( )1. “How to ……” books are popular because they ______.

A. are interesting

B. can help people

C. are strange(奇怪)

D. can make people rich

( )2. If you want to have much money, you can buy______.

A. How to Live on Nothing

B. How to Love Every Minute of Life

C. How to Make a Million

D. How to Turn Failure into Success

( )3. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. How to B. “How to” Books

C. Another Kind of American books D. Interesting Books

( )4. The underlined word “spend” means______.

A.挣 B. 花 C. 度过 D. 存

B

Can you think of a sentence and in it “AND” appears(出现) five times, without any words in between? There is one at the end of the story.

There was once an inn(客栈) called “THE HORSE AND CART(马车)”. It had a sign outside it. There was a picture of a horse and a cart on the sign. The sign was getting very old, so the owner of the inn decided to make a new one. 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 with it. He liked the picture of the horse and cart very much, but he didn’t like the words at all. He said to the painter, “No! There is too much space between HORSE and AND and And and CART!”

( )5. What is on the old sign?

A. the words “THE HORSE AND CART”

B. A picture of a horse and a cart

C. A picture of an inn

D. A picture and the words “THE HORSE AND CART”.

( )6. How many ANDS did the painter write on the new sign?

A. Only one B. Four C. Five D. Two

( )7. The words on the new sign were like this_____.

A. THE HORSE AND CART

B. THE HORSE AND CART

C. THE HORSE AND CART

D. THE HORSE AND CART

( )8. Which of the following is right?

A. There was a horse and a cart outside the inn.

B. The owner wanted to made a new sign himself.

C. The painter drew the picture of a horse and cart.

D. The painter only wrote “THE HORSE AND CART” on the sign.

C

Mr White works in an office. One day, when he was having lunch, a friend came to visit him. They were happy and talked a lot. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was time to go to office. He had to say good-bye to his friend and left. It was raining hard and the streets were wet. He drove too fast to see the red lights. And he couldn’t stop his car and hit a car in front of his. An old man got off and called out angrily, “What are you doing? Do you want to hit me to death?”“I’m sorry, sir,” said Mr White. “Please drink a little, then you’ll be warm.”The old man drank some wine and became happy. He asked, “I’m feeling much better now. Why don’t you drink any?”“I can’t drink anything now, sir,” answered Mr. White. “I’m waiting for the policeman’s coming. Only drunkards(醉鬼) cause accidents, you know!”

( )9. Mr. White drove too fast because_____.

A.he was happy that day

B.he was good at drinking

C.there were few cars in the street

D.he was afraid to be late

( )10. Mr. White hit the car because_____

A. he didn’t see it

B. it was raining hard

C. he couldn’t stop his car

D. he couldn’t drive at all

( )11. Mr White gave a bottle of wine to the old man_____.

A. to shift the blame onto(委过于) him

B. to make him happy

C. to make him warm

D. to leave there before the policeman came

( )12. At last, _____.

A. the old man felt much better

B. the old man was friendly to Mr. White

C. Mr. White drank some too

D. Mr. White fooled(愚弄) the old man