Recent studies have shown that most US graduates receive cash as gifts, though the amount received ______ from person to person．

       A．prefers        B．promotes           C．varies               D．suffers

--Are you going somewhere during the winter vacation?

       --Yes, I’ve found a nice beach ________ I can enjoy swimming even in February．

       A．that                B．when      C．where     D．which

______ comes will be welcomed to the open-air concert.

       A．Whatever  B．Whoever   C．No matter what       D．No matter who

There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala (瑞典一城市), a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays. This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read. Daae was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it. Not a violinist in Scandinavia played as he did. His reputation was widespread and he was always invited to set the couples dancing at weddings and other festivals. His wife died when Christine was entering upon her sixth year. Then the father, who cared only for his daughter and his music, sold his land and went to Upsala in search of fame and fortune. He found nothing but poverty.

       He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.

       When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.

       Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.

When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.

A. work on his land                                  B. sing in the choir on Sundays

C. make a fortune at weddings and festivals D. teach his daughter how to sing

The 3rd sentence “He insisted …” in the 2nd paragraph showed Professor Valerius’ ______.

A. hope for Daae and Christine                  B. appreciation of Daae and Christine

C. sympathy for Daae and Christine            D. love for Daae and Christine

While Daae was in Paris, he never went out of doors because he was ________.

A. always sleepy                                       B. so homesick that he fell ill

C. too busy teaching his daughter                D. willing to be locked up with his daughter

What made people curious about the father and daughter was that _______.

A. the father made very good music

B. the daughter sang like an angel from Heaven

C. the father walked strangely with his daughter

D. they appeared to be badly off but refused money offered 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world.    36     springs and streams sometimes means control , particularly in the    37     areas like the desert . The control is possible even without possession of large areas of    38    land. In the early days of the American West , gun fights were not    39     for the water resources (资源). And laws had to be     40    to protect the water rights of the    41     and the use of the water resources accordingly.

    42    is known to us all, there is not     43    water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes . Deciding on the     44    of water that will be used in any particular period    45    careful planning, so that people can manage and use water more     46    . Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water     47    the water supply forecast (预报).

    The    48    water supply forecast is based more on the water from the    49     than from the below. Interest is    50     in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain   51      . With special equipment , some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be    52    , and with the help of a repeater station , they send the     53    data (数据) to the base station . The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by    54    a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water       __55_ probably depend on the advanced knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.

A. Using          B. Holding         C. Owning         D. Finding

A. dry            B. distant           C. deserted         D. wild

A. fine            B. beautiful         C. rich            D. farming

A. unlawful        B. unacceptable     C. unpopular       D. uncommon

A. made          B. designed         C. signed           D. written

A. winners     B. settlers          C. fighters         D. supporters

A. That           B. It               C. What         D. As

A. plentiful      B. enough          C. any              D. much

A. type           B. quality          C. amount          D. level

A. requests        B. requires         C. means           D. suggests

A. effectively     B. easily           C. conveniently     D. actively

A. leading to      B. due to           C. owing to        D. according to

A. correct         B. further          C. average         D. early

A. clouds          B. sky            C. air              D. above

A. raising         B. rising           C. building          D. lasting

A. rocks           B. tips              C. tops             D. trees

A. taken care of B. made use of      C. piled up         D. saved up

A. picked        B. produced        C. used             D. gathered

A. touching       B. knocking         C. pressing         D. turning

A. might         B. can            C. will            D. should

Many animals recognize their food because they see it. So do humans. When you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. You can also use other senses when you choose your food. You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good. You may dislike some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice. Different animals use different senses to find and choose their food. A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more than one sense.

Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type. The giant panda eats only one particular type of bamboo. Other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice. A kind of white butterfly will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden. However, most animals have a more varied diet. The bear eats fruits and fish. The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits. The diet of these animals will be different depending on the season.

Humans have a very varied diet. We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for us. In countries such as France and Britain, people eat foods with too much sugar. This makes them overweight, which is bad for their health. Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter, can also be bad for the health. Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life.

We can infer from the text that humans and animals _________.

A. depend on one sense in choosing food                

C. choose food in similar ways    B. are not satisfied with their food

D. eat entirely different food

Which of the following eats only one type of food?

A. The white butterfly.   C. The bear.   B. The small bird.  D. The fox.

Certain animals change their choice of food when ___________.

A. the season changes  

C. they move to different places   B. the food color changes

D. they are attracted by different smells

We can learn from the last paragraph that __________.

A. food is chosen for a good reason 

C. some people have few choices of food    B. French and British food is good

D. some people care little about healthy diet

——I can’t find my MP4 player.

   —— You _______it on the desk. I saw a red one on it.

A. might have put     B. can put      C. need have put          D. must put

Intelligence doesn’t ______ mean success. You need to work hard as well.

       A. honestly      B. formally             C. simply         D. necessarily

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The whole family _______ to Shanghai for holiday next week.

A. is going     B. are going    C. goes    D. have gone