北京四中高考第一轮复习英语语法专练 综合语法填空168篇

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Directins: After reading the passages belw, fill in the blanks t make the passages cherent and grammatically crrect. Fr the blanks with a given wrd, fill in each blank with the prper frm f the given wrd; fr the ther blanks, use ne wrd that best fits each blank .
Passage 1
Mst Americans dn't like t get advice 1._______ members f their family, They get advice frm" strangers".2._ ___ they need advice, they dn't usually g t peple they knw. Instead, many f them write letters t newspapers and magazines 3.____give advice n many different subjects4.______(include) family prblems, the use f language, health, cking, child care, clthes,5.______even n hw t buy a huse r a car.
Mst newspapers regularly print letters frm readers with prblems. Alng with the letters there are answers written by peple 6.____are suppsed 7.____ (knw) hw t slve such prblems.Sme f these writers are dctrs, 8.______are lawyers r educatrs. But tw f the mst famus writers f advice are wmen withut special training fr this kind f wrk.
Passage 2
The year befre last, a new superher landed n Earth t live amng humans. When peple needed help, Thr became their defender and saved 1._______wrld. Peple lved Thr and the actr wh played him- -Chris Hemswrth,
Hemswrth was brn in Melburne, Australia, in 1983. His family mved between Melburne and the Nrthern Territry. In the Nrthern Territry, Hemswrth's parents wrked n a cattle statin. The wrk required the family 2._____ (live) tw hurs frm the nearest big city. Since they had n TV,Hemswrth and his brthers learned t entertain 3.______They played utside, 4._______(build)weapns and frts (堡垒). Later the family settled n Philip's Island suth f Melburne 5.Hemswrth enjyed surfing.
In 2012, Hemswrth played Thr again in the film The Avengers. He was ne f a grup f superheres 6.______(assemble) t save planet Earth. That film earned $ 1 billin wrldwide in just19 days! He als starred in 7.______is called Snw White and The Huntsman. Audiences can't seem t get enugh 8.______him. A secnd Thr film, Thr 2, is due ut in 2013.
Passage 3
In the United States, there were 222 peple 1.______ (reprt) t be billinaires(亿万富翁) in2003. The 2._____(wealthy) f these is Bill Gates, wrth at least $ 41 billin, 3.________made his mney by starting the cmpany Micrsft. Mr. Gates was nly 21 years ld 4._______he first helped t set up the cmpany in 1976. He was a billinaire 5.______the time he was , there are still sme ther peple wh have made lts f mney at even yunger ages.Other yung peple wh have struck it rich include Jackie Cgan and Shirley Temple. 7._______ f these child actrs made ver a millin dllars 8.______ ( act) in mvies befre they were 14. But the yungest billinaire is Albert vn Thurnund Taxis f Germany, wh, in 2001, inherited (继承) a billin dllars when he turned 18!
Passage 4
Perhaps ne aspect f mdern life which is mst ften cnsidered " annying is nise. Accrding t sme estimates, the amunt f urban nise 1.______(duble) in the past ten years, and with the increase in rad and air traffic, nise is likely t increase t.
Nise quite clearly affects the health f mdern man. It is a health threat. Lud nise 2._______(say) t be a leading cause f deafness amng many peple ver 65. It is als a majr 3.________(cntribute) factr in causing stress, 4._______itself causes a variety f illnesses.
Nise is smetimes assciated with lack f cmmunicatin in the mdern wrld. In many busy shps, factries and nightclubs, 5______ level and cnstancy f nise make cnversatin at a natural level difficult r impssible,
Certain peple in sciety, such as mtrcyclists, seem t believe they have a right 6.________(make) as much nise as they like withut being fined. D they?
We are s trained t nise in this mdern wrld 7.______ peple grwing up with little8._______ n experience f genuine peace and quiet have begun t assciate silence with bredm.Isn't it time fr us t start teaching yung peple that silence is glden and that yu can d a lt f interesting things withut the accmpaniment f nise?
Passage 5
A friendly dg named Bnnie, wh als happens t be deaf, is being praised by her wner fr1.________(help) him catch a suspected intruder in their hme.
Dan Strasser said he heard Bnnie running arund the living rm at abut 6 a.m. Saturday, s he gt ut f bed t see 2.________she was s excited. He said Bnnie didn't bark r bite like a guard dg, but 3.______she behaved was enugh t alert him.
When Strasser walked int the living rm, he caught the intruder 4._______ (try) t steal his cmputer. The man tk ff, but instead f running ut f the back dr 5. ______he came in, he accidentally ran int the garage and 6.________ (seize) there.
Strasser grabbed his gun and held the intruder in the garage while his girlfriend called 911. Plice shwed up and arrested the intruder, whm they later identified 7._________ Thmas Lwell, wh was accused in curt Mnday f burglary(入室行窃) and pssessin f drug. He is due back in curt n Oct.2nd.
Strasser said Lwell gt in thrugh the back dr, which he kept pen at night s that Bnnie8.______get int the backyard. He plans t keep it lcked frm nw n.
Passage 6
The first-ever American Laughing Champinship is taking place in San Dieg. The cntest is the first natinal champinship in the US, 1.________Canadian filmmaker, Albert Nerenberg, has previusly rganized natinal laughing cntests in Canada and Japan and a state champinship in Califrnia back in 2010. The cntest requires the chsen laughers t face ff against each ther as the audience determines wh has 2._______ ( attractive) laugh. Daunte Reed is ne f abut twelve peple cmpeting in the cntest. He is hping t be a winner f the title f tp laugher. I've been tld I have 3._____attractive laugh. 4._______desn't take much t make me laugh, Reed said.
The cntest includes the belly laugh, the crazy laugh and the diablical(魔鬼般的) laugh. The last ne is the mst challenging, accrding t Nerenberg, wh said the gal is 5._______ (make) the audience laugh with yur laugh. "The sl( 单独的) laughing requires a gd vice. Hwever, the ther laugh styles require smene t get the audience laughing; a gd diablical laugh requires the laugher t infect himself and start laughing naturally, he explained.
"The persn wh wins isn't always 6._________( gd), but the tp three peple are always the best. It is mre jy 7._________ these peple bring t the wrld. They tend t be happy types. We 8._________ (never have) a sad persn win s far, he added.
Passage 7
After the birth f my secnd child, I gt a jb at a restaurant. Having wrked with 1.__________experienced waitress fr a few days, I was allwed t wait tables n my wn. All went well that first week. When Saturday night came, I 2._______ ( give) the tables nt far frm the kitchen. Hwever, I still felt it a little l hard t carry the heavy trays(托盘).
The restaurant was full f peple 3._______I culd realize that. I mved slwly, and minded every step. I remember hw happy I was when I saw the tray stand near the tables. It had nice handles,4._______ (make) it easier t mve arund. I was pleased with everything and began t believe I was a natural at this jb.
Then, an ld man came t me and said, Excuse me, dear, my wife and 1 lved watching yu that yur tray stand has been very useful t yu, but we are getting ready t leave nw, and my wife 6._______wait t take her walker back.
At first his message did nt get acrss. What was he talking abut! Then, I gt it.I 7__________(set) my trays n his wife's rthpedic walker(助步器). My face was n fire. I wanted t get int a hle and hide.
Since then, I’ve learned that smetimes there's n pint 8.________ (be) t sure f myself.
Passage 8
There are a variety f techniques used t bring abut success in selling. Here are the mst imprtant nes 1.____ are ften mentined by successful salespeple.
Find ut 2._________yur custmers real wants and needs are. Listen as they tell yu their favrs.
Knw all abut yur prduct and what it can d fr yur custmers. Prduct knwledge is a must in persnal selling because it creates cnfidence, builds enthusiasm, and makes the situatin mre prfessinal. Lay emphasis n the unique advantage f yur prduct 3.__________thers.
Take a cnfident attitude in selling yur prduct. It is 4._____( effective) when the salespersn says, May I help yu? than when he r she says Yu wuldn't like t see ur mdel,5.___________yu?
·Prepare yurself 6._______(deal) with bjectins. If the custmer says the price is t high,yu might reply, Yes, the price may be a little higher than 7. _______(plan). Hwever, actually, yu will save mney 8._______high quality f this prduct. Dn't disagree with yur custmer in any case when he r she says the price is t high.
· Use praise wisely.
Passage 9
“Cme in, Kim. Have a seat, please,"”said Bill Williams, the manager. This was Kim's first experience with an assessment. After nly six mnths he was due fr a raise 1._______this assessment was satisfactry.
Kim," began Bill Williams, "I am very pleased with the quality f yur wrk. My nly cncern is2._______yu are nt active enugh in putting frward yur suggestins."
But," replied Kim, I have always cmpleted every assignment yu3._______(give) me, Mr,Williams."
I knw that, Kim, And please, call me Bill. But 4. I expect is fr yu t think independently and intrduce new ideas. It is mre input frm yu 5._____I need- mre feedback n hw things are ging. I dn't need a yes man. Yu just smile 6._______everything is fine. I'm nt asking yu t tell me what t d, but what yu think we culd d. T make suggestins, I emplyed yu because I respect yur experience in this field."
“Yes, I see. I'm nt accustmed 7._______ this, but I will try t d as yu say.. Bill.”
Gd, then, I expect t hear mre frm yu at staff meetings 8._______at any ther time yu want t discuss an idea with me.
Yes, f curse. Thank yu, Mr. Will.. Bill"
Passage 10
I was the middle child f the three, but there was a gap f five years n either side, and I hardly saw my father befre I was eight. Fr this and 1._________reasns I was smewhat lnely. I had the lnely child's habit f making up stries, and I think frm the very start my literary ambitins2.________(mix) up with the feeling f being islated. I knew that I had a natural ability with wrds,and I felt that this created a srt f private wrld where I culd get my wn back fr my failure in everyday life.
Hwever, the quantity f serius writing which I prduced all 3.__________ my childhd wuld nt add up t half a dzen pages. I wrte my first pem at the age f fur r five, my mther 4._______(take) it dwn t dictatin. I cannt remember anything abut it except that it was abut a tiger and5.__________ tiger had " chair-like teeth"- -a gd enugh expressin. At eleven, when the war f 1914-18 brke ut, I wrte a pem 6.__________(print) in the lcal newspaper later. Frm time t time, when I was a bit 7._______(ld), I wrte bad and usually unfinished nature pems". I als, abut twice,attempted a shrt stry 8._________ was a failure. That was the ttal f the wuld-be serius wrk that I actually set dwn n paper during all thse years.
Passage 11
Every summer, Penny travels t a family reunin barbeque. Penny is never excited, and this year is n different.She is afraid f the drive.
She des nt like talking t her relatives. And she des nt like the smell f hamburgers. (Penny is a vegetarian.)
1._______Penny arrives, she sees lts f familiar faces. It is July and Uncle Vernn2._______( wear) a sweater. Uncle Vernn is always cld. It's very mysterius.
She sees her cusin Plly. Plly has six children. The yungest ne screams. Then the ldest ne screams. Plly' s children are always screaming.
She sees many f her ther cusins in the field 3._______(play) sftball. They play a sftball game every year, 4._______ always ends up in a big argument. Penny wnders, again, why they never slve it.
Then Penny sees an incredibly handsme man. She stares 5._______him. He catches her staring,He smiles and walks up t her. Penny is very nervus. She is nervus because a handsme man is walking t her and she is nervus because this handsme man might be her cusin.
The man sticks ut his hand, 6.________ (say), Hi, I'm Paul."Hi, I'm Penny, Penny says. Are we related?
Paul laughs. N, we are nt related. I am Vernn's nurse. He is sick and needs 7._______(keep) me clse by. But he did nt want t miss this barbeque!"
Oh, thank gdness," Penny says and then blushes. Penny always blushes when she is nervus,8. _______ (embarrass), r 'ht, and right nw she is all three.
Handsme Paul laughs and says, "Wuld yu like t g get a hamburger with me? They smell delicius.
Penny smiles, Sure. I lve hamburgers!"
Passage 12
Beware, first-class travelers! Passengers sitting in the rear f a plane have the best chance f survival in an event f a crash, an extrardinary and cstly aviatin(8iž, K Fi) experiment ever1._________(cnduct) has revealed.
In a unique aviatin experiment recently, the 170-seat-Being 727 was made2. (crash)in a cntrlled manner in a remte part f Mexic's Snran Desert. After pilt James Slcum jumped ut f the plane at 2,500ft, the jet3.__________ (guide) int the grund by a pilt in a fllwing Cessna via are mte cntrl device, the reprters reprted. On bard f the jet were three advanced crash-test dummies( 假人)designed t mve 4._______humans.
They were arranged in three psitins; ne in the classic brace and wearing a seat-belt; ne belted but nt in the brace psitin; and ne 5._______belted nr in the brace. After the jet hit the grund nse-first, experts fund that the dummy in the brace psitin wuld have survived the impact,6._______ne nt in the brace wuld have suffered serius head injuries, and the dummy nt wearing a seat-belt wuld have "died .
Using this, experts predicted that 78 percent f passengers n bard wuld have survived the impact, but all the first-class travelers wuld have died because the frnt f the fuselage (机身 )brke apart 7_______the plane cmes dwn nse first. Thse sitting at the back wuld have had8._______(gd) chance f survival.
Passage 13
Fire! Fire! What terrible wrds t hear when ne wakes up in a strange huse in the middle f the night! It was a large, ld, wden huse and my rm was n the tp flr. I jumped ut f bed,pened the dr and stepped utside int the passage. It was full f thick smke.
I began t run, but as I was still nly half-awake, 1._________ ging twards the stairs,l went in the ppsite directin. The smke grew 2.________( thick) and I culd see fire all arund. The flr became ht under my bare feet. I fund an pen dr and ran int a rm t get t the windw. But3._______I culd reach it, ne f my feet caught in smething sft and 1 fell dwn. The thing I had fallen ver felt like a bundle f clthes, and I picked it up 4._________(prtect) my face frm the smke and heat. Just then the flr gave way under me and I crashed t the flr belw with pieces f5._______(burn) wd all arund me.
As I reached the cld air utside, my bundle f clthes gave a thin cry. I nearly drpped6._________in my surprise. Then I was in a crwd gathered in the street. A wman in 7._______nightdress and a brrwed man's cat screamed as she saw me and 8. _______(cme) running madly.
She was the Mayr's wife, and I had saved her baby.
Passage 14
Tday, rller skating is easy and fun.But a lng time ag, it wasn’t easy at all., Befre 1750, the idea f skating didn't exist. That changed because f a man 1._________ ( name)Jseph Merlin.
One day Merlin received an invitatin t attend a fancy dress ball. He was very pleased and a little excited. 2.________ the day f the party came near, Merlin began t think 3.________t make a grand entrance at the party. He had an idea. He thught he 4.________ (get) a lt f attentin if he culd skate int the rm.
Merlin tried different ways t make himself 5.________ ( rll). Finally, he decided t put tw wheels under each she. These were the first rller skates. Merlin was very prud f his inventin and dreamed f arriving at the party 6.___________ wheels while playing the vilin,
On the night f the party Merlin rlled int the rm playing his vilin. Everyne 7.______
(amaze) t see him. There was just ne prblem. Merlin had n way t stp his rller skates. He rlled n and n. Suddenly, he ran int a huge mirrr 8._______ was hanging n the wall. Dwn fell the mirrr, breaking t pieces. Nbdy frgt Merlin's grand entrance fr a lng time!
Passage 15
Alan and Linda always dreamed f living " the gd life". Bth frm pr wrking- class families,they married yung and set ut t fulfill their mutual gal f becming wealthy. They bth wrked very hard fr ( earn) enugh mney, they finally culd mve frm their tw-bedrm hme t a seven-bedrm hme in a rich neighbrhd. They fcused their energies n trying t have2._________ they cnsidered imprtant fr a gd life: membership in the lcal cuntry club, luxury cars, designer clthing, and high-class sciety friends. 3.______ much they earned, it never seemed t be enugh. They were unable t remve the financial insecurity that 4. ______ ( acquire) in childhd. Then the stck market crashed in 1987, and Alan and Linda lst a cnsiderable amunt f mney. Alan als suffered frm heart attack, 5.__________ cst the family much. One thing led t 6.______ , and they fund themselves in a financial disaster. Their huse needed t be sld, and eventually they lst the cuntry club membership and the cars. It was several years 7.________Alan and Linda managed t land n their feet, and thugh they nw live a life far frm wealthy, they have learned a valuable lessn frm their lives and felt quite blessed. Only nw, as they think f what8._______ (remain)- -a slid, lving marriage, a dependable incme, and gd friends -d they realize that true abundance cmes nt frm gathering frtunes, but rather frm appreciating.
Passage 16
We all hpe t enjy harmnius relatinships with ur parents. In real life, hwever, this is nt always pssible. The pem "Thse Winter Sundays" by Rbert Hayden expresses the speaker's regret ver the way the speaker, when he was yung, 1 . ______ (treat) his father, It is nly when he lks back n hw he has grwn up 2.______he begins t understand his father's unselfish lve.
In remembering the small things his father did3. ______him and his family, such as lighting a fire in the mrning and plishing his shes, the speaker begins t understand an aspect f parental lve that escaped his ntice in the past.
As he recalls hw 4. ______father warmed the huse, the speaker's cldness tward his father starts t melt away. In its place is lve and gratitude. It dawns n him that lve is nt just hugging and kissing, r always warm and affectinate, but 5._________well be cld and stern in appearance. In fact, mature lve ften requires self- discipline and self- sacrifice.
During ur stressful teen years, we may find that ur parents, especially ur fathers, have difficulty 6.______( shw) their lve fr us verbally- -smetimes when we need it mst. This is certainly very discuraging. Hwever, if we remember 7.______ (be) grateful r nt s self-centered, we will see that their lve has always been there, nly 8.__________ ( express) in ways different frm what we may have expected.
Passage 17
Grdn was hungry. He pened the refrigeratr, 1.__________ there used t be much fd befre his wife left him. There must be 2._______in here t eat, he thught. Nw, hwever, there was a single ht dg.
After 3._________ (take) it ut f its package, he put a small frying pan nt the stve's gas burner. He turned n the heat. Then he pured a little bit f vegetable il int the pan. He sliced the ht dg in half lengthwise, 4._________ the il gt ht, he put the tw halves in the pan. Abut 5.______minute later, he flipped each half ver. After anther minute, he tk the ht dg ut f the pan.
Grdn put tw slices f bread int the taster. This was tasty and healthy bread. The first ingredient 6.________ (list) was rganic spruted wheat. The first ingredient in rdinary bread is usually unbleached flur.
When the tast ppped up, he put mustard, maynnaise, and ketchup n ne slice. Then he added tw slices f nin. 7.__________tp f the nins, he placed the ht dg. On tp f the ht dg, he put a cuple f slices f apple. Then he added sme bits f ht green chile, and then put the tp piece f tast nt the chile bits.
Ahh, 8._______a sandwich, he thught, as he sat dwn t eat.
Passage 18
Sara needed t see the dctr. She had an upset stmach. She felt blated, and needed t pass gas every minute r s. This was terrible. She 1.______hardly g anywhere in public.
Her friends tld her it was 2.__________she had mved t America. The air, water, and fd in America weren't agreeing with her. They said she wuld have t return t her hme cuntry.
N way, Sara said. She didn't want t g hme. She liked America. This was a minr prblem,she was sure. Any gd dctr wuld slve it in n time. Tw days later, she saw her dctr. He asked her if she drank milk. She said yes, three glasses a day,
Dn't drink any 3._______(much) regular milk. Start drinking lactse -free milk, because lactse can upset yur stmach.
Then he asked her 4.______there were any big prblems in her life. She said that her byfriend was a big prblem. He wanted t get married, 5._________she didn't. The dctr said that she shuld break up with her byfriend and find 6.
“Why? Sara asked.”
Because yur byfriend 7.________ (give) yu t much stress. He is prbably the main cause f yur upset stmach."
“I dn't think my byfriend is ging t like 8._______ .”
“Just tell him if he really lves yu, he shuld leave yu.”
Passage 19
When yung peple get their real jbs, they may face a lt f new, cnfusing situatin. They may find that everything is different frm the way things 1.________ (be) at schl. It is als pssible that they will feel uncmfrtable in bth prfessinal and scial situatins. Eventually, they realize that university classes can"t be the nly preparatin fr all f the different situatins 2._______appear in the wrking wrld.
Perhaps the best way 3._________ ( learn) hw t behave in the wrking wrld is t identify a wrker yu admire and bserve his behavir. In ding s, yu'll be able t see what it is 4.__________yu admire in this persn. Fr example, yu will bserve hw he acts when he is in truble. Perhaps even 5.__________ (imprtant), yu will be able t see what his apprach t everyday situatins6.___________(be). While yu are bserving yur clleague, yu shuld be asking yurself 7.his behavir is like yurs and hw yu can learn frm his respnse t different situatins. By 8.__________(learn) frm a mdel, yu will prbably begin t identify and learn gd wrking habits.
Passage 20
Last August Susan and frty-tw ther students gt wet and dirty while remving six tns f garbage 1.________ the river running acrss their city. 2.__________ cleaned up the river as part f a weeklng envirnmental camp. Like ne in three American rivers, this river is s plluted that it's unsafe fr swimming r fishing, Still, Susan, 3.________has just cmpleted her third summer camp n the river cleanup, sees a change in this river. Since we started three years ag, the river is getting a lt4.__________(clean)," she says. Envirnmental scientists praise the teenagers fr remving garbage5.___________can harm wild life. Water birds, fr example, can die f plastic bttle rings and get cut by tiny metals. Three years ag, when the cleanup started, garbage was everywhere. But this year the teenagers can rw their bats fast. By the end f the six-hur cleanup, they 6.________( remve)enugh garbage t fill mre than tw large trucks. "7.__________(see) all that garbage in the river makes peple begin t care abut envirnmental issues," Susan says. She hpes that when thers read that, she and her peers care enugh 8.________ (clean) it up, maybe they wuld think twice befre they thrw garbage int the river.
Passage 21
The prblem with much mbile technlgy is that it's nt really designed t be used while yu're actually mbile. The human brain can nly pay attentin t abut three things at a time and cncentrate effectively n just ne f them. Even thugh the cnsequences f smart phne distractin(注意力分散)are smetimes 1.__________ (amuse), they can als be serius.
The number f children 2.______ ( admit) t hspitals after accidents in public playgrunds3._______(climb) by abut a third in five years, accrding t NHS data. Experts in bth Britain and the US, 4.________a similar rise has ccurred suggest sme f the increase may be a result f parents being t distracted by their phnes 5.________ (take) care f their children prperly.
And nw cmes evidence shwing that 11-year-ld children are three times mre likely t be hurt r seriusly injured n the way t and frm schl than 10-year-lds, since 11 is the average age at which children receive their first mbile phne, six times mre likely 6.___________ ( send) a text when it happens.
7.__________quarter f children surveyed admitted that they had been distracted by persnal technlgy while crssing the rad. There is, the reprt cncluded, a clear cnnectin 8.____________the use f technlgy and the time f serius accidents with children."
Passage 22
Self care is necessary fr ur physical and mental health, yet ften it's the first thing we drp when we find urselves 1._____________ ( stretch) fr time. While we're n the subject f time, let's talk abut pririties, When we feel like we dn't have time t d smething imprtant, it is 2. _________ because we' re nt making time r because ur pririties are nt what we actually need. Everything we d with ur time is a chice. It 3. _________ feel like we have t d certain things, but, in reality, we have cmplete cntrl ver 4.__________we spend ur time.
5.___________busy yu are, yu can fit self care int yur schedule. Whether this means making it the first thing yu d each mrning, giving up TV r Facebk time, saying n" t certain cmmitments, r ptentially displeasing 6.__________ , yu can fit self care int yur weekly rutine 7._________ _________ _________ yu priritize( 优先考虑).
Self care desn't have t invlve a lt f mney, nr des it require a lt f time. If yu 8._________(struggle) t fit self care int yur rutine, start small, priritize, and listen t yur heart.
Passage 23
One night I decided t spend sme time building a happier and clser relatinship with my daughter. Fr several weeks she 1._________(ask) me t play chess with her, I suggested a game and she eagerly accepted. It was a schl night, hwever, and at nine 'clck my daughter asked if I 2.__________ hurry my mves, because she needed t g t bed; she had t get up at six in the mrning.I knew she had strict sleeping habits, 3.___________I thught she ught t be able t give up sme f this strictness. I said t her, Cme n, yu can stay up late fr nce. We re having fun."We played n fr4._______fifteen minutes, during which time she lked anxius. Finally she said, Please, Daddy,d it quickly." N, I replied. "5.___________ yu want t play it well, yu’re ging t play it slwly."And s we cntinued until suddenly my daughter burst int tears, and admitted 6._________ (beat).
Clearly I had made a mistake. I had started the evening wanting t have a happy time with my daughter but had allwed my desire t win t becme mre imprtant than my relatinship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire 7.___________ ( win) served me well. 8.__________ a parent,I realized that it gt in my way. S I had t change.
Passage 24
One f my mst surprising findings as a student is 1.________ parents d nt always accept yur adulthd. I was always tld that nce yu get t cllege, yur parents realize that yu have been living2._________ yur wn and can make yur wn decisins. This idea was rejected 3.________I came hme fr Thanksgiving. At first, 4.________ was ging as smthly as pssible. The first night I went t the Berkeley campus t visit my friend Sara, withut any argument frm my mther. 5.__________ when I called her t say I had decided t spend the night at Sara's drm, my mm infrmed me that she wanted me hme at ne a.m. I was wild with anger! I 6._________(make) my wn decisins hw late a yung man shuld stay ut fr several mnths. Hwever much I tried t reasn with my mther, she insisted things are different when I am hme, and that they were the 7.__________ paying my bills. And kids, this is true. N matter hw much yu want t fight it, mmmy and daddy are still hlding the purse strings, whether yu are 18 r nt. Smetimes it is best t sit back, shut up, and d 8._________they ask.
Passage 25
Senatr Jeff Flake, an adventurus plitician, went n a fur-day Rbinsn Cruse style hliday with his tw sns, 1.___________ f whm are teenagers, t a remte, uninhabited island in the Nrth Pacific Ocean. They traveled 5,200 miles frm Phenix, Arizna t the island f Big garenn. They didn't carry any fd r water.
The island is part f the Marshall Islands. It ffered n basic facilities, 2.___________ the Flakes had t catch and ck their wn fd and purify their water. Their diet 3._________ (make) up f ccnuts(椰子), fish and ther seafd. They captured the fish and ther sea creatures themselves and cked the fd ver an pen fire 4._________ (start) with a magnifying glass(放大镜).
The Flakes brught alng a lbster( 龙虾) trap in hpes f having sme delicius treats, but it was lst within the first few hurs after 5 _______(attack) by a shark. They als carried tw pumps t remve salt frm cean water. It tk them hurs each night 6._______(pump) fr just a small amunt f fresh water.
One f the mst memrable mments f the trip, the father said, was 7._________he and his 15-year-ld sn were chased by sharks after catching a fish in the cean.
Still, it was quite 8._________ enjyable hliday fr the plitician. Fr a dad it was a wnderful thing. N vide games arund, n televisin, n texting," Flake recalled.
Passage 26
Stephen Hawking, wh is the mst famus physicist, was brn in Britain n January 8th, 1942. As a child, he was enthusiastic abut 1._________( design) cmplicated tys but unfrtunately, in2._______twenties, he suffered 3._______a disease that was impssible 4.___________ ( cure) which was a great challenge fr him. Hwever, nt nly was he psitive abut the misfrtunes 5._______eventually he defeated all the bstacles but als he was absrbed in his research in the universe. In1988, his best-seller A Brief Histry f Time was published, in 6._______ he put frward the idea7._________ time itself has a beginning, and that it will, have an end. In cnclusin, he 8._______(make) utstanding cntributins t the fields f csmlgy and quantum gravity.
Passage 27
Millins f wrds have been said abut yung peple in the United States. There are reasns fr this great interest 1._______their ideas, feelings and actins. Tday there are abut eight millin Americans in the clleges and universities. The yung under twenty-five make 2._______ nearly half f the American ppulatin, many f 3. _______will be in pwer in the U.S.. Naturally, 4._______ideas are imprtant t everyne in the cuntry, 5.__________it is necessary fr the lder peple t understand6.________they think and feel. Cllege students tday have strng pinins abut right and wrng.They deeply 7.___________(interest) in making a 8._________(gd) life fr all the peple, especially fr thse wh have never been given a fair chance befre.
Passage 28
Finishing their shpping at the mall, a cuple discvered that their new car 1.___________ ( steal).They filed a reprt at the plice statin and a detective 2.______(drive) them back t the parking ltt lk fr evidence.
T3. ______amazement, the car had been returned 4. ______there was a nte in it that said:"I aplgize fr 5. ______(take) yur car. My wife was having a baby and I had t rush her t the hspital. Please frget the incnvenience. There are tw tickets fr tnight's Mania Twain cncert."
Their faith in humanity was restred. The cuple attended6.______cncert. But when they returned hme, they immediately fund 7._________their huse had been ransacked (洗劫). On the bathrm mirrr was 8.______ nte: "I have t put my kid thrugh cllege smehw, dn't l?
Passage 29
Peple 1.______(live) in different cuntries made different kinds f wrds. Tday there are abut fifteen hundred in the wrld. 2.________ cntains many thusands f wrds. A very large dictinary, fr example, cntains fur r five hundred thusand wrds, But we d nt need all these. T read shrt stries yu need t knw nly abut tw thusand wrds. 3.__________ yu leave schl, yu will learn nly ne thusand r mre.
The wrds yu knw are called yur vcabulary. Yu shuld try t make yur vcabulary4._______(big). Read as many bks as we can. There are a lt f bks 5.__________ ( write) in easy English. Yu will enjy them. When yu meet 6._________new wrd, lk it 7._______in yur dictinary. Yur dictinary is yur 8._______(much) useful bk.
Passage 30
Eric Chen, a 17-year-ld student frm Califrnia, , was the big winner f this year's Ggle Science Fair(谷歌科学挑战赛). He intrduced 1._______new medicine t fight 2._________ the spread f flu viruses.
Flu viruses, such as H7N9, 3._________ (pse)a great threat t the wrld and have already killed millins f peple.
"I felt like this was a really urgent prblem and I thught, ‘4.______can't I find a new anti-flu medicine?’” Chen said. Then he started his research 5.______wwed the judges f the Ggle Science Fair.
As the winner, Chen gt a $ 50,000 schlarship and a trip t the Galapags Islands( 加拉帕戈斯群岛). He plans t use part f the mney t develp a 6.________(pwerful) flu medicine.
"I really like 7.________(d) research," Chen said. "I'm ding wrk 8.___________ will make the wrld a better place."
Passage 31
In the small twns f the United States in 1._______nineteenth century, the general stre was2._______everyne bught the things he culdn't make 3.______grw at hme. What the stres sld 4.______(tell) a great deal abut the life at that time. Peple bught tls 5._________ they needed fr farm wrk; salt, sugar and 6.______ fds that the farm didn't prduce; articles f clthing that they culdn't make 7._________ ; shirts fr the men; r clthes fr the children. Life was simple then. One feels that peple were thankful fr what they had and that they lked frward with curage t 8.______the future brught. It wuld be interesting t knw hw they wuld feel abut the life tday. Wuld it seem t them that life is t cmplex? Wuld they enjy living a life as we d nw?
Passage 32
1._______ prper planning, turism can cause prblems. Fr example, t many turists can crwd public places 2.________are als enjyed by the inhabitants(居民) f a cuntry. If turism create t much traffic, the inhabitants will becme 3.________(anny) and unhappy. They begin t dislike turists 4.________ t treat them implitely. They frget hw much turism can help the cuntry's is imprtant t think abut the peple f a destinatin cuntry and6.________turism affects them. Turism shuld help a cuntry keep the custms and beauty that attracts turists. Turism 7._______als advance the wealth and happiness f lcal inhabitants.
T much turism can be a prblem. If turism 8._______ ( grw) t quickly, peple must leave ther jbs t wrk in the turism industry. This means that ther parts f the cuntry's ecnmy can suffer.
Passage 33
Lndn was awarded 1.______ 2012 Olympic Games n Wednesday, 2._________ ( defeat)Eurpean rival Paris in the final rund f vting t take the games back t British capital fr the first time since 1948.
After Mscw, New Yrk and Madrid were eliminated (淘汰) in the first three runds, Lndn 3.________（beat）Paris 54-50 n the furth ballt（投票表决）f the IOC.
In Lndn crwds cheered and waved flags as 4.___________ watched the annuncement frm Singapre 5.________a giant screen in Trafalgar Square and in the east Lndn area 6._________ the main Olympic cmplex (建筑群) will be based.
Blair spent tw days in lbbying(游说) in Singapre befre leaving 7.___________ (hst) the G8summit (8国峰会) in Sctland. My prmise t yu is we will be yur very 8._________(gd)partners, " Blair said. It's the furth bid ( 申办) frm Britain after failed attempts by Birmingham fr the1992 Olympics and Manchester fr the 1996 and 2000.
Passage 34
An artist had a small daughter. Smetimes he painted wmen 1.___________ any clthes n, and he and his wife always tried t keep the small girl ut 2.________he was ding this, "She is 3.________yung t understand, they said.
But ne day, when the artist 4. ________(paint) a wman with n clthes n, he frgt t lck the dr, and the girl suddenly ran int the rm. Her mther ran up the stairs 5.___________ her, but when she gt t the rm, the little girl was already in the rm and lking at the wman. 6.__________her parents waited fr her t speak.
Fr a few secnds the little girl said 7.___________ , but then she ran t her mther and said angrily,8._________d yu let her g abut withut shes and scks n when yu dn’t let me?
Passage 35
Why is setting gals s imprtant? 1.____________ gals can help yu d, be, and experience everything 2._________yu want in life. 3._________ _________ just letting life happen t yu, gals allw 4._________t make yur life happen. Successful and happy peple have set lts f gals t help them reach 5. aims. By setting gals yu are taking cntrl f yur life. It's like having a map t shw yu 6.__________yu want t g.
Winners in life set gals and fllw thrugh with them. Winners decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and 7.__________ (set) gals. Unsuccessful peple just let life happen by accident. Gals aren't difficulty t set, and aren't difficult t reach. It is up t yu t find ut what yur gals really are. Yu are the ne wh must decide 8. _________t d and in what directin t aim yur life.
Passage 36
Life is difficult.
But life is n lnger difficult 1._____________ we truly understand and accept it.
Mst d nt fully see this truth. Instead they cmplain abut their prblems and difficulties as if life shuld be easy. It seems t them that difficulties represent 2._________special kind f suffering especially frced upn them r else upn their families, their class, r even their natin.
3.___________makes life difficult is that the prcess f facing and slving prblems 4._________ (be)painful. Prblems, 5.____________ ( depend) n their nature, cause us sadness r lneliness r regret r anger r fear. These are uncmfrtable feelings, ften as any kind f physical pain. And since life causes an endless series f prblems, life is always difficult and is full f pain as well as jy.
Yet it is in this whle prcess f slving prblems that life has its meaning.
Prblems are the serius test that tells success 6._________failure. When we desire t encurage the grwth f the human spirit, we encurage the human ability t slve prblems just as in schl we set prblems fr ur children 7.___________ ( slve). It is thrugh the pain f meeting and wrking ut prblems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, " Thse things that hurt, instruct. It is fr this reasn that wise peple learn nt t fear 8._________t welcme the pain f prblems.
Passage 37
As Christpher Walsh saved his brther and then his sister frm the water f a river, his mther shuted t him: "I'm prud f yu."
Christpher was in the car with his parents, sister Rsie, and brther Mac 1._________his father drve int a metal barrier. The family's car fell dwn a hill 2._________ the river, and landed with its wheels up.
Christpher, then 12, swam thrugh a brken windw and gt ut int the fresh air. But3.___________(see) the rest f his family were still in the car- -in the water, he tk a big breath and swam back t save first Mac, and then Rsie. Christpher said, "I was frightened, but it was all happening s fast and I really had n time 4._________ (think) abut the danger.'
Christpher freed Mac and then swam back t get Rsie, 5.__________ was under the cld, cludy water, in the car. Christpher had t feel fr her seat belt because he culd nt see anything, He tk the seat belt ff her, and then went up fr air. Finally he went back t pull her ut f 6._________car.
Beryl, the mther, said: When I gt t the side and lked back, I thught Christpher and Rsie had gne. I thught 7._________were dead. Then I saw him cme up ut f the water like a dlphin, and I 8._________see he had Rsie. I shuted acrss the canal, 'I'm s prud f yu."
Passage 38
U.S. President Barack Obama says he expects Cngress t increase the cuntry's brrwing limit befre a mid-Octber deadline, 1._______ ( ensure) that the United States des nt default n its financial bligatins.
With the U.S. gvernment in the fifth day f a partial shutdwn, it als faces 2.______(run) ut f mney t pay its bills n Octber 17, including interest 3.______gvernment bnds held by China,Japan and ther verseas investrs.
In a wide ranging interview with The Assciated Press released Saturday, Obama said he expects Cngress will increase the cuntry's $ 16.7 trillin debt ceiling 4.______the United States can brrw mre mney.
" America has never nt paid 5.________bills, and I've said repeatedly that 6.______is nt smething anybdy 7._________be threatening," he said. The ptential default f the United States,where we are essentially deadbeats, that's never 8._________(happen) .
Obama, a Demcrat in his fifth year at the White Huse, is lcked in a plitical deadlck with Republican ppnents in Cngress ver gvernment spending plicies and implementatin f his signature legislative achievement: wide. ranging health care changes that are nw taking effect.
Passage 39
In mst cities, rich r pr, it is the less well-ff 1.________are mst at risk frm flds and natural disasters. It was the pr f New Orleans, nearly a third f the ppulatin, wh lived in the2.__________(lw)-lying parts f the city and 3.__________(suffer) mst frm Katrina’s(卡特拉娜飓风)wrath (愤怒). Similarly, 4__________was the urban pr f Hnduras （洪都拉斯） its neighbrs wh were struck hardest 5.__________Hurricane Mitch in 1998. And it is the peple f the slums (贫民窟) mre widely in Latin America 6.__________are mst capable f being attacked.
In sme places, t little water, nt t much, is the prblem. China's thirst fr industry and irrigatin has cmbined with climate change t drain the aquifers (蓄水层). Drughts seem t be evermre frequent in nrthern China, and suthern cities such as Guangzhu are als affected. Rivers are drying up: the Yellw River nw flws t the sea fr nly 7. __________few weeks a year. And the rain,when it cmes, is intensely acid. T make matters 8.__________(bad), the glaciers n which bth China and India partly depend are melting. Any benefits frm extra water supplies will be shrt-term, and damaged by flds.
Passage 40
There are sme special traditins in Hawaii. Peple are very friendly and always welcme visitrs.They give visitrs 1.__________lei--a lng necklace f beautiful fresh flwers. Men wear bright2._________(flwer) shirts, and wmen ften wear lng flwered dresses. There are all traditinal Chinese, Japanese and Filipin hlidays and all the hlidays frm the United States. They call Hawaii the Alha State. Alha 3.__________(mean)bth hell and gdbye. It als means "I lve yu. Usually when peple frm different cuntries, races, and traditins live tgether, there are serius prblems.There are a few prblems in Hawaii, 4.__________in general, peple have learned t live tgether 5.__________peace.
Hawaiians earn mst f their mney frm travelers; mst f 6.________cme frm the mainland and frm Japan, There are many peple 7.__________ (live)in Hawaii nw s there are residential areas 8.________there used t be farms. Sme f the big sugar and pineapple cmpanies have mved t the Philippines, where they d nt have t pay wrkers as much mney. The families f the first peple wh came frm the U.S. mainland wn the imprtant banks and cmpanies. Japanese are als buying r starting businesses here.
Passage 41
Sme peple live in the wrld fr bdy while thers fr dignity.
I nce tk a walk alng the street n a Saturday dusk, with a Pepsi can in my hand. An ld wman in ragged clthes, 1._____was living n cllecting used cans, jars and tins, mved slwly twards me, with a bag n the back! 2._________(walk) nearer, she lked up at me and then fixed her eyes n my can. At that time, I hadn't finished my cla, s I gave 3. ______several cins instead.
She stared at me fr a few secnds 4.______ handed back the mney. Quite cnfused, I asked:Why nt? Isn’t that what yu want?
"I am nt a beggar," she said seriusly, wrd 5.________wrd.
Instantly, I felt s srry, I had intended 6._______(help) her, cmpletely misunderstanding her.Thus I hurt her. What I culd d at that mment was nly t drink up the cla and handed her7.________ emptied can. This time, she gave me a smile with satisfactin and gratitude in her eyes.The wman is pr in material life but is s respectable 8.________a man. I am nt nly. mved but als have learned a gd lessn.
Passage 42
The US gvernment has set several rules and guidelines in place 1.__________ ( prtect) us frm eating ptentially harmful fds. Several dishes 2._______( cnsider) real delicacies in ther parts f the wrld, like haggis in Sctland r fugu (puffer fish) in Japan, are banned frm the U.S. fd market because f ptential health risks. But 3.________(lk) at the issue frm a reversed angle, there are actually several cmmn fds eaten in America that are banned in ther parts f the wrld.
The shcking truth is that many f ur favrite fds, like bxed mac and cheese and ygurt,include ingredients 4.__________ther cuntries have established as ptentially harmful fr health, and therefre are banned. Clearly, mac and cheese n its wn isn’t pisnus in any way, but the yellw fd clrings #5 and # 6 have been. shwn t cause hypersensitivity (过敏) in children, and are therefre banned in cuntries including Nrway, Finland, and Australia. Fr ygurt and ther milk prducts, 5._______is the rBGH and rBST that sme cuntries are cncerned with-- these grwth hrmnes 6.________(ban) in several regins including the Eurpean Unin, Canada, and Japan7._________their ptentially dangerus impacts n the health f 8._________humans and cws.
Passage 43
Hw many times have yu let yur basic cntact lens hygiene slide, nt ding things like washing yur hands befre 1._________( handle) yur lenses, using tap water 2________ ________saline slutin(盐水溶液) r sleeping in yur lenses?
During a busy week at wrk, a wman 3.________( name) Erin was ut f cntact lens slutin but didn't have time t buy any, s she used tap water 4.________ (stre)her cntact lenses.
That wuld sn prve t be a mistake: She cntracted a rare ameba(阿米巴，变形虫) infectin5.__________began t attack her crnea(眼角膜).
"The pain was extreme, she tld Dr. Travis Strk n The Dctrs, She went t the ER, where dctrs thught she had a simple eye infectin and prescribed her a sterid(类固醇) , after the pain still did nt g away, she visited an ptmetrist wh 7._________ ( realize) that she had an ameba infectin.
The sterid was, in fact, hiding the infectin, she said. "It was keeping my sight but it was actually feeding the ameba, via the sterid, making 8.________ strnger."
Strk nted that sterids can actually be harmful in cases like this, because they make it harder fr the bdy t fight ff the infectin.
Passage 44
There are fifty- tw cards in an rdinary deck. A deck f cards can be arranged in just abut 80,660x10032 ways. And if each deck, 1.________ ( arrange) in different ways, weighed nly as much as a single hydrgen atm ( the lightest atm) , all the decks tgether 2.______ (weigh) a billin times as much as the sun.
The design f the king fund n all standard playing-card decks has, with slight changes, remained the same fr three centuries. 3.______ is believed t be based n a painting f the English ruler Charles I (1600- 1649). The picture f the queen is 4.______mre dubtful rigins, 5. ______ sme think it was taken frm 6.______early painting f Queen Elizabeth l.
Over the centuries, cards have been put t strange uses, sme f 7.______sunds incredible nwadays. Playing-cards, fr example, became the first paper mney f Canada 8._________the French gvernr, in 1685, emplyed cards t pay ff sme war debts. In 1765, the year f the Stamp Act, the University f Pennsylvania used cards fr class admissin. The students withut cards were kept utside. The French Revlutin was well-knwn fr the fact 9.__________the quantity f fd was extremely in shrt supply. During that perid, Naplen rdered that peple 10.______get limited fd accrding t hw many cards a family had.
Passage 45
When yu start talking abut gd and bad manners yu immediately start meeting difficulties.Many peple just cannt agree t 1.________they mean. We asked a lady, wh replied that she thught yu culd tell a well-mannered persn 2.______the way they ccupied the space arund them- -fr example, when such a persn walks dwn a street he r she is cnstantly aware f thers.Such peple never bump int ther peple. Hwever, 3.__________ secnd persn thught that this was4.________ a questin f civilized behavir than gd manners. Instead, this ther persn tld us a stry, which he said was quite well knwn, abut an American 5.______had been invited t an Arab meal in ne f the cuntries f the Middle East. The American 6.______ (tell) very much abut the kind f fd he might expect. 7. ______he had knwn abut Arab fd, he might have behaved better. Immediately befre him was a very flat piece f bread that lked, t him, very much like a napkin(餐巾) (pick) it up, he put it int his cllar, s that it fell acrss his shirt. His Arab hst, wh had been watching, said nthing, 9.________ immediately cpied the actin f his guest.And that, said 10.________secnd persn, was a fine example f gd manners.
Passage 46
Snake dishes 1._______(becme) ppular in recent years. Snake meat in varius flavrs (风味)is ften seen in restaurant ads. Eating snake seems t be nw in vgue (盛行), and if yu haven't eaten snake yet, yu2._____(cnsider) ut f date. But I wnder 3._____all the trends are wrth fllwing,
Sme peple may defend themselves 4.______saying that snake meat is nutritius. But these peple dn’t realize that many parasites(寄生虫), 5._____d harm t ur health, are fund inside snakes.
6.______a survey, abut 1000 tns f snakes are eaten every year in China and smetimes as many as 10 tns f snakes are served n dinner tables in Shenzhen in a single day!
These figures warns us 7.________ if n actin is taken, 8._____number f snakes will drp and make an increase in mice and wrms ppulatin, which 9._____(result) in a decrease(减产)f crp utput. Wh will see such tragedy happen?
S let's start nt t eat snakes any mre because " t prtect the snake is t prtect10._______.”
Passage 47
Given that many peple's mds (情绪) are regulated by the chemical actin f chclate,1 .____ was prbably nly a matter f time befre smebdy made the chclate shp similar t a drugstre f Chinese medicine. 2._________(lk) like a setting frm the film Charlie & the Chclate Factry, Singapre's Chclate Research Facility (CRF) has ver 100 varieties f chclates. Its funder is Chris Lee wh grew up at his parents crner stre 3._______ne hand almst always in the jar f sweets.
If the CRF seems t be a smart idea, that's 4._______Lee is nt merely a seasned salespersn but als head f a marketing department that has business relatins with big names such as Levi's and Sny That idea surely results in the imaginatin at wrk 5._________it cmes t making different flavred( %ill chclates.
The CRF's prduce is green, 6._________(make) within the cuntry and divided int 10 lines,with the Alchl Series 7._______(be) the mst ppular. The Extic Series- -with Sichuan pepper,red bean (豆), cheese and ther flavrs- -als des well and is fun t taste. And fr chclate fans,wh think that they have a 8.________(gd) knwledge f chclate than thers, the Cnnisseur Series uses cca beans frm Tg, Cuba, Venezuela, and Ghana, amng thers.
Passage 48
In Nrth America peple are always in 1._______hurry. Children have special lessns r sprts activities 2._______schl. Parents ften wrk late and dn't get hme until 7 r 8 'clck at night.Mst Nrth American families dn't have time 3._______(prepare) a meal. That is 4._________ fast fd is s ppular in Nrth America. Peple 5._______( spend) abut 40% f their dllars n fast fd.
Peple usually buy fast fd frm restaurant chains such as Pizza Hut, McDnald's, r KFC,6._______they can enjy pizza, sandwiches, fried chicken, and s n. Fast fd saves wrk and time, 7._______ it is nt nutritius.
Fast fd is ppular in many cuntries. American fast-fd cmpanies nw have restaurants all ver the wrld. But nt8._________is happy abut the spread(扩展) f Nrth American fast fd. A grup f peple in Italy want 9._______(fight) against the spread f American fast fd. They dn't like the idea f mre fast fd chains 10.________(pen) restaurants in their cuntry.
Passage 49
Once a man came t Allah (安拉) and said, Oh Allah, I have many bad habits. Which ne1.________I give up first? Allah said, Give up telling lies first and always tell the truth." The man prmised t d s and went hme.
At night the man was abut t g ut t steal. Befre setting ut, he thught fr a mment abut the prmise he made 2._______ Allah, "If tmrrw Allah asks me where I have been, what shuld I say? Shuld I say that I went ut3._______(steal)? N, I cannt say that. If I tell the truth, everyne will start hating me and call 4. _______a thief. I wuld 5._________ ( punish) fr stealing. But 6.________can I lie."
S the man decided nt t steal that night, and gave up this bad habit.
Next day, when he was abut t drink wine, he als remembered what he prmised t Allah, s he gave up 7.___________idea f drinking wine. In this way, 8.___________the man thught f ding smething bad, he remembered his prmise t tell the truth at all times. One by ne, he gave up all his bad habits.
Passage 50
Exercise is gd fr yu, but mst peple really knw very little abut 1.__________t exercise prperly. S when yu try, yu 2._______run int truble.
Many peple believe that when specific muscles are exercised, the fat in the neighbring area is"burned up. Yet the truth is 3._______exercise burns fat frm all ver the bdy.
Studies shw muscles which are nt exercised lse their strength very quickly. T regain it4._______(need) 48-72 hurs and exercise every ther day will keep a nrmal level f physical strength.
T lse weight yu shuld always wrk up a gd sweat when 5._______(exercise). Sweating nly reduces bdy temperature t prevent heating. This is nthing 6.___________ water lss.
Walking is the best and easy- t d exercise. 7._______helps the circulatin f bld thrughut the bdy, and has a direct effect 8._________yur verall feeling f health. Experience says that 20minutes exercise every day is minimum amunt. But if yur breathing desn't return t nrmal state within minutes after yu finish exercising, yu've dne t much.
Passage 51
Pr student behavir seems t be 1.________increasingly widespread prblem and I think that mdern lifestyles are prbably respnsible fr this.
In many cuntries, the birth rate is decreasing s that families are smaller with 2._______ (few)children. These children are ften spilt, nt in terms f lve and attentin because 3._______ ( wrk)parents d nt have the time fr this, but in mre material ways. They are allwed t have 4._______they want, regardless f price, and t behave as they please. This means that the children grw up5._______cnsideratin fr thers and withut any understanding f 6.__ their standard f living cmes frm.
When they get t schl age, they have nt learnt any self cntrl r discipline. Teachers cntinually cmplain abut this prblem and measures 7._______(take) t cmbat the situatin. But I think the slutin t the prblem lies with the families, 8._______need t be mre aware f the future cnsequences f spiling their children.
Passage 52
Plar bears are suffering in a 1._______(warm) wrld.
Plar bears live in envirnments t cld fr mst animals. During much f the year, they live and hunt n the frzen Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared 2._______fr the cld cnditins. But nthing has prepared the bears fr the danger that threatens the nly hme they knw.
The plar bears wrld is melting. Studies shw that the plar ice has reduced by 9.8% every 10years 3._______1978. Nw abut 20,000 t 25 ,000 plar bears live in the Arctic. Plar bears depend n the sea ice fr 4.______ survival. The sea ice is mre than just this platfrm that the bears walkver," says Andrew Dercher, 5.________ scientist wh studies Nrth American plar bear ppulatins. 6._______it, they can't exist."
Sme melting and refreezing f the plar ice is natural. 7._______in a warmer wrld, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time t hunt. Nrmally, they have three mnths in the spring when they gain mre weight. The extra fat is used later, 8._______the bears are nt actively hunting.
Passage 53
One day, abut ten years ag, while wrking at the cash register in the gift shp at my University Museum f Natural Histry, I saw 1.________ elderly cuple cme in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I lked clser at this girl, I fund that she 2.______(fix) n her chair. I then realized she had n arms r legs, just a head, a neck and upper bdy, 3._________( dress ) in a little white skirt. As the cuple wheeled her up t me, I turned my head tward the girl. When I tk the mney frm her grandparents, I lked back 4. ______the girl, wh was giving me the mst ptimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All f a sudden, her handicap was gne and all I saw was this beautiful girl,5._______smile just melted me 6.________almst instantly gave me a cmpletely new sense f7.______life is all abut. She tk me frm a pr, unhappy cllege student and 8.______(bring)me int her wrld; a wrld f smiles, lve and warmth. I'm a successful business man nw and whenever I think abut the trubles f the wrld, I think abut that little girl and the remarkable lessn abut life that she taught me.
Passage 54
Lake Titicaca, a famus lake in Suth America, is lcated n the brder between Blivia and Peru.But the lives f the ancient peple wh nce lived arund the lake and 1._________culture was thught t be highly advanced, have lng remained a secret. Recently 2. _________, scientists taking part in an explratin prject at the lake have fund 3.___________they believe t be a 1000-year-ld temple4._______the water.
Divers frm the study grup have discvered a building scientists think is the remains f a temple built by the peple wh nce lived beside the lake. The prject leaders hpe t begin raising imprtant materials frm the site later this week 5._______bad weather frces a change in their plans.
The scientists have nt yet had the pprtunity t study the materials carefully, " said prject directr, Jhn Aubi. But sme 6._________ ( put) frward the idea that the remains date frm this perid because f their similarity t 7._______fund elsewhere.
The research team has s far this year made mre than 200 dives int water 30 metres deep.During these dives, they have been recrding the ancient remains n film. There will be a meeting,8._______(start) later this year t review the film.
Passage 55
Mre American peple take their trubles with them n hliday, accrding t a new percent said that the main reasn fr ging away is t escape pressure frm wrk,almst all said they wrry mre 2._________ they d at hme. Only fur in every ne hundred said that they are happy and free f care.
The mst cmmn wrry is burglary(入室盗窃), with fur ut f ten wrrying abut their hmes 3.________ (break) int while they are abrad. Mre than a quarter feel they will feel crazy with sme ther nisy and rugh hliday. makers and twenty-tw percent wrry they may be attacked 4.________their pssessins will be 5. ________(miss).
The survey als shwed 6.________the stay-at hme Americans are n mre. Three ut f every five want t have a hliday abrad, which was 7.__________increase frm the figures nly three years ag. The htel hliday is still a winner, with abut ne third f all Americans8._________ (prefer) t gn a self. catering(自助) hliday.
Passage 56
Several men hit the Sa Paul Museum f Art just befre dawn n Thursday, December 20th, 2007.Authrities said that the thieves must have been well prepared, as 1._______ tk them just three minutes t steal paintings 2.__________tw wrld-famus artists, Pabl Picass 3.________Candid Prtinari, which are wrth millins f dllars. Images frm the security camera shw that three men began their actin at 5:09 am, 4.________the guards in the museum were ging thrugh their shift change (换岗). They brke thrugh tw glass drs, ran t the museum's tp flr and grabbed the tw paintings frm different rms, smehw 5.___________( avid) nearby guards. The alarm never rang, and by 5:12 am, they were making their escape. After that, the plice were interviewing the 30museum emplyees. Everything indicates thieves 6.________ (send) t d it by sme wealthy art lver fr 7.__________wn cllectin. He was nt rich enugh t buy the paintings, 8. he was wealthy," said the lead plice fficer,r Marcs Gmes de Mura.
Passage 57
The Internet is an amazing infrmatin resurce. Students, teachers, and researchers use it as an investigative tl. Jurnalists use it t find infrmatin fr stries. Dctrs use it t learn mre abut unfamiliar diseases and the 1._________ ( late) medical develpment. Ordinary peple use it fr shpping, banking, bill- paying, and cmmunicating with family and friends. Peple all ver the wrld use it t cnnect with individuals 2.________different cuntries and cultures. Hwever, 3.________there are many psitive develpments 4._______ (assciate) with the Internet, there are als certain fears and cncerns. 5. _______cncern relates t a lack f cntrl ver what appears n the Internet.With televisin and radi there are editrs t check the accuracy r apprpriateness f the cntent f prgrams, 6.__________with televisin there are restrictins n what kinds f prgrams can 7._______(bradcast) and at what times f the day. With the Internet, parents cannt check a published guide t determine what is suitable 8. _______ their children t see.
Passage 58
Everyne can live lnger by allwing himself a little fun, accrding t research published in Lndn.Tw independent scientific studies fund that, regardless f backgrund and circumstances, everyne tends t have the same pleasure , different grups f peple get their pleasure indifferent ways. Researchers asked ver 4 ,000 peple in eight cuntries t assess 2.________level f enjyment frm 13 everyday activities including sex, a glass f wine, a piece f chclate, tea r cffee r watching TV. There is 3._______wealth f evidence t suggest that the cumulative effect f these little pleasures and happy mments 4. make us all live lnger," they said. Peple5.________lw incmes get mre fun f simple everyday pleasure such 6._______eating a chclate bar r watching televisin while thse 7._________(earn) ver US$ 100,000 a year prefer t eat ut as an enjyment. Researchers advised us that n matter 8._______ur persnal circumstances are, we can and shuld try t intrduce as much happy mments as pssible int ur lives.
Passage 59
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste f time. Or it 1.______ ( cnsider) an unhealthy escape frm real life and its duties, 2._______nw sme peple are taking a fresh lk at daydreaming. Sme think it may be a very healthy thing t d. Sme researchers are finding that daydreaming may be imprtant t mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us, is a gd means f relaxatin. But its benefits g 3._________this. A number f psychlgists have cnducted experiment sand have reached sme 4._______ (surprise) cnclusins.
Dr, Jan T. Freyberg has cncluded that daydreaming cntributes t intellectual grwth. It als imprves cncentratin, attentin span, and the ability 5._______(get) alng with thers.Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much f his success was due t the psitive use f daydreaming. Flrence Nightingale dreamed f becming a nurse. The yung Thmas Edisn pictured6._______as an inventr. Fr these ntable achievers, it appears 7.________ their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emersn Fsdick ffered this advice: hld a picture f yur mind's eye,and yu will be drawn tward it. Picture yurself vividly as 8._______ (defeat) and that alne will make victry impssible.
Passage 60
Atmic energy is 1._______ great discvery f last century and many peple have played a part in its develpment. Albert Einstein tld the wrld 2.______its basic idea in his famus Thery f Relativity in and ther scientists began t discver mre abut the atm, they learned that a great amunt f energy culd 4.________( release) by splitting(分裂) an , it was als necessary that this energy shuld be cntrlled. If it were nt, it wuld be very dangerus.
Nw atmic energy is used t mve ships and it may als prve useful fr spaceships. In fact this new surce f pwer has 6._______many uses that it is almst impssible t imagine all the great changes that it will bring int ur lives.
Sme scientists say the wrld needn't be afraid f a pssible shrtage f cal, il, natural gas r ther surces f fuel fr the future. They say that if these 7._______(use) up there wuld be enugh f this type f energy 8. ______(last) frever.
Passage 61
Fr thusands f years, man has enjyed the taste f apples. Apples, 1._________ are abut 85percent water, grw almst everywhere in the wrld 2.______the httest and cldest the leading cuntries in apple prductin are China, France and the United States.
There are varius kinds f apples, but very few make up the majrity f thse 4.__________ ( grw)fr sale. The three mst cmmn kinds grwn in the United States are Delicius, Glden Delicius, and McIntsh.
Apples are different in clr, size and taste. The clr f the skin may be red, green 5.________yellw. They have varius sizes, with Delicius apples being amng the largest. The taste may be sweet r tart(酸的). Generally, sweet apples are tasted fresh 6.________tart apples are used t make apple sauce( 果酱).
Apple trees may grw as tall as twelve meters. They d best in areas7.________have very cld winters. 8________n fruit is yielded during the winter, this cld perid is gd fr the tree.
Passage 62
We are what we eat. What we are 1._________(accustm) t eating every day has a great effect2.__________ur health, Cnsequently, we shuld make every effrt t change ur bad eating habits. As we all knw, baked r fried fds may be tasty, but eating t much f them will prbably result in sme illnesses. In additin, sme fd which csts us 3.________great deal f mney is nt healthy,4._________junk fd.
What peple like t eat is varius frm culture t culture. Cmpared with peple in the West,Chinese peple used t eat mre grain, mre vegetables and less meat,5._________is a gd eating habit. 6.________, things are quite different nw. With the rapid ecnmic grwth f ur cuntry, we als eat a lt f fd high in sugar and fat. 7._____________ yu take a casual lk at peple in the street,what impresses yu will prbably be the fact that there are a lt mre fat peple than ever befre. We are at risk when 8.________(eat)ut withut cnsidering the balance f ur fd. T be healthy, we must keep it in ur mind that the fd we chse t eat shuld give us the nutrients(营养) we need.
Passage 63
Sprts and games make ur bdies strng, prevent us frm getting t fat, and keep us are nt their nly uses. They give US valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles 2_______(wrk) tgether. In tennis, when ur eyes see the ball3._______(cme), ur brain has t decide 4._______t d, and s send its rders t the muscles f the arms, legs and Sn, s that the ball is met and hit back 5.________it ught t g. All this 6.__________happen with very great speed, and nly 7. _______wh have had a lt f practice at tennis can carry ut this chain f events successfully. Fr thse wh wrk with their brains mst f the day, the practice f such skills is especially useful.
Sprts and games are als very useful fr character-training. 8.______ each f students learns t wrk fr his team and nt fr himself n the ftball field, he will later find it natural t wrk fr the gd f his cuntry instead f nly fr his wn benefit.
Passage 64
Dawn graduated several years ag, She 1.___________ (be) a successful mdel, and finding a jb had nt been a prblem- -until recently.
When Dawn did start trying t find anther type f jb, she fund in interview after interview2._______cmputer literacy (能力) was a must t emplyment.
Dawn had always been afraid f learning cmputer while in cllege- -ur schl didn't require 4._______ ( learn) cmputer at that time- -she managed t get a degree 5._______ever cnfrnting (面对) a cmputer.
Finally, after mnths f searching fr a jb, Dawn failed. She had t admit that sidestepping (回避) cmputer literacy (读写能力) hadn't been a gd idea. 6.________ , She enrlled in a cmputer curse at an adult vcatinal schl.
Surprisingly, 7._______ she had been afraid f learning cmputer, she tk t cmputers8._______ much that after abut a year she pened her wn cmputer. based business.
Passage 65
Gandhi, an Indian natinal her, was hnred as the father f the Indian natin. He has been respected and belved by the Indians.
He was brn in India in 1869. Fllwing the lcal custm, he gt 1._______ (marry) at the age f13. In 1888 he sailed t England, 2.________ he studied law fr three years and became a lawyer. On his return t India, he was sent t Suth Africa t wrk n a law case.
In Suth Africa he 3. _____(surprise) t find that the prblem f racial discriminatin (种族歧视) was serius. There he frmed an rganizatin and started a magazine t fight fr equal rights.
Gandhi returned t India in 1915, 4.______India was cntrlled by the British. He led the Indians t fight fr 5._____end t the British rule and independence fr his cuntry. In the plitical mvement many Indians including Gandhi were put in prisn. 6._______ the struggles never stpped.The British gvernment had t give 7.________ and India wn its independence in 1947. Unfrtunately Gandhi was sht by an Indian wh ppsed 8._________ views and died n January 30th, 1948.
Passage 66
Abut six years ag I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New Yrk City 1. ____a wman and a yung by sat dwn 2.______the next table. I culdn't help 3.____(verhear) parts f their cnversatin. At ne pint 4.________wman asked: "S, hw have yu been?" And the by, wh culdn't have been mre than seven r eight years ld, replied, Frankly,I've been feeling a little depressed lately.
This incident 5.______ (stick) in my mind because it cnfirmed my grwing belief that children are changing. 6.____ far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find ut we were depressed"until we were in high schl. The evidence f a change in children 7.________ ( increase) steadily in recent years. Children dn't seem childlike anymre. Children speak mre like adults, dress mre like adults and behave mre like adults 8._______they used t. Whether this is gd r bad is difficult t say, but it certainly is different. Childhd as it nce was n lnger exists. Why?
Passage 67
Jhnny Carsn began his career in televisin in 1.____twenties. First he wrked at lcal statins in Nebraska. Several years later, he mved 2.________Ls Angeles, Califrnia. It was The Tnight Shw 3. ________made Jhnny Carsn famus fr thirty years. He became the mst ppular star f American televisin. He 4._______ (call) " the king f late night. Critics said Americans frm all parts f the cuntry liked him 5.________felt they knew him.
He did nt take his fame seriusly. Fr example, when asked6.________ he became a "star, he answered: I started in a gaseus (气体的) state and 1 cled." Carsn's special skill was his sense f humr. Audiences laughed at his jkes he made at the beginning f his shw. 7._________, smetimes they laughed even harder at the jkes 8._______failed. He was the mst pwerful perfrmer n televisin. Many cmedians and singers became successful after appearing n The Tnight Shw" .
Passage 68
One f the first questins yung children ask is "Why? It is human nature t want 1.________(find) ut why things are the way they are. Yu can find ut "Why" by turning the questin int a hypthesis (假设) fr 2._______experiment. 3._______example, suppse yu have been trying t grw tmat plants, but insects keep destrying 4.________Smene tells yu that 5._________large strips f clred clth arund the plants will keep insects away. Yur questin might be "D certain clrs f clth keep insects away? Then yu'd begin yur experiment. The first step wuld be t place different-clred strips f clth arund all f the plants except ne. Then, at regular intervals,yu wuld bserve and recrd and nte 6._________the plant had any insect damage r nt. This experiment may prve that the answer t yur questin is N, it is nt different-clred strips f clth7._______keep away insects." Or yu may find that answer is Yes, certain insects are kept away by blue clth, but nt yellw 8.________yu have fund, yu are well n yur way t understanding hw yu can use scientific thinking t slve a prblem in yu wn life.
Passage 69
I asked my uncle, wh plays the pian well, 1.________he wuld assess (评定) the tne f a secnd hand pian I was hping t buy. We arrived 2. the huse and Uncle Frank lked the pian ver, then 3.________ ( sit) dwn and played a mixture f hnky- tnk numbers and classical pieces. When he finished, we tld the family that we wuld call 4.___________ in 15 minutes.
Outside, Uncle Frank said that 5.________the wd was battered (坏掉的), the sund was gd and we shuld buy it.
When I phned the wman back, she sunded 6.________she was crying. Cncerned, I asked, What's the matter?
We didn't knw the pian 7.________play like that," she replied. The pian wasn't fr sale, and her daughter had t resume （重新开始） 8.________ ( take) pian lessns.
Passage 70
Mrs. Wilsn, the wife f a rich man, 1.___________ ( invite) sme f her friends t lunch. She was trying a new way t ck fish and she was very pleased with 2. ________when the fish was ready. As the fish was very ht, she put it near the pen windw t cl fr a few minutes. Five minutes later when she came back fr it, she 3.________ (surprise) t find the neighbr's cat at the fish. She was in time t stp the cat 4.________it was t late. That afternn every ne enjyed the fish. They talked and laughed 5.__________fur 'clck.
After the guests left, Mrs. Wilsn felt tired 6. ________happy. She was sitting dwn in a chair near the windw when she saw the neighbr's cat dead in her garden. She was sure the fish was bad. What7._________happen t her friends? She at nce telephned the family dctr fr help, The dctr asked each guest 8._________ (meet) him. Once again Mrs. Wilsn was alne in her chair still tired but n lnger happy. Just then the telephne rang. It was her neighbr, Oh, Mrs. Wilsn," he cried. My cat is dead. She was killed by smene in a car and put in yur ”
Passage 71
Althugh many Chinese students say that 1._________ knwledge f English grammar is gd,2.__________mst wuld admit that their ral English is pr.
3.__________ I speak t a Chinese student, they always say, My ral English is pr." Hwever,their ral English des nt have t remain pr! I wuld like t suggest that there may be sme reasns 4_________their prblems with ral English.
First, they fail t find suitable wrds t express 5._________due t (由于) a limited vcabulary.Secnd, they are afraid f making mistakes. 6._________third reasn is that nt enugh attentin7.__________(pay) t listening,
8._________yu use yur English beynd the classrm, yu will frget what English yu knw.Remember: USE IT OR LOSE IT! Yu can learn hw t speak English better by speaking English mre.
Passage 72
There is a pht 1.________ (hang) abve my desk. Whenever I lk at that phtgraph, it takes me back t thse early years 2._________ every new experience was imprtant fr me. I can still remember the shuts f the spectatrs as I went ut nt the sprts field with my classmates. Tw days earlier, I had qualified 3._________the finals f the 100 metres.
Nw 4._________(lk) arund, I was determined t win. While I was walking acrss t the start I began t feel mre and mre nervus. I lked arund and saw my prud parents waving enthusiastically. My heart was beating fast when I lined up with the ther eager cmpetitrs. I tk sme deep breaths and waited fr the signal. Then the starting signal 5. (give) and I set ff dwn the track.I ran as fast as I culd, nt lking at anything but the finishing line. 6._________the time I crssed the line, I was s exhausted 7._________ I culd hardly breathe. As sn as I heard the result 8.________ (annunce), I realized I had wn! Overjyed, I cllapsed n the sft grass with a brad smile n my face.
Well dne!" said the Headmaster later, as I was presented with the winner's certificate. I had never felt s happy and prud in my life.
Passage 73
We may be very pleased with the rapid prgress we have made in every field f study, 1.___________we have almst dne nthing t imprve ur present examinatin systems2.________ fcus n testing the students' memry 3._______ _______their ability. As sn as a child begins schl, he enters a wrld f examinatin which will decide his future jb. In fact, a gd examinatin system shuld encurage students t think by themselves. But the examinatin nw des nthing but the students t remember 5._______is taught t get high marks. Thus the students wh cme ut first in the examinatin ften may nt be 6.__________ ( gd) in their studies. In additin, such an examinatin system ften 7.___________ ( drive) teachers t cram all the time and frces them t train students what t d with the 8._______(cme) examinatin,
There must be a better way t test a student's true ability as well as their knwledge.
Passage 74
We must have water t live. 1. _______ the water we use is clean and fresh, it will make us ill.The animals 2. _______ (live) in and arund lakes and rivers must als have clean water. Our rivers and lakes supply mst f ur water, The clear, blue water fund by the first American settlers has changed. Many f ur water surces are nw 3. _______ (pllute). They are filled4._______ dirt and waste 5. _______ cannt be cleaned ut. In many places, water is nt safe fr US t use.
Lake Erie was nce a beautiful lake. Nw it has been called a dying lake". Waste frm nearby hmes and factries has been dumped int 6. _______ Fish can n lnger live in much f its plluted water. Gerge Washingtn nce called the Ptmac the finest river in the wrld. Nw its water is n lnger blue. 7._________, it is supy green. Suds(肥皂泡沫), frm detergents(洗衣粉) used t wash clthes, ften cver the water f ur rivers.
Water cannt 8._______ (make) in a factry. Once water is plluted, it is difficult t make it clean and safe again. We must learn t take care f the water that we nw have.
Passage 75
Alice always wanted t be a singer. Music was the mst imprtant thing in her life but, t tell1._________the truth, she tk lessns fr years, practiced every day, 2. _______ in spite f all this,her vice didn't imprve. Hnestly, it didn't get better, it just gt 3. _______ (lud).
Her teacher finally 4.__________ (give) up and stpped the lessns, but Alice refused 5.________(quit), and ne day she decided t give a cncert and invited her frmer teacher t attend.
The teacher was very wrried abut 6. _______ t say after the perfrmance. She knew it wuld be terrible and it was. She didn't want t tell a lie, but she didn't want t hurt Alice's feelings7._________ . Finally, she gt an idea and went backstage t greet her frmer pupil.
"Well", said Alice, what did yu think 8. _______ my perfrmance?
“ My dear, ”said the teacher, “yu'll never be better than yu were tnight.”
Passage 76
In September, 1941, the Nazi German army was near St Peters burg. This was a time when the tw cuntries were at war. Hwever, 1._______the Nazis culd get t the summer palace, the Russians were nly able t remve the furniture and small art bjects frm the Amber Rm.2. sme f the Nazis secretly stle the Amber Rm itself. In less than tw days, 100 ,000 pieces f the rm were put inside twenty-seven wden bxes. There is n dubt 3.______the bxes were then put n a train 4._______Knigsberg, at that time a German city n the Baltic Sea. After that, what really happened t the Amber Rm 5._______ ( remain) a mystery.
While the search fr the ld rm cntinues, the Russians and Germans have built 6. _____ new Amber Rm at the summer (fllw) ld phts, the new rm has been made t lk much like the ld ne. In the spring f 2003, it was ready fr the peple f St Petersburg8.______(celebrate) the 300th birthday f their city.
Passage 77
Atlanta was a Greek princess. She was very beautiful and 1.______run faster than any man in Greece. But she was nt allwed t run in the Olympic Games. She was2.________angry that she said t her father she wuld nt marry anyne 3. _______ culd nt run faster than her. Her father said she must marry and asked her 4. _______ she wanted t marry a king r prince. But Atlanta replied, "I will nly be married t a man wh can run faster than me. When a man says he wants t marry me, I will run5.________him. If he cannt run as fast as me, he 6. _______ (kill). N ne will be pardned.
Many kings and princes wanted t marry Atlanta but when they heard f her rules, sme f them sadly went hme. Other men stayed t run the race. There was a man 7. _______(call) Hippmenes wh was amazed when he heard f Atlanta's rules. Why are these men s flish? Why will they let8.________be killed because they cannt run as fast as this princess? Then when he saw Atlanta cme ut f her huse t run, Hippmenes changed his mind. "I will marry Atlanta- -r die! he said.
Passage 78
Many animals 1._______ (disappear) during the histry f the earth. 2. _______ ( famus) f these animals were dinsaurs. They lived n the earth tens f millins f years ag, lng 3._______humans came int being. There were many different species f dinsaur and several f them have been fund in China. The eggs f twenty-five species have been fund in Xixia Cunty, Nanyang, Henan Prvince, and nt lng ag a rare new species f bird-like dinsaur 4. _______ (discver) in Chayang Cunty, Lianing Prvince. The scientists were surprised t find they culd run 5. _______ ther dinsaurs, but als climb trees. They 6._________ tell this frm the way the bnes were jined tgether.
Dinsaurs died 7. _______ quickly abut 65 millin years ag. Sme scientists think it was after a large rck hit the earth and put t much dust int the air.8. think the earth gt t ht fr the dinsaurs t live n any mre. Nbdy knws fr sure. In the same way there are animals that have died ut mre recently and n ne knws why.
Passage 79
The interest in studying abrad, particularly in ESL, is n the rise arund the wrld as students seek t btain 1.__________ university degree t advance their jb pprtunities. 2.________ , students need t decide if studying abrad will help them reach their gals.
First, try t determine whether studying abrad will really help yu in yur future r 3.______ging verseas is just a fashin r right f passage fr citizens in yur cuntry. Ask peple4._______have studied verseas if the experience 5._________ (help) them educatinally and financially in the lng run.
Secnd, cnsider what impact studying abrad will have n yur family. Will 6._______be a financial burden t study verseas? What are yur family's expectatins fr yu nce yu return t yur cuntry?
Third, think abut whether yu really are flexible and pen-minded enugh 7.________ (endure)the challenges f adjusting t a freign culture. If yu feel cmfrtable with yur answers t these questins, then yu can prceed and lk int studying abrad 8._______mre detail.
Passage 80
Once a rich man met a grup f Arabs in the desert. It was nt lng 1.________ they became friends. Then ne day 2.________rich man fund his gld was gne. Smene 3._______(take) it during the night, he thught. The chief prmised t find ut the thief. He said t his men, Each f yu must g t my tent and pull my dnkey's tail. Yu all knw 4.________my dnkey is very wise. When a thief 5_______(tuch)his tail,he will bray(叫)."
One by ne the Arabs went int the chief's tent, 6.____________ the dnkey did nt bray. Then the chief asked his men t pen their hands. He smelled their hands. After he smelled the hands f the last ne he shuted, "Yu are the thief. G and bring back ur friend's gld at nce, 7._______I'll kill yu! The man brught the gld t the rich man.
The rich man was surprised. The chief explained, I was sure that the real thief dare nt pull my dnkey's tail, 8.____ I rubbed the tail with sme strng-smelling il. There was n smell at all frm the thief's hands."
Passage 81
When yu read a stry in English, d yu read it fr the stry r fr the English? This is a questin1.___________ is nt s flish 2._________ it may seem, fr I find that many students f English pay far mre attentin t the stry than t the English. Fr instance, they care fr hw the mystery in the stry3._________ ( slve), but d nt remember a single sentence in the stry and cannt tell what prepsitin is used befre a certain wrd in the speech f a certain character.
Of curse, if yu want t knw the stry nly, yu need nt bther abut the language. But a student f English is different 4. _______ a student f stries r 5._______ is called the general reader. As yu may als have learned frm the abve, yu ught t read nt nly very carefully but als alud 6._________yu learn the passage by heart and can recite it as if it 7. _______ (be) yur wn.On the ne hand, this will teach yu many useful wrds and phrases; n the ther hand, it will help yu8._________ ( avid)many errrs and faults in expressin.
Passage 82
It is cmmnly believed that schl is where peple g t get educatin. Hwever, it has been said that tday children interrupt 1.__________ educatin t g t schl. The difference between schling and educatin suggested by this is imprtant.
Educatin is endless, 2.________( cmpare) with schling. It can take place anywhere. It includes bth the standard learning that takes place in schls and 3.________ whle universe f learning ut f class.4 .________the experience f schling can be knwn in advance, educatin quite ften prduces surprises. A chance talk with a freigner may lead a persn t discvering hw little he knws f 5.__________cuntry. Peple btain educatin frm babies n. Educatin, then, is a very brad and unlimited term. It is lifelng experience that starts lng befre the start f schl.
Schling,6. ________ the ther hand, is a basic experience,7.____________ style changes little frm ne way t the next. Thrughut a cuntry, children arrive at schl at the same time, take fixed seats,use similar textbks, d hmewrk, take exams and s n. Schling has usually been limited by the edges f the subjects 8.__________ ( teach).
Passage 83
Scientific experiments can smetimes g wrng and when they d, the results may range1. ________the disastrus t the trubling, One such experiment tk place in Suth America abut fifty years its final cnsequences will cause serius damage 3._______nthing mre than a small truble still remains 4. _______ (see) .
The stry began in 1956 when an American scientist wrking in Brazil decided t slve the prblem f increasing the prductivity f that cuntry's bees. He imprted a very active type f African bee5.________Tanzania and mated (交配) it with the mre easy-ging native variety t prduce6._ new kind f bees. The new bees wrked harder and prduced twice as much hney.7._ seemed that Prfessr Kerr, fr that was the scientist's name, had a ttal success n his hands, Then things began t g wrng. Fr sme reasn as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result f smething in their envirnment, the new bees began t develp extremely 8.__________( attack) persnalities.
Passage 84
One silly questin I simply can't stand is Hw d yu feel?" Usually the questin is asked f a man in actin -a man n the g, 1.__________ ( walk) alng the street, r busily wrking at his desk. S2._________ d yu expect him t say? He'll prbably say, Fine, I'm all right,"3._______ yu’ve put a bug in his ear- -maybe nw he's nt sure. If yu're a gd friend, yu may have seen smething in his face, r his walk, 4._______ he verlked that mrning. It starts him wrrying a little. First thing yu knw, he lks in a mirrr t see 5. _______everything is all right, 6._________ yu g merrily n yur way asking smene else, Hw d yu feel?"
Every questin has 7 ________ time and place. It's perfectly acceptable, fr instance, t ask Hw d yu feel?" if yu're visiting a clse friend in the hspital. But if the fellw is walking8._________bth legs, hurrying t catch a train, r sitting at his desk wrking, it's n time t ask him that silly questin.
When Gerge Bernard Shaw, the famus writer f plays, was in his eighties, smene asked him, Hw d yu feel? Shaw put him in his place. "When yu reach my age," Shaw said, either yu feel all right r yu're dead."
Passage 85
A festival fr the dead is held nce a year in Japan.
This festival is a cheerful ccasin, fr n this day, the dead 1.___________ ( say) return t their hmes and they are welcmed by the living.
As they2.____________ (expect) t be hungry after their lng jurney, fd is laid ut fr them.Specially-made lanterns are hung utside each huse t help the dead t find 3. ________ way.All night lng, peple dance and sing.
In the early mrning, the fd that had been laid ut fr the dead is thrwn int a river 4.________int the sea as it 5.__________ (cnsider) unlucky fr anyne living t eat it.
In twns that are near the sea, the tiny lanterns which had been hung in the streets the night befre, are placed int the water when the festival is ver.
Thusands f lanterns slwly drift ut t sea guiding the dead 6. ________ their return jurney t the ther wrld,
This is a mving spectacle, fr crwds f peple stand n the shre watching the lanterns7._________ away 8. ________ they can be seen n mre.
Passage 86
We are all busy talking abut and 1.__________(use) the Internet, but hw many f us knw2._________ histry f the Internet?
Many peple 3.________ (surprise) when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, cmputers were large and expensive. Cmputer netwrks didn't wrk well, If ne cmputer in the netwrk brke dwn, then the whle netwrk stpped. S a new netwrk system had t 4.________ (set) up. It shuld be gd enugh t be used by many different cmputers. If part f the netwrk was nt wrking, infrmatin culd be sent 5. ________ anther part. In this way the cmputer netwrk system wuld keep n 6. ________ (wrk) all the time.
The Internet was nly used by the gvernment in the 1960s, but in the early 1970s, universities,hspitals and banks were allwed t use it t. Hwever, cmputers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult t use. By the start f 1990s, cmputers became cheaper and easier t use.Scientists had als develped sftware that made ." surfing" the Internet mre cnvenient.
Tday 7.__________is easy t get nline and it is said that millins f peple use the Internet everyday.8. ________ (send) emails is mre and mre ppular amng students.
The Internet has nw becme ne f the mst imprtant parts f peple's life.
Passage 87
There was nce a teacher in a village. He was a man 1._____________ (name) Gldsmith. He was a kind-hearted man. He was always pr himself. He taught himself medicine, 2________ smetimes peple called him Dctr Gldsmith. One day a pr wman asked Mr. Gldsmith t g and see her husband, 3. ________ he was very ill and culdn't get up. Mr. Gldsmith did s. He fund that the family needed help very much. The man 4. ________ (be) ut f wrk fr a lng time, but he was nt ill. He was just hungry because there was n fd in his huse.
Cme t my rm this evening said Mr. Gldsmith t the wman, "I will give yu sme medicine fr yur husband.
In the evening the wman came. Mr, Gldsmith gave her a little paper bx.
“Here is the medicine, he said. "Take it and it will d yur husband a great deal f gd, but dn't pen the bx 5. ________ yu get hme.”
What are the directins fr 6. ________ (take)it? asked the wman.Yu will find 7. ________ inside the bx." he answered.
When the wman reached hme, she sat dwn by her husband's side, and they pened the bx.They fund8.___________ was full f mney, And n the tp were the directin: TAKE IT WHEN YOUNEED IT."
Gldsmith had given all the mney that he had.
Passage 88
Keeping a diary in English is ne f the effective ways 1.__________ ( imprve) ur English writing ability.
2.__________(cmpare) with ther frms f writing, it is shrter and takes3.___________ (little)l time.It can help us t develp the habit f thinking in we persist in this practice,gradually we'll learn hw t express urselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many difficulties. In the first place, 5._________ ften happens that we have truble6.________(find) apprpriate wrds and phrases t give expressin t ur mind. Secndly, there are many idimatic ways f saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard fr us t put them int English prperly.
AS far as I 7.____________ (cncern), my suggestin is that we 8. ________ always have a ntebk and a Chinese- English dictinary within easy reach. Whenever smething beats us, we can first put it dwn in ur ntebk and then cnsult ur dictinary. We can als turn t ur English teacher fr help, if necessary. In shrt, I believe that it is9. ________ great use t keep a diary in English fr 10.________ .develpment f ur writing skills.
Passage 89
As well as reaching the right audience with the right technique, advertisers must als place their ads in the right medium. Obviusly, cst will play 1.________ big part in this decisin. Televisin adverts are expensive t make 2. ________ t shw. Yu have t be a big crpratin with a big budget t affrd televisin ads. Advertisements in newspapers, 3. ________ the ther hand, are much cheaper.
As well as wrrying abut the expense, advertisers must als cnsider 4. ________ media are mst apprpriate fr their prduct and which target audience is mst likely t see r hear. 5._________ mst cars have radis, ads bradcast via radi 6.__________ reach a lt f drivers very easily. Fr this reasn, 7.____________ wuld be apprpriate t use radi t advertise gds and services relating t . it wuld be n use 9.________ (advertise) prducts n radi if the ad relies n visual effects. Televisin adverts are great fr generating emtinal respnses t a prduct, but magazines and newspapers can have 10. ________ (many) details.
Passage 90
In rder t knw a freign language thrughly, fur things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear 1.________ spken. Secndly, we must be able t speak it urselves crrectly with cnfidence and withut hesitatin. Thirdly, we 2. ________ be able t read the language, and furthly, we must be able t write it. We must be able t make sentences that are grammatically crrect.
There is n easy way t succeed 3. ________ language gd memry is a great help, but it is nt enugh nly 5.__________ (memrize) rules frm a grammar bk. It is nt much use 6.__________ ( learn) by heart lng lists f wrds and 7._________ meanings, studying the dictinary and s n. We must learn by using the language. 8.__________ we are satisfied with nly a few rules we have memrized, we are nt really learning the language. Learn thrugh use" is a gd piece f advice fr thse 9. ________ are studying a new language. Practice is imprtant. We must practice speaking and 10. ________ (write) the language whenever we can.
Passage 91
In 1605 sme Englishmen planned t kill their king, James, 1._____ they thught that he was a bad man. They knew that n Nvember 5th the King wuld g t the Huse f Lrds t talk with his nbles.
The men rented a 2.__________(build) next t the Huse f 'Lrds. They 3. ________ (dig) thrugh a wall and put many barrels f gunpwder in an undergrund rm f the Huse f Lrds. They chse a man 4. ________ (call) Guy Fakes t set fire t the gunpwder, 5._________ smething went wrng6.________their f the men had a relative 8.___________was cming t the Huse f Lrds t meet the King. He warned his relative 9. ________ (stay) at hme. The relative tld ther nbles and sn the King heard abut the danger. Sldiers searched 10. ________ undergrund rms and fund the gunpwder n Nvember 4th, s Guy Fakes was caught and killed.
Passage 92
Experiments have prved that children can 1.___________ (instruct) in swimming at a very early age.At a special swimming pl in Ls Angeles, children becme expert at 2. ________ (hld) their breath under water even befre they 3.__________walk. Babies f tw mnths ld d nt appear t be reluctant t enter the water. It is nt lng 4._________they are S accustmed t swimming 5. ________ they can pick up weights frm the flr f the pl. 6.____________ game that is very ppular with these yung swimmers is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up n the flr f the pl seven feet underwater. The children cmpete against each ther t reach the ther end f the pl. Many pedal their tricycles,7 . ________ mst f them prefer 8. ________ (push) r drag them. Sme children can cver the whle length f the pl9.________ cming up fr breath even nce. Whether they will ever becme future Olympic champins, nly time will. tell. Meanwhile, they shuld encurage 10._________ amng us wh cannt swim five yards befre they are gasping fr air.
Passage 93
Once upn a time, a pr by tgether with his mther lived in a muntainus village. In his childhd the by ften cheated ther bys 1.____________ mney and things, 2.___________ his mther quickly saw thrugh his deceptin and criticized him. With his mther's educatin, he als felt a sense f injustice abut his deeds and made an aplgy t3.___________. His mther did everything in her pwer t change his faulty. She sent him t a schl,4.___________ he wrked very hard. Five years later,he std ut amng his classmates and was always thught highly f by all his teachers. He became5.________(interest) in literature and enjyed 6. ________ ( read)many famus literature wrks, such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, 7.___________ which he was able t imprve his writing graduated frm schl, he became a jurnalist in a newspaper f the city. He hailed (1PIF) the equality f man in his articles. In the end, many peple wuld like 9.____________( read) his articles as sn as they 10. ________ .(publish) .
Passage 94
We may lk at the wrld arund us, but smehw we manage nt t see it 1.__________ whatever we've becme used t suddenly 2.________ ( disappear). Take, fr example, the neatly- dressed wman I used t see.
Fr three years, n matter 3. ________ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus ,stp arund 8:00 ________ snwy days, she wre heavy clthes and a pair f wlen glves.Of curse I remember all this nly after she 5._________ (see) n mre. It was then 6.___________realized hw much I expected t see her each mrning.
Did she have an accident? Smething 7.________(bad)? I thught t 8. _____ abut her disappearance. Nw that she was gne, I felt that I 9. _____ ( knw) her. I began t realize10._____ part f ur daily life prbably includes such chances meeting with familiar strangers: the milkman yu see at dawn, and the twin brthers yu see at the library. Such peple are imprtant markers in ur lives. They add weight t ur sense f place and belnging.
Passage 95
After graduatin frm university, I had been unable t secure a permanent jb in my small twn. S I decided t leave hme fr New Yrk, 1.________ I might have a better chance t find a gd ( earn) sme mney t pay the daily expenses, I started wrk in a lcal cafe as a waiter. I believe that 3. _____ I was ffered a gd psitin, I wuld resign at nce.
Over time, the high cst f living became a little burden n my already 4. _____ ( exhaust)shulder. On the ther hand, my search fr a respectable jb had nt met with much success. As I had studied literature at university, I fund it quite difficult t secure a suitable jb in big cmpanies. Mther had just said that 5._______ I want t have a better career advancement, I had t find wrk in the city. Perhaps 6.________ my mther had tld me was deeply rted in my mind. I just did as she had expected.
Sn I had lived in the city fr ver six mnths but I still did nt like it. Apparently, I had difficulty7.________ (adapt) myself t life in the city, let alne finding a jb t my delight. After nine mnths f frustratin, I eventually decided t g back t my small twn. Nt until I returned 8. _____ I realize that a quiet twn life was the best fr me.
Passage 96
Villagers have lng been used t 1.________ (face) a drive when they run ut f basic supplies.Hwever, help is nw nearer 2. _____ hand in the frm f the cuntry's first autmatic push-buttn shp. Nw residents in the Derby shire Village f Cliftn can buy grceries arund the clck after the huge vending was installed utside a pub in the village this week.
Peter Fx, wh is 3. _____ electrical engineer, spent tw and a half years wrking n the prject. The machine 4. _____ ( equip) with securing cameras and alarms and lks like a mini shp with a brick frnt, a grey rf and a display windw.
Mr. Fx said he hped his inventin, 5.______is set t be installed in ther villages in the area ver the cming mnths, will mark a return t cnvenience shpping fr rural cmmunities.
He said,"I had this idea a few years ag but I culdn't find a manufacturer wh culd deliver what I wanted, sl did it by 6.________. The result is what amunts t a huge utdr vending machine. Yet1 think the term autmatic shp" is far 7.______ (apprpriate)
In recent years, the cmmercial pressure frm supermarket chains 8 __________(frce) village shps acrss the cuntry t clse. In 2010, it was estimated that abut 400 village shps clsed,9.________ (urge) the lcal gvernment t give financial supprt t struggling shps r set-up new cmmunities stres.
Hundreds f cmmunities have since stepped in and pened up their wn vlunteer-run shps, but Mr. Fx hpes his new inventin will ffer a slutin 10._________these villages withut a lcal shp.
Passage 97
Cunt t three and rip(撕) it ff as fast as yu can- -this is 1._______ mst peple remve a band- aid(创可贴). 2._____ _____ _____ fast yu d it, it's still ging t be painful. That's fr sure. Or is it?
A grup f American scientists frm Bstn have just develped a band-aid that can be taken ff withut causing pain, reprts the jurnal Prceedings f the Natinal Academy f Sciences .
Traditinal band-aids are suppsed t break apart 3.__________ the skin meets the glue, which is what makes taking them ff s painful. But the new band-aid has an extra layer that sits 4._______ the glue and the backing. 5.__________ yu tear ff the band-aid, yu remve the backing and middle layers,6._________ (leave) the glue behind. The glue 7. __________ then be simply rubbed ff with ne's fingers r left t fall ff naturally. Imprtantly, this prcess is pain-free.
This is nt the first time scientists 8. ________ (try) t slve this prblem. But methds they tried in the past led t band-aids that were 9. _______ (sticky) and therefre didn't stay n fr lng.
The Bstn study was first aimed at helping babies 10. __________ skin is t delicate fr standard band. -aids. But adults with sensitive skin might als enjy the benefits.
Passage 98
Just up the rad frm my hme is a field, with tw hrses in it. Frm a distance, each hrse lks like any ther hrse. But if yu get a 1._________ ( clse) lk yu will ntice ne f them is blind.
Instead f abandning him, his wner has made him a safe and cmfrtable barn t live in. And if yu stand nearby and listen, yu will hear the sund f a bell 2._____ (cme) frm 3._____smaller hrse. Attached t its halter is a small, cpper-clred bell assisting the blind friend t fllw 4._____
5.______yu watch them, yu'll find the hrse with the bell always checking n the blind ne,and that the blind hrse will listen fr the bell and then slwly walk t 6.__________ the ther ne is,trusting he will nt 7._____ ( lead) astray. When the hrse with the bell returns t the barn each evening, he will- stp frequently 8.________ (lk) back, making sure 9. _________the ther isn't t far behind t hear the bell.
Life des nt thrw us away just because we are nt perfect r because we have prblems r challenges. Smetimes we are the blind hrse being guided by the little ringing bell f ur acquaintances; 10._________ ther times we are the guide hrse, wh helps thers t find their way.
Passage 99
Since Thanksgiving Day was cming, the teacher gave her class 1._________ fun assignment- t draw a picture f smething 2._______ which they were thankful. Mst f the students might cnsider3.________ ( celebrate) the hliday with turkey and ther traditinal gdies f the seasn. But Duglas, a different by, 4.__________ (make) an unexpected kind f picture. In his paper was just an empty hand. His abstract image captured the imaginatin f his peers.5. _______ child guessed it was the hand f a farmer,' because farmers pssess turkeys. 6.________ suggested a plice fficer,because the plice prtect peple. And s the discussin went n- -until the teacher almst frgt the yung artist himself. When the children had gne n t ther assignments, she paused at Duglas
desk, and asked him 7.___________ hand it was. The little by lked away and murmured, "It's yurs,teacher. She recalled the times she8.________ ( take) his hand and gne utside. Hw ften had she said, Let's d this tgether? The stry speaks f mre than thankfulness. It says smething abut teaching, parenting and friendship, and hw much it means t Duglas. They 9.________ nt always say thanks, but they'll remember the hand 10. reaches ut.
Passage 100
Liu Xiang was the first Asian 1._____ ( win) the men's 110m hurdles at the Olympics in Athens.After 2._______he became an idl( 偶像) t the yung peple.
"I never thught I wuld run under 13 secnds and break the Olympic recrd." said Liu Xiang3. tears, "1 am very very excited. I'm prud nt nly fr myself and fr Chinese4.________ fr Asia. My race went wnderfully frm start t finish." Liu 5._______ (add),"It is 6._______amazing experience being the Olympic champin. I want t thank my cach and my friends fr all 7.________ help. I think tday we Chinese have shwed the wrld we 8. ______________ run as fast as anybdy else."
Since his return frm Athens, Liu Xiang has been at the center f a media circus and he has been t many press appearances and meetings. 9.______Liu thinks 2004 is just the beginning, and he expects t be at his peak in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Liu said, Fr sme players, it's just a jb. Fr me, it's 10. ________I lve."
Passage 101
Nwadays, it is cmmn that parents buy 1.________educatinal present fr their children. A lt f persnal cmputers are placed under the Christmas tree this year. 2.________( believe) that cmputers are the key t success, parents are als insisting that children 3._________(teach) t use them in schl as early as pssible. The prblem fr schl is4 , when it cmes t cmputers,parents dn't always knw best. Teachers fund 5.________caught in the middle f the prblem between parent pressure and wise educatinal decisins. Many schls are giving in t parental impatience and are purchasing hardware 6.________ gd educatinal planning. Educatrs d nt even agree n hw cmputers shuld be used. Even thse 7.________believe that all children shuld have access t cmputers warn f ptential dangers t the very yung. The temptatin remains strng largely8.________yung children adapt s well t cmputers. Hwever, nt every schl can affrd t g int cmputing, and that creates 9.________prblem: a divisin between the haves and the have-nts.Very few parents are agitating fr (倡导 ) cmputer instructin in pr schl districts, 10.________there may be barely enugh mney t pay the teacher.
Passage 102
As a child, I was always ut explring my lcal area, whether 1._______(swim) at the beaches r hiking thrugh the bush. Australia's utdr lifestyle had me hked n adventure and nature. 1always wanted t explre 2.________else was ut there. Ging n family hlidays t many f the East Cast beach twns was always 3._____fun adventure int the unknwn. I came t lve the beauty f the wrld, 4________began t recgnize just 5. ________much the planet had t ffer, even6.__________ my experience f it was nly in my backyard.
Als, Australia is very remte and detached frm the rest f the wrld. Eurpeans ften drive int ther cuntries fr 7.__________ summer vacatins. We never 8.__________ ( have) that luxury and internatinal travel seemed all the mre extic and adventurus t me. Very ften, we 9.__________ (expse) t ther cuntries thrugh TV and mvies, 10.__________ I wanted t experience it fr myself.
Passage 103
When I was grwing up, I d nt recall hearing the wrds «I lve yu frm my father. When yur father never says 1.__________ t yu when yu are a child, it gets tugher and tugher fr him 2.__________ (say) thse wrds as he gets3.__________ (ld). T tell the truth, I culd nt hnestly remember 4.__________I had last said thse wrds t him either. I decided t set my eg(自我主义)aside and make the first mve. 5.__________sme hesitatin, in ur next phne cnversatin I blurted ut (突然说) the wrds, Dad... lve yu!
There was a silence at the 6.______ end and he awkwardly replied, Well, same back at yu!I laughed 7.__________said, Dad, 1 knw yu lve me, and when yu are ready, I knw yu8.__________(express) what yu want t.
A few weeks later, Dad cncluded ur phne cnversatin 9.__________the wrds, Paul, I lve yu.I was at wrk during this cnversatin and the tears were rlling dwn my cheeks, 10.__________finally heard" the lve. As we bth were in tears we realized that this special mment had taken ur father-sn relatinship t a new level.
Passage 104
Hic! Yu've just hiccupped（打嗝）fr the tenth time since yu finished dinner. Wnder 1.__________these funny nises are cming frm? The part 2._____ (blame) is yur diaphragm, the muscle(肌肉)at the bttm f yur chest. All hiccups start here.
The diaphragm almst always 3.__________ (wrk) perfectly- -it pulls dwn when yu breathe in t help pull air int the lungs 4.___________ it mves up when yu breathe ut t help push air ut f the lungs. But smetimes the diaphragm becmes upset, and when 5. __________ happens, it pushes up in an irregular way, making yur breath cme ut differently 6.__________ hw it nrmally des. When this irregular breath hits yur vice bx, yu're left with a big hiccup. Things 7.__________ bther the diaphragm include eating t quickly r t much, stmachache r feeling nervus.
If yu want t knw 8.__________ t get rid f hiccups, here are sme " cures, 9.__________(breathe) int a paper bag is ne methd sme peple use. Others think taking a muthful f water is the way t becme hiccup- free. Sugar under yur tngue 10.__________als drive away the hiccups. And maybe the mst famus treatment, having smene scare yu, als helps beat the hiccups.
Passage 105
Smetimes a writer takes a shrt cut 1.__________painting a wrd picture. Instead f giving a detailed descriptin f a thing, the writer 2. cmpare it t smething else- t smething which yu, the reader, have certainly seen many times befre. A Writer knws that this is a shrt cut t writing which is 3.__________effective way f painting a (n) clear picture in yur mind's eye and painting4.__________quickly, t. The fllwing example shws hw this shrt cut wrks ut t the benefit f 5.__________writer and reader.
A writer sets ut t tell yu hw the dust rse under the feet f a team f hrses as they ran fast ver a dirt rad. 6 _________ _________writing a lng and detailed descriptin f the rising dust, the writer makes the fllwing cmparisn. The yellw dust f the rad rse 7._________a clud under the hrses' feet.
The phrase like a clud. calls up a mental picture 8_________immediately enables yu9._________ (see) in yur mind's eye the yellw clud f dust biling up frm the rad and 10._________(dance) abut the hrses feet.
Passage 106
Mary will never frget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in class ne day,1._________(wear) sun glasses. He walked in as if he 2._________(buy) the schl. And the wrd quickly gt arund that he was frm New Yrk City,
Fr sme reasn he sat beside Mary. Mary felt 3._________(please), because there were many empty seats in the rm. But she quickly realized that it wasn't her, it was prbably the fact that she sat in4._________last rw.
5._________he thught he culd escape attentin by sitting at the back, he was wrng. It might have made it a little 6._________(hard) fr everybdy because it meant they had t turn arund, but that didn't stp the kids in the class. Of curse whenever they turned t lk at him, they had t lk at Mary, 7._________ made her feel like a star.
D yu need thse glasses fr medical reasns? the teacher asked. The new by shk his head.Then I'd appreciate it if yu didn't wear them in class. I like t lk at yur eyes when I'm speaking t yu. The new by lked at the teacher 8._________a few secnds and all the ther students wndered 9 _________the by wuld d. Then he tk 10._________ff, gave a big smile and said"That is cl.
Passage 107
The Olympic Trch Takes a Spacewalk
Yes yu read right! The Schi 2014 Olympic trch will make 1.____ histric appearance in space as part f 2._________relay frm Greece t Russia fr the Winter Olympics next year.
I'm sure like me, sme f yu are wndering 3._________this is ging t wrk. I'm n rcket scientist, 4._________the little Einstein in my head 5._________(tell) me the Olympic trch will certainly nt be burning way up there in space.
The trch is due 6._________(arrive) at the Internatinal Space Statin (ISS) n the Syuz TMA-11M manned spaceship in Nvember. Russian csmnauts Oleg Ktv and Sergie Ryazansky have been tasked with the Olympic assignment.
7._________safety reasns, the trch will nt be lit during the spacewalk, accrding t Dmitry Chernyshenk, the President f the Schi 2014 Organizing Cmmittee. Yes, I 8._____ ( breath)easier, Olympic fans! Whew!!!
The captain f the spacecraft, Mikhail Tyurin, 9._________ received the Schi 2014 Olympic Trch at a ceremny in June, will be respnsible fr passing it ver t csmnaut Fydr Yurchikhin, wh is currently based n the ISS. He will then deliver the trch back t Earth.
The spacewalk by the tw Russians will be a great mment in Olympic Trch Relay histry. The Snny Side f Sprts is lking frward t mre fantastic feats during the winter sprts festival,10._________fficially pens February 7th in Schi.
Passage 108
I hated dinner parties. But I decided 1._________(give) them anther try because I'm in Lndn.And my friend Mallery invited me. And because 2._________dinner parties in Lndn are very different frm thse in New Yrk. In New Yrk, "I'm having a dinner party means "I'm bking a table fr 12 at a restaurant yu 3._________ hardly affrd and we'll be sharing the check evenly, 4._________yu eat.Wrse, in Manhattan, there is always smene wh 5._________ (leave) befre the bill arrives. They'll thrw dwn cash, half f what they we, and then peple like me, wh dn't drink, end up 6._________(pay) even mre. But if 1 try t use the same trick, the hstess will shut: Where are yu ging? And it's nt like that I can say I have smewhere t g: everyne knws I have nwhere t g.
But in Lndn, dinner parties are in peple's hmes. Nt nly that, the guests are an interesting mix. The last time I went t ne, the guests were frm France, India, Denmark and Nigeria; it was like a gathering at the United Natins. In New Yrk, the mix is like a gathering at Blmingdale's, a well-knwn department stre. Persnally, I think dinner parties in Lndn are 7._________ (impressive) than this.
Fr New Yrkers, talking abut ther parts f the wrld means Brklyn (District) and Queens(District) in New Yrk. But at Mallery's, when I said that I 8._____ (be) t Myanmar recently,peple knew where it was. In New Yrk peple wuld think it was a usual new club.
Passage 109
Several factrs led t my recent car accident. First f all, 1._________heavy snw and freezing rain that had fallen the day befre made the rad I was driving n dangerus. The rad had been cleared,but it was still dangerusly icy. 2._________the slippery rad, I was stupidly ging alng 3._________abut 50 miles an hur, instead f driving mre cautiusly. Anther factr was a dirty green van that suddenly pulled nt the rad frm a small crssrad f the street abut fifty yards ahead f me. The rad 4._________ (cver) with a sheet f ice at that pint and if I applied my brakes, I 5._________steer int the van. S I carefully drve my car int the next lane, and thugh the rear (E ß) f my car began skidding back and frth, fr a mment I gt the idea 6._________everything was OK as I drve past the slw-mving van.
Unfrtunately, the rear f my Vlkswagen was heavy 7._____ the engine was there and als because there was a new weight-lifting set 8._______ ( lay) in the back seat, the result f 9._________was that after I passed the van, my car turned cmpletely arund n the slippery rad. I was desperately sliding dwn the highway backwards at 50 miles an hur. Then I slid ff the rad,10._________(hit) a wden fence pst. My left rear taillight was brken in the prcess. Then I suddenly saw a telephne ple abut nly 6 feet t the right f me, and I realized my accident culd have really been a disaster.
Passage 110
English is 1._________(widely) used language in the histry f ur planet. One in every seven human beings 2. _________speak it. Mre than half f the wrld's bks and three quarters f internatinal mails are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vcabulary- -perhaps as3.________as tw millin wrds.
Hwever, let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is n egg in4.________eggplant,neither pine nr apple in a pineapple and n ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, 5.________ aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English 6.________granted. But when we explre its paradxes (矛盾), we find that quicksand can wrk slwly, bxing rings are square, public bathrms have n baths in them.
And why is it 7.________ a writer writes, but fingers dn't fing, grcers dn't grce, and hammers dn't ham? If the plural f tth is teeth, shuldn't the plural f bth be beeth?
Hw can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, 8________a wise man and a wise guy are ppsites? Hw can verlk and versee be ppsites, while quite a lt and quite a few are alike?Hw can the weather be ht as hell ne day and cld as hell the next?
S far English, 9.___________(invent) by peple nt cmputers, 10.________(reflect) the creativity f human beings.
Passage 111
The 1.________(ring) bell indicated the end f the last class n Friday afternn. Students swarmed ut f the classrms and headed back t their drmitries. Only Xia Di headed t anther classrm. G ahead and have dinner. Dn't wait fr me," the 20 -year-ld tld her friends. "I have t get t a gd seat fr my minr subject."
Like Xia, many students are signing up 2.________minr subjects in their spare the reasns are different, they all believe that taking a minr subject is a rewarding experience.
Li Keren, 22, is a senir wh 4.________ (invlve) in finance at Tianjin University f Finance &Ecnmics nw. He enrlled in internatinal finance as his minr subject and managed t stay n tp in 5.________f his majr and minr subjects.
“Different frm mst students, I pay equal attentin t my majr and minr subjects," he says. He thinks that students have signed up fr minr subjects 6._____ they have the energy and time t d s. The disadvantage f 7.________(pay) less attentin t a minr subject, accrding t Li, is8._________students may nt get a cmprehensive understanding f the subject.
Therefre, what students shuld d is 9.________(devte) the same energy and time t their majr subject as befre, While sacrificing their spare time t wrk n their minr subject. “Cnsidering yur future, it's 10. ________wrthwhile effrt,"”he says.
Passage 112
Rald Dahl, the famus children's bk writer, was brn t Harld and Scfie Dahl n 13 September1916. He was named 1. _____ the explrer, Rald Amundsen, their natinal her in Nrway f that time.
In 1920, 2.________Dahl was fur, his father died at the age f fifty seven. Instead f 3.________(mve) back t Nrway t live with her relatives, his mther decided t remain in Britain. It had been her husband's wish t have their children 4. ________(educate) in the best schl in the wrld,
At the age f eight, Dahl and fur f his friends 5.________(beat) by the headmaster after playing a practical jke 6.________a candy stre wner. Thrughut his childhd, Dahl was sent t several barding schls. He wrte t his mther almst every day 7._______ ______hmesickness. On8.______day when she died, he realized that she had saved every single ne f his letters.
Yung Dahl used t dream f inventing a chclate bar 9.______wuld win the praise f the wner f the chclate cmpany, Cadbury. This later became the inspiratin fr the 10. ______(ht)f all his bks- -Charlie and the Chclate Factry. It was the bk that finally brught him wrld fame.
Passage 113
T many Singapreans, Mr. Lee Kng Chian is a familiar name. Ppularly knwn as the Rubber and Pineapple King" , he was a persn wh had dnated generusly 1.______the sciety by puring his wealth int charity wrk. Knwing 2.______educatin means t a persn, he devted a lt f energy and mney t 3.______(build) schls. He was particularly cncerned with the 4.______(frtunate) as he culd relate himself t them.
Althugh Lee's father knew Lee 5.______ receive educatin, his father wasn't able t affrd t send him t schl. Hwever, his father's friends helped him pay fr his educatin. Having left schl as an hnur student, he went t wrk in the field f rubber and pineapple 6. he set up his wn business later. Thanks t the glden timing then, he had hardly gt familiar with the dealings in the field7.______ he enjyed great success. His wealth rse rapidly and befre lng he became a millinaire.
8.______wealthy he was, he never frgt his humble beginnings and was always ready9.______(help). Since 1952 till tday, the Lee Fundatin which he funded 10.______ (dnate)three hundred millin dllars t varius causes with n cnditins attached. His genersity has prvided relief t the pr f all races.
Passage 114
Mther Teresa was brn in Yugslavia, n August 27, 1910. She attended the gvernment schl near her hme 1.______ she was eighteen. At that time, sme dctrs and nurses frm Yugslavia were wrking in India, and they ften 2.______( write) t the schl abut their wrk. She decided t jin them ne day,
When she left schl, she first went t Britain. Then a year later she went t India, where she began 3.______ (train)t be a teacher. After training, she was sent. t Calcutta, 4.______she taught gegraphy at a schl and sn 5. ______became headmistress.
Hwever, 6.______she lved teaching, in 1946 Mther Teresa left the schl and went t wrk in the pr parts f Calcutta. Later she was trained t becme a nurse in Patna, and then began her wrk helping the pr and cmfrting the dying in the streets f the city. Slwly, 7______ came t help her, and her wrk spread t ther parts f India.
Mther Teresa is nw a well-knwn persn. Many phts 8.______ (take) f her, 9.______she travels arund the wrld t pen new schls and hspitals in pr cuntries. In 1979, she was given the Nbel Prize 10.______the lifetime f lve and service she had given t the pr.
Passage 115
Scientists used t 1.______ ( say) the Mn was cmpletely dry- -simply a desert in the sky.Nw they think they have discvered water n the lunar surface. 2.______, it's nt ready-t- drink liquid water, says Paul D. Spudis, American gelgist. "We think we have fund ice," he says, and lts f3.______ mixed with rcks and dirt in a 7,700-square -kilmeter area at the Mn Suth Ple.That's an area abut twice the size f Rhde Island. If Spudis is right, he and ther scientists believe that future space travelers 4.______ stp ff in a lunar filling statin. They culd melt ice t drink and culd als refuel their rckets. (The hydrgen and xygen in water are als cmpnents f rcket fuel.)
Spudis helped make the discvery 5.______ analyzing radar signals sent back by a small spacecraft 6. ______ rbited the Mn in 1944. The signals, which were reflected tward Earth after buncing ff the Mn, indicate which areas are rcky and 7______ areas may be icy, Spudis explains.
8.______ (check) if this wet-and-wild-discvery is true, NASA will launch anther Mn-rbiting spacecraft in September 1997. We have 9.______ lng way t g befre peple live n the Mn,"Spudis says. 10.______ this discvery is an indicatin that it might be pssible." Maybe ne day yu'll spend yur hlidays n the mn.
Passage 116
A land free frm destructin, plus wealth, natural resurces, and labr supply- -all these were imprtant factrs 1.______ helping England t becme the center fr the Industrial Revlutin, but they were nt enugh. Smething else 2______ (need) t start the industrial prcess. That smething special was men- creative individuals 3______ culd invent machines, find new surces f pwer, and establish business rganizatins t reshape sciety.
The men wh created the machines f the Industrial Revlutin came frm many backgrunds and many ccupatins. Many f them were mre inventrs 4______ scientists. A pure scientist appreciates 5.______ (cnduct) his research accurately. He is nt necessarily wrking 6.______ his findings can be used. An inventr r ne interested in applied science is usually trying t make smething that has a cncrete use. He may strive 7. (slve) a prblem by using the theries f science r by experimenting thrugh trial and errr. Regardless f his methd, he is wrking t btain 8. specific result: the cnstructin f a harvesting machine, the burning f a light bulb, r ne f many ther bjectives.
Many f the peple wh develped the machines f the Industrial Revlutin were inventrs, nt 9.______ (train) scientists. A few were bth scientists and inventrs. Even thse wh had little r n training in science 10.______ nt have made their inventins if a grundwrk had nt been laid by scientists years befre.
Passage 117
The Califrnia state assembly recently apprved the s-called Paris Hiltn bill, which prevents dgs 1.______ ccupying the driver's seat in a mving vehicle. The bill passed 2.______ Demcrats wanted t make an example f Miss Hiltn, They think she is a "little rich girl wh always gets her way; plus, her daddy is a big cntributr t the Republican Party. The judge 3. have put her in jail fr fur mnths, said ne Demcrat when Paris gt nly a fur-day jail sentence frd riving while drunk.
4.______ (drive) arund twn with her little dg Lvey hanging ut the driver's windw, Paris is a familiar sight thrughut Ls Angeles. Pictures f her and Lvey are cmmn in newspapers and magazines.
"That dg is a deadly threat t everyne n the streets and the sidewalks," said assembly leader Fabian Nunez. "We wrte this bill t prtect the public. There's n telling 5.______the dg might cause her t drive int a crwd f pedestrians. 6.______ Paris wants t be with her dg, let her chauffeur d the driving. The state assembly is respnsible fr prtecting peple, and we take that respnsibility seriusly."
The assembly bill passed by a vte f 44 t 11. The state senate(参议院) 7.______ (expect)t apprve the bill, and Gvernr Schwarzenegger has prmised t sign it. "I lve dgs," he said, but when it cmes t 8.______(prtect) the peple f Califrnia, dgs will have t take a back seat.
The eleven assembly members 9.______bjected t the bill were all Republicans. " While Califrnians," said Republican Tm Ridge, " are being attacked daily by murderers, rapists, and muggers, wh d the Demcrats prtect citizens frm-a 10.___(spil) little girl and her dg!
Passage 118
A by plays away frm hme and fights with thers. He 1.______ ( defeat) , gets hurt and suffers shame. If he is strng- willed, he wuld clench (咬紧) his teeth, making a firm fist frm 2.______(weep) in frnt f thers. But as sn as he returns hme he wuld burst ut crying at the first sight f his clse relatives. He wuld be all tears puring ut his sufferings.
The same is true fr a strng-willed grwn-up. N matter what harm he suffers he wuld d his best3.______(cnceal) his feelings, trying nt t let thers knw hw he feels. He wuld swallw his bitter tears and shw a smiling face at thers 4.______he didn't care a bit. But hwever strng-willed he is, mst prbably he wuld cry as sn as he meets his clse relative wh lves him and t 5.______ he can pur ut his heart unreservedly. 6 ______ wuld he weep but he'd cry his eyes ut 7.______grief.
If smebdy weeps in yur face- the persn never f the type ding this in frnt f thers, yu'd better sit by and let him cry t 8.______heart's cntent, fr it shws yu are regarded as his dearest r 9.______(reliable) ne.
It's much better t have smene crying in yur face than be met exclusively by 10.______smiling face. Anyne can smile at yu, but very few will weep in yur face, because the latter is much harder fr ne t d than the frmer.
Passage 119
Sme f the yung sldiers wh had recently jined the army were being trained in mdern ways f fighting. One f the lessns they shuld take was 1.______an unarmed man culd trick an armed enemy, take his weapn away and have him 2.______(arrest). First ne f their tw instructrs tk a knife away frm the ther, 3.______ (use) nly his bare hands, and then he tk a gun away frm him in the same way.
After the lessn, and befre they went 4.______t train the yung sldiers t d these things themselves, the tw instructrs asked them a number f questins t see hw well they had understd what 5.______ (shw). One f the questins was this, "Well, yu nw knw 6.__
unarmed man can d against a man with a gun. Imagine that yu are guarding 7._______bridge at eight ne night, and that yu have a gun. Suddenly yu see an unarmed enemy sldier 8.______(cme) twards yu, and what will yu d?
The yung sldier 9______had t answer this questin thught carefully fr a few secnds10. he answered, and then said, "Well after what I have just seen, I think that the first thing I wuld d wuld be t get rid f my gun as quickly as 1 culd s that the unarmed enemy sldier culdn’t take it frm me and kill me with it!
Passage 120
I have t say that my mm is stricter than mst parents, and I'm the kind f kid wh has a lt f my wn thughts.
I used t think that she's just a picky persn that likes t make things mre difficult fr me, s we nce sat dwn and talked face 1.______face 2._______ ( try) t clarify every misunderstanding we have 3. ______us. I 4.______(cnvince) and decided t change my attitude twards her. My mm tld me that as we grw, she's als grwing, t. Every day, she learns smething new abut being a mm, and her knwledge f becming a gd mm gradually grws.
5._______ time passes by, I began t realize that mst f her rules, r shuld I say pint f view", are really t prtect us. We teenagers ften think that parents are cnservative (保守的), and they knw nthing abut us, but hnestly, we're actually still t yung 6. (knw) what's really best fr us.
Parents can be wrng smetimes because nbdy's perfect, and they may be just like my mm wh is still n her way t 7.______(be) a perfect parent! S, t thse wh ften argue with their parents like me: next time, when yu really disagree with 8.______yur parents say, stp and tell yurself that yur parents wuld never try t d9.___ t harm yu because they lve yu befre yu yell at them.
Finally, I really want my mm t knw hw srry I am fr always telling at her, breaking her heart.I really d want t change 10.______I lve her just as much as she lves me.
Passage 121
Fr mst peple, meat is a necessary part f any meal. But just ask yurself, wuld yu still eat it if yu 1.______(knw) that it had cme frm a clned chicken r pig?
The Eurpean Fd Safety Authrity has, s far, fund n indicatin 2.______fd prducts,such as milk and meat, frm clned animals, are less safe than nes frm nrmal animals. Hwever,there are still ecnmic and ethical (伦理的) cncerns related t 3. ______ (eat) clned animals.
That's 4.______the Eurpean Unin has launched a prpsal t ban the sale and imprt f fd frm clned animals.
First f all, clning is extremely cstly. Mre imprtantly, clning has a lw success rate. It means that many clned animals wn't survive int adulthd, and sme 5.______ die befre they are even brn, This causes unnecessary suffering amng animals and is ppsed by animal rights supprters.
6.______it wuld make it illegal t sell and imprt clned animals, the prpsal says that7._____ sale and imprt f fd frm the ffspring (GE) f clnes wuld be allwed since they are nt cnsidered t be the direct prducts f clning. But they are required t be clearly labeled8.______custmers can chse whether they want them r nt.
The prpsal 9.________(put) t the Eurpean Parliament and member states, and it is nt expected 10.________ ( cme) int frce until 2016.
Passage 122
Califrnia has lng attracted visitrs seeking frtune, fame r bth. Way back in 1849, hundreds f thusands started digging 1.________gld in the great Gld Rush f Califrnia, a histrical event that2.________(capture) the American imaginatin.
Nwadays, the state is the mst diverse (多元化的)in the entire mainland US- -bth in terms f the races f its peple and the languages that 3. ________speak. Thus, Califrnia is a true example f the melting pt, s ften 4.________ (assciate) with the US.
But why is it 5.________all these different types f peple chse t live and wrk in Califrnia?Yu've prbably heard f Silicn Valley. Lcated utside f San Francisc in nrthern Califrnia, it is hme t many f the wrld's mst successful technlgy cmpanies. 6. yu ever send texts n an iPhne, e-mail with Yah, search n Ggle r edit pictures with Pht shp, then yu have Silicn Valley t thank.
But it's nt just electrnic innvatin that inspires peple t mve t Califrnia. Anther majr draw is ne f 7.________(ld) American dreams -the chance 8.________(becme) a mvie r TV star.Peple 9.________visit Califrnia get a special rush frm ging t Munt Lee in Santa Mnica and10._________(see) the famus Hllywd sign, a lasting symbl f the American film and televisin industries.
Passage 123
Several times each year the Queen gives afternn tea parties. 1. she simply sits beside a big silver plate, puring cups f tea fr everyne and skillfully aviding the cakes and sandwiches.
At ccktail parties the Queen mves frm grup t grup, chatting infrmally, and manages t make ne glass f drink last 2.________entire evening.
Turs abrad are difficult 3.________hsts seem t have a belief that the warmth f their welcme must be shwn with wnderful state banquets (宴会) .But the Queen has perfected the art f appearing t enjy her meal withut actually eating much.
During ne visit 4._________the Pacific islands f Tnga, a specially-prepared dinner was arranged in her hnr. The Queen lked uneasily at her plate 5.________ she discvered a whle rast pig washer serving.
Then a turkey, sme meat, an apple and bananas 6.________( carry) in fr each guest. But she depended 7.________her ld favrite trick f talking with her hst, King Tupu IV, and carrying n a warm cnversatin.
Smetimes the Queen will seem s carried away by freign leader's plitical chat 8.________ she simply never has time t finish a meal befre it is time t get up and make her speech. She will lift her frk t swallw a muthful, and then put 9.________dwn again t make anther pint, 10.(leave) almst all f her meal untuched.
Passage 124
Thrugh a series f experiments an American scientist has gained an understanding f the scial structure f the mst cmplex f ant scieties. The ants 1.________ (examine) are the nly creatures ther than man t have given up hunting and cllecting fr a cmpletely agricultural way f life. In their undergrund nests they planted gardens n sils made frm finely (cut) leaves. This is a cmplex peratin 3. .________(require) cnsiderable divisin f labr. The wrkers f this type f ant can ( divide) int fur grups accrding t size. Each f the grups perfrms a particular set f jbs.
The making and care f the garden and the nursing f the yung ants are dne by the smallest wrkers. Slightly larger wrkers are respnsible fr cutting leaves t make them suitable fr use in the gardens and fr cleaning the nest. grup f still larger ants d the cnstructin wrk and cllect fresh leaves frm utside the nest. The (large) are the sldier ants, respnsible fr defending the nest. 7.______ (find) ut hw gd the varius size-grups are at different tasks,the scientist measured the amunt f wrk dne by the ants against the amunt f energy they used. He examined first the gathering and carrying f leaves. He selected ne f the size grups, and then measured 8.__ efficiently these ants culd find leaves and run back t the nest. Then he repeated the experiment 9._____ each f the ther size grups. In this way he culd see10.________any grup culd d the jb mre efficiently than the grup nrmally undertaking it.
Passage 125
One day, Nick invited his friends t supper. He was cking sme delicius fd in the kitchen.Suddenly, he 1._____ (find) that he has run ut f salt. S Nick called t his sn, G t the village and buy sme salt, but pay a fair price fr it: neither t much 2.________t little."
His sn lked surprised. "1 can understand why I shuldn't pay t much, Father, but if l can pay less, save a bit f mney?
That wuld be a very reasnable thing t d in a big city, but it 4. destry a small village like urs, Nick said.
Nick's guests, 5.________ had heard their cnversatin, asked why they shuld nt buy salt mre 'cheaply 6.________they culd. Nick replied, The nly reasn a man wuld sell salt at a lwer price wuld be because he was desperate fr mney. And anyne wh tk advantage f that situatin wuld be shwing a lack f respect 7. _______the sweat and struggle f the man wh wrked very hard t prduce it.
But 8._______a small thing culdn't pssibly destry a village."
In the beginning, there was nly 9._______very small amunt f unfairness in the wrld, but everyne added a little, always 10. _______( think) that it was nly small and nt very imprtant, and lk where we have ended up tday.
Passage 126
William H. Gates, 40, is chairman and chief executive fficer f Micrsft Crpratin, the leading prvider f sftware fr persnal cmputers wrldwide. With net revenues f $ 5.94 billin fr the fiscal year 1.___ (end) June 1995, Micrsft emplys mre than 18,000 peple in 48 cuntries.
Gates began his career 2._______persnal cmputer sftware when he started prgramming at age 13 while a student at the Lakeside schl. In 1974, 3._______an undergraduate at Harvard University, he develped BASIC fr the first micrcmputer, the MITS Altair, 4._______started the era f hbbyist cmputing. 5._____ (lead) by the belief 6._______the persnal cmputer wuld ultimately be a valuable tl n every ffice desktp and in every hme, Gates frmed Micrsft with Paul Alien in 1975 7._______ ( develp) sftware fr persnal cmputers.
Gates early fresight abut persnal cmputing and his cntinuing visin have been central t Micrsft and the sftware industry. Gates is actively 8._______(invlve) in significant perating and strategic decisins at develpment and management f the cmpany. A significant prtin f his day is als devted t 9._______(meet)with custmers and staying in cntact with Micrsft's emplyees arund the wrld thrugh e-mail. Gates is married and lives in Bellevue, Washingtn. Gates is interested in bitechnlgy and sits n the bards f Darwin Mlecular and the I cs Crpratin. He is an avid reader and enjys playing glf and bridge. With technlgy, t make it 10._______ (easy) and mre enjyable fr peple t use sftware, the cmpany is cmmitted t the lng term by investing in new technlgy, state-f-the-art prjects and new prducts fr the further expansin f persnal cmputing.
Passage 127
NEW YORK- -One f America's icnic attractins, the Statue f Liberty, was seen but nt tuched n Tuesday after a U.S. gvernment shutdwn frced the clsure f sme f the natin's great turist attractins. Turists 1._______ gathered at the suthern tip f Manhattan expected t bard a bat n Tuesday and climb the Statue f Liberty. But Lady Liberty, with her lamp f freedm2. _______(hld)high, was clsed because the U.S. gvernment had shut dwn.
They still 3._______see it, but nly frm the bat that nrmally disgrges turists at New Yrk's icnic spts; Liberty Island and Ellis Island nearby. In better times, millins visit these sights every year.
Will Kehn frm Missuri seemed surprised that he culdn't get there.
We came here tday t see the Statue f Liberty, came t the ticket bth and weren't able t gn t the Island and 4._______(disappint) smewhat, . said Kehn.
T sme freign turists, the gvernment shutdwn was mre than 5._______ disappintment.
"I think the image may be tarnished a bit, 6._______as a turist, as a freigner cming t the United States7._______ ( see) this cuntry and t experience the American culture, the American lifestyle, and I didn't get that and I kind f expected that and having paid fr that 8._______ (knw)that America is a develped cuntry, nt a develping cuntry," said Payal Patel frm Great Britain.
“It's really hard t believe that a Cngress can hld its peple t ransm and I kind f have the impressin 9.________they want t antagnize the peple f America and make them angry," said Tina Marie frm Australia. "A whle lt f peple aren't 10._______(pay) tday. What's that all abut?”
Nevertheless, turists tried t get as clse as they culd, n the day America put a lck n its landmarks.
Passage 128
I'm reading this brilliant bk, 1.____ (call) The Great Kapk Tree. It's by Lynne Cherry. My parents gave it t me as my birthday present and 1 just 2._______hardly put it dwn.
The stry 3.________(set) in the trpical Amazn rainfrest. The authr visited the rainfrest4._______she culd find ut abut what was happening fr herself. As I'm sure yu knw,man is cutting dwn s many f the frests and trees there. A lt f animals and plants are in danger 5.________ ________this.
S, here's what happens in the stry. The main character is the wdcutter. He cmes int the wd with an axe in his hand. All the animals are chatting happily in the frest. As sn as they see the man, they stp 6. ________(talk) and becme quiet. They knw what the wdcutter's jb is t cut dwn the great kapk(木棉) tree. But it's the 7. ________(large) tree in the frest and the rainfrest is very ht.
The wdcutter sn gets tired and falls asleep under the tree. As he sleeps, all the animals cme up t him and whisper in his ear. One f them says t the wd cutter, " What happens tmrrw depends n 8.________yu d tday. If yu destry ur hme, we9.________(have) nwhere t live.Please think twice."
The wdcutter wakes up but I'm nt ging t tell yu what happens in the end. Yu'll have t read the bk t see 10.________he cuts the great kapk tree dwn r nt.
Passage 129
Seventy-fur-year-lds are________mst cntented peple in the wrld, accrding t a new research.
2.________( few) respnsibilities, financial wrries and mre free time lead t cntentment previusly unknwn in earlier life. Accrding t the research, happiness declines frm the teenage years t 40: 3.________levels ff until 46 and then starts t increase until peaking at 74.
Scientists frm Germany and America regularly questined 21, 000 men and wmen 4.________happy they were with their lives, prviding a scale frm ne t seven: seven indicated cmplete cntentment. Teenagers in their late teens marked themselves at arund5.5 5.________fell t arund 5by age 40. At 74, happiness averaged at 5.9.
The reprt, 6 ________ (publish) in the jurnal Scial Indicatrs Research, said this culd be due t lder peple being mre appreciative.
It cncluded, Cmpared t yunger individuals, lder peple tend t place a greater emphasis7.________ emtinal aspects f scial interactins and are likely t remember the emtinal cntent f their experiences."
Bringing up a family, buying a huse and 8.________(create) a career add t the stresses experienced by thse in 9.________twenties and thirties. The change in happiness is apparently mst bvius amng British peple. The men and wmen 10.________live in Germany have relatively stable levels f satisfactin thrughut their lives.
Passage 130
It was New Year's Night. An aged man raised his murnful eyes twards the deep blue sky, where the stars were flating like white flwers n the surface f a clear calm lake. He had already passed sixty f the stages 1.________ (lead) t his certain gal- -the tmb, and he had brught frm his jurney nthing 2.________mistakes and regret. Nw his health was pr, his mind empty, his heart srrwful, and his ld age shrt f cmfrts.
The days f his yuth appeared like dreams befre him, and he recalled 3.________serius mment when his father placed him at the entrance f the tw rads 4.________ leading t a peaceful,sunny place, cvered with beautiful flwers, fresh fruits; the ther leading t a deep, dark cave,5.________was endless, where pisn flwed instead f water and where devils and pisnus snakes crawled.
6.________his New Year's night, he remembered his friends in his childhd, wh entered n life tgether with him. But they had made 7.________way t success and were nw hnred and happy.
The clck in the church twer 8.________ ( strike) and the sund made him remember his parents' early lve fr him. They had taught him 9.________prayed t Gd fr his gd. But he chse the wrng way. His darkened eyes were full f tears, and with a desperate effrt, he 10.________ (burst) ut a cry; Cme back, my early days! Cme back!
Passage 131
My name is Clara. I still remember that chilly December day, sitting in a science class. I1.________ (finish) a wrksheet early and picked up a TIME fr Kids magazine. A piece f news caught my eye: NASA was hlding 2. ________essay cntest t name its Mars rver(火星探测器).Befre I even knew anything else abut it, a single wrd flded my 11-year-ld mind, Curisity,
I 3.________(nt) wait fr the bell t ring s 1 culd get started n my essay. That afternn, I raced hme, sat dwn at the cmputer, and typed 4. ________my fingers ached. Curisity is an everlasting flame that burns in everyne's mind...
Five mnths later, my mm received a phne call, and immediately, a wide smile 5.________( spread) acrss her face.
On August 5,2012, at 10:31 p.m., the rver named Curisity tuched dwn safely n the surface f Mars, and I 6.________ (hnur) t have a frnt-rw seat in NASA.
Curisity is such an imprtant part f wh I am. I have always been fascinated by the stars, the planets, the sky and the universe. I remember as a little girl, my grandmther and I 7. ________ sit tgether in the backyard fr hurs. She'd tell me stries and pint ut the stars. Grandma lived in China,thusands f miles away frm my hme in Kansas, but the stars kept us 8.________ even when we were apart. They were always there, yet there was s much I didn't knw abut 9. That's what I lve s much abut space.
Peple ften ask me why we g t faraway places like Mars. My answer is simple because we're curius. We human beings d nt just hle up in ne place. We are cnstantly wndering and trying t find ut 10.________ is ver the hill and beynd the hrizn.
Passage 132
Cigarette smking is believed by mst research wrkers in this field t be an imprtant factr in the develpment f cancer f the lungs and the thrat and is believed 1._ (relate) t cancer f the bladder(膀胱) and the ral cavity (口腔). Male cigarette smkers have a higher death rate frm heart disease than nn- smking males.
Female smkers are thught t be less affected 2.________ they d nt breathe in the smke s deeply. The majrity f physicians and researchers cnsider these relatinships prved t their satisfactin and say, Give up 3.________(smke). If yu dn't smke, dn't start. Sme capable physicians and research wrkers- thugh their small number is reducing even further- are less sure f the effect f cigarette smking 4.________health. They cnsider the increase in respiratry(呼吸的)diseases and varius frms f cancer may pssibly be explained by ther factrs in the cmplex human envirnment- atmspheric pllutin, increased nervus stress, chemical substances in 5.________(prcess) fd, r chemical pesticides (杀虫剂) that 6. __(use) by farmers nw in vast quantities t destry insects and small animals. Smkers wh develp cancer r lung diseases, they say, may als, by cincidence, live in industrial areas, r eat mre canned fd, Gradually, hwever,research 7.________(islate) all ther pssible factrs and prving them t be statistically irrelevant.While all tbacc smking affects life expectancy and health, cigarette smking appears t have8.__ much greater effect than cigar r pipe smking. 9.________, nictine cnsumptin is nt decreasing by the latter frms, and current research indicates relatinship between all frms f smking and cancer f the muth and thrat. Filters and lw tar(焦油) tbacc are claimed t make smking t sme extent safer, but they 10.________nly slightly reduce, nt eliminate, the risks.
Passage 133
The mrning had been a disaster. My tth was aching. And l'd been in an argument with a friend.Her wrds still hurt: "The truble with yu is 1.________yu wn't put yurself in my place. Cant yu see things frm my pint f view? I shk my head stubbrnly- -and felt the ache in my tth. l'd thught I culd hld ut till my dentist came back frm hliday, 2._________the pain was really unbearable. I started calling the dentists in the phne bk, but n ne culd see me immediately.Finally, at abut lunchtime, I gt lucky.
"If yu cme by right nw, the receptinist said, the dentist 3.________ (fit) yu in.”
I tk my purse and keys and rushed t my car. But suddenly I began t dubt abut the dentist.What kind f dentist wuld be s eager 4. ________( treat) smene at such shrt ntice? Why wasn't he as busy 5.________ the thers?
In the dentist's ffice, I sat dwn and lked arund. I saw 6. but the bare walls and I became even mre wrried. The assistant nticed my nervusness and placed her warm hand ver my ice-cld ne.
I tld her my fears, she laughed and said, Dn't wrry. The dentist is very gd.'"Hw lng d I have t wait fr him? I asked impatiently.
Cme n, he 8.________(cme). Just lie dwn and relax. And enjy the artwrk," the assistant said.
"The artwrk?” I was puzzled.
The chair went back. Suddenly 1 smiled. There was a beautiful picture, right 9._________I culd enjy it: n the ceiling. Hw cnsiderate the dentist was! At that mment, I began t understand what my friend meant by her wrds. 10________a relief!
Passage 134
A new study f 8,000 yung peple in the Jurnal f Health and Scial Behavir 1.________(shw) that althugh lve can make adults live healthily and happily, it is a bad thing fr yung peple.Puppy lve (早恋) may bring stress fr yung peple and can lead t depressin. The study shws that girls becme 2.________ (depressed) than bys, and yunger girls are the wrst f all.
The pssible reasn 3. the cnnectin between lve and higher risk f depressin fr girls is "lss f self. Accrding t the study, even thugh bys wuld say "lse themselves in a rmantic relatinship", this lss f self is much mre likely t lead t depressin 4.____ it happens t girls. Yung girls wh have rmantic relatinships usually like hiding their feelings and pinins. They wn't tell that t their parents.
Dr Marian Kaufman, an expert n yung peple prblems, says 15% t 20% yung peple will have depressin during their grwing. Trying rmance ften causes the depressin. She advises kids nt t jump int rmance t early. During grwing up, 5.________ is imprtant fr yung peple t build strng friendships and a strng sense f self. She als suggests the parents shuld encurage their kids t keep clse t their friends, attend mre interesting schl activities and spend enugh time with family.
Parents 6.________watch fr signs f depressin- -eating r md changes- and 7.________they see signs frm their daughters r sns, they need t give help. The gd news is 8. the cnnectin between rmance and depressin 9________(seem) t becme weak with age. Lve will always make us feel yung, but nly maturity gives us a chance 10._________(avid) its bad side effects.
Passage 135
Many children first learn the value f mney 1.____ receiving an allwance (津贴). The purpse is t let children learn frm experience at an age 2.________financial mistakes are nt very cstly.
The amunt f mney that parents give t their children t spend as they wish differs frm family t family. Timing is anther cnsideratin. Sme children get a weekly allwance. 3. ________ get a mnthly allwance. In any case, parents shuld make clear 4.________if anything, the child is expected t pay fr with the mney.
At first, yung children may spend all f their allwance sn after they receive it. If they d this,they will learn the hard way that spending must be dne within a budget. Parents are usually advised nt t ffer mre mney until the next allwance. The bject is 5.________(shw) yung peple that a budget demands chices between spending and saving, Older children may be respnsible enugh t save mney fr larger csts, like clthing r electrnics.
Allwances give children a chance t experience the things they 6._____ d with mney. They can share it in the frm f gifts r giving t a gd cause. They can spend it by buying things they want.Or they can save and maybe even invest it.
Saving helps children understand that cstly gals require sacrifice: yu have t cut csts and plan fr the future. 7. ________(require) children t save part f their allwance can als pen the dr t future saving and investing. Many banks ffer services t help children and teenagers learn abut persnal finance. A savings accunt is 8. excellent way t learn abut the pwer f cmpund interest(利息) nt seem like a lt. 10.________ver time it adds up.
Passage 136
D yu knw hw 1.____ is when yu see smene yawn and yu start yawning t? Or hw hard it is t be amng peple laughing and nt laugh yurself? Well, apparently it's because we have mirrr neurns ( 神经元)in ur brains.
Put simply, the. existence f mirrr neurns 2.________ ( suggest) that every time we see smene else d smething, ur brains imitate it, whether r nt we actually perfrm the same actin.This explains a great deal abut 3.________we learn t smile, talk, walk, dance r play sprts. But the idea ges further: mirrr neurns nt nly appear t explain physical actins, they als tell us that there is a bilgical basis fr the way we understand ther peple.
Mirrr neurns can undubtedly be fund all ver ur brains, but especially in the areas which4._________(relate) t ur ability t use languages, and t understand hw ther peple feel.Researchers have fund that mirrr neurns relate strngly t language. A grup f researchers discvered 5.________if they gave peple sentences t listen t (fr example; "The hand tk hld fthe bal"), the same mirrr neurns were triggered 6.________when the actin was actually perfrmed(in this example, actually taking hld f a ball).
Any prblems with mirrr neurns may well result in prblems with behavir. Much research suggests that peple with scial and behaviral prblems have mirrr neurns which are nt fully7._________(functin). Hwever, it is nt yet knwn exactly hw these discveries might help find treatments fr scial disrders.
Research 8.________mirrr neurns seems t prvide us with even mre infrmatin cncerning hw humans behave and interact. Indeed, it may turn ut t be the equivalent fr neurscience f9.________Einstein's thery f relativity was fr physics. And the next time yu feel the urge t cugh in the cinema when smene else 10.________ (d)- well, perhaps yu'll understand why.
Passage 137
Hwever, there was ne band that started in a different way. It began as a TV shw. The musicians f 1.________the band was frmed played jkes 2. ________each ther as well as played music. Their music and jkes were based lsely n the band called "The Beatles". The TV rganizers had lked fr fur musicians wh were lively and wh culd make gd music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper 3.________ (lk) fr rck musicians, 4.________they culd nly find ne that was gd enugh. They had t use actrs fr the ther members f the band. Actrs may nt be able t sing s at first ther musicians sang the sngs fr the prgramme 5.________the band pretended t sing them.
Their attractive perfrmances 6.________ ( cpy) by ther grups and their fans supprted them fiercely. Each week the grup that was called " The Mnkees" wuld play a sng r tw written by ther musicians. Hwever, after a year r s in which they became 7.________ (serius) abut their wrk,"The Mnkees" started t play their wn instruments and write 8._________ wn sngs like a real band.Then they prduced their wn recrds and started turing and playing their wn music. They became even mre ppular than "The Beatles in the USA and sld even mre recrds. Hwever, the band brke up in abut 1970, but 9.________(reunite) in the mid- 1980s. They prduced a new recrd in1996, 10.________was a celebratin f their time as a real band.
Passage 138
1________I was in Germany, ne day at Christmas time I went t a pst ffice 2._________(send) a letter. T my surprise, I fund peple queuing sme paces away 3________the persn at the savings depsit (存款 )windw. Why s? Each did his business in turn4.________the line never mved a step nearer. I was very curius, s I walked t the windw t find ut the cause. There was a nticen5.________was written Thank yu fr yur respect fr thers' privacy, a plite warning t keep peple away frm nsing int(干涉)thers' affairs. Mney matters6.________ (regard) as privacy in Western cuntries. 1 was deeply impressed by the sight and stayed a While t watch: they were waiting s calmly at a distance 7.________they seemed quite used t the practice. The same thing happened at a public telephne bx. Thse waiting fr their turns always kept their distance enugh t be ut f hearing. It's anther typical example!
Frm then n, I tk care t watch their ways f ding things, manners, and treatment shwn twards thers, I fund the Germans always mindful f thers' privacy. They avided putting thers in an8.________( embarrass) situatin. Fr instance, they never asked abut age, incmes r the place t buy such a cat, 9________wuld they cmment n the clthes r jewelry thers wre. Their laws frbid reading diaries 10.________pening letters withut permissin. That shws persnal matters are nt allwed t be disturbed.
Passage 139
It is nt plite t arrive at a dinner party mre than 15 t 20 minutes late. The hst r hstess usually waits fr all the guests t arrive 1.________serving the meal. If smene is late, the fd maybe spiled, and s might the hst r hstess's spirits. If yu have t be late, call and tell them t start 2.________yu.
It's even 3.________( bad) t be early! The hst r hstess will. prbably nt be are early, drive r walk arund the blck a few times, r just sit in yur car until the right time.
Thugh it is ften imprtant t arrive n time, yet n the ther hand, fr pen huses, the hst r hstess invites guests t arrive and leave between a certain time. Yu 5.________arrive at any time within the time he r she gives yu.
It's plite t bring an empty stmach, but it's even nicer t bring a small present. The present shuld nt cst a lt, r yu might embarrass the hst r hstess. Flwers, wine, r a bx f candy will d fine. Never bring mney 6.________a present.
In 7.________intrductin, the rder f a name is: (1) the given name;(2) the family name. In ther wrds the given name cmes first. It's imprtant nt nly 8.________( learn) and remember names, 9________t repeat them ften in cnversatin. After the intrductin, we usually call friends10.________their given names. Older peple may want yu call them their titles and family names,such as Mr, Jnes" , Mrs. Jhnsn" r Dr. Brwn.
Passage 140
A little by invited his mther t attend his elementary schl's first teacher-parent meeting. T the little by' 's unhappiness, she said she 1.___ g. This wuld be the first time that his classmate sand teacher met his mther and he was embarrassed by her appearance. 2.________ she was a beautiful wman, there was a severe scar 3.________cvered nearly the whle right side f her face.The by never wanted t talk abut why r hw she gt the scar.
At the meeting, the peple 4.________( impress) by the kindness and natural beauty f his mther thugh she had a scar n her face, but the little by was still embarrassed and 5 .________(hide)himself frm everyne. He did, hwever, get within earsht f a cnversatin 6.________his mther and his teacher, and heard them speaking,
“Hw did yu get the scar n yur face? ”The teacher asked.
The mther replied, When my sn was a baby, he was in a rm that caught n fire. Everyne was t afraid t g in 7.________the fire was ut f cntrl, s I went in. As I was rushing tward his bed, I saw a beam cming dwn and I placed myself ver him trying t prtect him. I was kncked uncnscius 8.________ frtunately, a fireman came in and saved bth f us." She tuched the burned side f her face. This scar will be n my face frever, but t this day, I have never regretted ding9________I did.
At this pint, the little by came ut 10.________(run) twards his mther with tears in his eyes.He hugged her and felt a great sense f the sacrifice that his mther had made fr him. He held her hand tightly fr the rest f the day.
Passage 141
Everyday, 340 millin peple speak it. One billin peple are learning it and it is said that by 2050,half f the wrld's ppulatin will be using it. What are we talking abut? The glbal language -English.The English language started in Britain 1.________the 5th century. It is a 2. ________(mix) language.It 3.________(build) up when German, Scandinavian and French invaders settled in England and created a cmmn language fr cmmunicatin. Tday, it is 4.________ fficial language f the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Suth Africa and Ireland as 5.________as many islands in the Caribbean. English is a messy language. Every year, dictinaries include new wrds 6. ________talk abut ppular culture. Als included are new wrds that teenagers use. Wh des nt knw " cl",OK" and " hell"? Other languages als influence English. Many English wrds cme frm French.Wrds like cafe" and expressins like "c’est la vie" (that is life) are all part f the English ther hand, the French language 8.________(include) English wrds like "le weekend"and "le camping". German wrds are als part f English. Wrds like " kindergarten" cme frm the German language. Recently, British peple have becme 9.________(interest)in yga (瑜伽) .But the wrd cmes frm an ancient Hindu language in India. All in all, the English language is full f twists and turns and 10. ________is changing all the time. Make sure yu keep up with it!
Passage 142
Like many f my generatin, I have a weakness fr her wrship, At sme pint, hwever, we all begin t questin ur heres and ur need fr them. This leads us t ask: What is a her?
1.________immense differences in cultures, heres arund the wrld generally share a number f characteristics that instruct and inspire peple,
A her des smething wrth 2.________ ( talk) abut. A her has a stry f adventure t tell and a cmmunity wh will listen. But a her ges beynd mere fame.
Heres serve pwers r principles larger than themselves. Like high-vltage (高电压)transfrmers, heres take the energy f higher pwers and step it dwn 3.________ ________it can be used by rdinary peple.
The her lives a life wrthy f imitatin. Thse 4.________ imitate a genuine her experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test fr wuld-be heres is what r whm d they serve? What are they willing t live and die 5.____ ? 6.____ the answer r evidence suggests they serve nly their wn fame, they may be famus persns but nt heres.
Madnna and Michael Jacksn are famus, 7.________wh wuld claim that their fans find life mre abundant?
Heres are catalysts (催化剂) fr change. They have a visin frm the muntaintp. They have the skill and the charm t mve the masses. They create new pssibilities. Withut Gandhi, India8.________still be part f the British Empire. 9.________may be pssible fr large scale change t ccur withut leaders with magnetic persnalities, 10. the pace f change wuld be slw, the visin uncertain, and the cmmittee meetings endless.
Passage 143
Dave Fuss lst his jb 1.________ ( drive) a truck fr a small cmpany in west Michigan. His wife,Gerrie, was still wrking in the lcal schl cafeteria, and the price f everything was rising. The Fusses were 2.________risk f jining the millins f Americans wh have lst their hmes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift $ 7,000,a legacy(ili)frm their neighbrs Is hand Arlene Hatch, wh died in 3.________accident. "It really made a difference 4.________ we were ging under financially." says Dave.
But the Fusses weren't the nly flks in Alt and the neighbring twn f Lwell t receive unexpected legacy frm the Hatches. Dzens f ther families 5. ________( tuch) by the Hatches' genersity. In sme cases, it was a few thusand dllar; in thers, it was mre than $ 10000.
It surprised nearly everyne that the Hatches had s much mney, mre than $ 3millin- -they were an elderly cuple wh lived in an ld huse n 6.________was left f the family farm.
7.________ ________the financial crisis, Ish and Arlene develped the habit f saving. They were fnd f cmparisn shpping and wuld rutinely g frm stre t stre, 8.________( check) prices befre making a new purchase.
Thrugh the years, the Hatches paid fr lcal children t attend summer camp when their parents9._________nt affrd it. "Ish and Arlene never asked whether yu needed anything, says their friends and Van Weelden, They culd see the things they culd d 10.________ (make) yu happier, and they wuld d them.
Passage 144
While incme wrry is a rather cmmn prblem f the aged, lneliness is 1. prblem that aged parents may face. Of all the reasns that explain their lneliness, a large gegraphical distance between parents and their children is the majr ne. This phenmenn is cmmnly knwn as Empty Nest Syndrme"(空巢综合征).
In rder t seek 2._________( gd) chances utside their cuntries, many yung peple have gne abrad, 3.________(leave) their parents behind with n clear idea f when they will return hme.Their parents spend cuntless lnely days and nights, taking care f themselves, in the hpe that smeday their children will cme back t stay with them, The fact 4.________mst f these yung peple have gne t Eurpeanized r Americanized scieties makes 5.________unlikely that they will-hld as tightly t the value f duty 6.________they wuld have if they had nt left their cuntries.Whatever the case, it has been nted that the values they hld d nt necessarily match 7.________they actually d. This gegraphical and cultural distance als prevents the grwn-up children frm prviding timely respnse 8.________the needs f their aged parents.
The situatin in which grwn-up children live far away frm their aged parents 9.________(describe) as . distant parent phenmenn" , 10.______ is cmmn bth in develped cuntries and in develping cuntries. Our sciety has nt yet been well prepared fr Empty Nest Syndrme.
Passage 145
He almst killed smebdy, but ne minute changed his life. This beautiful stry cmes frm Sherman Rgers bk, Fremen: Leaders r Drivers?.
In his true-life stry, Rgers illustrates the imprtance f effective relatinships. During his cllege years, Rgers spent 1._____summer in an Idah(爱达荷州) lgging camp. When the superintendent had t leave fr a few days, he put Rgers 2.________charge.
“3.________if the men refuse t fllw my rders?” Rgers asked. He thught f Tny, an immigrant wrker wh rared all day, giving the ther men a hard time.
"Fire them," the superintendent said. Then, as if 4.____ (read) Rger's mind, he added, "I suppse yu think yu are ging t fire Tny if yu get the chance. l'd feel badly abut that. I have been lgging fr 40 years. Tny is the mst reliable wrker l've ever had. I knw he hates everybdy and everything. But he cmes in first and leaves last. There has nt been an accident fr eight years n the hill 5.________ he wrks."
Rgers tk ver the next day. He went t Tny and spke t him.
Tny, d yu knw I'm in charge here tday? Tny grunted(发哼声). "I was ging t fire yu the first time we fught, but I want yu t knw I'm nt, he tld Tny, adding what the superintendent 6.________ (say).
When he finished, Tny drpped the shvelful f sand he had held and tears streamed dwn his face.
Why he didn't tell me that eight years ag?
That day Tny wrked harder than ever befre- -and he smiled! He later said t Rgers, My first freman wh ever say, 'Gd wrk, Tny and it made me 7.________ (feel) like Christmas."
Rgers went back t schl after that summer. Twelve years later he met Tny again wh was nw superintendent fr railrad cnstructin fr ne f 8. ________(large) lgging cmpanies in the West.Rgers asked him hw he came t Califrnia and happened t have such success.
Tny replied, "If it had nt been fr the ne minute yu talk t me back in Idah, l'd have killed smebdy smeday. One minute change my whle life."
Effective managers knw the imprtance f taking a mment 9. (pint) ut what a wrker is ding well. 10.________what a difference a minute f affirmatin can make in any relatinship!
Passage 146
When I was in junir high schl, darkness began filling my mind. I dn't knw the day 1.________the reasn why it began. All I knw is that I started feeling hpeless and wrthless. I hid in my rm,2.________(stare) ut f the windw, thinking abut all my failures. I even questined 3.________being alive was wrthwhile. My dark md wasn't cnstant. It wuld fade at times, but it always returned.
It was my parents that helped me identify the shadw4.________hung ver my life depressin.Depressin is 5.________mental illness that drains yur energy and prevents yu frm enjying life. It can keep yu frm succeeding at schl r wrk r frm cnnecting with thers. At its 6.________(bad), depressin can even lead t suicide.
When yur md is dark, hw d yu knw whether yu are depressed r just sad? Think abut hw lng the feelings 7. ________(last). If they have persisted fr weeks r mnths, get help.
N ne 8.________face depressin alne. If yu're depressed, find smene -a friend, parent,teacher r pastr- -and tell them yur feelings. Cnsider seeing a dctr r psychlgist, if they are getting wrse.
When I was depressed, I was 9. ________(embarrass) t tell anyne. I didn't want t seem weak r needy. But when 1 tld my friends, they supprted and encuraged me.
In fact, 10._____ depressin affects many peple wrldwide, treatments are available and can bring hpe and jy back int their life.
Passage 147
Walking dwn a path, I saw a small pl f water ahead n the path. 1 angled my directin t g arund it n the part f the path 1.________wasn’t cvered by water r mud. As I reached the pl, I was suddenly attacked! Yet 1 did nthing fr the attack. It was s unexpected. I was surprised as well as unhurt thugh I 2.________(strike) fur r five times. I backed up a ft and my attacker stpped3.________ (attack) me. I fund it amusing. And I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!
Having stpped laughing,I stepped back 4.________ (lk) the situatin ver. My attacker mved back t land n the grund. That's 5. I discvered why my attacker was charging me nly mments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying.
Sitting clse beside her, he pened and clsed his wings 6.________ t fan her. I culd nly admire the lve and curage f that butterfly in his cncern fr his mate, even thugh she was clearly dying and I was s large. He did s just t give her thse extra few precius mments f life,7.________ ________I was careless enugh t step n her. His curage in attacking smething thusands f times larger and heavier than himself just fr his mate's safety seemed admirable.culdn't d anything ther than 8.________ (reward) him by walking n the mre difficult side f the pl. He had truly earned thse mments t be with her, undisturbed.
then, l've always tried t remember the curage f that butterfly 10.________I see huge barriers facing me.
Passage 148
Yu've prbably seen athletes wh take their wn successes t seriusly, They celebrate a gal with 1.________very lng victry dance r cntinually talk big abut their abilities. This is the exact ppsite f 2.________sprtsmanship is all abut.
Everyne feels great when they win, but it can be just as hard t be a gd sprt（有运动家品格的人）when yu have wn a game as when yu have lst ne. Sprtsmanship takes curage- when yu wrk really hard at a sprt, it's nt easy 3._________( admit) yu made a bad play r smene has mre skills than yu. In cmpetitin- -as in life- -yu 4.________nt always win but yu can learn5.______ frm lsing, t.
It's pretty tugh t lse, s it is definitely annying if smene cntinues making fun f yu r yur team after the cmpetitin is ver. Smetimes it's hard t swallw yur pride and walk n. But there's always the next match.
When yu d lse -and 6.________will happen- -lse with class(风度). 7.________(be) prud f hw yu perfrmed, r at least realizing things yu need t imprve fr next time, is the key. When it cmes t lsing, sprtsmanship means cngratulating the winners willingly. Als, it means accepting the game result withut cmplaint and withut excuses, 8.________yu smetimes might dubt the referees( 裁判员 )made sme questinable calls.
When yu win, the gd way is t be a plite and generus winner. Sprtsmanship means admitting victries 9.________putting yur ppnents t shame and letting victries speak fr themselves, that is, being quietly prud f success. Despite the fact 10.________ yu have a massive win, sprtsmanship means still finding ways t praise yur ppnents.
Passage 149
Sme years ag, Writing in my diary used t be a usual activity. I wuld return frm schl and1.________(spend) the expected half hur recrding the day's events, feelings, and impressins in my little blue diary. I did nt really need t express my emtins by way f wrds, but I gained a certain satisfactin 2.________seeing my experiences frever recrded n paper. After all, isn't accumulating memries a way f preserving the past?
When I was thirteen years ld, I went n a lng jurney n ft in a great valley, 3.________(well-equip) with pens, a diary, and a camera. During the trip, I was busy recrding every incident,name and place I came acrss. I felt prud 4________( spend) my time prductively, dutifully preserving fr future generatins a detailed descriptin f my travels. On my last night there, 1wandered ut f my tent, diary in hand. The sky was clear and lit by the glare f the mn, and the walls f the valley lked threatening behind their screen f shadws. I autmatically tk ut my
At that pint, I understd that nthing I 5.________ (write) culd ever match r replace the few secnds I allwed myself t experience the dramatic beauty f the valley. All I remembered f the previus few days were the dull characterizatins I 6. ________(set) dwn in my diary.
Nw, I nly write in my diary when I need t write dwn a special thught r feeling. I still lve t recrd ideas and qutatins that strike me in bks, r bservatins that are particularly meaningful. 1take pictures, but nt very ften -nly f bjects7.________I find really beautiful. I'm n lnger blindly satisfied with having smething t remember when I grw ld. I realize that life will simply pass me by8.________ I stay behind the camera, busy 9.________(preserve) the present s as t live it in the future.
I dn’t want t wake up ne day and have nthing 10. a pile f pictures and ntes. Maybe I wn't have as many exact representatins f peple and places; maybe I'll frget certain facts, but at least the experiences will always remain inside me. I dn't live t make memries- - I just live, and the memries frm themselves.
Passage 150
One day, when I was wrking as a psychlgist in England, 1.________adlescent by shwed up in my ffice. It was David. He kept 2.________(walk) up and dwn restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him t me. "This by has lst his family," he wrte. "He is understandably very sad and refuses t talk t thers, 3.________l'm very wrried abut him. Can yu help?
I lked at David and shwed him t a chair. Hw culd I help him? There are prblems psychlgy desn’t have the answer 4.________ , and which n wrds can describe. Smetimes the best thing ne can d is t listen penly and sympathetically.
The first tw times we met, David didn't say a wrd. He sat there, nly 5._____ (lk) up t lk at the children's drawings n the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game f chess. He ndded.After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternn- -in cmplete silence and withut lking at me, It's nt easy t cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David wn nce r twice.
Usually, he arrived earlier than 6.________(agree), tk the chess bard and pieces frm the shelf and began setting them up befre I even gt a chance t sit dwn. It seemed as if he enjyed my cmpany. But why did he never lk at me?
Perhaps he simply needs smene 7._____(share) his pain with, I thught. Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering. Sme mnths later, when we were playing chess, he lked up at me suddenly.
8.________ 's yur turn, he said.
After that day, David started talking. He gt friends in schl and jined a bicycle club. He wrte t me a few times abut his biking with sme friends, and abut his plan t get int university. Nw he had really started t live his wn life.
Maybe I gave David smething. But I als learned that ne -withut any wrds- -can reach ut t 9.________persn. All it takes is a hug, a shulder t cry n, a friendly tuch, and an ear that10.________(listen).
Passage 151
In my living rm, there is a plaque(匾) that advises me t Blm where yu are planted." It reminds me f Drthy. 1 gt t knw Drthy in the early 1980s, 1.____I was teaching Early Childhd Develpment thrugh a prgram with Unin Cllege in Barburville, Kentucky. The jb respnsibilities required ccasinal visits 2.________the classrm f each teacher in the prgram.Drthy stands ut in my memry as ne wh blmed" in her remte area.
Drthy taught in a schl in Harlan Cunty, Kentucky, Appalachian Muntain area. 3.________(get) t her schl frm the twn f Harlan, I fllwed a rad 4.________(wind) arund the muntain.In the eight- mile jurney, I crssed the same railrad track five times, giving the pssibility f getting caught by the same train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive thrugh the muntains, I fund it depressing. The pverty level was shcking and the small shabby huses gave me the5.________(great) feeling f hpelessness.
Frm the mment f my arrival at the little schl, all glm(忧郁) disappeared. Upn arriving at Drthy's classrm, I 6.________ (greet) with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children had been prepared t shw me their latest prjects. Drthy tld me with a big smile that they were serving pke greens salad and crnbread fr ." dinner" (lunch). In case yu dn't knw, pke greens area weed- type plant 7. ________grws wild, especially n pr grund.
Drthy never ran ut f reprts f exciting activities f her students. Her enthusiasm never cled dwn. When it came time t sit fr the testing and interviewing required t receive her Child Develpment Assciate Certificatin, Drthy was ready. She came t the assessment and passed in all areas. Afterward, she 8.________(invite) me t the ne -and -nly steak huse in the area t celebrate her victry, as if she had received her Ph.D. degree. After the meal, she placed a little bx cntaining an ld pen in my hand. She said it was a family heirlm (传家宝), but t me it is a 9.________(treasure) symbl f appreciatin and pride that 10.________(nt) be matched with things.
Passage 152
On a sunny day last August, Tim heard sme shuting. Lking ut t the sea carefully, he saw a cuple f kids in a rwbat 1.________(pull) ut t sea.
Tw 12-year-ld bys, Christian and Jack, rwed ut a bat t search fr a ftball. Once they'd rwed beynd the calm waters, a beach umbrella 2.________(tie) t the bat caught the wind and pulled the bat int pen water. The pair panicked and tried t rw back t shre. But they were n match fr 3.________and the bat was ut f cntrl.
Tim knew it wuld sn be swallwed by the waves.
E“very thing went quiet in my head, Tim recalls. "I was trying 4.________ (figure) ut hw t swim t the bys in a straight line.”
Tim tk ff his clthes and jumped int the water. Every 500 yards r s, he raised his head t judge his prgress. "At ne pint, I cnsidered5.________( turn) back, he says. "I wndered 6.______ I was putting my life at risk." After 30 minutes 7.________struggling, he was clse t yell t the bys, Take dwn the umbrella!"
Christian made much effrt t take dwn the umbrella. Then Tim was able t catch up and climb abard the bat. He tk ver rwing, 8.________the waves were almst t strng fr him.
Let's aim fr the pier(码头), Jack said. Tim turned the bat tward it. Sn afterward, waves crashed ver the bat, and it began t sink. 9.________ yu guys swim? he cried. "A little bit," the bys said.
Once they were in the water, Tim decided it wuld be safer and faster fr him t pull the bys tward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and flated n their backs.' Tim swam tward land 10.________ water washed ver the bys' faces.
"Are we almst there? they asked again and again. Yes, Tim tld them each time. After 30minutes, they reached the pier.
Passage 153
Pet William Staffrd nce said that we are defined mre by the deturs (TTR) in life than by the narrw rad tward gals., I like this image. But it was quite by accident 1.________I discvered the deep meaning f his wrds.
Fr years we made the lng drive 2.________ur hme in Seattle t my parents hme in Bise in nine hurs. We traveled the way mst peple d: the fastest, shrtest, 3.________( easy) rad,especially when I was alne with fur nisy, restless kids wh hate cnfinement(限制) and have strng pinins abut everything,
Rad trips felt risky, s I wuld drive fast, stpping nly when I had t. We wuld stick t the freeways and arrive tired.
But then Banner, ur lamb was brn. He was rejected by his mama days befre ur 4.________(plan) trip t Bise. I had tw chices: leave Banner with my husband, r take him with me. My husband made the decisin fr me,
That is 5.____ I fund myself n the rad with fur kids, a baby lamb and nthing but my everlasting ptimism t see me thrugh. We tk the cuntry rads ut f necessity. We had t stp every hur, let Banner shake ut his legs and feed him. The kids chased him and ne anther. They'd get back in the car breathless and energized, smelling fresh frm the cld air,
We explred side rads, catching grasshppers in waist-high grass, 6.________ ________we simply lked ut f the car windw, at baby pigs fllwing their mther, r fish 7.________ (leap) ut f the water, it was better than the best ride dwn the freeway, Here was life. And new hrizns.
We eventually arrived at my parents' drstep astnishingly fresh and full f stries.
I grew brave with the trip back hme and creative with my disciplining technique. On an empty sectin f rad, everyne started quarreling. I stpped the car, rdered all kids ut 8.________ tld them t meet me up ahead. I parked my car half a mile away and read my bk in sweet silence.
Sme rad trips are by necessity fast and straight. But that trip with Banner pened ur eyes t 9.________ wrld available t anyne adventurus enugh t wander arund and made me realize that a detur 10.________uncver the best part f a jurney-- -and the best part f yurself.
Passage 154
Guide t Stckhlm University Library
Our library ffers different types f studying places and prvides a gd 1.______ ( study)envirnment.Znes
The library is divided int different znes. The upper flr is a quiet zne with ver a thusand places fr silent reading, and places where yu can sit and wrk with yur wn cmputer. The reading places cnsist mstly f tables and chairs. The grund flr is the zne 2.________ yu can talk. Here yu can find sfas and armchairs fr grup wrk.Cmputers
Yu can use yur wn cmputer t cnnect t the wi-fi specially prepared fr ntebk cmputers,and yu can als use library cmputers, which cntain the mst cmmnly used applicatins, such as Micrsft Office. They are situated in the area 3.________(knw) as the Experimental Field n the grund flr.
Grup-study places
If yu want t discuss freely 4.________disturbing thers, yu can bk a study rm r sit at at able n the grund flr. Sme study rms are fr 2-3 peple and 5.________ can hld up t 6-8peple. All rms are marked On the library maps.
There are 40 grup-study rms that 6. be bked via the website. T bk, yu need an active University accunt and a valid University card. Yu can use a rm three hurs per day, nine hurs at mst per week.Strage f Study Material
The library has lckers fr students 7.________(stre) curse literature. When yu have btained at least 40 credits(学分), yu may rent a lcker and pay 400 SEK fr a year's rental perid.Rules t be Fllwed.
Mbile phne cnversatins 8.________(nt permit) anywhere in the library. Keep yur phne n silent mde as if yu were in a lecture and exit the library if yu need t receive calls. Please nte9.________fd and fruit are frbidden in the library, but yu 10. (allw) t have drinks and sweets with yu.
Passage 155
When 1.________( ask) abut happiness, we usually think f smething extrardinary, an abslute delight, which seems t get rarer the lder we get.
Fr kids, happiness has a magical quality. 2.________delight at winning a race Or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫不掩饰的).
In the teenage years the cncept f happiness changes. Suddenly it's cnditinal n such things as excitement, lve and ppularity. I 3._________still recall the excitement f being invited t dance with the mst attractive by at the schl party.
In adulthd the things that bring deep jy- - lve, marriage, birth- -als bring respnsibility and the risk f lss. Fr adults, happiness is cmplicated.
My definitin f happiness is the capacity fr enjyment. The 4.________we can enjy what we have, the happier we are. It's easy 5.________(verlk) the pleasure we get frm the cmpany f friends, the freedm t live where we please, and even gd health, .
I experienced my little mments f pleasure yesterday. First I was verjyed when I shut the last lunch-bx and had the huse t myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted mrning writing, 6.________I lve. When the kids and my husband came hme, I enjyed their nise after the quiet f the day.
Psychlgists tell us 7.________t be happy we need a mix f enjyable leisure time and satisfying wrk. I dn't think that my grandmther, wh raised 14 children, had much f either. She did have a netwrk f clse friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.
We, 8._________, with s many chices and such pressure t succeed in every area, have turned happiness int ne mre thing we've gt t have. We're s self-cnscius abut ur right t it that it's making us miserable. S we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, 9________ nticing that the peple wh have thse things aren’t necessarily happier.
Happiness isn't abut what happens t us- -it's abut hw we see what happens t us. lt's the skillful way f finding a psitive fr every negative. It's nt wishing fr what we dn't have, but enjying what we 10.________pssess.
Passage 156
"Neither a brrwer nr a lender be." Althugh this might be excellent advice in matters 1._____ ( cncern) family and friends, brrwing and lending are frequently the fundatin f a bming ecnmy.
A lan is a sum f mney brrwed fr a 2.________ (limit) perid. A lan may be btained frm an individual r frm an institutin such as a bank and is generally granted at a specific rate f interest.Interest is the fee 3._________the brrwer pays t use the mney. An extremely high rate f interest--and certainly any amunt mre than law permits -is called usury. Lending mney can be a risky business, fr there is always the pssibility that the brrwer may nt be able t pay the reasn, a lender generally requires the brrwer 5.________ (register) smething valuable f his r hers, knwn as cllateral ( 抵押), as a part f the lan agreement. A huse r an autmbile, investments in the stck market, even the value f a business, are all examples f cllateral(担保物) that a lender 6.________ be willing t accept in the event that the brrwer fails t pay the lan.
There are tw majr srts f lans: cnsumer lans and cmmercial lans. A cnsumer lan is7.________that is made t an individual, and it may be t buy a huse r an autmbile r t finance an educatin. A cmmercial lan may be used t start a new business, pay fr new equipment and staff, r expand an ffice r factry. The business f making lans als cntributes t a healthy ecnmy8.________enhancing the emplyment market. Lans allw cnsumers t buy and imprve hmes,creating jbs fr carpenters, architects, etc. Lans enable businesses t expand, and when these businesses pen a branch ffice r a new stre, they als increase their cnsumptin f ffice supplies,furnishings, and cmputers.
In a 9.________(bm) ecnmy, mney circulates quickly, and each deal represents earnings fr smene. It may be reasnable t say that a certain level f debt is nrmal, even necessary, t a healthy ecnmy 10.________ ________ ________the individual brrwer r business is careful and try nt t take n mre than a manageable amunt f debt.
Passage 157
As we have seen, the fcus f medical care in ur sciety 1.________ ( shift) frm curing disease t preventing disease -especially in terms f changing ur many unhealthy behavir, such as pr eating habits, smking, and failure t exercise. The line f thught 2.________(invlve) in this shift can be pursued further. Imagine a persn wh is abut the right weight, but des nt eat very nutritius fds, wh feels OK3.________ exercises nly ccasinally, wh ges t wrk every day but is nt an utstanding wrker, wh drinks a few beers at hme mst nights but des nt drive while drunk,4.________wh has n chest pains r abnrmal bld cunts(血细胞计数) but sleeps a lt and ften feels tired. This persn is nt ill. He may nt even be at risk fr any particular disease. But we can imagine that this persn culd be a lt 5.________(health) .
The field f medicine has nt traditinally distinguished between smene wh is merely “nt ill ”and smene wh is in excellent health and pays attentin t the bdy's special needs. 6.________types have simply been called well." In recent years, hwever, sme health specialists have begun t apply the terms well and wellness" nly t thse wh are actively striving t maintain and imprve their health. Peple wh are well are cncerned with nutritin and exercise, and they make a pint f mnitring their bdy's cnditin. Mst imprtant, perhaps, peple 7.________are well take active respnsibility fr all matters related t their health. Even peple wh have a physical disease r handicap (缺陷) may be well," in this new sense, 8.________they make an effrt t maintain the best pssible health they can in the face f their physical limitatins. "Wellness" may perhaps best be viewed nt as a state that peple can achieve, but as an ideal 9.________peple can strive fr. Peple wh are well are likely t be better able t resist disease and t fight disease 10.________it strikes.And by fcusing attentin n healthy ways f living, the cncept f wellness can have a beneficial impact n the ways in which peple face the challenges f daily life.
Passage 158
It happened t me recently. I was telling smene hw much I had enjyed reading Barack Obama's Dreams Frm My Father and 1.___ it had changed my views f ur President. A friend I was talking t agreed with me that it was, in his wrds, a brilliantly (精彩地) written bk.Hwever, he then went n 2.________ ( talk) abut Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had n idea f his backgrund at all. I sensed that I was talking t a bk liar.
And 3.________seems that my friend is nt the nly ne. Apprximately tw thirds f peple4._____ (lie) abut reading a bk which they haven't. In the Wrld Bk Day's Reprt n Guilty Secrets", Dreams Frm My Father is at number 9. The reprt lists ten bks, and varius authrs,5.________peple have lied abut reading, and as I'm nt ne t lie t ften (l'd hate t be caught ut), I'll admit here and nw that I haven't read the entire tp ten. 6.________I am pleased t say that, unlike 42 percent f peple, I have read the bk at number ne, Gerge Or well's 1984. I think it's really brilliant.
The Wrld Bk Day reprt als has sme ther interesting infrmatin in it. It says 7.________many peple lie abut having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fydr Dstevsky (I haven't read him, but haven't lied abut it either).
Asked 8.________they lied, the mst cmmn reasn was t " impress" smene they were speaking t. This 9.________be tricky if the cnversatin became mre in-depth!
But when asked which authrs they actually enjy, peple named J. K. Rwling, Jhn Grisham,Sphie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in ther wrds). Frty- tw percent f peple asked admitted they turned t the back f the bk t read the end 10.________finishing the stry (l'll cme clean; I d this and am astnished that 58 percent said they had never dne s).
Passage 159
Paris, the capital and the largest city f the cuntry, is in nrth central France. The Paris metrplitan area cntains nearly 20% f the natin's ppulatin and is the ecnmic, cultural, and plitical center f France. The French gvernment has histrically favred the city 1.________the site fr all decisin making, thus pwerfully 2.________( attract) nearly all f the natin's activities.
Paris has grwn steadily 3.________ it was chsen as the natinal capital in the late 10th century.With the intrductin f the Industrial Revlutin, a great number f peple 4.________ (mve) t the city frm the cuntry during the 19th century. The migratin was especially stimulated by the cnstructin f railrads, 5.________prvided easy access 6.________the capital. After Wrld War ll mre and mre immigrants arrived.
The city is the centralized cntrl pint f mst natinal radi and televisin bradcasting. It is a place f publicatin f the mst prestigius (有威望的 ) newspapers and magazines and an internatinal bk publishing center. With mre than 100 museums, Paris has truly been ne f the greatest cncentratins f art treasures in the wrld. The Luvre, 7.________(pen) as a museum in1793, is ne f the largest museums in the wrld.
In the late 1980s abut 4.1 millin pupils annually attended abut 47 , 000 elementary schls,8.__________ ________, abut 5.4 millin students attended sme11,200secndary schls.Apprximately 1.2 millin students were enrlled annually at universities and clleges in France in 9._________late 1980s. French centers f learning have served as academic mdels thrughut the wrld.
Paris is the leading industrial center f France, with abut ne quarter f the natin's manufacturing cncentrated in the metrplitan area. Industries f cnsumer gds have always been drawn t Paris by the enrmus market f the big ppulatin, and mdern, high- technlgy industries als10. __________(becme) numerus since Wrld War ll. Chief manufactures are machinery, autmbiles,chemicals and electrical equipment.
Passage 160
In ancient times, the mst imprtant examinatin was spken, nt written. In the schls f ancient Greece and Rme, testing usually cnsisted f 1.__________(say) petry alud r giving speeches,
Generally, hwever, mdern examinatins are written. The written examinatin, 2__________ all students are tested n the same questins, was prbably nt knwn until the nineteenth century,Perhaps 3.__________came int existence with the great increase in ppulatin and the develpment f mdern industry.
Tw types f tests are cmmnly used in mdern schls. 4.__________first type is smetimes called an bjective test. It 5.__________(intend) t deal with facts, nt persnal pinins. On bjective tests, the student has just ne task: he must recgnize the crrect answer and then he must cpy its letter r number nt his examinatin paper. Smetimes there is an answer sheet n6.__________the fur letters r numbers are printed. Then the student nly has t circle the ne7.__________ges with the crrect answer.
Fr testing sme kinds f learning, hwever, such a test is nt very satisfactry. A lively student may guess the crrect answer 8.__________really knwing the material.
Fr a 9.__________(clear) picture f what the student knws, mst teachers use anther kind f examinatin in additin t bjective tests. They use . essay" tests, and the tests require students t write lng answers t brad, general questins. When sme essay questins are used alng with sme bjective questins, 10.__________, a fairly clear picture f the students' knwledge and ability can usually be btained.
Passage 161
Gd afternn, principal, teachers and all is my hnur t be here t give at talk t all f yu. I have studied in this schl fr five years. In these five years, I learned ne precius thing imprtant nt nly t me 2.__________t all f yu here, and it is reading. I can always gain knwledge frm reading. Reading desn't take 3.__________a lt f time but I gain a lt. Nw I wuld like t share my reading experiences with yu.
I nce read a bk Rare Air : Michael n Michael 4.__________ (write) by the greatest basketball player in the histry, Michael Jrdan. While we envy his great achievement in the basketball and business aspects, few f us fcus n his spirit f persistence. In the bk, he talks abut his experience f 5. __________he walks n the path t success. In rder t jin the NBA, he put in every effrt t strengthen his muscle, t imprve his skills 6.__________training hard. Because f his effrts, he successfully entered the NBA.
Hwever, he did nt stp his , the training was even stricter, 8._______prepared him t deny(否认) the statement released by the public, Michael is a weak guy! While the criticism against him diminished(减少；减小；缩减), he wrked even harder t achieve his next gal-the champinship f the NBA. Finally, he succeeded.
Peple hnr Michael as Gd f basketball nt nly fr his great basketball skills, but als mainly fr his spirit f persistence. While we admire his spirit, we can fllw his spirit as well. Michael shuld be ur example; we ught t learn frm him, S lng as(只要 ) we wrk hard, nthing is impssible.Bear in mind 9._______all f yu have the same quality. Nbdy is brn wise. Putting in effrt is the nly effective way t advancement. My fellw schlmates, befre I g, I wuld like t encurage all f yu that we shuld wrk as hard as we can. 10._______yu grw up, yu may be the ne wh is admired by the cmmunity. My fellw schlmates, let's wrk hard tgether! Wrk fr ur future!Thank yu.
Passage 162
The 28-year-ld wman had spent six years 1._____ ( wrk) nights while she gained her university degree during the day. 2._______she finally graduated she had her eye n a teaching psitin at a nearby primary schl. 3._______the help f her friends, she had an interview with the Head.
"I nticed a tiny hle in ne f my stckings earlier, " she recalls. "I thught abut changing them,4._______I knew l'd be late if I did. And by the time I gt t the interview, it was enrmus. I walked in aplgizing fr nt lking my best."The wuld-be teacher didn’t get the jb. In fact ne f her friends tld her 5._______the Head's nly cmment was: "If smene desn't take the time t present her best image at an interview, 6._______ kind f teacher is she ging t be?
First impressins are lasting 7._______In ther wrds, if yu’re viewed psitively within the critical ( 关键的) first fur minutes, the persn yu’ve met will prbably assume everything yu d is psitive. Leave the interviewer 8 bad impressin, and ften he will assume yu have a lt f ther unsatisfactry characters. Wrse, he r she may nt take the time t give yu a secnd chance.Mst emplyers believe that thse 9._______lk as if they care abut themselves 10._______(care) mre abut their jbs.
Passage 163
Cnsider these situatins: Yu have just read 1._______excellent bk and want t tell a friend abut it. Yu have seen an exciting mvie and want t persuade yur instructr 2. _______(g) t see it. Yu have heard an inspiring lecture, and want t share yur new fund knwledge with a rmmate3.________didn't attend the lecture.
Hw t give this type f infrmatin? Yu culd tell everything yu remember abut the bk,mvie, r lecture, 4._______yu will prbably just want t select the majr pints and tell these t yur listener. This, f curse, is called summarizing.
T create a gd summary, ne 5._______is bth accurate and brief, yu need t fllw tw steps. First, gather infrmatin by 6._______ ( read), taking ntes, r listening carefully s that yur summary is as brief 7._______pssible but still accurate and cmplete. Yur audience will help yu decide hw thrugh yu need t give yur summary t an instructr, perhaps fr an examinatin, it will need t be extremely cmplete as well as accurate. Yu will need t keep in mind any clues yur instructr might have given yu during the lecture t indicate 9._______he r she cnsiders especially imprtant. If yu are summarizing a mvie fr a friend, yu 10._______be less thrugh. Part f the task f summarizing is knwing what t include and what t leave ut.
Passage 164
Seventy years ag this mnth, 1._____ extrardinary mass escape happened frm Nazi-2._______( ccupy) Denmark. In September that year, the Nazi secret plice- -the Gestap-3._______ (decide) t deprt all Danish Jews t cncentratin camps, just as they'd dne t millins f ther Jews acrss Eurpe. Tipped ff abut German plans, t deprt them t cncentratin camps,almst the entire Jewish ppulatin- - -several thusand peple- -fled their hmes and left the cuntry.
AS he stepped nt the fishing bat 4._______was meant t carry them acrss the Baltic sea t safety, 14 year-ld Bent Melchir feared he 5. _______never see his hme again.
A week earlier, he had left the hme in Cpenhagen he shared 6._______his parents and fur siblings. 7._______was 8 Octber 1943 and Denmark was under Nazi ccupatin. Alng with thusands f ther Danish Jews, Bent and his family were fleeing the Germans.
We were gathered in this bat 8._______was suppsed t carry herrings, but 9_______it was nw carrying human beings he says.
They set ff after dark. There were 19 peple n the bat, 10.______ (hide) belw deck in case German planes 11.________(spt) them frm verhead. The night air was chilly and the sea rugh.
Peple 12._______were n the bat started t be sick, and every minute felt 13._______ an hur. Danish Jews in a fishing bat n 14._______way t Sweden, Octber 1943. Melchir and his family were part f a mass escape. That autumn night, 2 ,500 Jews set sail fr neighbring Sweden frm Danish beaches and prts, in rwing bats, canes, as stwaways n ferries and carg ships. Sme even swam acrss.
15._______19 mnths in Sweden, the German ccupatin f Denmark was ver. Liberatin came n 4 May, 1945 and the refugees were free 16._______ (return) hme. Melchir and his family mved back int their ld apartment in Cpenhagen.
Passage 165
SAL EKHARD, RUSSIA- -Fr centuries, plar bears have enjyed Arctic waters in , they are getting cmpany in the summer.
Last summer, China sent its first icebreaker, the Snw Dragn, ver the tp f Russia, frm Shanghai t Iceland.
This summer, the Yng Sheng, a freighter 2._______(perate) by China's COSCO shipping cmpany, became the first Chinese merchant vessel t take the shrtcut. 3._______sailed frm Shanghai t Rtterdam, cutting tw weeks 4._______the usual rute, thrugh Egypt's Suez Canal.
Satellite phts by the U.S. space agency, NASA, shw that the white Arctic ice arund the Nrth Ple shrinks every summer. It 5._______( replace) by mre and mre pen water, 6._______appears black in the phts.
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees with the American scientists. "It is abslutely clear nw 7._______the climate is changing. Everyne is talking abut this," he tld an Arctic Frum held here recently. It is clear nw that the nrthern latitudes 8._______ be pen fr shipping fr 100 days r perhaps 150 days, and that new regins are pening up fr ecnmic activity.
9._______Russia invests in mre icebreakers, Arctic experts gathered at the frum say they see grwing pprtunities fr trade.
Felix Tschudi, chairman f a Nrwegian shipping cmpany, has shipped irn re frm nrthern Nrway t China.
We believe that the ptential f the Nrthern Sea Rute is large," said Tschudi, a prmter f the rute. "It will nt be like an explsin. In 2010, there were fur ships 10._______ (use) the transit rute. In 2011, there were 34. And in 2012 there were 46. This year we expect arund 50 ships."
Lawsn Brigham was the captain f a United States Cast Guard icebreaker based in Alaska.
Really, we're lking at a seasnal supplement t the Suez Canal, 11._______ ( carry) natural :resurces, he said. We're nt ging t retl the glbal cntainer ship traffic.
Envirnmental cncerns: Indigenus leaders and envirnmentalists wrry abut the ptential fr an il spill in the fragile envirnment f the high nrth,
Aqqaluk Lynge, frm Greenland, is chairman f the Inuit Circumplar Cuncil.
Yu cannt use the Arctic 12._______a labratry. lt's nt a labratry. The Arctic Ocean is nt the last frntier. It's ur hme. Peple have t remember that peple live there," he said at the cnference. "We are very 13._______(cncern) abut the turist liners travel rutes up t east Greenland and ther parts f Greenland 14._______there's simply n rescue pssibility in thse areas."
But his neighbr Olafur Grimssn, the president f lceland, welcmes Chinese ships,
He tld frum attendees: Next mnth the CEO f COSCO, 15._______(large) shipping cmpany in China, will explain at the new Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik hw China is preparing fr a new era in glbal shipping when the melting f the Arctic sea- ice will cnnect Asia in 16._______new way t America and Eurpe."
What may be bad fr plar bears may be gd fr shipping between China and Eurpe.
Passage 166
Kipchge Kein is a mdest man, and it takes sme prdding t get the great Kenyan runner t recall hw he felt n Oct, 20, 1968 1._______he wn his first gld medal in the 1, 500 meters in Mexic City. The day hadn't started ut well, Kein 2._______(suffer) frm stmach pains that later turned ut t be a severe gallbladder infectin. His dctrs advised 3._______running; he ignred them. During the race, Kein was s fcused n cmpeting against American ace Jim Ryun4._______, in retrspect, withut watching a vide, I wuldn't knw what happened at the finish."He des remember what happened next. "I ran 5._______hnr lap. I ran it t celebrate and t let my bdy recver. I felt vercme by the excitement." It was nt nly a memrable event in his life that day.Back hme, his wife, Phyllis, gave birth t their third daughter, 6._______ ( name) Milka Olympia Chelagat in celebratin f her father's victry.
Kein went n 7._______(win) a silver medal in the 5,000 meters in Mexic City and a gld and a silver fur years later in Munich. He then became Kenya's Olympic 8._______ (run) cach frm 1976t 1986, furthering his natin's dminance in distance events. Kenya runners 9._______(capture) 32Olympic track medals since 1964 and wn the last six cnsecutive Bstn Marathns. This summer,
Kein will be in Atlanta as chief f the 120- athlete Kenyan delegatin, which 10._______include his sn Martn, 23, a frmer NCAA 5, 000-meter champin at the University f Arizna, 11._______(hpe) t qualify fr the 1 ,500 meters.
But Kein's athletic accmplishments are nt the nly reasn he is a her in the twn f Eldret in nrthwestern Kenya. Thirty years ag, Kein and his wife- 12._______nw have seven children f their wn- -began taking rphans int their hme. 13. huse became s crwded that they raised funds t build a drmitry and a dining hall n a nearby farm Kein wns. Incme 14._______(supprt) the facility cmes frm the farm, his sprts shp and fees he has received frm the Kenyan gvernment ver the years. Tday, 73 children and yung adults -aged2 t22 -live n the farm. "I think I have been lucky, Kein says. Nw 15._______ I use what I have t help thers."
Passage 167
Rdney Mace, 35, 1._______(marry) with tw yung children, and is a part-time teacher f architectural histry, "I am cnstantly surprised by ther peple's surprise, 2._______they cme t the huse and see me 3._______(clean) a flr r hanging ut the washing. Their eyes pen wide at the sight f it! Much f the cmment cmes frm men. But I am even 4._______ ( surprised) at the number f wmen wh cmment t."
His wife Jane, an Oxfrd graduate in mdern languages, has 5._______demanding full- time jb.She is directr f the Cambridge Huse literacy scheme fr adults in Suth Lndn. Her wrking week invlves several evenings and Saturdays, and at these times 6._______ husband is in sle charge f hme and family. 7._______frm this, they share husehld jbs and emply a child-minder fr the afternns. 8._______enables him t teach tw days a week and t d 9._______ he cnsiders his principal wrk: writing. He has written several bks and spends much f his time in the British Museum Reading Rm, cycling there frm his hme in Brixtn.
Peple ask the Maces 10. _______they think their children miss them. One can argue that11._______( satisfy) parents generally have satisfied children, but in any case the Maces are careful t reserve time and energy t play with their children. And they have nw develped relatinships with ther adults and children.
Previusly, Rdney Mace wrked fl-time and Jane nly part-time. Then 18 mnths ag, the directr f the literacy scheme left. "It seems t me that Jane was very well suited t d this jb. She was very dubtful abut it. 12._______I urged her t apply. She did, and she gt it. Jane Mace cnfirms that she needed this encuragement, 13.____ S many wmen initially d.
Did his male eg suffer frm the change ver? 14._______like that ccurred. But he still seems amazedat the way it changed his thinking. "I felt that we were finally ging t be partners. I felt enrmus relief. I wasn’t aviding respnsibility, but changing it. Our relatinship is S much better nw. It has been a change fr the gd fr bth f us -think fr all f us, in every aspect f ur lives. I 15._____ nt veremphasize that: in every aspect, I think it is fundamental 16._______the wman wrks. The idea f equal partnership is an illusin if ne partner desn't wrk."
Passage 168
Tw dlphins race arund in a big pl in the Ocean Park. The 1._______ ( small) dlphin Grace,shwed ff a few f her tricks, 2._______ (turn) arund and waving hell t the crwd, The mst amazing thing abut her, 3._______ , is that she's even swimming at all. She desn't have a tail.
Grace lst her tail as a baby 4._______ she gt caught up in a fish trap,
When the dlphin arrived at the Ocean Park in December 2005, she 5._____ (fight) fr her life."Is she ging t make it? Her trainer, Abbey Stne, feared the wrst. Grace did make 6._______ but her tail didn't. She ended up 7._______ (lse) her flukes and the lwer part f her peduncle.
Over the past Six years, she has learned t swim 8._______ her tail. Dlphins swim by mving their flukes and peduncle up and dwn. Grace taught herself t mve anther way- like a fish! She pushed herself frward thrugh the water by mving her peduncle frm side t side. The mvements put harmful pressure n Grace's backbne. 9._______ a cmpany ffered 10._______ (create) a man-made tail fr her. The tail had t be strng enugh t stay n Grace as she swam 11._______ sft enugh that it wuldn’t hurt her.
The first time Grace wre the artificial tail, she sn shk it ff 12._______ let it sink in the bttm f the pl. Nw, she is still learning t use the tail. Sme days she wears it fr an hur at a time, thers nt at all. "The tail isn't necessary fr her 13._______ (feel) cmfrtable, " says Stne,but it helps t keep that range f mtin( 动作) and build muscles( 肌肉)."
Nw, the dlphin is abut t get an even happier ending. This mnth, Grace will. star in Dlphin Tale, 14._______film that fcuses n her rescue and recvery. Her prgress has inspired mre than just a new mvie. Many peple travel frm near and far 15._______ (meet) her. Seeing Grace swim with her man-made tail gives peple 16._______ much curage.
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第一章专项练习
专项练习
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What's the name f the persn wh lent yu the mney?
2. He wh laughs last laughs best.
3. The chairman f the meeting, wh spke first, sat n my right.
4. There are sme peple (whm/ wh) we like and thers ( whm/ wh) we dislike.
5. The peple that/ whm/ wh I wrk with are all friendly.
6. Mr. Carter, whm I spke t n the phne last night, is very interested in ur plan.
7. Tw men, neither f whm I had ever seen befre, came t my ffice.
8. There are sme peple whse faces yu will never frget.
9. I saw sme trees whse leaves were black because f air pllutin.
10. This is a flk sng which is nw very ppular.
11. The river which flws thrugh Lndn is the Thames.
12. The children like the ckies which my wife makes.
13. Jim passed his driving test, which surprised everybdy.
14. Sheila culdn't cme t the party, which was a pity.
15. Jhn stayed here fr a week, during which time we visited the West Lake tgether.
16. It might snw this weekend, in which case we wn't g t Beijing.
17. He desn't lk at prblems the way (that) we d.
18. I've never heard such stries as he tells.
19. He lifted s big a stne as n ne else culd lift.
20. She wre the same dress as her yunger sister wre.
21. She wre the same dress that she wre at Mary's wedding.
22. As we all knw, Taiwan belngs t China.
23. He is frm the suth, as we can knw frm his accent.
24. He is a man f rich experience, frm whm much can be learned.
= He is a man f rich experience , whm much can be learned frm.
25. The schl in which he nce wrked is a key schl.
=The schl which he nce wrked in is a key schl.
26. The manager in whse cmpany I wrk pays much attentin t imprving ur wrking cnditins.
=The manager whse cmpany I wrk in pays much attentin t imprving ur wrking cnditins.
27. This is the famus singer whm we have ften talked abut.
28. Frtunately, we had a map, withut which we wuld have gt lst.
29. Please pass me the bk the cver f which is blue.
30. She's gt three lucky pens, tw f which have never been used.
31. There are abut 200 teachers in ur schl, thirty percent f whm are wmen.
32. I find many apples in the basket, sme f which have gne bad.
33. There are fifty students in ur class, mst f whm are frm big cities.
34. Nrman wn $ 50,000, half f which he gave t his parents.
35. Tm tried n three shirts, nne f which he was satisfied with.
36. China has thusands f islands, the largest f whịch is Taiwan.
37. He usually returns hme at ten, at which time his father lcks all the drs and windws.
38. His wife gt seriusly ill, in which case he had t give up/ abandn the chance t g abrad.
39. The tw things f which they felt prud were Jim's watch and Della's hair.
40. In the dark street, there was nt a single persn t whm she culd turn fr help.
41. I'll never frget the day n which I first met him.
42. Can yu imagine a prper situatin where the expressin can be used.
43. Galile made a telescpe thrugh which he culd study the sky.
44. These are my glasses, withut which I cannt see anything clearly.
45. I, wh am yur best friend, will d all that I can t help yu.
46. The family, wh are fnd f music, g t the cncert nce a mnth.
47. He is ne f the bys in the class wh speak English well.
48. He is the nly ne f the bys in ur class wh speaks English well.
49. I still remember the day when I first came t this schl.
50. He came at a time when we needed him mst.
51. We will never frget the year 1949, when the Peple' 's Republic f China was funded.
52. I recently went back t the city where I was brn.
53. I wuld like t live in a cuntry where there is plenty f sunshine.
54. What's the name f the place where yu spent yur hliday?
55. Please tell me the reasn why yu missed the plane.
56. The reasn why he was punished is unknwn t all f us.
57. I have a bk that teaches English grammar.
58. The peple whm yu met in the hall are frm Japan.
59. New Cncept English is intended nly fr freign students, as is knwn t us all.
60. The sun, which is a fixed star, gives us light and heat.
61. Last year I visited the Great Hall f the peple, where many imprtant meetings are held every year.
62. Mr. Je lives in Beijing nw, which is quite a lng way frm here.
63. I cngratulate my neighbr, whse sn has just wn the electin.
64. His mther, -wh lves him very much, is strict with him.
65. One wh has nthing t fear dares t tell the truth.
66. Anyne wh breaks the law shall be published.
67. Thse wh are against the plan put up yur hands please.
68. Dn’t tell anyne abut the secret wh ughtn't t knw it.69. I was the nly persn in my ffice wh was invited.
70. The weather was very terrible , which we hadn’t expected.
71. He climbed up t the tp f a large rck, frm which he gt a gd view.
72. Sund is a tl, by means f which peple cmmunicate with each ther.
73. He is dead and there's nthing that can be dne.
74. There was nthing that we culd d t help her.
75. These walls are all that remain f the ancient city.
76. The first place that they visited in Lndn was the Big Ben.
77. She was prbably the mst diligent student (that) I have ever taught.
78. This is the very grammar bk that I want t buy.
79. Beauty is the nly thing that Emily can be prud f.
80. Wh that has cmmn sense will believe such nnsense?
81. The driver and the car that fell int the river have nt been fund yet.
82. The child and the dg that were believed t be lst in the wds were rescued this mrning.
83. She is n lnger the sweet girl that she used t be.
84. I will never frget the days when we spent ur hlidays tgether.
85. I will never frget the days that we spent tgether.
86. I knw a place where we can have a picnic.
87. I knw a place that/ which is famus fr its beautiful natural scenery.
88. The man whm I was sitting next t n the plane talked all the time.
89. It was in the lab that/ which was set up last year that they finished the experiment.
90. It was the students wh came frm ur schl that wn the first prize in the cntest.
第二章
专项练习
ⅰ.1-5 ABCAD 6-10 BBDCA 11-15 CBBBD 16-20 BBDAD 21-25 BCCDD
ⅱ.1-5 BCABA 6-10 CBDBB 11-15 CBCDC 16-20 BDCDA 21-21 CBADD
26-30 BDABB 31-35 AADCB
ⅲ.1-5 ADCAC
ⅳ.1-5 CCBBD 6-10 AABBA 11-15 BDACA
ⅴ.1-5 BDDBD 6-10 CDDBD 11-15 DDCDD 16-20 AAABC 21-25 ACBDA
综合练习
Ⅰ.
where 2. what 3. where 4. where 5. that 6. wh . 7. whatever 8. that 9. whever 10. that 11. whever 12. hw 13. that 14. that 15. that 16. that 17. what 18. where 19. what 20. when 21. that 22. that 23. what 24. what 25. What 26. why 27. whether 28. what 29. that 30. wh 31. what 32. that 33. Whether 34. that 35. what 36. what 37. which; what 38. that 39. what 40. what 41. what; that 42. What 43. that 44. that 45. that 46. that 47. that 48. that 49. whether 50. whether 51. whatever 52. hw 53. whichever 54. that 55. that 56. whether 57. what 58. whether 59. whever 60. that 61. whether 62. what 63. what 64. what 65. why 66. what 67. what 68. hw 69. that 70. that 71. what 72. that 73. what 74. where 75. Whever
Ⅱ.
1.What matters is whether yu have tried t finish the task.
2.What makes me surprised is that s many peple brke the wrld recrd with effrts.
3. What makes me happy is that I was admitted t Fudan University, which I had been dreaming f.
4. Whether he rbbed the bank remains t be further investigated.
5. Whether the sprts meeting will be held tmrrw depends n the weather.
6. The reasn why he didn't attend the meeting n time was that he had been caught in a traffic jam.
7. The reasn why my mther was sad was that she had lst a bag, cntaining many imprtant files.
8. The reasn he explained fr this accident at the meeting was that smene neglected his duty.
9. Dctrs came t realize that the envirnment f the hspital is very imprtant t the recvery f diseases.
10. He felt that artists had lst their place in mdern sciety and that art shuld be enjyed by a larger audience.
11. Whether we begin the experiment depends n whether we have enugh mney.
12. The difficulty lies in the fact that attitudes twards ppulatin grwth vary frm cuntry t cuntry.
13. When children grw up, they shuld be encuraged t d whatever husewrk they can d.
14. Mre and mre cllege students are faced with the fact that it is very hard t find a suitable jb.
15. There is n dubt that the gvernment will take measures t prevent the disease frm spreading/the spread f the disease.
16. Whether the meeting will be held as planned hasn’t been decided yet.
17. That China jined the WTO is nt nly a great challenge but als a gd pprtunity.
18. It is reprted that s far 91 children have died in the fld.
19. Human beings have t accept the fact that because f green huse effect, glbal climate is becming warmer and warmer.
20. Why metals can cnduct electricity is an interesting questin.
21. When this thery was riginally frmed is nt knwn.
22. There is n pssibility that human beings will ever be cntrlled by rbts.
23. The suggestin that we shuld develp the natural resurces in this regin has been discussed.
24. What is the mst imprtant thing fr us t d nw is t prtect the wild animals which are being threatened with extinctin.
25. It is a fact that paper was first made in China.
26. He has made it clear that he has nthing t d with this matter.
27. There isn't a wrd f truth in what he said.
28. It depends n whether yu want t d it r nt.
29. They have agreed n/ reached an agreement n when and where the multi: -natins meeting shuld be held.
30. It seems that we have seen each ther smewhere befre.
31. He lks as if he were a happy bird, singing all the time.
32. Yur task is that yu shuld try every means t bring back sme fd befre six ’clck, r we'll stay hungry tnight.
33. My suggestin t yur English study is that yu read mre, write mre and listen mre.
34. I have n idea where they have gne.
35. We must face the fact that we have spent all ur mney.
36. His request that the hspital (shuld) give him sme explanatins is reasnable.
37. It wrried her a bit that her hair was turning grey.
38. Yu cant imagine hw excited they were when they received the nice present.
39. The prblem is what we shuld d t help him.
40. D yu agree t the plan that we have a trip the day after tmrrw?
41. When and hw he ges hme is his wn decisin.
42. Which team will win is uncertain.
43. Three days later, we heard the wrd that China had launched anther man- made satellite.
44. It makes n difference whether ur sprts meet will be held this week r next week.
45. What we are ding nw has never been dne befre.
第三章
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 DBDBD 6-10 BBAAD 11-15 CBDCA 16-20 DDBCD 21-25 BADAD
ⅱ.1-5 BBDBA 6-10 DDDBD
ⅲ.1-5 BCBBA 6-10 ACBBD 11-15 BADAB
ⅳ.1-5 AACAB
ⅴ.1-5 DCCBD 6-10 CABDB 11-15 DBDAB 16-20 CCCCA
ⅵ.1-5 CBDCC
ⅶ.1-5 ADDAC 6-7 BC
ⅷ.1-4 CABD
ⅸ.1-5 DCDAC 6-10 BCBDB
综合练习
Ⅰ.
1.Hwever 2. unless 3. whether 4. Hwever 5.when 6.where 7. in that 8.s lng as/as lng as 9.unless 10. While/ Thugh/ Althugh 11.since 12.as 13. when 14.where 15.unless 16. hwever 17. as well as 18.where 19. Nw that/Since 20. Whatever 21.befre 22. until; as 23. Hwever/ N matter hw 24.s;that 25. if 26. unless 27. when 28. unless 29. 30. when 31. while 32.but 33. Althugh/Thugh 34. until/ till/befre 35. because 36. why, since 37. If; then 38. until 39. Every time/Each time 40. as/ thugh 41. in case 42. where 43. as/ thugh 44. as lng as/ s lng as 45. Hwever/N matter hw 46. While/ Thugh/ Althugh 47. as 48. where 49. as 50. unless 51. as lng as/s lng as 52. unless 53. Even if/Even thugh 54. when 55.where 56.althugh/thugh 57.while 58.Befre 59. s that/in rder that 60. whever/whmever 61.as if /as thugh 62. While/Thugh/Althugh 63.until 64.whenever/n matter when 65.when 66.when 67.althugh/thugh 68.since 69.whatever/n matter what 70.than 71.while 72.Althugh/Thugh /While 73.While/Thugh/Althugh 74.While/Thugh/Althugh 75.even thugh / even if
Ⅱ.
They like t g traveling where there is the sea.
2. Because it rained last night, the grund is wet.
3. It must have rained last night, fr the grund is wet.
4. Since everyne understands it, let's begin.
5. He gt up early s that he culd catch the first bus.
6. He gt up s early that he caught the first bus.
7. He cut ff the elecricity s that he culd prevent the fire frm breaking ut.
8. I wnt g t the party unless I am invited.
9. As lng as yu trust me, I will be able t help yu t achieve yur gal.
10. Once yu lse yur cnfidence, yu will lse everything.
11. Even if everyne says s, I still dn't believe this is true.
12. Whether yu agree r nt, I will chse this university.
13. N matter wh yu are, yu must shw the passprt.
14. N matter where yu g, I will be with yu.
15. Please d this experiment as I tld yu t d.
16. The mre yu listen t English, the mre fluently yu speak.
17. Please dn't frget t turn ff the light and clse the windws when yu leave the classrm.
18. I have lived in Lndn since I left Shanghai tw years ag.
19. It began t rain as sn as Jane gt hme yesterday.
20. The baby didn't stp crying until he saw his mther.
21. I wn't g t the party tnight because I have a lt f hmewrk t d.
22. There is nly ne week t g befre the final exam, s all the students are busy.
23. Since these prducts have similar functins, yu can chse ne at will.
24. He sat ppsite t the ld man s that he culd hear mre clearly.
25. It seemed quite a while befre my turn came.
26. The husband and wife fell ut befre their marriage was a mnth ld.
27. He didn't cme t (himself) until he tk the new medicine.
28. When he perfrmed n stage, his parents were seated in the stand.
29. He has been ahead f his classmates in English after he read these bks.
30. The recrder is s small in vlume that it can be put it in yur pcket.
31. He stuck t his wn pinin because he was sure that what he had dne was right.
32. Even if what yu say is right, I still think yu are wrng.
33. It did nt matter much because they were ging t be free twenty-fur hurs later.
34. We were abut t leave when a plice car came.
35. Make a mark where there is a questin.
36. Mst parts f the machine will be made f plastics instead f metal s that its weight will be reduced greatly.
37. She repeated the stry s many times that everyne was tired f her.
38. His parents met almst all his requirements s that he was spiled.
39. Once this issue is declared t all, it will be filmed sn.
40. Whenever I see this bk, it reminds me f what my grandfather said.
41. Mr. Smith was mved by the beauty f the West Lake the first time he went t Hangzhu.
42. As he finished the speech, the audience burst int applause.
43. Directly he uttered these wrds, there was a dead silence.
44. Turn ff the switch when anything ges wrng with the machine.
45. A bdy at rest will nt mve until a frce is exerted n it.
46. We can't start the jb until we have the apprval frm the authrities cncerned.
47. Gas differs frm slid in that it has n definite shape.
48. Thery is valuable because it can prvide a directin fr practice.
49. I teach nt because teaching is very easy fr me.
50. The machine did nt mve nt because the fuel was used up.
51. It was better in case they were captured.
52. N dubt I culd have earned smething if I had really meant t.
53. N matter what I say r hw I say it, he always thinks I'm wrng.
54. While we can nt see air, we can feel it.
55. Even thugh yu dn’t like the prpsal, yu shuldn't have rejected it withut cnsulting thers.
56. He pushed the dr pen gently and stle ut f the rm fr fear that he shuld awake her.
57. We shuld start early s that we culd get there befre nn.
58. He emphasized it again and again, lest she shuld frget.
59. They hid themselves behind sme bushes fr fear that the enemy shuld find them.
60. He made a wrng decisin s that half f his lifetime was wasted.
61. She never cmes but she brrws.
62. It is three years since that engineer left his hmetwn.
63. The first time he tk the plane, he was t nervus t speak.
64. It is difficult fr yu t cmplete the task unless yu cperate with each ther.
65. Hwever busy he is, he will g t his neighbrs help as lng as he is needed.
66. Shrt f mney as he is, he is still funding the child in the muntain area.
67. As far as I knw, the writer has never written a lve letter.
68. Once yu have made a prmise, yu can't let anyne dwn.
69. He cmplained that he had been waiting fr us until the flwers faded.
70. It is n mre than frty years since the cmputer was invented.
71. He didn't begin t make a living n his wn until he was in his thirties.
72. Please think it ver befre yu decide what t d.
73. Unless yu imprve yur study habits, yu cant make prgress in physics.
74. Unless yu are in a hurry, I suggest yu g there by train.
75. It was many years befre peple came t recgnize the scientist's discvery in bilgy.
76. Nt until I read this bk did I knw mre abut the histry f Hng Kng.
77. T this day I still remember the time when I was invited t visit Hng Kng fr the first time.
78. It wn't be lng befre we meet again.
79. He fell asleep in the sfa befre the ftball game began.
80. He hesitated fr a lng time befre he made his decisin.
81. As lng as yu dn't give up halfway, yu are sure t wrk wnders.
82. Nt until dusk did he realize that he had gt int truble.
83. Every time he passes by his Alma Mater, he wn't frget t drp in n his teachers.
84. The first time I played glf, I fell in lve with this sprt.
85. Unless yu take urgent measures, ur plan will be spiled.
86. She remained unknwn until she came first in the singing cntest.
87. Whether yu have cmmitted a crime r nt, yu must respect the judges n the curt.
88. Blind in bth eyes as he was, he didn't give up his dream f being a writer.
89. Matches shuld be kept where children cant reach them.
90. The mment he saw the plice car, he realized that smething had happened.
第四章
Ⅰ.
专项练习
ⅰ.1-5 AACCC
ⅱ.1-5 CACCB 6-10 CDBAC 11-15 BABCD 16-19 CDCD
ⅲ.1-5 ADCAC 6-10 CCCBA 11-15 DBACB
ⅳ.1-5 CCBBB
ⅴ.1-5 BCADC 6-10 AABCC
ⅵ.1-5 DABAD
ⅶ.1-5 DADBB
ⅷ.1-5 CADAA
不定式阶段练习
t reduce 2. t reprt 3. T be accepted 4. wander 5.t leave 6. becme 7. T ensure 8. t be made 9. grw/ grwing 10. T imprve 11. t frm 12. t have 13. pat 14. t be caused 15. t issue 16. t be imprved/ imprving 17. t play 18. t make 19. t sing 20. t have been tld 21. t have seen 22. admit 23. play 24. t be returned 25. t be taken 26. t find 27. t sleep
Ⅱ.
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 CACAA 6-10 BAABC
ⅱ. 1-5 BAADC 6-10 ADDAB
ⅲ. 1-5 CCCAD 6-10 ADDAB
ⅳ. 1-6 BACAAC
ⅴ. 1-4 CDDB
ⅵ. 1-6 DADCCB
ⅶ. 1-5 DBDBC
动名词阶段练习
1. repairing 2. cutting 3. keeping 4. puzzling 5. cleaning, t g 6. sleeping 7. reviewing; cming 8. reading 9. t be read 10. sleeping 11. arriving 12. walking; t get 13. walking; left; hired 14. making 15. getting 16. finding 17. discussing 18. preparing 19. repairing 20. taking; belnged 21. having been given 22. finding 23. being seen 24. being finished 25. being killed 26. nt being seen 27. having wasted/ wasting 28. learned 29. spken; speaking 30. washing t be washed
Ⅲ.
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 BCDAC 6-10 ADACB
ⅱ. 1-5 BADAB 6-10 CABAC
ⅲ. 1-5 BBBCC
ⅳ. 1-5 AABAC 6-10 AADBD
ⅴ. 1-5 CACCD 6-9 BCBA
ⅵ. 1-5 BCBDB 6-10 CBDCB 11-15 CBBDA
ⅶ. 1-6 BBCAAB
ⅷ. 1-5 DDCCD 6-10 BDCAC
分词阶段练习
1. having been separated 2. tiring; tired 3. added6. staring 4. infrmed 5. surprised; surprising 6.staring 7. based 8. finishing 9. taking 10. fllwing 11. reaching 12. lcked 13. hping t be set free 14. making; devted 15. was walking 16. t learn 17. based 18. missing 19. Suppsing 20. Cmpared 21. burning 22. dating 23. set; lking 24. Lst 25. built 26. referred t, be put/ being put 27. being 28. engaged 29. Disappinted 30. Hidden; armed 31. made; wrking 32. ending 33. buried; remain 34. had been explained 35. taken 36. Seen; cvering 37. weighing 38. t be made 39. marked 40. taken 41. pen 42.supprting 43. being fixed 44. settled
Ⅳ.
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 BABBA 6-10 BACBA
ⅱ. 1-5 CACCC 6-10 DACBD 11-15 CBDCC 16-20 CABCB 21-25 BBBBB 26-30 VAVDA 31-35 CCABB 36-40 DACAD 41-45 DACAC 46-50 DDCBD 51-55 BAABB
ⅲ. 1-5 CAABC 6-10 ABBBB
ⅳ. 1-5 BCCCA 6-10 CABAB 11-15 DBCAA 16-20 BACBD 21-25 DDBCA 26-30 CDADB 31-35 DCABD
ⅴ. 1-5 ABCBC 6-10 ABBCB 11-15 CACDB 16-20 ABDCC 21-25 CBBBA 26-30 BACBA 31-35 BACCC 36-40 ACCBB 41-45 CDDDB 46-50 CCCCB
ⅵ. 1-5 BCBAA 6-10 BAABC 11-15 BBABC 16-20 ADBBB
ⅶ. 1-5 DBBCA 6-10 CBACC 11-15 DCBAC 16-20 BCCDD 21-25 BADBC 26-30 CABAB
综合练习
Ⅰ.
1. t lk at 2. made 3. t be held 4. being taken 5. included 6. affected 7. Trembling; 8. Being t blame 9. Having sufferer 10. t have 11. Having been tld 12. T cmplete
13. Encuraged 14. Tired 15. indicating 16. cmpared 17. t deal 18. running 19. t help 20. Attending 21. t breathe 22. t find 23. t be welcmed 24. intrducing 25. Thrwing 26. having been prmted 27. allwed 28. blwn dwn 29. T cmplete 30. living 31. Having been shwn 32. waiting 33. Having 34. Nt realizing 35. fund 36. Having waited 37. seated 38. stpping 39. seated 40. spken 41. wrking 42. Seeing 43. t arrive 44. being pened and clsed 45. t persuade 46. nt taking 47. t be trained 48. lst 49. Having said 50. saying 51. t g 52. thinking f 53. funded 54. invlving 55. t satisfy 56. married 57. Kicking 58. perating 59. Having,been asked 60. t perate 61. fllwing 62. t find 63. winding 64. washed 65. t speak 66. ffering 67. starting 68. used 69. ding 70. cnsider 71. t be made 72. wn't make 73. Standing 74. t meet 75. crrecting 76. Used 77. t watch 78. hping 79. t be tld 80. t be made 81. being attacked 82. realizing 83. reserved 84. quit 85. t remain 86. Basing 87. Gathering 88. asked 89. lcking 90. rising 91. jined 92. saying 93. t be updated 94. keeping 95. t stay 96. leaving 97. cmpared 98. permitting 99. prvided 100. t carry 101. Translated 102. lking 103. Opened 104. t have wrked 105. leading 106. cmparing 107. funded 108. t hld 109. t break 110. having 111. lst 112. t be cheered 113. studying 114. t keep 115. Offered 116. t raise 117.reminded 118. checked 119. making 120. t express 121. selected 122. feeling 123. Gathering 124. saying 125. t teach 126. t be repaired 127. grw; wrking 128. having dne 129. examined
Ⅱ.
China is a develping cuntry, belnging t the Third Wrld.
2. The man speaking t us has gne t Japan.
3. There are a lt f students waiting t welcme the freign teachers at the schl gate.
4. The lecture given by Mr. Smith yesterday was very interesting.
5. Sme f them, brn and brught up in the cuntryside, have never seen a train.
6. The building being built will serve as ur dining hall.
7. Wh is the girl reading alud under the big tree?
8. Thse interested in the lecture are welcme t attend it in time.
9. Hearing the news, they jumped with jy.
10. Nt knwing his address, we have n way t get in tuch with him.
11. They sent a letter t me, hping t get my supprt.
12. The freigner std there, lking very wrried and bviusly getting lst.
13. Having been wrking with him fr many years, I knws him very well.
14. Believing that Juliet had died, Rme decided t kill himself.
15. Knwing that he hadn't enugh mney and nt wanting t brrw frm his father, he decided t pawn his watch.
16. Nt understanding the lcal language and having n friend in the cuntry, she fund it impssible t find a jb.
17. Lking ut f the windw, I saw a few birds singing in the tree.
18. The child fell ver, striking his head against the wall.
19. Adding up the figures, we'll find the crrect answers.
20. We sat by the windw, talking abut what happened yesterday.
21. Thinking that Mr. Jacksn was a thief, the guard turned arund and caught him.
22. Climbing t the tp f the muntain, we saw a beautiful scene.
23. Living in the lnely cuntryside, they knw little abut the utside wrld.
24. He lay there, lying that the eggs laid by the hens the day befre yesterday had been laid in the basket.
25. Having taken my temperature, my mther fund I was having a high fever.
26. Having been shwn arund the lab, we were taken t see the library.
27. Nt having finished his lessns, he wn't g ut t play.
28. Knwing (Having been tld) that sme guests wuld cme, they had gt the rms ready.
29. Having failed twice, she didn't want t have anther try.
30. Realizing that the guard mistk Mr. Jacksn fr a thief, the wman manager aplgized t Mr. Jacksn.
31. Nt having heard frm yu s lng, I miss yu indeed.
32. Once seen, she will never be frgtten.
33. Written in simple English, the bk is very easy t understand.
34. Explained in anther way, the prblem is easier t understand.
35. Cmpared with that dress, this ne suits her better.36. Given mre time, I will wrk ut the prblem.
37. The visitrs walked in, fllwed by a grup f yung peple.
38. Hearing that he fell ill, I went t see him right away.
39. Arriving at the statin, I fund the train had already left. 1 I arrived at the statin, nly t find the train had already left.
40. They sent me an invitatin, inviting me t attend a birthday party.
41. The ld lady walked int the rm, supprted by her tw daughters.
42. Inspired by the news, they decided t set ut at nce.
43. The sun having set, we had t stay at the village fr the night.
44. With the telephne ut f rder, we can't get in tuch with him.
45. It being such a fine day, smene suggested hlding a party in the pen air.
46. She sat there, silent, tears running dwn frm her cheeks.
47. There being n bus, we had n chice but t walk hme.
48. D the children need lking after/ need t be lked after?
49. The captain gave an rder t crss the river at nce.
50. This is an imprtant way t raise prductin.
51. He was the first student t raise the questin.
52. She isn’t a persn nly t think f herself.
53. It being early, there is n need t hurry.
54. Everyne is t anxius t knw the examinatin results.
55. He is determined t devte himself t the cause f educatin. / He is determined t be devted t the cause f educatin.
56. The rm is uncmfrtable t live in.
57. We were in a hurry s as nt t miss the train.
58. We kept the news as a secret s as nt t make him discuraged.
59. Wuld yu be s kind as t give us sme advice n hw t learn English?
60. He is said t be in better health than befre.
61. The bk is said t have been translated int several languages.
62. When asked f the questin, he was at a lss.
63. Yu're asked t attend the English lecture t be held at 5 p.m. tmrrw in the lecture hall.
64. The first thing fr us t d is t make a careful plan.
65. I was wndering whether t stay here fr anther week at that time.
66. Srry, I frgt t refer t the matter in the letter.
67. It's pretty hard t finish such a tugh task within such a shrt time.
68. It's ur duty t remind him f the matter.69. He ffered t help us with English.
70. What we shuld d nw is ( t) imprve ur living cnditins.
71. On getting ff the plane, he fund himself surrunded by many reprters.
72. He lay there, nly with his face expsed.
73. He reached the railway statin exhausted, nly t find the train had already left.
74. Realizing that smething might happen, he left in a hurry.
75. Dressed in red, she lks mre beautiful.
76. Did yu remember t turn ff the light? Yu are always frgetting t turn it ff.
77. She was lying in bed wide awake, with her eyes fixed n the ceiling.
78. We had t stand in the rain, waiting fr the next rain t cme.
79. With smene kncking the dr, the thief's heart beat very fast, nt knwing what t d.
80. Cmpared with the advanced wrkers, we have a lng way t g.
第五章
专项练习
Ⅰ.
ⅰ.ⅱ.1-5 BBDCB
ⅲ.1-5 ACBBC
ⅳ.ⅴ.ⅵ. 1-5 BDCCD 6-8 CCB
ⅶ.ⅷ.ⅸ. 1-6 BCBDCD
ⅹ. 1-5 BCCCB
Ⅱ.
1-5 CBCCD
综合练习
Ⅰ. 1-5 DDACC 6-10 CDDDB 11-15 CADAD 16-20 DDBCC 21-25 DBDCD 26-30 DBBBD 31-35 BCACB
Ⅱ.
are being cut
are infected
3. has been tried
4. are t be wrked
5. have been given
6. was reprted
7. has been cntrlled
8. are ffered
9. is dne
10. have yu been emplyed
11. have been made
12. will be reached
13. was expsed
14. have been built
15. has nt been cmpleted
16. is expected
17. will be repaid
18. were sld
19. was prvided
20. had been cnducted
21. had been tld
22. is paid
Ⅲ.
1. He wrte many plays when he was at cllege.
2. She had been ill fr a week befre she came back.
3. He wuld g t the park as sn as he was free.
4. I felt excited because I was sn t leave hme fr the first time.
5. If we are t be there befre ten, we'll have t g nw.
6. I had meant t help yu, but I was t busy at the mment.
7. Hardly (N sner) had I gt hme when ( than) the rain pured dwn.
8. That ld man was ften laughed at.
9. Time must be made gd use f.
10. The plan must be carried ut as sn as pssible.
11. The purpse f new technlgy is t make life easier, nt t make it mre difficult.
12. Disney's greatest wish was t be a famus artist.
13. They are always quarrelling abut smething.
14. If he had seen yu yersterday, he wuld have asked yu abut it.
15. It was the first time we had spken tgether.
16. I had intended t call n yu yersterday, but I had an unexpected guest.
17. We have been discussing the matter several times this year.
18. At this time tmrrw we'll be flying ver the Atlantic.
第六章
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 ACDCD 6-9 CADC
ⅱ. 1-5 BADBB 6-10 BABCB
ⅲ. 1-5 CBABC 6-10 CBCAC
ⅳ. 1-5 ACCAA 6-7 AC
ⅴ. 1-5BABBA 6-10 BBCBB
ⅵ. 1-5 CCAAD
综合练习
Ⅰ.
1. that 2. that 3. until; that 4. that 5. that6. that 7. that 8. until; that 9. that 10. that 11. that 12. that 13. it that 14. that 15. It 16. that 17. that 18. that; what 19. When; it 20. that; what21. that 22. wh; that 23. that 24. it 25. that26. that 27. that 28. i 29. that
Ⅱ.
It was nt until he entered the classrm that he realized he had frgtten t d his hmewrk.
It is the inventin f the spaceship that makes it pssible fr Man t land n the mn.
It was what the writer said t him that encuraged him t devte himself t writing.
It was fr her nly sn wh was ill in bed that she wrked in the hspital day and night.
5. It is ignrance and lack f self- discipline that make him addicted t surfing the Internet,
6. It was his breakthrugh in the field f medicine that made his parents verjyed/wild with jy.
7. It was the news that Chinese ftball team lst a game again that depressed us.
8. What was it that impressed yu deeply when yu went t Shanghai fr the first time?
9. It was three days later that she remembered leaving/ having left her raincat in the language lab.
10. It might have been Jhn wh( that) bught a present fr Mary yesterday.
11. I wnder what it is that makes mre and mre students lse their interests in English.
12. It was with the help f the English teacher called/named Mr.Li that they made great prgress in English.
13. It is by emplying advanced and riginal teaching methds that English teachers can keep pace with the times.
14. It was because f the great waste f fd that the Yangzhu fried rice that weighed 4 tns failed t break the previus recrd that had been kept by Turkey.
15. It was nt until the day when Alice became a mther that she realized hw hard it was fr her mther t bring her up n her wn.
第七章
专项练习
ⅰ. 1-5 DCDAA
ⅱ. 1-5DBCDC 6-10 ADDCD
ⅲ. 1-5 DACBD 6-10 BBCCA
ⅳ. 1-5 DCDDA
综合练习
Ⅰ.
it 2. it 3. that 4. that 5. t pick up 6. learned 7. have 8. befre 9. It; until; that 10. what; it 11. when; which 12. being 13. it 14. There; it 15. There 16. it 17. it 18. It; There 19. that; it 20. It 21. it 22.it 23.ne 24.that 25. there 26.it 27.it 28.it 29.it 30.it 31.it 32.it 33.ne 34. that 35.it
Ⅱ.
1. It was yesterday that he gt married.
2. It was lack f mney, nt f effrt, that defeated their plan.
3. It was mre in srrw than in anger that he criticized his frmer clleague
4. Wh was it that wn the Wrld Cup in 1982?
Hw lng ag was it that yu last saw her?
6. Yu needn’t wrry and he will make it.
7.Where was it that she lived?
8. When was it that he left fr Japan?
9. Wh is it that teaches yu English?
10. It desn't matter what he says.
11. It seems that he is always crrect.
12. It happened that I had n mney with me.
13. It's a waste f time yur talking t him.
14. It's n wnder he is nt hungry because he has been eating sweets all day.
15. It's desn't make any difference whether I am there r nt.
16. It's my turn t clean the classrm.
17. If it were nt fr yur help, I wuld still be hmeless.
18. It's n use saying any mre abut it.
19. It's reprted that tw peple were injured in the accident.
20. I find it easy t get n with her.
21. I think that yu had better stay here.
22. They haven’t made it knwn where the cnference is t be held.
23. He hates it when peple use his bike.
24. I hate it if yu say such things in public.
25. I'd prefer it if I didn’t have t d s much wrk.
26. I wuld appreciate it very much if yu culd help me with it.
27. The train wn't leave fr anther ten minutes, s I think we can make it.
28. I can't answer fr it that the by is hnest.
29. I'll see t it that all the letters is sent t the pst ffice befre twelve.
30. It ccurred t me that I had left the air ticket at hme when I gt t the airprt.
31. It is the duty f every citizen t prtect the envirnment.
32. It never ccurred t me that Tm wuld be elected chairman f the Students' Unin.
33. It's very hard fr thse wh haven’t been t the small village t describe its beauty.
34. I find it (is) hard t cperate with thse wh always stick t their wn pinins.
35. It is pleasant lying n the grass and enjying the music.
36. It is said that taking a walk after a meal des gd t ne's health.
37.It is n stamps that he has spent all his pcket mney.
38. He finds it fun chatting n the Internet/ nline.
39. It was when he was in university that he frmed the habit f staying up late.
40. It is generally believed that it des nt cst much t buy a car but t maintain ne is expensive.
41. It is said that the rest f his life was spent in France.
42. It was in his frties that Mr. Wang went abrad fr the first time.
43. It is reprted that anther fire brke ut in that factry.
44. It is bvius that they are farther and farther away frm their destinatin.
45. It is gd manners t give yur seat t the elderly n the bus.
46. It is against the law t leave a child alne at hme in the USA.
47. The Internet makes it easier and easier fr peple t cmmunicate between each ther.
48. It was flish f me t think that everyne wuld apprve f my prpsal.
49. Smetimes it is a grain f sand in yur she rather than the distant muntain that tires yu ut.
50. It was fr the sake f hnr that the scientist went n with his, scientific research.
第八章
专项练习
Ⅰ.
ⅰ. 1-5 AACCC 6-10 ABBBB
ⅱ. 1-5 CACAC
ⅲ. 1-5 DBCBA
ⅳ. 1-5 CBBBD 6-10 BABDD
Ⅱ
ⅰ. 1-5 BDDCA 6-10 BDBAC 11-15 CBCCA 16-20 CABCC
ⅱ. 1-5 CCCBC 6-7 DD
ⅲ. 1-5 BCABD 6-9 DADA
ⅳ. 1-5 BBDDC
ⅴ. 1-5 BDBAB
ⅵ. 1-5 ACCCA 6-10 DAAAAD
综合练习
1. they cme
2. is the teacher himself interested in ftball, all his students are beginning t shw their interests in it
3. did I feel it t live in an English-speaking cuntry that I determined t learn English well.
4. had Bb walked as far as the river bank
5. did the yung sldier return t his hmetwn
6. can yu expect t get a pay rise
7. did she sing at yesterday's party
8. have I been s happy
9.S did I
10. did Rse care abut her wn safety
11. as he is/ thugh he is
12. had the thief entered the huse when he was caught
13. did the rain stp
14. can I buy such a gd car
15. Neither culd Anne
16. is he fit t be mnitr f the class
17. yu nr I shuld d this thing
18. an actr was wanted here
19. stands the huse where he nce lived
20. can yu find a place s beautiful as Beijing
21. had he begun t speak than I felt that smething was wrng
22. des he cme t the reading rm late
23. have I seen such a wnderful mvie as Her
24. it snw tmrrw
25. had he sat dwn when he heard a knck at the dr
26. S she des
27. was there that I culdn't make myself heard
28. ran a dg after the dr was pened
29. des he knw that the plice are abut t arrest him
30. can thery d withut practice, nr can practice d withut thery
31. Were I yu
32. cmes a bus
33. had we reached the railway statin than the train left
34. I knwn it earlier
35. they gt hme did they find the secret
36. has my brther
37. Here yu are
38. cmes Jane
39. Bb knwn the truth
40. was the President aware f what was ging t happen
41. S it is
42. ht is the sun that we cannt g ut nw
43. d I get invited int his ffice
44. have I heard f r seen such a thing
45. did he begin t admit his mistake
46. did he make a prmise, but als he kept it
47. has she seen anybdy wh can play tennis as well as Rbert
48.S am I
49. they knwn what was happening next
50. he retired frm teaching three years ag did he cnsider having a hliday abrad
第九章
专项练习
i.1-5 ACBBD
ii. 1-5 CBDCC
iii. 1-5 DAACB
iv. 1-5 DDACA
v.1-5 BBBAA
vi. 1-5 BDBDD
vii.1-5 DADAA
Vi.1-5 ADBBB 6-10 BBCCC 11-15 BBCDA 16-20 DCCCC
ix.1-5 AADBB 6-10 AADCC 11-15 AAABA 16-20 DCDDD
21-25DBBCB 26-30 BDBAB
综合练习
1. wuld 2. culd have killed 3. shuldn't/ needn't 4. shuld 5. must 6. wuld 7. may 8. must have spent 9. culdn't 10. shall 11. (shuld) nt 12. shall 13. might 14. was able t/ culd 15. shuld 16. shuld have dne 17. wuld 18. wuld have 19. shuld 20. shall 21. must 22. shuld have had 23. shuld 24. must have murned 25. culd have left 26. shuld 27. finding; be banned 28. can 29. shuld 30. shuld have cme 31. can 32. ught t have cme 33. Shall; had 34. may; can 35. need nt g 36. culd 37. shuld/'d better 38. shuld 39. wuld 40. might 41. can 42. Must 43. can't 44. wuldn't 45. can/ may 46. shuldn't 47. shall 48. must be burning 49. didn't need t 50. shuld 51. can't 52. will never be replaced 53. Shall/Can 54. shuld be 55. Shall 56. might 57. shuldn't have driven 58. shall 59. was; have 60. are t survive 61. shuld 62. can 63. must 64. culd have dne 65. shuldn't 66. must 67. will 68. was able t 69，Can; must have 70. Shuld 71. shuldn't 72. shuldn't have tld 73. culd; must 74. needn't 75. Must 76. shall 77. might/ wuld 78. can 79. can 80. needn't
第十章
专项练习
i.1-5 BACBC 6-10 ACDAD 11-15 DDCDD 16-20 CBCAC 21-25 DBDDD
ii. 1-5 CAACA
iii. 1-5 CCBDA 6-10 DBDBC
iv. 1-5 DDBAC 6-10 BCBDD
v.1-5 ABDDB
vi.1-5 CBCAB 6-10 CADDD
综合练习
1. were 2. take 3. have 4. be 5. had gne 6. wuld have returned
7. culdn't have succeeded 8. wuld have met 9. make 10. didn't d 11. started 12. be made 13. weren't ging 14. be iled 15. begin 16. be made 17. nt be tld 18. wuld have gt 19. wuld have gt 20. had 21. had been 22. culd have faced 23. were 24. hadn't made 25. wuld have visited 26. were t live 27. shuld have arrived 28. weren't 29. had studied 30. wuld have cme 31. might have stlen 32. wuld have attended 33. culdn't have gne 34. can't be 35. wuld have put
第十一章
专项练习
i.1-5 BADBB 6-10 CBDDA
ii.1-5 CABCD 6-10 ADBAD 11-15 DDCCA 16-20 ABBBD 21-24 DABB
综合练习
with his head dwn 2. With s much wrk t d
3.eyes clsed and muth pen 4. All things cnsidered
5. There being n time left 6. It being a fine day
7. with his back against the wall 8. Time permitting
9. Gdbye said/ Saying Gdbye 10. It being fine weather
11. The signal given 12. tears rlling dwn
13. Spring cming 14. My dictinary having been lst
15. the windw pen 16. Gun n shulder
17. With prductin up by 60% 18.a lt f wrk t d
19. his lips trembling 20. The teacher helping us
21. The lecture having begun 22. Such being the case
23. Darkness setting in 24. all factrs cnsidered
25. A new technique having been wrked ut 26. ears pinted
27. ur wrk nt being finished: 28. each having its wn prperties
29. pipe in muth 30. The prductin having gne up steadily
第十二章
专项练习
i.1-5 AACAA 6-10 DBDBC 11-15 BBCCA 16-20 CBAAA
ii.1-5 DCBCC 6-7 AB
iii. 1-5 AABCB
iv.1-5BDCCD 6-10 DCDBB 11-13 DDB
v.1-5 DBAAB
vi.1-5 BCACA 6-10 AACCD
vii.1-5 BBCCA 6-10 ADCCB 11-15 DAABA 16-20 ABCAA
21-25 BBCCB
26-30 CBBDA
综合练习
1.are 2. is ffered 3. is nt decided 4. was; were 5. is 6. stands 7. has been dne 8. have 9. have finished 10. has been finished 11. have been repaired/are being repaired/ are t be repaired 12. are 13. haven't handed 14. are praised 15. are listening t 16. has 17. is 18. is 19. are ften hung up 20 is allwed 21. is ften made 22. were sld ut 23. are 24. are 25. are, is 26. was 27. is ging t study/will study 28. were 29. am 30. are 31. is 32. were searching 33. live 34. taste 35. are 36. is 37. are 38. has 39. knws 40. is 41. was punished 42. shw 43. is 44. is 45. is seen 46. shws, is 47. is, g 48. was 49. is, are 50. were
第十三章
专项练习
i. 1-5 BBCCA 6-7 BD
ii.1-5 ACABD
ii.1-5 DBADC 6-10 ACCAB
iv. 1-6 CDDBAB
v.1-5 DAADB 6-10 CACDB
vi. 1-6 BBCCBC
综合练习
1. as thugh/as if 2. as was 3. As might 4. as much 5. s much as
6. such as 7. As lng as/S lng as 8. As well as 9. as 10. as well as
11. as gd 12. as t 13. as many 14. As is
15. as he/ thugh he 16. as he/ thugh he 17. s as 18. As
19. as that 20. As is 21. same, as 22. As is 23. Much as 24. as
25. it as 26. As 27. such; as 28. such, that 29. as were 30. As
31. as lng as/lng as 32. as much as 33. as well 34. as well 35. as fr/as t
36. As with 37. s as 38. Much as 39. as 40. As
综合语法填空168篇
Passage 1
1. frm 2. When 3. that/which 4. including 5. and 6. wh 7. t knw 8. thers
Passage 2
1. the 2. t live 3. themselves 4. building 5. where 6. assembled 7. what 8. f
Passage 3
1. reprted 2. wealthiest 3. wh 4. when 5. by 6. Hwever 7. Bth 8. acting
Passage 4
1. has dubled 2. is said 3. cntributing 4. which 5. the 6. t make 7. that 8. r
Passage 5
1. helping/having helped 2. why 3. hw 4. trying 5. where 6. was seized 7. as 8. culd
Passage 6
1. althugh 2. the mst attractive 3. an 4. It 5. t make 6. the best 7. that 8. have never had
Passage 7
1. an 2. was given 3. befre 4. making 5. It 6. can't 7. had set 8. being
Passage 8
1. that 2. what 3. ver 4. mre effective 5. wuld 6. t deal 7. planned 8. because f
Passage 9
1. if 2. that 3. have given 4. what 5. that 6. as thugh/as if
Passage 10
1. ther 2. were mixed 3. thrugh 4. taking 5. the 6. printed 7. lder 8. which/ that
Passage 11
1. When 2. is wearing 3. playing 4. which 5. at 6. saying 7. t keep 8. embarrassed
Passage 12
1. cnducted 2. t crash 3. was guided 4. like 5. neither 6. the. 7. when 8. the best
Passage 13
1. instead f 2.. thicker 3. befre 4. t prtect 5。 burning 6. it 7. a 8. came
Passage 14
1. named 2. As 3. hw 4. wuld get 5. rll 6. n 7. was amazed 8. which/ that
Passage 15
1. Having earned 2. what/ smething 3. Hwever 4. was acquired 5. which 6. anther
7. befre 8. remains
Passage 16
1. treated 2. that 3. fr 4. his 5. may 6. shwing 7. t be 8. expressed
Passage 17
1. where 2. smething 3. taking 4. When/After 5. a 6. listed 7. On 8. what
Passage 18
1. culd 2. because 3. mre 4. if/whether 5. but 6. anther 7. is giving 8. that
Passage 19
1. were 2. that/which 3. t learn 4. that 5. mre imprtant 6. is/will be 7. whether 8. learning
Passage 20
1. frm 2. They 3. wh 4. cleaner 5. that/ which 6. had remved 7. Seeing 8. t clean
Passage 21
1. amusing 2. admitted 3. has climbed 4. where 5. t take 6. t be sending 7. A 8. between
Passage 22
1. stretched 2. either 3. might 4. hw 5. N matter hw 6. thers 7. as lng as/s lng as
8. are struggling
Passage 23
1. had been asking 2. culd 3. but 4. anther 5. If 6. being beaten 7. t win 8. As
Passage 24
1. that 2. n 3. when 4. everything 5. But 6. had been making 7. nes 8. what/whatever
Passage 25
1. bth 2. s/and 3. was made 4. started 5. being attacked 6. t pump 7. when 8. an
Passage 26
1. designing 2. his 3. frm 4. t be cured 5. and 6. which 7. that 8. has made
Passage 27
1. in 2. up 3. whm 4. their 5. and 6. what 7. are interested 8. better
Passage 28
1. had been stlen 2. drve 3. their 4. and 5. taking/having taken 6. the 7. that
8. anther
Passage 29
1. living 2. Each 3. Befre 4. bigger. 5. written 6. a 7. up 8. mst
Passage 30
1. a 2. against 3. pse 4. Why 5. and 6. mre pwerful 7. ding 8. that/ which
Passage 31
1. the 2. where 3. r 4. tells 5. that 6. ther 7. themselves 8. whatever
Passage 32
1. Withut 2. that/which 3. annyed 4. and 5. It 6. hw 7. shuld 8. grws
Passage 33
1. the 2. defeating 3. beat 4. they 5. n 6. where 7. t hst 8. best
Passage 34
1. withut 2. when/while 3. t 4. was painting 5. after 6. Bth 7. nthing 8. Why
Passage 35
1. Because 2. that 3. Instead f 4. yurself 5. their 6. where 7. setting 8. what
Passage 36
1. when/nce 2. a 3. What 4. is, 5. depending 6. frm 7. t slve 8. but
Passage 37
1. when 2. int 3. seeing 4. t think 5. wh 6. the 7. they/bth 8. culd
Passage 38
1. ensuring 2. running .3. n 4. s that 5. its 6. that 7. shuld 8. happened
Passage 39
1. that 2. lwest 3. suffered 4. it 5. by 6. that/wh 7. a 8. wrse
Passage 40
1. a 2. flwered 3. means 4. but 5. in 6. whm 7. living 8. where
Passage 41
1. wh 2. Walking 3. her 4. and/then 5. by 6. t help 7. the 8. as
Passage 42
1. t prtect 2. cnsidered 3. lking 4. that 5. it 6. are banned 7. Because f 8. bth
Passage 43
1. handling 2. instead f 3. named 4. t stre 5. that 6. Hwever 7. realized 8. it
Passage 44
1. arranged 2. wuld weigh 3. It 4. f 5. but 6. an 7. which 8. when 9. that 10. culd
Passage 45
1. what 2. by 3. a 4. mre 5. wh 6. hadn't been tld 7. If 8. Picking
9. but 10. the
Passage 46
1. have becme2. are cnsidered 3. if/whether 4. by 5. which 6. Accrding t 7. that 8. the 9. will result 10. urselves
Passage 47
1. it 2. Lking 3. with 4. because 5. when 6. made 7. being 8. better
Passage 48
1. a 2. after 3. t prepare 4. why 5. spend 6. where 7. but 8. everyne/ everybdy
9. t fight 10. pening
Passage 49
1. shuld 2. t 3. t steal 4. me 5. be punished 6. nr/neither 7. the 8. whenever
Passage 50
1. hw 2. may 3. that 4. needs 5. exercising 6. but 7. It 8. n
Passage 51
1. an 2. fewer 3. wrking 4. whatever 5. withut 6. where 7. shuld be taken
8. wh
Passage 52
1. warmer 2. them 3. since 4. their 5. a 6. Withut 7. But 8. when
Passage 53
1. an 2. was fixed 3. dressed 4. at 5. whse 6. and 7. what 8. brught
Passage 54
1. whse 2. hwever 3. what 4. under/ beneath/in 5. unless 6. have put/ are putting
7. thse 8. starting
Passage 55
1. Althugh 2. than 3. being brken 4. r 5. missing 6. that 7. an 8. preferring
Passage 56
1. it 2. by 3. and 4. when 5. aviding 6. were sent 7. his 8. thugh/ althugh
Passage 57
1. latest 2. frm 3. while 4. assciated 5. One 6. and 7. be bradcast(ed) 8. fr
Passage 58
1. Hwever 2. their 3. a 4. can 5. n 6. as 7. earning 8. what
Passage 59
1. was cnsidered 2. But 3. beynd 4. surprising 5. t get 6. himself 7. that
8. defeated
Passage 60
1. a 2. abut3.As4. be released 5. Hwever 6. s 7. were used 8. t last
Passage 61
1. which 2. but 3. Amng 4. grwn 5. r 6. while 7. that 8. Althugh
Passage 62
1. accustmed 2. n 3. a 4. but 5. which 6. Hwever 7. If 8. eating
Passage 63
1. But 2. wrk 3. cming 4. what 5. where 6. must 7. thse 8. If
Passage 64
1. had been 2. that 3. Since 4. t learn 5. withut 6. Therefre/Thus 7. althugh 8. s
Passage 65
1. married 2. where 3. was surprised
4. when 5. an 6. Hwever 7. in 8. his
Passage 66
1. when 2. at 3. verhearing
4. the
5. stuck 6. As/S 7. has increased 8. than
Passage 67
1. his 2. t 3. that 4. was called
5. and 6. hw 7. Hwever 8. that/ which
Passage 68
1. t find 2. an 3. Fr 4. them 5. putting 6. whether 7. that 8. Whatever
Passage 69
1. whether/if 2. at 3. sat 4. them 5. thugh/althugh 6. as if/as thugh 7. culd/ shuld
8. taking
Passage 70
1. invited 2. herself 3. was surprised 4. befre 5. tl/until 6. but 7. wuld 8. t meet
Passage 71
1. their 2. yet/but 3. Whenever 4. fr 5. themselves 6. The 7. is paid 8. Unless
Passage 72
1. hanging 2. when 3. fr 4. Lking 5. was given 6. By 7. that 8. annunced
Passage 73
1. but 2. which/that 3. instead f 4. It 5. what 6. the best 7. drives 8. cming
Passage 74
1. Unless 2. living 3. plluted 4. with 5. that/which 6. it 7. Instead 8. be made
Passage 75
1. yu 2. but 3. luder 4. gave 5. t quit 6. what 7. either 8. f
Passage 76
1. befre 2. But 3. that 4. fr 5. remains 6. a 7. Fllwing 8. t celebrate
Passage 77
1. culd 2. s 3. wh 4. if/whether 5. against 6. will be killed 7. called 8. themselves
Passage 78
1. have disappeared 2. The mst famus 3. befre 4. was discvered 5. like 6. culd
7. ut 8. Others
Passage 79
1. a 2. Hwever 3. if 4. wh 5. has helped 6. it 7. t endure 8. in
Passage 80
1. befre 2. the 3. must have taken 4. that 5. tuches 6. but 7. r 8. s
Passage 81
1. that/which 2. as 3. is slved 4. frm 5. what 6. until/till 7. were 8. (t) avid
Passage 82
1. their
2. cmpared 3. the 4. Thugh/ Althugh/While 5. anther 6. n 7. whse
8. being taught
Passage 83
1. frm 2. Whether 3. r 4. t be seen 5. frm 6. a 7. It 8. attacking
Passage 84
1. walking 2. what 3. but 4. that 5. if/whether 6. while 7. its 8. n
Passage 85
1. are said t 2. are expected 3. their 4. r 5. is cnsidered 6. n 7. drifting 8. until
Passage 86
1. using 2. the 3. are surprised 4. beset 5. thrugh 6. wrking 7. it 8. Sending
Passage 87
1. named 2. s 3. because 4. had been 5. befre/until 6. taking 7. them 8. it
Passage 88
1. t imprve 2. Cmpared 3. less 4. If 5. it 6. finding 7. am cncerned 8. shuld
9. f 10. the
Passage 89
1.a 2. and 3.n 4. which 5. Because 6. can 7. it 8. Hwever 9. advertising
10. mre
Passage 90
1. it 2. must 3. in 4. A 5. t memrize 6. learning 7. their 8. If 9. wh 10. writing
Passage 91
1. because 2. building 3. dug 4. called stay 10. the
Passage 92
1. be instructed 2. hlding 3. can 4. befre 5. that 6. A 7. but 8. t push 9. withut 10. thse
Passage 93
1. ut f 2. but 3. thers 4. where 5. interested 6. reading 7. frm 8. After 9. t read 10. were published
Passage 94
1. until 2. disappears 3. what 4. On 5. was seen 6. that 7. wrse 8. myself 9. had knwn 10. that
Passage 95
1. where 2. T earn 3. as sn as/as lng as/s lng as 4. exhausted 5. if 6. what
7. adapting 8. did
Passage 96
1. facing 2. at 3. an 4. is equipped 5. which 6. myself 7. mre apprpriate 8. has frced 9. urging 10. t
Passage 97
1. hw 2. N matter hw 3. where 4. between 5. When 6. leaving 7. can 8. have tried
9. less sticky 10. whse
Passage 98
1. clser 2. cming 3. a 4. him
5.As 6.where 7.be led 8.t lk 9.that 10.at
Passage 99
1. a 2. fr 3. celebrating 4. made 5. One 6. Anther 7. whse 8. had taken 9. might
10. that/ which
Passage 100
1. t win 2. that 3. in 4. but als 5. added 6. an 7. their 8. can 9. But 10. what
Passage 101
1. an. 2. Believing 3. be taught 4. that 5. themselves 6. withut 7. wh 8. because
9. anther 10. where
Passage 102
1. swimming 2. what 3. a 4. and 5. hw 6. if/thugh 7. their 8. had 9. were expsed
10. but
Passage 103
1. them 2. t say 3. lder 4. when 5. After 6. ther 7. and 8. will express 9. with
10. because/ as
Passage 104
1. where 2. t blame 3. wrks 4. and/r 5. this/it/that 6. frm 7. that/which 8. hw
9. Breathing/T breathe 10. might/can
Passage 105
1. when 2. may 3. an 4. it 5. bth 6. Instead f 7. like 8. which/that 9. t see
10. dancing
Passage 106
1. wearing 2. wuld buy 3. pleased 4. the 5. Althugh 6. harder 7. which 8. fr
9. what 10. them
Passage 107
1.a2. its 3. hw 4. but 5. tells 6. t arrive 7. Fr 8. am breathing 9. wh 10. which
Passage 108
1. t give 2. the 3. can 4. whatever 5. leaves/has left 6. paying 7. mre impressive
8. had been
Passage 109
1. a 2. Despite 3. at 4. was cvered 5. wuld 6. that 7. because 8. laid 9. which 10. hitting
Passage 110
1. the mst widely 2. can 3. many 4. an 5. which 6. fr 7. that 8. while 9. invented
10. has reflected/has been reflecting
Passage 111
1. ringing 2. fr 3. Thugh/ Althugh/While 4. is invlved
5. bth 6. because 7. paying
8. that 9. (t) devte 10. a
Passage 112
1. after 2. when 3. mving 4. educated 5. were beaten 6. n 7. because f 8. the
9. that/which 10. httest
Passage 113
1. t 2. what 3. building 4. less frtunate 5. must 6. where 7. when 8. Hwever
9. t help 10. has dnated
Passage 114
1. until/befre 2. wrte
3. t be trained 4. where 5. after 6. althugh/thugh 7. thers
8. have been taken 9. as/when 10. fr
Passage 115
1. say 2. Hwever 3. it 4. can
5. while 6. that 7. which 8. T check 9. a 10. But
Passage 116
1. in 2. was needed 3. wh 4. than 5. cnducting 6. s that 7. t slve 8. a 9. trained
10. might/ culd/ wuld
Passage 117
1. frm 2. because 3. shuld 4. Driving 5. when 6. If 7. is expected 8. prtecting
9. wh 10. spiled
Passage 118
1. is defeated 2. weeping 3. t cnceal 4. as if/as thugh 5. whm 6. Nt nly 7. in
8. his 9. the mst reliable 10. a
Passage 119
1. hw 2. arrested 3. using 4. n 5. had been shwn 6. what 7. a 8. cming 9. wh
10. befre
Passage 120
1. t 2. trying
3. between 4. was cnvinced 5. As 6. t knw 7. being 8. what
9. anything 10. because
Passage 121
1. knw 2. that 3. eating 4. why 5. may 6. While 7. the 8. s that 9. will be put
10. t cme
Passage 122
1. fr 2. captured 3. they 4. assciated 5. that 6. If 7. the ldest 8. t becme
9. wh 10. seeing
Passage 123
1. But 2. an 3. because 4. t 5. when/as 6. were carried
10. leaving
Passage 124
1. examined 2. cut 3. requiring 4. be divided 5. A 6. largest 7. T find 8. hw 9. fr
10. whether/if
Passage 125
1. fund 2. nr 3. why 4. culd 5. wh 6. if 7. fr 8. such 9. a 10. thinking
Passage 126
1. ending 2. in 3. while 4. which 5. Led 6. that 7. t develp 8. invlved 9. meeting
10. easier
Passage 127
1. wh 2. held 3. culd
4. were disappinted 5. a 6. because 7. t see 8. having knwn
9. that 10. being paid
Passage 128
1. called 2. culd 3. is set/was set 4. s that 5. because f/wing t/due t 6. talking
7. largest 8. what 9. will have 10. whether
Passage 129
1. the 2. Fewer 3. It 4. hw 5. which 6. published 7. n 8. creating 9. their
10. wh
Passage 130
1. leading 2. but 3. the 4. ne 5. which 6. On 7. their 8. struck 9. and 10. burst
Passage 131
1. had finished 2. an 3. culdn't 4. until 5. spread 6. was hnred 7. wuld 8. tgether
9. them 10. what
Passage 132
1. t be related 2. because 3. smking 4. n 5. prcessed 6. are being used 7. is
islating 8. a 9. Hwever 10. can
Passage 133
1. that 2. but 3. will fit 4. t treat 5. as 6. nthing 7. When 8. is cming 9. where
10. What
Passage 134
1. shws 2. mre depressed 3. fr 4. when 5. it 6. shuld 7. if 8. that 9. seems
10. t avid
Passage 135
1. by 2. when 3. Others 4. what 5. t shw 6. can 7. Requiring 8. an 9. That
10. But
Passage 136
1. it 2. suggests 3. hw 4. relate
5. that 6. as 7. functining 8. int 9. what 10. des
Passage 137
1. whm 2. n 3. lking 4. but 5. while 6. were cpied 7. mre serius 8. their
9. reunited 10. which
Passage 138
1. When 2. t send 3. frm 4. but 5. which 6. are regarded 7. that 8. embarrassing
9. nr 10. r
Passage 139
1. befre 2. withut 3. wrse 4. If 5. can 6. as 7. an 8. t learn 9. but 10. by
Passage 140
1. wuld 2. Althugh 3. that/which 4. were impressed 5. hid 6. between 7. because 8. but
9. what 10. running
Passage 141
1. in 2. mixed 3. was built 4. the 5. well 6. that/ which 7. On 8. includes 9. interested 10. it
Passage 142
1. Despite 2. talking
3. s that 4. wh 5. fr 6. If 7. but 8. might/wuld 9. It
10. but
Passage 143
1. driving 2. at 3. an 4. when 5. were tuched 6. what 7. Because f/Owing t/Due t
8. checking 9. culd 10. t make
Passage 144
1. anther 2. better 3. leaving 4. that 5. it 6. as 7. what 8. fr 9. has been described
10. which
Passage 145
1. a 2. in 3. What 4. reading 5. where 6. had said 7. feel 8. the largest 9. t pint
10. But
Passage 146
1. r 2. staring 3. whether 4. that/which 5. a 6. wrst 7. have lasted 8. shuld/ can
9. embarrassed 10. althugh/ thugh
Passage 147
1. that/ which 2. had been struck (stricken) 3. attacking 4. t lk 5. when 6. as if 7. in
case 8. reward 9. Since 10. whenever
Passage 148
1. a 2. what 3. t admit 4. may 5. smething 6. it 7. Being 8. even if/ even thugh
9. withut 10. that
Passage 149
1. spend 2. frm 3. well-equipped 4. t be spending 5. wrte 6. had set 7. which/ that
8. if 9. preserving 10. but
Passage 150
1. an 2. walking 3. and 4. t 5. lking 6. agreed 7. t share 8. It 9. anther
10. listens
Passage 151
1. when 2. t 3. T get 4. winding 5. greatest 6. was greeted 7. that/which 8. invited
9. treasured 10. can't
Passage 152
1. were being pulled 2. tied 3. it 4. t figure 5. turning 6. if/whether 7. f 8. but
9. Can 10. as
Passage 153
1. that 2. frm 3. easiest 4. planned 5. hw 6. Even if/Even thugh 7. leaping 8. and
9. a 10. may
Passage 154
1. studying 2. where 3. knwn 4. withut 5. thers 6. must 7. t stre 8. are nt
permitted 9. that 10. are allwed
Passage 155
1. asked 2. Their 3. can 4. mre 5. t verlk 6. which 7. that 8. hwever
9. withut 10. d
Passage 156
1. cncerning 2. limited 3. that/which 4. Fr 5. t register 6. may 7. ne 8. by
9. bming 10. as lng as/ s lng as
Passage 157
1. has been shifting 2. invlved 3. but 4. and 5. healthier 6. Bth 7. wh 8. if
9. that/which 10. when
Passage 158
1. hw 2. t talk 3. it 4. have lied 5. which 6. But 7. that 8. why 9. culd/ can
10. befre
Passage 159
1. as 2. attracting 3. since 4. mved 5. which 6. t 7. pened 8. In additin 9. the
10. have becme
Passage 160
1. saying 2. where 3. it 4. The 5. is intended 6. which 7. that 8. withut 9. clearer
10. hwever
Passage 161
written 5. hw 6. by 7. Instead 8. which 9. that 10. When
Passage 162
1. wrking 2. When 3. With 4. but 10. will care
Passage 163
Passage 164
1. an 2. ccupied 3. had decided 4. that/which 5. might 6. with 7. It 8. that/ which
9. instead 10. hiding 11. shuld spt 12. wh 13. like 14. their 15. After 16. t return
Passage 165
1. But 2. perated 3. It 4. ff 5. is replaced 6. which 7. that 8. can 9. While
10. using 11. carrying 12. as 13. cncerned 14. because 15. the largest 16. a
Passage 166
1. when 2. was suffering 3. against 4. that 5. an 6. named 7. t win 8. running
9. have captured 10. culd 11. hping 12. wh 13. Their 14. t supprt 15. what
16. hw
Passage 167
1. is married 2. when 3. cleaning 4. mre surprised 5. a 6. her 7. Apart 8. This
9. what 10. if/whether 11. satisfied 12. But 13. as 14. Nthing 15. can 16. that
Passage 168
smaller 2. turning 3. hwever 4. when 5. was fighting 6. it 7. lsing 8. withut
9. S 10. t create 11. but 12. and 13. t feel 14. a 15. t meet 16. s