Mr Knight was the manager of a hotel. One weekend all of the hotels in the city were 36_____ because there was an important meeting. On Friday night, three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms. Mr Knight said that there were 37_____ rooms ready for use because of the meeting. The three men were very 38____ because they had no place to stay.
Mr Knight wanted to help them. He remembered that Room 418, a very small room, was empty. He asked the men 39____ they would share a room. The three men said they would.
Mr Knight told that the room would be thirty dollars: ten dollars 40_____ each one. Each man gave him ten dollars, and then they went up to the room.
Mr Knight soon began to feel 41_____. “Thirty dollars is a lot to ask as a price for that small room.” He thought. He said to his assistant, “Here’s five dollars. Give it to the men in Room 418. I asked them too 42______money for their room.”
The assistant tool the money. 43____ he was on the way to Room 418, he started to think: “How can three men divide five dollars? I’ll keep two dollars. The men will be happy to get anything back. I’ll take a little money and Mr Knight will 44_____ know.” So the assistant returned one dollar to each man.
Each man had paid ten dollars. After the assistant returned one dollar to each one, each man had 45_____ paid only nine dollars. There were three men ＄9×3=＄27. The assistant kept ＄2. ＄27+＄2=＄29. Where is the missing dollar?

My young daughter and I were flying to Miami for holiday. The plane was totally    36   . We couldn’t get seats together and were separated by the aisle. I asked two men if they would like to change 37   with us, so that we could be together. They 38    .

At the same time, a mother 39     three children also had the same problem as us. The mother 40     her baby, but her young son and his older brother were separated from her. She was very concerned about the boys sitting with 41  . She was very worried, but 42    helped her. Suddenly a man said, “I think we can help you.” Then he and his group managed to make enough space for the 43     .

My young daughter, however, was afraid of not being next to a window or her mom. I told her I couldn’t do anything; we had to sit 44    we were. Amazingly, the man sitting next to me turned to me and said he really liked the seat near the aisle, so we changed seats and continued our trip 45    .

Would that man give us his seat if the others hadn’t done so for the mom and her children? I don’t know. Perhaps kindness is contagious.

1.A. crowded      B. uncomfortable   C. full     D. noisy

2.A. money       B. seats           C. minds    D. ideas

3.A. agreed       B. refused         C waited   D. nodded

4.A. with         B. except          C. next to    D. besides

5.A. held         B. raised          C. carried    D. brought

6.A. friends       B.waitresses       C.strangers   D.relatives

7.A. somebody    B. anybody        C. everybody  D. nobody

8.A. family       B. home           C. house     D. team

9.A. that         B. what            C. where     D. when

10.A. sadly        B. hurriedly        C. slowly    D. happily

Yesterday the police were joined by more than 20 volunteers in the continuing search for the two missing teenagers, Vicky Gray and Tom Hunter, and their guide, Gavin Jones. The police said that they had disappeared during an adventure tour of Cape York Peninsula.
This was the second day of the search and the police were now very worried about the safety of the three missing people.
The police said that the search had covered a wide area, but the rainforest was thick and their work was made harder by the recent rain. Later on Chief Inspector (警官) Roger Fleet said, “The travelers had a radio with them. If they had been in trouble, they would have called us.”
The three travelers left Cooktown very early on Saturday morning in a Toyota car. They took a small dirt road that runs down to the Daintree River, a dangerous river full of crocodiles (鳄鱼). Chief Inspector Roger Fleet said the tourists wouldn’t have got into trouble if they had stayed on the main road.
A photo of Vicky and Tom was found by a policeman under the “Be Careful about crocodiles” sign near the river. Why was the photo left behind? This is just one of the unanswered questions. Other questions are: Why was the Toyota parked and locked at the edge of the rainforest? The police said that the travelers had left a map of the area behind. Why? Why had someone drawn a cross on the place where the car is? Is this a sign? What does it mean? If anyone can give information or has seen these three young people, contact the local police in Cooktown

1. 1.

   This article is probably taken from ______.

   1. A.
      a newspaper
   2. B.
      a magazine
   3. C.
      a storybook
   4. D.
      a guidebook
2. 2.

   Which word best describes the search of the three missing people?

   1. A.
      Helpless
   2. B.
      Tough
   3. C.
      Delightful
   4. D.
      Successful
3. 3.

   Which of the following things wasn’t found by the police?

   1. A.
      A touring map
   2. B.
      A photo of the travelers
   3. C.
      The travelers’ radio
   4. D.
      The travelers’ car
4. 4.

   All the following questions are unanswered except______.

   1. A.
      why they left a photo behind
   2. B.
      why they came to this area
   3. C.
      why their Toyota was parked in the place
   4. D.
      why a cross was drawn on the map
5. 5.

   The article asks people to______.

   1. A.
      join the police in searching for the missing people
   2. B.
      tell the police about the travelers’ ages and their appearance
   3. C.
      learn the lesson and stop taking adventure tours
   4. D.
      provide information about the missing people

One afternoon, I went to pick up my mother from work.I got there a little early, so I _______ (41) my car by a small park, and _______ (42) for her.
As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running _______ (43) on the grass as his mother _______ (44) from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been ______ (45) free from some sort of prison .The boy would then fall to the grass , (46) up , without looking back at his mother , run as_______ (47) as he could ,again , still with a smile on his face ,as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself , “why aren’t most adults this way ?” Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even _______ (48) a second attempt. They would be so _______ (49) that they would not try again if someone saw them fall .Or , because they fall , they would find a good _______ (50) for themselves that they’re not fit for it . They would end up too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure.
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a _______ (51) experience. They try again and again until they _______ (52) .The answer must be that they have not connected“falling down” with the word “failure”. As a _______ (53), they are not discouraged in any way .Besides, they _______ (54) think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In other words ,they allow themselves to make _______ (55), so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy’s persistence (坚持不懈) and the manner in which he did.

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There was a small village near a mountain. People there loved their village very much and they grew many 1. on the mountain. Water in the rivers was very clear and the 2. was clean. People lived a poor life, but they were very 3. . After a few years, some people in the village started to cut down trees to 4. for money. There were some people from cities 5. to visit the village. People began to kill some wild animals as 6. to treat (招待) the visitors. Of course, they made lots of money. But7. knew what the village would be like in the future.

As time went on, there were fewer plants and animals and the water became 8. . The visitors became fewer and fewer. Several years later, people there knew they must stop destroying (破坏) 9. . They would like to live a happy life as before, so they began to10. new plants. They hoped the village would become as beautiful as before.