Charlie came from a poor village. His parents had __1__ money to send him to school when he was young. The boy was very sad. Mr. King lived next to him. He found the boy __2__ and had pity on him and lent some money to him. So the boy could go to school. He studied hard and __3__ all his lessons. When he finished middle school, the man introduced him to his friend in the town. And he began to work.
　　Once Mr. King was seriously hurt in an accident. Dying, he asked Charlie to take care of his daughter, Sharon. The young man __4__ and several years later he married the girl. He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy. He often bought beautiful clothes and delicious food for her. He was good at cooking and he cooked __5__ for her. So she became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk. And one day she found there was something wrong with her heart. Her husband wasn’t at home and she had to go to __6__ at once. The doctors looked her over and told her __7__ eat meat, sugar, chocolate and things like these. She was afraid __8__ the doctor’s words and wrote all the names of the food on the paper. When she got home, she put the list on the table and __9__. When she returned home that afternoon, she found many kinds of food: meat, sugar and chocolate in the kitchen. Charlie was busy __10__ there. As soon as he saw her, he said happily, “I’ve bought all the food you like, dear!”

　　1. A. no                 B. some              C. much               D. enough
　　2. A. lazy              B. clever             C. careful             D. hard
　　3. A. did well in     B. was poor at   C. was working   D. was good for
　　4. A. was angry     B. thought hard  C. agreed             D. said “No.”
　　5. A. a little           B. a few              C. many              D. a lot
　　6. A. rest               B. sleep              C. hospital          D. work
　　7. A. should          B. would             C. to                   D. not to
　　8. A. to remember  B. to forget        C. to catch          D. to teach
　　9. A. slept              B. went out       C. cooked            D. ate
　　10. A. reading         B. seeing            C. cooking          D. writing

Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was __1__ to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou（北美驯鹿）? Do they kill people?
　　They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to __2__. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.
　　People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories, and he was __3__. He had his gun with him__4_.
　　Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.
　　Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very __5__ mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to __6__ food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf __7__ the children. They were a nice, happy family—wolf family! Farley did not need his __8__ any more. In a short time, he got on well with the family. Farley watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves were __9__. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.
　　Later, Farley wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to __10__ them and not to kill them.

　　1. A. seen          B. told           C. heard              D. found
　　2. A. a small town  B. a big city     C. a far place        D. a lonely village
　　3. A. afraid        B. happy          C. angry              D. tired
　　4. A. at times      B. all the time   C. once a week       D. every afternoon
　　5. A. bad           B. good           C. hungry             D. thirsty
　　6. A. cook          B. make           C. get                D. pick
　　7. A. shouted at    B. looked into    C. laughed at         D. played with
　　8. A. food          B. clothes        C. gun                D. plane
　　9. A. not good      B. not true       C. not easy           D. not clear
　　10. A. grow         B. have           C. teach              D. understand

Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it with water from a well. After they __1__ their work, he left them, saying, “When the sun is down, I will come and see your work.”
　　At last one of them said, “What’s the use of doing this foolish work? We can __2__ fill the basket.” __3__ man answered, “That is none of your business.” The first man said. “You may do as you like, but I am not going to work at __4__ so foolish.” He __5__ his bucket and went away. The other man said no word, and kept on carrying __6__. At last the well was almost __7__.
　　As he poured the last bucket of water into the basket, he saw a bright thing in it. He picked it up. It was a beautiful gold ring. Just then the king came. __8__ he saw the ring, he knew that he had found the kind of man he wanted. He told him to keep the ring for himself. “You __9__ so well in this little thing,” he said, “ __10__ now I know I can believe you with many things.”

　　1. A. finished       B. did            C. began         D. had
　　2. A. ever           B. never          C. easily        D. no
　　3. A. The other      B. Another        C. One           D. A second
　　4. A. anything       B. something      C. nothing       D. everything
　　5. A. picked up      B. put away       C. took away     D. threw away
　　6. A. water          B. basket         C. well          D. work
　　7. A. full           B. empty          C. filled        D. clean
　　8. A. While          B. As soon as     C. Before        D. Since
　　9. A. have done      B. will do        C. do            D. are doing
　　10. A. what          B. why            C. when          D. that

Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow __1__ he could in his own garden, so that he would not have to buy so many in the market.
　　One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and __2__ his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.
　　__3__, while he __4__ in the street near his house, he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that __5__ his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, __6__ he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat both of them equally hard.
　　The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a __7__ coffee-house. When he saw __8__ Nasreddin was doing __9__ his animals, he ran out and shouted, “What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?”
　　“You keep out this!” Nasreddin shouted back, “This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well __10__ I am beating him!”

　　1. A. so many vegetables                 B. many vegetables
　　   C. as many as vegetables              D. as many vegetables as
　　2. A. was eating     B. ate             C. had eaten           D. has eaten
　　3. A. Next day                           B. Next morning
　　   C. Last morning                       D. The next morning
　　4. A. walks            B. waked        C. was walking      D. walking
　　5. A. ruined           B. had eaten    C. ate                    D. had ruin
　　6. A. so                 B. and            C. but                   D. or
　　7. A. beside           B. nearby              C. near                  D. near by
　　8. A. that               B. which        C. why                  D. what
　　9. A. for                B. to                     C. with                  D. on
　　10.A. reason          B. when         C. why                  D. because