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  “Hello, Jill. How nice to see you here,” said Jack, “ 1 here often?” “Not as much as I’d like. I often used to meet my friends here, but now I live a long way away,” Jill explained. “In fact, it’s exactly three years 2 ” “Well,” said Jack, “tell me what 3 here today, then.” “Last week my mother had an accident in her car. She 4 when it happened, suddenly a motorcycle came out of another street and she 5 stop very quickly, and she 6 another car from behind. She banged her head on the car roof.” “ 7 her safety belt on at the time?” Jack asked. “No, she never wears one. I don’t think 8 in that car,” Jill explained. “I hope your mother 9 ,” said Jack. “No, thank goodness, but the doctor said she 10 stay in hospital 11 completely better,” explained Jill. “And so you 12 see her now?” Jack wanted to know. “Yes,” said Jill, “every day someone goes to the hospital 13 . She’s a lot better now.” “I’m glad 14 that,” said Jack. “Anyway 15 coffee.”

1. A. Are you coming    B. Are you going

   C. Do you come     D. Do you go

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2. A. since then we moved    B. since we moved

   C. that we moved us     D. that we move

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3. A. you’re doing    B. you do

   C. do you do      D. takes you

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4. A. went the Oxford Street along

   B. was going Oxford Street along

   C. was going along Oxford Street

   D. went along the Oxford Street

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5. A. must      B. had to

   C. ought to    D. had better

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6. A. was beaten with    B. was hit with

   C. was beaten by    D. was hit by

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7. A. Was she having   B. Did she have

   C. Has she put      D. Was she put on

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8. A. they were any      B. there were any

   C. they were any ones   D. there were any ones

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9. A. wasn’t badly hurt     B. wasn’t hurt bad

   C. wasn’t so much hurt   D. wasn’t too much hurt

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10. A. need     B. ought  

    C. should   D. would rather

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11. A. until she is      B. until after she will be

    C. until she will be   D. until she’s going to be

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12. A. just were at     B. just were in

    C. have just gone to    D. have just been to

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13. A. for seeing her   B. as to see her

    C. that we see her    D. to see her

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14. A. hearing    B. hear

    C. to hear    D. that hear

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15. A. let me pay you your   B. let me to pay your

    C. let me pay for your   D. let me to pay for your

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When we are unfamiliar with something, we may feel nervous and fearful. The help of others is a good    36    to help us pull through.

I write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to    37    a story about parachute jumping(跳伞). To make it a realistic as well as exciting    38   , I decided that I had to make a jump myself    39   . Unluckily, I’m not good at any    40   , let alone(更不用说)parachute jumping.

My friend Mr. Smith was willing to give me a    41   . He took me to a ground school. The first day’s    42    included several hours of instruction but not my first drop from a(n)   43 . For this, I had to wait until the following    44   .

The next morning, I was taken to the airfield.    45   , a heavy parachute was put on my back. Then I was    46    to make my way to a small plane which had just stopped slowly on the runway. Once on board, the plane was soon    47   . I began to feel nervous. As we reached one thousand meters, Harry, my teacher, hooked(钩)a    48    from my parachute to a steel ring inside the plane. The line was to pull my parachute    49   after I jumped.

“Get    50   , Henry,” Harry said. I moved carefully to the door. I wanted to    51   , “NO, no, no!” But no word came.

“Jump!” Harry called    52   . “Jump!”

Away from the plane, and down, down I fell, arms stretched. It worked All at once I was very happy. Then I felt a quick    53   . My big parachute had opened! It was the best    54    I ever had. I looked down. There were rivers, trees, fields and houses. I heard the soft sound of the air. This was    55   .

A. way              B. chance                            C. idea                         D. value

A. tell               B. write                        C. read                         D. copy

A. film             B. poem                       C. story                        D. program

A. secretly         B. instead                            C. finally                      D. first

A. sport            B. driving                     C. lesson                      D. drawing

A. try               B. hand                        C. gift                          D. suggestion

A. jumping        B. journey                    C. training                    D. entertainment

A. tree                     B. tower                       C. building                   D. airplane

A. week            B. month                      C. evening                    D. morning

A. Besides         B. Once                        C. There                       D. However

A. asked            B. invited                            C. forced                      D. taught

A. slowing        B. climbing                  C. landing                    D. filling

A. belt                     B. steel                         C. line                          D. seat

A. light             B. broken                            C. fixed                        D. open

A. ready            B. up                           C. on                           D. away

A. cry               B. rest                          C. laugh                       D. lie

A. softly           B. loudly                      C. nervously                 D. excitedly

A. comfort        B. wind                        C. pull                         D. push

A. failure          B. experience                C. competition                     D. danger

A. tiring            B. shocking                  C. true                         D. fun


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There’s talk today about how as a society we’ve become separated by colors, income, city vs suburb, red state vs blue. But we also divide ourselves with unseen dotted lines. I’m talking about the property lines that isolate us from the people we are physically closest to: our neighbors.
It was a disaster on my street, in a middle-class suburb of Rochester Town, several years ago that got me thinking about this. One night, a neighbor shot and killed his wife and then himself; their two middle-school children ran screaming into the night. Though the couple had lived on our street for seven years, my wife and I hardly knew them. We’d see them jogging together. Sometimes our children would share cars to school with theirs.
Some of the neighbors attended the funeral(葬礼)and called on relatives. Someone laid a single bunch of yellow flowers at the family’s front door, but nothing else was done to mark the loss. Within weeks, the children had moved with their grandparents to another part of the town. The only indication that anything had changed was the “For Sale” sign in front of their house.
A family had disappeared, yet the impact on our neighborhood was slight. How could that be? Did I live in a community or just in a house on a street surrounded by people whose lives were entirely separate? Few of my neighbors, I later learned, knew others on the street more than casually; many didn’t know even the names of those a few doors down.
Why is it that in an age of low long-distance expenses, discount airlines and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don’t know the people who live next door? Maybe my neighbors didn’t mind living this way, but I did. I wanted to get to know the people whose houses I passed each day – not just what they do for a living and how many children they have, but the depth of their experience and what kind of people they are.
What would it take, I wondered, to break through the barriers between us? I thought about childhood sleepovers(在外过夜), and the familiar feeling and deep understanding I used to get from waking up inside a friend’s home. Would my neighbors let me sleep over and write about their lives from inside their own houses?
72. The underlined word “this” in the second paragraph probably refers to the talk about ____.
A. how a society is divided by dotted lines 
B. the property lines separating us from our neighbors
C. the couple’s death                  
D. understanding each other between neighbors
73. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the author’s description?
A. The husband killed himself.
B. The couple had the habit of jogging together.
C. Their children moved to live with grandparents after the couple’s death.
D. The author never knew the couple until they died seven years later.
74. From the last paragraph, we can infer that the author _____ in his childhood.
A. had once slept in the open air outside
B. had slept in his friend’s home more than once
C. had slept at home but woke up to find himself inside his friend’s home
D. used to live in his friend’s home
75. Following the last paragraph, the author will perhaps _____.
A. leave his home and began his writing career
B. sleep in the open air and write about his experiences
C. sleep in his neighbors’ homes and write about their family lives
D. interview his neighbors and write about their houses

阅读理解。
     A brief act of kindness brings an unexpected insight (领悟).I was shopping at a department store and
had just boarded the clown escalator  (电动扶梯)  when I noticed a woman standing to the side. She
looked about 65, and her expression told me she was scared. I turned toward her and asked, “Do you
need help?"
     As the escalator continued moving, I heard the woman  reply  softly, “I’m afraid." There was a hint of
doubt in her voice. "Want me to come back and get you?" I called to her. She nodded. But by the time I
reached her, the woman had reconsidered. "I don't think I can do it", she said.
     I  was  suddenly  aware that I had made a far greater investment than I expected. "I know we can do
it," I said. "I can  hold  on  to you." She looked down  at the beast  (庞然大物). Then  her eyes came
back  to  mine,  looking  doubtful "This has never happened to me before," she said, as much to herself
as to me. I felt that her  sudden  fear had to do with the escalator's mechanical nature, its basic inhuman
untrustworthiness.
     I took her arm. "Shall we?" She made a little sound of  alarm as we stepped on, but  we'd passed  the
point of no return. She relaxed slightly as the stairs moved us downward. "I don't understand this at all,"
she said. As we neared the bottom, her grip (紧握) tightened again, but we did fine. "I'm so grateful."She
began. "It was nothing," I said. "I was happy to do it.
     "Happy? Yes. I do very little to help others. I am busy caring for a family and  working full time. For
a brief moment, I had a flash of insight into why someone would become a nurse or a social worker
or a priest. When I helped the woman, I felt pure and whole, purposeful. It was a happier moment than
I'd had in weeks.
1. Why did the old woman look scared at first? Because ______.
A. she was afraid to talk to strangers.
B. she didn't dare to go down the escalator.
C. she couldn't carry her heavy things downstairs.
D. she felt she might be robbed of her things.
2. What does the sentence "I don't think I can do it" imply? The old woman couldn't ______.
A. hold on to the escalator.          
B. give the author a hand.
C. accept the author's help.              
D. afford to buy necessary things.
3. We know from the text that the old woman ______..
A. bought so many things.
B. was very thankful to the author.
C. couldn't go out shopping alone.
D. believed in the author from the beginning
4. The author learned from the experience that ______.
A. she should become a social worker.
B. she should first perform her own duties well.
C. the most important was to understand each other.
D. people needed other people's help in the society.

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