One day, I happened to talk to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from Chicago, he told me that one of his friends lived there and he wondered if I happened to know him. At first I wanted say that it was foolish to think that, out of all the millions of people in Chicago, I could possibly meet his friend. But instead, I just smiled and said that Chicago was a very big city. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me all about his friend.
He told me that his friend was an excellent tennis player, and that he even had his own tennis court. He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, but he only knew two people in the country who had their own tennis courts. And his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several people like that, for example, my brother and my next door neigbour. I told him that my brother was a doctor and he lived in California. Then he asked where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that last year his friend spent the summer in Sacramento and lived next door to a doctor. The doctor had a tennis court. I said that my next door neighbour went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother’s for a moment. We looked at each other, but we did not say anything.
‘Would your friend’s name happen to be Bill White?’ I asked finally. He laughed and said, ‘Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr. Henry Wood?’ It was my turn to laugh.

III. Choose the best answer.
( ) 1. Which of the following is true?
A. The writer lived in Sacramento.
B. The writer’s brother and the stranger’s friend lived in Chicago.
C. Neither the writer nor his neighbour lived in California.
D. The stranger lived next door to the writer’s brother.
( ) 2. How many people does the story involve?
A. Four. B. Five. C. Six. D. Seven.
( ) 3. How many people asked the writer if he happened to know his friend, ___.
A. the writer thought it was a clever question
B. the writer thought it impossible for him to happen to know his friend
C. he was just making a joke
D. the writer began to think about whether he knew the stranger’s friend
( ) 4. Which of the following titles is the best one of the story?
A. On A Bus. B. A Stranger. C. One in a Million D. A Famous Man.
( ) 5. The two people that the stranger knew had tennis courts are ___.
A. Bill White and a famous person B. Dr. Henry Wood and Bill White
C. Bill White and himself D. Dr. Henry Wood and himself

Passage 9: 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. B

（D）
A little boy comes to a new town. His name is Peter Picket. Of course he lives with his parents. His family is very rich. They have a gardener（园丁）, a cook （ 厨师）and a lot of other servants（佣人）.
Peter is going to a new school. On the first day his mother says to him, “Peter, be modest （谦虚）at your new school. Don’t say we are rich.” And peter says, “yes, Mummy.”
So Peter goes to school. He meets his new teacher. And he sits down with the other children. The teacher says, “Good morning , children. The first exercise today is a composition. The title（题目） is ‘My name ’.” So all the children write their compositions（作文）. This is Peter’s composition: “ My name is Peter Picket . My family is very poor. My father is very poor. My mother is also very poor. So are the gardener, the cook and all the other servants.”
( ) 1. Peter lives with his_______.
A. mother B. father C. teacher D. mother and father
( ) 2. There are ____ family members in Peter’s family.
A. five B. three C. ten D. twenty
( ) 3. Peter’s mother doesn’t want peter to tell others about their ______ family.
A. rich B. big C. poor D. new
( ) 4. The first exercise on the first day is a ____.
A. picture B. game C. composition D. test
( ) 5. In fact(事实上), Peter has a _______ family.
A. new B. poor C. rich D. bad.