完型填空     A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn"t know what she could do and wanted to
___1___. She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but ___2___ appeared.
     Her father, a cook, took her into the ___3___. He poured water into three pots and boiled it. After
the water came to a boil, he put some ___4___ in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last.
He waited for them for a few minutes ___5___ any words.
     The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and ___6___ by what her father was doing. After
about 20 minutes, her father ___7___ the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took
the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he ___8___ the coffee into a cup. Turning back to his
___9___ , he asked, "Sweetheart, what do you see?"
     "Carrots, eggs and coffee," she replied.
     Her father asked her to __10  _ the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were ___11___.
    ___12___ he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were
hard.
     Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.
     She asked, "What does this _ _13__, Father?"
     He __14__ that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate. They were all boiled in ___15__, but with a ___16___ result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The
fragile eggs became __17___ after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the
water.
     "___18___ one are you?" asked her father. "When calamity(不幸的事) __19___ on your door,
what will your ___20___ be? Are you carrots, eggs of coffee?"

(     )1. A. give in   (     )2. A. the other (     )3. A. kitchen   (     )4. A. potatoes   (     )5. A. with       (     )6. A. confused   (     )7. A. turned on (     )8. A. put       (     )9. A. son       (     )10. A. touch     (     )11. A. strong   (     )12. A. Now that (     )13. A. mean     (     )14. A. questioned (     )15. A. water     (     )16. A. similar   (     )17. A. hard     (     )18. A. What     (     )19. A. looks     (     )20. A. reaction	B. give up     B. the rest     B. storeroom   B. carrots     B. over         B. excited     B. turned down B. poured       B. pot          B. eat         B. heavy       B. Since then   B. say         B. explained   B. pot         B. same         B. calm         B. Whichever   B. touches     B. responsibility	C. go on     C. another   C. backyard   C. tomatoes   C. beyond     C. surprised C. turned off C. flew       C. kitchen   C. smell     C. light     C. After that C. refer     C. required   C. stove     C. different C. delicious C.  Whose     C. knocks     C. answer	D. carry on     D. the second   D. bedroom       D. apples       D. without       D. relaxed       D. turned out   D. picked       D. daughter     D. taste         D. soft         D. Once again   D. think         D. suggested     D. fire         D. wonderful     D. broken       D. Which         D. waits         D. impression
1-5:  BCABD   6-10:  ACBDA  11-15: DCABA  16-20: CADCA
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The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call "books".      I was going to have my examination the next day. "When can I go to bed?" I asked myself. I didn"t answer. In fact I dared not.      The clock struck twelve. "Oh, dear!" I cried. "Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!" We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.      The clock struck one. I was quite desperate now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, "Oh God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen." My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.
1. The underlined word "wretched" in Paragraph 3 probably means ____________.
A. happy           B. disappointed           C. unhappy           D. hopeful
2. Reviewing his lessons that night didn"t help him because ____________.
A. it was too late at night                     B. he was very tired C. his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn"t keep them open D. he hadn"t studied hard before the examination
3. What do you suppose probably happened to the author the next day?
A. He went to a church to pray again.           B. He passed the exam all by luck. C. He failed in the exam.                     D. He was punished by his teacher.
4. The best title for the passage would be ____________.
A. The Night Before the Examination           B. Working Far into the Night C. A Slow Student                         D. Going Over My Lessons
This is a true story from Guyana. One day, a boy took a piece of paper from a box. He made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose. He couldn"t get it out. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn"t get the paper out, either. A week later, the paper was still in the boy"s nose. His nose began to have a bad smell.      So his mother took the boy to a hospital. The doctor looked up at the child"s nose, but she couldn"t get the paper out. She said she had to cut the boy"s nose to get the paper out.      The boy"s mother came home looking sad. She didn"t want her child to have his nose cut. The next day she took the boy to her friend Sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called May. May wanted to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose.      "Yes, I can see it," May said. "It will be out soon."      As she spoke, she shook some black pepper on the child"s nose. The child gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim, for the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.      So the lucky boy didn"t have to go to the hospital to have his nose cut.
1. After the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose, ____.
A. he took it out                 B. his mother took it out C. he did nothing but cry         D. he tried to take it out but failed
2. The paper ball stayed in the boy"s nose for ____.
A. at most seven days             B. less than seven days C. more than seven days           D. exactly seven days
3. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boy"s nose. B. May succeeded in taking the paper out. C. The boy"s mother found some black pepper to solve the problem. D. The boy had to have his nose cut at last.
4. The boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because ____.
A. he needed to learn to swim B. the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose. C. the sea water would wash out the paper ball. D. he needed a rest
One night last February, a seventeen-year-old Duffy drove home along a winding road, he saw a strange light thrown against the tree. "I knew it wasn"t the moon", he said. "I drive this road all the time and I notice little things out of place."      Duffy stopped his car and got out to examine. Below him far down in the deep valley lay a broken car with its headlights on. Thirty minutes earlier, a man had driven off the edge of the road, which has no guardrail. His car fell and rolled end over end, landing on its top more than two hundred feet below.      Duffy rushed to call for help, then returned and got down to reach the injured driver. Snow covered the valley and the temperature was below freezing. After struggling back up the cliff, Duffy took off his jacket and shirt and wrapped the injured man in time, along with the blankets from his car.     Life-saving deeds are starting to become usual action for Duffy, the oldest of seven children. When he was 12, he saved his ten-year-old brother from drowning. Two years ago, his three-year-old sister ate rat poison, and Duffy cleaned out her mouth, make her drink milk to protect her stomach and called doctors.      "We have tried to teach the children good values, and it looks like we have got some reward for it." His father says.
1. The strange light came from ________.
A. The bright moon.           B. Duffy"s car. C. The broken car in the valley   D. an unknown place
2. The phrase" landing on its top" means the car lay_________.
A. on the top of the cliff     B. with its wheels upward   C. with its head upward     D. on the road as usual
3. From the above article, we can see Duffy has saved ________ at least.
A. two     B. three     C. four       D. five
4. "We have tried to teach the children good values" may probably mean Duffy"s parents often tell their children_________.
A. to help people in danger         B. how to save people"s lives C. to remember the value of the car     D. how to do business
完形填空
In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He got into a lifeboat, but his supplies were __1__. His chances of surviving were small. __2__ when three fishermen found him 76days later, he was alive-much __3__ than he was when he started, but alive.      His __4__ of how he survived is fascinating. His cleverness-how he __5__ to catch fish, how he evaporated(使蒸发) sea water to __6__ fresh water- is very interesting.      But the thing that __7__ my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, and there seemed no __8__ in continuing the struggle. He was starved and __9   exhausted. Giving up would have seemed the only possible choice.      When people __10   these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds, which gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in __11   desperate circumstances __12   in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on __13   difficulties.      "I tell myself I can __14   it," wrote Callahan in his book. "Compared to what others have been through, I"m fortunate, I tell myself these things over and over, __15   up courage…      I wrote that down after I read it. It __16   me as something important. And I"ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed __17   off or when my problems seemed too terrible. And every time I"ve said it, I"ve always come back to my __18  .      The truth is, our circumstances are only bad __19   to something better. But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you"re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you __20   through the rough situation with a little more courage.
(     )  1:  A. full            (     )  2:  A. And             (     )  3: A. th inner        (     )  4:  A. attitude       (     )  5: A. helped         (     )  6: A. make           (     )  7: A. attacked       (     )  8: A. operation       (     )  9: A. partly         (     )10: A. deal           (     )11. A. similarly       (     )12: A. bring           (     )13: A. for the lack of (     )14: A. make           (     )15: A. rolling         (     )16: A. defeated       (     )17: A. far             (     )18: A. feelings       (     )19: A. related         (     )20: A. see	B. rich           B. Yet             B. stronger       B. decision       B. pretended       B. absorb         B. caught         B. taste           B. completely     B. defend         B. differently     B. take           B. in the face of B. carry           B. using           B. told           B. long           B. senses         B. measured       B. cut	C. few             C. Still           C. worse           C. instruction     C. managed         C. choose           C. froze           C. message         C. hardly           C. survive         C. gradually       C. break           C. in exchange for C. follow           C. building         C. introduced       C. ever             C. ideas           C. contributed     C. get	D. enough         D. Thus           D. healthier       D. account         D. intended       D. replace         D. cheated         D. point           D. generally       D. observe         D. commonly       D. give           D. as a result of D. respect         D. making         D. struck         D. even           D. influences     D. compared       D. think
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Lake Champlain is on the borders of New York and Vermont. An explorer named Samuel De Champlain is regarded as the first person to see a monster in it. This is reported to have happened in 1609, but this may not have been the first sighting of the monster known as Champ.      A reporter in the 1960"s found that the sighting may not have been in the lake at all. It is more likely that the first sighting was off the coast of the St. Lawrence estuary (河口).  In all likelihood, the first sighting of the lake monster in the lake itself took place at Port Henry, New York, in 1819 by settlers in the territory. The sightings continued, and in 1883 the sheriff (州长) of Clinton County, Nathan Mooney, described witnessing " an enormous snake that was 25 to 30 feet in length".      Sandra Mansi and her husband were vacationing in Vermont. When the lake monster appeared, they took a picture of Champ. The picture was analyzed and it was concluded that the photo was real. It has been speculated (推测) that the monster may be a creature known as a plesiosaur (颈项龙), which lived many centuries ago.      Lake Champlain has depths of up to 400 feet, and is an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean. There is plenty of food there, which supports the existence of such a creature.  Lake Champlain also has a water temperature that is ideal for such a creature. In recent years a smaller creature has been seen with the large one. Could there be a family of these creatures in the lake reproducing their yet unknown species now? Only time will give us the answers that we seek.
1. Where did the first sighting of Champ in the lake most probably happen?
A. Off the coast of the St. Lawrence estuary. B. At Port Henry. C. In the Clinton County. D. In Vermont.
2. Which of the following have the scientists concluded?
A. That the monster belongs to a known species. B. That the picture taken by Sandra Mansi is real. C. That the monster is the offspring of the plesiosaur. D. When and where the lake monsters were first seen
3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The snake-like monster may have swum there from the Atlantic Ocean. B. Champ has had so many babies that they can be seen everywhere in the lake. C. The first recorded story about the Lake Champlain monster was in 1609. D. Enough food and a suitable water temperature is evidence that Champ can live there