妙语短篇C1首字母填词测试题

1、妙语短篇C1首字母填词测试题1. James had a terrible toothache. It kept him awakeall night. His cheek was swollen and it was difficult for him to eat or drink. Anything very hot or cold made the toothache w. If James ate anything sweet thepain was u.James did not want to take time off from work, so he tried to bea

2、r the pain. He took a pain-killer every hour.However, the tooth h so much when he tried to eat his lunch thathe knew he had to go to the de dentist.He asked his boss for time o. His boss could see that James was in great pain, and told him to take the rest of the day off.The dentist agreed to see Ja

3、mes immediately. Open your mouth, '' he said, ' and let 's have a look. James opened his mouth.' Which tooth is giving trouble?'' the dentist asked next.James t the tooth with his finger.The dentist x-rayed the tooth, then he put the x-ray a a brightlight.'Oh, yes. &#

4、39;' He said 'I can see the problem. There is a cavityin the tooth. I 'mafraid the h is too big to fill. I must take thetooth out. ''That's all right'' James said ' Just stop the pain. ''The dentist gave James an i and quickly pulled out the tooth.He d it

5、into the garbage can.Don't throw it away.'' James said Let me have it please. Why do you want your old tooth?'' the dentist asked.I'm going to take it home ,put it in a bowl of hot honey and watchit s1. 2. 3. 4. 5.2. The Gordon family was spending a day on the beach.Mr. and M

6、rs. Gordon were sitting on the sand, reading their magazines.Mr. Gordon was too s to rent a chair. Their twelve-year old daughter,Sandra was playing at the water 's e.Suddenly a huge wave l Sandra up and carried her out to sea.Fortunately, a lifeguard was on duty and he saw the wave carry Sandra

7、 away.Heran along the beach and d into the sea. He swamquickly to wherethe girl, with her h only just above the water, was shouting for help.She was very frightened. When the lifeguard reached her she struggled with him , as d people often do.However, he knew what to do and soon took h of her and sw

8、am withher back to the beach.By the time he reached it, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had realized what had happened. They had run down to the water's edge.Neither of them could swim. They just stood in the s water, andworried about their daughter. Had the lifeguard reached her in time?Fortunately, he had

9、.“ That was quick work, young man, Mr. Gordon said. He turned to his wife. “ Give the lifeguard a dollar.“ A dollar! Sandra cried. “Dad, how can you give him a dollar! He saved my life. I was half dead.“ Quite right, girl, Mr. Gordon said, pleased by his daughter'sa of the value of money.He turn

10、ed to his wife again and said, She' s right. She was only half dead. Give him fifty c.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.3. Kathy was a university student. Like most students she had very little money, but she wanted to buy a car.“ If I can buy one really cheap that w, she thought, “I willsave money on bus f. Then I

11、 ' ll have more to speed on food.She spent a day l at cars in the second-hand car yards. Most ofthem were m too expensive, but at last she found one for $250.The car was r and the paint was b damaged, but it worked.“It ' s got a good engine, the salesman said,“ and the gear box iso.k. Forget

12、 everything else.Kathy bought the car and drove it out of the car yard. Everything waswrong with it expect for the engine and gear box, which worked very well.“ As long as they work, Kathy thought, “ nothing else m. Thesalesman was right. Unfortunately, a few days later, while she was driving to her

13、 university, a police car drove up beside her and madeher stop. A young policeman got out of his car and walked a Kathy ' s car. He looked at itd.Hemadea list of the things wrong with the car. It was a very long list .Then he looked inside the car.“ Does your speedometer work? he asked.Kathy sho

14、ok her head.“ It is against the law, miss, he said, “not to know how fast youare travelling. Kathy smiled at him s.“Oh, but I do know how fast I am travelling, she said. “ Up to 30miles an hour, the doors rattle. Between 31 and 50 miles an hour, the whole car rattles. Over 50 miles an hour, I rattle

15、.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.4. When someone who is in good health dies suddenly, there is usually an inquest.An inquest is a kind of court of inquiry. The person in charge of an inquest is called a coroner. His job is to find out exactly how a person died.If there is nothing suspicious about the death ,he will d

16、ecide that the person died from n causes or an accident. If however, he iss ,he may decide that the person ' s death was caused by a personor persons unknown.At one inquest. the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman, Henry Wang.The man' s wid

17、ow was giving her e. She was very upset and hadto stop from time to time.The coroner did not want to upset her more than necessary, but he had to find out the truth. There were questions he had to ask her.“Mrs. Wang, I know this is p for you. he said. “but I want youto think very carefully and then

18、answer myquestions. You and your husband were having dinner at home. Is that correct?“Yes. “ Suddenly he f to the floor?“Yes. “You stood up and h to him? You knelt beside him? He was in greatpain? “Yes. “ Did he say anything? The widow l her head.“ Please, Mrs. Wang, you must answer the question. Wh

19、at were his last w?The widow took a deep breath and then spoke. “He said, she w,“ I 'm not surprised you were c only 50 cents for that seafoodwe had for dinner. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.5. It was a dark and windy night. The wind howled and the rain bdown.Harry and his wife were in bed. Although Harry slept

20、 t he storm,his wife woke up. She lay in bed, u to sleep, listening to the noiseof the storm.Suddenly she heard a different noise. It sounded like someoneton the window.She was very frightened. She woke her husband up.“Harry, she whispered, there ' s someone outside, Listen.“It 's nothing, h

21、e said, just a b of a tree tapping againstthe window in the wind. Go back to sleep.He turned over and went back to sleep.The tapping continued. It got louder and louder, then the window began to rattle.Harry 's wife woke him up again.“Harry, it isn ' t j the wind. There' s somebodythere.

22、 I knowthere is. Get up and look.Harry got out of bed and walked across the room to the window. He pthe curtain a little and looked out. He saw a man standing on a loutside the window. He smiled at the man and then went back to bed.“Well? his wife asked,“Was there anyone there? “Yes, Harry said. “ T

23、here' s a b trying to get in . “Then do something! his wife cried.“ Phone the police. “ Not yet, Harry said. “Wait until he opens the window. I've beentrying to get it open since we had the house p last year. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6.Sarah Williams went to a boarding school .Here is one of the letter

24、s she wrote to her parents from the school.Wentworth Girl 's SchoolBeachside July 25thDearest Mom and Dad,I ' mafraid I have somevery bad news for you .I have been very nand the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. Sh

25、e does not want me in the school any longer.The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed.This is against the r, of course. We are not supposed to smoke atall.As I was smoking, I heard f coming towards the room. I did notwant a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigar

26、ette away.Unfortunately, the cigarette f into the waste-paper basket, whichc fire.There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was b.The principal phoned the fire department. The school was a long way from the town and by the time the fire department ar

27、rived, the whole school was in f. Many of the girls are in the hospital.The principal says that the fire was all my f and you must payfor d. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.I'm very sorry about this.Much love.SarahPS. N of the above is true, but I have my exams. I just want

28、youto know how bad things could have been!1. 2. 3. 4. 5.7. Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She could not walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs. She was soon out of b.“ I suppose I had better go to the doctor, she thought.She went to the doctor and told him her pro

29、blem.“I 'm not at all surprised. he said. “It 's o what yourproblem is. He e her and then gave her some advice.“ If you don't do what I say, Mrs.Parker, he said, “ then you will have a heart a. It could kill you.Ellen was very worried as she left the d.Sheknew that she had to take his ad

30、vice but that it would not be easy and that it would take time.The next day she went shopping. The first shop she went into was a b shop.“I'd like ten pounds of steak, please, she said.“ Certainly,madam, the butcher replied and went into the cold s room and found a large piece of steak.He brough

31、t the huge piece of meat back into the shop and placed it on the s.“That 's just under ten pounds, he said.“That 's big enough, Mrs.Parker said.The butcher worked out the price.“ At $4.99 a pound that will be $45.50 please. Shall I cut it up intosmaller pieces for you?“Oh, Idon 't want t

32、o buy the meat,“If you don't want to buy it, did you ask me to get it for you?“ Mydoctor told methat I amoto see what 10 pounds of f looked like. Mrs.parker said.the butcher replied angrily, “whyand must lose 10 pounds. I wanted1. 2. 3. 4. 5.8. “ We should do something nice for the old people of

33、 our town, theteacher said to her class one day .“What could we do? “Can we give them apicnic? one of the children asked. “ Wecan send out i and bring cakes and sausages and all kinds of good thingsto eat. “ That 's a very good idea, the teacher said.“We'll ask all theold people to a p by th

34、e river. The children worked hard g ready for the picnic. Their parentsmadecakes and pies or gave money, and the children wrote invitation cards to the old people. Then they took the cards to the old p homes.Onthe morning of the picnic the sky was blue and the sun was s.The children were alllooking

35、f to giving the old people a happyday.Then one of the children said. “Oh!Weforgot to invite Mrs. Waller. They did not like Mrs. Waller. She looked like a w.“ Wemust invite her nowthen, the teacher said. “She will be hand angry if we don 't ask her. She looked around the class and then pointed at

36、 one of the boys.“ Tom,take an invitation card to her house.A for being late.Don 'ttell her we forgot her.Tomdid not want to go to Mrs. Waller 's house, but he was a brave boy, and said, “All right,Miss Lee.He went to the old woman's house and knocked on the door, Mrs. Waller opened it.

37、She looked very angry.“ Well, she said, “ what is it? What do you want?Tomgave her the invitation card and said, “I 'm sorry we did not ask you before, but please come to our picnic. It' s a beautiful day.Mrs. Waller knew that the children thought she was a witch. She guessed that they had f

38、orgotten her.“ You're too late, the womansaid. “It 's a beautiful day now, but I ' ve already a for rain this afternoon. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.9. Three mentraveling on a train began a conversation about the world ' s greatest wonders “In myopinion, the first mansaid, “ the Epyramids are thew

39、orld 's greatest wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still s.And remember: the people who built them had onlysimple t. They did not have the kind of machinery that buildersand e have today. “ I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful, the second mansaid, “but

40、 I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back s. In seconds, they carry out mathematicalcalculations in s that would take a person a hundred years to doHet to the third manand asked, “W

41、hat do you think is the greatestwonder in the world? The third manthought for a long time, and then he said, “ Well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is thisAnd he took a thermos out o

42、f his bag and h it up The other two men were very surprised.“ A thermos? they exclaimed,“ But that 's a simple thing “Oh, no, it ' s not, the third man said.“In the winter you put ina hot drink and it s hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink andit stays cold. Howdoes the thermos know whether it is winter or summer?1. 2. 3. 4. 5.10. Wally worked in a shop that sold clocks. One day his next doorn, Harry, cameinto his shop. Harry wasvery stingy. His smade Wally very angry. Wally said to hi