One can be strong, brave and faithful after all these hardships he has ________.

   A. looked through      B. got through          C. put through         D. gone through

Machines in the home have a short history. Sewing machines, washing machines and tumble dries are common enough today, but a hundred years ago few people could even imagine such things. However, inventors have designed and built a wide range of household machines since then. In most cases the inventor tried to patent（申请专利）his machine, to stop anyone copying it. Then he tried to produce a lot of them. If the machine became popular, the inventor could make a lot of money.

    In 1790 the first sewing machine was patented. The inventor was an Englishman called Thomas Saint. There was nothing to match his machine for forty years, and then someone built a similar device. He was a Frenchman, Bartelemy Thimonier. Neither of these early machines worked very well, however. It wasn’t until 1846 that an inventor came up with a really efficient（高效的）sewing machine. He was an American, Elias Howe and his machine was good enough to beat five skilled sewing women. He didn’t make much money from it, however. The first commercially（商业的）successful sewing machine was patented by Isaac Singer five years later.

   Today, we take washing machines for granted, but there was none before 1869. The revolving drum（旋转桶）of that first machine set a pattern for the future, but it was crude by today’s standards. The drum was turned by hand, and needed a lot of effort. Eight years passed before someone produced an electric washing machine. The world had to wait even longer for a machine to dry clothes. The first spin-drier was another American invention, patented in 1924; but it was 20 years before such machines were widely used.

    It was yet another American, called Bissell, who introduced the carpet sweeper. He patented the original machine back in 1876. It didn’t pick up dirt very well, but it was quicker than a dustpan and brush. Thirty-six years later, even the carpet sweeper was old-fashioned: modern homes now have a vacuum cleaner（吸尘器）with an electric motor to suck the dust.

57. Inventors patent the inventions so as to __________ .

   A. produce more machines               B. avoid being copied by others

   C. make the inventions more popular       D. make more money

58. Whose sewing machine could do far more than the work that was done by five skilled sewing   women?

   A. Thomas Saint’s.                 B. Bartelemy Thimonier’s.

   C. Elias Howe’s.                   D. Isaac Singer’s.  

According to the article, modern inventors __________ .

   A. follow the pattern of the first revolving drum but improve it much

   B. only imitate the first washing machine

   C. power the first ever-made washing machine by electricity

   D. have to wait for the first spin-drier for a long time

60. The underlined word “crude” in the sentence “but it was crude by today’s

  standards”probably means __________ .  

   A. useless       B. ugly-looking     C. rough       D. not skillfully made

..Which director was he ______when talking about the latest film?

A.looking up  B.giving out  C.applying for  D.referring to

 —What about the picnic plan?

    —Not ________ yet. It’s being discussed..

A. decided                           B. decide         C. deciding                        D. to be decided

. Our club, which I mentioned just now, is open to all,        age or sex.

A. instead of       B. in place of      C. in case of       D. regardless of

Marie Sklodowska was the daughter of a Polish teacher. She was a very intelligent little girl; she could read when she was only four years old. Her father taught science at a school in Warsaw. Marie went to his school when she was fourteen years old. She was very interested in science and mathematics, and liked to help his father in his laboratory. She was a very good student and left school with a gold medal.

Marie wanted to be a scientist like her father. In 1891 her sister Bronya invited her to go to Paris. There she began to learn science and mathematics at the famous university of the Sorbonne. At first Marie could speak only a little French, but he worked hard and soon passed her examination. In Paris Marie met another scientist Pierre Curie, and in 1895 she married him.

In 1898 both the Curies decided to investigate the radioactive elements in pitchblende. The Austrians gave them a lot of pitchblende for their work, and the Curies began to experiment with it slowly and carefully. They worked hard for four years, and at last Marie obtained a very small piece of radioactive element—radium. It weighed only one tenth of a gramme, but it was pure radium and it shone with a wonderful light. The new element was valuable to science, but it was beautiful too.

46. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Marie left a gold medal because she was a good student.

B. Marie left school because she was a good student.

C. Marie received a gold medal because she was a good student

D. Marie left school because she wasn’t a good student.

47. Marie’s father ______ in Warsaw.

A. was an English teacher         B. learned science at a school

C. was a science teacher          D. taught Polish at a school

48. In 1891 Marie could ______.

 A. speak only a little Polish

B. not speak French at all

C. speak only a little science    

D. speak only a little French

49. In Paris Marie met ______.

A. another science                 B. another scientist

C. another scientific work         D. scientific labs

50. The radium ______ one tenth of a gramme.

 A. shone      B. experimented      C. obtained     D. weighed

选择合适的短语并以适当形式补全下面的句子，每个词组只能用一次。(共5分，)

take up   dress up as    on one’s own    in other words  at times     

cut off    come up with   back and forth      be up to

81. The dancers are dressed in beautiful costumes，skipping _______ to the rhythm of loud drums.

82. in winter, the town______ often_______ by snow.

83. —What ______ you_____ this weekend?

—Don’t ask，Tom．I have lots of work to do.

84. ______even the most talented athletes lose their motivation.

85. “I can manage ________. Thanks. ”

. Look out! Don’t get too close to the house ______ roof is under repair．

A. whose B. which C. of which    D. that

---I can’t find that pen you’ve just given me.

    ---Don’t worry, here’s        .

       A．it           B．more          C．another        D．others

There is no _____ that the Chinese people will present to the world a successful, splendid

  and unforgettable exposition（博览会）.

   A. belief          B. way              C. doubt         D. need