题目内容
10. When Tom's mother entered his room, he pretended ________________(sleep).
10, to be sleeping
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1. Now scientists can f___________ weather more accurately.
Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show 25. (happy) ， as in "a red-let-ter day". This is a day 26. something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost six hundred years, church calendars (日 历) 27. (mark) with red to indicate special holidays. Today's calendars are still marked that way with the 28. (mean) of holidays and spe-
cial days printed in red.
The expression "a red-letter day" is often heard in everyday life. "A red-letter day" is 29. day that people are feeling quite happy. It may be a day lhat
you've long waited for, a wedding day, for example.
30. it may be a day with a happy surprise.
You might tell your friend that yesterday was a red-let-ter day, 31. you won some money in the state lottery (彩票）.
"Rolling out the red carpet" is another 32. (common) heard expression, which 33. (represent) a warm welcome of any kind. A city may "roll out the red carpet ，， for its baseball team when the team arrives home after winning the championship.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. "Red-handed" is one. To be caught red-handed is to be caught 34. (perform) a wrong act.
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that." and it is even harder to say, "I was wrong? and you were right about that.
I had an experience recently with someone admit?ting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighbourhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (箱子).Then he related an incident and I began to remember clearly the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly-grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting (examining) some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the criminal. He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for all the broken eggs. I protes?ted my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the inci?dent, obviously the manager did not.
1. The author was when he wrote this article.
A. about 8 B. about 18
C. about 23 D. about 15
2. Who was to blame for knocking off the stacks of car?tons?
A. The author. B. The manager.
C. The woman. D. The author's mother.
3. When the manager scolded him the author .
A. was frightened and cried
B. tried to explain
C. did not say anything
D. felt the manager was right
4. It can be inferred that the author .
A. regrets arguing with the manager for what he didn't do
B. would like to tell people never to be fooled by an egg sale
C. has forgiven the manager for what he did to him fifteen years ago
D. expects the woman to say sorry to him for the mistake she made
5. I'm sorry I can't help water the flowers, because I'm busy preparing for the singing competition____________ (hold) tomorrow.
Scientists in China recently discovered the remains of a very old village 35. salt was produced 4，000 years ago. At the site, called Zhongba which is located at the Gan River in the Chongqing Municipality,the scientists found small cups still 36. (contain) traces of ancient salt. 37. (base) on this discovery, they believe that 4 ， 000 years ago people of the village used the cups to boil salty water. Once the water became steam, the salt 38. (leave) be-
hind. The Zhongba settlement is 39. (extreme) important because it is the first place we 40. (know) of where people had a method for collectingsalt. Comparable evidence of ancient salt 41. (produce) in the world comes from sites that not nearly as old. The Zhongba settlement is also very different
from other sites because of its unique source of salt.42. in other places salt was dug from mines or obtained from sea water, the Zhongba salt was obtained from a salty river. Regardless of the source, the Zhongba people must have valued salt greatly because salty foods were not as common then as today. Such foods would have been difficult to find, and they were probably 43. rare luxury. But even though salt was scarce, people knew about it, and it was appreciated in the past just as much as it is today.44. the discovery at Zhongba shows is that
people have had a taste for salt for thousands of years!
3.The difficulty we had in ___________________ (find) his house is that we didn't know the way.
3.Their house______________(与....相似)ours, but ours has a bigger garden.
15. I stopped the car__________________(take) a short break as I was feeling tired.
