— Do you know who left the lights on all night long?

— It seems that Zhang Peng is ______. He is the last one ______.

A. blaming; leaving                        B. blamed; left

C. to blame; to leave                                   D. to be blamed; to be left

The population of China is larger than ______ of any other country in the world.

A. that                B. it                     C. one                     D. this

With all the exercises needed ______, he went straight home, __________.

A. to finish; happy and relaxed

B. finished; happy and relaxed

C. finishing; happily and relaxed

D. to be finished; happily and relaxed

The teacher stressed again that the students should not _______ any important details while retelling the story.

A. break out                 B. bring out       C. leave out                D. put out

Forty people got injured in a bus accident. Every ________ ambulance was rushed to the scene of the accident.

A. enjoyable           B. suitable                            C. acceptable    D. available

When will the government ______ its position on equal pay for equal work for woman?

A. arrange              B. attract                     C. clarify             D. divide

－What about reading English newspapers while learning English?

－Personally, __________. It helps a lot.

A. it’s up to you                                               B. that depends

C. it’s hard to say                                                      D. it makes sense

He feels it dangerous for a girl to be out late at night, so he won’t have his daughter _______ home late.

A. arrive           B. arriving          C. to arrive       D. arrived

There once was a little boy who often got angry for unknown reasons and ended up quarreling with his friends. His parents felt   36   but had no idea how to deal with the matter.

In order to help the son, his father gave him a bag of   37   and told him that every time he   38   his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the   39  .

At first the boy felt puzzled at his father's words, but he did as he was told. The first day the little boy had   40   thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks,   41   he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily   42   reduced. Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to   43   his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally the day came   44   the little boy did not lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the little boy now   45   one nail each day when he was   46   control his temper. The days passed and the little boy was   47   able to tell his father that all the nails were       48  .

 The father took his little boy   49   the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the   50   in the fence. The fence will never be the   51  .When you say things in anger, they   52   a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.   53   many times you say “I'm sorry”, the wound is still there. A mental wound is as bad as a   54   one. The hurt and pain caused by the   55   are deeper than those caused by the hand.

1.A. patient                          B. angry                       C. desperate                     D. worried

2.A. books                           B. tools                        C. nails                               D. suggestions

3.A. kept                            B. missed           C. lost                                    D. left

4.A. hammer                        B. shoes                       C. fence                                D. hands

5.A. discovered                   B. pulled            C. pushed                    D. driven

6.A. as                                   B. unless            C. till                             D. although

7.A. hardly                           B. possibly                   C. terribly                    D. gradually

8.A. catch                             B. lose                          C. break                                D. hold

9.A. before                          B. when                       C. after                                  D. until

10.A. pulled out                           B. pull out          C. pulled over            D. pull over

11.A. able to                        B. managed to   C. succeeded to                  D. going to

12.A. eagerly                       B. fortunately    C. hardly                      D. finally

13.A. lost                              B. returned                 C. gone                                 D. spared

14.A. in                                 B. of                    C. on                                      D. by

15.A. nails                                      B. cuts                          C. surface                    D. holes

16.A. one                             B. same                        C. best                                   D. fence

17.A. run                              B. leave                       C. lead                                   D. remain

18.A. No matter                            B. No doubt                C. How                                  D. However

19.A. serious                       B. violent           C. terrible                   D. physical

20.A. knife                                     B. nail                           C. tongue                    D. hammer

Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Some­times, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership(伙伴关系) which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the back of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites(寄生虫）on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so be­cause they remove the cause of discomfort. So although they can manage without each other, they do better together.

Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The rela­tionship develops until the two partners cannot do with­out each other. This is so in the corals(珊瑚）of the sea. In their skins they have tiny plants which act as “dustman”, taking some of the waste products from the coral and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from light so that they cannot live normally, the corals will die.

1.Some birds like to sit on a sheep because _________.

A. they can eat its parasites

B. they consider the sheep as their shelter

C. they enjoy traveling with the sheep

D. they find the position most comfortable

2.The underlined word “they” in the first paragraph refers to _______.

A. birds and parasites                                              B. sheep, birds and parasites

C. parasites and sheep                                            D. birds and sheep

3.It can be learnt from the text that the coral depends on the plants for ________.

A. comfort                                     B. light                         C. oxygen                    D. food     

4.What does the second paragraph mainly discuss?

A. Some plants depend on each other for food.

B. Some animals and plants develop their relationship easily.

C. Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence.

D. Some animals live better together.