It was too late．Little John couldn’t but _________ and sleep．

A．1ie down      B．lying down           C．to lie down             D．1ay down

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to    36   in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They don’t act in the    37   waya that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is    38    luxurious (奢侈) for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the    39   .
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there    40   between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She    41   her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was    42   and I didn’t know what I should do. But at 1ast I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said    43   , “Look at this thread. Sometimes it is    44   , but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt    45   . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen    46   , but it’s really there. Love is    47   .”
I listened carefully but I    48   her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly   49   seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked    50   . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother supported my father    51   on the country road.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t    52   me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”    53   his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and    54   .But from this experience, I undentand that love is just    55   in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

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For millions ofpeople，the American dream ofowning a home seems to be slipping out of

reach．

“Maybe young couples can no longer afford to buy a ready-made house as their parents did,'’

says 40-year-old building instmctor Pat Hennin．“But they can still have a home．Like their pioneer ancestors，they can build it themselves，and at less than half the cost of a ready-made house．”

The owner-builders came from every occupational group，although surprisingly few are professional building workers．Many take the plunge with little or no experience．“l learned how to build my house from reading books，”says John Brown，who built a six-room home for$25，000 in High Falls，New Jersey．“If you have patience and the carpentry(木匠)skill to make a bookcase，you can build a house．”An astonishing 50 percent of these owner builders hammer every nail．1ay every pipe，and wire every switch with their own hands．The rest contraet(承包)for some parts of the task．But even those who just act as contractors and finish the insides of their homes can save from 30 percent to 45 percent ofwhat a ready-made home would cost．

One survey revealed that 60 percent ofowner-builders also design their homes．Many others

buy commercial house plans for less than $100 or use plans available from the U．S． Department ofAgriculture．

49．What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．The cost of having a house built．

B．A comparison between young couples and their parents．

C．The life of owner-builders in America．

D．The American dream of owning a house．

50．It can be inferred from the passage that many Americans find it difficult to _______

A．build a house             B．find aready-made house

C．have a good job           D．buy a house

51．The underlined phrase“take the plunge”most probably means“_______”

A．decide to build a house    B．decide to pull down a house

C．decide to buy a house      D．decide to rent a house

52．From the passage we learn that_______．

A．Many house plans are offered free of charge．

B．Most of the house plans arc offered by building instructors

C．Fifty percent of the Amedcan young couples build houses．

D．Must of the owner．builders design their homes．

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Once upon a time，a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for  31  up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more  32  when on Christmas Eve，he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to  33  a shoe box to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, “This is for you，Daddy!”Hearing this，the father was  34 by his earlier conversation. But when he opened it, he found it was  35  and again his anger expanded. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said   36 ,“when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package !”

The little girl looked up at him  37  tears rolling from her eyes and said: “Daddy, it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full.”

The father was deeply moved. He  38  on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to  39   him .

An accident  40  the life of the child only a short time later and  41  is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. And  42  he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he  43   open the box，take out an imaginary kiss, and  44  the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an unseen golden box 45   with unconditional 1ove and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.                  

36. A. doing      B. cutting          C. tearing             D. using

37. A. worried          B. shocked      C. bored         D. terrified

38. A. paint       B. tie         C. decorate        D. hang

39. A. bothered      B. moved          C. embarrassed       D. annoyed

40. A. empty      B. ugly       C. overfilled      D. expensive

41. A. politely    B. angrily          C. thoughtfully      D. eagerly

42. A. in         B. down     C. with           D. for

43. A. 1ay         B. fell        C. rose           D. went

44. A. punish     B. blame     C. forgive          D. beat

45. A. took        B. risked     C. cost           D. destroyed

46. A. this         B. it         C. she            D. he

47. A. whichever    B. whatever    C. wherever       D. whenever

48. A. could       B. should     C. would         D. might

49. A. imagine          B. remember   C. miss           D. find

50. A. put       B. carried          C. covered         D. filled