When Mr Smith retired(退休), he bought a small in a village near the sea. He it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.
But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most building in the village. From morning to night there were outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and of them even went into Mr Smith’s garden. This was too much for Mr Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to . So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, “If you want your curiosity(好奇心)，come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr Smith had to every day showing them around his house.“I came here to not to work as a guide（导游）,”he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me.”
Everyone was shocked（震惊） by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my____. “Which foot is it?” One asked “let us have a look.”
Suddenly, I remembered the holes in___socks.My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare （福利）socks, which cost only a little, but those____welfare socks didn’t last long. They soon had ____at he bottom.
I refused to take off my shoe. I____stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing____my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.
My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the_____, “What’s wrong?” She asked.
“Something is biting her right foot,____she doesn’t let us take off her shoe,” One of my classmates answered.
Miss Diane lived next door to me.She___ everything about my family .She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and ____into my painful and hopeless eyes.
“Oh, yes, it must be a sock-eating ant,” She said, as if she had___seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. When I got my shoe off ,it ___almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher____, although they all looked a little surprised.
Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin. Two red ants ____it.
“Just what I thought it. The ants have eaten part of her sock.” When she stroked an alcohol （酒精）cotton ball on the bites, she added, “You are such a ____girl to take so many bites.”
The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl’s pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant ” story.
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Six-year-old Brandon decided one morning to make his parents pancakes. He ________ a big bowl and a spoon, pulled a chair to the table, opened the cupboard and pulled out the heavy flour(面粉）bag. He put some flour ____ the bowl with his hands, mixed in a cup of milk and _______some sugar.
Soon Brandon __________ flour and getting frustrated(懊恼的）. He wanted this to be something ____for Mum and Dad, but it was getting very bad. He didn’t know what to do _____.
Suddenly he saw his cat near the bowl and went to push her away, ____________ the egg box to the floor. He tried to clean up but slipped(滑倒）on the eggs, getting his clothes ____. Just then, he saw his Dad___________ at the door.
Brandon’s eyes were full of tears. All he wanted to do was something good, but now. He was sure his Dad would beat(揍）him, but his father didn’t. ____________, he picked up his crying son and kissed him.
That’s what we sometimes face in ___________. We try to do something good, but it turns into a mess(一团糟). Sometimes we just________ there in tears ____________we can’t think of anything else to do. Hopefully, that’s someone close to us picks us up, loves us and forgives us. But we can’t ___________ trying to “make pancakes” for Dad or for other. Sooner or___________ we’ll get it right, and then they’ll be glad we tried.
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完形填空 阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Today is the last Saturday before Christmas. Everyone in the USA________shopping for presents.
________ is falling (降落). People are walking fast. They are trying to keep ________ when they move from shop to shop. In the shops children are ________at the toys. They are talking to a man called Father Christmas. He asks, “What do you want________Christmas?” In the USA, it is warm and beautiful in summer. The trees and fields are green then. But now it is winter and________ is white. At ________, small lights make the houses and buildings ________. Christmas is a beautiful ________ of a year. Parents tell their children that Father Christmas is a very kind man. He comes________ Christmas Eve. He lands on top of________ house and comes ________the chimney (烟囱) into the fireplace (壁炉) and________them a lot of presents. Christmas Day always begins before ________. Children wake up very early in the morning. They open the________from their parents. Then they wake up their parents, saying “Merry Christmas.”
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This week, I asked my classmates about their vacations. Here are some of their answers.
Tina to New York City. The was sunny and the people friendly to her. She went there by and the bus trip was relaxing. The food was delicious. She had a vacation.
Sally went to her uncle. Because the weather was windy and , she had to stay at house. She watched TV the TV shows were boring. She went shopping with her cousin but the shop assistants(店员) were . She had a terrible vacation.
Tom stayed at home. At first he did his homework. It was a little difficult. Then he computer games. They were interesting. He thought his vacation was OK.
A. go B. goes C. went
A. place B. weather C. museum
A. were B. was C. is
A. bike B. bus C. train
A. bad B. terrible C. great
A. visit B. visited C. look
A. rain B. rainy C. sun
A. but B. and C. or
A. friend B. friendly C. unfriendly
A. play B. played C. listened
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Who can help you if you want to be a great man when you grow up? ____ you think parents, teachers or others can help you. But ____ fact, all these people only help you to help ____.
There have been many great men in history. They had few people to help them. They could not get good education, ____. But they tried their best ____ and never gave up. One famous teacher in England once ____ his students, “I can’t make you great men, _____ I can help you make great men of yourselves.”
However, some young people do nothing and they ____ others. If these young people can see their weak points and change their ways, they can be ____ . they are nothing now, and will be ____ in the future, unless(除非) they take the advice of their parents and teachers, and most importantly, depend on themselves.
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