完形填空。    Many people use email to communicate with each other. If you can surf the Internet, it is a great   1   to send
messages easily, quickly and as often as you like. No   2   is it necessary to find a pen or paper, not to   3   an
envelope or stamp.
    Are we missing anything by not writing paper letters to people? Must you take the   4   of writing them if you
want to receive such letters? Most people would probably answer, "No, it is a waste of paper   5  , and this is
a much better system." It is hard to be against such a viewpoint. However, I would like to try.
    I believe that the kinds of letters people   6   to write were probably more   7   than billions of emails sent
today. Of course, when it   8   to sending quick messages, email is the best. If   9   is important, email is
particularly useful.   10  , if you want really to touch someone, a letter is more personal.  11  letters are the most
personal. If you can type fast, you can put a lot into a letter, but it lacks (缺少) the special sense that comes
from seeing the handwriting. As long as it is understandable, it doesn"t matter how tidy it is. When someone sits
down and just writes to you, you will   12   that when you are reading it.
    Though I"m a teenager, I admit that I feel too   13   to receive a letter in the mail. I love seeing my name
written by hand on   14  . You make yourself a cup of coffee, sit down in a comfortable place, open your   15  ,
and enjoy everything that the person puts into those words just for you. What a gift!

(     ) 1．A．chance    (     ) 2．A．longer    (     ) 3．A．say        (     ) 4．A．question  (     ) 5．A．anyway    (     ) 6．A．needed    (     ) 7．A．important  (     ) 8．A．runs      (     ) 9．A．money      (     ) 10．A．However    (     ) 11．A．Long      (     ) 12．A．feel      (     ) 13．A．excited    (     ) 14．A．a letter  (     ) 15．A．mouth	B．way         B．much       B．speak       B．trouble     B．too         B．used       B．useful     B．leads       B．meaning          B．So         B．Typed       B．love       B．disappointed     B．a list     B．letter	C．fun          C．less        C．talk        C．pleasure    C．simply      C．got          C．helpful      C．comes        C．feeling      C．Therefore        C．Handwritten  C．want      C．puzzled            C．a paper      C．book	D．time           D．important      D．mention        D．problem        D．just           D．agreed         D．meaningful     D．arrives        D．time         D．But            D．Short          D．like           D．surprised          D．an envelope    D．magazine
1-5: BADBA   6-10: BDCDA   11-15: CAADB
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Indianapolis is the capital and largest city of Indiana, USA. With a population of 774000, it is one of the largest cities in the world that cannot be reached by water. However, Indianapolis is a city through which many railways, roads, buses, and planes pass. There are many factories that make cars, farm tools and electrical things. These factories cause little pollution for the city. Bulter University, well known for engineering, and the law and medical schools of Indiana University are in the city center. Nearby is the Indianapolis race course, where the nation"s most famous car race is held every year on May 30th.      If you visit Indianapolis, you will be able to find your way around easily because most of the streets cross each other like a chessboard. In the center of the city, called the circle, stands the Soldier"s and Sailor"s Monument (纪念碑), 100 hundred meters high. Also in the center there are many buildings made of famous Indianapolis stone, which makes them white in color.
1. You can not travel to Indianapolis by _______.
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A. boat B. bike C. car D. train
2. What is Indianapolis best known for? ________.
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A. Its school and libraries B. Its yearly motor race C. Its universities and medical schools D. Its Soldiers" and Sailors" Monument
3. It is easy for a stranger to go about in the city because ________.
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A. most of the buildings are in the center of the city B. there are many different ways of traveling there C. the buildings are very close to each other D. the city is planned in squares
4. Many buildings in Indianapolis are white because ________.
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A. they are painted every year B. the Indiana people keep them clean C. they are made of special stone D. there is little pollution from factories
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Where in the world can you take an hour"s train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There"s only one place, and that"s Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets（布景） in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies(公司) in the USA.     A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn"t quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.     The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.     Though it is soap opears that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don"t need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost.     But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.
1. From the passage, we know Universao Studios is ________.
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A. a very large park B. a busy London street C. a famous movie company D. an old Hollywood movie
2. The movie industry in California isn"t as successful as before because ________.
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A. young people don"t go to movie theatres any more B. there is strong competition from other states C. its movie companies are in need of young stars D. the state hasn"t put a development plan into action
3. Which of the following seems to be a threat (威胁) to Hollywood？
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A. The use of modern cameras and other equipment B. The interest of middle-aged film stars C. The making of TV series like Dynasty D. The expensively made copies of scenes
4. What can we learn about "soap operas" from the passage?
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A. They are teenagers" favourits. B. They are much more expensive. C. They are less attractive. D. They are cheaper and easier to make.
5. The passage mainly tells us ________.
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A. something about the film industy in the USA B. the importance of soap operas in hollywood C. the good old days of Hollywood D. the film business in California
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In some countries in western Europe, such as France, Belium and Britain, the countryside is c            (1).     Life has become difficult for many villages, and some are d             (2). There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want to live s              (3) livelier and they often move to the towns and do not r             (4). Secondly, people move to the cities to find work, a_______ (5) there are often very few jobs in the countryside. Sometimes villages remain (留下) because people from the cities have b______ (6) a "second home" in the village, where they come and s_______ (7) at weekends. The prices of houses go up and people from the area cannot a________ (8) to buy a house there. Another p_______ (9) is that it is becoming more and more difficult for farmers to make money from the farms. So they sell their l________ (10) and find another job.     All these things mean that many villages in western Europe are f_________ (11) to survive. We can only hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and u_________ (12) place without them.
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A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing (轰炸) destroyed (毁坏) her home and killed her mother. 　　      Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children begging for food and water from American and British soldiers a they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad (巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they flee (逃离) their homes in Baghdad. 　　      "Dad, why are the Americans striking (攻击) us? Are we going to be killed?"asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer, Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son. 　　      He tries to comfort (安慰) him by saying, "The bombs are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right." Even though Abu knows this isn"t always the truth. But what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won"t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed. 　　      "All we can do is to listen to and hear the war," said Abu. "We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear. We feel hopeless and helpless. We don"t know where the next bombs are going? We can do nothing but wait to be killed."
1. During the war, children are ______.
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A. studying at school　　　　　　　 B. fighting at the front 　　 C. safer than their parents　　　　　　 D. in great danger
2. The children have to flee their homes because ______.
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A. it is dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing 　　 B. their parents are not at home 　　 C. they want to get food and water 　　 D. they want to welcome the foreign soldiers
3. "Sleeping pills" are ______.
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A. a place to keep children safe 　　 B. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war 　　 C. a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep 　　 D. a kind of food to make them strong
4. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because ______.
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A. he doesn"t want to tell him the real reason 　　 B. he doesn"t want to tell a lie 　　 C. he doesn"t know how to explain it clearly 　　 D. it isn"t good to tell him why
5. Through the eyes of the girl in the picture, we can see ______.
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A. she is looking for something　　　 B. she is thinking about something 　　 C. she is angry at somebody　　　　 D. she feels fearful, helpless and hopeless
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In an American classroom, a Chinese girl was asked to answer a question. She stood up and smiled, without making any sound. The American teacher looked at himself and didn"t see anything funny. So he asked her the question again. The girl just smiled but said nothing. The teacher was angry. He didn"t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment (尴尬) because she wasn"t able to answer the question.     In a dining room in Beijing, an Englishman was careless and dropped a plate. The Chinese who had seen this began to laugh. The Englishman felt uncomfortable and even got angry. "They are laughing at me," he thought. In fact, the Chinese laughed not at the Englishman or his bad luck-whether he is a foreigner or a Chinese. The laughter has several feelings, don"t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it"s nothing; such things can happen to any of us, etc.
1. The Chinese girl smiled in an American classroom because             .
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A. she was asked to answer a question B. she was asked to stand up C. she couldn"t answer the question D. the teacher looked funny
2. Which feeling is NOT included in the laughter when the Englishman dropped a plate?
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A. Don"t take it seriously. B. Bad luck! C. It"s nothing. D. It can happen to any of us.
3. What does the writer want to tell us?
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A. Smiles and laughter don"t mean the same thing to different people. B. Smiles and laughter always bring happiness. C. American people are easy to get angry. D. Chinese students are impolite.