It _________ him half an hour to drive home every day last year.

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A well-dressed man came into a famous jewellery （首饰）shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl（珍珠）for his wife’s birthday and that the  16   did not matter since business had been very good for him that year. After examin;ing a number of beautiful and valuable pearls, he chose a nice black one that _17_ $5000. He paid for that pearl , shook hands with the jeweler and left.

A few days later the man returned and said his wife had liked that pearl _18_ that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the _19_ size and quality as she wanted a pair of earrings made. “Can you give me any advice on _20_ to get such a pearl?” said the man. The jeweler replied , “I would say it’s _21_ to find an exact one like that pearl.”

    The rich man _22_ the jeweler to advertise in the newspaper, and offered $25.000 for that matching pearl. Many people answered that ad, _23_ nobody had a pearl that was just right. Just when the jeweler had _24__  hope, an old lady came in. To his _25_ , she took a wonderful pearl from her handbag. “I don’t like to sell it, ” she said _26_. “I inherited (继承)it from my mother, and my mother inherited from _27_, but now I really need money.”

The jeweler was quick to pay her _28_ she changed her mind. Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell the good _29_ to him. The rich man, however, was _30_ to be found. He had fled with the old woman a few more minutes before.

1. A. size                B. shape             C. price

2.A. spent               B. cost              C. took

3. A. a little              B. so much           C. at all

4. A. same               B. different           C. common

5.A. what               B. why               C. how

6. A. possible            B. easy               C. impossible

7. A. let                 B. make              C. asked

8. A. so                 B. but                C. and

9. A. found out           B. given up            C. come up with

10. A. disappointment      B. surprise             C. fear

11.A. happily             B. loudly             C. sadly

12.A. mine               B.his                 C. hers

13. A. when               B. before             C. after

14. A. news               B. advice             C. way

15. A. somewhere          B. anywhere           C. nowhere

A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “ car sharing” has become    51   in many countries.

As we know, most cars   52   in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars    53   one or two hours a day on average(平均). When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking and   54   things. That costs too much money. To   55  money, some people come up with the idea of “ car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll only  56    when we use it.

Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40,000 people have    57   it. Japan is also trying to make    58    popular around the country.

Car sharing is the beginning of a new idea in    59    . It is also very for us to travel everywhere   60   buying a car. Do you love to share a car with others?

1.A. popular             B. interesting            C. funny

2. A. are washed          B. are driven              C. are parked

3. A. as far as           B. as long as              C. as much as

4. A. other               B. others                  C. another

5. A. make                B. save                    C. find

6. A. spend               B. cost                    C. pay

7. A. joined              B. covered                 C. dropped

8. A. time saving         B. money saving            C. car sharing

9.A. fashion             B. transportation          C. family

10. A. without             B. with                    C. by

I don’t think this watch ______ as much as the one you ______ last time.

    A．spends; paid    B．takes; spent    C．pays; cost   D．costs; paid for

 I bought some CDs for my friend and they ______me ¥ 30.

  A. spent     B. paid     C. cost     D. used