Out of the crowded bus ______, who was dressed in a black suit, waving to a woman.

A．a tall man stepped                       B．stepped a tall man

C．did a tall man step                       D．a tall man did step

 

Alone in the wilderness. Nothing but jungle. A world of shadow with the rays of light falling like blonde hair from the crowns of the giant trees. Jungle in the midday sun. Everything motionless. Not a sound from sky or earth. Complete silence. Only some coconuts falling, at long intervals, very far away. The world reduced to the soft touch of cool grass along my naked back, and a sweet smell of rich soil and vegetation. Stretched out with closed eyes beside my heavy burden of fruit and firewood, I enjoyed the feeling of fresh blood streaming through every part of my body and fresh jungle air filling every corner of my lungs.

     Resting motionless, I could see the sun through my closed eyelids, alone in the sky, as lonely as I, and as motionless and silent as everything else. The earth had surely stopped turning and somewhere on this planet there was supposed to be roaring traffic in busy streets. What a crazy, unbelievable thought!

         Another coconut fell, to make the world come to a complete standstill. I had to roll over onto my stomach to feel that at least I could move and make noises. Then I found company. A little brown ant was struggling to find its way with a bit of dry straw through the jungle of leaves and grass below my nose. I wondered if I could give the little fellow a lift with its burden, but it showed not the slightest sign of tiredness and struggled on with all six legs, head first or head last, waving its feelers energetically as if the trip had just started. Who ever saw a tired ant? Tiredness, disagreeable tiredness, is restricted to hunted animals, slaves and modern man. It is as great an effort for an office clerk to walk five blocks with a loaded brief-case as it is for a jungle-dweller to cross a valley with a goat on his back. It is as hard to get up and climb or run when you have been seated for years as it is to get up and walk when you have been in bed for months. The body is strange. Spare it, and you get really tired for almost nothing; use it, and almost nothing makes you really tired.

         I rose to my feet. I had heard a horse neighing down in the valley. Above me, on the open highland plains, there were wild horses. But down in the valley there was never a horse unless there was a man on it. Somebody was making his way up the valley and my wife was alone.

71．The author mentions coconuts’ falling to          .

         A．show his loneliness                                                           B．add beauty to the jungle

         C．express his love of nature                                               D．stress the absolute silence

72.   What’s the right order of the following events?

         ① I heard a horse neighing down in the valley.

         ② I went to the jungle.

         ③ I found an ant carrying a bit of dry straw.

         ④ I lay on the ground to have a break.

         ⑤ I picked fruits and chopped firewood.

A. ②③⑤①④                 B. ⑤③②④①                          C. ②⑤④③①                 D. ⑤④③②①

73．How does the author feel about the ant?

         A．He admired its attitude toward work.

         B．He was amazed at its tireless efforts.

         C．He showed sympathy for the little ant.

         D．He was content to have it as a companion.

74．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the author would probably          .

         A．work harder than before                                                 B．talk to the man on the horse

         C．make his way home                                                          D．stay in the valley

75．We can learn from the passage that the author          .

         A．enjoyed being alone                                                          B．experienced a world of quietness

         C．missed his busy life in the city                                        D．had an unforgettable adventure

 

 

My husband, a simple man, has a favorite saying: “A bargain is really a bargain when you don’t buy it”. ___21___ he sets aside his simple ways when we dine out. Unlike his relatives who enter a restaurant armed with calculators to make sure they never ___22___, my husband___23___ 5 percent each time the accepted tip standard increases. He hasn’t analyzed why he tips so generously, but I think the habit ___24___ from his high school years, when he worked as a busboy(饭店打杂工) and got tips from people he served.

Over the years, out growing boys would suggest that Dad let them ___25___ dessert rather than tip so much. He stood firm ___26___ their strong demands. Our sons and I have __27___ to accept his habit. We recently ___28___ our son’s girlfriend to seafood. We chose a restaurant near Cocoa Beach. Our server, a grandmotherly woman ___29___ at the artof service, flew around the restaurant serving dishes and drinks ___30___ treating customers enthusiastically. She remembered their special ___31___, likes and dislikes. She didn’t serve us ___32___ food. She served us the best food. She made sure the kitchen gave her fresh produce. At the end of the meal, our waitress ___33___ the bill, then went to ___34___ to the growing crowd of other diners. My husband paid with a credit card and added her tip. When we left, “Mr. Goldsmith!”she called waving a receipt(发票)at him, “Thank you.” “What did you give her?”I asked, wondering if he had done something ___35___ or made acalculation error. “She gave us great service. I just thought she deserved a big ___36___ in tips.It wasn’t until later when I overheard our son retelling the story of the grateful waitress that I realized she had given my family something ___37___ a thank you. She showed our son the __38___ of recognizing hard work. Her show of gratitudehelped a dad earn a bit more ___39___ from a loving son. And it reminded me just why I married this ___40___, caring man.

1.A. Therefore              B. Yet           C. Instead              D. Besides

2.A. overtip           B. overspend   C. overcharge          D. overwaste

3.A. adds                      B. supplies             C. refuses                     D. provides

4.A. developed              B. resulted             C. appeared                  D. changed

5.A. order                    B. choose              C. book                        D. ask

6.A. for                 B. to                     C. against                     D. upon

7.A. decided          B. agreed               C. come                D. happened

8.A. helped            B. requested           C. treated                     D. cooked

9.A. quick                    B. familiar             C. weak                 D. skilled

10.A. so that          B. after                 C. with                         D. while

11.A. characters            B. features             C. tastes                D. favorites

12. A. cheap          B. special              C. average                    D. delicious

13.A. presented             B. took                  C. delivered                  D. settled

14. A. turn                    B. talk                   C. wait                         D. attend

15.A. demanding    B. ashamed            C. unreasonable             D. puzzling

16.A. rise                     B. reward              C. pay                          D. prize

17.A. little more than B. more than      C. rather than     D. other than

18.A. importance   B. situation            C. meaning                   D. effort

19. A. attention             B. care                  C. praise                D. respect

20.A. easy-going    B. thoughtful       C. tough                     D. serious

 

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand c. c. s into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

  It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

  Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

  It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, to shocked to speak.

Finchley disappeared because ________.

 A. he took something poisonous

 B. he was changed into a dust mite

 C. his father’s clothes totally covered him up

 D. what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearace

It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______.

 A. got into his scope by accident          B. was waving through his telescope

 C. suddenly got lost in his clothes        D. gradually disappeared in the lab

It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possibly invented _____.

 A. some kind of medicine               B. a new powerful microscope

 C. a machine to make people small          D. a new way to make a culture of mite

It can probably be concluded that Finchley ________.

 A. passed out there and then               B. is not fit to be a scientist

 C. is a devoted scientist                  D. will remain tiny all the time

I met the guy who told me an amazing story．He was  21  Scotland on a motorbike by himself．One late afternoon he was on the road between Aberdeen and Elgin．He was travelling along, miles from any village, when he saw a really  22   girl standing by the road, hitchhiking (搭便车).Anyway, he stopped and said he would give her a  23   to Elgin．She got and drove off．He said he  24  having her on the back,  as it was nice   25．But after a time he forgot that she was there．Suddenly he  26  but he realized that he couldn’t feel her knees  27  against him ! He  28  behind him but …she wasn’t there.

He said he felt frightened  29  his life ! He felt cold all over．He thought she must have 30  off the back．So he turned round and 31  back along the road．He didn’t find her．So he began to think that she might have been 32 by someone else.

Anyway, he drove on towards Elgin and didn’t see anyone  33  he came to a pub．He decided to  34  so that he could talk to someone and he thought he ought to tell  35  ．He went into the pub and talked to the barman．He told the barman what had happened．He said the barman didn’t seem to be at all  36 ．He just carried on  37  the glasses.

Then the barman said, “you are not the  38  person to come in here and tell the same  39 ．That girl you think you picked up  40  seven years ago… in a motorbike accident.”

21．A．touring                 B．searching                   C．defending        D．circling

22．A．poor               B．attractive           C．tall               D．terrible  

23．A．help                       B．lift                C．service            D．trip 

24．A．chose               B．came               C．meant             D．liked 

25．A．business            B．event              C．company           D．action

26．A．thought            B．considered          C．remembered        D．called

27．A．pressing            B．turning            C．going             D．running

28．A．looked              B．took               C．felt               D．seized

29．A．out of              B．in case of           C．in place of        D．to the best of

30．A．jumped             B．kept               C．kicked             D．fallen

31．A．raced               B．walked             C．got               D．watched

32．A．picked up           B．searched for        C．taken away        D．brought back

33．A．when               B．until               C．although         D．since

34．A．wait                B．enter              C．stop               D．march

35．A．someone            B．nobody            C．the father           D．the police

36．A．worried            B．surprised           C．moving             D．satisfied

37．A．breaking            B．waving            C．knocking           D．drying

38．A．first                B．last                C．right              D．honest

39．A．story               B．message            C．lie                D．truth

40．A．was saved           B．ran away           C．died               D．left