Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make -believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.

Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.

The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.

When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.

Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!

1. A. afraid ?B. worried ?C. sure ?D. happy

2. A. joke B. fun ?C. turn D. game

3. A. talk B. teach C. show D. travel

4. A. passed ?B. arrived C. lasted D. changed

5. A. made ?B. played C. helped D. did

6. A. weak ?B. pleased ?C. busy D. lonely

7. A. show ?B. visit C. meet ?D. send

8. A. farm ?B. city ?C. family D. school

9. A. wrote ?B. called C. moved D. returned

10. A. family B. school ?C. teacher D. farm

11. A. meeting B. school ?C. summer D. talk

12. A. people B. cities C. languages D. places

13. A interesting B. true C. long ?D. same

14. A. England B. Germany ?C. farm D. home

15. A. think ?B. see C. remember D. read

點(diǎn)評(píng)：

本文講述了父母已離異的羅莎喜歡編謊言騙人，從中獲得樂趣。暑假過后其他同學(xué)都在談假期中的家庭旅游時(shí)，羅莎只得自欺欺人，騙大家說她與爸爸去了英國(guó)。結(jié)果上課時(shí)，老師讓她談?dòng)?guó)的情況時(shí)，她無話可說了。

答案簡(jiǎn)析：

1. C.羅莎的謊言經(jīng)常讓同學(xué)們信以為真，說明她騙人時(shí)自信心強(qiáng)，把握大。故選擇sure.。

2. B.與下文羅莎自欺欺人相對(duì)應(yīng)，一開始她認(rèn)為騙人是件快樂的事，故選擇fun.

3. A.根據(jù)文意，經(jīng)過這件事后她意識(shí)到騙人其實(shí)就是騙自己，這種意識(shí)在平時(shí)與大伙交談時(shí)更為強(qiáng)烈，故選talk.

4. B.夏天到時(shí)，羅莎就會(huì)到爸爸農(nóng)場(chǎng)去度假，故選arrive.

5. with sth. 意為“幫助干些事情”。

6. C.爸爸沒時(shí)間陪她去其它地方游玩，說明爸爸很忙，故選busy.

7. C.這里meet表示爸爸去機(jī)場(chǎng)接她。

8. B.在農(nóng)場(chǎng)度假結(jié)束后，羅莎應(yīng)返回城里，故選city.

9. D.根據(jù)文意暑假結(jié)束了，羅莎要返回到媽媽身邊。故選 returned.

10. A.與上文相對(duì)應(yīng)，她的朋友都在談假期與家人的旅游，羅莎因此希望擁有一個(gè)完整的家庭。

11. B.假期結(jié)束了，新學(xué)期又開始了，且下文講到了學(xué)校里的事情，故選school。

12. D.下文的例子既不是城市也不是人或語言而是兩個(gè)國(guó)家，只有選places.

13. B.別人問起她夏天的旅游情況時(shí)，她只有編織一些不真實(shí)的事情騙大家，故選true。

14. A.下文老師讓她講在英國(guó)旅行的情況，說明她騙大家去了英國(guó)，故選England.

15. C.老師讓羅莎對(duì)過去的事情進(jìn)行回憶并講述，故選remember。