Every year millions of people travel by plane without difficulty. I don't __(1)__ very often, but I always seem to __(2)__ into trouble. Troubles seem to like me; it goes with me __(3)__ a friendly dog! Last year, for example, I wanted to come home __(4)__ a winter vacation in Miami, Florida. I had to __(5)__ a plane to Atlanta and then take another plane home. We left Miami on a Sunday morning. The __(6)__ there was warm and sunny. We arrived in Atlanta at 12:30 pm but then it __(7)__ to snow. In the next three hours, ten inches of snow fell. __(8)__ the plane could not leave. After twenty-four hours at the Atlanta airport, I was able to __(9)__ my journey. I arrived home and went to __(10)__.

　　“You look tired,”the people at work said,“You need a vacation!”

　　This year I had to go to Washington D.C. for an important business meeting. __(11)__ the plane journey, I wore sports clothes; they were old, but I felt __(12)__ in them. My good clothes for the meeting were in my suit case（手提箱）. That was a very __(13)__ idea! I __(14)__ in Washington, but my suitcase didn't. Maybe it went to London or __(15)__ to San Francisco, I didn't know, but it didn't arrive in Washington __(16)__ me! I went to my important meeting __(17)__ my tennis clothes. Now that is not a good way to __(18)__ business! People in Washington wear suits to business meetings, not sports and tennis shoes. My meeting did not __(19)__ well. That was two weeks ago. Now I am home again, and I am __(20)__ waiting for my suitcase.

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　　It was an early morning in summer. In the street, sleepy-eyed people were moving quickly, heading towards their ____(1)____. This was the beginning of another ____(2)____ day in New York City. ____(3)____ this day was to be different.

　　Waiting ___(4)_____ the crowded streets, on top of a ____(5)____ 110 stories high, was Philippe Petit. This daring Frenchman was about to ____(6)____ a tightrope （绷索）between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

　　Philippe took his first ____(7)____ with great care. The wire held. Now he was ____(8)____ he could do it. ____(9)____ only a balancing pole, Philippe walked his way across, a ____(10)____ of 131 feet.

　　Soon the rush hour ____(11)____ began to notice. What a ____(12)____! There, 1 350 feet above the street, a ____(13)____ figure was walking on air.

　　Philippe made seven ____(14)____, back and forth（来回）. He wasn't satisfied with just _____(15)___ . At times, he would turn, sit down, and ____(16)____ go on his knees. Once, he had the astonishing ____(17)____ to lie down on the thin thread. And thousands of ____(18)____ watchers stared with their hearts beating fast.

　　After the forty-five-minute ____(19)____, Philippe was taken to the police station. He was asked ____(20)____ he did it. Philippe shrugged（耸肩）and said,“When I see two tall buildings, I walk.”

　　One British school is finding that allowing children to listen to music or even to have the TV on while studying is helping improve grades. __(1)__your teenager starts a family quarrel by sitting in an armchair listening to music while doing his homework, why not __(2)__a simple experiment? __(3)__taking the heavy-handed （严厉的）line of __(4)__him to his bedroom to get on with it __(5)__, let him do the homework the __(6)__he wants. You might well find that his essay is more sparkling（有文采的）than __(7)__he's done before.

　　According to the research of Millfield prep school, around 20% of youngsters __(8)__best with background music. 10% excel（突出）when allowed to __(9)__their work with short walks around the room while up to 80% can concentrate（集中注意力）__(10)__if allowed to fiddle（用手拨弄）with a small object.

　　The research has advised the school to adopt（采取）a complete __(11)__approach（措施）analyzing pupils to discover which learning style __(12)__them best--then letting them do their homework listening to music or __(13)__lying down. __(14)__parents at first regarded the __(15)__as a layabout's deed but many are now applying it at __(16)__where children are also allowed to do their work __(17)__the television on.

　　“I __(18)__to work on the floor with music on low,”admits Susan, 13, a day girl（走读女生）.“At first my parents thought I was skiving（逃避）, but my __(19)__persuaded them to look at my homework and when they saw it was okay, they __(20)__.”

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　　The first day at school has left a deep ___(1)___ on me. I'll never forget it.

　　As soon as I rushed into the classroom, the bell rang. A young beautiful woman came in, but she was ____(2)___, no smile on her face.“You are not permitted to ____(3)___ me in the course of class unless...”She was speaking when I heard a ___(4)___“Lily, Lily”from outside the door. My grandmother was standing there with a pair of socks in her hand. I didn't realize I was bare feet ____(5)___ then. I wanted to ____(6)___ them, but I dared not do that. I shook my hand, ___(7)____“Don't wait here any longer. Leave quickly.”As I did so, I still ____(8)___ my eyes on my teacher. I really didn't want her to take ____(9)___ of me, but she did. She went out to get the socks. When she gave them to me, she looked at me for a while. My face suddenly turned ____(10)___ and my heart ___(11)____ faster. I began to put the socks on. Unfortunately I was so nervous that my ___(12)___ hands couldn't get them onto my feet easily. Just then I heard my name called. I ____(13)____ from my seat quickly.“Can you ____(14)___ the numbers from one to one hundred?”the teacher asked. I nodded. ____(15)___ her surprise, I did very well. Finally she said,“Be ___(16)____, please. Study hard.”I looked ____(17)____ her to find a smile on her face. I felt ____(18)____ at last.

　　The first day at school has stayed in my ____(19)___ as something embarrassing（尴尬）but ___(20)____.

　　Do you know __(1)__ languages there are in the world? There are about 1 500, but many of them are not very __(2)__. English is one of the most important languages because many people __(3)__ it, not only in England and America, __(4)__ in other countries of the world. About 200 000 000 people speak it __(5)__ their own language, and another 200 000 000 use it as __(6)__ language. It is __(7)__ to say how many people are learning it. __(8)__ boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

　　Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. __(9)__ children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

　　Which is the best __(10)__ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt __(11)__ language well when we were __(12)__. If we learn a second language in the __(13)__way, it won't seem so difficult. How does a small child do? It __(14)__ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to __(15)__ it. It is using the language, __(16)__ in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language __(17)__, they will learn it __(18)__.

　　In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak, it is best to learn all new words through the __(19)__. You can read them, spell them and __(20)__them later.

　　A teacher was asking one of her pupils some questions, but not even one of the answers was correct. So the teacher __(1)___ to ask him some very simple questions. She hoped that he could give at least one __(2)___ answer.

　　“Now Sam,”said the teacher,“__(3)___ is Waterloo?”

　　“Waterloo?”said the boy.“Oh, it's a kind of __(4)___ machine, I think.”

　　The teacher was __(5)___. She shook her head and raised __(6)___ question,“Sam, be __(7)___, please. Now tell me the __(8)___ to a very, very simple question: Who was Washington?”

　　“Well,”the answer __(9)___ quickly,“Washington must be the man who uses that washing machine.”

　　The teacher got __(10)___, but she didn't __(11)___. She thought and thought, and at last she thought of the __(12)___ question--if this could be __(13)___ a question: Who is the __(14)___ of the United States now?

　　Sam thought for a long time, but he had no __(15)___ at all. Then the teacher lost her temper（脾气）. She __(16)___,“Bush!”Sam looked __(17)___ and sat down.“Stand up!”Sam stood up again. He looked __(18)___.“Oh, I'm __(19)___.”he said，“I thought you were calling the __(20)___ student.”

　　One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I __(1)__ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, __(2)__ he knew me. The man had a newspaper __(3)__ in front of him, which he was __(4)__ to read, but I could __(5)__ that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my __(6)__, the man was clearly puzzled （困惑） by the __(7)__ way in which the waiter and I __(8)__ each other. He seemed even more puzzled as __(9)__ went on and it became __(10)__ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the __(11)___. When he came out, he paid his bill and __(12)__ without another glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had __(13)__. “Well,”he said,“that man was a detective（侦探）. He __(14)__ you here because he thought you, were the man he __(15)__”“What?”I said, showing my __(16)__. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I __(17)__ say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a __(18)__.”“Well, it's really __(19)__ I came to a restaurant where I'm known,”I said.“__(20)__, I might have been in trouble.”

　　People's tastes in recreation differ widely. At a recent festival of pop music in the Isle of Weight, crowds of teenagers gathered to listen to their favorite singers and musicians. They went with single railway tickets and slept in the open, a very dangerous thing to do in the climate of Britain, even in August. They were packed together like sardines for four days. There were countless thieves, a group of trouble-makers tried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere. At the end of the festival many young fans found themselves broke, and they had difficulty in getting back home. Most people would consider these conditions a bad dream of discomfort: the fans appeared to enjoy it all especially.

　　Even in the overcrowded United Kingdom there are large areas of open unspoiled country, where people with more traditional tastes can go for quiet, and for the sense of freedom they get from closeness to nature. In the national parks especially, modern development of housing and industry is strictly controlled. Visitors may walk for miles through landscape of the greatest beauty and wildness, and often of considerable historic or scientific interest. Along the coasts of some of the seaside countries, public pathways have been created; these paths stretch for many miles along cliffs that look out on the Atlantic or the English Channel. Another path, lying inland, goes along the range of mountains in the north of England. It is called the Pennine Way. Here, the long-distance walker and the nature-lover can find much to enjoy, without feeling breathless closed by large numbers of their fellows.

　　Yet few people make full use of the national parks set up for everyone's benefit. The commonest thing nowadays is for family groups to motor out to a beautiful spot and park their cars in the lay-by（路边停车处）. A picnic basket is produced, along with a folding table and chairs, a kettle and a movable stove. They then settle down to a picnic in the lay-by beside the car. Clearly their idea of enjoyment is to get into the fresh air and among the country sights and sounds without having to walk a yard. They seem almost to like to hear and to smell the traffic.

(1)Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

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A．Good Travelling Guide.

B．Various Recreation Tastes.

C．Attractive National Parks.

D．Enjoyable Travelling Ways.

(2)The underlined part means that _________.

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A．thieves broke into their houses

B．they had no money with them

C．they were worn out after the festival

D．a quarrel broke out among themselves

(3)What can we learn from the second paragraph?

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A．Traditional British people care for natural peace and beauty.

B．The UK is much too crowded to have any unspoiled country.

C．The Pennine Way goes along mountains in the south of England.

D．Any modern development of industry is controlled in the UK.

(4)Today many families prefer motoring to a place of natural scenery mainly because ________.

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A．they can park their cars in lay-by for free

B．they can have a pleasant picnic beside the car

C．they can enjoy the natural beauty without walking

D．they can hear and smell the traffic in the unspoiled country

　　Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team.“Football, tennis, cricket--anything with a round ball, I was useless.”he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.

　　It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

　　The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's School of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's coldwater exploits（成就）. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

　　Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy.“John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say,'You're completely crazy,'”Saunders says.

　　In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a close encounter（遭遇）with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

　　Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

　　This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1 800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

(1).The turning point in Saunders' life came when ________.

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A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway's training

(2).We can learn from the text that Ridgway _________.

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A．dismissed Saunders' dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

(3).What do we know about Saunders?

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A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

D．He was the first kid in his class picked for any sports team.

(4).The underlined word“Intrigued”in the third paragraph probably means ________.

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(5).It can be inferred that Saunders' journey to the North Pole ________.

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A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s