阅读训练（七）

1 阅读训练阅读训练 七 七 HaveHave toto PayPay A boy who was cleaning shoes in the street said to a young man passing by Let me clean your shoes The young man said No thank you You may pay me only a pound 镑 sir said the boy But the young man refused 拒绝 again Then the boy told him that he would clean his shoes for nothing The young man agreed to 同意 this and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly The man put the other shoe on the boy but the boy refused to clean it unless 除非 he was paid two pounds for his work The young man refused to pay anything and went away But the dirty one looked so bad that he couldn t walk away He had to turn back and gave the boy two pounds In a very short time his shoes shone 闪亮 brightly 1 The boy was a shoes A cleaner B maker C repairer D seller 2 At first the young man refused to clean his shoes because A he couldn t pay B he had not enough money C he didn t think it necessary D he had just cleaned his shoes 3 Then the young man agreed to clean his shoes because the boy asked for A two pounds B one pound C nothing D few money 4 The boy refused to clean the second shoe because A it was very dirty B the young man paid only one pound C it was difficult to clean D he asked to be paid two pounds 5 The boy said he would clean the young man s shoes for nothing just in order to A show his kindness 善良 B help the young man C get more money from him D let everyone see 2 A A SentenceSentence 句子 句子 withwith FiveFive And And Can you think of a sentence that the word and appears 出现 five times 次 without any words in between There is one at the end of this story There was once an inn 小旅店 which was called The Horse and Cart It had a sign 招牌 outside it and there was a picture of a horse 马 and a cart 马车 on it But the sign was getting old so the owner of the inn decided to have a new one made He went to a painter and asked him to paint one and to write The Horse and Cart on it in large letters A few days later he went to see how the painter was getting on He liked the picture of the horse and cart very much but he did not like the writing at all He said to the painter No no There s too much room 空间 between HORSE and AND and AND and CART 1 An inn is a A a small house B a small horse C a small hotel or place where one can stay D a kind of colored liquid that can be used for writing 2 There was a outside the inn A blackboard B cart C painter D sign 3 The owner of the inn decided to A sell his inn B buy a new sign C to paint his inn D call a painter to paint a new sign 4 The owner of the inn thought A the letters on the sign were too large B the letters on the sign were poorly written C there were less space 空间 between the letters on the sign D the letters on the sign were separated too widely 离得太远 5 The owner liked but not A the painter the letters B the horse the letters C the picture the writing D the sign the writing 3 Seeing the Horse Eat Fish Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse It was raining 下雨 hard The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain He wanted to stay in a restaurant It was a quarter past three in the afternoon The old man got to a small restaurant There were a lot of people in it The old man couldn t come near the fire He thought and thought At last he said to the waiters Take some fish to my horse The waiter and the people were very surprised 惊讶 The waiter said A horse doesn t eat fish The old man told the waiter This horse is very interesting It can sing dance and does all kinds of things It can eat fish too So the waiter brought the horse some fish All the people in the restaurant ran out to see the horse eat fish except the old man Now the old man sat beside the fire After a while the waiter came back and said Your horse didn t eat any fish The old man said All right take the fish back and put it on the table I ll eat it Note Note fire 火炉 waiter 侍者 1 The old man felt very cold because A it was a cloudy and windy day B it snowed C he had walked in the heavy rain D he was hungry 2 The people in the restaurant all ran out because A they wanted to see the old man B they wanted to see the horse eating fish C they had been told there came the horse D there was no fire over the stove 3 Indeed 实际上 the horse can neither 既不 nor 也不 nor A walk speak eat B sing dance sleep C sing dance eat fish D speak walk sit 4 All the people in the restaurant rushed out but A to see the horse sing the old man B to watch the horse play games the waiter C to look for the horse the old man D to see the horse eat fish the old man 5 Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his horse Because A his horse liked eating fish 4 B he was cold C he wanted to sit by the fire but wasn t able to do so at first D he himself also liked to eat fish D D The oldest man in the village had just enjoyed his hundredth birthday and a reporter from a famous paper came for a visit After he congratulated the old man the reporter asked a few questions Why can you enjoy such a long life sir Will you say something to teach others he asked The kind old man smiled He thought for a while and then held up his hand He counted with his fingers Why I never smoked or drink alcoholic liquors 烈性 酒 or ate too much and always get up at six in the morning But said the visitor I had an uncle He also did so yet he only lived to be eighty What is your explanation 解释 of that He didn t keep it up long enough was the short reply 1 The old man was A a reporter from a famous paper B one of the villagers there C the reporter s uncle D a kind doctor 2 The reporter wanted the old man to tell A what he usually ate B how he enjoyed his hundredth birthday C how he had been able to