If you buy more than ten，they knock 20 pence off_______.

A.a price                             B.price

C.the price                           D.prices

It ___ to be raining when we went to see him off at a railway station.

A. happened   B.had happened   C.took place   D.took

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Do you sometimes oversleep？ Are you often late for work or school? Yes? Then  Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a(an)    1   bed for you. Hiroyuki's bed will get you up in the morning! Here is how it     2    .

   The bed     3   an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays   4   music or other pleasant sounds. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki's bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers in a sweet   5  , "Wake up, darling, please." A few minutes later, a second recording    6   . The sound recording can be loud music or   7  sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss shouts, "Wake up immediately,   8 you'll be late!"

    If you don't get up  9  the second recording, you will be sorry! A mechanical

"foot" is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few  10  minutes. What! You're still in bed! Slowly the   11  of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. 12 the bed is vertical(垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed and  13 

    Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to   14   a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Once every two years Honda has a contest for its 200,000 employees---"All-Honda Idea Contest", The employees think of new ideas. If their ideas win, the employees win   15   . Hiroyuki Sugiyama won a lot of money for his bed.

1. A. expensive         B. special          C. valuable         D. comfortable

2. A. works             B. runs        C. happens          D. moves

3. A. is separated from     B. is made up of    C. is attached to       D. is made into          

4. A. loud              B. classical     C. pop             D. soft

5. A. sound             B. voice       C. noise            D. way

6. A. sends             B. turns       C. plays            D. appears

7. A. pleasant          B. interesting      C. unpleasant       D. funny

8. A. and               B. but          C. so               D. or

9. A. after             B. until       C. since            D. before

10. A. other            B. another     C. more             D. one

11. A. end              B. middle       C. body             D. top

12. A. However          B. Finally     C. Therefore        D. Otherwise

13. A. angry            B. work         C. happy            D. awake

14. A. win              B. achieve     C. gain             D. defeat

15. A. praises          B. contents    C. prizes           D. med

--What are you reading, Tom?

--I'm not really reading, just ________ the pages.

A. turning off     B. turning around     C. turning over       D. turning up

What exactly is a lie ?Is it anything we say which we know is untrue ?Or is it something more than that ?For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you. You say “I wish I could help you, but I am short of money myself.” In fact , you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie ?

Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of southern California has made a scientific study of lying. According to him, women are better liars than men, particularly when telling a “white lie”, such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it’s terrible. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researchers say that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise that they have no intention of carrying out. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at :the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small, unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying “I wish I were somewhere else now”. They also tend to touch certain parts of the face, particularly the nose. One explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase in blood pressure. The tip of the nose  is very sensitive to changes and the increased pressure makes it itch.

Another gesture that gives liars away is what the writer Decmond Morris in his book Man Watching calls the “mouth cover”. He says that there are several typical forms of this ,such as covering part of the mouth with the fingers, touching the upper lip or putting a finger of the hand at one side off the mouth. Such a gesture can be understood as an unconscious(未察觉的) attempt on the part of the liar to stop himself from lying.

Of course, such gestures as rubbing the nose or covering the mouth , moving about in a chair can not be taken as proof that the speaker is lying. They simply tend to happen more often in this situation. It is one gesture alone that gives the liar away but a whole number of things , and in particular the context(上下文) which the lie is told.

According to the passage, a white lie seems to be a lie ______.

A. that other people believe   

B. that other people don’t believe

C. told in order not to hurt someone’s feelings

D. told in order to take advantage of someone

Research suggests that women _____.

A. are better at telling less serious lies than men

B. generally lie for more than men do

C. often make promises they intend to break

D. lie at parties more often than men do

Researchers find that when a person tells lies _____.

A. his blood pressure increases measurably

B. he looks very serious

C. he is likely to make some small changes in his behavior

D. he uses his unconscious mind

The writer of the passage______.

A. hates lying      B. enjoys lying           C. often tells a lie        D. tries to study about lying

Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage as a sign of lying ?

A. Touching one’s ears                                    B. Rubbing the nose 

C. Moving in a chair                                   D. Covering the mouth