is reported in the newspaper is that seventeen climbers have been killed in the snow tsunami.

On no condition _______ here.

A flu ________ this area in 1769 and ________ thousands of people to die.

His plan was such a good one _______ we all agreed to accept.

______in a heavy rain，Robert fell ill and couldn’t but ______ for a leave.

I’ll talk about a newly-opened market ______ you may get all _______ you need.

Learning to play basketball calls for perseverance, strength, time and skill. _____, it’s not a simple thing.

— Your suitcase seems very heavy. Need any help? — ________

Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer（扫盲志愿者）. The training I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.

My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule. She told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket, because she couldn’t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.

As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie’s self-confidence, which encouraged her to continue in her studies. She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading. She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories. When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before.

As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did.

1.What did the author do last summer?

2.Why didn’t Marie go to the supermarket by bus at first?

3.How did Marie use to find the goods she wanted in the supermarket?

4.Which of the following statements is true about Marie?

The oldest and hardest cow beef may be made as tender and tasty as young and choice met. ”This declaration was made by the French physicist Denis Papin in book published in 1681, which described his “New Digester” or pressure cooker.  It was a cast iron pot with an air-tight lid, which allowed liquids to boil at a higher temperature than usual, and so it cooked food in a quarter of the time.  The food was cooked by pressurized steam being forced through it at about 121℃.  All pressure cookers were made of cast iron until 1905,  when the first aluminum model was made in America. In 1938, Alfred Vischer, a man from Chicago, U. S. A., designed a simple interlocking pan and lid, and an improved pressure-tight seal（密封）—a replaceable rubber sealing ring. When Vischer’s patent（专利）expired in 1954,  many companies entered the field,  and the rapid pressure cooker became popular with people with people who had little time to cook or had to supply food for unexpected guests.

1.From the passage we can learn pressure cooker made of cast iron lasted at least ____years.

2.Which of the following shows the correct order?

a.        Denis Papin called his invention “New Digester”.  

b.        It began to be widely used by common families.

c.        Instead of cast iron,  it was first made of aluminum. 

d.        The first pressure cooker was invented in France.

e.        Alfred Vischer greatly improved its design.           

f.         Vischer’s patent came to an end.

g.  Many other companies began to produce it.

3.In the writer’s opinion, the best advantage of a pressure cooker is that_______.

4.The best title of this passage may possibly be _______.