1. What is the main idea of this passage? A. Children should obey their parents quickly. B. Children should share with others. C. The author remembers many of her grandma’s wonderful stories. D. The grandma’s stories helped teach the children morals and good manners. ( )2. Which of the following details supports the main idea of the passage? A. The children were saved from the fire because they followed directions. B. Grandma told a story of three boys at school. C. Each of the three boys got a cake sent from home. D. The big prairie fire soon spread over to the village. ( )3. Which of the following statements is true? A. The author was saved from the fire. B. The author was brought up from his grandmother. C. Grandma was good at telling children stories. D. Grandma told stories to children just for fun. ( )4. All of the following were not praised by the author except ___________. A. the boy who shared his cake with others B. the boy who ate up all his cake by himself C. the boy who kept the cake for the future D. the boys who didn’t obey their parents ( )5. According to this passage, the underlined word tailored probably means _____. A. measured B. specially prepared B O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was C. cut D. invented William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise. ( )1. In which order did O. Henry do the following things? a. Lived in New York. d. Was put in prison. A. e. c. f. b. d. a ( b. Worked in a bank. e. Had a newspaper Job. B. c. e. b. d. f. a c. Travelled to Texas. f. Learned to write stories. D. c. b. e. d. a f. C. e. b. d. c. a. f. )2. People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because A. they had surprise endings C. they showed his love for the poor B. they were easy to understand D. they were about New York City . ( )3. O. Henry went to prison because A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper B. he broke the law by not using his own name C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners D. people thought he had taken money that was not his ( )4. What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing? A. He was well-educated. C. He was devoted to the poor. ( A. His life inside the prison. C. The city and people of New York. B. He was not serious about his work. D. He was very good at learning. B. The newspaper articles he wrote. D. His exciting early life as a boy. (一) )5. Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories? Once there was a grasshopper(蚱蜢), who was the best hopper(跳跃者) in the world. She taught other grasshoppers how to hop. Soon all grasshoppers were hopping well, so she felt very Then one day an eagle showed up. She immediately 12 was sure that hopping was the key to said, “There is no need. You are 14 imagination. “ 13 11 to teach the eagle how to hop, as she , but every time she advised the eagle to hop, he just 15 in your with hopping, but I can fly. “ “Stop this silly talking of flying!” screamed the grasshopper. “Flying is The next day, some of the grasshoppers went to talk to the eagle. “How is it that you don’t know how to hop, yet you still talk of flying? It 16 “Tell us more, “ said the grasshoppers. The eagle began telling them what the world included mountains, rivers and oceans(海洋). Then the eagle took one 19 grasshopper in his powerful talon(爪子) to the sky. The 20 . grasshopper could see the mountains, rivers and oceans that the eagle had 18 he grass fields w as like. It was a world that our teacher’s orders. “ .” said the eagle. “Hopping is useful, but when you can fly, it is no longer 17 After the eagle landed, he saw a spark (闪光) in the grasshopper’s eyes. The grasshopper told others what he had seen in the sky. Therefore, the grasshoppers dreamt of flying in the sky. (2009 江苏省常州市) ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( )11. A. angry )12. A. forgot )13. A. business )14. A. satisfied )15. A. just )16. A. turns down )17. A. harmless )18. A. past )19. A. sad )20. A. imagined B. relaxed B. decided B. weakness B. strict B. even B. puts off B. dangerous B. through B. brave B. created C. stressed C. failed C. happiness C. patient C. hardly C. goes against C. necessary C. under C. attractive C. changed D. proud D. refused D. sadness D. careful D. ever D. works out D. safe D. beyond D. frightened D. described