suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a
number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the
baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you are
on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, destroying your half prepared meal. You hang
up hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to bring
you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars
hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a
learner. She suddenly go into a panic (恐慌) and stopped her car. This made the driver following her
stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the
cake went right through the window and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a
truck-driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and
hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.
Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move
again. In the meanwhile, the truck-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs
were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It
was just one of those days!
B. accidents may happen anytime
C. troubles always come in groups
D. anyone may have trouble any day
B. your trouble is sure to come
C. you"d better just let it ring all the way
D. you should never go to answer it in a hurry
B. They helped the drivers to go on with their journey.
C. They tried to stop the people from arguing.
D. They would find out who should be responsible
B. such accidents are rather strange
C. no one can explain why such accidents happen
D. some drivers are too careless
A certain student passed all his examinations. Then he went to college to 1 his studies. There he
wrote down his 2 for a course (课程) in English, but after the first 3 , he didn"t go to it any more.
The English lecture r(讲师) 4 this student was always absent (缺席的) and thought he had 5 to
another course, so he was 6 when he saw the boy"s name on the list of students who wanted to take
the English 7 at the end of this year.
The lecturer had 8 a difficult paper, which followed his 9 closely, and he was eager (热切的)
to see 10 this student would answer the questions. He 11 the boy"s answers would be very bad,
but when the test papers 12 him and he examined them 13 , he was able to find only one small
mistake in them. As this surprised him greatly, he 14 the paper repeatedly but still couldn"t find more
than one mistake, so he 15 for the student to question him about it.
When he came and sat down, the lecturer asked him, "I 16 you came to my first lecture and
you"ve been absent from all the others. But I"ve examined your 17 carefully and I"ve found only one
small mistake in it. I"m curious (好奇的) to know your 18 ."
"I"m very 19 about that mistake," answered the student. "After the examination, I 20 what I
should have done. I would not have made that mistake if I had not been confused by your first lecture."
( )2. A. questions
( )3. A. week
( )4. A. astonished
( )5. A. led
( )6. A. surprised
( )7. A. test
( )8. A. discovered
( )9. A. ideas
( )10. A. when
( )11. A. hoped
( )12. A. showed
( )13. A. carelessly
( )14. A. enjoyed
( )15. A. cared
( )16. A. promise
( )17. A. lessons
( )18. A. wisdom
( )19. A. glad
( )20. A. realized
B. advice
B. lecture(讲座)
B. regretted
B. devoted
B. angry
B. subject
B. prepared
B. senses
B. what
B. proved
B. gave
B. carefully
B. kept
B. called
B. know
B. paper
B. experience
B. proud
B. understood
C. problems
C. meet
C. noticed
C. gone
C. pleased
C. note
C. gone
C. lectures
C. why
C. expected
C. handed
C. slowly
C. did
C. sent
C. advise
C. notebook
C. method
C. content
C. remembered
D. name
D. sight
D. believed
D. changed
D. unhappy
D. course
D. found
D. texts
D. how
D. wished
D. reached
D. happily
D. examined
D. looked
D. guess
D. exercises
D. explanation
D. sorry
D. suffered
A witness (目击者) recognized his car and Strait was caught by the police. Then he was sent to
Austria"s Stein Prison to serve a six-year sentence. He boasted (吹嘘) at his trial(审判) that he would
continue breaking the law, "I am a thief and I shall use every opportunity." Despite the warning, prison
officials moved Strait to the prison"s blacksmith (铁匠) shop. One day during the week before Christmas, Strait disappeared. Searchers found all his doors were well locked. Strait had managed to make a set of
keys and let himself out.
Not to freedom, though. After crossing into Bavaria, Strait attracted the suspicion (怀疑) of German
customs (海关) police on purpose and got himself arrested. "I want to be in a German prison, "he
explained to the surprised police. "As German courts give much milder (温和的) sentences for crimes
(罪) like mine and will reduce the time I would otherwise have served in Stein Prison."
In prison, Strait persuaded his keepers to let him make a Christmas Eve telephone call to his former
keeper, Karl Schreiner of Stein Prison. "I"m sorry if I caused trouble. I didn"t want to embarrass(使尴尬) anybody by escaping. Conditions weren"t that bad. In fact the food was better than it is here."
B. peasant
C. stealer
D. doctor
a. Strait was caught by German customs police.
b. Strait left a note in the bank.
c. Strait was sent to Stein Prison.
d. Strait worked in a blacksmith shop.
e. Strait escaped from prison.
B. b-a-c-d-e
C. b-c-d-e-a
D. d-b-c-e-a
B. His good relations with the prison officials.
C. His cooperation with other prisoners.
D. His working in the blacksmith shop.
B. he left a note in the bank safe
C. he was recognized by customs police
D. he made a phone call to his former keeper
B. the life of prisoners in Germany was better than those in Austria"s
C. he wouldn"t have to stay that long in a German prison
D. he could escape more easily from a German prison
morning he would look in his garden and pick up his hen"s egg for breakfast. One morning he looked into
his garden and saw that the hen had laid an egg in the Englishman"s garden.
He was about to go next door when he saw the English-man pick up the egg. The Scotsman ran up
to the English-man and told him that the egg belonged to him because he owned the hen. The Englishman
disagreed because the egg was on his property (财产).
They argued for a while until finally the Scotsman said, "In my family we normally settle disputes (争
议) by the following actions: We kick each other and we compare the time how long it takes us to get
back up. Whoever gets up quicker wins the egg."
The Englishman agreed to this, so the Scotsman found his heaviest pair of boots (皮靴) and put them
on. He took a few steps back, then ran toward the Englishman and kicked as hard as he could in his
stomach.
The Englishman fell to the floor, holding his stomach and howling (嚎叫) in pain for 10 minutes.
Eventually (最终) the English-man stood up and said, "Now it"s my turn to kick you." At this time, the
Scotsman said, "oh, maybe you should just keep the egg."
B. It laid an egg every other day.
C. Its eggs were usually cooked by the Scotsman as breakfast.
D. It usually laid eggs in the Englishman"s garden.
B. wars
C. plans
D. Debts
B. He wanted to solve their dispute.
C. He wanted to teach the Englishman a lesson.
D. He wanted to find out who was the stronger of them.
expecting a quiet 1 of the splendid artwork.
A young 2 viewing the paintings ahead of me 3 nonstop between themselves. I watched them a
moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man"s 4 for putting up with her 5 stream of words. 6 by their noise, I moved on.
I met them several times as I moved 7 the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous
flow of words, I moved away 8 .
I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a 9 when the couple approached
the 10 . Before they left, the man 11 into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He 12 it into a
long stick and then 13 his way into the coatroom to get his wife"s jacket.
"He"s a 14 man," the clerk at the counter said. "Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such
a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn"t change. So, as before, he and his
wife come in 15 there is a new art show."
"But what does he get out of the art?" I asked. "He can"t see."
"Can"t see! You"re 16 . He sees a lot. More than you and I do," the clerk said. "His wife 17 each
painting so he can see it in his head."
I learned something about patience, 18 and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife
describing paintings to a person without 19 and the courage of a husband who would not 20
blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk
away, their arms intertwined (交缠).
( )2. A. lady
( )3. A. chatted
( )4. A. attempt
( )5. A. vivid
( )6. A. Adopted
( )7. A. through
( )8. A. anxiously
( )9. A. comment
( )10. A. entrance
( )11. A. plugged
( )12. A. made
( )13. A. led
( )14. A. brave
( )15. A. wherever
( )16. A. wrong
( )17. A. describes
( )18. A. kindness
( )19. A. support
( )20. A. get
B. man
B. argued
B. independence
B. constant
B. Adapted
B. to
B. urgently
B. decision
B. exit
B. held
B. lengthened
B. found
B. rough
B. whatever
B. silly
B. draws
B. pride
B. sight
B. hope
C. couple
C. screamed
C. wisdom
C. casual
C. Conducted
C. towards
C. quickly
C. purchase
C. front
C. reached
C. brought
C. forced
C. smart
C. whichever
C. equal
C. shows
C. enthusiasm
C. expectation
C. allow
D. clerk
D. yelled
D. patience
D. vague
D. Disturbed
D. from
D. sensibly
D. profit
D. queue
D. bent
D. broadened
D. tapped
D. generous
D. whenever
D. unique
D. decorates
D. courage
D. confidence
D. cause
baseball on a team every year in the spring. He loves to go to baseball ___2___.
Every day when it is ___3___, Eddie’s father throws a baseball to Eddie in the backyard.
This is thetime of day that Eddie ___4__ best. He enjoys spending time with his father and he
loves practicing baseball.
Eddie __5 baseball cards throughout the year. He and his father visit the ___6___ and
buy cards for Eddie’s collection. Eddie spends hours with his baseball cards. He arranges them
in different __7____ , and trades them with other baseball __8___.
One day, Eddie’s father came home with two tickets to ___9__the Atlanta Braves play the
next Saturday. Eddie was so __10__He counted down the days on the calendar.
Finally it was the day of the game. Eddie and his father __11___to Atlanta early in the morning.
Before they watched the match, they___12__the Braves’ museum at the stadium and saw a short
movie __13___the history of the Atlanta Braves. Eddie enjoyed seeing the museum. They ate
__14___at the stadium, and soon it was time for the game.
The game was exciting. Eddie tried to ___15_every move the players made. ___16__he
watched carefully and practiced a lot, he might just be on one of those baseball cards some day!
___17__ the game, Eddie and his father drove home. They talked about the game. They
talked about which __18___were the best, and which ___19__were the most exciting. Eddie
went to sleepthat night still __20___of baseball. His dreams were filled with images from his very
special day.
( )2.A. practice
( )3. A. stormy
( )4.A. exercises
( )5.A. sells
( )6.A. buyers
( )7.A. rooms
( )8.A. stars
( )9.A. see
( )10.A. amazed
( )11.A. flew
( )12.A. visited
( )13.A. on
( )14.A. breakfast
( )15.A. choose
( )16.A. Though
( )17.A. Over
( )18.A. seats
( )19.A. parts
( )20.A. thinking
B. school
B. rainy
B. likes
B. keeps
B. museums
B. sides
B. fans
B. join
B. excited
B. walked
B. passed
B. off
B. dessert
B. forget
B. Unless
B. Before
B. teams
B. games
B. dreaming
C. games
C. sunny
C. learns
C. collects
C. libraries
C. situations
C. agents
C. attend
C. proud
C. rode
C. arrived
C. in
C. lunch
C. watch
C. When
C. During
C. players
C. movies
C. hearing
D. clubs
D. windy
D. wants
D. plays
D. stores
D. groups
D. managers
D. wait
D. nervous
D. drove
D. left
D. with
D. supper
D. copy
D. If
D. After
D. cards
D. sports
D. talking
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