adv.获胜地；得意洋洋地
exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（t）、误（f）：
1 the man wanted to alter the shoes he bought .
2 the clerk asked the man for the sales receipt .
3 it was the store's policy that free alterations without a
receipt
4 allowed but a return without a receipt was alright.
5 the clerk was angry with what the man required.
6 the man got his slacks altered.
根据短文判断下列句子正（t）、误（f）：
40.花招
一位男子把一条宽松裤递给百货商店职员。“我想换一条。”他说。
店员向他要售货收据。这位男子翻遍了他的口袋，最后只得说收据丢了。
店员告诉他说没有收据不准随意更换，这是商店的规章。
“那好吧，”这位男子说，“我要把这条裤子退掉。”店员按程序
办理了退货手续并把等于裤子价格的现金给了他。
这位男子把钱从柜台上推回去。“现在我还要这条裤子，”他说。
店员用收银机收下了钱，把那条裤子装进包里，并把它们连同收据递给
了他。
这男子终于以胜利者的姿态把裤子和收据放在柜台上，说：“我要
把这条裤子换了。”
41. you lot me search quite
once upon a time, there was a man who always forgot things.
one day, he went out with his little son. he was so happy that he
put the son ride his neck.
after a time, he suddenly thought of his son, he asked people:
"have you seen my child?"
one of his villages laughed and said: "don't you know he is
on your neck?"
hearing this, the man took down his son from his neck, he was
so angry that he hit the son on the face, then shouted: "i have
told you not to go here and there. where did you go just now?"
notes:
(1) think of 想起
(2) hearing this 听到这话。这是个分词短语，相当于一个表示时
间的状语从句，即：when he heard this.
exercises:
根据短文填空：
1 once ______ a time, there was a man who always forgot things.
2 he was so happy that he put the son ______ his neck.
3 after _______ time, he suddenly thought of his son.
4 _______ this, the man took down his son from his neck.
5 he was so angry that he hit the son _______ the face .
41.叫我好找
古时，有个人记性极差。一天，他带着小儿子出去玩。一高兴，便
把小儿子举起来，让他骑在自己的脖子上。
过了一会儿，他忽然想起儿子来，逢人便问：“你看到我孩子了吗？”
“哎，你脖子上的那个不是吗？”有个邻居见了大笑。
这个人一把将小儿子从脖子上揪下来，狠狠地打了一耳光，骂道：
“混蛋，叫你别乱跑，刚才你到哪里去了？”
42. the long and short of it
although i had never met him, i knew that my grandfather had
been five feet, six inches tall, while my stately grandmother stood
five feet, eleven inches. as a teen-ager leafing through old
photographs with grandma, i finally realized how unusual they must
have looked together .
"grandma, " i asked, "how could you have fallen in love with
a man five inches shorter than you?"
she turned to me. "honey," she said, "we fell in love sitting
down, and when i stood up, it was too late."
notes:
(1) stately adj.高贵的
(2) leaf through 迅速翻阅；浏览
(3) teen-ager.十几岁的人
(4) fall in love with 爱上；坠入爱河
exercises:
根据短文选择正确答案：
1 the child had never met______ .
a. the grandfather
b. the grandmother
c. the father
d. the mother
2 the grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.
a. five feet
b. six inches
c. four inches
d. five inches
3 "leafing through" in "leafing through old photographs"
means______ .
a. to turn page by page
b. to put leaves in an album
c. to took for
d. to take out from
4 the child realized________ .
a. how strange they must have looked together
b. how wonderful they must have looked together
c. how shameful they must have looked together
d. how unusual they must have looked together
5 from the passage we can see that______ .
a. the grandmother loved her husband deeply
b. the grandmother regretted to have married her husband
c. the grandfather had been out for at least ten years
d. the grandfather had been dead for nearly eight years
42.长短之说
尽管我从未见过我祖父，但我知道他身高五英尺六，而我高贵的祖
母身高五英尺十一。十几岁的时候，我和祖母一起一页一页地翻着老照
片，我终于认识到他们在一起是多么不同寻常。
“奶奶，”我问道，“你怎么会爱上一个比你矮五英寸的人呢？”
她转过脸来看着我。“宝贝，”她说，“我们是坐着相爱的。当我
站起来的时候，已经太晚了。”
43. the shepherd and the bureaucrat
a bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending
a large flock. the bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked
the shepherd, "if i can guess how many there are, may i have one?"
the shepherd thought it unlikely the man would guess the exact
number, so he agreed.
the bureaucrat guessed, "you have 287 sheep." the shepherd was
astonished, since this was exactly right.
"can i pick out my sheep now?" asked the bureaucrat. the
shepherd grudgingly gave his permission. selecting one, the
bureaucrat slung it over his shoulders to carry home.
the shepherd got an idea." if i guess your occupation'," he
said, "may i have my sheep back?" the bureaucrat was surprised,
but figured there was little chance of the shepherd guessing
correctly, so he went along. "you're a bureaucrat, "announced the
shepherd. amazed, the bureaucrat asked.
"how did you know?"
the shepherd replied, "put the dog down and we'll talk about
it.
notes:
(1) bureaucrat n.官僚
(2) come upon 偶然遇到
(3) shepherd n.牧羊人
(4) take a fancy to sth 喜爱
(5) astonish v.使惊骇
(6) pick out 挑选
(7) grudgingly adv.不情愿地
(8) sling v.用力投掷
(9) occupation n.职业；工作
(10) figure v.料想；推断
exercises:
根据短文选择正确答案：
1 what was the bureaucrat doing when he saw the sheperd?
a. he was driving in the countryside.
b. he was fishing in the countryside.
c. he was having a walk in the countrysi