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. afraidB. worriedC. sureD. happy

　　2. A. joke B. funC. 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. pleasedC. busy D. lonely

　　7. A. show B. visit C. meetD. send

　　8. A. farm B. cityC. family D. school

　　9. A. wrote B. calledC. moved D. returned

　　10. A. family B. schoolC. teacher D. farm

　　11. A. meeting B. schoolC. summer D. talk

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

　　13. A interesting B. true C. longD. same

　　14. A. England B. GermanyC. farm D. home

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

　　名師點評

　　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。暑假過后其他同學都在談假期中的家庭旅游時，羅莎只得自欺欺人，騙大家說她與爸爸去了英國。結果上課時，老師讓她談英國的情況時，她無話可說了。

　　答案簡析

　　1. C。羅莎的謊言經常讓同學們信以為真，說明她騙人時自信心強，把握大。故選擇sure.。

　　2. B。與下文羅莎自欺欺人相對應，一開始她認為騙人是件快樂的事，故選擇fun。

　　3. A。根據文意，經過這件事后她意識到騙人其實就是騙自己，這種意識在平時與大伙交談時更為強烈，故選talk。

　　4. B。夏天到時，羅莎就會到爸爸農場去度假，故選arrive。

　　5. C。help with sth. 意為“幫助干些事情”。

　　6. C。爸爸沒時間陪她去其它地方游玩，說明爸爸很忙，故選busy。

　　7. C。這里meet表示爸爸去機場接她。

　　8. B。在農場度假結束后，羅莎應返回城里，故選city.

　　9. D。根據文意暑假結束了，羅莎要返回到媽媽身邊。故選 returned.

　　10. A。與上文相對應，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完整的家庭。

　　11. B。假期結束了，新學期又開始了，且下文講到了學校里的事情，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國家，只有選places。

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

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

　　15. C。老師讓羅莎對過去的事情進行回憶并講述，故選remember。

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