高中英语人教版（新课程标准）2017-2018学年高一下册必修三Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note单元检测试卷

    Years ago, I was on a long flight, during which a voice from the speaker said, “We won't1drinks or the meal because we are facing a storm ahead. Please make your seat belts fastened. ”Many passengers became 2talking about it with each other. At once it became 3in the plane.

    Soon, lightening 4the darkening skies, and within moments the 5was like a boat on waves in the storm. One moment it was 6up by the storm；the next,it was thrown as if it were to 7onto the ground. All the passengers were 8Some cried. Some prayed (祈祷). The 9seemed hopeless. I wondered if we could 10it through the storm.

    Then I noticed the little girl next to me. Surprisingly, the storm seemed to mean 11to her. She was 12looking through a picture book. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would 13again, but she never showed a(n)14 of worry or fear. The little girl wasn't afraid at all 15all the adults were scared to death. Finding me watching her,the girl smiled at me and said,“Don't worry. My father is the pilot. He is taking me home. Take it easy. He will take us home safely.”

    When the plane was out of 16I smiled at the girl and she gave me a big smile in 17“I said my father would take us home safely.”

    Many kinds of storms may 18us: diseases, difficulties... They can easily darken our skies and 19our planes into hard times. Let us 20Love is the pilot. It will help us out of trouble. So take it easy.

    Mark Twain, the famous American writer and a great master of humor, liked to play jokes on others. But once a joke was played on him. One day Mark Twain was invited to give a talk in a small town. At lunch he met a young man,one of his friends.

    The young man said that he had an uncle with him. He told Mark Twain that his uncle never laughed or smiled, and that nobody and nothing was able to make his uncle smile or laugh.

    “You bring your uncle to my talk this evening,” said Mark Twain. “I'm sure I can make him laugh.”

    That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the front. Mark Twain began to speak. He told several funny stories and made everyone in the room laugh. But the man never even smiled. Mark Twain told more funny stories, but the old man still kept quiet. Mark Twain continued to tell his funny stories. Finally he stopped. He was tired and quite disappointed.

    Some days later, Mark Twain told another friend what had happened. “Oh,” said his friend,“I know that man. He's been deaf for years.”

    Hobbs was an orphan. He worked in a factory and every day he got a little money. Hard work made him thin and weak.  He wanted to borrow a lot of money to learn to paint pictures, but he did not think he could pay off the debts.

    One day a lawyer said to him, “One thousand dollars, and here is the money.” As Hobbs took the package of notes, he was very dumbfounded. He didn't know where the money came from and how to spend it. He said to himself, “I could go to find a hotel and live like a rich man for a few days；or I give up my work in the factory and do what I'd like to do: painting pictures. I could do that for a few weeks, but what would I do after that? I should have lost my place in the factory and have no money to live on. If it were a little less money, I would buy a new coat, or a radio, or give a dinner to my friends. If it were more, I could give up the work and pay for painting pictures. But it's too much for one and too little for the other.”

    “Here is the reading of your uncle's will,” said the lawyer, “telling what is to be done with this money after his death. I must ask you to remember one point. Your uncle has said you must bring me a paper showing exactly what you did with his money, as soon as you have spent it.”

    “Yes I see. I'll do that,” said the young man.