Mr. West wanted to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very busy, so he was never __  1__  to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week   2   Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he   3    that he could not wait any longer. He worked in an office, and   4   had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate   5   quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch   4   .The shop was full of women, who were also buying presents during their lunch hour.

    Mr. West stood politely at the   7    of a crowd of women who were   8    forward to try to get to the people who were   9   necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forwards slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were   10   into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly   11   him.

After half an hour, he was   12   as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been   13   he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to an end, so he decided to change his   14    of doing things: he put his head down,   15   a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards  the ___16__ of the crowd as hard as he could.

    The women around him became very   17   when they saw what he was doing, and began to__18   at him. “Why can’t you behave(表现) like a gentleman?” “Ladies,” he   19   to them, “I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has done me no   20   , so now I am starting to behave like a lady!”

1. A. sure                                B. certain                      C. able                         D. possible

2. A. before                      B. after                     C. till                            D .within

3 .A. promised                         B. decided                    C. agreed                      D. insisted

4. A. never                         B .sometimes                C. seldom                     D. usually

5. A. it                             B. them             C. that                          D. those

6. A .hour                             B. moment                  C. minute                            D. second

7 .A. top                        B. middle            C. edge                        D. stage

8 .A. pulling                     B. pushing           C. gathering                    D. dragging

9. A. selling                      B. buying            C. choosing                  D. seizing

10. A .going                     B. entering           C. fetching                   D. coming

11. A. beyond                   B. past              C. over                    D. through

12 .A. just                       B. even              C. ever                         D. already

13. A. where                    B. until              C. when                        D. even if

14. A. habit                      B. way                C. act                           D. sign

15. A. caught                   B. attempted            C. blew                        D. gave

16. A. center                    B. end                 C. front                        D. back

17. A. patient                   B. angry                C. curious                    D. nervous

18. A. look                       B. say                 C. point                        D. shout

19. A. hated                     B. waved              C. explained                  D. answered

20. A. treasure                            B. good               C. respect                            D. present

阅读理解

　　The United States has a new national park. It is the Great Basin. It is the first national park in the western state of Nevada. The new park is in the eastern part of Nevada, near the border(边界) with Utah. It is far from any city.

　　An American explorer John Charles Fremont traveled through the area in the early 1800's. He found the land shaped like a bowl. So he named it the Great Basin. It is a land of unusual beauty and sharp differences.

　　For example, you can climb a mountain covered with green forests, then cool yourself in a field of snow as you arrive at the top. Here and there, sharp rocks push out through the snow. Among the rocks you might see homes of the golden hawk (鹰), a bird that was once in danger of dying out.

　　You can camp in a campground on the edge of Lehman Caves. These caves are a group of large underground rooms made of limestone (石灰石). You can walk through them for about a kilometer. Before the park opened, the caves were the center of interests for anyone traveling through this area.

　　The state of Nevada has wanted a national park for more than sixty years. There have always been the opposite ideas from people who believed that a park would harm (损害) mining and agricultural interests. The bill that set up the park, however, promises that mines will remain open, and that sheep and cows will continue to feed on the mountainsides.

1．Lehman Caves are ________.

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A．about a kilometer each

B．connected with each other

C．rooms built of limestone

D．what interests visitors most

2．No national park was built in the Great Basin for a long time because ________.

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A．it was far from any city

B．some considered it harmful in some way

C．the place was found not long ago

D．the weather was bad there

3．You may reasonably conclude that ________.

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A．it often snows in the Great B……asin

B．the mountains there are quite high above sea level

C．the park is about one square kilometer

D．there are high mountains in the middle of the park

4．Which of the following shows the correct relationship between Nevada, Utah and the Great Basin?(N-Nevada U-Utah G the Great Basin)

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