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Charile Yates was seventeen years old, and although he had left school, he still lived with his parents.Charlie was still 1 a child and he had many 2 habits.He did not wash his hair very often, 3 he shaved once a week, and he could not bear 4 shoes, so his feet were nearly always 5 .
His father did not see him very 6 , because he worked quite a long way 7 home and usually left the house very early, 8 Charlie got up; and when he got home in the evenings, Charlie was usually somewhere else, 9 himself with a few of his friends.Also, Charlie's father often had to go abroad 10 business.
But Mr Yates sometimes saw his son at weekends, and then he was always angry 11 him.He used to say to him:“Why ever don't you shave every day? Who ever would 12 you a job with your dirty hair? Where ever are your shoes?”and so on.
“But father,”Charlie said, “I don't 13 about those things.All my friends are like me now, and if I changed, I wouldn't be 14 with them any more.”On Saturday morning, while Charlie and his father were having their usual argument, his father said to him, “You 15 be ashamed to live like that.I grew up quite 16 .When I was seventeen, my father never let me do any of the things that you do all the 17 , I was not permitted to stay out 18 three o'clock in the morning, and come down to breakfast at 10, and walk about the house with dirty feet, and 19 a beard, and wear gold chains, and behave like a ...”
He went on and on until Charlie said kindly, “Poor father, my grandfather died before I was born, so I never met him, but he must have been a 20 old gentleman.”
“Not at all!”Mr Yates said angrily, “I think I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!”
(1) A.as |
B.for |
C.like |
D.with |
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(2) A.good |
B.bad |
C.dirty |
D.clean |
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(3) A.or |
B.so |
C.because |
D.and |
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(4) A.dressing |
B.wearing |
C.pulling on |
D.putting on |
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(5) A.dirty |
B.small |
C.clean |
D.big |
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(6) A.often |
B.usually |
C.sometimes |
D.seldom |
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(7) A.away |
B.off |
C.from |
D.out of |
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(8) A.after |
B.when |
C.while |
D.before |
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(9) A.enjoying |
B.playing |
C.talking |
D.agreeing |
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(10) A.in |
B.for |
C.on |
D.at |
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(11) A.for |
B.with |
C.to |
D.of |
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(12) A.carry |
B.give |
C.take |
D.send |
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(13) A.care |
B.ask |
C.look |
D.talk |
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(14) A.playing |
B.popular |
C.welcome |
D.angry |
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(15) A.can |
B.must |
C.may |
D.should |
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(16) A.the same |
B.well |
C.badly |
D.differently |
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(17) A.while |
B.moment |
C.time |
D.way |
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(18) A.till |
B.at |
C.before |
D.since |
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(19) A.have |
B.grow up |
C.grow |
D.shave |
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(20) A.terrible |
B.kind |
C.good |
D.nice |
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科目:高中英语 来源:高考三人行·英语 题型:054
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You have probably heard of homing pigeons, which usually appeared in war. From 3,000 B.C.to the present, homing pigeons have 1 as postmen. They have been especially useful for carrying messages 2 war. The telegraph is not 3 to carry about. Sometimes only the little pigeon can take a message where it ought to go.
In 1870, when the Prussians surrounded the city of Paris, the city was cut off from all the 4 means of communication. The people 5 many different ways of sending news. One way was to let go small balloons carrying mail.
6 of course, they only drifted 7 the wind carried them. Often they landed inside the enemy’s lines. Even balloons large enough to carry a pilot could hardly be well controlled.
It was pigeons that in the end. solved the 8 . Homing pigeons were brought into 9 . Soon they were carrying letters far and wide. The enemy bought 10 to catch pigeons, but the little postmen could fly faster than their 11 . Strangely enough, pigeons played an important 12 in war.
During World War I every army unit had a group of pigeons 13 . Many of them wore honored. Among them 14 an American pigeon with a French name Char Ami, which meant “dear friend”. A group of U.S. soldiers were surrounded by the enemy. They had no food and no bullets. They nearly died of 15 . There was little hope for them. Cher Ami made his way 16 the bullets and succeeded. At once planes 17 to drop food and ammunition (军火) to them. With their strength 18 , the soldiers fought back to their own army and got saved.
19 can pigeons carry the message? There were various methods. Usually the message is put into a little glass tube. The tube is tied to the leg or hidden under 20 or hung around the neck.
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