Jasmine Harman，a famous TV presenter, was sunny and active. Nothing seemed to her down. But nearly a decade on, Jasmine spent the first years of her TV life a secret about her background—one she couldn’t to be made public.
“When I started out in TV, I lived in fear of someone discovering about my ,” she admitted. Because her mother had a illness called hoarding Disorder(囤积症). “Mum would keep batteries, old speakers, broken dolls and baskets she in the street. Nothing would be thrown away. And she’d be if you ever tried to clear them up,” Jasmine recalled. Eventually, the entire family couldn’t have a life.
Two years ago, Jasmine did something . She made a documentary called My Hoarder Mum and Me about her family’s battle to fight against her mum’s disease. “I do our program will shine more light on the issue,” said Jasmine. Then a second program, Britain’s Biggest Hoarders
Luckily, there are diagnostic criteria(诊断标准)now and experts that can help. Jasmine has become a(an) herself in a way. She runs a website to help sufferers and their . “It’s incredible. I spent most of my childhood being ashamed, but now I’d like to make it . People like my mum need help, but not to be made to feel .”
“We hadn’t been able to have Christmas dinner at Mum’s for , because you couldn’t get people into the house . But we had one last year, and it was amazing,” Jasmine said. “The still isn’t perfect, and Mum isn’t perfect either. She’s still with it. But I’m so proud that she’s come this far, and I want to tell other people it’s possible.”
| 小题1: | | A．settle | B．take | C．beat | D．calm |
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| 小题2: | | A．making | B．discovering | C．hiding | D．mixing |
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| 小题3: | | A．wait | B．plan | C．cover | D．bear |
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| 小题4: | | A．work | B．mum | C．illness | D．memory |
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| 小题5: | | A．mental | B．physical | C．final | D．social |
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| 小题6: | | A．new | B．used | C．round | D．expensive |
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| 小题7: | | A．put away | B．made out | C．picked up | D．dug out |
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| 小题8: | | A．terrible | B．grateful | C．OK | D．crazy |
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| 小题9: | | A．rich | B．normal | C．simple | D．hard |
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| 小题10: | | A．special | B．dangerous | C．hopeless | D．impossible |
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| 小题11: | | A．hope | B．wonder | C．fear | D．doubt |
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| 小题12: | | A．ended up | B．broke down | C．kept away | D．came out |
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| 小题13: | | A．patient | B．expert | C．example | D．role |
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| 小题14: | | A．friends | B．bosses | C．families | D．mistakes |
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| 小题15: | | A．fair | B．safe | C．false | D．public |
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| 小题16: | | A．better | B．younger | C．prouder | D．worse |
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| 小题17: | | A．years | B．months | C．centuries | D．weeks |
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| 小题18: | | A．hardly | B．actually | C．luckily | D．regularly |
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| 小题19: | | A．dream | B．way | C．house | D．study |
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| 小题20: | | A．struggling | B．filling | C．turning | D．begging |
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小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:A |
试题分析：文章介绍Jasmine Harman是著名的电视节目主持人，但是她有个秘密是不想让公众知道的，那就是她妈妈得了囤积症，她对此感到羞愧，但是后来，她举办了电视节目，呼吁公众对这些病人多些关注和帮助，让他们能生活的更好。
小题1:考查动词：A. settle解决，定居，B. take拿，C. beat击败，D. calm冷静，从前面的句子：Jasmine Harman，a famous TV presenter, was sunny and active.可知Jasmine Harman是著名的电视节目主持人，没有什么能把她击败，.选C
小题2:考查动词：A. making使得，制作，B. discovering发现，C. hiding躲藏，隐藏，D. mixing混合，从one she couldn’t to be made public.可知她隐藏了一个不能被公众知道的秘密，选C
小题3:考查动词：A. wait等待，B. plan计划，C. cover覆盖，D. bear忍受，cant bear to do sth不能忍受做什么，选D
小题4:考查名词：A. work工作，B. mum 妈妈，C. illness疾病，D. memory记忆，从后面的句子：Because her mother had a illness called hoarding Disorder(囤积症).可知她害怕别人知道她妈妈的事情，选B
小题5:考查形容词：A. mental精神的，B. physical 身体的，C. final最后的，D. social社会的，从后面的描述：“Mum would keep batteries, old speakers, broken dolls and baskets she in the street.可知这是一种精神病，选A
小题6:考查形容词：A. new新的，B. used用过的，C. round园的，D. expensive昂贵的，和old speakers, broken dolls同类的是用过的电池，选B
小题7:考查词组：A. put away收好，储存，B. made out辨认出，理解，C. picked up捡起，收听，接送，好转，D. dug out挖掘出，妈妈会保留她在街上捡的用过的电池，旧扬声器和篮子，选C
小题8:考查形容词： A. terrible可怕的，B. grateful感激的，C.OK好的，D. crazy疯狂的，如果你想把它们清除掉，她就会发疯，选D
小题9:考查形容词：A. rich富有的，B. normal正常的，C. simple 简单的，D. hard困难的，可以想象，因为妈妈的病，全家不能过正常的生活，选B
小题10:考查形容词：A. special特殊的，B. dangerous 危险的，C. hopeless无望的，D. impossible不可能的，从后面的句子：She made a documentary called My Hoarder Mum and Me about her family’s battle to fight against her mum’s disease.可知她在两年前做了一些特殊的事情，选A
小题11:考查动词： A. hope希望，B. wonder想知道，C. fear害怕，D. doubt怀疑，我确实希望我们的节目可以反应更多这样的问题，选A
小题12:考查动词短语：A. ended up最终，B. broke down 崩溃，破裂，分解，C. kept away远离， D. came out出版，发行，然后第二个节目Britain’s Biggest Hoarders播出了，选D
小题13:考查名词：A. patient病人，B. expert专家， C. example 例子，D. role作用，从前面的句子:Luckily, there are diagnostic criteria(诊断标准)now and experts that can help.可知她现在自己成了专家，选B
小题14:考查名词：A. friends朋友，B. bosses 老板，C. families家庭，D. mistakes错误，她经营了一家网站帮助患病者和他们的家人，选C
小题15:考查形容词：A. fair 公平的，B. safe 安全的，C. false错误的，D. public公共的，从第一段的句子：one she couldn’t to be made public.可知以前她想隐瞒，现在希望能够公开，选D
小题16:考查形容词：A. better更好，B. younger更年轻，C. prouder更自豪，D. worse更糟糕，象我妈妈这样的人需要帮助，而不是使他们觉得更糟，选D
小题17:考查名词：A. years年，B. months 月的，C. centuries世纪，D. weeks星期，从后面的But we had one last year,可知他们很多年没有在妈妈家吃圣诞晚宴了，选A
小题18:考查副词：A. hardly几乎不，B. actually实际上， C. luckily 幸运地，D. regularly有规律地，实际上，我们不能把人们请到家里，选B
小题19:考查名词：A. dream梦想，B. way道路，方法，C. house房子，D. study学习，从前面的because you couldn’t get people into the house .可知房子还不是很完美，选C
小题20:考查动词：A. struggling努力，斗争，挣扎，B. filling填满，C. turning转身，D. begging乞求，从前面的Mum isn’t perfect either.可知妈妈还在和疾病做斗争，选A |
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood. The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. And worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." That was Frank McCourt reading the opening lines of his book Angela"s Ashes, released in 1996.
This Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Angela"s Ashes that recorded his poor upbringing, died of cancer on Sunday, The New York Times reported. He was 78.
Born in New York City, he was the eldest of the seven children born to Irish immigrant parents. Angela"s Ashes was a memoir(回忆录)that captured an irresponsible, drunkard(酒鬼)father with a gift for story-telling. When not drunk, his father was absent, turning his back on a family so poor, McCourt wrote, that they were reduced to burning the furniture in their rented hut to keep warm. His mother struggled to raise her many children after his father left the family.
In Angela"s Ashes, he wrote of hunger, a home flooded with rainwater and the unbearable humiliation(耻辱)of seeking handouts from charities in the Irish city. But he told the story in a way that is expressive, warm and light-hearted.
Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of 19 to return to New York City where he was born. He earned a degree in English education and taught creative writing for nearly thirty years. After retiring in 1987, he decided to write about his childhood. "Angela"s Ashes" became a huge success and brought McCourt a 1997 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors. Millions of copies of the book were sold worldwide and it was adapted into a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle.
小题1:In the first paragraph, by saying "The happy childhood is hardly worth your while", the writer really means that ________.| A．a lot of readers don"t deserve happy childhood | | B．his childhood is not worth of others" sympathy | | C．his childhood is mixed with happiness and misery | | D．smooth childhood surely will not draw readers" attention |
小题2:From the passage, we know Frank McCourt"s father is ________.| A．humorous and trustworthy | | B．alcohol-addicted but loves his family | | C．poor but warm-hearted | | D．irresponsible but gifted in telling stories |
小题3:Which of the statements about the book “Angela’s Ashes” is right?| A．This book is intended to show respect to McCourt’s father. | | B．The author wrote the book in a sad and serious tone(语调). | | C．The book enjoyed great popularity after it came out. | | D．The author got two awards because of the book. |
小题4: What"s the text mainly about?| A．A brief introduction to Frank McCourt and one of his works. | | B．A literary review(评论) on Frank McCourt"s book. | | C．An account of Frank McCourt"s miserable childhood. | | D．A comment on Frank McCourt"s life experience. |
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Four years ago my sweet mom went to be with God. She did it her way.
I got the call at work, and I headed home quickly. Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that they had owned since I was seven. I hated going there every weekend. There was nothing for a young girl to do but watch the one station on the old TV set, if the weather allowed reception.
My mom, on the other hand, loved the peace and quiet of the land and loved to work in the garden among her flowers and vegetables. The place was simple, with no indoor pipes or heating. We had a big wood stove in the kitchen that did its best to heat the little farmhouse, but it always seemed cold and too quiet to me.
In the evenings, my mom and I would sit for hours singing in the little kitchen. I sang the rhythm and Mom harmonized. Her favorite song was "Moon River" and we sang it over and over. Mom told me stories about how when I was a little girl, I could sing before I could talk. She loved to tell there was one song I particularly loved called "Ivory Tower".
As time passed, I had my own children and went to visit every week or two. The kids loved the farm and the tractor rides with my dad. Me, well, I still hated the silence of the farm. While my mom loved to sit at her kitchen table and look out at her garden and flowers and retell all the old stories, I missed the hustle and bustle(喧闹) of my life at home. But I sat there listening quietly as she reminisced.
Now, I sat back in the silence and turned on an old radio. Music always comforted me.
My heart skipped a beat. "Moon River" was playing on the radio. I sat there shocked, with a tear running down my cheek, as I listened to every familiar note.
Then the radio announcer of this old station came on. "Here"s one we haven"t heard in a while," and an unfamiliar song began. I began to cry harder as I heard the words sung over the airwaves "Come down, come down from your Ivory Tower…".
小题1:The writer didn’t like staying in the farm for the following reasons Except that ________. | A．it was too cold and quiet | | B．she could only sing one song in the small farm | | C．there was nothing more that could make her excited | | D．it had no indoor pipes or heating |
小题2:From the first paragraph, we know that the writer’s mother ________. | A．passed away four years ago | B．left the small farm | | C．left to live her own way | D．preferred to be with God |
小题3:The underlined word reminisced in the fifth paragraph probably means ________. | A．remembered | B．comforted | C．shouted | D．sighed |
小题4:Which of the following statements is NOT true?| A．The writer was able to sing before she could speak. | | B．The writer preferred to live a busy life in the city. | | C．The writer was still quite familiar with the song "Ivory Tower". | | D．The writer treasured all her childhood memories in the small farmhouse. |
小题5:Which would be the best title for this passage? | A．Cherish life | B．My happy childhood | | C．Our small farmhouse | D．Mom’s music |
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When it is Tom’s turn for a cut, Mr. Smith places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t have to bend to cut the boy’s hair.
“Hey, young man, you’re , you won’t need this soon, you’ll be able to sit in the chair.” the barber says.
“Wow,” says Tom, turning round to look at his dad. “Dad, Mr. Smith said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the !”
“So I hear,” his father replies. “I expect Mr. Smith will start me more for your hair then.”
In the Tom sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. Occasionally he glances at the barber as he works. He smells a(n) of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting.
Tom feels like he is in another world, except for the sound of the barber’s shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the of his scissors. In the from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the of the scissors’ click.
Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair softly as snow and he sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special left leaning against the wall in the corner.
When Mr. Smith has , Tom hops down from the seat. , he sees his own thick, hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. For a moment he wants to reach down and the broken blonde hair, to them from the others, but he does not have time.
They reach the pavement outside the shop. “I tell you what, boy, let’s get some fish and chips to take home, your mum from cooking tea,” says Tom’s dad.
Tom is excited and catches his dad’s hand. He is surprised to find, warming in his father’s palm, a handful of his own .
| 小题1: | | A．building up | B．sending up | C．bringing up | D．shooting up |
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| 小题2: | | A．desk | B．board | C．couch | D．sofa |
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| 小题3: | | A．paying | B．blaming | C．charging | D．accusing |
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| 小题4: | | A．mirror | B．book | C．shelf | D．catalogue |
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| 小题5: | | A．steals | B．discovers | C．returns | D．transforms |
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| 小题6: | | A．lack | B．memory | C．mixture | D．expression |
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| 小题7: | | A．helpless | B．noiseless | C．fearless | D．thoughtless |
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| 小题8: | | A．control | B．direction | C．effect | D．click |
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| 小题9: | | A．immigration | B．opposition | C．reflection | D．assumption |
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| 小题10: | | A．rhyme | B．trail | C．pattern | D．sound |
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| 小题11: | | A．falls | B．covers | C．melts | D．explodes |
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| 小题12: | | A．considers | B．succeeds | C．approves | D．imagines |
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| 小题13: | | A．package | B．bench | C．scissors | D．carpet |
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| 小题14: | | A．treated | B．compromised | C．finished | D．entertained |
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| 小题15: | | A．Looking into | B．Looking forward | C．Looking up | D．Looking down |
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| 小题16: | | A．blonde | B．red | C．black | D．white |
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| 小题17: | | A．send for | B．find out | C．gather up | D．show off |
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| 小题18: | | A．punish | B．separate | C．deliver | D．confirm |
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| 小题19: | | A．persuade | B．save | C．excuse | D．relax |
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Many years ago in a small German town, a Jewish businessman had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the businessman’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and he would forgo her father’s debt. If she picked the white pebble, she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.
They were standing on a pebble-strewn path. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. The sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag. No doubt she was caught in a dilemma.
What would you have done if you were the girl? Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1.The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2.The girl should know that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3.The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral (横向的)and logical thinking.
Read on…
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles. “Oh, how clumsy of me!” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.” Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.
小题1:The underlined word “forgo” in paragraph 2 may mean ________.| A．pay off | B．run out | C．take over | D．give up |
小题2:Which of the following indicates lateral thinking?| A．The girl refused to take a pebble and fled at once. | | B．The girl exposed the cheat and found another way. | | C．The girl picked one pebbles and made it disappear. | | D．The girl picked a black pebble and accepted the result. |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that ________.| A．The girl dropped the pebble onto the path on purpose | | B．The girl dropped the pebble onto the path by accident | | C．The girl didn’t know there were two black pebbles in the bag | | D．The girl replaced a black pebble in the bag |
小题4:What lesson can we learn from the story?| A．Keeping calm when facing a difficult situation. | | B．Thinking about a complicated problem in another way. | | C．Thinking twice before making a final choice. | | D．Coming up with a clever answer is easy. |
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Mondays are usually pretty busy for me. On one of these Mondays, I got ready to go to work thinking about all the things I had to on that day and walked down to get to my car scolding myself for being late to work, but the car was nowhere to be found. I right across my apartment the previous night but it wasn’t there that morning.
This was at 8:00 am in the morning. I made to all the towing（拖）places, police stations all the time thinking that it was towed by . By around 10:00 am, I couldn’t find it anywhere and the policemen decided that it was stolen. After filing a report with them, I finally got to work thinking how my day was completely .
Later in the day I went to pick up a rental car at an enterprise to realize that my license was missing too along with my car. I told the enterprise guy the whole and he was so sorry for me that he to take me to the nearest DMV（车管局）and get a duplicate（副本的） . I was totally surprised. I didn’t know why this complete stranger would want to some time off his day to help me . He actually took me to DMV, got a duplicate and then me a car. I was the whole day because of the continuous events that happened to me but somehow this simple act of kindness from a stranger made it all worth it. It cheered me up and made me forget all the misfortunes of the day. I was so by this kind act that the next day I made sure someone else got a similar . I took some smiley shaped chocolates and them on some of my colleague’s desks.
This is still a lot out there in the world. We just need to take the time to discover it.
| 小题1: | | A．typical | B．lovely | C．strange | D．pleasant |
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| 小题2: | | A．face | B．explain | C．accomplish | D．arrange |
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| 小题3: | | A．excitedly | B．surprisingly | C．interestingly | D．hurriedly |
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| 小题4: | | A．stayed | B．looked | C．walked | D．parked |
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| 小题5: | | A．ways | B．trips | C．surveys | D．contributions |
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| 小题6: | | A．policemen | B．doctors | C．thieves | D．officials |
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| 小题7: | | A．normally | B．curiously | C．actually | D．finally |
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| 小题8: | | A．made up | B．worked out | C．figured out | D．messed up |
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| 小题9: | | A．still | B．even | C．never | D．only |
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| 小题10: | | A．message | B．secret | C．story | D．business |
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| 小题11: | | A．declined | B．offered | C．hesitated | D．approved |
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| 小题12: | | A．license | B．card | C．book | D．ticket |
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| 小题13: | | A．spend | B．leave | C．take | D．get |
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| 小题14: | | A．lent | B．presented | C．bought | D．rented |
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| 小题15: | | A．delighted | B．annoyed | C．disappointed | D．amused |
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| 小题16: | | A．complete | B．perfect | C．wonderful | D．special |
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| 小题17: | | A．moved | B．puzzled | C．shocked | D．embarrassed |
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| 小题18: | | A．honor | B．method | C．problem | D．surprise |
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| 小题19: | | A．forgot | B．threw | C．left | D．exposed |
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| 小题20: | | A．friendship | B．goodness | C．competition | D．misunderstanding |
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