One day in September we were doing repair work on my parents" old house to get it ready for my youngest
daughter"s wedding. We had to 1 a great climbing plant that had grown across a roof beam (房梁), so that
we could repair the roof and 2 the walls.
When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a 3 of a blackbird. He then 4 something 5
among that mass of earth and straw of the nest. He broke the earth 6 it into pieces with his finger tips and,
to his 7 , saw glittering gold. It was a child"s bracelet (手镯). He ran into the house to 8 me.
"You won"t believe that the 9 blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we plant to feed on," he said,"but
they also want their children to 10 in a cradle (摇篮) of gold!" When my daughter 11 on the eve of the
12 ,we told her about this 13 occurrence (事件).
"Don"t you remember, Mother?" she said with a loud 14 ."When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I 15 a few days later while out playing in the yard? It was this one!"
As the bracelet no longer 16 its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping.
In December of the following year, the young couple"s baby son was baptized (受洗礼). Among the 17
the newborn baby received, I placed his mother"s bracelet, now shining like 18 . I hope that if my grandson
19 loses it, one of the 20 that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby. |
( )1. A. remove
( )2. A. build
( )3. A. nest
( )4. A. moved
( )5. A. nice
( )6. A. over
( )7. A. horror
( )8. A. ask
( )9. A. working
( )10. A. lie
( )11. A. came up
( )12. A. party
( )13. A. important
( )14. A. cry
( )15. A. hid
( )16. A. fitted
( )17. A. jewels
( )18. A. attractive
( )19. A. almost
( )20. A. blackbirds | B. cover
B. paint
B. baby
B. got
B. colorful
B. through
B. surprise
B. shock
B. cheating
B. sing
B. came over
B. Christmas
B. strange
B. sigh
B. threw
B. satisfied
B. toys
B. new
B. just
B. grandchildren | C. grow
C. rescue
C. body
C. picked
C. shiny
C. above
C. delight
C. show
C. dreaming
C. listen
C. came across
C. birthday
C. terrible
C. laugh
C. lost
C. matched
C. clothes
C. modern
C. even
C. neighbors | D. water
D. print
D. egg
D. noticed
D. special
D. around
D. disappointment
D. give
D. thieving
D. wait
D. came by
D. wedding
D. frightening
D. sound
D. broke
D. interested
D. presents
D. golden
D. ever
D. mice | | 完形填空。 | Where is the bus? Why is it always late?" I asked myself. I was going to be late, 1 the manager wasn"t
going to be pleased."Thank God, here it is!" The bus came round the corner and I got on. Ten minutes later I
was walking into the 2 where I work.."Twenty-five past nine. I 3 the manager doesn"t notice." But I was
not 4 .
"Smith!" shouted the manager."Late again. What"s your 5 this time?" "I am afraid the bus was late, Mr.
Brown."" 6 up earlier tomorrow! Anyway, go to your place at the counter (柜台). We"ll be opening in a few minutes."
My first customer was a pretty girl wearing a red dress. 7 her was a young man of about 25. He seemed
very 8 , and every few seconds he looked towards the main entrance. The girl drew (提取) some money and
9 about opening an account. I gave her necessary 10 and she went out. 11 , I noticed a tall man by the
door, carrying something 12 with brown paper. Turning to my next customer, I was frightened to see a gun
sticking out of his coat. The next moment a loud noise 13 my ears. Everything went black. I was falling…
It seemed to be a long time 14 I opened my eyes and I found myself in bed! 15 shaking from the memory
of this terrible dream, I got dressed and ran out of the house. 16 , the bus wasn"t on time, and I got to the
bank at 9:25.
"Smith!" the manager cried out in a voice like thunder." 17 of your excuses! Start work at once!" To
my 18 , the first customer was a girl 19 a red dress and behind her stood a man carrying something
wrapped n brown paper. The 20 ! Sometimes life is full of coincidences (巧合)! | ( )1. A. as
( )2. A. hotel
( )3. A. believe
( )4. A. lucky
( )5. A.
( )6. A. Hurry
( )7. A. Before
( )8. A. nervous
( )9. A. cared
( )10. A. information
( )11. A. Again
( )12. A. hidden
( )13. A. took
( )14. A. before
( )15. A. Even
( )16. A. As usual
( )17. A. Less
( )18. A. pleasure
( )19. A. of
( )20. A. dream | B. but
B. shop
B. think
B. happy
B. idea
B. Set
B. Behind
B. shy
B. talked
B. offer
B. Then
B. filled
B. closed
B. after
B. Still
B. For one thing
B. Plenty
B. surprise
B. with
B. story | C. and
C. bank
C. guess
C. sorry
C. cause
C. Catch
C. Beyond
C. calm
C. asked
C. news
C. Thus
C. decorated
C. filled
C. when
C. Just
C. In fact
C. More
C. joy
C. on
C. affair | D. or
D. restaurant
D. hope
D. angry
D. answer
D. Get
D. Against
D. angry
D. worried
D. support
D. However
D. covered
D. came
D. that
D. Ever
D. In general
D. None
D. regret
D. in
D. incident | | 阅读理解。 | The 16-year-old girl Jessica Watson is said to be the youngest person to sail non-stop alone around the
world. But her record has been questioned because someone thought that she has not sailed far enough. She will also not be recognized by the World Speed Sailing Record Council, as it was too dangerous for someone under
18 years old.
Ms Watson sailed into Sydney port on Saturday, seven months after leaving on a hard voyage. Family,
friends and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have gathered to greet her. Thousands of well-wishers
waited at the port and watched from boats as Ms Watson sailed her pink, 10m boat over the finishing line.
Many more Australians watched the event broadcast live on television. Watson said she was just an"ordinary
girl who believed in her dream".
Ms Watson left Sydney on 18 October, despite that some people disagreed to her plan. Watson traveled
northeast through the South Pacific and across the equator (赤道), south to Cape Horn at the tip of South
America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and around southern Australia.
The route took her through some of the world"s most changeful waters, and she battled through huge storms
and suffered seven accidents of her boat.
People around the world have followed Ms Watson"s adventures on her blog, which she has daily updated (更新). On her blog, she wrote down beautiful sunrise over seas, the excitement of meeting a blue whale and
the bright, terrible sight of a shooting star flying across the night sky above her boat. Ms Watson has reportedly sold her story to a news company for $700,000. She is planning to write a book on her experience. | | 1. Which of the following oceans didn"t Ms Watson cross through in her voyage? | A. The Pacific Ocean.
B. The Arctic Ocean.
C. The Indian Ocean.
D. The Atlantic Ocean. | | 2. Ms Watson"s voyage will NOT be considered an official world record mainly because _______. | A. no one can prove that her route was dangerous enough
B. she hasn"t applied for the record
C. teenagers are not encouraged to take such a dangerous adventure
D. girls are not allowed to take part in the dangerous sports | | 3. We can make a conclusion from this passage that Watson _______. | A. would make another voyage for money
B. made the world round voyage for money
C. had no way to communicate with others during the voyage.
D. is so confident and brave that she could overcome troubles on her own | | 4. All the following can be inferred from this passage EXCEPT that _______. | A. her book about her voyage is a best seller
B. people in Australia had much interest in her voyage
C. she spent more than 200 days alone at sea
D. people have different attitudes towards her voyage | | 阅读理解。 | Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited
a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time
after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete
strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the
spot I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people
do not like to admit that they didn"t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do
not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long
list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell
between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to
avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the
way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that
he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back
and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did
not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to
my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked. | | 1. What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction? | A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
C. He will give the very person long list of direction.
D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction. | | 2. How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room? | A. He felt strange.
B. He felt embarrassed.
C. He felt very sad.
D. He felt astonished. | | 3. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage? | A. Someone we don"t know.
B. The writer did it for himself.
C. The secretary did so.
D. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing. | | 完形填空。 | I think people everywhere dream about having lots of money. In the United States, it is possible to win large
amounts of money 1 lotteries (彩票). People pay money for tickets with a combination (组合) of 2 . If
your combination is 3 , you will win a huge amount of money- often millions of dollars.
A few years ago, my friend Tom won the lottery. It 4 his life. He did not come from a rich family. In
fact, he earned very little. Sometimes, Tom even had to 5 money from his relatives and friends, but he
wasn"t the kind of person who never paid back the money he owed. 6 , he was always very 7 with the
money he spent.
One day, Tom spent 8 dollars on a lottery ticket. He never thought he would win lots of money but 9 ,
his combination of numbers was chosen and he won a great deal of money.
Tom was so 10 . The first thing he did was to 11 a new car that he was dreaming of, and then he
started spending more money on unnecessary things. He learnt to waste money, 12 he had money to burn.
13 we got together for a meal at a restaurant, Tom 14 always try to pay the bill, and he 15 telling me that
money made him feel very happy.
However, Tom spent the money too fast, and he became 16 again. He had no money left.
I do feel 17 for him. He had 18 money to live like a king. Instead, he is 19 to living like a poor person.
Some people might say he is 20 about small things, but not about important things. | ( )1. A. from
( )2. A. letters
( )3. A. chosen
( )4. A. damaged
( )5. A. borrow
( )6. A. Therefore
( )7. A. careful
( )8. A. lots of
( )9. A. unfortunately
( )10. A. generous
( )11. A. rent
( )12. A. though
( )13. A. Soon
( )14. A. should
( )15. A. insisted
( )16. A. rich
( )17. A. sorry
( )18. A. many
( )19. A. back
( )20. A. stupid | B. through
B. pictures
B. raised
B. changed
B. lend
B. Otherwise
B. satisfied
B. a little
B. unexpectedly
B. excited
B. buy
B. while
B. Since
B. would
B. stood
B. satisfied
B. proud
B. too much
B. up
B. smart | C. on
C. numbers
C. published
C. increased
C. exchange
C. Instead
C. independent
C. few
C. unacceptably
C. amused
C. borrow
C. so
C. When
C. need
C. avoided
C. strong
C. satisfied
C. only
C. over
C. curious | D. at
D. cards
D. met
D. improved
D. beg
D. Thus
D. angry
D. a few
D. accessibly
D. nervous
D. steal
D. as if
D. Until
D. must
D. kept
D. poor
D. happy
D. enough
D. behind
D. careless |
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