At that time, he spent as much time as he can_____the ancient statues which would be sunk in the river.

A. paint          B. to paint        C. painting   D. painted

_____that she was going off to sleep, I asked if she'd like that little doll on her bed.

A. Seeing         B. To see      C. See                D. Seen

I hate _____ when people talk with their mouths full.

 A. that     B. it    C. these    D. them

The ____ boys were last seen ______ near the West Lake.

   A. missing ; play   B. missed; played    C. missed ; to play  D. missing; playing

It was a busy morning，about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the  hospital . I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment(约会)at 9:30 .The nurse had him take a   41      in the waiting area,  42 him it would be at least 40 minutes    43   someone would be able to see him. I saw him   44  his watch and decided，since I was    45    busy—my patient didn’t   46   at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound . While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.

The gentleman said no and told me that he   47   to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his  48  .He told me that she had been   49   for a while and that she had a special disease.  I asked if she would be    50   if he was a bit late. He replied that she   51  knew who he was，that she had not been able to  52   him for five years now. I was   53  , and asked him，“And you  54  go every morning，even though she doesn’t know who you are?”

    He smiled and said．“She doesn’t know me but I know who she is” I had to hold back    55  as he left.

Now  I   56    that in marriages，true love is   57   of all that is. The happiest people don’t   58   have the best of everything；they just  59    the best of everything they have..    60   isn’t  about how to live through the storm，but how to dance in the rain.

1.A . breath        B.test          C .seat          D. break

2.A . persuading    B.promising     C. understanding    D. telling

3.A.  if           B before       C. since         D .after

4.A. taking off      B.fixing        C. looking at     D. winding

5.A .very           B .also         C .seldom       D. not

6.A. turn up        B .show off     C. come on      D. go away

7.A. needed        B. forgot       C. agreed       D. happened

8.A. daughter      B. wife        C. mother            D. sister

9.A. late          B. well         C. around        D.there

10.A .lonely        B. worried      C. doubtful         D .hungry

11.A .so far         B. neither       C .no longer      D .already

12.A. recognize      B. answer       C .believe         D .expect

13.A .moved        B .disappointed   C .surprised       D. satisfied

14.A .only          B.then          C.thus          D. still

15.A .curiosity      B .tears         C .words         D .judgment

16.A .realize        B. suggest       C. hope          D .prove

17.A. agreement    B .expression     C .acceptance     D. exhibition

18.A .necessarily    B .completely    C.naturally        D. frequently

19.A. learn         B. make        C.favor          D.try

20.A. Adventure    B. Beauty      C. Trust          D .Life

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy lean? It leans because of a mistake. It has leaned almost since the day the tower was built.

   In 1173, the people of Pisa, Italy, wanted to build a bell tower. They wanted the tower to be the most beautiful bell tower in all of Italy. The city also needed a bell tower because the church did not have one.

   However, there was a problem. As soon as the first floor of the building was finished, the tower started to lean. Builders tried to make the building straight again as they added more floors, but they couldn’t figure out how to make it stop leaning.

   It took almost 180 years to finish the tower. Since then, the tower has leaned by another millimeter every year. Today, the Leaning Tower has eight floors and is 54.5 meters tall. By 1990, it was leaning by about 4 meters to one side. It was also slowly sinking into the ground. Many people became worried that it would soon fall apart.

   In 1998, repair works began on the tower, and by the end of 2001, it had been moved back by 45 centimeters. The tower will still lean, however, so it will need to be repaired again---in another 200 years.

1.why did the people of  Pisa want to build the tower?

     A. They needed a new church         B. They wanted to build the tallest tower in Tower         C. They  needed a bell tower.            D.  They wanted to build a leaning tower.

2.When did the tower begin to lean?

     A. from the first day it was built          B. after the first floor was built

     C. after the last floor was built           D. 180 years after it was built

3.When was the tower finished?

     A. in 1173     B. in 1180      C. in 1353    D. in 1474

4.Before being repaired,, the tower leaned every year by another _______

     A. 1 millimeter    B. 45 centimeters    C. 54.5 millimeters    D. 4 meters

5.Which of the following is NOT true about the tower?

 A. It was sinking into the ground      

 B. People were worried it might fall apart

C. It was repaired between 1990 and 1998.    

D. It will need to be repaired again in 200 years.

Popular breakfast foods in the United States, as in many other countries around the world, include coffee, milk , juice, eggs, and bread. Some other breakfast items served in the United States are thought by many to be traditionally American. However, they actually come from other cultures.

             A very popular breakfast food in America is the pancake--- a thin , flat cake made out of flour and often served with maple syrup. The idea of the pancake is very old. In fact, pancakes were made long ago in ancient China.

             Bagels, a round thick bread with a hole in the middle , are also popular for breakfast in America. Polish people in the late 1600s came up with the idea for the first bagels and this new kind of bread soon took off across Eastern Europe.

             In the late 1800s, thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe travelled to the United States and brought the recipe for bagels with them. Today, New York bagels are said to be the best in the world. Many people have them with cream for breakfast on the go.

             Doughnuts (usually spelled “donut” in the United States) came from France. They were served to American soldiers in France in the World War Ⅰ. After the war, American soldiers asked cooks in the United States to make doughnuts for them. Now , served with coffee, they are a very popular breakfast food across the United States.

1.This reading is mainly about ________

A. famous places to eat breakfast.     

B. why people in the United States eat breakfast

C. the most popular types of pancakes in the United States

D. the history of popular breakfast foods in the United States.

 2.The oldest breakfast food in the passage is ______

      A. the pancake   B. the bagel    C. the doughnut    D. The passage doesn’t say.

 3.Which sentence is true for both bagels and donuts?

      A. They both came from Europe      B. They are both easy to make

      C. They are both sweet              D. people in New York make them best

 4.Who brought bagels to America?

      A. Polish people     B. Jewish People   C. Chinese People   D. American soldiers

5.Who served donuts to American soldiers during World War Ⅰ?

      A. French people                   B. Jewish people  

C. other American soldiers           D. cooks from the United States.

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that roasted its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks stores in Seattle.

Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did , and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing.

In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the espresso(浓咖啡) bars there caught his eye. To Schultz it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, work , and coffee bars . His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.

Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores---and that was only the beginning. As a matter of fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!

Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United Stateds is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gains an understanding of customers in the city.  This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.

1.What is the main topic of the reading?

A. how Starbucks has grown       B. Starbucks’ customers

C. what Starbucks makes          D. how Starbucks makes its coffee

2.Which is true about Starbucks’ first ten years of business?

        A. It grew very quickly           B. It was run by Howard Schultz

        C. It was a small company        D. It made special coffee makers

3.Who is Howard Schultz?

        A. a coffee seller from New York      B. the man who changed the company

        C. an Italian coffee maker       D. one of the original owners of the company

4.About how many new Starbucks opened in 1999?

        A. 3     B. 150       C. 300      D. more than 1000

5.What helps Starbucks succeed in places outside the United States?

A. opening restaurants in just a few locations each year.

B. only selling locally produced coffee beans

C. working with other major coffee-making companies

D. learning about local customers.

Every culture in the world has marriage and wedding ceremonies . Usually marriages are between one woman(the bride) and one man ( the groom). However, in other parts of the world a man may have several wives, or, as in some areas of India, a wife may have more than one husband..

There are also many different kinds of wedding ceremonies practiced around the world. These ceremonies can be very short and simple, or very long and complicated.

One of the largest and most expensive wedding ceremonies in recent times was held in Dubai in 1981. The couple tying the knot at this wedding were the son of Sheik ( a male Arab ruler) Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Princess Salama. The wedding ceremony took seven days and cost $44 million. It was held in a large building which was specially built for the ceremony and looked like a stadium. The bride and groom needed a large place for their wedding because more than 20,000 guests were invited.

The reasons why a man and woman get married also vary. Sometimes they marry because they are in love, sometimes they marry because someone they meet through a matchmaker, and sometimes they marry because their parents tell them that they must marry.

One unusual example of an arranged marrige took place in Bangladesh in 1986.  The groom was an eleven-month-old boy and the bride was a three-month-old girl. They were the youngest married couple ever.

The parents of the bride and groom arranged the marriage as a way of ending a fight between the two families who had been arguing over a farm for twenty years. Both families thought they owned the farm, but no one knew exactly . The fight ended for good when the young boy married the young girl. By arranging this marriage, neither famlily was forced to lose face. The two families agreed to give the farm to the young people.

1.What is the best title for this passage?

A. An Unusual Wedding Tradition        B. A Short History of Marriage

C. Common Western Wedding Trations.   D. Interesting Wedding Around the World

2.Who got married in the large Wedding Ceremony described in the passage?

    A. a farmer and a neighbor             B. the son of a sheik and a princess

    B. a king and a queen                 D. two babies.

3.Why was the wedding ceremony in Dubai held in a building like a stadium?

   A. The ceremony was very long       

 B. The groom loved to play sports.

C, Many people came to the wedding.  

 D. People in Dubai usually get married in stadium.

4.Why did the families in Bangladesh make their children get married?

A. The children were in love         

B. The families wanted to end the fight

 C. The families wanted to buy a farm.  

 D. The bride’s family wanted to sell their farm.

5. What was strange about the wedding in Bangladesh ?

A. The bride and groom were young.     B. The wedding was on a farm

C.  It was an arranged marriage.      D. More than 20,000 guests came to the wedding

第一节: 用所给单词正确的形式填空(5 分)

1.As a _____________ for breaking the window, the student was forbidden to do some cleaning for a week.  ( punish)

2 .He is in his second  _______________ , playing with his grandson’s toy trains. (child)

3.My elder sister is involved in the ___________ of a new club. ( organize)

4.When she had finished her meal, she gave a __________ smile. (satisfy)

5.The skiing instructor was a tall, _____________ man. (sunburn)

6._______________, the war broke out. Many people became homeless. (fortunate)

7.The new houses have been built with ___________ speed. (astonish)

8.His _______________ are always difficult to believe. (explain)

9.This is a _________________ judgement of her abilities. (subject)

10.What was her _____________ expression? (face)