题目内容
5. His dismissal(解雇) has no (关系) with the quality of his work.
5. connection
M： Excuse me，madam. I’m looking for a place to eat. Can you tell me 25. there are any restaurants in the 26. (shop) centre?
W ： Sure. There are several. What kind of food are you thinking about?
M ： I’m not sure. Anything but fast food.
W ： There is a nice Japanese restaurant upstairs. It s a little expensive,but the food is good.
M： Oh,sounds good!But I ate Japanese food. I
27. rather try something else.
W ： OK. How about Italian or maybe Chinese?
M： Italian sounds good,but so 28. Chinese. I just can’t decide. Are there 29. Ameri can places here?
W： Yes,there is a very good steak house downstairs across the parking lot. What do you think of 30 . ?
M： Fm sorry to be so picky. But nothing
31 . (strike) my fancy. I guess I just won’t dip anything for a while.
W ： Well. I’m afraid that’s all we have here.
M： That’s too bad. I，m sorry about my 32. (decide) . I guess what I really need is a good buffet.
W： Hmm,I remember 33. (go) to a buffet not far from here. They have foods from several different countries. It’s about 2 blocks 34. . It’s quite good,too.
M： That sounds great!
1. I stopped the car (take) a short break as I was feeling tired.
Every week,more children arrive to work in the hundreds of primitive mines in the bush. Here they suffer long hours at dangerous jobs,getting gold from the dirt with mercury(水银) .
One of them is a 12-year-old boy named Saliou. Momodou is just 13 years old. This is a region of Africa where boys of Saliou’s age are expected to earn money for their families. He works in a bush mine on the Senegal-Mali border in the village of Tenkoto. According to the UN，mining is one of the worst forms of child labour. However,the laws are seldom enforced.
Children travel from mine to mine，moving with the gold. The AP reports that 6 months after Saliou arrived in Tenkoto,it was decided that the mine was nearly empty. So he and the boys walked for more than a week,crossed theSenegalborder and arrived at another mine inMali.
The World Health Organization says that mercury can affect the brain. It’s especially dangerous for children since their nervous systems are still developing. Typical symptoms of mercury include mental retardation,loss of balance,blindness and loss of hearing.
The buyers step in offering about $ 19 per gram. Once the deals are done，the gold is taken to the capital of Mali. There the price for gold is almost $ 23 a gram，nearly $ 4 more than the buyers pay the miners.
United Nations mining experts guess that 10% to 20 % of the thousands of mine workers in West Africa are children.
For Saliou，the work in the mines goes on. He says he dreams that one day he’ll own something made of gold.
1. Why do the boys like Saliou go to work in the mines?
A. They go there to play.
B. They go there to find gold.
C. They go there to buy gold.
D. They go there to make a living.
2. How much money can Saliou get if he offers the buyers about 2 gram gold?
A. $23. B. $46.
C. $38. D. $19.
3. What are the typical symptoms of the mercury if the children are affected?
A. Loss of balance.
B. Mental retardation.
C. Blindness and loss of hearing.
D. All of the above.
4. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the situation of child labour in Africa?
A. Children like to work there.
B. The laws must be enforced.
C. It is right for children to work there.
D. It is not referred to in the passage.
We had a wonderful holiday in Idaho and we were driving home a day earlier than we，d planned. We went through a small town and discovered a truck on 1 and the driver，Bason,was sitting on the side of the road. We 2 to help him and offer any 3 we could. The driver had a 4 on his left hand and shoulder. We told him to 5 ,brought our towels(毛巾) to 6 his hand and some water to keep it 7 for him until help arrived.
Bason told us his truck was 8 and as he pulled over to cool it off,it just went up in flames. He 9 to get a fire extinguisher(灭火器) out to battle the fire but couldn’t 10 it. Bason said, “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. A truck can 11 burn to the ground within an hour!” Bason was very 12 that someone stayed with him until emergency help could arrive. He also shared that his family was the first thing he 13 and that he wanted just to be with them. He said his truck was totally insured (投保) and wasn’t 14 at all about that at that time，just grateful to be 15 .
We were there and could 16 him. Coincidence? Perhaps. But we believe some things just happen for 17 beyond our understanding at the time. We believe sometimes challenges or opportunities 18 our way because we need to grow. We need to 19 and become more than we are. We need to help others. This experience was probably one of those 20 for us. I will never forget it.
1. A. board B. sale C. fire D. duty
2. A. stood up B. pulled up C. rang up D. made up
3. A. first aid B. medicine C. operation D. money
4. A. bite B. rope C. burn D. ring
5. A. break down B. close down C. look down D. calm down
6. A. hold B. wrap C. raise D. press
7. A. wet B. hot C. fresh D. dry
8. A. overcrowded B. overheated C. old D. dangerous
9. A. expected B. agreed C. managed D. regretted
10. A. tell B. catch C. light D. control
11. A. hardly B. foolishly C. completely D. strangely
12. A. grateful B. sorry C. certain D. nervous
13. A. thought of B. turned to C. contributed to D. called on
14. A. satisfied B. worried C. tired D. bored
15. A. asleep B. alike C. awake D. alive
16. A. follow B. direct C. respect D. help
17. A. benefits B. troubles C. reasons D. costs
18. A. block B. come C. stop D. change
19. A. give B. charge C. attack D. ask
20. A. plans B. disasters C. friends D. occasions
W ： I saw a beautiful fish in the market the other day. It was orange and
blue. I m thinking of 1. (buy) some next Sunday.
M ： Where would you keep them?
W ： In that round bottle over there.
M： It’s a bit small,2. it?
W ： 3. are the fish.
M： I think you should get a tank 4. you want to keep fish.
W： Really?
M： Yes. You 5. never keep fish in a small round bottle. They don’t get enough air. I suggest we go 6. (shop) together and look for a nice tank.
W ： 7. might be quite expensive.
M： Check the prices before you buy 8. . And you ought to put a few large rocks in the tank. Fish love swimming around the rocks and through holes in them.
W： Is there anything else that I ought 9. (get) ?
M： Yes,you need to get some underwater plants. For one thing they keep the water clean. Also they make the tank look much 10. (pretty) .
2.为了节约课堂时间，我们的老师要求我们在课堂上做一半练习，剩下的一半在课后作为家庭作业完成。
，our teacher has us do half of the exercises in class and complete the other half as our homework after class.
2. I knew the lady was (谈及) Bill when she spoke of a bright young man.
4.我认为这个女孩太年轻了，不能出国。
The girl is ，I think.
