Mr. Johnson lives outside the town. He works in a post office. His wife is often ill and six children __26____ at school. He works hard but he is often short of __27____. In the end of every month his family are always__28____.
One afternoon, on his way home, it suddenly began to __29____. When he got home, he was wet through. He hurried to go __30____ after supper and his wife washed the clothes and shoes for him. __31____ she went to bed, she brought the clothes into the room but __32____ the shoes. The next morning Mr. Johnson couldn’t find his shoes. His wife found a pair of __33____ shoes under the bed for him. Then he went to __34____ and told the policeman about it.
“I __35____ ten dollars for my shoes, sir,” said the man. “Look! I have to __36____ such a pair of worn-out shoes!”
Several days later the police __37____ a thief and found the shoes. They were as worn-out as the __38____ which Mr. Johnson was wearing.
“You’ve fooled us, Mr. Johnson,” said a policeman. “The shopkeeper told me a pair of new shoes like them __39____ only seven dollars!”
“You’re right, ,sir,” said Mr. Johnson. “I’ve __40____ them for five years and I had them mended six times. And I paid three dollars to the shoemaker for mending them!”
A．play B．study C．work D．live
A．water B．food C．clothes D．money
A．full B．afraid C．hungry D．angry
A．rain B．snow C．blow D．shine
A．to work B．to sleep C．to bed D．swimming
A．After B．Before C．While D．Because
A．remembered B．threw C．dropped D．forgot
A．broken B．new C．nice D．cheap
A．bus stop B．bus station C．post office D．police station
A．borrowed B．paid C．lent D．lost
A．look for B．find C．wear D．dress
A．caught B．stopped C．saw D．killed
A．one B．ones C．old D．new
A．cost B．sold C．took D．spent
A．bought B．given C．had D．liked
It was Mary’s birthday. She received a letter from her uncle was a farmer.
“Dear Mary,” the letter said. “Happy birthday . I am sending you some as your birthday present.They will arrive tomorrow. I hope you will like them. Best wishes, Uncle Toby. ”
Mary liked eating eggs and .When the chickens arrived the day, they were in a box. Mary was very .She took the box off the truck and began to carry it into her garden. , the box was heavy and she dropped it . The chickens all ran out .They ran everywhere, into the road , into the shops , even into the next street. It Mary many hours to find them and take them back to her garden.
A few days later uncle came.”Did the chickens arrive ?” he asked Mary.”Yes,Uncle Toby.”Mary said.” I had lots if trouble with them. I dropped the box. It broke and the chickens ran everywhere.I spent the whole afternoon them.” “Did you find them all?” her uncle asked.”I hope so,”Mary replied.”I caught eleven of them.””That’s very interesting,”her uncle said a smile,”because I only sent you six.”
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Yesterday evening, when I went to town with my ____, we met a strange old man. It was raining ____ and we had no umbrella. We were trying to get into a taxi when he came up to us. He was carrying a nice ____ and he said he would give it to ____ for only one pound. He said he had ____ his wallet and he needed taxi fare(费用) to go back home. My mother didn’t believe ____ he said at first, and asked him a lot questions. but she finally believed the man and gave him a pound. She was ____ to buy a good umbrella for so little. but the old man didn’t get into a taxi. We followed him and found he went into a pub(酒吧) and bought ____ a glass of whiskey(威士忌) with a pound. ____ he drank it, he put on his hat and took one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one. Soon after that, he ____ it again.
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One day, a poor man was travelling on horseback. At noon, he tied his ____ to a tree and then sat down to eat something.
A few minutes later, a rich man came along and tied his horse to the ____ tree. “Please ____ your horse to another tree,” said the poor man.” My horse is wild. It will kill ____.” But the rich man said, “I shall tie my horse as I like!” He tied up his horse and had his lunchnearby.
After a moment they heard a terrible noise, the two horse were ____. They went up to them, but it was too late. The rich man’s horse was killed. “See what your horse has done!” cried the rich man. “You will have to ____ it.” And he brought the poor man before the judge(法官).
The judge asked the poor man some questions. But he made no ____. At last the judge said, “This man is dumb(哑的). He cannot speak.” “Oh.” the rich man shouted ____, “He can! He spoke to me when I met him.” “Are you sure?” asked the judge. “What did he say?”
“He told me not to tie my horse to the same tree ____ his horse was wild and would kill my horse.” “Oh.” said the judge. “So he warned you. And can you expect to get money from him?” The rich man said ____ and left silently.
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Last Monday, a strong man growing a beard(胡须) arrived at Mr. Li’s gold shop by taxi. He told the driver to ____. He went into the shop and said, “Hand over your money!”
Mr. Li was busy putting some goods(货物) on the shelf and he didn’t hear him clearly. He turned and asked, “____ can I do for you, Sir?”
“I told you to give me your money. I have got a gun in my handbag!”
Mr. Li gave him all his money. While the strong man was putting the money into his handbag, Mr. Li took out his own gun from behind. Seeing this, the strong man ran out of the shop with Mr. Li ____ him.
The strong man jumped into the waiting taxi as Mr. Li shouted, “It’s a robbery(抢劫)! Stop!” The taxi driver thoug ht Mr. Li wanted to ___ him. So he jumped out of his taxi with his hands ____. Then the strong man ____ with his gun in his hand and pointed it at Mr. Li. Mr. Li pointed his gun at the strong man, too. For almost a minute, they stood face to face and gun to gun, but ____ of them fired, because they had toy guns.
Suddenly the strong man ____ his gun and ran down the street away. He stopped a passing car and asked for a ride. The two men in the car were ____ to take him along. They were policemen. They gave him a ride straight to ____.
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Robert is a thirty-five-year-old American. He becomes a man in science. Once, he was interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he could be so much more creative than other people. He said that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his when he was about two years old.
That day, when he was trying to a bottle of milk out of the fridge, but he dropped the milk bottle. The milk spilled all over the _ floor, which turned out to be a sea of milk. He was afraid.
When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of him, she smiled. She said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have __ seen such a huge puddle of milk before. Well, since it has already been done, would you like to get down and play in the milk for a moment before we clean it up?” Robert did his mother told him.
After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, you have to clean it up at last and put to its right place. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel or a mop(抹布). Which do you prefer?” He the sponge and together they cleaned up he milk.
His mother then said, “You’d better learn to carry a big milk bottle with two small hands, OK? Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can find a way to carry it without it.”
The little boy that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip(瓶口) with both hands, he could make it. What a wonderful lesson!
It was at that moment that Robert knew he didn’t need to be _ to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just to learn something new, and that is what scientific experiments are all about. sometimes the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually can learn something meaningful from it. Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would do the same as Robert’s mother does?
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