Bill and Betty travelled a long distance __their vacation.

A. on   B. in    C. at    D. about

--What was the party like?  --Wonderful.It’s years ___ I enjoyed myself so much.

A. after   B. when   C.before   D. since

I can’t quite remember ___ you started doing the work.

A. that is was when   B.when it was that   C. when was it that   D. that was it when

Leave everything __ you find it.

A. just like   B.like    C. just as    D. /

 ______ he met with the difficulty did he realize the importance of our help.

  A. Even after        B. Never until    C. Only before     D. Ever though

It's no secret to us, but he alone is in the dark. It means ____.

A. nobody but him knows the secret                   B. we all know the secret except him

C. it's so dark that he can't see everything clearly   D. only the needs to keep the secret

 Many people watch the news on TV _____ themselves the trouble of reading the newspaper.

save   B. to save C. saving    D. are saving

第三部分：阅读理解(共16小题；每小题2分，满分32分)

第一节：阅读理解（共11小题，每小题2分，满分22分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house.

There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl(爬行) into the house. “Look! In comes one,” she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him, so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together.” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted, “In come two, catch them!” The two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said, “You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started running away at once.

The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳)broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, “How they look like the two of last night.” The man said, “I asked you to fetch a rope, why don’t you hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes.

56. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because _____.

57. From the last paragraph, we know that _____.

58. The woman said, “How they look like the two of last night.” Here “the two” refers to _____.

 On Halloween, children in America like to _____ as ghosts to frighten people.

    A. make up            B. put on                      C. dress up          D. spy on

 Admiral (海军上将) Hu Yanlin said that security demands required China to have its own aircraft carrier, and _______ any country had the right to build one.

A. which                   B. that              C. what               D. whether