as soon as their work is f
8
Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he
likes going s
9 with his
mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o
10 .
Passage 2
Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that
one day animals may be trained（训练）to do a number of simple jobs i
1 of people. They say that at
a circus（杂技场）,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and
other animals doing q
2
skillful（熟练的）things. Perhaps you have seen them on the
television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that
the trainer（驯兽员）always g
3 the animal
some sugar o
4 a piece of fruit as a
reward（报酬）. The scientists say that many d
5
animals may be trained to do a lot of simple
things if they know they will get a reward f
6
doing that.
Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house,
and soldiers in both old and modern t
7
have u
8 geese to give
warning（警报）by m
9 a lot of noise when an
enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to
work in families or f 10
.
Passage 3
In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more
popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game
has w
1 the interest of many
young people. The game is interesting but a little d
2
One needs to play it very c
3
A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big
flying kites. The old game was p
4 by
some young people in Holland and Spain as e
5
as the last century. Since the board was hard to
control（控制）,f
6 people dared（敢）to
play it. With the development of the design（设计）of kite and
skateboard, many people can l
7 how to play
it. A kite board may go as f
8 as
about 50 kilometres an hour. If you haven’t had any practice, you’d
better not play it. It is not s
9
It is said that the game can exercise not only your b
10
but also the sensitivity of your
brain（大脑的敏捷）.
Passage 4
British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk
and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）.
Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u
1 along Pine Street,
he s
2 heard a loud,
strange sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop
in Cornwall, southern England. “That must be a fire, I t
3 ” Leech said. “Then I quickly
d
4 to do something. So I p
5 the door in and then I s
6 for the people inside. Then I started
pouring milk e
7 ” He used 320 pints of milk
to stop the fire. When firefighters r
8
the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）.
Leech helped save the l
9 of
eight people in the flats above the shops.
“It was hard work o
10 all
those bottles. But it was even harder trying to tell my boss where
all the milk had gone,” Leech said jokingly.
Passage 5
While t
1 in Russia, Ed Jackson ran
short of（缺少）money. So he wrote to his brother, asking for ＄500.
“Send the m
2 by telegram（电报）to the
bank（银行）here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v
3
the bank. He s
4 his
passport（护照）to the bank clerk（职员）. “Nothing has come for you, Mr.
Jackson,” he was told. This went o
5 for
three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very
w
6
He then phoned his brother, asking w
7 the money was. The brother said it had been sent
three weeks b
8 That evening Ed
Jackson was arrested（被捕）for failing to p
9
his hotel bill（账单）. He tried to tell the police what his problem
was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s
10
to the police station for fifteen days.
Passage 6
April Fools’ Day is on April 1st. People can play j
1
on others on this special d
2
If you succeed, you usually laugh and say “April Fool!” The
person who has been fooled by you l
3
too, and he will never be angry with you.
Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May. It’s a day to t
4 mothers. On that day mothers usually
receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children
do the housework so that mothers can have a r
5
Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the full moon which is
on or after March 21st. It’s also called Easter Sunday. It is said
that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to l
6
Many people go to church and children often get
p
7 such as toy rabbits.
Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s a day
when people give thanks for the good things in life. Usually
families all get t
8 and have a big
dinner.
Christmas Day comes on D
9 25th. It’s the
most important festival in a year. The beautiful things can be s
10 everywhere. People exchange gifts, send
Christmas cards and visit friends.
Passage 7
Mr King taught English in a middle school. He was very b
1 all the time and
couldn’t do some r
2
So he left the school and opened a book shop in the c
3 of the town. It
wasn’t big enough but all the books were nice and most people liked
to buy some there. When the shop was c
4
he could read
at home. He knew a lot and the learned（有学问的）person were glad to
make f
5
with him.
It was Sunday and it was cold outside. Mr King was very busy. At
nine in the evening all the buyers left e____6
a girl. She was dressed up and waited for s
7 there. Standing by
the shelves, she looked over the books one after a
8 It made them in a
fearful mess（凌乱不堪）. Mr King came up to her and asked, “Excuse me,
madam. What can I do for you?” “Your books are all dull（乏味的）,” said
the girl, “I want a d
9
one.” “That’s easy,” Mr King smiled. He t
10 out a cookbook（烹调书）and said, “Here
you are, madam.”
Passage 8
Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister（首相）. He said the
Minister w
1 die the next day. The
next day, the Minister really f
2
off the horse and died. When the king h
3 of this, he got angry and sent his men to c
4 Effendi at once.
W
5 Effendi came, the king
shouted a
6
“Effendi, since you knew when my minister would die, you must also
know the date of your own death. Say it out, or you’ll die
today.”
Effendi l
7 at the
king and answered, “But how can I know? I’ll die two days e
8 than you.”
The king was a
9
that he would die if he killed Effendi. He thought he must keep
Effendi alive（活着）as long as he could. So he l
10
him go.
Passage 9
Roy Trenton drove a taxi before. A short while ago, however, he b
1 a bus-driver and he feels no sorry
about it. He was finding his new work far more i
2 When he was driving along
Catford Street recently, he saw two thieves r
3 out of a shop and run towards a
waiting car. One of them was carrying a bag f
4
of money. Roy acted quickly and drove the bus straight
to the thieves. The one w
5
the money got so afraid that he dropped the bag. As the
thieves were trying to get a
6
in their car, Roy drove his bus into the b
7
of it. While the car was moving away, Roy
stopped his bus and t
8
the police. The thieves’ car was badly damaged（损坏）and e
9 to recognize（辨认）.
Shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car and both men were c
10
Passage 10
Now, let’s begin our sports report. Here’s a really good game, the
b
1 one I have seen this year. It’s
the last five minutes of the g
2
Henry plays football f
3 France. He
has the ball now. He p
4 the ball to
David. David k
5 it over the
heads of the Englishmen towards the goal. But he’s too far a
6 France and England still
have one goal each and there are only two m
7
left of the game. Just then an English p
8 gets the ball. He gives it
to Bill, “King of the match”. Bill puts the ball into the goal. In
the e_____9
the English team
w
10
Passage 11
Today people can u
1 the phone to
talk with others almost anywhere on the earth. But when you use the
phone, you don’t see the person you are t
2
with. That may c
3
in the future.
Today some people are using a kind of telephone c
4
“Picture phone” or “Vision phone”. W
5 it,
two people who are
talking can see each other.
Picture phones can be useful when you have s
6
to show the person you’re calling. They may
have other uses in the future. One day you may be able to ring up a
l
7 and ask to borrow a book. Then
you’ll be able to read the book right over your picture phone. Or
you may be able to go shopping t
8
your picture phone. If you see something in the newspaper that you
think you want to buy, you’ll go to your phone and call the shop.
People at the shop will s
9
you the thing you’re interested in right over the
phone. You’ll be able to shop all over town and n
10
leave your room.
Passage 12
Henry was worried. This was his first time to go traveling by air.
He did not know h
1 to find his seat,
so he went to the air hostess and asked, “Could you help me? I
can’t find my seat.” The air hostess s
2
him the seat and told him to
sit d
3 and fasten
the seat belt. She told Henry not to m
4
about when the plane was going up. And she also
said that Henry’s ears might feel a little s
5
, but he didn’t need to worry about it b
6
many people felt like that. When the plane was f
7 very high, Henry
could stand up and walk round. He could e
8
read books, newspapers or see films. The
air hostess would b
9 food
and drinks. Henry could e
10
the flight and arrived home soon.
Passage 13
Some of Robert’s old friends were t
1
about young people in their town. They all a
2 that old people
were cleverer than young people. Then one of them said, “But young
people are s
3 than
old people.”
All of them agreed that this is true e
4
Robert. He thought he was as strong as b
5
“That is not possible,” said his friends.
“Well,” said Robert, “In one c
6
of my garden there’s a big stone. When I was
young, I couldn’t m
7
it. I wasn’t strong e
8 Now I’m old and when I try to move it,
I s
9 can’t. That’s w
10 I’m as strong as
before.”
Passage 14
In the home a dad is very important. He is the person who provides
us w
1 money and clothes.
He can make your bedroom more beautiful, mend your
radio, make c
2 for your
birds, r
3 your bicycle and help you
with your maths homework. A dad can be very u
4
for taking you in the car to and from parties,
music lessons, and dancing lessons. He is the one who complains
about the time you s
5
talking on the t
6
as he has to p
7
the bills. Dad is someone who will support you in an
argument, if he b
8
you to be right. He is someone who reads your school r
9 and treats（奖励）you
if it is good. A dad likes to come into a nice happy home in the
evening, and sit in his chair with a n
10
Passage 15
Can vegetables be p
1 in
winter? Yes, but a greenhouse（温室）must be b
2
first. The greenhouse should be m
3 of glass. A large
greenhouse may be ten metres l
4
three metres w
5
and two meters high. The sunshine can r
6
the vegetables t
7
the glass. The wind and cold air can be s
8 from
getting in. The air inside the greenhouse is always w
9 More and more greenhouses are
b
10 built all over the
world. All kinds of vegetables can be brought onto our dinner
tables in winter.
Passage 16
Traveling to all countries of the world gets easier and easier, but
how well do we know and u
1 each
other? Here is a simple test. Imagine(设想) you will hold a m
2 at
four o’clock, what time should you e
3
your foreign business friends to come? If they
are German, they will a
4 on
time. If they are American, they’ll probably be fifteen minutes
early. If they are British, they’ll be fifteen minutes late.
The British seemed to think since the English l
5
was widely used in the world, what they did was
certain to be widely understood. Very soon they f
6
they were completely(完全地) wrong. For e
7 , the British are happy to
have a business lunch and discuss business matters with a drink
during the meal; the Japanese p
8
not to work while eating. Lunch is a time for
them to relax and get to know e
9
other, and they don’t drink at lunch. The
Germans like to talk about business b
10
dinner; the French like to eat first and talk
afterwards. They have to be well fed and watered before they
discuss anything.
Passage 17
Do you k
1 robots? There are a l
2 of
robots in the world now. Some of the robots can walk, sing and
dance. Some can talk w
3
people. Most of them can do heavy work. In a few m
4 years, a robot will be able
to d
5 a car, a train, a ship or a p
6 . In a hospital, a restaurant or a shop,
we m
7 see a robot at
work. By then, we need n
8
do the cooking or go shopping ourselves. We just give
orders(命令) to a robot and it will do a
9
the housework. A robot will be our good f
10 .
Passage 18
Last May I stayed in Santo Lusa for a week. That was my f
1 trip there. One morning I s
2 out
to visit a famous museum, but I didn’t know w
3
way to go, so I stopped a stranger and
asked, “Excuse me, does this street lead(通向)to the Grand Museum?”
“Yes,” he answered. “Go along this street and turn left at the
second crossing. You can’t m
4
it”. So I w
5 two blocks(街区)
and turned to my left, but the museum w
6
there. Then I asked a second stranger. He said, “Go along
this street and turn left at the second crossing.” But a
7 I couldn’t find the museum. I
asked a third stranger and he said the same thing.
This time I found the Grand Museum. Just then s
8 walked up and said. “Excuse me.
Where’s the nearest b
9 ?” I
answered q
10 , “Go along
this street and turn left at the second crossing!”
Passage 19
Do you have a pet? Are you i
1 in
taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to
study to be animal doctors. They’re often c
2
“vets”. Many of them
work in animal h
3 . Others
may work on farms or at a z
4 . Some
study animal diseases(疾病) and try to find w
5
to keep the animals from getting i
6
. They do studies in m
7
for animals.
Vets listen to an animal’s h
8
. They check(检查) its ears, eyes, mouth, and blood. They
o
9 animals when they
need to. They may give the animals shots(注射) and tell the pets’ o
10 what food is
best.
Passage 20
“I don’t want move!” Fred said to his father. “I like living here
in New York City. And I l
1 to play
in the streets. My Friends are h
2
. I want to stay!”
“We have to m
3 . Fred.” Mr.
Sparks said, “I have a n
4
job in the Island. Why d
5 you
wait until you see them? Maybe you will like living t
6
.”
“Never!” was Fred’s a
7
.
A few weeks l
8 , the Sparks
family left the city by plane. They f
9
over land for hours. In San Francisco they took
a
10 big plane. This
time they flew over water.
At l
11 they saw land. “This
is Hawaii,” Mr. Sparks said. “And it is the island we are to live o
12 . But we will visit the other
islands, too. A
13 of them
are beautiful.”
“I don’t care(关心) w
14
they are like,” said Fred. “I wish I could go b
15 to New York
City right now!”
Passage 21
More and more people are l
1 the life
with computers. Using computers you can send E-mail q
2 and easily.
You are able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone,
a
3 in the world without
putting a stamp. E-mail can send its message to the other side of
the world i
4 seconds(秒).
E-mail is easy to use and it s
5 time
and money. It serves(服务) for twenty-four hours. So it doesn’t
matter if your friends are in bed when you send E-mail to them, or
you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send E-mail b
6 .
Can you imagine(想象) the future without teachers b
7 computers? Students will teach
themselves in the schools of the future. Computers help students
develop their own ways of l
8
. Students will follow the learning programmes by
looking at online libraries and w
9
lessons by world-class teachers. If they don’t
understand something, they will ask other students o
10 or E-mail their teachers.
Computers are becoming more and more popular indeed.
Passage 22
Dear Mum and Dad,
I’m very happy to visit Beijing again. Great changes have taken
place here. Yesterday, I went to visit Qiming Middle School---I had
lived there f
1 nearly two years.
Maybe you don’t believe(相信) I couldn’t find the w
2 there! A taxi
driver took me there in the end, he said, “Beijing changes too m
3 . Sometimes even a
Beijinger cannot find a way.”
Now, English can be h
4
everywhere in Beijing. Many people are attending(参加) English
classes in the evening schools, some of them can speak very good
English. I’m s
5 the 2008 Olympic can
be held in Beijing successfully(成功地).
Passage 23
A storm dropped(降) heavy rains on central and southern parts of
China.
The radio says that a
1 the
Xiangjiang River in Hunan, floods caused by terrible r
2 in the past
weeks killed 25 people and 13 others were missing.
The Chinese Government warned some parts in Yunnan and the city of
Chongqing of possible heavy rains over the f
3
few days.
In Changsha water levels rose(水位上升) to 38 metres early Monday
morning, about 3 metres a
4
the danger line.
In Guangdong, at l
5 21 people have
been killed, while three were s
6
hurt and seven went missing w
7
heavy floods hit northern parts by
Saturday.
The cities of Shaoguan, Meizhou and Heyuan w
8
hardest hit and many people were left
homeless(无家可归).
About 620 million yuan has been lost in the floods. Guangdong has
sent something u
9 to
Meizhou, Heyuan and Shaoguan to help the people who had lost homes
build their h
10
again.
Passage 24
Wang Yani was born in 1975 in Guangdong, China. A
1
a baby, she loved to draw. She drew lines
everywhere. She e
2
drew on the walls! Her father was an artist.
Yani wanted to be like h
3 .
So she tried to stand like her father w
4
he painted. This made him laugh. One day, she d
5 lines on his painting. She was only
two and a half years o
6 , but her father
got angry. She cried and said, “I want to paint like you!” T
7 her father thought
about his own childhood. He also wanted to draw and paint. But his
parents c
8
understand him. They just got angry. He decided to help his
daughter b
9 an
artist.
Wang Yani was famous at a young age, b
10
she still has a normal(常人的) life. So the Wang
family lives like everyone else.
Passage 25
Dear Editor,
I used to be a doctor in the children’s department of a local h
1 . Sometimes I treated children w
2
have been poisoned(中毒) by medicine for older family members.
The children can easily o
3
the bottle that we now use in China.
Some days ago I talked about medicine w
4
an American. He showed m
5
a plastic pill bottle that is
“Childproof”(防儿童的). The design was s
6
simple that I’m sure our Chinese factories could produce
these b
7 easily. The
top of the bottle locks, but can be o
8
by pressing down on it while turning. This is d
9 for most young
children to do, b
10
adults can open them without any difficulty.
I’m sure that the expense of making such tops would be very low. As
a doctor, I’d love to see this done. And most parents would be
grateful.
短文首字母填空III(B)
Passage 26
Climbing a mountain is hard work. But one step after another
finally brings a person to the t
1 . Along
the way, he can stop and look a
2
. And the h
3
he climbs, the more wonderful his
view(视野) is. If he keeps climbing, he will have a new world before
him. He will have a new way of t
4
everything.
Now learning a f
5 language is
something like climbing a mountain. This new language can give you
a new view of life. And it is more than a look at the surface(表面)
of things. It can open the way into people’s minds and hearts, into
a culture(文化) very d
6 from the one
of your own. This will make you richer,
e
7 in things that money can’t
buy. Even though you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can
be an armchair w
8
through books.
Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to l
9 at the scenery around him,
everyone who is interested in reading will find p
10 in books as he fights on to
learn more and more of that new language.
Passage 27
It was getting dark. Some children and two Canadian women were
still s
1 on the ice near a big
hotel. They were having a good time.
Suddenly the ice b
2
. One of the boys fell into the water. The children
shouted, “Help! Help!” They didn’t know w
3
to do. The two Canadian friends heard t
4 and skated over to get the
boy out of the water.
The ice was t
5 . The two Canadians fell
into the water, too. But they tried their best to r
6
the little boy. They knew they must be q
7 . If they didn’t push him
up onto the ice, he would soon die.
Many people ran over to h
8
. Some of them had ropes and poles(绳和竹竿). A young man jumped into
the water to wave to the o
9
people.
The boy and the two Canadian women were out of water at last. One
of the women didn’t feel well. She was sent to the h
10 at once. But she felt very
happy because the boy was safe.
Passage 28
Most American families are smaller than the families in other
countries. Most American families have one or two p
1 and one or two
children each.
Children in the US will leave their parents’ home when they grow
up. They usually live f
2
from their parents because they want to
find good jobs. They often write to their parents or t
3 them. And they often go to v
4 their parents on
holiday.
Parents usually l
5
their children choose their own jobs. Americans think
i
6
important for young people to decide on their lives by
t
7
Children are a
8
to do some work around their house. And in many
families, children are p
9
for doing
some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own u
10
Passage 29
Most people want to work, but it has become m
1
difficult in today's world to find work for e
2
The economies(经济)of the world n
3
to grow by 4% each year
just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not p
4
and so more people are
w
5
work. Some people have
no jobs now because new machines can d
6
the work
of many people in a shorter time. Also, machines don't ask for more
money and l
7
holidays. In all of the countries of the world
machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but
also on f
8
One machine can often do the
work of forty people. About 75000 people are m
9 to the
cities a day to look for jobs, but o
10
70% of them can
find jobs.
Passage 30
Someone says, “Time is money,” but I think time is even more i
1 than money. Why? Because
when money is s
2 we
can get it b
3
However, when time is g
4
it’ll never return. That’s w
5 we
mustn’t waste(浪费) time. It’s sure that the t
6
is usually
limited(有限的).Even a second is very important. We should make full
use of our time to do
something u
7
But some people don’t
know the importance of time. They spend their limited time smoking,
drinking and playing. They do not know that wasting time means
wasting part of their own l
8
In a word, we should save time, we shouldn’t l
9
today’s work for tomorrow.
Remember we have no time to l
10
.
Passage31
Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one
day animals may be t
1 to do a number
of simple jobs. They s
2
that in a film or on TV we may see elephants,
monkeys,
dogs,
bears,
or other animals
doing a lot of things. If you w
3
carefully,
you may find that those
animals are given something to eat in return for d
4
them.
The scientists say that
many d
5 animals may be taught to do
a number of simple jobs if they will get something to eat.
Of course, as we know,
dogs can be used to guard a house,
and elephants can be used to do some heavy j
6
And we can also teach animals to work
in f
7 . Apes,
for
example have b
8 used
in America to help make cars and scientists b
9
that these monkeys may one day get in
crops and e
10 drive
trains.
Passage32
If you don’t use your arms or your legs for some time,
they
will become weak;
when you start using them again,
they will gradually （逐渐地）become stronger again.
Everybody knows this. Yet many people do not seem to know that it
is the s
1 with memory. When
someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he d
2 give it enough chance to
become stronger.
If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we k
3 that it is his own fault. But if he
tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his p
4 are to blame, and f
5 of us know that it is just
his own fault.
Have you e
6 found some people
can’t read or write but they usually have b
7
memories? This is b
8
they cannot read or write and they h
9
to remember things;
they cannot
write them down in a little notebook.
They must remember
dates, names, songs and stories;
so their memory is
the whole time being exercised.
So if you want a good memory,
l
10
from these people : practise remembering.
Passage33
When I was walking down the street one day, I s
1
a small bag on the ground. I picked it up and
opened it to see w
2
I could find out the owner’s name. There was n
3 inside it except
some dollars and a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve
years old. I put the photo back and took the bag to the police
station. Before I left, the policeman wrote down my name and my a
4 . He thought the
owner might want to thank me.
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had
also asked a young woman to have dinner with us. Her face was
familiar, but I couldn’t r
5 where I
had seen her. D___
_6____ our talk, the young woman happened
to say that she had l
7
her bag that afternoon. All at once I remembered w
8 I had seen her. She
was the young girl in the photo, though she looked now much o
9 than the girl in
the picture. She was very s
10
, of course,
when I told her about the bag.
After dinner we went to the police station and got back her
bag. The policeman said to me,
“It’s a wonderful thing.
You found not only the bag, but also the owner of the bag.
”
Passage34
Only mother love is true love. It gives e
1
everything all his life.
When you are still a baby, mother takes good care of you as much as
possible. In your waking hours she
always holds you in her
arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after
you day and n
2
and forgets about herself. When you are growing
up day by day, she feels very happy. When you are old e
3 to go to school, mother still
looks after you all the t
4 . On
cold winter days, she always tells you to p
5
on more clothes. She always stands in the wind
waiting for you back from school every day. When you hurry to leave
home for school with little b
6 , she always
feels worried about you at home. She u
7
knows about your study and spend much money on
your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the
brightest s
8 on her
face. Mother can do everything for you day after day.
Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children,
not to receive. What true love that is in the w
9 ! We will r
10
Mother Love for ever!
Passage35
Seumas Mcsporran is a very b
1
man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen
jobs. He is a postman,
a policeman, a fireman,
a
taxi driver,
a school-bus driver,
a boatman,
an ambulance man,
an accountant,
a petrol
attendant,
a barman,
and an undertaker. Also, he
and his wife,
Margaret,
have a shop and a small
hotel. Seumas l
2
and works on the island of Gigha in the west of
Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s
3 150 tourists come by b
4
every day. Every weekday Seumas gets up
at six and makes b
5 for the hotel
guests. At eight he drives the island’s children to s
6
.
At nine he collects the post from the boat
and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers
the beer to the island’s only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the s
7 . He says：“Margaret likes
being busy, too. We n
8
have holidays and we don’t like w
9
television. In the evening
Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass
of wine and then we go to bed. P
10
our life isn’t very exciting, but we like
it.”
Passage36
Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good s
1 , no assistant will come near to you and
say, “Can I h
2
you?” You needn’t buy a
3
you don’t want. You may try to find out
where the book you want is. But if you w
4
, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go
away. It seems that he is not interested i
5
selling any books at all.
There is a story which t
6 us about a
good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop,
but it is too expensive for him to b
7
. He couldn’t get it from the library, e
8 . So every afternoon he went there to
r
9 a little at a
time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its usual
place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To
his s
10 ,
the assistant pointed to the book in a corner, “I put it there so
as not to be sold out.” said the assistant.
Then he let the
student go on with his reading.
Passage37
( S=salesgirl;
H=Han mei )
S: Good morning. Can I help you?
H: Yes. I b
1 this blouse last week,
but there's something wrong with it. When I w
2
it, the colours ran. I
can't w
3 it now. I
want you to c
4 this blouse
or give me my m
5 back.
S: Let me see. Did you wash it in h
6
water?
H: Of course not.
S: It s
7 as if it
hasn't been washed following the i
8
. Did you leave it in water b
9
you washed it?
H: No, I didn't do that, e
10
. I didn't put it in cold water until I washed
it.
Passage38
When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different
from ours. As a f
1 . you must be c
2 in
the streets, because the traffic d
3
on the left. You must look to the right and then the
left before you cross a street.
In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come
back from work, the streets are very b
4
.
Traffic is most d
5
then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too.
Always r
6 the traffic m
7 on the left. You have to t
8 a look first or you
will go to the w
9
way.
In many English cities there are big buses with two f
10 . You can sit on the
second one. From there you can see the city very well.
Passage39
Which animal do we need
m 1
? Dogs? Horses? No! The
a 2 to the
question is cows. Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of
our most important
k 3 of
food.
Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year were put
i
4 bottles. And suppose these
bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all
around the world 400
t 5
That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for
d
6 and cooking. Most of it is u
7 to make butter cheese, ice
cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that
m 8 milk. But not as many as
it used to. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts(夸脱)of milk a
year. Now a fine cow may
g 9
more than 3,000 quarts in a year.
Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The
cows get better
c 10 and better
food.
Passage40
Here’s a part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to
his son in college. “When I was young, I often met t
1
about what to do and what not to do. My
grandmother told me not to worry about those things. I o
2 did them once
a year or once a lifetime. I
3
, I should try to do well those things, and I do them
every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn
how to c
4 . I need to talk to o
5 every day, so I should learn how to
work with d
6 people and know how to
s
7 well. I walk
every day, so my s
8
should be all right and comfortable. Every night I sleep, so
my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e
9 things m
10 that you do a better job of
the one in a lifetime things as well.”
Passage41
Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six
hundred animals on an island. Ever s
1
he left school, he has travelled all over the world l
2 for
animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and
about his wonderful a
3 .
The money for his books helps him to p
4
for all the animal food. My friend told me that
when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water
on the island, though there is a lot all around it, he f
5 oil.
He n
6
money for his travels and for his zoo,
and a little oil would buy e
7
water for a long time,
but he knows that
if he tells anybody else about it,
it will be the e
8 of his zoo and his
life’s work.
So I think he will not tell anybody e
9 you and me about
what he found — because oil and water can’t be p
10 together. Oil may bring greater
trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think
so?
Passage42
The u
1 means the earth, the sun,
the moon and the stars and the space b
2
them. Many of the stars
are so f
3 away that
we can not see them.
The moon, our satellite, travels a
4 the earth. It has already
been visited b
5 man from the earth.
Man-made satellites have been sent up i
6
space by many countries. They go round the earth. They are
used for helping us to learn more a
7
the earth, the weather and other things.
They are also used for sending and r
8
messages. It makes people f
9
different countries understand each
other much better. So people say the world itself is becoming a
much s
10 place.
People call the small place “the global village”.
答
案
P1 1. river
2. land
3. friends 4.visit
5.
uses
6. necks
7. taught
8. finished 9.
shopping
10. own
P2 1. instead 2. quite 3. gives
4. or
5. different
6. for
7. times
8.
used
9. making
10. factories
P3 1. won 2. difficult/dangerous
3. carefully 4. played
5. early
6. few
7. learn
8. fast
9. safe 10. body
P4 1.usual 2.suddenly 3.thought 4. decided 5. pushed 6. shouted 7.
everywhere
8. reached 9. lives 10. opening
P5 1. traveling 2. money 3. visiting
4. showed 5. on
6. worried 7. where
8. before
9.
pay
10. sent
P6 1. jokes 2. day
3. laughs
4. thank
5.
rest
6. life
7. presents
8. together
9. December
10. seen
P7 1. busy 2.reading 3.center 4.closed 5.friends 6.except
7.someone/somebody 8.another 9.delicious 10. took
P8 1. would 2. fell 3. heard
4. catch
5. when
6. angrily
7.
looked
8. earlier
9. afraid
10. let
P9 1. became 2. interesting 3. run
4. full
5. with
6. away
7. back
8. telephoned
9.
easy
10. caught
P10 1. best 2. game
3. for
4. passes
5.
kicks
6. away
7. minutes
8. player
9. end
10. wins
P11 1. use 2. talking 3. change 4. called 5. with
6.
something
7. librarian
8. through
9. send
10. needn’t
P12 1. how 2. showed 3. down
4. move,
5. strange
6. because 7. flying 8. either 9. bring,
10.
enjoy
P13 1. talking 2. agreed
3. stronger
4. except
5. before
6. corner 7. move
8. enough
9. still
10. why
P14 1. with 2. cages
3. repair
4. unhappy 5. spend
6. telephone 7. pay
8. believes 9. record 10.
newspaper
P15 1. planted
2. built
3. made
4. long
5. wide
6. reach
7. through
8.
stopped
9. warm
10. being
P16 1. understand 2. meeting 3. expect 4. arrive 5. language 6.
found 7. example 8. prefer
9. each
10. before
P17 1. know
2. lot
3. with
4. more
5. drive
6. plane
7. may
8. not
9. all
10. friend
P18 1. first 2. started 3. which 4. miss 5. walked 6. wasn’t 7.
again 8. somebody/someone 9. band/bus-stop/bookstore/bar 10.
quickly
P19 1. interested 2. called 3. hospitals 4. zoo 5. ways
6.
ill
7. medicine
8. heart
9. operate
10. owners
P20 1. like 2. here 3. move 4. new 5. don’t 6. there 7. answer 8.
later 9. flew 10. another 11. last 12. on 13. All
14. what
15. back
P21 1. living 2. quickly 3. anywhere
4. in
5. saves
6. back
7. but
8. learning
9.
watching
10. online
P22 1. for
2. way
3. much
4. heard
5. sure
P23 1. along 2. rain 3. following 4. above 5. least 6.
seriously/badly 7. when/after 8. were 9. useful 10. homes
P24 1. As 2. even 3. him 4. when
5. drew
6. old 7.
Then 8. couldn’t
9. become
10. but
P25 1. Hospital
2. who
3. open
4. with
5. me
6. so
7. bottles
8. opened
9. difficult
10. but
P26 1. top 2. around 3. higher 4. thinking 5. foreign
6.
different
7. even
8. walking
9. look
10. pleasure
P27 1. skating
2. broke
3. what
4. that
5. thin
6. reach
7. quick
8. help
9. other
10. hospital
P28 1. parents
2. far
3. telephone
4. visit
5. let
6. it
7. themselves
8. asked
9. paid 10. use
P29
1. more 2. everybody 3. need 4.
possible 5. without 6. do 7. longer
8. farms 9. moving 10. only
P30 1. important
2. spent
3. back
4. gone
5. why
6. time
7. useful
8. lives
9. leave
10. lose
P31 1. taught
2. say 3. watch
4. doing 5. different
6. jobs
7. factories
8. been
9. believe
10. even.
P32 1. same
2. doesn’t
3. know
4. parents
5. few
6. ever7.
better 8. because
9. have
10. learn.
P33 1. saw 2. whether 3. nothing 4. address 5. remember 6. During
7. lost
8. where
9. older 10. surprised.
P34 1.everyone/everybody 2.night 3.enough 4.time 5. put 6.
breakfast 7. usually 8. smile 9. world 10. remember
P35 1. busy 2. lives 3. summer 4. boat
5. breakfast 6.
school
7. shop
8. never
9. watching
10. Perhaps
P36 1. store
2. help
3. anything
4. want
5. in,
6. tells
7. buy
8. either
9. read
10. surprise.
P37 1. bought 2. washed 3. wear 4. change 5. money 6. hot 7. seems
8. instruction(s) 9. before 10. either,
P38 1. foreigner 2 careful
3 drives 4 busy
5
dangerous 6 remember
7 moves 8 take 9 wrong
10
floors
P39 1. most 2．answer
3．kinds
4．into
5．times
6．drinking
7．used
8．much
9．give
10．care
P40 1. trouble(s)
2. only
3. Instead
4. cook
5. others
6.
different
7. speak
8. shoes
9.
everyday
10. means
P41 1. since
2. looking
3. animals
4.pay 5. found
6. needs
7. enough
8.
end
9. except
10.
put
P42 1. universe 2. between 3. far 4. around 5. by 6. into 7. about
8. receiving
9. from
10. smaller
