We all knew from the very _____ that the plan would fail.

A. outcome    B. outset    C. income    D. output

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Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I 1.______ ________ a _______ ________in France in 1642. Although I was young I 2._______ ________ ________ ________. I developed very slowly and 3._______ _______ ______ two hundred years ______I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an 4. ______ _________used cards_____ ______, I could think logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a 5.______ _  _______and the start of my “________ _________”. In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a universal machine to solve any difficult mathematical problem…

Daisy smiled. “That’s good news. It 6. _____the _________of_________ ______, but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.”  The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey watched them as it rubbed itself…“When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It 7. _______a _______ ______which ________mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.

As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to 8. ______ _______ _______ ______ to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous 9. ______ ________ _______ _________by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so 10. _______ ________they became more ________ ________their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band.

His brother likes ______ history very much. He knows a lot about ______Chinese history, especially ______history of social development.

A. /; / ; the             B. / ; the ; /           C. the ; / ; /                 D. the ; / ; the

Yesterday evening, I went to see a film calling  1. ________

　　The Living Forest. I heard people said that it a good film, 2. ________

　　but I went to see it. At first, we saw                  3. ________

　　the great land of the African Continent. There          4. ________

　　were still much undeveloped places. We could see       5. ________

　　Africa natives living in the forest. Their life            6. ________

　　were very hard, in some particular ways .               7. ________

　　we could not understand them not at all. Some people even 8. ________

　　sharpened their tooth and they thought it was very beautiful. 9. ________

Africa is also very famous of its animals. We saw several lions and other wild beasts.

10. ________

 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—Excuse me， can you tell me where the nearest restaurant is？

—____1____

—Where is the nearest restaurant， please？

—Oh， the restaurant？ The nearest one is the City Restaurant. ___2___

—I‘m ——er—— I’m afraid I don‘t quite ……you see， ____3____

—I see. Simply walk two blocks straight ahead， then turn left， and the City Restaurant is about 10 metres ahead. ____4____

—Can I take a bus？

—Of course you can. but ____5____ It‘s only a few minutes’ walk.

—Thank you very much.

—Not at all.

A. What did you say？

B. I‘m a total stranger here.

C. You can‘t miss it.

D. I beg your pardon？

E. It‘s just opposite the No. 5 Department Store.

F. I don‘t think it is necessary.

G. It‘s not very far.