At this rate(照此下去) , he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note(字条) and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, "I don't have the time. "

　Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. "Hey, sir, "he said. "It's a quarter to nine. "

9 . The driver stopped his car because he_________.

　　A. didn't know the time B. lost his watch

C. saw his friend D. was very tired

10. He was woken up again by the second person_________.

　　A. a few minutes later B. half an hour later

　　C. forty-five minutes later D. the next morning

11. The driver _________ after he put up the note on the window.

　　A. had a very good rest B. was woken up again very soon

　　C. really forgot the time D. made a phone call to the third person

12. The third person came to knock at the window to .

　　A. ask the time B. have a sleep C. tell him the time D. ask for help

D

　　The English language started about 1,500 years ago in England. Three groups of people came to the country. They were the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. These three groups brought their languages with them to England .After some time, the three languages became one new language--English. The name "English" comes from the Angles. They lived in most of England. "England" means "Angle Land" or "Country of the Angles".

The language that we speak today－Modern English－is not the same as the English that people used many years ago, including Old English(before 1150)and Middle English(up till 1500).That language-Old English-sounds different, and it has some different rules of grammar. There were only a few thousand words in Old English. But Modern English does come from Old English, and it is still like it in many important ways.