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Mr. Miller had a shop in a big town. He
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ladies’ clothes, and he always had two or three shop girls to
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him. They were always
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because they were cheaper than older women, but
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of them worked for him for very
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, because they were young, and they did not meet many boys in
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shop.
Last month a girl came to work for him. Her
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was Helen, and she was very good.
After a few days, Mr. Miller
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a young man come into the shop. He went
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to Helen, spoke to her for a few
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and then went out of the shop. Mr. Miller was very
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and when the young man
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he went to Helen and said, “That young man didn’t
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anything. What did he want to
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?”
Helen answered, “He just wanted to see
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.”
A. kept
B. sold
C. made
D. mended
A. learn
B. teach
C. help
D. follow
A. young
B. strong
C. clever
D. boring
A. many
B. most
C. neither
D. none
A. long
B. much
C. soon
D. often
A. children’s
B. men’s
C. clothes
D. women’s
A. friend
B. parent
C. sister
D. name
A. realized
B. guessed
C. saw
D. chose
A. away
B. straight
C. back
D. by
A. words
B. times
C. things
D. minutes
A. nervous
B. pleased
C. surprised
D. interested
A. arrived
B. left
C. smiled
D. finished
A. buy
B. try
C. treat
D. touch
A. do
B. take
C. spend
D. save
A. money
B. nothing
C. me
D. nobody
名师指点
这是一个幽默故事，故事简单明了，却说明了一个大家所共知的道理：异性相吸。
答案简析
B。根据常识，商店是“卖东西”而不是“保存东西”，“制造东西”或“修理东西”。
C。指帮他在店中打点打点。
A。从后面的older women得知。
D。从上文but可知，没有一个姑娘为他工作很长时间。
A。
D。根据上文，这是一家卖女士服装的商店，所以其他都不可以。
D。
C。see sb. do sth.，此处意为看见有人进来。
B。指年轻人径直走向Helen，故用straight，其他意思都不对。
D。由于前面有介词for，所以不可用a few words，a few times，a few things.。For a few minutes 意为“跟她说了一会儿”。
C。看到这种情景当然是感到好奇。
B。根据常识，他须等年轻人离开才去问Helen。
A。年轻人什么也不买。
A。他想干什么呢？
C。
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After her husband had gone to work, Mrs. Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too
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to do any housework that morning,
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in the evening she was going to an interesting fancy dress party (化装舞会) with her husband. What she
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was a terrible genie (妖怪) and as she had made that special dress of hers the night before, she was anxious to try it on.
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the dress was just a big piece of old cloth which was red, green, black and white, it would be very effective (有效的) to make her like a real genie. After putting it on, Mrs. Richards went downstairs happily. She wanted to find out
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it would be comfortable to wear.
Just as Mrs. Richards was entering the dining-room there was a
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at the door. She thought that it
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be the baker (面包师). She had told him to come straight in if she
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to open the door and leave the bread on the kitchen table. Now not wanting to
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the poor man, Mrs. Richards quickly
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in the small storeroom under the stairs. She heard the front door open and a man came in. When Mrs. Richards
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that it was the man from the electricity board (供电局) who had come to read the meter (电表), she walked out of the hiding-place on a sudden and tried to explain the matter, saying with a smile, “It’s only
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! It is not
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for you to be
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!” But it was too late. The man let out a sharp cry (发出尖叫) and jumped back several paces (步) . Then he ran away,
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the door behind him with great force and noise.
A. angry
B. ready
C. frightened
D. excited
A. for
B. but
C. so
D. and
A. wanted to see
B. wanted to play
C. was afraid to see
D. was afraid to play
A. Though
B. But
C. And
D. If
A. that
B. how
C. whether
D. when
A. knock
B. voice
C. man
D. baker
A. may
B. must
C. wouldn’t
D. couldn’t
A. not
B. had
C. tried
D. failed
A. see
B. frighten
C. help
D. scold (责怪)
A. went
B. lay
C. appeared
D. hid
A. thought
B. wondered
C. imagined
D. realized
A. me
B. you
C. game
D. play
A. good
B. necessary
C. late
D. early
A. off
B. here
C. afraid
D. sorry
A. pushing
B. locking
C. knocking
D. shutting
名师指点
这是一个幽默故事，看后令人忍俊不禁。也许Mrs. Richards的化装技巧太捧了，也许，查表员的胆子也太小了——大白天的怎么可能有鬼呢？不过，如果你遇到这种情况，那会怎么样呢？
答案简析
D。一切准备就绪，只等去化装舞会了，所以该是激动得无法做家务。
A。补充说明激动的原因，只有用for最为到位。
B。本句是初中生不太熟悉的主语从句，play在这里是“扮演”的意思。意为“她所想扮演的是一个可怕的妖怪”。
A。根据下文的意思，有转折关系，所以用though。
C。她想看看是否穿着舒服。
A。就在这时有敲门声。
B。从下文可知她很有把握，“准是面包师”。
D。fail to do sth. “没做成某事”。用not语法不对，而用had ,tried不符合意思 。
B。她不想吓着这个人。
D。因此，她就躲藏到楼梯下的贮藏室中。
D。这时她才意识到自己的判断错误。
A。只好出来解释，不是鬼怪，是她。故用It’s me 。
B。13、14题是一个完整的句子。没必要害怕。
C。
D。分词充当伴随状语。意为随手就把门用力关上。
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Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain
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so I decided I would leave the children in the car before I went quickly into a shop. I
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the girls not to touch anything and told them I would be
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within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left
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happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had disappeared! I could hardly believe my
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. The car doors were
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locked, the windows were shut and on the back seat
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only two coats. Being
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, I ran to the corner of the street
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there was no
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of them .I rushed up to an old lady nearby and asked
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she had seen two small girls but she said “No”. Feeling quick sick with fear, I sat on the driver’s seat, and
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to stop trembling. Suddenly, I
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a merry laugh behind me. I got out of the car, ran round to open the boot and there inside were two very red-faced and excited
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. They had obviously pulled out the back seat,
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behind it and then been unable to push the seat forward again. With tears in my eyes, I leaned forward and pulled their ears.
1. A. heavy
B. hard
C. hardly
D. big
2. A. let
B. warned
C. allowed
D. repeated
3. A. away
B. out
C. back
D. alone
4.
A. them
B. her
C. themselves
D. herself
5.
A. ears
B. words
C. eyes
D. brains
6.
A. too
B. again
C. already
D. still
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A. there
B. sat
C. seen
D. were
8. A. excited
B. proud
C. frightened
D. pleased
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A. where
B. which
C. that
D. when
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A. warning
B. sign
C. body
D. face
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A. that
B. when
C. whether
D. how
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A. tried
B. made
C. tried not
D. set
13.
A. felt
B. smelt
C. saw
D. heard
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A. sons
B. daughters
C. women
D. children
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A. climbed
B. flew
C. threw
D. landed
名师指点
本文是一篇诙谐的故事，读来不禁使我们哑然失笑，为孩子们的天真无邪，也为母亲寻找孩子时的惊慌失措。其实，这一切都是真情流露。
答案简析
B。形容雨下的很大，要用hard 这个副词，故选B。
B。本题疑点在于let和warned这两个词，但若用let 后要加动词原形，而不是to do，故选B。
C。根据句意选C，意为“我告诉他们说我一会儿就回来”。
C。leave oneself 意为“把某人单独留下”。
C。主人公回来后发现孩子们不见了，她感到很惊讶，故她不敢相 信她的眼睛，选C 。
D。意为“车门跟她走时一样还是关着”。
D。这是一个倒装句,谓语动词应于后面的名词一致, 故选D。
C。当发现孩子们不见后她感到很害怕, 故选C。
A。根据句意，本句是一个由where引导的地点状语从句，选A。
B。没有他们的踪影。
C。根据下文可知答案选C，意为“问她是否看见过两个小女孩”。
A。意为“尽力停止颤抖”。
D。听到了后面发出一阵笑声，选D。
D。根据前面的修饰词和上文可知选D。
A。根据四个单词的意思和句意，可知选A。
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There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben,
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he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made joked about him because he seemed so
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.
The mother
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that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a
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a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben’s
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, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him
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. Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered. He
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said anything, what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only
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the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew
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the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were
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. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book
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.
Ben later went to the
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of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
After Ben grew up, he
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something about his mother that he did not know as a
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.
She, herself, had never learned how to
