I wished it （） but it did.

We can come to the ______ that the more we practice，the more skillful we will be.

A. tradition

B. generation

C. conclusion

D. fact

ats in it. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or woman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.

The Government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn't kill many. The Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They killed thousands of rats everyday. A Government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.

After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the Government office. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the Government didn't pay any more money.

1)、Newton is a place which ______.

A.used to be very clean

B.is no longer a city

C.is very clean

D.will be very clean

2)、When the Government first ordered the people to kill rats, the people ______.

A.asked for some money for each dead rat

B.stole dead rats from the pile

C.were too lazy to kill many rats

D.killed nearly all the rats quickly

3)、The people killed rats ______.

A.to get money from the Government

B.to help the Government make the city clean

C.to make the Government officer happy

D.to protect(保护)their cats and dogs

4)、A deep hole was dug so that ______.

A.the rats couldn't come out to attack people at night

B.people could take rats from it easily

C.people would kill more rats

D.nobody could take any rats from the pile

5)、What is the best topic for this passage?

A.How to Kill Rats

B.Newton一A City of Rats

C.How Newton Became a Very Clean Place

D.How Newton Became a Famous City

u able to read the note easily? Some doctors write clearly but most doctors do not. Chemists have more chances to read doctors' notes but sometimes doctors write so badly that even the chemist can't read them.

One day a lady wrote to a doctor inviting him to have dinner at her house. The doctor wrote an answer, but he didn't write clearly and the lady could not read it.

"What shall I do?" she said to her husband, "I don't know whether he is coming or not. I don't want to give him a telephone call and say that I can't read his writing." Her husband thought a moment, then he had an idea. "Thank you" said his wife. "That's a very good idea."

She went to the drugstore and gave the doctor's note to the chemist. The chemist looked at it very carefully. Then he said politely, "Could you wait a moment, madam?" He went to the back of the drugstore. After a few minutes he returned, carrying a large bottle. He gave the bottle to the lady and said, "Three times a day and one spoonful at a time."

1)、A chemist is a person who sells medicine.

A.T

B.F

2)、The lady wrote the doctor a letter because she wanted to invite him to dinner.

A.T

B.F

3)、The husband thought the letter was for the chemist.

A.T

B.F

4)、After reading the story, we know the chemist could read the doctor's note.

A.T

B.F

5)、The author thinks that some doctors write notes clearly.

A.T

B.F

but one day he went into town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people put glasses on before reading their newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop to buy himself some glasses too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.

The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, "No, I can't read with these."

The man became more and more puzzled(迷惑不解), until finally he said, "Excuse me, but can you read at all?"

"No, of course I can't!" Tom said angrily. "If I was already able to read, do you think I would have come here to buy glasses?"

1)、Mr Forester lived ______.

A.with his family in a city

B.with his family in the countryside

C.alone in a city

D.alone in the countryside

2)、Tom ______ went into town.

A.often

B.always

C.almost never

D.everyday

3)、The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers ______.

A.with glasses on

B.with glasses off

C.with glasses of beer in front of them

D.with glass pipes in their mouths

4)、The shop Tom went into sold ______.

A.drinking glasses and cups

B.glass for windows and doors

C.glasses for people who could not read

D.glasses for people who could not see well

5)、What kind of mistake did Tom make?

A.He went to the wrong kind of shop.

B.He didn't try on all the glasses in the shop.

C.He thought that a person who had not learned to read would be able to do so if he wore glasses.

D.He left his money in the restaurant.

dles for injection, you nameit. But few people think of the wonder a needle works in the hands of those who practice acupuncture.

During the past ten years of so, I have been suffering from a terrible headache. It seems to be getting from bad to worsethese days. Last night I got a sudden pain in my head. It was so terrible that I could hardly bear it. Although I swallowed all kinds of pain-killers, I didn't feel any better. It seemed that there was nothing I could do but phone for a doctor.

One of our neighbors happened to be with us. He was not a doctor, but he timidly offered his help, saying "Do you mind if I tried acupuncture on you? These needles may possibly do you some good."I agreed. In a moment, he had taken out a few needles from his purse. Without a moment's delay, he fixed a few needles into the skin on my head here and there. Before long, I felt thoroughly relieved.

Just then, the doctor sped through my house and said,"Where is our patient?"

"Sorry, Doctor, You are too late. It's killed!" I answered in delight.

It's a miracle, isn't it?

1)、The word ''name'' in the first paragraph means to give a name to the needles.

A.T

B.F

2)、The underlined phrase “from bad to worse”in the second paragraph refers to the state of the man's health.

A.T

B.F

3)、According to the passage，soon after the acupuncture, the man was completely recovered.

A.T

B.F

4)、"You are too late. It's killed." means that the pain was killed because the doctor came late.

A.T

B.F

5)、The passage tells us that the effect of acupuncture on the patient was unbelievable.

A.T

B.F

e doctor," said his wife. "No, "he said. "I'll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I'll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I'll have to pay him."

On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.

"You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it," said the doctor.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. "Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night," he said.

"Thank you," said the bookseller. "And now, sir, here are your books."

"How much?" said the doctor.

"Two pounds."

"Good," said the doctor. "I shall not have to pay you anything."

"Why?" asked the bookseller.

"I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn't I?"

1)、What happened to the bookseller one day?

A.He lost a box of books.

B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.

C.He lent the doctor a box of books.

D.He sold out all his books.

2)、The bookseller's wife asked him ______.

A.to go out for some medicine

B.to send somebody for a doctor

C.to go to see the doctor

D.to wait for the doctor to come

3)、The bookseller didn't take his wife's advice because ______.

A.he was afraid of the doctor

B.he didn't like to take medicine

C.he couldn't walk by himself

D.he didn't want to pay the doctor

4)、The doctor paid ______ for the books.

A.one pound

B.two pounds

C.nothing

D.something

5)、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.

A.more

B.less

C.the same amount of

D.no