浙江省平阳县第三中学高中英语Unit 1 Women of achievement测试题（人教版必修4）5.docVIP

浙江省平阳县第三中学高中英语测试题2 趣味故事阅读 Who changed his life When Charlie died, he left a wife and nine children. They lived in a house with four rooms. John was the oldest boy. He was 16 years old and tall for his age. After his father died, Johns mother told him, he would have to take care of the family. So John went into the cornfield（玉米地） behind the small house. There was very little corn and very many weeds（杂草）. His family needed corn and corn needed room to grow. John bent down（弯腰） and began pulling out the weeds. When John came in for supper that night, he told his mother that he had cleaned half the cornfield. She was surprised and immediately went outside to look at what he had done. While she was looking at the field, she remembered that her husband had sold some corn to Judge Don. She also remembered that they had never collected the money for the corn. She told John to go to the judges house right away （立刻）to get it. John was afraid of Judge Don. The judge was the richest man in town. He owned a lot of land and everyone owed （欠）him money. His stone house looked like a palace（宫殿）. John went to the judges house and knocked on the door. A servant opened it right away and brought John into the judges office. Judge Don was sitting at his desk. He was a very big man with a red face, long white hair and serious blue eyes. Hello, John, said the judge, what do you want? John told the judge about the money he owed to his family. Oh, yes, said the judge, I had forgotten about that. Im sorry. He stood up and reached into his pocket. Slowly he pulled out a large brown leather wallet(皮的钱包). He opened it and took out a new dollar bill and handed it to John. Then he sat down at his desk again. How are you and your family doing? He asked. All right, sir. John said. I wouldnt have bothered you about this money, but we needed it. That is all right, the judge said slowly, I should have remembered it. I didnt think of it. Because your father owed me money. He owed me forty dollars. And