11. no difficulty in　 12. bring in　 13. stayed up　 14. turn down　 15. end up with　

6. minorities　 7. except for　 8. communicate with　 9. come about　 10. more or less

70.In____,there were 200 visitors.

Vocabulary:．

pared with 　2. all the way 　3. made up.　 4. There you are　 5. The majority of　

69.In 1776 America became an_____country.

68.With many problems to s____,the new president will have a hard time.

67.I love visiting the country,e_____in spring.

66.I have many______such as reading,singing,stamp collecting and so on.

65.According to the passage,who do you think learnt a lesson?

A.The tortoise.　 B.The hare .　 C.Sonny .　 D.Sonny’s father.

Word-spelling:

64.When the writer says “I gave up” at the end,he means_____.

A.he gave up his belief in the moral idea of the hare-and-tortoise story

B.he gave up arguing with Sonny

C.he gave up Sonny as a hopeless child

D.he gave up trying to keep up with the new generation

63.The writer thinks that his generation(辈)_____.

A.were more clever that Sonny’s generation

B.had the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation

C.were more hopeful than Sonny’s generation

D.had different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation