----“Did you get _____ to the party?”

----- “Yes, I replied to it this morning.”

A. an answer      B. an invitation  C. a question     D. a letter

I remember vividly the call that changed my life. It was Tuesday, February 18. When the  1    rang in the kitchen of my Los Angeles, the   2   was Marty Banderas,  a literary agent to whom I had sent a draft( 草稿 )of my novel three weeks earlier. “I have a couple of   3  .” Banderas saiD. “First, how old are you?” “I'm 48,” I replieD. “Are you in good   4    ?” “Yes, excellent. What’s this about? ” “I’ve sold your novels       5     one and a half million dollars.” I sat down in    6    . I had written fourteen novels in twenty years, but each one had been    7     by the publishers. I suppose many people would have been     8     , but not me. Each time, I just      9      writing another one. My husband advised me to find something else to do, but I refused to   10    up. Seeing this book   11    was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It's a mystery story (like all the others) and it was on the best-seller   12   two weeks after publication! I got my first lesson in story  13  from my grandmother. She used to read my stories. She was the one who gave me a    14     of words. She sparked (激发) my  15   and she has been a   16    influence on me. I always had stories running through my   17    and as soon as I could write, I   18     them down on paper. I married young and I have three children, but I never stopped writing.    19   novels between doing the diapers(婴儿的尿布) and dishes. I'm writing another novel now. Yes, my    20    has changed my life.

1. A. phone    B. bell    C. clock D. alarm

2. A. line       B. step    C. outside      D. doorway

3. A. novels   B. things        C. questions   D. problems

4. A. wealth    B. health        C. condition    D. order

5. A. to   B. for     C. on      D. in

6. A. need       B. joy     C. settlements        D. shock

7. A. rejected        B. received    C. decided      D. lost

8. A. worried        B. encouraged       C. discouraged      D. excited

9. A. couldn't help        B. got down to      C. got used to        D. went on

10. A. hold    B. look   C. give   D. set

11. A. sold     B. published   C. printed      D. passed

12. A. books B. shops  C. record       D. list

13. A. writing       B. organizing        C. telling       D. reading

14. A. use      B. love   C. meaning    D. respect

15. A. hope    B. efforts C. novels       D. imagination

16. A. lasting        B. normal      C. careful      D. general

17. A. head    B. mouth       C. voice D. work

18. A. took    B. put     C. broke        D. added

19. A. writing       B. reading      C. developing        D. translating

20. A. friend B. call    C. success      D. work

This chart shows the top 10 songs from TOP HITS HOT 100 of the week ending July 8,2003.

63．The song that has risen most in the chart over the three weeks is          .

       A．Mouth             B．Cotton Eye Joe

       C．Strong Enough        D．Everybody on the Floor

64．Which song has been in the chart for the longest period?

       A．Back for the Good   B．Cotton Eye Joe

       C．SUKIYAKJ             D．Strong Enough

65．The performer who had the song with best rank two weeks ago is           .

       A．Merril Bainbridge           B．H Nakamura

       C．The Real McCoy             D．Tokyo Ghetto Pussy

66．The chart shows that Mouth is          .

      A．becoming less popular each week   B．becoming more popular each week

       C．the most popular song on the chart D．as popular as when it entered the chart

You should take the medicine after you read the __________.

A. lines         B. instructions        C. words        D. suggestions

Tom’s mother always told him not to smoke again, but _____ didn’t help.

A. he                                                        B. it

C. which                                                  D. as

It is none of your business __________ other people think about you. Believe yourself.

A. how    B. what

C. which D. when

We couldn’t have picked ______ day for the picnic — it rained nonstop.    A. a worse  B. a worst

C. the worse   D. the worst

Nowadays ________ Internet is becoming increasingly popular and new high speed broadband network was recently started.

 A. a; the  B. the; a  C. a; a  D. the; the

You can arrive in Beijing earlier for the meeting, ______ you don’t mind taking the night train.

 A. provided  B. unless  C. though  D. until

I’d like Jane,_____Joan, to go to the farewell party on behalf of (代表) our class.

A. more than        B. less than  C. rather than      D. or other