If he keeps on working so hard, he will        sooner or later.

A．break off          B．break up          C．break out         D．break down

 

完型填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.

Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to ___31___ a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to ___32___ the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.

I walked to the___33___ and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman ___34___ her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.

I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.

She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s __35____,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother __36____.”

“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an ___37___,and then asked,“could you drive ___38___ downtown?”

“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.

“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctot says I don’t have very long.”

I ___39____ reached over and__40____ the meter(计价器)

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, __41____ the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop __42____had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.

Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a __43____ building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.

__44____, she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”

We drove in silence to the address she had given me.

“___45___ do I owe you?”she asked.

“Nothing,”I said.

“You ___46___ make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other ___47_____.”I answered.

Almost without thinking. I __48____ and gave her a hug. She __49____ me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of __50____.”

1.	A．call in B．show around C．pick up D．bring back

 

2.	A．discover B．collect C．send D．offer

3..

A．window

B．room

C．taxi

D．door

 

4.	A．in B．of C．about D．on

 

5.	A．nothing B．worthless C．unimportant D．useless

 

6.	A．treated B．had C．received D．commanded

 

7.	A．hand B．hug C．address D．map

 

8.	A．for B．across C．from D．through

 

9.	A．quickly B．calmly C．nervously D．quietly

 

10.	A．shut off B．take out C．put down D．break down

 

11.	A．including B．concerning C．containing D．regarding

 

12.	A．where B．what C．that D．there

13.

A．beautiful

B．normal

C．unusual

D．particular

 

14.	A．At dawn B．At night C．At noon D．At dusk

 

15.	A．How many B．Why C．How much D．Which

 

16.	A．should B．must C．have to D．would

17.

A．people

B．travellers

C．customers

D．passengers

 

18.	A．bent B．rose C．stood D．turned

 

19.	A．cared about B．hold onto C．gave in to D．kept away from

 

20.	A．pity B．fun C．joy D．freedom

 

When the peace talk failed．There was a fear that war may ____________ at anytime．

A．break off

B．break up

C．break out

D．break down

 

I was driving in the car. It was raining. The car suddenly slid (滑) off of the__36__road and turned upside down. The roof of the car was damaged and my__37__was trapped in the window. I could not move it__38__the glass on my face and the pressure from the roof. I was__39__.It was still raining and I was afraid that the ditch (壕沟) I was in would__40__ with water. I was also afraid that the car would__41__as I could smell gasoline.

Then two male truck drivers came to me and tried to__42__me.They got a car jack and_43__the top of the car and released me. Then they __44__me out of the car. Two young women stepped forward and__45__to take me to the hospital. I immediately realized that I was_46__hurt.I had hurt my back and I was in a lot of__47__.At the hospital，I was X­rayed and the__48__told me that there was something serious.The__49__on my face were also done with and I was given pain__50__.

This__51__in the South in 1958，a time of segregation (种族隔离)__52__ “black” people and “white” people. As it happened，the two men and the two women who were so__53__to help me were all African Americans. Whoever they are，I__54__life has been good and kind to them as they were to me. I am always thankful to them and I will never__55__them.

1.          

A．clean

B．wet

C．white

D．wide

2.          

A．hand

B．foot

C．head

D．body

3.          

A．except for

B．thanks to

C．ahead of

D．because of

4.          

A．tired

B．comfortable

C．scared

D．surprised

5.          

A．put on

B．show up

C．hold on

D．fill up

6.          

A．catch fire

B．set off

C．make a difference

D．break down

7.          

A．see

B．help

C．answer

D．encourage

8.          

A．lifted

B．broke

C．burnt.

D．checked

9.          

A．threw

B．kicked

C．pulled

D．pushed

10.      

A．refused

B．offered

C．wished

D．pretended

11.      

A．seriously

B．strangely

C．slowly

D．commonly

12.      

A．pity

B．sadness

C．luck

D．pain

13.      

A．man

B．woman

C．doctor

D．helper

14.      

A．cuts

B．smiles

C．signs

D．expressions

15.      

A．instruction

B．medicine

C．training

D．treatment

16.      

A．changed

B．disappeared

C．occurred

D．began

17.      

A．after

B．with

C．for

D．between

18.      

A．kind

B．worried

C．careful

D．eager

19.      

A．doubt

B．hope

C．think

D．imagine

20.      

A．fight

B．fear

C．forget

D．scold

 

With her health ____________________, she had to quit the job she loved.

A. broken down      B. broke down     C. having broken down     D to break down