妙語短篇C1首字母填詞測試題

1、妙語短篇 C1 首字母填詞測試題1. James had a terrible toothache. It kept him awake all night. His cheek was swollen and it was difficult for him to eat or drink. Anything very hot or cold made the toothache w. If James ate anything sweet the pain was u.James did not want to take time off from work, so he tried to

2、 bear the pain.He took a pain-killer every hour.However, the tooth h so much when he tried to eat his lunch that heknew he had to go to the de dentist.He asked his boss for time o. His boss could see that James was ingreat pain, and told him to take the rest of the day off.The dentist agreed to see

3、James immediately.Open your mouth, 'h'e said, a'nd let 's have a look. ''James opened his mouth.W'hich tooth is giving trouble? ''the dentist asked next.James t the tooth with his finger.The dentist x-rayed the tooth, then he put the x-ray a a bright light.O'h

4、, yes. 'H'e said I c'an see the problem. There is a cavity in the tooth. I m afraid the h is too big to fill. I must take the tooth out. ''That 'sall right 'J'ames said Ju'st stop the pain. ''The dentist gave James an i and quickly pulled out the tooth. He

5、d it into the garbage can.''the dentist asked.Don 't throw it away. 'J'ames said Let me have it please.I 'm going to take it home ,putWhy do you want your old tooth?it in a bowl of hot honey and watch its2. The Gordon family was spending a day on the beach.Mr. and Mrs. Gordon

6、 were sitting on the sand, reading their magazines.Mr.Gordon was too s to rent a chair. Their twelve-year old daughter,Sandra was playing at the water 's e.Suddenly a huge wave l Sandra up and carried her out to sea.Fortunately, a lifeguard was on duty and he saw the wave carry Sandra away.He ra

7、n along the beach and d into the sea. He swam quickly to wherethe girl, with her h only just above the water, was shouting for help.She was very frightened. When the lifeguard reached her she struggled withhim , as d people often do.However, he knew what to do and soon took h of her and swam withher

8、 back to the beach.By the time he reached it, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had realized what had happened. They had run down to the water 's edge.Neither of them could swim. They just stood in the s water, andworried about their daughter. Had the lifeguard reached her in time?Fortunately, he had.“That wa

9、s quick work, young man, Mr. Gordon said. He turned to his wife. “Give the lifeguard a dollar. “A dollar! Sandra cried. “Dad, how can you give him a dollar!He savedmy life. I was half dead. “Quite right, girl, Mr. Gordon said, pleased by his daughter 's a ofthe value of money.He turned to his wi

10、fe again and said,She 's right. She was only half dead.Give him fifty c.3. Kathy was a university student. Like most students she had very little money, but she wanted to buy a car.“If I can buy one really cheap that w, she thought, “I will save moneyon bus f. Then I 'll have more to speed o

11、n food. She spent a day l at cars in the second-hand car yards. Most of themwere m too expensive, but at last she found one for $250.The car was r and the paint was b damaged, but it worked.It 'sgot a good engine, the salesman said, “and the gear box is o.k. Forget everything else.Kathy bought t

12、he car and drove it out of the car yard. Everything was wrongwith it expect for the engine and gear box, which worked very well.“As long as they work, Kathy thought, “nothing else m. Thesalesman was right. Unfortunately, a few days later, while she was driving to her university, a police car drove u

13、p beside her and made her stop. A young policeman got out of his car and walked a Kathy 's car. He looked at it d.He made a list of the things wrong with the car. It was a very long list .Then he looked inside the car.“Does your speedometer work? he asked.Kathy shook her head.“It is against the

14、law, miss, he said, “not to know how fast you are travelling. Kathy smiled at him s.“Oh, but I do know how fast I am travelling,she said. “Up to 30 miles anhour, the doors rattle. Between 31 and 50 miles an hour, the whole car rattles. Over 50 miles an hour, I rattle. 4. When someone who is in good

15、health dies suddenly, there is usually aninquest.An inquest is a kind of court of inquiry. The person in charge of an inquest is called a coroner. His job is to find out exactly how a person died.If there is nothing suspicious about the death ,he will decide that the persondied from n causes or an a

16、ccident. If however, he is s ,he maydecide that the person 's death was caused by a person or persons unknown.At one inquest. the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman, Henry Wang.The man 's widow was giving her e. She was very upset and had

17、tostop from time to time.The coroner did not want to upset her more than necessary, but he had tofind out the truth. There were questions he had to ask her.“Mrs. Wang, I know this is p for you. he said. “but I want you to thinkvery carefully and then answer my questions. You and your husband were ha

18、ving dinner at home. Is that correct? “Suddenly he f to the floor?“You stood up and h to him? You knelt beside him? He was in greatpain? “Yes. “Did he say anything? The widow l her head.“Please, Mrs. Wang, you must answer the question. What were his last w?The widow took a deep breath and then spoke

19、. “He said, she w,“I'm not surprised you were c only 50 cents for that seafood we hadfor dinner. 5. It was a dark and windy night. The wind howled and the rain b down.Harry and his wife were in bed. Although Harry slept t he storm, hiswife woke up. She lay in bed, u to sleep, listening to the no

20、ise of thestorm.Suddenly she heard a different noise. It sounded like someone t onthe window.She was very frightened. She woke her husband up.“Harry, she whispered, there 's someone outside, Listen. “It's nothing, he said, just a b of a tree tapping against thewindow in the wind. Go back to

21、sleep. He turned over and went back to sleep.The tapping continued. It got louder and louder, then the window began to rattle.Harry 's wife woke him up again.“Harry, it isn 't j the wind. There 's somebody there. I know there is.Get up and look. Harry got out of bed and walked across the

22、 room to the window. He pthe curtain a little and looked out. He saw a man standing on a l outsidethe window. He smiled at the man and then went back to bed.“Well? his wife asked, “Was there anyone there? “Yes, Harry said. “There 'sa b trying to get in . “Then do something! his wife cried. “Phon

23、e the police. “Not yet, Harry said. “Wait until he opens the window. I 've been trying toget it open since we had the house p last year. 6.Sarah Williams went to a boarding school .Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school.Wentworth Girl 's SchoolBeachsideJuly 25thD

24、earest Mom and Dad,I'm afraid I have some very bad news for you .I have been very n and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.The trouble started last night when I was smok

25、ing a cigarette in bed. This is against the r, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.As I was smoking, I heard f coming towards the room. I did not want ateacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.Unfortunately, the cigarette f into the waste-paper basket, whichc fire.There

26、was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was b.The principal phoned the fire department. The school was a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in f. Many of the girls are in the hospital.The principal sa

27、ys that the fire was all my f and you must pay ford. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.I'm very sorry about this.Much love.SarahPS. N of the above is true, but I have my exams. I just want you toknow how bad things could have been!7. Ellen Parker was worried about her health.

28、She could not walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs. She was soon out of b.“I suppose I had better go to the doctor, she thought.She went to the doctor and told him her problem.“I 'm not at all surprised.“It'hess_oa_i_d. what your problem is. He e her and then gave h

29、er some advice.“If you don 't do what I say, Mrs. Parker, he said,“then you will have a heart a . It could kill you.Ellen was very worried as she left the d.She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be easy and that it would take time.The next day she went shopping. The firs

30、t shop she went into was a b shop.“I'd like ten pounds of steak, please, she said.“Certainly, madam, the butcher replie d and went into the cold sroom and found a large piece of steak.He brought the huge piece of meat back into the shop and placed it on the s.he said.“That ' s just under ten

31、 pounds,“That ' s big enough, MrsP. arker said.The butcher worked out the price.“At $4.99 a pound that will be $45.50 please. Shall I cut it up into smaller pieces for you? “Oh, I don' t want to buy the meat, Mrs. parker said.why did you as“ If you don ' t want to buy it, the butcher rep

32、lied angrily,me to get it for you? “My doctor told me that I am o and must lose 10 pounds. I wantedto see what 10 pounds of f looked like. 8. “We should do something nice for the old people of our town, the teachersaid to her class one day . “ What could we do? “Can we give them a picnic ? one of th

33、e children asked. “We can send outi and bring cakes and sausages and all kinds of good things to eat. “That's a very good idea, the teache“rWseai'd.ll ask all the oldpeople to ap by the river.The children worked hard g ready for the picnic. Their parents madecakes and pies or gave money, and

34、 the children wrote invitation cards to the old people. Then they took the cards to the old p homes.On the morning of the picnic the sky was blue and the sun was s.The children were all looking f to giving the old people a happy day.Then one of the children said. “Oh! We forgot to invite Mrs. Waller

35、. They did not like Mrs. Waller. She looked like a w.“We must invite her now then, the teacher said. “She will be h andangry if we don ' t ask her. She looked around the class and then pointed at one of the boys.“Tom,take an invitation card to her house. A for being late. Don ' t tell her we

36、forgot her. Tom did not want to go to Mrs. Waller ' s house, but he was a brave boy, and said, “All right, Miss Lee. He went to the old woman ' s hsoeuand knocked on the door, Mrs. Waller opened it. She looked very angry.“Well, she said“w, hat is it ? What do you want? Tom gave her the invit

37、ation card and said,“ I ' m sorry we did not ask youbefore, but plea se come to our picnic. It' s a beautiful day.Mrs. Waller knew that the children thought she was a witch. She guessed that they had forgotten her.“You ' re too late, the woman“sIta'id.s a beautiful day now, but I'

38、;ve alreadya for rain this afterno on. 9. Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world 's greatest wonders “In my opinion, the first man said, “the E pyramids are the world 'sgreatest wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still s. And rememb

39、er: the people who built them had only simplet. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and ehave today. “I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful,the second man said,“but I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. The

40、y have taken people to the moon and brought them back s. In seconds, they carry out mathematicalcalculations in s that would take a person a hundred years to do He t to the third man and asked, “What do you think is the greatestwonder in the world? The third man thought for a long time, and then he

41、said,“Well, I agree thatthe pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is thisAnd he took a thermos out of his bag and h it up The other two men were very surprised. “A thermos? they exclaimed, “But that 's

42、a simple thing “Oh, no, it 's not, the third man said. “In the winter you put in a hot drink andit s hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. Howdoes the thermos know whether it is winter or summer? 10. Wally worked in a shop that sold clocks. One day his next door n,Harry, came into his shop. Harry was very stingy. His s made Wallyvery angry.