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Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town. I wanted to have a rest before catching the rain. I __1__ a newspaper and some chocolate and __2__ into the station coffee shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to __3__ at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, __4__ the newspaper and the chocolate on the table and then went to get a cup of coffee.
When I came back with the coffee, There was someone __5__ in the next seat. __6__ was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and __7__ bright red at the front. He had started to eat my chocolate!
Naturally, I was rather uneasy about him, but I didn’t want to have any __8__. I just read the newspaper, tasted my coffee and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me in __9__.Then he took a __10__ piece of my chocolate. I could hardly believe it. Still I didn’t say anything to him. When he took a third piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, “Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I got it.
The boy gave me a strange look, then __11__ up. As he left, he shouted out, “There’s something __12__ with that woman!” Everyone looked at me, __13__ I didn’ t want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept quiet. I did not realize that I had __14__ a mistake until I finished my coffee and was ready to __15__. My face turned red when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was the boy’s!
名师点评
这是“我”外出购物时的一次尴尬的经历，故事贴近生活，生动有趣，读这样的文章有助于我们在今后的生活中避免出现类似的错误。
(B)1. A. stole
B. bought
C. sold
D. wrote
【解析】B。为了消磨时间，“我”买了报纸和巧克力，故选bought。
()2. A. went
B. sat
C. seated
D. looked【解析】A。由文章推理出，“我”走进了一家咖啡店，故应选went。
()3. A. sit
B. seat
C. lie
D. laugh
【解析】A。 to sit at 是作为tables的后置定语，意为“可以在旁边就坐的桌子” 。
()4. A. pushed
B. took
C. put
D. pulled
【解析】C。按常理“我”应把报纸等放在桌子上，而不是推到或拉到桌子上故应选 put。
()5. A. jumping
B. playing
C. sitting
D. sleeping
【解析】C。由下文可知，回来时“我”发现他开始吃“我”的东西，说明他坐在桌旁，故选 sitting。
()6. A. He
B. It
C. Who
D. What
【解析】A。由下文可知，对方是一个男子，故用he指代。
()7. A. cut
B. washed
C. covered
D. colored
【解析】D。头发应是被染成红色的，故应选colored。
()8. A. coffee
B. trouble
C. chocolate
D. matter
【解析】B。面对这样一个男子，“我”不想惹麻烦，trouble合乎文意为正确选项。
()9. A. carelessness
B. anger
C. surprise
D. happiness
【解析】C。由下文可知，“我”吃的是这个男子的巧克力，这引起了对方的某一反应，比较四个选项，再根据上文，用名词surprise比较合乎当时的情形。
()10. A. first
B. second
C. very
D. last
【解析】B。习惯用语“a second + 名词”，常用来表示“再一个，又一个”
()11. A. stood
B. took
C. cried
D. looked
【解析】A。根据文意可知那个男孩起身要走，故选择stood。
()12. A. strange
B. wrong
C. OK
D. funny
【解析】B。男孩生气了，必定说了发泄的话，比较四个选项wrong为最佳选择。
()13. A. and
B. but
C. so
D. while
【解析】B。男孩骂了“我”导致大家都朝“我”看，而“我”不想与他争吵，可见“我”的反应与上文描述的气氛恰恰相反，故选择but构成转折关系。
()14. A. spelt
B. corrected
C. made
D. found
【解析】C。固定搭配make a mistake意为“犯了个错误”。
()15. A. finish
B. leave
C. jump
D. shop
【解析】B。“我” 在喝完咖啡准备离开时发现了自己的过错，故应选leave。
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Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make –believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.
Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.
Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!
名师点评
本文讲述了父母已离异的罗莎喜欢编谎言骗人，从中获得乐趣。暑假过后其他同学都在谈假期中的家庭旅游时，罗莎只得自欺欺人，骗大家说她与爸爸去了英国。结果上课时，老师让她谈英国的情况时，她无话可说了。
(C)1. A. afraid
B. worried C. sure
D. happy
【解析】C。罗莎的谎言经常让同学们信以为真，说明她骗人时自信心强，把握大。故选择sure.。
()2. A. joke
B. fun
C. turn
D. game
【解析】B。与下文罗莎自欺欺人相对应，一开始她认为骗人是件快乐的事，故选择fun。
()3. A. talk
B. teach
C. show
D. travel
【解析】A。根据文意，经过这件事后她意识到骗人其实就是骗自己，这种意识在平时与大伙交谈时更为强烈，故选talk。
()4. A. passed
B. arrived
C. lasted
D. changed
【解析】B。夏天到时，罗莎就会到爸爸农场去度假，故选arrive。
()5. A. made
B. played
C. helped
D. did
【解析】C。help with sth. 意为“帮助干些事情”。
()6. A. weak
B. pleased C. busy
D. lonely
【解析】C。爸爸没时间陪她去其它地方游玩，说明爸爸很忙，故选busy。
()7. A. show
B. visit
C. meet
D. send
【解析】C。这里meet表示爸爸去机场接她。
()8. A. farm
B. city
C. family
D. school
【解析】B。在农场度假结束后，罗莎应返回城里，故选city.
()9. A. wrote
B. called
C. moved
D. returned
【解析】D。根据文意暑假结束了，罗莎要返回到妈妈身边。故选 returned.
()10. A. family
B. school
C. teacher
D. farm
【解析】A。与上文相对应，她的朋友都在谈假期与家人的旅游，罗莎因此希望拥有一个完整的家庭。
()11. A. meeting
B. school
C. summer
D. talk
【解析】B。假期结束了，新学期又开始了，且下文讲到了学校里的事情，故选school。
()12. A. people
B. cities
C. languages
D. places
【解析】D。下文的例子既不是城市也不是人或语言而是两个国家，只有选places。
()13. A interesting
B. true
C. long
D. same
【解析】B。别人问起她夏天的旅游情况时，她只有编织一些不真实的事情骗大家，故选true。
()14. A. England
B. Germany C. farm
D. home
【解析】A。下文老师让她讲在英国旅行的情况，说明她骗大家去了英国，故选England。
()15. A. think
B. see
C. remember
D. read
【解析】C。老师让罗莎对过去的事情进行回忆并讲述，故选remember。