It was for this reason __________ Tim gave up his well-paid job and moved out of the city to settle down in the country . 

A. which         B. why         C. that          D. how

----- Doesn’t the break seem a bit too long?

----- I think so. But, listen! There________ the bell!  

A. goes          B. going        C. is going       D. has gone

----- How are you getting on with your work?

----- Oh, sorry. Things aren’t going so well as _______ .

A. being planed      B. planning      C. planned     D. to be planned

Although Joe enjoys a high status in the company, most of the time, he _______ wear sweaters, big trousers, and old shoes ______ business suits.

A. would prefer to…other than         B. prefers to…rather than

C. would rather…instead              D. preferred to…but

My grandma used to tell me stories of _________ bad habits lead to crimes when I was just a kid.

A. that         B. what             C. whether      D. how

Being a teacher, I always have so many things to__________ whether in or out of the school.    

A. add to        B. attend to       C. contribute to      D. appeal to

----- Did Jane finish her task with your help?

----- Finished? It’s a great pity that he ________ my help.

A. ought to refuse               B. should refuse    

C. should have refused           D. did refuse

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈) from a (n)  1___ injury. I had   2   whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was   3   for the 3,000-meter run.

“Ready…set…” The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed   4__   me. I felt   5   as I fell farther and farther behind.

“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest 6_ I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps(圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finished line. “Maybe I should   7  ,” I thought as I moved on.   8    , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran   9   and decided not to   10   in track next year. It wouldn’t be worth it,  _11__ my foot did heal.

When I finished, I heard a cheer－  12   than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around and   13    , the boys were preparing for their race. “They must be cheering for the boys.”

I was leaving   14   several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.

“Courage? I just   15   a race!” I thought. “I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”

Suddenly I regained  16_ . I decided to   17_ track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always   18   in medals and victories, but in the   19   we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win,   20   the people who don’t give up when they lose.

1. A. slighter                     B. worse                   C. earlier                   D. heavier

2. A. expected                  B. supposed              C. imagined               D. doubted

3. A. late                          B. eager                    C. ready                    D. thirsty

5. A. ashamed                   B. astonished             C. excited                     D. frightened

6. A. cheer                       B. shout                    C. cry                          D. noise

7. A. slow down               B. drop out                C. go on                       D. speed up

8. A. Therefore                 B. Otherwise             C. Besides                    D. However

9. A. with delight              B. with fear               C. in pain                      D. in advance

10. A. play                       B. arrive                    C. race                         D. attend

11. A. even if                    B. only if                   C. unless                      D. until

12. A. weaker                   B. longer                   C. lower                       D. louder

13. A. well enough        B. sure enough          C. surprisingly enough  D. strangely enough 49. 14. A. while    B. when  C. as       D. since

15. A. finished                  B. won                     C. passed                     D. lost

16. A. cheer                     B. hope                     C. interest                     D. experience

17. A. hold on                   B. turn to                  C. begin with                D. stick with

18. A. measured                B. praised                  C. tested                       D. increased

19. A. sadness                  B. struggles               C. diseases                   D. tiredness

20. A. or                              B. nor                   C. and                          D. but

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China news, Nanjing, Nov. 14 – “People who suffer from mental illness are able to draw. Actually, they can draw very well,” said Guo Haiping, a contemporary artist in Nanjing.

Recently, Guo spent three months living with the mentally retarded people at Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital (精神病医院). When he was there, he taught them how to draw pictures. In three months, he collected more than 100 paintings drawn by the mentally retarded people, the Yangtze Evening News reported.

The paintings shocked the artistic circle. This has raised a question to the normal people in society: how can we give up our prejudices against the mentally retarded people and view them from a totally new perspective (看法)?

Before, the mentally retarded people in Nanjing had never touched painting brushes, nor did they know any painting techniques. Now, artists have begun to speak highly of their paintings. After seeing their works, Guo Haiping said this group of people and their works should “deserve more attention from society.”

“In China, no one believes that they can draw paintings. We have so many prejudices against this group of people and we really don’t know anything about their mysterious mental world,” Guo said.

At Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital, Guo let the mentally retarded people see some paintings and gave them water color brushes, color pencils, oil chalk and clay. He told them they could do whatever they wanted with these materials. He didn’t teach them how to draw. He just encouraged them to pick up some of these materials and draw something. About 100 mentally retarded people in the hospital participated in the activity. During the three months’ stay in the hospital, Guo Haiping had seen them complete more than 300 works.

Guo Haiping also came to know about these mentally retarded people and their mental world through the event. He had collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book. Many works drawn by the patients will be exhibited in Beijing this month.

1. You can most probably read the text in ________.

A. a newspaper   B. a hospital guide   C. a science book   D. a medicine book

2. The underlined word “mentally retarded” means ______.

A. depressed         B. talented         C. cautious      D. slow-minded

3. Nobody in China believes the mentally retarded people can draw paintings because _______.

A. they think the mentally retarded people’s works are boring

B. the mentally retarded people really have no such special ability

C. they know little about the mentally retarded people’s mental world

D. the mentally retarded people’s works have never been collected by artists

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. people will surely give up prejudices against the mentally retarded people

B. Guo Haiping collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book

C. people have begun to change their opinions about the mentally retarded people

D. as a mentally retarded artist, Guo Haiping hopes to be considered a normal person