完型填空（共20小题，每题1分，满分20分）
One day in September we were doing repair work on my parents’ old house to get it ready for my youngest daughter’s wedding. We had to 41 a great climbing plant that had grown across a roof beam（房梁）, so that we could repair the roof and 42 the walls.
When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a 43 of a blackbird. He then 44 something 45 among that mass of earth and straw of the nest. He broke the earth __46__ it into pieces with his finger tips and, to his 47 ,saw glittering gold. It was a child’s bracelet（手镯）. He ran into the house to 48 me.
“You won’t believe that the 49 blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we plant to feed on,” he said, “but they also want their children to 50 in a cradle（摇篮）of gold!”
When my daughter ___51__ on the eve of the 52 ,we told her about this 53 occurrence (事件).
“Don’t you remember, Mother?” she said with a loud 54 .“When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I 55 a few days later while out playing in the yard? It was this one!”
As the bracelet no longer 56 its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping.
In December of the following year, the young couple’s baby son was baptized（受洗礼）.Among the 57 the newborn baby received, I placed his mother’s bracelet, now shining like 58 . I hope that if my grandson 59 loses it, one of the 60 that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby.
| 小题1: | | A．remove | B．cover | C．grow | D．water |
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| 小题2: | | A．build | B．paint | C．rescue | D．print |
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| 小题4: | | A．moved | B．got | C．picked | D．noticed |
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| 小题5: | | A．nice | B．colorful | C．shiny | D．special |
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| 小题6: | | A．over | B．through | C．above | D．around |
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| 小题7: | | A．horror | B．surprise | C．delight | D．disappointment |
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| 小题9: | | A．working | B．cheating | C．dreaming | D．thieving |
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| 小题10: | | A．lie | B．sing | C．listen | D．wait |
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| 小题11: | | A．came up | B．came over | C．came across | D．came by |
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| 小题12: | | A．party | B．Christmas | C．birthday | D．wedding |
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| 小题13: | | A．important | B．strange | C．terrible | D．frightening |
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| 小题14: | | A．cry | B．sigh | C．laugh | D．sound |
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| 小题15: | | A．hid | B．threw | C．lost | D．broke |
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| 小题16: | | A．fitted | B．satisfied | C．matched | D．interested |
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| 小题17: | | A．jewels | B．toys | C．clothes | D．presents |
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| 小题18: | | A．attractive | B．new | C．modern | D．golden |
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| 小题19: | | A．almost | B．just | C．even | D．ever |
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| 小题20: | | A．Blackbirds | B．Grandchildren | C．neighbors | D．mice |
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小题1:A根据第一段第一句可知答案。我们不得不移除这些植物。
小题1:B前文提到是对房子进行维修，可排除A项 ；另外，本文没有提到房子是危房，故可排除C项；print 印刷，与句子意思不符。paint the walls粉刷墙壁。
小题1:A根据后文的 that mass of earth and straw of the nest 可知答案。
小题1:D根据后一句话可知作者的丈夫这时注意到了有一个发光的东西。
小题1:C后文提到这个手镯是金子做成的，是金子就会发光。
小题1:D 根据常识可知把它周围的（around）泥土去除。
小题1:B丈夫发现并且取出这个手镯，就兴高采烈地把它拿给作者看。
小题1:C show展示。解析见上题。
小题1:D根据后面的steal 可知答案。
小题1:A作者的丈夫是在鸟巢里发现的镯子，鸟巢就是小鸟躺着休息的地方。
小题1:B come over“从远处走过来”之意。
小题1:D前文提到作者一家对旧房子进行维修的目的就是为了迎接女儿的婚礼。
小题1:B小鸟“偷”手镯，的确稀奇。
小题1:C女儿就要结婚，手镯无意之中被找到，又听父母说了这么一件令人惊讶的事情，她怎能不笑。
小题1:C作者的丈夫发现的手镯就是女儿丢失的那一个。
小题1:A女儿已经长大，她那个小时候所戴的手镯已不再适合她。
小题1:D女儿的孩子接受洗礼，作为外公外婆当然得送礼物表示祝贺；另外，从下文作者又把这个手镯当礼物送给外孙也可得知答案。
小题1:B金手镯经过清洗妥善保管，又崭新如初。
小题1:D ever此处用于条件句，在任何时候。
小题1:A上文提到作者女儿丢失的手镯被画眉偷走，所以作者以幽默的语气结尾。“如果外孙再把这个手镯丢失，我希望再有一只画眉在附近。 |
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试题【完型填空（共20小题，每题1分，满分20分）One day in September we were doing repair work on my paren】；主要考察你对
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1。5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against becoming a brewer (造酒人). He’d 36 his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, 37 had his father and grandfather before him. He didn’t want me 38 near a vat (酿酒用的桶) of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good 39 , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that 40 me to study law and business at the same time.
In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d 41 done anything but go to school. So, at 24 I decided to drop out. 42 , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t 43 till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to 44 . I finished Harvard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I 45 , “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?” At that time, Americans spent good money on beer in 46 quality. Why not make good beer for 47 ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become 48 . When I told Dad, he was 49 , but in the end he 50 me. I called my beer Samuel Adams, 51 the brewer and patriot (爱国者) who helped to start the Boston Tea Party. 52 I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get the 53 out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager (淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined (注定) to be a brewer. My 54 to the young is simple: Life is very 55 , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.
| 小题1: | | A．cost | B．spent | C．taken | D．paid |
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| 小题3: | | A．anywhere、 | B．anyway | C．anyhow | D．somewhere |
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| 小题4: | | A．habits | B．teachers | C．grades | D．work |
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| 小题5: | | A．promised | B．convinced | C．advised | D．allowed |
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| 小题6: | | A．never | B．ever | C．always | D．hardly |
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| 小题7: | | A．Fortunately | B．Obviously | C．Possibly | D．Surprisingly |
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| 小题8: | | A．assure | B．decline | C．deny | D．wait |
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| 小题9: | | A．school | B．Colorado | C．my home | D．my decision |
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| 小题10: | | A．thrilled | B．stressed | C．wondered | D．sneezed |
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| 小题11: | | A．cheap | B．expensive | C．low | D．high |
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| 小题12: | | A．Englishmen | B．Europeans | C．the world | D．Americans |
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| 小题13: | | A．a lawyer | B．a brewer | C．an instructor | D．an engineer |
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| 小题14: | | A．astonished | B．satisfied | C．interested | D．anxious |
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| 小题15: | | A．hated | B．supported | C．raised | D．left |
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| 小题17: | | A．Therefore | B．Otherwise | C．Also | D．Yet |
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| 小题18: | | A．price | B．name | C．company | D．party |
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| 小题19: | | A．advice | B．life | C．job | D．experience |
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| 小题20: | | A．hard | B．busy | C．short | D．long |
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Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception (接待). I was quite wrong. The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth－so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" He looked it over carefully and said, "Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?" "Twenty pounds," I said. "OK," he said, "I’ll give you twenty pounds." "It’s got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that, it’s nothing."
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done." "I’ll buy it," I said. "What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I am sorry. I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it." "You must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair." "You’re right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ’ Would you mend this chair for me?’ "I wouldn’t have agreed to do it," he said. "We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for five pounds?" He was a very nice man and was greatly amused (感到有趣) by the whole thing.
小题1:We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ________. | A．was rather impolite | B．was warmly received | | C．asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair | D．asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair |
小题2:The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means ________. | A．plan for dealing with things | B．decision to sell things | | C．idea of repairing things | D．way of doing things |
小题3:The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ________.| A．changed his mind | B．accepted the offer | | C．saw the writer’s purpose | D．decided to help the writer |
小题4: How much did the writer pay? 小题5:From the text, we can learn that the writer was _________.| A．honest | B．careful | C．smart | D．funny |
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 36 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d 37 ?" Just when I started to 38 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 39 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 40 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t 41. Somebody had thought 42 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 43 Christmas there special and memorable, I 44 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 45 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 46 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 47 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were 48 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 49 them that they couldn’t open their presents 50 every child had come forward. Finally the 51 they had been waiting for came as I called out, "One, two, three. Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 52 up the room. The 53 in the room was obvious, and 54 wasn’’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew 55 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
| 小题1: | | A．sending | B．receiving | C．making | D．exchanging |
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| 小题2: | | A．found | B．prepared | C．got | D．expected |
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| 小题3: | | A．doubt | B．hope | C．suggest | D．accep |
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| 小题4: | | A．broke in | B．settled down | C．turned up | D．showed off |
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| 小题5: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．achievement | D．justice |
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| 小题6: | | A．blamed | B．loved | C．forgotten | D．affected |
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| 小题7: | | A．highly | B．little | C．poorly | D．enough |
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| 小题8: | | A．present | B．first | C．recent | D．previous |
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| 小题9: | | A．hardly | B．instantly | C．regularly | D．occasionally |
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| 小题10: | | A．strength | B．independence | C．importance | D．safety |
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| 小题11: | | A．kept up with | B．caught up with | C．came up with | D．put up with |
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| 小题13: | | A．fine | B．special | C．helpful | D．normal |
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| 小题14: | | A．reminded | B．guaranteed | C．convinced | D．promise |
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| 小题15: | | A．after | B．until | C．when | D．since |
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| 小题16: | | A．chance | B．gift | C．moment | D．reward |
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| 小题17: | | A．lit | B．took | C．burned | D．cheered |
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| 小题18: | | A．atmosphere | B．sympathy | C．calmness | D．joy |
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| 小题19: | | A．it | B．such | C．something | D．everybody |
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完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 36 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder (脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much 37 than others.
I hated going to school and I hated people 38 at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing straight and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the 39 and seeing an ugly hunchback (驼背).
My friends found me 40 because I didn’t let others get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 41 Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school — a spot where no one would 42 me. That’s when I first heard her voice.
“Hi. Can I sit down?”
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No idea.”
“I bet they’re playing games and making friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our 43 started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche (处境) — until it was sunset.
Then suddenly, she saw my 44 . She just stared.
My heart sank. What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would 45 me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know 46 your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be sentenced. I begged in my heart for her to 47 , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answered 48 .
She bent and whispered in my ears.
“Your back is hunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”
I was 49 . I looked into her eyes and her kindness touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to 50 myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend.
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| 小题3: | | A．looking | B．smiling | C．aiming | D．glaring |
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| 小题4: | | A．street | B．sun | C．corner | D．mirror |
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| 小题5: | | A．distant | B．disappointed | C．hopeless | D．unlucky |
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| 小题6: | | A．after | B．while | C．since | D．until |
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| 小题7: | | A．disturb | B．seek | C．comfort | D．ignore |
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| 小题8: | | A．games | B．performance | C．conversation | D．competition |
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| 小题9: | | A．face | B．back | C．eyes | D．wings |
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| 小题10: | | A．look up to | B．catch up with | C．look down upon | D．put up with |
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| 小题11: | | A．that | B．how | C．whether | D．why |
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| 小题12: | | A．relax | B．leave | C．stop | D．forbid |
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| 小题13: | | A．excitedly | B．weakly | C．proudly | D．firmly |
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| 小题14: | | A．astonished | B．ashamed | C．annoyed | D．upset |
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| 小题15: | | A．control | B．like | C．forgive | D．hate |
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完形填空（共20 小题，每小题1 分, 满分20分）
Returning from a trip overseas, I sensed that something was wrong between Keith, one of my two sons, and me. So I asked him, “Keith, have I done anything that really 41 your feelings?”
Immediately, he said, “Yes, last Christmas you promised us a special 42 that I really wanted but you 43 gave it to me.”
The 44 was that I’d completely forgotten about it. I 45 , “Is there anything else I’ve done wrong, but I haven’t apologized 46 ?”
Again, his 47 was immediate, “Remember last Christmas when Mom said you had to go to the 48 because Kate, my little sister, was going to be born? You left us at home and 49 in a hurry. Remember?”
“Well, you left and forgot the suitcase.” I couldn’t believe he 50 all the details! “After you came back from the hospital you were 51 to see the suitcase had been opened and 52 had been thrown all over the place, and then you 53 me.”
“And you didn’t do it?” I asked.
“No, I didn’t. I was just searching for my gift.”
My heart sank. I felt 54 . I hugged Keith and asked him to 55 me. His honesty made me think of my other son, Kevin. Maybe I’d hurt his feelings, too. I went to ask him the 56 question. Kevin answered as immediately as his 57 , “Last Christmas you promised us a special toy, but you forget about it.”
58 Christmas had passed, I took my two sons to the store that day and bought them what I had promised. The 59 thing wasn’t the toy. The problem was that I’d made a promise too 60 and didn’t keep it as their mother.
| 小题1: | | A．showed | B．hurt | C．attended | D．expressed |
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| 小题2: | | A．candy | B．book | C．picture | D．toy |
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| 小题3: | | A．never | B．often | C．always | D．ever |
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| 小题4: | | A．challenge | B．message | C．idea | D．fact |
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| 小题5: | | A．complained | B．apologized | C．continued | D．explained |
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| 小题7: | | A．suggestion | B．answer | C．memory | D．blame |
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| 小题8: | | A．hospital | B．church | C．school | D．garden |
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| 小题9: | | A．settled down | B．went on | C．set off | D．got up |
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| 小题10: | | A．knew | B．imagined | C．discovered | D．remembered |
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| 小题11: | | A．angry | B．worried | C．happy | D．satisfied |
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| 小题12: | | A．nothing | B．somebody | C．everything | D．nobody |
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| 小题13: | | A．praised | B．punished | C．helped | D．educated |
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| 小题14: | | A．terrible | B．hopeless | C．inspired | D．encouraged |
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| 小题15: | | A．support | B．criticize | C．suspect | D．forgive |
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| 小题16: | | A．easy | B．direct | C．same | D．funny |
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| 小题17: | | A．mother | B．brother | C．sister | D．father |
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| 小题18: | | A．Though | B．Because | C．Since | D．Until |
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| 小题19: | | A．strange | B．interesting | C．important | D．difficult |
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| 小题20: | | A．lightly | B．rudely | C．equally | D．truly |
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