A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s disappointment,she said she would go. This   16   be the first time that his classmates and teacher   17   his mother and he felt ashamed of her   18  . Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(疤痕)that   19  nearly the right side of her face. The boy never wanted to   20  why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, but the little boy was still  21 and hid himself from everyone,  22   a conversation between his mother and the teacher.
The teacher asked   23 ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother answered,“When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was   24  afraid to go in because the fire was   25   ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but   26  , a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She touched（摸著） the   27  side of her face. “This scar will be  28 ,but to this day, I have never regretted what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her mother in his arms and   29   a great sense of the sacrifice(犧牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the   30  of the day.

A judge was working in his room one day when a neighbour ran in and said, “If one man's cow kills another's, is the owner of the first cow responsible?”
“It depends,” answered the judge.
“Well,” said the man, your cow has killed mine.
“Oh,” answered the judge. “Everyone knows that a cow cannot think like a man, so a cow is not responsible, and that means that its owner is not responsible either.”
“I am sorry, Judge,” said the man. “I made a mistake. I meant that my cow killed yours.”
The judge thought for a few seconds and then said,“ When I think about it more carefully, this case is not as easy as I thought at first. ”And then he turned to his clerk and said, “Please bring me that big black book from the shelf behind you.”
【小題1】The neighbour asked the judge_______.

A thief entered the bedroom of the 30^th President of the United States, who met him and helped him escape punishment.
The event happened in the early morning hours on one of the first days when Calvin Coolidge came into power, late in August,1923. He and his family were living in the same third-floor suite (套房) at the Willard Hotel in Washington that they had moved in several years before. The former President’s wife was still living in the White House.
Coolidge woke up to see a stranger go through his clothes, remove a wallet and a watch chain.
Coolidge spoke, “I wish you wouldn’t take that.”
The thief, gaining his voice, said, “Why?”
“I don’t mean the watch and chain, only the charm (表墜). Take it near the window and read the words on its back, ” the president said.
The thief read, “Presented to Calvin Coolidge.”
“Are you President Coolidge?” he asked.
The president answered, “ Yes, and the House of Representatives（眾議院）gave me the watch charm. I’m fond of it. It would do you no good. You want money. Let’s talk this over.”
Holding up the wallet, the young man said in a low voice, “I’ll take this and leave everything else.”
Coolidge, knowing there was 80 dollars in it, asked the young man to sit down and talk. He told the President he and his college roommate had overspent during their holiday and did not have enough money to pay their hotel bill.
Coolidge added up the roommate two rail tickets back to the college. Then he counted out 32 dollars and said it was a loan (借款).
He then told the young man, “There is a guard in the corridor(走廊).” The young man nodded and left through the same window as he had entered.
【小題1】What caused the thief to meet the President?

A nurse took a tired soldier to an old man , “Your son is here ,” she told the old man. The old man could hardly  1 the young soldier clearly. He reached out his 2 .The soldier held the old man’s hand. The nurse brought a chair so that he could sit  3 the bed. All through the night, the young soldier sat there   4  the old man’s hand. Now and then he heard him say a few words. The dying man said 5 . He only held his son’s hand tightly all through the night.

The next morning, the old man died. The soldier freed his hand and went to  6  the nurse .While the nurse did  7 she had to do, he waited. Then he asked her, “Who was that man?”

The nurse was  8“Wasn’t he your father?” she said.

“No, he wasn’t”, the soldier answered.” I 9 saw him before.”

“Then  10 didn’t you say anything when I took you to  11 ?”

“I knew right away there had been a  12 , and I also knew he needed his son ,_13  his son just wasn’t here. When I found that he was too  14 to tell whether or not I was his son, I knew  15 he needed me, I stayed.

1.                A．see            B．look           C．saw  D．seeing

2.                A．head           B．foot            C．hand D．hair

3.                A．besides         B．beside          C．under    D．on

4.                A．held           B．holds           C．holding   D．was holding

5.                A．everything      B．nothing         C．a(chǎn)nything  D．something

6.                A．cry            B．speak          C．tell  D．say

7.                A．how           B．who           C．what D．when

8.                A．surprising       B．surprised       C．surprise  D．surprises

9.                A．sometimes      B．usually         C．a(chǎn)lways    D．never

10.               A．where         B．why           C．which D．who

11.               A．him           B．he            C．his   D．her

12.               A．bed           B．chair           C．mistake   D．hand

13.               A．a(chǎn)nd           B．or             C．but   D．then

14.               A．sick           B．healthy         C．strong D．nice

15.               A．how many      B．how long       C．how much D．how old

A judge was working in his room one day when a neighbour ran in and said, “If one man's cow kills another's, is the owner of the first cow responsible?”

“It depends,” answered the judge.

“Well,” said the man, your cow has killed mine.

“Oh,” answered the judge. “Everyone knows that a cow cannot think like a man, so a cow is not responsible, and that means that its owner is not responsible either.”

“I am sorry, Judge,” said the man. “I made a mistake. I meant that my cow killed yours.”

The judge thought for a few seconds and then said,“ When I think about it more carefully, this case is not as easy as I thought at first. ”And then he turned to his clerk and said, “Please bring me that big black book from the shelf behind you.”

1.The neighbour asked the judge_______.

A．whether the first cow was responsible

B．whether the owner of the first cow was responsible

C．whether both cows were responsible

D．whether both the owners were responsible

2.When the neighbour reported that the judge's cow had killed his, the judge answered that______.

A．a(chǎn) cow was responsible

B．its owner was not responsible

C．neither a cow nor its owner was responsible

D．his cow was responsible

3.When the neighbour heard this, he told the judge that_______.

A．there was nothing happened

B．his cow had been killed

C．it was his cow that had killed the judge's

D．both cows had been killed

4.When the judge heard that his cow had died, he________.

A．got angry

B．said nothing

C．put his neighbor into prison

D．changed what he had said at first

5.In this story the judge was______.

A．a(chǎn) clever judge      B．a(chǎn) humorist         C．unfair            D．foolish