He made a promise that he would_________us with dinner the next day,but he broke his word.

A.give        B.offer       C.entertain      D.equip

______ from what he said, he must be the thief who has stolen the car.

A. Judging            B. Judged              C. To judge            D. Judge

By the time the tornado ended, more than 700 people _________.

    A.have killed   B.had been killed   C. were killed  D.had killed

May: Happenings from the past

May 5, 1884

Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.

May 9, 1754

Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon(漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces, with the words “ Join or Die" printed under the picture.

May 11, 1934

The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought(干旱)，blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May 19,1994

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.

May 24,1844

Samuel F. B. Morse taps out the first message, “What hath God wrought, "over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D.C. , to Baltimore, Md.

1. We know from the text that Buchanan is ______

A. Isaac's father　　　　　　　　　B. a winning horse

C. a slave taking care of horses　　　D. the first racing horse in Kentucky

2. What is the title of the first American political cartoon? 

A. Join or Die　　　                B. Pennsylvania Gazette

C. What Hath God Wrought            D. Kentucky Derby　　　       

3. In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die? 

 A.1934.　　　　B.1960.　　　　C.1964. 　　　D.1994.

4. Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?

A. Washington, D. C.　　　　         B. New York City.　　　　　　　　

C. Kentucky                          D. Pennsylvania

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Without plants, people couldn’t live. We eat plants. _____51____. And we need plants for another reason: We need them because they are beautiful.

_____52_____.Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

_____53_____.That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.

Do you talk to your plants?  _____54____Perter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, writers of a book called The Secret of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two seeds were plants in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. _____55____Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.

A. Plants get energy from the sun.

B. Do you give them love and take good care of them? 

C. After six months, the deserted plant faded away.

D. After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.

E. We take in oxygen that plants make.

F. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

G. Imagine a world with no plants.

We have been prepared to do________it takes to save her life.

A. no matter what B. however    C. whatever   D. whoever

 ________ something wrong with the machine, I am afraid.

A.There seems to have   B. There seems to be C. He seems to be D.It seems to be

. Our schoolmaster tried his best to make our teaching methods _____ to the concerning parents at the press, who are eager to send their child to our school. 

A. get through  B. get across   C. get over D. get around

---Tom is so worried about the test that he said he was going to study all night.

----Tell him he should quit _________and get some help. 

  A.to have worried     B. to worry    C. worring    D. from worrying

. ____________ David says sounds right to Helen. That’s why she has made up her mind not to leave him _____________ happens.

A. Whatever; whatever          B. No matter how; whatever

C. No matter what; however      D. Whatever; no matter how