[填空题]John lived with his mother in a rather big house, and when she died, the house became too big for him so he bought a smaller one in the (11) street. There was a very nice old clock in his first house, and when the men came to take his furniture to the new house, John thought, "I’m not going to let them carry my beautiful old clock in their (12) . Maybe they’ll break it, and then mending it will be very (13) . So he picked it up and began to carry it down the road under his arms. It was heavy, so he stopped two or three times to have a rest. Then (14) a small boy came along the road. He stopped and looked at John for a few seconds. Then he said to John, "You’re a stupid man, aren’t you Why don’t you buy a (15) like everybody else/

[填空题]John lived with his mother in a rather big house, and when she died, the house became too big for him so he bought a smaller one in the (11) street. There was a very nice old clock in his first house, and when the men came to take his furniture to the new house, John thought, "I’m not going to let them carry my beautiful old clock in their (12) . Maybe they’ll break it, and then mending it will be very (13) . So he picked it up and began to carry it down the road under his arms. It was heavy, so he stopped two or three times to have a rest. Then (14) a small boy came along the road. He stopped and looked at John for a few seconds. Then he said to John, "You’re a stupid man, aren’t you Why don’t you buy a (15) like everybody else/

[单项选择]He prefers to live with his mother rather than __________ her alone.
A. to leave
B. leaving
C. leave
D. leaves

[填空题]Siginund Freud lived most of his life in Vienna, ______, but he ended his days in ______.

[填空题]Sigmund Freud lived most of his life in Vienna, ______ , but he ended his days in ______.

[单项选择]______ he lived most of his adult life in France, James Joyce’s fiction was always set in Ireland.
A. Because
B. Despite
C. Since
D. Although

[单项选择]He（）losing his house when his company went bankrupt.
A. endangered
B. chanced
C. threatened
D. risked

[填空题] Little House in the Big Woods
In the Big Woods the snow was beginning to thaw. Bits of it dropped from the branches of the trees and made little holes in the softening snowbanks below. At noon all the big icicles (冰柱) along the eaves of the little house quivered and sparkled in the sunshine, and drops of water hung trembling at their tips.
Pa said he must go to town to trade the furs of the wild animals he had been trapping all winter. So one evening he made a big bundle of them. There were so many furs that when they were packed tightly and tied together they made a bundle almost as big as Pa.
The setting-out morning
Very early one morning Pa strapped (用皮绳捆住) the bundle of furs on his shoulders, and started to walk to town. There were so many furs to carry that he could not take his gun.
Ma was worried, but Pa said that by starting before sun-up and walking very fast all day he could get home before