by both of them, the shop assistant said, “Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for you two.” Taking the roses, the young man almost jumped into the air. He thanked John, and ran out of the shop. It was well worth twenty-five dollars John paid to see the exciting moment. Then John paid for his dozen of roses and told the shop assistant to send them to his mother.
As he walked out, he felt nice. Suddenly he saw the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon he realized it was not a park but a cemetery (墓地). Crying, the young man carefully laid the roses, “Mum, oh, Mum, why didn’t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.”
Seeing this, John turned and quickly walked back to the shop. He would take the flowers home himself.
【小題1】The shop assistant tried to ask the young man to buy carnations instead of roses because _____.

A．there were not enough roses in the shop

B．carnations were much nicer than roses

C．roses were more expensive than carnations

D．carnations were special flowers for Mother’s Day

【小題2】John spent _______ in the flower shop that day.

A．$5

B．$25

C．$ 45

D．$ 55

【小題3】The young man cried at the cemetery because he _______.

A．had spent all his money on the roses

B．wasn’t able to tell his mother he loved her himself

C．felt sorry to ask John to pay for his flowers

D．hadn’t got enough money for his sick mother

【小題4】At last John decided to take the roses home himself because he wanted to _______.

A．tell his mother he loved her

B．a(chǎn)sk his mother for more money

C．tell his mother the young man’s story

D．a(chǎn)sk his mother if she liked roses

【小題5】The writer wrote this passage to tell us “_______”.

A．Buy roses for your mother when she is ill

B．Let your mother know how much you love her

C．Work hard to get more money for your mother

D．Send your mother flowers on Mother’s Day