One Sunday morning in June my mother walked into my room. "Surprise!" she said, proudly holding up a yellow dress with black and white stripes. "I made it just for you. What do you think?"
I bit my tongue. How could I tell Mum it was the ugliest dress I had ever seen?
"It's perfect for church," my mother continued delightedly. "I wish someone had made a dress like this for me."
Too bad you can't wear it, I thought. But I knew Mum had spent a lot of time on the dress. Only the world's most ungrateful daughter would refuse. Unwillingly I put it on.
All through church I prayed, "Lord, let me get out of here without anyone seeing me." Especially Dennis Pearce, the boy I had a crush on. He was one of the cutest boys at Neptune High School. Although we were in some of the same classes, Dennis had never taken any notice of me. Every time I got near him, I became tongue﹣tied.
At the end of the service I hurried to the door. But I had to wait on the steps while my parents chatted with their friends. Just a little while longer… Then out of the corner of my eye I saw the Pearce approaching. Before I could escape, Dennis was right beside me.
I started talking a mile a minute, hoping if I kept it up he wouldn't notice my awful dress.
"I'm going to college in September," I said.
"That's great," Dennis replied, "I got accepted to police academy."
"Wow!" I said. Somehow I kept the conversation going. Soon we were walking to the parking lot together. The next thing I knew Dennis had asked me out on a date!
We fell in love through college, and finally got married. Months after our wedding I asked Dennis if he remembered the day he had first asked me out.
"You bet I do," he said. "You were always quiet in school, almost coldhearted. I didn't think you'd be much fun. But you were so lively when we talked on the church steps, I wanted to get to know you better." Maybe that zebra﹣striped yellow dress wasn't what I would have chosen, but that day it was the perfect dress for me.
【小题1】What did the writer think of the dress?A.It had special colors. | B.It looked really awful. |
C.Its style was boring. | D.It was right for church. . |
A.Proud. | B.Angry. | C.Nervous. | D.Happy. |
A.catch his parents' attention | B.ask him out on a date |
C.stop him noticing her dress | D.get to know him better. |
A.A perfect dress. | B.An excellent mother. |
C.A creative date. | D.An unforgettable service. |
“I can’t find Jack,” Mary says,” Our class pet is lost.”
“We will find him,” Paul says. “Jack is a green lizard(蜥蜴). He can’t go out of our classroom.”
Paul helps Mary look for Jack. Jack isn’t under the yellow desks or the blue chairs. Mary goes to the brown bookcase.
“Oh, a brown lizard is on the book.” Mary says.
“The lizard is not green. It’s not ▲. It’s a new(新的) lizard,”Paul says.
Mary says, “Let’s put it into Jack’s box.”
Paul puts the brown lizard into the box with some green leaves (树叶). Oh,what do they see now? They see a green lizard. The brown lizard turns into(转变成) a green one.
【小题1】Where are Mary and Paul?A.In Mary’s room. | B.In Paul’s room. | C.In the classroom. | D.In the library. |
A.green | B.brown | C.blue | D.yellow |
①Mary sees a lizard on a book.
②Mary goes to the bookcase.
③They see a green lizard in the box.
④Paul puts the lizard into the box.
⑤They look for the lizard under the desks.
A.②⑤①③④ | B.①⑤②③④ | C.⑤②①④③ | D.③②⑤①④ |
A.hers | B.ours | C.theirs | D.mine |
A.Jack has a new box. | B.Paul and Mary have two lizards. |
C.Mary and Paul find the lizard Jack. | D.Mary isn’t happy at last. |
Lots of boys dream of flying airplanes when they grow up. But only a few can say they have made their dreams come true when they are still teenagers. At the age of 19, Luke Elsworth is already a flying traveler around the world.
As a child, Elsworth enjoyed playing with toy planes and had pictures of planes on the walls in his bedroom. His father, who has been a pilot for 32 years, often took him to watch his air shows. At one show, he asked his son what he wanted to be in the future. Young Elsworth answered all he wanted to do was following his father.
Elsworth became an air cadet (空乘学员) on his 13th birthday. Five years later, he began to work for Easy Jet’s pilot training program in Southampton. There, Elsworth spent almost all of his free time practicing again and again and he felt great. “It is common for us young people to have big dreams,” he said, “But to make them come true, we need to act bigger.”
When people ask him if he feels he is too young to be a pilot, Elsworth says age isn’t so important. He even advised young people to do what they want to do. “If there is a train driver who is 18 and has passed all the training tests. I will believe in him,” says Elsworth.
The young pilot’s next step is to become a captain, but he will have to spend at least 8 years before that can happens.
【小题1】When Elsworth was a child, he ________.A.showed no interest in studying subjects |
B.dreamed of becoming a train driver |
C.was interested in things about planes |
D.liked to play with his friends at school |
A.Elsworth’s dream of being a pilot |
B.Elsworth’s idea about young people |
C.Elsworth’s opinions about ages |
D.Elsworth’s training experience and opinions |
①Elsworth started training in Easy Jet’s.
②Elsworth became an air cadet.
③Elsworth flew around the world.
④Elsworth told his father his dream.
A.①④③② | B.④②①③ |
C.③④②① | D.④③①② |
A.a son is usually like his father |
B.how to become a good pilot |
C.everyone should have a big dream |
D.never too young to make dreams come true |
Most people dream of living in a big beautiful house. But for Tim Shea, he just wanted to find a place he could call home.
The 70-year-old man had spent several years living on the street until he became the first resident (居民) of the Community First Village.
The village is a 51-acre site. It is far away from the center of Texas and there are many 3D-printed tiny houses there. The small houses were built by the company ICON. They put $18 million into the village and built six different kinds of houses to make homeless people live in their own houses.
Inside Shea’s 3D house, there is one bedroom, one bathroom, a kitchen and a living room. Shea had never imagined that he could live in such a nice house.
Life wasn’t easy for Shea before he moved to the Community First Village. “I lived on the street for most of my life. This made me stay away from people,” Shea said. “Over time, I didn’t feel safe, and if I had the chance, I would hide. I never wanted to communicate with others.”
▲ Since then, he has been meeting new people and making friends. “Now, I have many activities to do with others every day.” Shea said. “With only about $300 in rent (租金), I get a new start of life. It’s really wonderful.”
【小题1】How much did the company ICON put into the village?A.$18,000. | B.$180,000. | C.$1,800,000. | D.$18,000,000. |
A.the disabled | B.the blind | C.the homeless | D.the deaf |
A.It was satisfying. | B.It was a little small. |
C.It was just as he had imagined it. | D.It was far away from the center of town. |
A.Amazingly, the houses were built by a big robot. |
B.To his joy, things changed after Shea got his new house. |
C.Shea never really wanted to communicate with others. |
D.Shea was just a homeless man dreaming of moving into a house of his own. |
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