— What happened?

— The owner changed his mind and refused 　　　　 his house.

A. sell　 　　　 B. sold　　 　　　　 C. selling 　　 　　　　　 D. to sell

Last year Tom left school. He came to Beijing to  41   a job. He went from one company to another but  42   wanted him. Now he had little money. He had to go back his small town. So he came to the station. He felt  43   and tired. It was very late at night and the  44    was full of people. They were waiting  45   tickets of the last train. He bought the last ticket, and he was very happy.

At that time, a woman with a crying baby walked to him. She asked him to sell her the ticket. He gave her the ticket. He thought they needed it  46   he did. After the train left, he sat  47   the bench(长凳) and didn’t know  48     to go. Just then, an old man came and said, “ Young man, I have  49   what you did to the woman. I have a big  50   . I need a good young man like you. Would you like to work for me?”

Claude Monet(莫奈) was born in 1840 in Paris, France. When he was five, his family moved to a place on the coast where he spent a lot of time on the beaches. It was here that he started to understand novels(小说)．

As a boy he __21__friends and family by drawing caricatures(漫画)．They were all pleased with his paintings. But at 18 his way of painting changed when he  __22__friends with Eugene Boudin who encouraged him to paint pictures out of doors. This is when his life as a(n)  __23__began. His family was  __24__ that he refused to go to art school. Instead Monet worked with other artists in their workrooms in Paris. In 1862 he became part of a group of impressionist(印象主义的) painters. During the 1860s he sold almost  __25__paintings but this didn’t stop him painting even though he always had problems with money.

Monet married his first wife in 1870 and had two sons. His second wife Alice, who had six children with her, lived with Monet and Monet’s children. After __26__houses several times, Monet found a house to rent(租) for his large family in a small village called Giverny in 1883, about 84 kilometers from Paris. He fell in love  __27__the place and it became his home for the rest of his life.

At last Monet began to  __28__his paintings and in 1890 he bought the house at Giverny. Monet was a loving gardener and created beautiful gardens there. His gardens inspired over 500 of his greatest paintings. Monet’s large paintings of the water lilies in his water garden, painted between 1916 and 1926, are some of his most famous. Monet gave these paintings to the people of  __29__. You can see them in Paris.

Towards the end of his life, Monet started to lose his __30__. This was the worst thing that could happen to a painter. It happened slowly over 16 years and by 1923 he was nearly blind. When Monet was very old and had bad health, he kept painting until a few months before his death in December 1926. 

(　　)46.A. had    B. loved    C. kept  D. pleased

(　　)47.A. met    B. made    C. fought  D. found

(　　)48.A. writer  B. painter  C. actor  D. teacher

(　　)49.A. glad    B. helpful  C. angry  D. satisfied

(　　)50.A. no      B. all     C. little  D. any

(　　)51.A. buying  B. building  C. moving  D. repairing

(　　)52.A. with    B. in      C. around  D. at

(　　)53.A. draw    B. sell    C. watch  D. collect

(　　)54.A. France  B. Britain  C. America  D. Australia

(　　)55.A. taste  B. weight  C. money  D. eyesight

Dear Peter,

School is going well. I am so  36    and I have little time to go and play  37    the weekend. I always go to the library to   38   newspapers or study English.

If you’re free, you can come to  39  me. You can go straight down Centre Street.  40   you see Blue Bar, just turn left. The name of my apartment (公寓) is Victor. That’s easy to  41 .  I like my house. It isn’t very big,  42  it’s a nice home. If you come to my house, we can watch movies and we can  43  Chinese food. I’m often at home after 7 pm, and I  44  at around 10:30 pm every day because I have to go to school early the next morning. You can give me a  45  before you come.

　　                                                   Your best friend,

Linda

1.A. lazy           B. busy                 C. happy           

2.A. in             B. with                 C. at        

3.A. read           B. look                 C. watch               

4.A. tell           B. teach                C. visit

5.A. So             B. Because          C. When            

6.A. find           B. look                 C. live                

7.A. and            B. but              C. so          

8.A. sell           B. clean                C. cook

9.A. get up         B. go to bed            C. take a walk     

10.A. call          B. number           C. talk                  

The pollution in our country is very serious, which is harmful to our health. If? we don’t take ???

to protect the environment, the earth will be destroyed. The earth is our home. No earth, no people! So we should think of some good ? to solve the environmental problems.

　　?? is one of the problems. But some rubbish can be ?? . So we should ?? the rubbish according to the materials instead of throwing them here and there. We should also ? the waste. For example, we can use ??? sides of the paper or we can bring a basket when going to the supermarket. Waste water shouldn’t be ?? into rivers and lakes directly(直接地). Dirty water may ?? some diseases(疾病).

In a word, ? is supposed to take an action at once. It is our duty to protect the environment and make our world more and more beautiful.

1.A. hair????????????? B. measures????????????? C. sky

2.A. purpose????????????? B. results????????????? C. ways

3.A. Rubbish????????????? B. Air????????????? C. Water

4.A. stored ????????????? B. recycled????????????? C. wasted

5.A. sell????????????? B. rise????????????? C. sort

6.A. reduce????????????? B. make????????????? C. stop

7.A. both????????????? B. neither????????????? C. none

8.A. poured????????????? B. discovered????????????? C. rained

9.A. shut????????????? B. cause????????????? C. prevent

10.A. no one????????????? B. someone????????????? C. everyone