The village （） my mother grew up in is not far from the city.

The number of the trees around my village is getting _________.

A、larger and larger

B、higher and higher

C、more and more

D、less and less

A.it seemed my journey was still

B.my journey still seemed exciting

C.I still thought my journey exciting

D.my journey was still thought to be exciting

A.what

B.where

C.which

D.wherever

A、got by

B、turned it over

C、hit the sack

D、made it

A.village

B.vital

C.capital

D.visual

As he got out of his car he found a young girl sitting on the road crying. He asked her what was wrong and she answered “I want to buy a red rose for my mother but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”

The man smiled and said “Come into the shop with me and I’ll buy you a rose.”

He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving he wanted to drive the girl home. The girl said “Yes please! You can take me to my mother ” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地)and she placed the rose on the grave.

The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop picked up the flowers he ordered and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house. If today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.

(1)The man went to the shop to ().

A.help the girl

B.order some flowers

C.buy some food

D. buy a rose

(2)The man’s mother lived () away from him.

A.2 kilometres

B.200 kilometres

C.200 miles

D.not far

(3)The girl was crying on the road because ().

A.she was hungry

B.she couldn’t afford a rose

C.she couldn’t find her way home

D. she missed her mother

(4)After the man bought the girl a rose they went to () together.

A.the cemetery

B.the girl’s home.

C.his moth er’s house

D. his own home

(5)From the passage we can infer(推断) that ().

A.the girl loved flowers very much

B.The girl loved her mother very much

C.The shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

D.The man didn’t love his mother

Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable.

Our local grocer’s shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queueing up anonymously at a supermarket. And the proprietor knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.

His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch, hour to take a piece of cheese to an old-age pensioner who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them.

The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce.

Most of the village shopkeepers I know, at any rate, are decidedly individualist in their ways. For exampie, our shoemaker is a formidable figure: a thick-set, irritable man whom children treat with marked respect, knowing that an ill-judged word can provoke an angry eruption at any time. He stares with contempt at the pairs of cheap, mass-produced shoes taken to him for repair: has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he, a craftsman, should have to waste his skills upon such trash？ But we all know he will in fact do excellent work upon them. And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury.

The services available in villages nowadays are

A．fewer but still very active.

B．less successful than earlier but managing to survive.

C．active in providing food and antiques.

D．surprisingly energetic considering the little demand for them.

A.bug

B.moth

C.nut

D.cracker

A.cracker

B.nut

C.bug

D.moth