There was once a boy in a village. Whenever he asked people to do things, no one would listen to him. He was sad. So he asked a witch (女巫) to solve the problem by using magic. The old witch tried a lot of spells, but didn’t work.

A young man heard about the problem. He went to the boy and said that he knew the solution. He gave the boy two small pieces of paper. “These are two spells, my boy. Use the first before you ask others to do something, and use the second when they have done it. A smile is also necessary,” the young man said.

The boy was happy and tried to use the spells. When he asked people to do something, he said “Please” before his words, and “Thank you” after they had done it. People were very surprised that the boy could be polite. Soon, they became happy to do what the boy asked them to do.

The witch was surprised, and she asked the young man about the spells. “It’s not magic. When I was a child, my teacher told me that with good manners (礼仪) you could get anything you want. And he was right. The boy only needed good manners to get what he wanted.”

1.Why did the boy come to visit the witch?

A To ask for two small pieces of paper.

B To ask her to teach him to use magic.

C To make friends with her.

D To ask her to use magic to help him.

解析：选D。D细节理解题。根据第一段第四句的“So he asked a witch to solve the problem by using magic.”可知，他请女巫用魔法解决问题。故选D。

2.What does the underlined word “solution” mean?

A Question.

B Way.

C Success.

D Record.

解析：选B。B词义猜测题。根据划线部分后面的“He gave the boy two small pieces of paper.”可知，一个年轻人听说了这件事情，他就找到那个小男孩，他给了这个男孩两个小纸条，因此可推测他告诉男孩解决这个问题的方法。故选B。

3.What must the boy do when using the two spells?

A He must smile.

B He must shout.

C He must dance.

D He must cry.

解析：选A。A细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句“A smile is also necessary”可知，微笑是必不可少的。故选A。

4.“__________” is on the second piece of paper.

A Sorry

B Please

C Excuse me

D Thank you

解析：选D。D细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“‘Thank you’ after they had done it”可知，男孩很非常开心的用了这两个咒语。当他想人们做什么事情之前，他先说“请”，当人们做完的时候他说：“谢谢你”，因此第二张小纸条上面的咒语是感谢。故选D。

5.What can be learned from the passage?

A Politeness is stronger than magic.

B Politeness costs nothing.

C A polite man can walk all over the world.

D Do what you want and don’t trust it.

解析：选A。A主旨大意题。根据最后一段第三句的“When I was a child, my teacher told me that with good manners you could get anything you want.”可知，通过良好的礼仪你可以得到任何你想要的，只有以礼待人才能得到同等的回报，因此“礼貌比魔法更强大”符合题意。故选A。