妙语短篇1,3,5

5. The Umbrella Man

One day Jack’s wife was cleaning out a closet.

“Look at all these umbrellas,” Jack’s wife said to him. “There are eight and they are all broken.” “I’ll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them repaired,” Jack said. “They are too good to throw away.”

Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. “They’ll be ready tomorrow,” the shopkeeper said.

That evening Jack went home from the office by bus, as usual. He sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor near her.

When the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up. “Hey!” the woman said. “That’s my umbrella.”

“I’m so sorry,” Jack said, giving it to her. “I wasn’t thinking. Please forgive me.” The next day he collected the umbrellas form the umbrella shop and got on the bus. As he sat down, a voice behind him said, “You have certainly had a successful day!”

He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella has had almost taken the day before.

1. Choose the best answer a, b, c or d, to these questions about the story. A. Jack’s wife found the broken umbrellas (a) in a shop. (b) in a closet.

(c) on a bus. (d) in the street.

B. Jack took the umbrellas to a shop (a) to sell.

(b) to have them repaired. (c) to throw away.

(d) to give away. C. On the bus, Jack

(a) picked up a woman’s umbrella by mistake, (b) found another umbrella. (c) left his umbrella.

(d) collected eight umbrellas.

D. On the day he collected the umbrellas, the woman on the bus (a) wanted one of them.

(b) thought he had stolen them. (c) thought one of them was hers.

(d) asked him where he had got them.

2. Complete the following sentences with one of the words below from the story. Use each word once.

on up down out away

(a) Jack’s wife cleaned _______ a closet.

(b) He did not want to throw ______ the broken umbrellas. (c) He picked ______ the wrong umbrellas.

(d) Jack got _____ a bus.

(e) He sat ______next to an old woman.

3. Complete these sentences about the story by putting in the correct form of the verb in parentheses.

(e) Jack’s wife (to find) _________ eight umbrellas in the closet.

(f) Jack took them to be (to repair) __________.

(g) On the bus, he (to pick) ________ up an old woman’s umbrella.

(h) He asked the old woman (to forgive) _______ him.

4. Look at the following and write whether to leave has the first meaning of “留下” or the

second meaning of “离开”. Write 1 for the first meaning and 2 for the second meaning in the spaces provided.

(a) My mother left about three hours ago. _____

(b) Donna left all her things at the university. ______

(c) Do you think I should leave before your boyfriend comes? _______

(d) I don't think it's safe to leave your bicycle there. _______

(e) If you go to Hangzhou this weekend, could you leave me your motorcycle to use?