Mr.  Smith never watched TV.  He thought that people spent too much time watching it.  Some of his friends often talked about sports shows,  the movies and plays. Mr. Smith said to himself,  “They never read any books or go out in the evening. ” So he didn’t buy a TV.

Two years ago,  Mr. Smith was 60 years old.  He stopped working in the hospital.  His son bought him a TV.  He began to watch all the news.  He knows much more about the world now.  And he reads more books,  too.

Now,  Mr. Smith will get very unhappy if you trouble(打擾) him when he is watching TV.  I can’t know that one can change(改變) his idea when he is 60.

1.Mr. Smith didn’t watch TV because ________.

A. he had no time to watch it

B. he thought it took (占用) people much time to watch TV

C. he couldn’t buy the TV set

D. he thought watching TV is bad for people’s eyes

2.Mr. Smith ________ when he worked in the hospital.

A. went to mountains

B. played sports   

C. read books  

D. watched TV

3.Mr Smith didn’t work in the hospital ________.

A. after he was 60

B. before his son bought him a TV

C. when his son asked him not to work

D. after he liked watching the news

4.Mr. Smith is ________ now.

A. 58                   B. 60                   C. 62                   D. 61

5.The black word “unhappy” means ________ in Chinese.

A. 很高興       B. 很和藹               C. 不高興               D. 不理解

Mrs. Black lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. Her son, Jack, lived with her. He worked in a shop in the village, but then he found a job in town named Green Sea. He went to live there. Mrs. Black was very angry. She got on a train and went to see her son. Then she said to him, "Jack, why do you never telephone me?"
Jack laughed, "But, mother, you haven’t got a telephone. "No." She answered, "I haven’t, but you have got one. "
（ ）1. The old Black ______.
A. is dead          B. lives with his wife
C. went to a small village            D. worked in a shop
（ ）2. Jack lived with his mother ______he worked in the village.
A. before        B. when              C. after     D. so
（ ）3. Green Sea is _________.
A. a big city    B. a small village    C. a town    D. a man’s name
（ ）4. Jack didn’t phone his mother because ______.
A. he had no phone                     B. he was very busy
C. his mother had no phone             D. he went home every day
（ ）5. Jack’s mother was very angry because ______.
A. Jack didn’t want to ring her up
B. Jack had a telephone but she hadn’t
C. she didn’t know how to make a telephone
D. she didn’t know she couldn’t be called

In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. I call these things  1 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did  2 the water. Any kind of 3 ride seemed to give him pleasure.  4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being  5 the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong  6 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 7 . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and  8 those summer days with my father, who  9 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the  10 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go  11 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me  12 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his 13 . But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get  14 an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “l(fā)ook at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but  15 , in that childhood, look at us.