“Yes, I'll be ready at nine in the morning. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again. ”It had not been an easy telephone call for Mrs. Robson to make．Her daughter had been very kind，of course，and had immediately agreed to pick her up and drive her to the station，but Mrs. Robson hated to admit that she needed help．Since her husband had died ten years before，she had prided herself on her independence．She had continued to live in their little house, alone．

On the evening, however，she was standing at her living-room window，staring out at the SOLD notice in the small front garden . Her feelings were mixed．Of course，she was sad at the thought of leaving the house，as it was full of many memories．But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last years near the sea，back in the little seaside town where she had been born. With the money from the sale of the house，she had bought a little flat there. She turned from the living room window，and looked mindedly at the walls. There was a small fish tank，with two goldfish in it. When asked why，her husband used to say，“It’s nice to have something alive in the room．’’Since he had passed away，she had always kept some goldfish，had always had “something alive in the room”．

The next morning，as her train was pulling out of the station，Mrs. Robson called to her daughter．“Kate，you won’t forget to collect the goldfish，will you? The children will love them. It’s…”，

“I know.” Kate interrupted gently. “It s nice to have something alive in the room.”

53. According to the passage，we know that Mrs. Robson____

A. was tired of living alone

B. was not liked by her daughter

C. did not like asking people for help

D. did not want to be visited by her daughter

54. Mrs. Robson was going to         ．

A. be in hospital                B. 1ive with her daughter

C. travel abroad alone           D. move to her hometown

55. The feelings of Mrs. Robson on her last night in the house were         

A. sad and hopeful             B. regretful and excited

C. sad and regretful            D. excited and hopeful

56. From the last two paragraphs，we can know that Mrs. Robson        ．

A．enjoyed keeping pets at home

B．missed her husband very much

C．had the same hobby with her husband

D．was worried about her daughter’s bad memory

 

A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the   1  was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of   2   as a result of exhausted battery (无电) . Nothing could be done but to   3   in cold wilderness (荒野). It was eight hours later that day broke, and then   4   of the rescue (援救).

It is almost   5   that he could stand （忍受）the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his   6  : “First of all, I checked up my   7     conditions and found myself not in mortal (致命的) danger. As there was no   8   to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from   9  . In this way I dozed (瞌睡) off.”

His story put an end to my regret (遗憾) for the   10   of an exploration adventure (探险) that happened last year. A group of young men   11   to explore a mountain cave and got lost.   12   to find a way out in the dark cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of   13  . Finally they felt dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the   14   people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the   15   of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to   16   themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering (闪烁) not far away.

Don’t you think you can compare it with   17   itself? When you meet with difficulty in life and work, you are lost in darkness.   18   you it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle   19 . It seems to be a negative （消极）attitude,   20   a person who can afford to do so must have foresight (远见) as well as a great courage in the first place.

1.                A．hopeless        B．worst          C．more     D．best

 

2.                A．service         B．way            C．control   D．work

 

3.                A．cry            B．lie             C．wait D．sleep

 

4.                A．delay          B．success         C．team D．arrival

 

5.                A．untrue         B．unimaginable     C．true D．useless

 

6.                A．plan           B．decision        C．explanation    D．excuse

 

7.                A．physical        B．mental         C．working   D．medical

 

8.                A．energy         B．way            C．tools     D．strength

 

9.                A．rotting         B．spreading       C．hurting   D．bleeding

 

10.               A．loss           B．failure          C．disappointment D．sadness

 

11.               A．had           B．managed        C．tried  D．meant

 

12.               A．Willing         B．Unable         C．Determined    D．Deciding

 

13.               A．hearing        B．sight           C．feeling    D．direction

 

14.               A．rescue         B．village          C．local  D．brave

 

15.               A．end           B．top            C．opening   D．side

 

16.               A．save           B．help           C．stop  D．calm

 

17.               A．adventure      B．work           C．life   D．mankind

 

18.               A．Mind          B．Watch         C．Imagine   D．Warn

 

19.               A．really          B．immediately     C．carefully   D．hopefully

 

20.               A．and           B．so             C．but   D．while

 

 

Paul was a good athlete when he was a middle school student. He liked running and jumping and won some medals at the sports meetings. So he was tall and strong. Suddenly war broke out and the young man joined the army. He was sent to the front and killed several enemy soldiers. Two years later he raturned to his home town and found a job at the police station. People had known about his bravery by then and they all liked the polite young man.

One day a few young men had drunk too much before they came in a cinema. They danced and sang there and the film couldn't be shown. Paul was ill that day and went to the hospital. When he was passing there, the young men were beating an old man. He went to stop them and they began to fight. He caught them all and sent them to the police station. Since then all the bad men in the town were afraid of the brave policeman.

It was a summer evening. The weather was hot and few people could stay indoors. Paul was on duty and sat by the telephone. Suddenly in rushed a beautiful girl with a book in her hand. She stood there, shaking in her shoes.

“What's the matter, madam? ”asked Paul.

“I wish you could protect me sir, ”answered the girl.

“Protect? ”Paul said in surprise. “For what? ”

The girl showed the book to Paul. The young man understood at once: it was a book about Ghosts（鬼）！

Paul won some medals because ____.   [    ]

A. he was a middle school student

B. he was tall and strong

C. he kept doing morning exercises

D. he was good at running and jumping.

Paul was ____ after he joined the army. [    ]

A. a good athlete

B. a brave soldier

C. a polite policeman

D. a brave policeman

Paul sent the young men to the police station because ____.       [    ]

A. they made some trouble（闹事）at the cinema

B. they drank much in the restaurant

C. they wouldn't see the filin

D. they wanted to fight with him

Paul sat by the telephone that evening because ____.   [    ]

A. he was waiting for an important call

B. he was going to call somebody

C. he was on duty

D. he wasn't afraid of hotness

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（／）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1。每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2．只允许修改10处，多者不计分。

Last Saturday,I put my wallet in the bag which was at back of my bike.I rode for about half an hour.As I neared my home I found that I kept the bag opening all the way.The wallet had fallen out somewhere in the way,it made me upset.Just then I received a phone call saying that my neighbor is waiting for me..Someone had sent it to my home.I felt very pleasing and I went home at once.It was turned out that I put my ID card in the wallet.No one was at home for he gave it to my neighbor.I have never found out what he was because he did not tell my neighbors his name when he left.

 

I was walking along the deserted main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking somewhere to make a phone call. My car had broken down outside the town and I wanted to get in touch with the Automobile Association .Low gray clouds were drifting across the sky and there was a cold damp wind blowing off the sea. It had rained in the night and water was dripping from the bare trees that lined the street. I was glad that I was wearing a thick coat.

There was no sign of a call box, nor was there anyone at that early hour I could ask. I had thought I might find a shop selling the Sunday papers or a milkman doing his job, but the town was completely dead.

Then suddenly I found what I was looking for. There was a small post office, and almost hidden from sight in a dark narrow street next to it was the town's only public call box, which badly needed a coat of paint, I hurried forward but stopped in astonishment when I saw through the dirty glass that there was a man inside. He was very fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat and rubber boots. I could not see his face - he was bending forward over the phone with his back pressed against the glass and didn't even raise his head at the sound of my coming nearer and nearer. Carefully and surprisedly, I remained standing a few feet away and lit a cigarette to wait my turn. It was when I threw the dead match on the ground that I noticed something bright red trickling from under the call box door.

The author was walking through the small seaside town__________.

A. late morning        B. early morning

C. before midnight     D. late evening

The weather of the day was ____, when the story happened.

A. windy, cold and cloudy    B. stormy, damp and clear

C. rainy, cold and clear      D. rainy, windy and cold

Why was the author astonished when he saw that there was a man in the call box? Because____.

A. the man inside was still wearing a raincoat

B. he didn't expect it to be taken up

C. the man had his back with him

D. the man did not seem to be moving

The author waited, standing a few feet away from the box because____.

A. it was not safe to be close to the box

B. the man didn't notice his coming

C. he wanted to have a cigarette to calm himself down

D. it was bad manners to overhear other's phone calls

What do you suppose happened to the man in the call box?

A. He slept.

B. He had most probably been killed.

C. He was lost in his important phone call.

D. He was too fat to move around.