—How did your students express their thanks to you on Teachers’ Day?

  —A gift together with many flowers _______ sent to me .

   A. was          B. am         C. have been     D. had been

       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly . Take, for example, the neatly-dressed(穿戴整齐的) woman I to see — or look at — on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter  the weather was like, she was     waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime    out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.   , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how I expected to see her each morning. You might say I    her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had  her. I began to realize that part of our life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar : the milkman you see at dawn, the women who walks her dog along the street every  morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are    markers in our lives. They add weight to our of place and belonging.

Think about it. , while walking to work, we mark where we are by     a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though , person?

A. disappears              B. appears             C. arrives              D. comes

A. happened        B. wanted          C. used             D. tried

A. what           B. how             C. which        D. when

A. always                B. seldom           C. sometimes   D. often

A. sunny          B. rainy            C. cloudy      D. snowy

A. took            B. brought          C. carried      D. turned

A. Clearly           B. Particularly      C. Luckily             D. Especially

A. believed         B. expressed          C. remembered      D. wondered

A. long          B. often            C. soon                 D. much

A. respected   B. missed           C. praised           D. admired

A. better      B. worse           C. more                 D. less

A. forgotten             B. lost               C. known              D. hurt

A. happy        B. enjoyable    C. usual         D. daily

A. friends       B. strangers        C. tourists          D. guests

A. regularly   B. actually   C. hardly    D. probably

A. common     B. pleasant          C. important D. ordinary

A. choice       B. knowledge   C. decision     D. sense

A. Because           B. If                  C. Although        D. However

A. keeping              B. changing         C. passing     D. mentioning

A. unnamed              B. unforgettable     C. unbelievable      D. unreal

What ___ luck! The children here live ____happy life.

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

Tom was very angry about ________ to Mary’s birthday party.

A.not inviting        B.being not invited    C.not being invited    D.not to be invited

She listened with a________expression on her face,which suggested she didn’t completely understand.

A.puzzling        B.frightened        C.frightening       D.puzzled

—Did you have a good time yesterday, Jane?

   ─Yes, as you know, ________ party went on in ________most pleasant atmosphere.

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

There are usually at least two _____ of looking.

   A. means                 B. ways                        C. directions                 D. courses

It would be _____ a risk to let the child go to school by himself.

   A. running              B. following                 C. passing                     D. carrying

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When I knew Mary made every effort ______ the homeless, I could not but ______ her.

   A. to help; admire   B. to help; to admire     C. helping; admire               D. help; admiring

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--- Only one of these books is worth _______.

   --- _______ is no wonder that you look so upset.

   A. to read; That    B. of reading; This    C. being read; There    D. reading; It