I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.
| 小题1: | | A．sky | B．cloud | C．sunshine | D．mist |
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| 小题2: | | A．helpful | B．wonderful | C．hopeful | D．successful |
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| 小题3: | | A．disaster | B．environment | C．incident | D．wonder |
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| 小题4: | | A．manage | B．try | C．want | D．prefer |
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| 小题5: | | A．lost | B．left | C．used | D．cared |
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| 小题6: | | A．purpose | B．potential | C．pressure | D．preparation |
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| 小题7: | | A．energy | B．happiness | C．luck | D．blindness |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardest | B．dullest | C．simplest | D．easiest |
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| 小题9: | | A．self-respect | B．self-control | C．self-confidence | D．self-defence |
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| 小题10: | | A．think | B．consider | C．guess | D．mean |
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| 小题11: | | A．imperfect | B．perfect | C．unfair | D．fair |
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| 小题12: | | A．Later | B．Soon | C．Once | D．Then |
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| 小题13: | | A．worried | B．encouraged | C．shocked | D．hurt |
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| 小题14: | | A．stuck | B．impressed | C．occupied | D．held |
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| 小题15: | | A．see | B．hear | C．notice | D．observe |
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| 小题16: | | A．important | B．unimportant | C．possible | D．impossible |
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| 小题17: | | A．invented | B．discovered | C．instructed | D．directed |
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| 小题18: | | A．experience | B．advantages | C．knowledge | D．limitation |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．wildly | C．highly | D．deeply |
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:D
小题19:B
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试题分析：作者四岁时因意外而不幸失明，但是在老师和父母的引导下，作者找到了力量和自信，充分发挥了自己的潜质，在人生的道路上取得了一个个的成功。这个故事告诉我们在困境面前消极痛苦是于事无补的，只有努力奋斗拼搏，不向命运低头，人们才会获得成功。
小题1:C名词辨析。A.天空；B. 云；C. 阳光；D. 薄雾。根据空前the brightness of可以推测“明亮”应该是阳光的特点，也就是失明的作者模糊记得的是阳光的明媚，其他不合情理，答案选C.
小题2:B形容词辨析。A. 有帮助的；B. 精彩的，极好的；C. 希望的；D. 成功的。从情理判断失明的人如果能重新看到阳光，看到艳丽的色彩会是非常美好的事情，所以答案选B。
小题3:A名词辨析。A.灾难；B. 环境；C.事变，事件；D. 奇迹。根据上文I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car可知失明对一个人来说是一场灾难，其他选项不合语境，答案选A。
小题4:D动词辨析。A. 管理；B. 尝试；C. 想要；D.更喜欢。上文作者提到重新看到光明当然很好，但是有时候灾难会使人做到意想不到的事情，是说失明给他带来的好处，所以此处作者要对上文的话进行解释，句意：我不是指我喜欢没有我的双眼，答案选D。
小题5:B动词辨析。A.丢失；B. 剩下；C. 使用；D. 在意。从上下文可知作者在失明后充分发挥了自己的潜质，发挥了其他感官的能力，所以答案选B。
小题6:B名词辨析。A. 目的；B. 潜力 ； C.压力；D. 准备。根据破折号后的解释which I didn’t see,可知这是作者没意识到的能生存下去的潜质，答案选B。
小题7:D名词辨析。A. 能量；B. 快乐； C. 运气；D.失明。从上文可知作者失去了视力，所以他要与之挣扎斗争的是“失明”这一事实，句意：他们使我想要与失明做斗争。
小题8:A形容词辨析。A. 最难； B.最傻；C. 最简单；D. 最容易。由情理可知有残疾的人往往会有自卑感，会失去对生活的信心，所以说找到自信应该是最难做到的，答案选A。
小题9:C名词辨析。A. self-respect ；B. self-control ；C. self-confidence ；D. self-defence。根据上文I had to learn was to believe in myself以及下文中的. a confidence that I am可以判断此处指自信，答案选C。
小题10:D动词辨析。A. 思考；B. 认为 ； C. 猜想；D. 意思是。根据前句I am not talking about ….可以判断此处作者是对上文self-confidence的解释， 所以用mean“”，答案选D。
小题11:A形容词辨析。A. 不完美；B.完美；C. 不公平；D. 公平。根据上文可知作者小时候失明，所以在身体上应该是有缺陷的，答案选A。
小题12:C副词辨析。A. 后来；B. 不久；C. 从前；D. 然后。从文章语境可知此处是作者对过去事情的回忆，所以指“一次”，选C。
小题13:D动词辨析。A. 担忧；B. 鼓励；C. 震动；D. 伤害。由上文I thought he was laughing at me可以判断作者受到刺激，感觉心理受到伤害，hurt指 “感情，心灵受到伤害”选D。
小题14:A动词辨析。A. 击，印象； B.印象，烙印； C. 占据 ； D. 抓住。固定短语stick in one’s mind /head“铭记在心，经久不忘”，根据下文内容可知作者听从了那个人的话，玩起了室内棒球， 所以答案选A。
小题15:B动词辨析。A. 看见；B. 听见；C. 注意；D. 观察。作者是个盲人，所以判断球滚动的方向应该不能靠视觉，排除A、C、D选项，答案选B。句意：通过滚动球我能听到它去的方向。
小题16:D形容词辨析。A. 重要的； B.不重要的 ；C. 可能的；D. 不可能的。从上文可知作者从来没想过去玩棒球，也认为自己玩不了棒球，所以当别人送给他球玩的时候，他会感觉很受刺激，由此判断他认为那是不可能的，选D。
小题17:A动词辨析。A. 发明；B. 发现；C. 说明；D. 决定。从下句We called it ground ball.，可知作者是通过对棒球做出变通，发明了“ground ball.”，所以答案选A。
小题18:D名词辨析。A. 经历；B. 优势；C. 知识；D. 限制。由下文It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach可以判断作者很清楚地知道自己身体的缺陷，所以在制定目标时会考虑到自己的局限性，选D。
小题19:B副词辨析。A. 几乎不；B. 粗野地；极其，非常；C. 高地；D. 深地。根据语境可知作者很理智地制定目标，不会让制定的目标超出自己的能力许多，答案选B。
小题20:C连词辨析。A.所以； B.为了；C.但是；D. 和。根据前句I would fail something anyway和后句I made progress.的可知前后句意相反，所以选C。 |
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It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying, “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’”
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful; we are opening a second store.’” And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain.
小题1:Which of the following is true of Buck? | A．He put money into the sandwich business. | | B．He was a professor of business administration. | | C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. | | D．He rented a storefront for Deluca. |
小题2:What can we learn about their first shop? | A．It stood at an unfavorable place. | | B．It lowered the prices to poor management. | | C．It made no profits due to poor management. | | D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. |
小题3:They decided to open a second store because they ________. | A．had enough money to do it | | B．had succeeded in their business | | C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers | | D．wanted to make believe that they were successful |
小题4:What contributes most to their success according to the author? | A．Learning by trial and error. | | B．Making friends with supplies. | | C．Finding a good partner. | | D．Opening chain stores. |
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My father was a St. Bernard (圣伯纳犬), and my mother was a collie (科利牧羊犬). This was what my mother had told me. I did not know these nice differences myself. My mother like to say them and see other dogs look surprised and jealous(嫉妒的), wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education.
She got the words by listening in the dining room and the sitting room when there were people talking, and by going with the children to school and listening there. Whenever she heard a word showing great knowledge, she said it to herself many times so that she could keep it until there was a meeting in the neighbourhood. Then, she would show off her knowledge and surprise them all, from small-sized dogs to large-sized dogs.
If there was a stranger being doubtful and getting his breath to ask her what it meant, she always explained to him in detail. He had never expected this but thought he would make fool of her. However, in the end, he was the one who was fooled. The others knew what was going to happen, because they had experienced that. When she explained the meaning of a big world, no dogs doubted if it was right. It was natural, because, for one thing, she answered very quickly and confidently, and for another, there were no knowledgeable dogs pointing out the answer was wrong.
When I was older, she brought home the word, “unintellectual”, and worked on it very hard all the week at different meetings. It was at this time that I realized she made up a fresh meaning of the same word every time. It showed that she was more calm than knowledgeable.
(From A Dog’s Tale, by Mark Twain)
小题1:Why were other dogs jealous of “my” mother?| A．Because her child was not a dog. | | B．Because “my” mother knew everything. | | C．Because they knew nothing about “me”. | | D．Because they thought “my” mother was educated. |
小题2:Where did “my” mother learn the words?| A．She made up the words by herself. | | B．She learnt the words studying at school. | | C．She listened and memorized when others were talking. | | D．She attended meetings to learnt the words from other dogs. |
小题3:How could “my” mother always fool other dogs?| A．Other dogs all liked to be fooled. | | B．She could explain anything in detail correctly. | | C．She learnt a lot of tricks to make fool of others. | | D．Other dogs were not knowledgeable enough to find out her mistakes. |
小题4:What words can be used to describe “my” mother?| A．friendly and clever | B．calm and confident | | C．quick and experienced | D．devoted and knowledgeable |
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Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.
1. He was a boxing fan.
In his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. "I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one"s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match," he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
2. His original name was not Nelson.
Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name “Nelson” in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.
3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.
Mr. Mandela"s release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid(种族隔离). Mr. Mandela"s reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie"s.
4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.
Mr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma(学位证书) in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa"s first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela’s life in the prison. | | B．The achievements of Nelson Mandela. | | C．Nelson Mandela’s hobbies and career. | | D．Unknown things about Nelson Mandela. |
小题2: Why did Nelson Mandela love boxing?| A．Because he wanted to be a boxer. | | B．Because he enjoyed the violence of boxing. | | C．Because he appreciated the strategy in boxing. | | D．Because he had nothing else to do in the prison. |
小题3:What happened to Mandela when he was about to give the speech?| A．He broke his glasses into pieces. | | B．He had to use his wife’s glasses. | | C．He left his own glasses at home. | | D．His wife wanted to borrow his glasses. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela was not his original name. | | B．Nelson Mandela was the name given by his teacher. | | C．Nelson Mandela had been studying the law nonstop for 50 years. | | D．Nelson Mandela had started his own law firm before he got a law degree. |
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The day I was 3 years old the beginning of my dream. On that day, after seeing the Capital Dancing Company performance, I , “Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those.”
As I grow older, my in the world of dance changed, but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a in the company never left me. In 2005, aged 18, I received the phone making that dream come true: I became a member of the company.
When I looked on that day now, I believe I stayed in a state of disbelief until I was asked to rehearsal (排练). Though I was entirely excited with the offer, it did not come without . Through the strict and hard rehearsal, I found it important to myself to learning the skills fast with every bit of concentration(注意力集中). It is the extreme to detail (细节) and stress on practice that help us . Then comes a show schedule of up to five performances a day, I found a new of the words “HARD WORK”. The practice pushed me forward than I thought . I learnt to make each performance better than the last. Besides, the teachers not only teach us skills but help us a lot in daily life when we are in trouble.
Today, as a member and dance captain in the unbelievable company, I see a that has encouraged not only little girls but a wonderful company that to develop and grow and encourage people every day to their dreams.
| 小题1: | | A．when | B．which | C． that | D． on that |
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| 小题2: | | A．wrote | B． saw | C．read | D． talked |
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| 小题3: | | A．came out | B．went out | C．burst out | D． dug out |
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| 小题4: | | A．interest | B．feeling | C． duty | D． patience |
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| 小题5: | | A．certainly | B． never | C． hardly | D． entirely |
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| 小题6: | | A．singer | B． dancer | C． painter | D． teacher |
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| 小题7: | | A．before | B． up | C． down | D． back |
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| 小题8: | | A．pleasant | B． sorrowful | C． low | D． hopeful |
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| 小题9: | | A．poison | B． harm | C． challenges | D． means |
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| 小题10: | | A． bury | B． devote | C． take | D． reward |
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| 小题11: | | A． attention | B． opinion | C． worth | D． trial |
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| 小题12: | | A． defend | B． rebuild | C． fight | D． succeed |
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| 小题13: | | A． loose | B． busy | C． useful | D． acceptable |
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| 小题14: | | A． meaning | B． principle | C． expression | D． usage |
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| 小题15: | | A． necessary | B．perfect | C．frequent | D．possible |
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| 小题16: | | A． rescued | B． trapped | C． shocked | D． attacked |
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| 小题17: | | A． victory | B．style | C． tradition | D．trial |
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| 小题18: | | A． a number of | B． a great deal of | C． a large amount of | D． many a |
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| 小题19: | | A． stops | B． continues | C． goes | D． adds |
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| 小题20: | | A． follow | B． remove | C． design | D． Recognize |
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Many years ago ,l was working at my job at a community college when a homeless woman came in. She began as she lay on one of the sofas in the student rest room. , she wasn"t well. Without thinking too much I went next door to the Student Affairs office where I knew I could find in the Lost and Found box. I up a set of clothing and went back to my office, I heard a colleague calling me. She told me that I should not this person, as it would only lead to her wanting more help. I refused her and went back to help the woman, my co-worker"s warning .
Two weeks later, while I was working, a very cute elderly man entered my and asked to speak with me in private. Curiously, l gave him my full and he told me that he had happened to hear my with the co-worker about helping the woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people and that was why he wanted to give me a for $1,000. I burst into tears, because I needed the money at the time, but also because I had never been in such a way for helping someone!
We soon became good and 10 years later he called me up suddenly and told me he wanted to help me my first home! He giving me $120,000 as part payment for my dream house in my home town. I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large amount of money and he said it was because I was a " giver" and that I it ! To make a long story short, l was able to buy the perfect little home for myself, all because one day I did not to help a homeless woman.
| 小题1: | | A．smiling | B．talking | C．shouting | D．coughing |
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| 小题2: | | A．Luckily | B．Clearly | C．Strangely | D．Sadly |
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| 小题3: | | A．clothes | B．books | C．food | D．medicine |
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| 小题4: | | A．gave | B．turned | C．gathered | D．made |
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| 小题6: | | A．ignore | B．disturb | C．value | D．help |
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| 小题7: | | A．advice | B．request | C．plan | D．offer |
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| 小题8: | | A．more than | B．rather than | C．regardless of | D．apart from |
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| 小题9: | | A．home | B．office | C．classroom | D．dormitory |
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| 小题10: | | A．energy | B．love | C．care | D．attention |
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| 小题11: | | A．disagreement | B．discussion | C．fight | D．quarrel |
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| 小题12: | | A．young | B．old | C．sick | D．wealthy |
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| 小题13: | | A．support | B．check | C．tip | D．promise |
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| 小题14: | | A．anxiously | B．eagerly | C．hardly | D．really |
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| 小题15: | | A．recognized | B．measured | C．taught | D．praised |
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| 小题16: | | A．colleagues | B． competitors | C．partners | D．friends |
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| 小题17: | | A．build | B．buy | C．rent | D．repair |
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| 小题18: | | A．came out | B．ended up | C．carried on | D．resulted in |
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| 小题19: | | A．deserved | B．wanted | C．needed | D．enjoyed |
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| 小题20: | | A．fear | B．fail | C．hesitate | D．attempt |
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