Your composition is well-written ______ a minor spelling mistake.

A. beside  B. besides C. except that   D. except for

Disposing (处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste-disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult.

During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select faraway spot as a dump site. Residents or trash haulers (垃圾拖运者) would transport house hold rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically (定期的) some of the trash was buried and the rest was buried .Me unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by.

Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.

Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. Property is either too expensive or too close to residential (住宅区的) neighborhoods. Long-distance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent.

Awareness (意识) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.

Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.

The most suitable title for this passage would be

A．Places for Disposing Waste　　　　　 B．Waste Pollution Dangers

C．Ways of Getting Rid of Waste　　　　 D．Waste Disposal Problem

During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for__________.

A．burying it　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．recycling it.

C．burning it　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．throwing it into rivers

What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?

A．Farm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.

B．There is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.

C．It is difficult to find space to bury waste in modem society.

D．Ways to deal with waste in modem society stay the same.

The main purpose of writing this article is to________.

A．draw people's attention to waste management

B．warn people of the pollution dangers we are facing

C．call on people to take part in recycling programs

D．tell people a better way to get rid of the waste

In a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty (贫困)， and only the rich could manage without great  36  . Three of those rich men and their servants were   37   together on a road when they came to a very   38   village.

The first could not stand seeing the poverty,  39  he took all the gold and jewels from his wagons (四轮载重马车) and shared  40   out among the villagers. He wished them all the best of luck, and he left. 

The second rich man, seeing the  41  situation, stopped for a short time and gave  42  all his food and drink, since he  43  see that money would be of little  44  to them. He made sure that they each   45   their fair share and would have enough food to   46   for some time. Then, he left. 

 The third rich man, on seeing such poverty,   47   and went straight through the   48 without stopping. The two other rich men saw this from a distance and commented with each other   49   the third rich man lacked sympathy. It was   50   that they themselves had been there to offer help.

However, three days later, they 51  the third rich man, who was coming in the opposite direction. He was   52   travelling quickly, but his wagons,   53 the gold and valuables they had been 54 , were now full of farming tools and bags of  55  . He was rushing back to help them out of poverty.

1.A. loss    B. expectations C. success D. problems

2.A. standing     B. travelling       C. gathering       D. running

3.A. faraway      B. poor      C. different        D. ancient

4.A. unless         B. because         C. so D. if

5.A. them B. anything        C. nothing D. those

6.A. curious       B. worrying        C. dangerous     D. puzzling

7.A. the villagers        B. his servants   C. the others     D. the rest

8.A. could B. might    C. should  D. must

9.A. interest      B. concern         C. use        D. attraction

10.A. returned B. gained  C. offered D. received

11.A. remain     B. last        C. supply   D. share

12.A. turned back     B. set out  C. showed off    D. speeded up

13.A. village      B. land       C. field      D. road

14.A. whether           B. how       C. where   D. when

15.A. good         B. certain  C. true       D. strange

16.A. welcomed        B. met       C. accepted       D. persuaded

17.A. still  B. already C. always   D. indeed

18.A. except for        B. instead of      C. apart from     D. along with

19.A. loading     B. treasuring     C. carrying         D. earning

20.A. food         B. jewels   C. money  D. seeds

 ______ the works of Leonardo da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ranging from the13th century to the 19th century.

A. Except for      B. Except         C. In addition        D. Apart from

根据汉语提示，在各句的空白处填入适当的单词。
【小题1】Remember, dial 110 in case of an _______________.（紧急情况）
【小题2】Jerry is a little nervous today because he is going for a job________________.（面试）
【小题3】Products for women are always attractively _______________.（包装）
【小题4】Jenny explained to the children why used _______________（电池）can be harmful in our life.
【小题5】There are many small things we can do to______________（减少）the pollution of the earth.
【小题6】The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most famous ______________. (喜剧)
【小题7】This is the first large art ______________（展览）with works by Picasso in China.
【小题8】The children played a _____________（捉弄）on the girl who has just come to the class.
【小题9】The boy has a handsome face except for the ___________（伤疤）on his forehead.
【小题10】“What was the ___________（通告）about?” “It said that we would be free tomorrow”