A
We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe （欧洲） did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.
There is a story about an English sailor （水手） who went to countries in the east，the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”。 When her friends came to the “tea party”， the old woman offered （给） them brown tea-leaves （茶叶）。 The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.
At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, “Mother, what have you done with the tea?”
“I boiled （煮） it，as you said.”
“And what did you do with the water?”
“I threw it away, of course.” answered the old woman.
“Now you may throw away the leaves, too.” said her son.
（ ） 1. Most of the people in Europe ________.
A. drank tea every day 300 years ago B. drink tea every day
C. know nothing about tea D. like to eat the tea-leaves
（ ） 2. One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ________.
A. countries in the west B. countries in the south
C. India or China D. a tea shop in England
（ ） 3. The sailor’s mother asked her friends to her house, because ________.
A. the sailor told her to
B. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea
C. she liked to show off （炫耀）
D. she wanted to sample （品尝） the tea together with her friends
（ ） 4. At the “tea party”，________.
A. all the woman’s friends spoke highly of the tea
B. nobody knew what to do with the tea
C. the woman offered her friends some dried （干的） tea
D. the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water
（ ） 5. What mistake did the old woman make? She ________.
A. boiled the tea B. did as the sailor said
C. poured away the water D. didn't throw away the tea-leaves
B
Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal（偷） the bell on his neighbour’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of（抓住） the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbour, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbour came running out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson（教训），”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbour found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?” he wondered（感到疑惑）。
（ ）1. The thief was trying to get _________________ .
A. his neighbour B. his neighbour’s doorbell
C. some cotton D. a door with a bell on it
（ ）2. The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be _________________for him to steal the doorbell.
A. safe B. difficult C.dangerous D. easy
（ ）3. The neighbour ran out probably（很可能） because__________________.
A. he knew his doorbell was being stolen
B. he thought someone was eager（渴望的）to visit him
C. He realized（意识到）something strange happened
D. Both B and C
（ ）4. The neighbour hit the thief to_____________________.
A. give him lessons B. punish （惩罚） him for stealing
C. help him with the bell D. be his teacher
（ ）5. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The thief understood why he was hit on the nose.
B. The thief knew why the neighbour came out.
C .The thief thought the neighbour could not hear the bell.
D. The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbour ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell.
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