We are hoping that these measures taken by the local government will help________things a bit.

A．sweep up         B．speed up          C．make up          D．save up

Tom is a promising student. I am sure that with his________effort, he will make a very successful scientist.

A．usual             B．constant          C．content           D．normal

The chief editor demanded  that  the  article ________immediately.

A．must be submitted  B．would be submitted C．submits           D．be submitted

Once we have________some knowledge, things do not become more difficult, but comprehensible.

A．required          B．acquired          C．inquired          D．inspired

—Have you finished your book report?

—Not yet. I couldn't________on it with so loud music next door last night.

A．draw             B．devote            C．direct            D．concentrate

So suddenly ________that the animals in the zoo looked very frightened during the total solar eclipse (日全食)．

A．did the sky turn dark                     B．the sky did turn dark

C．turned the sky dark                      D．was the sky turned dark

I don't think Tom's remarks are________；he is not supposed to say so.

A．in place           B．in peace           C．in surprise         D．in trouble

Although the entrance to the cave was very narrow, those visitors managed to________through it.

A．press             B．squeeze           C．break            D．cut

I watch her and her mother decorate her college dormitory room. Everything is in place organized and arranged. Her room nicely accommodates not only her clothes and bric-a-brac(小摆设), but her ___36___ as well. I begin to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she ___37___.

I ___38___ myself thinking of when I held her in the cradle of my arm, in the chair alongside my wife's hospital bed. One day old. So ___39___, so beautiful, so perfect, so ___40___ dependent on her new, ___41___ parents. Time marches relentlessly(不停地).

She looks up now, catching me ___42___ at her, causing her to say to her mother." Mom, Dad's looking at me ___43____”.

The last few days, I touch her arm, her face--- ___44___ that when my wife and I return home, she will not be ___45___ us. I have so much to say, but no ___46___ with which to say it.

My ___47___ changed from the day I drove this child home from the hospital. I saw myself ___48___ that day, and it has led to a lot of places that I would never have found on my own.

She says, “It'll be all right, Dad. I'll be home from school ___49___.” I tell her she will have a great year but I say little else. I am afraid somehow to speak and I only hold on to our good-bye hug a little longer, a little ___50___.

I gaze into her eyes and ___51___to go. My wife's eyes follow her as she leaves us. ___52___ do not. Maybe if I don't look, I can imagine that she really hasn't ___53___ ; I know that what she is embarking upon(开始) is exciting and wonderful. I remember what the world looked like to me ___54___ everything was new.

As I walk to the car with my wife at my side, my eyes are wet, my heart is sore, and I realize that my life is ___55___ forever.

1.                A．sister's         B．teachers'        C．mother's  D．roommates'

2.                A．lives           B．visits           C．separates D．graduates

3.                A．force          B．leave           C．find  D．have

4.                A．small           B．big            C．funny    D．strong

5.                A．severely        B．totally          C．slightly   D．strictly

6.                A．innocent        B．casual          C．qualified  D．inexperienced

7.                A．laughing        B．staring          C．glaring   D．looking

8.                A．funny          B．frightening      C．kind D．sad

9.                A．expecting       B．imaging         C．knowing  D．doubting

10.               A．for            B．with           C．within D．along

11.               A．sentence       B．quotes         C．saying D．words

12.               A．day            B．career         C．life   D．age

13.               A．easily          B．carefully        C．differently D．seriously

14.               A．quick          B．soon           C．fast   D．rapidly

15.               A．gentler         B．softer          C．tighter    D．warmly

16.               A．start           B．turn           C．run   D．wonder

17.               A．Hers           B．My wife's       C．Mine D．Ours

18.               A．gone          B．grown          C．born  D．found

19.               A．although        B．where         C．when D．why

20.               A．destroyed      B．beginning       C．ended D．changing

The new mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan, is a man of the people, ready to listen to their problems, but only until 6 p.m. Then he has to do his homework. Michael Sessions, 18, beat former mayor Douglas Ingles, 51, by just two votes and became the new mayor of Hillsdale. He is America's youngest mayor.

As Sessions was too young to enter the election in the spring of 2005, he registered- to vote on Sept. 22, one day after his 18-year-old birthday. The day after that he started his write-in campaign, which means he should persuade voters to remember his name and write it by hand on the voting ballots（选票）.

To help get his name known, Sessions earned＄700 by selling apples over the summer. He spent the money on posters and put them on the Hillsdale's lawns.

Sessions' month-long campaign included going door to door, explaining his ideas of the town's future in the kitchens of his neighbors. "They'd look at me, and say‘How old are you again? How much experience do you have?'And I say‘I'm still in high school', "he said. Sessions promised Hillsdale's voters he would renew local economy. “I was hopeful the whole time, ”he explained. One day he spent so long out on the streets knocking on the doors that he ended up in a hospital emergency room.

Sessions said that his schoolwork will not get in the way of his job as a mayor. “From 7:50 a.m. to 2:30p.m., I'11 be a student. From 3 to 6, I'11 be the mayor of Hillsdale," he said.

“He did a very brave thing that couldn't have been easy for him to do, "said Jack Vettel, a councilman in Hillsdale, a city of 8,200 about 75 miles southwest of Detroit. "He does care about this town. He's been here all his life. ”

Sessions will receive＄3, 600 a year during his four-year term, and will work out of his bedroom since the town does not provide the mayor with an office.

1.What is TRUE of Sessions' election campaign according to the text?

A．Sessions launched his election campaign on Sept. 22.

B．Sessions worked so hard that he once tried to persuade people in a hospital.

C．Sessions won the election campaign by a very close outcome.

D．Sessions felt disappointed when asked about his age and experience.

2.In order to gain more support from the voters Sessions had to do all these things EXCEPT＿.

A．put up posters'                         B．renew the economy

C．sell apples                             D．talk to neighbors in kitchens

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A．American mayors usually work from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m.

B．In America, young people are encouraged to get involved in politics.

C．All teenagers are allowed to enter political elections.

D．American mayors receive a salary of 3, 600 a year during their 4-year term.

4.Which of the following would best summarize the text?

A．Schoolboy becomes American's youngest mayor.

B．How to become a teenage mayor.

C．Hard work is the ticket to success.

D．Never too young to shake the world.