Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming．Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would join him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 1 ．But Henry proved a 2 ．He hated farm work and did everything he could to 3 it．It was not that he was lazy． 4 from it!Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending the hinges(铰链) of a gate to sharpening tools, and he would set to work eagerly．It was the daily life of the farm, with its repetitive tasks, 5 frustrated him．
Henry was excited by the development in technology that could free farmers like his father from wasteful and boring labor．But these developments, in Henry’s boyhood, had touched farming 6 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done．So Henry 7 his attention elsewhere．When he was twelve, he became almost obsessively interested in clocks and watches．Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom．
In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 8 ．His mother died in childbirth．There was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he resolved to get away as soon as he could．Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit． 9 this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination．Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen．
A chance meeting with an old co-worker led to a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company． 10 he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to dominate(占主要地位) his life．
Henry learned 11 a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand from scratch．Every piece of every component had to be fashioned individually, checked and rechecked, and tested． 12 the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop．Even so, it was two years before they succeeded in building a working car．Henry called it“Quadricycle．”(四轮驱动脚踏车)
It was only in the eighteenth century that people in Europe began to think mountains were beautiful． 1 that time, mountains were 2 by the people living on the plain, 3 by the city people, to whom they were wild and 4 places in which one was easily 5 or killed by terrible animals．
Slowly, however, many of the people who were living 6 in the towns began to grow tired of 7 ．They began to feel interested in looking for things which could not be explained, for sights and sounds which produce in a feeling of fear and excitement． 8 in the 9 century, people began to turn away from the man-made 10 to untouched country, and particularly 11 places where it was dangerous and wild．High mountains began to be 12 for a holiday．
Then, mountain-climbing began to grow popular as a sport．To some people, it is something greatly 13 about getting to the． 14 of a high mountain：a struggle against nature is finer than a battle 15 other human beings．And than, when you are at the mountain top after a long and difficult 16 , what a 17 reward it is to be able to look 18 on everything within 19 !At such time, you feel happier and prouder than you can ever feel down 20 ．
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完型填空：
In the United States Government, the Congress(议会) 1 the laws．The Congress has two parts, 2 are more or less equal in power．They are 3 as the House of Representatives and the Senate(参议院)．The House of Representatives is 4 than the Senate whose 100 members(two from each state) 5 for six years, the 435 members of the House are 6 every two years, and the 7 from each state is determined by the 8 of the state．For example, California, which has a 9 population, has forty-three Representatives, 10 the state of Nevada has only one．
The House and Senate are divided into small groups which 11 special matters such as education or foreign affairs．The most 12 work of the Congress is often done in these groups, which are 13 committees．
According to the Constitution(宪法)of the United States, a Senator must be 14 thirty years old and he must have been a 15 of the United States for nine years at the time of his 16 ．To be elected to the House a person must be twenty-five years old 17 must have been a United States citizen for seven years．At the present time, members of Congress 18 businessmen, farmers, teachers and especially lawyers．
In general, Senators are 19 known than Representatives because they are 20 in number and serve for a longer time．Many American Presidents served in Congress before they became presidents．
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完型填空：
The little train came to a stop at our station and we got out, very glad to be so near home at last．The 1 part of the journey from London had been quite comfortable; 2 when we had changed into the little train, we were, already tired and dirty, and the 3 run, with its frequent stops at unimportant villages, had only made us 4 tired and dirty．
There was a carriage 5 for us at the station, 6 by two black horses．As soon as we and our bags 7 in, the driver waved his whip and we set off through the snowy forest．Even 8 the forest it was growing dark：it was the 9 day of the year, and the sky was 10 with clouds．Among the trees it seemed as if it was in the middle of a moonless night, the oil lamps on our carriage 11 just enough light for the driver to 12 his way and for us to be able to 13 that we were driving between thick walls of trees．
After 14 seemed like two hours to us(but was actually only an hour), at last we 15 my friends house．First we saw a row of lights 16 came from the windows, and then we were suddenly at the door, 17 about half a dozen children 18 all ages shouting and asking questions 19 together．As we were getting out of the carriage, a fine old lady with white hair came out, 20 I recognized without difficulty as my friend’s mother．
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完型填空：
We may look at the world, around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears． 1 for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 2 to See－or look at－on my way to work each morning．
For three years, no matter 3 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8∶00 a.m．On 4 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves．Summertime 5 out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses． 6 , she was an ordinary working woman．Of course, I 7 all this only after she was seen no more．It was then that I realized how 8 I expected to see her each morning．You might say I 9 her．
“Did she have an accident?Something 10 ?” I thought to myself about her 11 ．Now that she was gone, I felt I had 12 her．I began to realize that part of our 13 life probably in-eludes such chance meetings with familiar 14 ：the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who 15 walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library．Such people are 16 markers in our lives．They add weight to our 17 of place and belonging．
Think about it． 18 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by 19 a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though 20 , person?
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完型填空：
Mr．Jones woke early one morning, before the sun had risen, it was a beautiful morning, 1 he went to the window and looked out．He was surprised to see 2 middle-aged professor, who walked in the university just up the road from Mr．Jones’s house, 3 the direction of the town．He had grey hair and thick glasses, and was carrying an umbrella, a morning newspaper and a bag．Mr．Jones thought that he must have 4 by the night train, and decided to walk to the university instead of taking a taxi．
Mr．Jones had a big tree in his garden, and the children had 5 a long rope to one of the branches so that they could swing on it．
Mr．Jones was 6 to see the professor 7 when he saw the rope, and looked 8 up and down the road．When he saw that there was nobody in sight, he 9 into the garden, put his umbrella, newspaper, bag and hat on the grass and 10 the rope．He 11 it hard to see whether it was strong enough to 12 his weight, then ran as fast as he could and swung into the 13 on the end of the rope, his grey hair 14 all around his face．Backwards and forwards he swung, 15 taking a few more 16 steps on the grass when the rope began to swing 17 slowly for him．
At last the professor stopped, 18 his tie, combed his hair carefully, put on his hat, picked up his umbrella, newspaper and bag, and 19 his way to the university, looking as 20 and correct and respectable as one would expect a professor to be．
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