One day a rich man met Tom. The rich man asked, “I hear you are very clever and       is difficult to you. Can you tell me         you are so clever?” Tom answered with a smile. “Oh, I am not clever. Instead, you are too foolish(愚蠢的).” The rich man became      . Tom said, “Sir, please         angry. If you don’t agree（同意） with what I said, now let me       you a very easy question: If you have a group of sheep, and I give you        group of sheep, now how      groups of sheep do you have?”

“Wow! That’s the easiest question in the world. One and one is two.      knows that. I have two groups of sheep, of course.”

Tom laughed and laughed, and then said, “You are quite      ，sir. Two groups of sheep put together still one group. That’s the       question in the world, isn’t it?”

1.A. something     B. nothing      C. everything   D. anything

2.A. what         B. when        C. how              D. why

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

4.A. not          B. don’t be      C. don’t       D. not feel

5.A. say          B. speak        C. ask         D. tell

6.A. two         B. the other      C. one         D. another

7.A. many          B. much                     C. few                   D. little

8.A. People       B. Anybody     C. Somebody   D. Nobody

9.A. right         B. clever       C. wrong       D. difficult

10.A. harder        B. easier       C. hardest      D. Easiest

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Leo and his father didn’t talk for 10 years. 10 years ago, Leo’s mother (1) d__________. He

thought it was his father who caused his mother’s illness. He hated his father.

Now they were sitting in a nice (2) c__________ shop. Suddenly his father asked the waiter

to put some salt in his coffee. Leo was surprised. His father smiled and said, “Before you were born, your mother and I often had (3) f__________ playing in the sea. We could taste the sea, just (4) l__________ the taste of the salty coffee. Every time I have salty coffee, I always think of your mother. I (5) m__________ her so much.”

Leo was deeply moved (感動(dòng)). He never knew his father had such deep (6) l__________ for his mother. One month later, he moved to live (7) w__________ his father. Every time he made coffee for him, he put some salt in the coffee.

After 10 years, his father died. Leo received a (8) l__________   which said, “Dear Leo, please forgive my life’s lie — the salty coffee. Actually at that (9) t__________ I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change, so I just went ahead. Now let me (10) t__________ you the truth. I don’t like salty coffee, but I drink salty coffee for 10 years! Having you with me is the biggest happiness of my whole life.”

Now let me ________ you to carry that box．

1. A.
   help
2. B.
   to help
3. C.
   helping
4. D.
   helps

Now let me ________ you ________ this heavy box.

1. A.
   to help; carry
2. B.
   help; carry
3. C.
   help; carrying
4. D.
   to help; to carry

One day Mr. and Mrs. Black were driving to a party . Mr. Black drove the car very fast. “Please don’t drive so fast.” Mrs Black asked his husband to drive more slowly .”If you drive so fast , maybe we’ll have some trouble.”“Oh , no , Don’t be worried , my dear . ”said Mr. Black with a smile .“You know I’m good at driving . You won’t be in danger . And there is little time . If I don’t drive fast , we’ll be late for the party.”
A few minutes later , his wife , Mrs. Black , said to him，“If you don’t slow down ,We’ll be in hospital.”
Just at this moment a car came out of a side road and crossed in front of their car . Mr. Black stopped their car quickly . It nearly hit that car: “Oh , dear , I’m sorry for that . You are right , my dear，”said Mr Black . “I’ll never drive fast later . Now let me drive slowly . ”Then car drove very slowly to the party . Of course they were very late for the party.
【小題1】Mr. and Mrs. Black were driving to ________ one day.