They went up the shore as if they wanted to see the inside part of the island.

    I went to my house and made everything   1   for the battle as before. Then I decided to  2   myself to the three prisoners, and    3   something about them.

    I came as near to them   4   I could without being seen. Then I called out to them, “   5   are you, gentlemen?”

    They jumped up in surprise; but they were ten times   6   surprised when they saw me, because indeed I must have looked very   7   in the clothes that I had made   8   myself on the island．They made no   9  .

    “Gentlemen,” I said again, “don’t be   10   at me; perhaps you may have a friend near you when you didn’t   11   it.”

    “The friend must be sent from   12   , then,” said one of them   13   , “because no man can do anything to help us.”

    “I’m an Englishman,” I said, “and I want to help you. I have one servant only,   14   we have guns and powder. Tell me freely. Can we help you? What has   15   to you?”

    “I was the captain of that ship,” replied one of the prisoners. “My man   16   up against me. At one time they meant to kill me, but now they have   17   me on shore in this   18   place, and these two men with me. One of these men is my office, and   19   is a passenger on this ship.”

    “Have they any guns?” I asked．He answered that they had only two guns and one which they had left in the boat—that is, three  20 

1. A．possible

B．necessary

C．ready

D．well

2. A．show

B．devote

C．explained

D．introduce

3. A．discover

B．question

C．find

D．find out

4. A．so that

B．as

C．as to

D．when

5. A．How

B．Where

C．Who

D．There

6. A．more

B．too

C．very

D．much

7. A．strong

B．strange

C．terrible

D．funny

8. A．of

B．to

C．them

D．for

9. A．voice

B．noise

C．answer

D．friends

10. A．frightened

B．surprised

C．excited

D．confused

11. A．expect

B．see

C．wish

D．hope

12. A．England

B．the ship

C．heaven

D．army

13. A．happily

B．angrily

C．worriedly

D．sadly

14. A．but

B．and

C．so

D．still

15. A．troubled

B．happened

C．fallen

D．done

16. A．got

B．grew

C．showed

D．rose

17. A．stopped

B．searched

C．set

D．punished

18. A．unknown

B．beautiful

C．large

D．famous

19. A．another

B．other

C．the other

D．the one

20. A．beside

B．nearby

C．in all

D．together

When Columbus returned home with the news of his discovery, he was considered as the hero who had given a new world to Spain. Never had so great respect been shown to any   1   man.

　　 But there were some who were jealous of(嫉妒) the   2  . “Who is this Columbus?” they asked, “and what has he done? Isn’t he a poor pilot from Italy? And could not any other seamen sail across the ocean just   3   he has done?”

　　 One day Columbus was at a   4   and several of these fellows were   5   . They tried to make Columbus   6   . “You have discovered strange lands   7   the sea,” they said．“But we don’t see   8    there should be so much said about it. Anybody can sail across the ocean; and anybody can coast along the islands on the other side, just as you have done. It is the   9   thing in the world.”

　　 Columbus made no answer: but after a while he took an egg from a dish and said to the people at the table, “Who   10   you, gentlemen can make the egg stand   11   ?” One by one they tried the   12  . When the egg had gone entirely around and everyone had   13   , all said that it could not be done. Then Columbus took the egg and   14   its small end gently upon the table so as to   15   the shell a little. After that there was no   16   in making it stand   17  ,“ Gentlemen,” said he, “What is easier   18   to do this which you said was   19   ? It is the simplest thing in the world．Anybody can do it—AFTER HE HAS BEEN SHOWN   20   .”

1. A．common

B．great

C．respectable

D．noble

2. A．inventor

B．traveler

C．discoverer

D．bravery

3. A．because

B．as

C．like

D．since

4. A．palace

B．hotel

C．counter

D．dinner

5. A．present

B．at present

C．kind- hearted

D．invited

6. A．happy

B．satisfied

C．uncomfortable

D．disappointed

7. A．beside

B．along

C．in

D．beyond

8. A．why

B．how

C．whether

D．that

9. A．hardest

B．wonderful

C．simplest

D．strange

10. A．besides

B．among

C．including

D．except

11. A．by

B．still

C．weight

D．on end

12. A．experiment

B．egg

C．method

D．result

13. A．succeeded

B．failed

C．experience

D．chance

14. A．beat

B．felt

C．touched

D．struck

15. A．protect

B．crush

C．break

D．damage

16. A．trouble

B．time

C．shell

D．gravity

17. A．downward

B．upward

C．easily

D．upright

18. A．as to

B．if

C．than

D．compared

19. A．possible

B．impossible

C．difficult

D．easy

20. A．HOW

B．WHEN

C．IT

D．HIM

Little Jim should love ________ to the theatre this evening, but he doesn’t know whether his parents will do so.

A．to be taken

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C．being taken

D．taking

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　　I'll never forget the day, September 11,2001. It is considered to be the 1 day in American history. I felt that 2 when the first terrorist (恐怖分子) plane hit the World Trade Center as I 3 in the North Tower that morning. I 4 to get out of the smoke-filled building. I heard the sounds of people 5 from the high floors of the towers. I saw men and women stuck in the building, waving for help in the fire as the South Tower fell down to the ground right in front of my 6 . I was about 200 meters away. No one knew what had happened. To 7 , like millions affected by the attack, the real challenge (挑战) just started that day. China Daily Office had been in the United States 8 1983. After that, our office had no longer been on the earth, 9 along with our computers. It's hard to imagine a 10 misfortune in newspaper business than that. We had to rebuild our computer office as quickly as possible. Together with my 11 , we worked day and night during which the post of China Daily was never stopped, not 12 for a single day. As we were trying our best to get back to “normal” business, the anthrax (炭疽) attack struck East Coast post offices. We had 13 choice but to go on with our business as “ 14 ”. We wore gloves and mouth masks while we were busy with hundreds of pieces of mail daily. We had to work in my living room 15 we had not yet found an office. How terrible those days were! Now it is the anniversary (周年纪念日) of September 11. 16 is time enough for many things. We have fought battles and won. We have 17 our business. Yet, we are not heroes. We burst into 18 when we saw photos of our friends who died in the World Trade Center from the New York Times. We often doubted if the worst was over and we felt 19 about the future. If we are any different from what we 20 before September 11, we are stronger.

　　(author: Sun Lingling, the manager of China Daily in North America 11/09/2002)

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　　One way of preventing (阻止) floods may be by making rain! This may sound rather 1 . As we know, heavy rain is the 2 of floods, and in Malaysia, most of the 3 are caused by the annual monsoon (一年一度的湿季风), which brings heavy rain to the east coast. If, 4 , the rain could be made 5 in the South China Sea, there would be 6 floods since the rain could not reach the east coast.

　　Is it possible to make 7 give up their rain? Yes, it is.

　　As you probably know, clouds are caused 8 air containing water-vapor (水蒸气). The air rises and, since water-vapor 9 water when it cools, very tiny drops of water are formed. Since these drops are very 10 , they float (漂浮) in the air and 11 a cloud. When the cloud rises, however, the drops become 12 . Because of this, they 13 together and become big drops. The big drops are no longer able to float because of their 14 , and they fall. As they 15 , they pick up more drops and become bigger. This is the cause of rain.

　　Rain making 16 making these bigger drops form and fall 17 they would normally do so. This can be done by “seeding” the clouds with chemicals, 18 planting seeds in the ground. Rain can be produced 19 by these chemicals. The seeding is done by 20 which fly through the clouds.

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　　After the Second World War, a small group of veterans (老兵) returned to their village in France. Most of them managed to 1 fairly well, but oneFrancois Lebeau, who had been wounded and never recovered his 2 was unable to work regularly. 3 he became very poor. Yet he was too 4 to accept anything from the people in the village.

　　Once each year the veterans held a reunion (团聚) dinner. On one of these occasions they met in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made 5 money. Grandin produced a 6 a large old gold coin. Each man 7 it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, 8 , had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, 9 the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin 10 it and asked for it, the coin was missing.

　　One of them suggested everyone be searched, 11 all agreed, except Lebeau. “You 12 , then?” asked Grandin. Lebeau flushed. “Yes,” he said, “I can not allow it.”

　　One by one, the others turned out their pocket. When the coin 13 to appear, attention was focused on poor Lebeau. Amid (在……之中) the 14 stares of his friends, he walked out with the hangdog air of a prisoner and returned to his home.

　　A few years later, Grandin made some changes in his house. A workman found the gold coin, 15 in dirt between planks (板) of the floor.

　　“Why did you not allow yourself to be 16 ?”

　　“Because I was a 17 ,” Lebeau said brokenly. “For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of 18 that I had taken from the table to 19 home to my wife and 20 children.”

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　　Today, when a man steps onto the moon, the 1 learn about it immediately. What did the 2 say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly 3 about it at all. There were only a few reports about it in the papers. These reports said very 4 . Some of the things they said were not even 5 .

　　In 1904 the Wrights built 6 machine. They called it “Flyer No. Two”. They 7 some reporters to watch them fly. 8 there was some mechanical trouble with the plane and itdid not fly at all that day. The newspaperman 9 away. They were 10 and did not come back. The Wrights went on with their 11 . In 1905 they built an even 12 machine,“Flyer No. Three”. They were able to 13 up in the air for half an hour and more in this machine. They were 14 to turn and climb in the air. Farmers and travelers often saw them flying. 15 when these people told newspaper men about it, they refused to believe them.

　　The Wrights 16 “Flyer No. Three” to the United States Government. The Government was not 17 . They seemed to think the Wrights wanted money to build a 18 . They did not understand that the Wrights had already done this, and flown it as well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was 19 . At the end of 1905, the two brothers took their plane to pieces. The 20 were put into a huge box. It seemed nobody was interested.

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　　In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the school of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually included saying poems aloud or giving 1 .

　　Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are 2 on the same questions, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it appeared with the great 3 in population and the development of modern 4 . A room full of candidates (投考者) for a state examination, 5 exactly by electric clocks and carefully 6 over by 7 , resembles (类似于) a group of workers at a car factory. Certainly, during examinations teachers and students are expected to act like 8 .

　　Two types of tests are commonly used in 9 schools. The first type is called an “objective test”. It is intended to deal with 10 , not personal 11 . On objective tests the student has just one 12 : he must 13 the correct answer and 14 its letter (or number) on his examination paper. Sometimes there is an answer sheet on which the four letters are 15 . Then the student has only to circle the one that 16 with the correct answer.

　　For 17 some kinds of learning, however, such a test is not very 18 . A lucky student may 19 the correct answer without really 20 the material.

　　So most teachers use another kind of examination in addition to objective tests.

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　　Mr. Gray traveled a lot on business. He sold machines of various kinds to farmers, which he thought not really a very 1 job, but Mr. Gray had always been interested in 2 , and he was quite satisfied with his life.

　　He had a big 3 , and usually enjoyed driving it long distances, but he was also quite 4 to go by train sometimes, especially when the weather was 5 . He was a little frightened of driving in the rain or snow, and it was 6 tiring to sit comfortably in a train and look out of the windows without being worried about how one was going to get to the next place.

　　One of Mr. Gray's 7 was often where to stay when he reached some small 8 in the country. He did not expect 9 and wonderful food, but he found it annoying (恼火的) when he was given a cool room, and when there was no hot water 10 good food after a long and tiring day.

　　Late one winter evening, Mr. Gray arrived at a small railway station. The journey by train that 11 had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and 12 . He was looking forward to a 13 but satisfying meal by a brightly burning 14 , and then a hot bath and a comfortable bed.

　　While he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was also 15 there, “As this is my 16 visit to this part of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to find out about hotels before I 17 home, I would very much like to know how many you have here.”

　　The local man answered, “We have two.”

　　“And which of the two would you 18 me to go to?” Mr. Gray asked then.

　　The local man scratched (搔) his 19 for a few moments and then answered, “Well, it's like this, 20 one you go to, you'll be sorry you didn't go to the other.”

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　　“Down-to-earth” means someone or something that is honest, realistic and easy to deal with.

　　It is a pleasure to 1 someone who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to and 2 other people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the 3 of someone who acts important or proud.

　　Down-to-earth persons may be important members of 4 , of course. But they do not let their importance “ 5 to their heads”. They do not consider themselves to be better persons than 6 of less importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and pride, 7 without cause, is said to have “his nose in the air”. There is 8 way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.

　　Americans 9 another expression that means almost the same as “down-to-earth”. The expression is “both-feet-on-the-ground”. Someone 10 both feet on the ground is a person with a good 11 of reality. He has what is called “common sense”. He may have dreams, 12 he does not allow them to block his knowledge of 13 is real.

　　The opposite kind of 14 is one who has “head in the clouds”. A man with his head in the clouds is a 15 whose mind is not in the real world.

　　 16 such a person can be brought back to earth. Sharp words from teacher can usually 17 a daydreaming student down-to-earth.

　　Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very 18 to have both feet on the ground. 19 we have both our feet on-the-ground, when we are down-to-earth, we act honestly and openly 20 others. Our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong.

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