one while shelooked for something 6 . On her second day behind the counter, she received a( an)7from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He8 a baseball glove for the little League. She 9that as a single mother, money was 10 , and her first check would have to go for paying11.
When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Partircia, the store manager asked her to come to her small office and handed her a box. “I overheard you 12 to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is 13 to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie. I know you have to pay bills 14 you can buy gloves. You know we can’t 15good people like you as 16 as we would like to; but we do 17 and I want you to know how18 you are to us.”
The thoughtfulness, empathy (同情) and love of the store manager show vividly that people 19 more how much a( n) 20 cares than how much he pays.
1. A. topics
B. problems
C. difficulties D. lessons
D. improving
2. A. employing B. praising C. keeping
3. A. soon B. long C. strong D. calm 4. A. position B. decision C. question
D. advice
5. A. take B. change C. lose D. consider 6. A. lighter
B. easier
C. better D. higher
7. A. letter B. call C. answer D. email 8. A. bought B. kept C. needed
D. offered
9. A. complained B. explained C. understood D. admitted 10. A. short B. enough C. spare D. tight 11. A. food B. education C. clothes D. bills 12. A. talking B. crying C. arguing D. scolding 13. A. easy B. hard C. simple D. nice 14. A. after B. until C. when D. before 15. A. value 16. A. much
B. remain C. pay D. fire B. many
C. pleasant
D. possible
17. A. regret B. agree C. worry 18. A. excellent
D. care
B. important C. thankful D. thoughtful
19. A. remember B. refuse C. thank D. realize 20. A. mother B. clerk C. official D. manager 七 阅读理解：(每题2分)
The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2
September 1666 ．In four
days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city , where most
of the houses were
wooden and close together ．Over one hundred people became homeless , but only a
fewlost their lives .The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker（面包师）in Pudding Lane ．The baker , with his wife and family , was able to get out through a window into the roof ．A strong
wind blew the fire from the bakery（面包房）into a small hotel next door ．Then it spread quickly into Thames Street ．That was the beginning.
By eight o’ clock three hundred houses were on fire ．On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames ．Tuesday was the worst day ．The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall among them . Samuel Pepys , the famous writer , writer about the fire , “People threw their things into the river ．Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment ．Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”
The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire．With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.
After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone．In fact, the streets are still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, among them the mew St Paul’s
The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past. 1．The fire began in .
A．a hotel B．the palace C．Pudding Lane
D．Thames Street
2．The underlined word‘family’in the second paragraph means .
A．home B．children C．wife and husband D．wife and children
3．It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that .
A．some people lost their lives
B．the birds in the sky were killed by the fire C．many famous buildings were destroyed D．the King’s bakery was burned down 4．Why did the writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?
A．Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire. B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire. C．To show that poor people suffered most. D．To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.
5．Which of the following were reasons for the rapid spread of the big fire?
(a) There was a strong wind. (b) The streets were very narrow．
(c) Many houses were made of wood. (d) There was not enough water in the city.
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