It is difficult to imagine his _______ the decision without any consideration.

A. to accept       B. accept           C. accepting            D. accepted

 With no one to _____in such a frightening situation, she felt very helpless.

A. turn on         B. turn off     C. turn over            D. turn to

 According to ______World Health Organization, health care plans are needed in all big cities to prevent _______spread of AIDS.

A. the; the        B. the; /           C. a; a             D. /; the

 Only then ______ how much damage had been caused.

A. had she realized     B. she realized     C. did she realized     D. she had realized

 Faced with a bill for $10,000, _______.

A. an extra job has been given to John    B. the boss has given John an extra job

C. an extra job has been taken        D. John has taken an extra job

 He hurried to the booking office only _____ that all the tickets has been sold out.

A. to be told          B. to tell          C. told             D. telling

 As you worked late yesterday, you ______ have come this morning.

A. needn’t        B. mayn’t          C. can’t               D. mustn’t

 This is a very interesting book. I’ll buy it, _______.

A. no matter how it may cost               B. how may it cost

C. how much may it cost            D. however much it may cost

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A 、B、C 、和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat（喉咙）operation. His throat 1, and he was afraid. However, the young nurse 2by his bed smiled 3that the little boy smiled back . He 4to be afraid. The young nurse was May Paxton 5she was deaf（聋的）. May Paxton graduated 6the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909. Three years 7, she went to see Dr. Richardson about 8a nurse. Dr. Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City. 9had never heard of a deaf nurse. She told May that her 10would be very low and that the work would be 11. However, May said that hard work did not frighten her. Dr. Richardson was 12her, and accepted May as a student nurse.

Dr. Richardson never 13her decision. 14, she was so pleased with May’s work that she later accepted two other deaf women as students nurses. The 15was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of 16. The second was Miss Lillie Bessie. These three were 17“the silent angles（天使）of Mercy Hospital” during the 18they worked there.

Dr. Richardson often 19her faith in the girl’s ability to learn nursing. She wrote to May ,“For three years, you have been with us… It is wonderful to me that no man, 20or child ever, to my knowledge , made a complain（投诉）against you …”

1.A. damaged            B. cut          C. hurt         D. wounded

2.A. lying              B. standing     C. crying           D. jumping

3.A. cheerfully         B. sadly            C. shyly            D. weakly

4.A. began          B. forgot           C. continued        D. stopped

5.A. but                B. so           C. for          D. and

6.A. as                 B. in               C. with         D. from

7.A. ago                B. later            C. then         D. before

8.A. becoming           B. hiring           C. seeking      D. changing

9.A. You                B. We           C. She          D. He

10.A. money         B. check            C. pay          D. price

11.A. easy              B. difficult        C. joyful           D. disappointing

12.A. satisfied with        B. ashamed of       C. sorry for        D. angry with

13.A. liked             B. thought of       C. regretted        D. believed

14.A. In public         B. In a hurry       C. In surprise      D. In fact

15.A. first             B. one          C. other            D. others

16.A. reading           B. listening        C. hearing      D. writing

17.A. told              B. called           C. chosen           D. offered

18.A. year              B. month            C. term         D. time

19.A. spoke of          B. said         C. heard of     D. noticed

20.A. boy               B. person           C. woman        D. girl

For centuries, the only form of written correspondence（通信）was the letter. Letters were, and are sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later.

Of course, modern postal services now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents（紧急文件）and letters.

The invention of the fax（传真）machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax , your are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for business to be able to fax documents to each other.

The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent, but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another.

There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone an email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.

However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret, and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if your posting a letter you have to address and seal（封）the envelope and take it to the post box. There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before your email!

1.We can learn from the text that_______.

A. the postal service has over the years become slower

B. email is less popular than the fax service

C. the postal service has over the years become faster

D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does

2.It can be inferred from the text that ______.

A. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s

B. letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years

C. the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s

D. letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years

3.In the last paragraph , the writer mentions “think before you email” to show that______.

A. you’d better not send your email in a hurry

B. you may regret if you don’t seal your envelope

C. you may regret before you send something by email

D. you need plenty of time to send an email

4.The text mainly deals with ________.

A. the invention of fax machines

B. the advantage of fax machines

C. the advantage of emails

D. the progress in correspondence