One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to
Mr. Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house. As they got
, Janet saw him sitting in his front yard and
they should cross over to the other side of the street. Janet was
of the strange old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.
Amy said not to
. Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown （皱眉头）.
, when he saw it was Amy, a broad
changed his entire face as he said, “Hello Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little
with you today.”
Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying
and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson said that sounded
, and gave them each a freshly picked
off his tree.
When they
Dawson’s house, Janet asked Amy, “How come he was so
to us?”
Amy
that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very
and she was afraid of him, but she
he was wearing an invisible （看不见的）smile and so she
smiled back at him. After some time, he started smiling real smiles and then started
to her. Now he always
her an apple, and was always very kind.
Smiles are contagious （感染他人的）. If you pretend he is smiling an invisible smile at you and you smile back at him,
he will really smile.
| 【小题1】 | | A．walk by | B．take up | C．go into | D．tear down. |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．far | B．fast | C．inside | D．close |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．announced | B．suggested | C．ordered | D．predicted |
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| 【小题4】 | | A．fond | B．ashamed | C．scared | D．proud |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．cry | B．worry | C．return | D．speak |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．Instead | B．Besides | C．Therefore | D．However |
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| 【小题7】 | | A．accent | B．joke | C．smile | D．idea |
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| 【小题8】 | | A．friend | B．doll | C．gift | D．pet |
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| 【小题9】 | | A．there | B．indoors | C．overnight | D．here |
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| 【小题10】 | | A．great | B．strange | C．simple | D．dull |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．banana | B．orange | C．pear | D．apple |
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| 【小题12】 | | A．entered | B．left | C．visited | D．saw |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．explained | B．thought | C．doubted | D．realized |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．happy | B．famous | C．friendly | D．popular |
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| 【小题16】 | | A．remembered | B．pretended | C．asked | D．agreed |
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| 【小题17】 | | A．ever | B．seldom | C．never | D．always. |
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| 【小题18】 | | A．turning | B．referring | C．talking | D．complaining |
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| 【小题19】 | | A．offered | B．awarded | C．lent | D．bought |
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| 【小题20】 | | A．more or less | B．now and again | C．here and there | D．sooner or later |
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