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It was 4 o’clock in the morning, when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just   1   in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We’ve called for a (n)   2   and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.”

Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was   3  .

The doctor described the accident, which caused the burns. At 6 am, our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers. When they   4   the charcoal (木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed (喷洒) too much gasoline (petrol). The flames   5   my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to his head.

  6  , one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and rolled him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in   7   to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars (伤疤). So, he had to return to college with scars.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch, very   8   scar on her arm. “Ann, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It doesn’t mean they won’t   9   it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I   10   this wisdom (智慧) on to my son. He took my advice to   11   and returned to school with his head held high — glad he was alive.

By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not matter, so he made the   12   to give up any plastic surgery (外科手术).

We all have “scars” that   13   people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better.

But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same   14   standards(标准). Put your imperfections out of your   15   and concentrate (集中) on what you value within yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

A．brought                B．given                      C．turned                    D．shown

A．doctor                  B．hospital                  C．helicopter               D．ambulance

A．serious                 B．terrible                   C．dangerous               D．important

A．got                      B．lit                          C．burned                    D．moved

A．took                    B．held                       C．caught                    D．attracted

A．Personally            B．Technically             C．Sadly                            D．Fortunately

A．shape                   B．place                      C．fact                        D．time

A．nervous                B．formal                    C．obvious                  D．amusing

A．admit                   B．notice                     C．hate                        D．hide

A．passed                  B．kept                       C．handed                   D．sent

A．life                      B．heart                      C．consideration           D．practice

A．mistake                B．survey                    C．decision                  D．instruction

A．invite                   B．cause                      C．allow                      D．impress

A．false                    B．strict                      C．similar                    D．amusing

A．head                    B．heart                      C．sight                       D．mind

_____ that air conditioners cause so much pollution, I would never have bought one.

A. Had I known    B. I had known     C. Were I to know       D. Did I know

________ had been done, the working efficiency of the employees still remained low.

A. Though               B. Despite the fact that   

C. Despite               D. Despite what

------ _______ the letter _______ to Mr Black?

       ----- No．It’s still on the desk．

       A．Has; given           B．Will; be given  C．Was; given     D．Has; been given

—What does the model plane look like?

       —Well, the wings of the plane are _____ of its body.

A. more than the length twice             B. twice more than the length

C. more than twice the length          D. more twice than the length

–Can you come on Monday?  –No, I am_______.

       A. stuck  B. engaged     C. lost     D. puzzled

Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his 36 time, he likes to get out in the country and take some 37 of animals.

   For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his 38. But his father didn’t take Bill along with him 39 he was fifteen.

   He and Bill drove to the farm which 40 to his uncle in the afternoon. They 41 the night there, so that they could 42 out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

   It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm 43 the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember 44 he was. He turned over 45 and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he 46 that he was at the 47 and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got 48 quickly.

   He ran downstairs. The others were already in the 49. Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It 50 good.

   They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk 51, because they didn’t want to 52 up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle 53 hot coffee and took some sandwiches 54 Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera 55 and started out.

A. busy          B. spare            C. enough       D. limited

A. foods          B. drawings         C. paintings      D. pictures

A. trips          B. buses            C. holidays        D. mountains

A. after         B. when            C. until            D. unless

A. led           B. stuck            C. got             D. belonged

A. cost          B. spent            C. slept           D. took

A. start       B. begin            C. walk           D. step

A. telephone   B. machine          C. bell            D. clock

A. where         B. how            C. who            D. what

A. quickly        B. sleepily          C. quietly         D. suddenly

A. imagined      B. pronounced     C. forgot           D. remembered

A. mountain      B. town            C. farm         D. station

A. dressed        B. ordered          C. eaten         D. prepared

A. bathroom     B. kitchen           C. dining-room    D. sitting-room

A. seemed       B. felt            C. tasted          D. smelled

A. many         B. soundly          C. much                D. highly

A. wake         B. go              C. put                  D. come

A. of            B. with            C. in                   D. by

A. that           B. what            C. after          D. before

A. cover          B. supply          C. operator              D. equipment

For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change. Electronic commerce is growing fast and will soon bring people more choices. There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from fraud will be harder. Many governments therefore want to extend high street regulations to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation.

　　Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs, or their rights to refund when goods are faulty. But governments cannot enforce national laws on businesses whose only presence in their country is on the screen. Other countries have regulators, but the rules of consumer protection differ, as does enforcement. Even where a clear right to compensation exists, the online catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to New York to extract a refund for a dud purchase.

　　One answer is for governments to cooperate more: to recognize each other’s rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plenty of countries have rules too fanciful for sober states to accept. There is, however, an alternative. Let the electronic businesses do the “regulation” themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so.

　　In electronic commerce, a reputation for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines online may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA’s rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.

Consumers will need to use their judgment. But precisely because the technology is new, electronic shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than consumers of the normal sort---and the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain noisily when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent of cyberspace may argue for fewer consumer protection laws, not more.

According to the author, what will be the best policy for electronic commerce?

       A．Self – regulation by the business.   B．Strict consumer protection laws.

       C．Close international cooperation.     D．Government protection.

In case an electronic shopper bought faulty goods from a foreign country, what could he do?

       A．Refuse to pay for the purchase.      B．Go to the seller and ask for a refund.

       C．Appeal to consumer protection law.       D．Complain about it on the Internet.

In the author’s view, businesses would place a high emphasis on honest dealing because in the electronic world         .

       A．international cooperation would be much more frequent

       B．consumers could easily seek government protection

       C．a good reputation is a great advantage in competition

       D．it would be easy for consumers to complain

We can infer from the passage that in licensing new drugs the FDA in the United States is    .

       A．very quick       B．very cautious    C．very slow  D．rather careless

If a customer buys something that does not meet his expectation, what is the advantage of dealing through electronic commerce over the present normal one?

       A．It will be easier for him to return the goods he is not satisfied with.

       B．It will be easier for him to attain the refund from the seller.

C．It will be easier for him to get his complaints heard by other consumers.

D．It will be easier for him to complain about this to the government.

It is estimated that the novel will be _____ of his best sellers, for his novels are quite popular among young people．

       A．other          B．either           C．another          D．the other

The old man told us an          story.

A. amaze               B. amazing               C. amazed              D. amazement