“Hi! John.” Mary ran towards me with a rare bright smile on her face, saying, “I’m going to have a  1   performance tonight. I hope you’ll come. Here is the  2  .” She left in a hurry, disappearing in the crowds of people  3  .

“What?! What performance? Dance? Is that true?” I asked myself. Mary was not such kind of girl. She was a quite  4   girl. I had never seen her making up or wearing attractive clothes, for she did not know how to  5   indeed. What a terrible thing, especially for a plain girl！

“I should go to, I must go to. That’s a miracle!” I thought.

I arrived at the  6   with the ticket, and found my seat. Her performance was the seventh one. I knew I would  7  from a hard time before her turn, for I had no  8  of art, but her performance was  9  watching, no matter how long I would wait. Time went slowly. I  10  with myself not to fall asleep.

“Let’s welcome the next exciting dance - Latin !”  11  filled the hall at once.

I opened my eyes as large as possible,  12  to lose anything. Wearing a golden and shining skirt, Mary appeared on the stage. Her dress went well with the brilliant lights. She was so beautiful. Dancing with a charming smile, she was fully  13   in the Latin music. At this moment, she looked like a pretty butterfly  14  on the splendid stage.

    After all the performance  15  , I waited for her at the gate.

“Hi!” She stood in front of me with a bag and her crystal high-heeled shoes in her hands, and 16  as she used to be, but the making-up still could be seen.

“How do you feel?” There was not a little bit tired  17   on her face.

“  18  !” I answered.

“Thank you! I knew it would be.” She could not  19   her excitement, laughing like a child. Looking at the shining crystal high-heeled shoes in the wonderful starry night, I  20  that every girl has a pair of special shoes which are like the crystal shoes of Cinderella.

1. A. instrument          B. dance            C. music             D. opera

2. A. address             B. number          C. ticket             D. invitation

3. A. quickly             B. completely       C. quietly            D. excitedly

4. A. lovely              B. popular          C. confident          D. ordinary

5. A. cover up            B. turn off          C. dress up           D. take in

6. A. hall                B. party            C. cinema            D. concert

7. A. relieve             B. escape           C. relax              D. suffer

8. A. interest             B. ability           C. sense             D. touch

9. A. proper              B. worth           C. good              D. happy

10. A. struggled           B. knocked          C. supported         D. controlled

11. A. Appreciation        B. Attention         C. Expectation        D. Applause

12. A. desiring            B. fearing          C. forgetting         D. regretting

13. A. absorbed           B. swallowed        C. addicted          D. surrounded

14. A. singing             B. flying           C. skipping           D. staying

15. A. stopped             B. paused          C. ended             D. succeeded

16. A. talked              B. dressed          C. laughed           D. saw

17. A. appearance          B. excitement       C. expression         D. exhibition

18. A. Sorry              B. Congratulations   C. Far from           D. Fantastic

19. A. hide               B. prevent          C. remove            D. abandon

20. A. doubted            B. realized          C. wondered          D. suggested

Did you notice the      on the doctor?s face when he heard that Kino had found the pearl of the world?

A.appearance        B.expression       C.description       D.look

The 28-year-old had spent six years working nights while she gained her university degree during the day. When she finally   16  , she had her eye on a teaching   17   at a nearby primary school. With the help of her friends, she had  18   with the Head.

“I noticed a tiny   19  in one of my stockings earlier.” she recalled. “I thought about   20   them, but I knew I’d be   21   if I did. And by the time I got to the interview，it was bigger. I walked in apologizing for not looking my best.” The would-be teacher didn’t   22   the job. In fact her friends told her that the Head’s only comment was, “If someone doesn’t take the time to   23   her best image at an interview, what kind of   24   is she going to be?”

In job-hunting, personal   25   is very important. After all, you’re selling a product—  26   —to an employer. When going to a job interview, always brush your hair tidily, polish your shoes and above all,   27   yourself properly. It will give you a competitive   28   and a positive first   29 . The above idea was also suggested in a best-seller for jobseekers named Dress for Success.

First impressions are   30   ones. In other words, if you’re viewed positively within the critical first four  31 , the person you’ve met will   32   feel everything you do is positive. Leave the interviewer a bad impression, and often he will guess you have a lot of other   33   characters. In a word, he may not take the time to give you a second   34 . Most employers believe that those who look as if they care about   35   will care about their jobs.

A. determined            B. graduated                 C. succeeded          D. returned

A. post                   B. advertisement           C. assistant            D. competition

A. a word                  B. a promise                 C. an agreement     D. an interview

A. hole                   B. mud                         C. ink                   D. color

A. throwing            B. mending                   C. changing           D. removing

A. foolish                  B. different                   C. late                   D. punctual

A. appreciate              B. get                           C. abandon            D. refuse

A. present                  B. mind                        C. obtain               D. confirm

A. person              B. student                     C. graduate            D. teacher

A. appearance           B. experience                C. ability               D. preparation

A. yourself            B. knowledge             C. skills                 D. advice

A. behave                 B. dress                        C. show                 D. introduce

A. start              B. confidence                C. advantage          D. benefit

A. chance                 B. performance             C. job                   D. impression

A. remaining            B. lasting                      C. useful               D. serious

A. minutes            B. interviewers              C. tests                  D. jobseekers

A. seldom                B. occasionally              C. probably           D. certainly

A. incredible            B. unsatisfactory           C. complicated       D. impolite

A. job                   B. thought                    C. opportunity              D. question

A. students            B. salary                       C. others               D. themselves

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It’s a question anyone might ask in the future: Should your household robot be cool? Or practical? For Sony Corporation, robots ought to be entertaining. The company’s 41 robot, SDR—4 X, can sing and dance.

But for automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd, such 42 should perform useful tasks for their 43 masters.

“It is in the end a machine, a 44 ,” said Masato Hirose, Honda’s chief engineer.

Sony’s chief researcher Toshi Doi said robots performing such tasks as 45for ill or disabled people would not necessarily need a human 46  .

“The attractiveness of the SDR—4 X is its 47”, he said.

“It has feelings. It has instincts(直觉).” Drawing from its 48of 60,000 words, an SDR—4 X robot 49 last week that it can ask a 50 in a high voice: “Please 51still for a minute while I memorize your face.”

It also 52 off its ability to walk on uneven(不平的)floors, and come to its owner when it’s 53. While Honda’s robot is 54 used mainly for entertainment, it is 55 that one day it will be a useful companion. So its robot have been 56to be 120cm tall – more than twice the height of the SDR—4 X. Hirose said 120cm is the 57a robot that moves around a home should be.

“If you are going to have something that can move with 58 in a human surroundings(环境), then it is better to 59 the robot like a human,” he said.

Hirose said that he hopes the robot will be 60 enough so that he can buy one for himself and let it get him a beer.

41. A. earliest           B. latest            C. coolest                            D. smallest

42. A. matters          B. people          C. machines              D. inventions

43. A. human            B. own               C. creative                 D. all

44. A. tool                  B. robot             C. toy                          D. slave

45. A. looking            B. working        C. leaving                   D. caring

46. A. form                B. character     C. job                           D. ability

47. A. appearance   B. purpose        C. personality           D. material

48. A. storage           B. use                C. making                   creation

49. A. said                  B. announced  C. showed                  D. imaged

50. A. friend              B. partner                  C. servant                  D. guest

51. A. hold                 B. lie                   C. take                        D. make

52. A. left                            B. showed        C. put                          D. dropped

53.A. tired                 B. called            C. controlled             D. made

54.A. also                   B. still                C. again                      D. even

55. A. sure                 B. hoped           C. reported                D. described

56. A. expected        B. raised           C. proved                   D. designed

57 A. cheapest         B. dearest                  C. smallest                D. biggest

58. A. ease                B. care               C. difficulty                D. foot

59. A. buy                   B. use                C. invest                     D. design

60. A. useful              B. smart            C. cheap                     D. small

 

阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后从1-15各题所给出的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed. When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the __6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.

One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.

To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend — a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12__ some day. She didn’t not want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.

The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.

1. A. appearance	B. future	C. salary	D. apartment
2. A. happy	B. pleasant	C. worried	D. sensitive
3. A. futures	B. goals	C. ways	D. courses
4. A. excited	B. mad	C. heartbroken	D. puzzling
5. A. position	B. confidence	C. independence	D. freedom
6. A. main	B. beautiful	C. hard	D. heavy
7. A. office	B. family	C. studio	D. company
8. A. running	B. driving	C. walking	D. wandering
9. A. recognized	B. noticed	C. understood	D. memorized
10. A. glaring	B. talking	C. smiling	D. crying
11. A. fortunately	B. recently	C. difficultly	D. actually
12. A. come	B. make	C. suffer	D. succeed
13. A. illness	B. heart	C. cranes	D. sadness
14. A. husband	B. parents	C. friends	D. son
15. A. heatedly	B. hardly	C. sadly	D. excitedly