My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
| 小题1: | | A．job | B．project | C．observation | D．course |
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| 小题2: | | A．checked | B．noticed | C．watched | D．waited |
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| 小题4: | | A．scenes | B．senses | C．marks | D．signs |
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| 小题5: | | A．nobody | B．somebody | C．everyone | D．anyone |
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| 小题6: | | A．curiosity | B．suspect | C．sympathy | D．worry |
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| 小题8: | | A．insert | B．interrupt | C．talk | D．request |
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| 小题9: | | A．taught | B．shown | C．forced | D．instructed |
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| 小题10: | | A．added | B．wrote | C．made | D．folded |
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| 小题12: | | A．back | B．bottom | C．top | D．edge |
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| 小题13: | | A．drop | B．raise | C．fall | D．lift |
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| 小题14: | | A．keep | B．thank | C．forgive | D．honor |
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| 小题15: | | A．remembered | B．punished | C．removed | D．replaced |
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| 小题16: | | A．silence | B．heart | C．peace | D．memory |
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| 小题18: | | A．birth | B．passing | C．loss | D．starting |
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| 小题19: | | A．awoke | B．reminded | C．forgot | D．apologized |
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| 小题20: | | A．simply | B．hardly | C．seriously | D．angrily |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:A
小题14:D
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:C
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试题分析：本文通过作者参加的一个鼓励学生对自己有信心的项目告诉我们：要把自己不能做到的事情埋到地下，我们就会对自己有信心，就可以做到很多自己不能做到的事情的。
小题1:B 名词辨析。A工作；B计划，安排；C观察；D课程，事业；根据前一句My job was to make classroom observations
and encourage a training program可知我的工作就是推广这样的一个让孩子对自己有信心的计划。
小题2:C 动词辨析。A检查，核对；B注意到；C观察；D等待；根据第一句My job was to make classroom observations可知我的工作就是进行课堂观察，这次我来顶了Donna的课堂上来观察她是如何鼓励学生的。故使用watch表示长时间地看。
小题3:A 固定搭配。Work on从事于；在她的课堂上所有的学生都在从事于一个任务：在纸上写下自己不能做的事情。
小题4:D 名词辨析。A风景；B感觉；C痕迹；D迹象；这个孩子已经写了半张纸的“I can’t”，但是还是没有停止的迹象。说明孩子们对自己的信心不足，认为自己有很多不能做到的事情。
小题5:C 代词辨析。因为这是老师所布置的任务，所以每个人都在写一些句子描述自己不能做到的事情。
小题6:A 名词辨析。A好奇；B怀疑；C同情；D担忧；我发现的学生都在写自己不能做到的事情，这样的安排引起了我的好奇心。
小题7:C 连词辨析。我本来想和老师一起来看看会发生什么样的事情，但是我没有想到的是，老师也在纸上写她不能做到的事情。上下文之间存在着转折的关系。故使用but表示转折。
小题8:B 动词辨析。A插入；B打断；打扰；C谈话；交谈；D请求；Donna所写的是：我无法让John的妈妈来参加家长会；没有被别人打断，是我感觉最好的时候。因为Donna是老师，在上课的时候，不喜欢被打断。
小题9:D 动词辨析。A教育；B展示；C强迫；D指导；要求；又过了10分钟，所有的学生背要求把那张纸折叠交到前面。所有的学生都把那张纸放在一个空的盒子里。
小题10:A 动词辨析。A增加，加入；B写；C生成，制作；D折叠；Donna老师把自己的那张纸也放进了这个盒子里。
小题11:C 动词辨析。A哭泣；B祈祷；C挖；D玩耍；根据上一句Donna got a shovel from the tool house可知她拿出了一个铲子，准备把学生所写的这些不能做到的事情都埋掉。故C正确。
小题12:B 名词辨析。A北面；B下面，底端；C顶端；D边缘；这个盒子被放在了洞的最下面，然后很快就被埋掉了。
小题13:A 上下文串联。根据下一段第一句Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词)说明老师在悼念这些被埋掉的东西，所以学生要低下头，就好像是在葬礼上一样。
小题14:D 动词辨析。A保持；B感谢；C原谅；D纪念；这是老师的悼词：朋友们，我们聚在一起来纪念“I can’t”。“I can’t”已经被“I can”所取代。永远都生活在回忆之中，不会再回来了。
小题15:D 动词辨析。A记得；B惩罚；C去除；D取代；这是老师的悼词：朋友们，我们聚在一起来纪念“I can’t”。“I can’t”已经被“I can”所取代。
小题16:C 名词辨析。A安静；B心灵；C和平，安宁；D记忆；本句表示这些不能做到的事情都永远地存在于回忆之中，不会再回来了。
小题17:D 固定搭配。Turn down拒绝，调低；turn up出现，调高；turn off关闭；turn around使…转身；老师让学生们转身朝教室走过去。
小题18:B 名词辨析。A出生；B过去；C损失，失去；D开始；他们一起庆祝“I Can’t”的过去。希望以后再也没有这样不能做到的事情了。
小题19:C 动词辨析。A唤醒；B提醒；C忘记；D道歉；如果在这个时候，有学生忘记了自己已经把“I Can’t”埋掉的时候，老师会指着paper tombstone，告诉他们“I Can’t”已经死掉了，我们没有什么不能做到的了。
小题20:A 副词辨析。A仅仅，只是；B几乎不；C严肃地；D生气地；当学生说自己不能做某件事情的时候，老师只是指着paper tombstone，告诉他们“I Can’t”已经死掉了，我们没有什么不能做到的了。 |
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Some time ago，I was diagnosed with breast cancer and reacted in the way most people would.The first thing came to mind was a “death sentence”. However，I found out later it was truly “an awakening” for me，especially after being diagnosed with colon cancer a few years later，but still alive to tell about them both.I began to question God.Why was I chosen to suffer this double challenge？What had I done in life so bad to have this placed upon me？I was unhappy with the way I look and the intolerant pain I had to experience each day，but instead of sighing over my fate，I decided to look on the positive sides of it.
I knew that I was about to face a new beginning，new hope，do and see more with a whole new perspective on life.I also began thinking of the individuals that are no longer among us and how there will always be someone worse off than I am.Who am I to complain？I still have my life.
During my treatments，I experienced something of a miracle that I had to write down.I took that experience and turned it into a poem and I called it “Peace”．I took that poem along with many others I had composed during my breast cancer period and submitted them for publication.The book of poems was accepted and published under the title “True Simple Poems of Life，Faith and Survival”．
I continue to write and hope that my poetry may encourage other unfortunate people and my writing continues to give me strength.I"ve had another inspirational children"s book published called “If Only I Could Fly，Said Mattiebee”．
I would never have become a writer，producing inspirational stories，if I had not gone through all that I did.I"m a true example that you can survive cancer，not once，but twice，providing that you catch it in time.It won"t all be easy，but you must have faith and allow that faith to direct your path.
I truly believe when you survive a terrible tragedy or a horrible disease like cancer，it"s for a reason—you have a purpose，and I want to live and find out exactly what that is for me.
小题1:How did the author feel about her disease at first?| A．Optimistic. | B．Pessimistic. | | C．Confident. | D．Discontented. |
小题2:When did the author begin to notice the positive sides of her tragedy?| A．After she was diagnosed with colon cancer. | | B．After she was diagnosed with breast cancer. | | C．After she wrote her first poem. | | D．After she became a writer. |
小题3:In the author"s opinion，________.| A．no one is luckier than her | | B．God doesn"t treat everyone fairly | | C．writing poetry is the best way to deal with cancer | | D．being alive is lucky for her |
小题4:We can know from the passage that ________.| A．the author developed breast cancer a few years after colon cancer | | B．writing only helped the author alone | | C．the author wrote stories as well as poems | | D．If Only I Could Fly，Said Mattiebee is a poem |
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(2013·东北三省四市联合诊断考试)I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book.I just wanted to see how it ended ____ I was still in the middle of it. This habit ____ first my mom，then my friends, and ____ even my own daughter. Often my ____ wouldn"t be limited just to the books I read but also to what others were ____ as well.Then one day my daughter told me in anger, “Dad, please just read a book one ___ at a time like everyone else！”
At times I didn"t ___ this bad habit to just books either.I also tried to skip ahead in my own life and ____ out what to do months and even years from now ____ enjoying each day at present. Although I knew that the ____ of my life wasn"t done yet and that I had many pages ___ to go, I still couldn"t control my burning desire to write the ____ of it halfway through.Time and again, I would ____ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. Life，____，doesn"t work like that.It loves to ____ us，and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will ____.
Recently when I found myself living in the ____ again，I felt a voice that gently told me I needed to “live one day at a time”. When I heard those words, I ____，turned the book of my life back to the ____ page, and thanked God for today.
Each of us has to ____ the book of life line by line，moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end.
| 小题1: | | A．since | B．for | C．while | D．because |
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| 小题2: | | A．confused | B．annoyed | C．delighted | D．embarrassed |
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| 小题3: | | A．usually | B．obviously | C．accidentally | D．finally |
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| 小题4: | | A．impatience | B．misunderstanding | C．disappointment | D．disagreement |
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| 小题5: | | A．saying | B．reading | C．doing | D．watching |
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| 小题6: | | A．page | B．copy | C．chapter | D．edition |
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| 小题7: | | A．contribute | B．devote | C．apply | D．limit |
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| 小题8: | | A．try | B．figure | C．let | D．turn |
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| 小题9: | | A．on the part of | B．other than | C．instead of | D．on the basis of |
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| 小题10: | | A．book | B．river | C．picture | D．play |
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| 小题11: | | A．forgotten | B．left | C．kept | D．regretted |
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| 小题12: | | A．feelings | B．beginning | C．ending | D．comments |
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| 小题13: | | A．consciously | B．strangely | C．foolishly | D．critically |
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| 小题14: | | A．otherwise | B．moreover | C．therefore | D．however |
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| 小题15: | | A．surprise | B．cheat | C．satisfy | D．frighten |
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| 小题16: | | A．make | B．bring | C．take | D．award |
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| 小题17: | | A．present | B．future | C．memory | D．dream |
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| 小题18: | | A．cheered | B．cried | C．lost | D．smiled |
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| 小题19: | | A．exciting | B．hopeful | C．favorite | D．right |
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| 小题20: | | A．write | B．review | C．explain | D．translate |
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One summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City，Calif.，to New Orleans.In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him.There was a time in the country when you"d be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs, drug addicts, murderers, rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, “I don"t want to get involved” has become a national motto.
Several states later I was still thinking about the hitchhiker.Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much.What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision.I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator.
Does anyone stop any more? I wondered.I recalled Blanche DuBois"s famous line：“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”. Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the goodwill of his fellow Americans.What kind of Americans would he find? Who would feed him, shelter him，carry him down the road?
The idea intrigued me.
The week I turned 37，I realized that I had never taken a gamble in my life.So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny.It would be a cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar.I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head.My final destination would be Cape Fear in North Carolina，a symbol of all the fears I"d have to conquer during the trip.
I rose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles：“America”．
For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states.As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else.In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming; in Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went.I was amazed by people"s readiness to help a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests.
小题1:Why did the author drive past the young man in the desert without stopping?| A．Because he failed to notice this man. | | B．Because he was driving too fast. | | C．Because he thought the young man didn"t need help. | | D．Because he was afraid of being tricked. |
小题2:What was it that made the author upset?| A．Leaving the young man alone in the desert. | | B．Being considered a fool. | | C．Making the decision of not offering help so easily. | | D．Keeping thinking about the young man. |
小题3:The author decided to travel without a penny in order to ________.| A．find out how long he could survive without help | | B．go through the great difficulty in surviving unexpected environment | | C．find out whether strangers would offer help to him | | D．figure out how strangers thought of his plan |
小题4:In the passage，the author described his journey as a gamble because ________.| A．he was not so sure of the outlook of the journey | | B．he had no money to give to strangers | | C．he was sure of the coming sufferings | | D．he wasn"t sure whether to make the journey |
小题5:The following part might probably ________.| A．describe how he fooled strangers | | B．describe how strangers went out of their way to help him | | C．explain why people refused to help strangers | | D．explain how he overcame his difficulties on the way |
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Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family，and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck.I"m not going to say luck，talent，and circumstances don"t come into play because they do.Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence，and that"s just the reality of how life is.
However，to succeed in life，one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical.And，in addition to that，in order to get really good at something，one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising.To become great at certain things，it"ll require even more time，time that most people won"t put in.
However，to succeed in life，one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical.And，in addition to that，in order to get really good at something，one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising.To become great at certain things，it"ll require even more time，time that most people won"t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don"t enjoy what you do，it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don"t enjoy what you do，it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success，you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost.It"s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent，but thinking that way does you no good，and there"s a huge chance that you"re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do，if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out，almost to the point of addiction，and over a long period of time.If you"re not willing to put in the time and work，don"t expect to receive any rewards.Consistent, hard work won"t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
小题1:Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.| A．the reasons for success | | B．the meaning of success | | C．the standards of success | | D．the importance of success |
小题2:Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ________.| A．work makes one feel pain | | B．one tends to enjoy his work | | C．one gives up his work easily | | D．it takes a lot of time to succeed |
小题3:What can we infer from Paragraph 4?| A．Successful people like to show their great skills. | | B．People sometimes succeed without luck or talent. | | C．People need to achieve success at the cost of life. | | D．It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success. |
小题4:What is the main theme of the passage?| A．Having a goal is vital to success. | | B．Being good is different from being great. | | C．One cannot succeed without time and practice. | | D．Luck，talent and family help to achieve success. |
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Whenever I felt disappointed I often thought of what my mother had said to me，“Everything happens for the best.If you____，one day something good will happen.And you"ll realize that it wouldn"t have happened if not for that previous____．”
As it____，mother was right.In 1932，I ended my college life.____ that，I had decided to try for a job in radio，and then could work my way up to sports ___．I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every____－and got turned down every time.In one station，a ____ lady told me that big stations couldn"t risk hiring a person who lacked ____．“Go to ____ town and find a little station that"ll give you a chance，” she said.I then ____ to Dixon.While there was no radioannouncing jobs in Dixon，my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted an athlete to ____ its sports department.Since Dixon was where I had played high school football，I ____．The job sounded just right for me.But I wasn"t ____．
My disappointment must have ___．“Everything happens for the best，” Mom ____ me.Dad ____ me one car for me to job hunt.I ____ WOC Radio in Davenport.The program ___，a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur，told me they had already ___ a contract with another announcer.
I often ____ what direction my life might have taken if I"d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward and if I didn"t persist.
| 小题1: | | A．go on | B．hold up | C．look on | D．stay up |
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| 小题2: | | A．successes | B．disappointments | C．lives | D．results |
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| 小题3: | | A．carried out | B．looked out | C．figured out | D．turned out |
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| 小题4: | | A．Since | B．After | C．Before | D．During |
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| 小题5: | | A．announcer | B．athlete | C．hostess | D．performer |
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| 小题6: | | A．firm | B．station | C．store | D．school |
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| 小题7: | | A．beautiful | B．kind | C．strict | D．cruel |
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| 小题8: | | A．money | B．knowledge | C．appearance | D．experience |
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| 小题9: | | A．down | B．small | C．big | D．faraway |
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| 小题10: | | A．walked | B．saw | C．added | D．turned |
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| 小题12: | | A．refused | B．applied | C．managed | D．yelled |
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| 小题13: | | A．fired | B．employed | C．fitted | D．satisfied |
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| 小题14: | | A．disappeared | B．fallen | C．shown | D．responded |
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| 小题15: | | A．reminded | B．persuaded | C．advised | D．recited |
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| 小题16: | | A．lent | B．offered | C．sold | D．promised |
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| 小题17: | | A．visited | B．tried | C．passed | D．poured |
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| 小题18: | | A．boss | B．singer | C．photographer | D．director |
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| 小题19: | | A．signed | B．assigned | C．designed | D．resigned |
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| 小题20: | | A．doubted | B．wondered | C．intended | D．expected |
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