Imagine how excited we were ____ that our schoolmates had been admitted to some famous universities.

A. learning            B. having learned

C. to be learning            D. to learn

Our school has about 100 computers, but only sixty percent ____ used regularly.

A. is                        B. are          C. was               D. were

——Did Tom come back late last night?

——No. It was not yet 8 o’clock ____ he arrived home.

A. before        B. when        C. that               D. until

If Joe's wife doesn’t go to the party, ________.

A. neither does he         B. neither will he

C. so does he          D. so he will

Yesterday, I came across my former classmate, but his name ______ me, which made me embarrassed.

A. forgot                B. missed          C. escaped      D. reminded

——Well, Jane has many advantages, too.

——Oh, yes. _______ others are weak, she is strong.

A. If              B. Where        C. Though      D. When

I got to the office earlier that day, _______ the 7:30 train from Paddington.

A. caught        B. to have caught

C. to catch    D. having caught

Oh, much smoke here! Somebody _______ the window, please.

A. opens        B. open         C. shall open           D. will open

A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a   11   , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it   12   from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles(弹珠),   13   everywhere. I tried to use a broom(扫帚),     14   with each sweep, they just rolled across the kitchen.

For the next week, every time I was in the   15   , I found a pea——in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept   16   . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and   17__   12 frozen peas hidden underneath．

    At the time I found those few remaining    18   , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful  __19   I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded   20   those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my   21   had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had scattered(分散). My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble   22   his new surroundings and the   23   of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.

When life gets you   24   , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never   25   , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be   26   , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas   27   , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them   28   you’ll start to feel whole again.

The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to   29   , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom,   30    will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?

1.A. drink                             B. fruit                                   C. vegetable                                  D. meat

2.A. moved                                    B. walked                    C. ran                                              D. slipped

3.A. rubbed                                   B. rolled                                C. grew                                           D. existed

4.A. but                                          B. and                                    C. although                                    D. so

5.A. bedroom                      B. living room             C. kitchen                             D. storeroom

6.A. getting up                     B. turning up              C. taking up                                   D. using up

7.A. found                                     B. ate                                     C. left                                              D. planted

8.A. presents                                B. cans                                  C. vegetables                       D. peas

9.A. man                               B. child                                  C. woman                             D. boy

10.A. of                                          B. for                                     C. with                                            D. in

11.A. wife                             B. life                                     C. son                                             D. friend

12.A. turning to                            B. leading to                         C. adjusting to                      D. adding to

13.A. thank                                    B. love                                   C. help                                            D. loss

14.A. down                                    B. near                                  C. close                                          D. wide

15.A. get it                                     B. make it                    C. take it                               D. leave it

16.A. grew                                     B. bought                    C. collected                                   D. frozen

17.A. eventually                           B. fortunately             C. properly                                    D. specially

18.A. both                                     B. all                             C. either                                         D. each

19.A. call on                                  B. put on                     C. bring on                                     D. move on

20.A. while                                    B. because                           C. since                                          D. or

Students in many countries are learning English. Some of these students are small children. Others are teenagers. Many are adults. Some learn at school, others by themselves. A few learn English by learning the language over the radio, on TV, or in film. One must work hard to learn another language.            

Why do all these people want to learn English? It is difficult to answer this question. Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects required for study. They study their own language and English. Some people learn it because it is useful for their work. Many people learn English for their work. Many people learn English for their higher studies, because at college or university some of their books are in English. Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.

1.People learn English _______.

A. at school   B. over the radio

C. on TV            D. not all in the same way

2.Different kinds of people want to learn English _______.

A. together with other subjects        B. for different reasons

C. for their work                      D. for higher studies at colleges

3.From this passage we know that _______.

A. we can learn English easily

B. English is very difficult to learn

C. English is learned by most people in the world

D. English is a useful language but one must work hard to learn

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. We don't need to learn any foreign languages.

B. We can do well in all our work without English.

C. English is the most important subject in schools.

D. We should learn English because we need to face the world.