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   When I was 16 years oldI made my first visit to Disneyland in AmericaIt wasn't the first time I had been 1Like most English children I learned French 2 school and I had often been to Franceso I  3  speaking a foreign language to people who didn't understand  4  But  5 I went to AmericaI was really looking forward to 6 a nice easy holiday without any 7 problems

8  wrong I was! The misunderstanding began 9 the airportI was looking for a  10  telephone to give my friend Danny a 11 and tell her that I had arrivedA  12  old man saw me looking lost and asked 13 he could help me.

  “Yes”I said“I want to give my friend a ring”“Wellthat's nice”he said“Are you getting 14 But aren't you a bit young?”“15 is talking about marriage?”I replied“I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I've arrivedCan you tell me  16  there’s a phone box?”“Oh!”he said“there's a phone downstairs

   When at last we did meet upDanny explained the misunderstanding to me“Don't worry”she said to me“I had so many  17  at firstThere are lots of words

which the Americans 18 differently in meaning from us BritishYou'll soon get used to  19  funny things they sayMost of the  20  Britishand American people understand each other!”

1. Aout  &nb?sp;    Baway      Coutside   Dabroad

2. Afrom     Bduring      Cat     Dafter

3. Aget used to   Bwas used to   Cused to   Dused

4. AEnglish   BFrench      CRussian    DLatin

5. Awhen     Bwhile       Cif     Dfor

6. Abuying    Bhaving      Cgiving   Dreceiving

7. Atime      Bhuman      Clanguage  D. money

8. A. Too     B. What       CWhat   DHow

9. Awith     B. to        Cover    Dat

10. Acheap      Bpopular      Cpublic    Dgood

11. A. letter     B. ring        C. news     D. information

12A. friendly    B. strange      C. stupid    D. tough

13Athat    B. if         C. where    D. when

14A. to marry   B. to be married    C. marrying    D. married

15AYou    BShe        CWho     DHe

16Awhere    Bin which     Cover there   Dthat

17. Atrouble   Bdifficulties     Cthings    Dfun

18. Awrite    Bspeak       Cuse     Dread

19. Aevery   Bthese        Csome   Dall the

20. Achance    Bsituation      Ccondition    Dtime

 

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Nicolette Morganti’s friends can’t understand why she joined a dating agency(婚姻介绍所).

She has a good job    1    a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature(文学),is so    2    with British    3    that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.

“English men are usually materialistic and have    4    imagination,” she says.

“I have    5    years being bored by men who never do anything    6    .”

“I’m almost 30 now and I would really love to    7    a husband and have    8   .I’d like to live in London for six months of the year and in the States for   9     six months.”

In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once    10    an advertisement in a magazine for    11    people and had 400 replies.

But she says, “I only met one or two of them.  12    of the others sounded very   13   .”

Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months    14    and has met    15    then.

She says, “I    16    that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang   17    in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to    18    the call.”

“I’ve met five so far but I’m looking for someone very    19   . I’d like to find a caring, well-educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a    20    of adventure.”

1.A.like                               B.being

C.as                                D.with

2.A.tired                               B.bored

C.pleased                           D.angry

3.A.men                              B.games

C.music                             D.master

4.A.some                              B.much

C.a little                             D.no

5.A.passed                             B.spent

C.entered                           D.wasted

6.A.exciting                           B.moving

C.interesting                         D.living

7.A.marry to                            B.accept

C.receive                           D.find

8.A.friends                            B.work

C.a home                           D.children

9.A.another                            B.some

C.the other                           D.other

10.A.wrote                            B.put

C.gave                             D.posted

11.A.single                             B.married

C.only                             D.lonely

12.A.Most                             B.Few

C.All                                D.Some

13.A.worrying                              B.encouraging

C.boring                               D.surprising

14.A.before                           B.later

C.more                                 D.ago

15.A.from                             B.since

C.after                               D.until

16.A.expect                           B.suppose

C.know                             D.feel

17.A.one                             B.it

C.them                                 D.him

18.A.pay to                            B.pay off

C.pay for                           D.pay back

19.A.ordinary                           B.handsome

C.special                            D.lovely

20.A.feeling                           B.sense

C.way                             D.kind

 

     Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t 1       drive to a store and back home. He always looks carefully up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything 2        such as strange cars, loud noises, broken windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim 3       to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group 4      on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s when Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community safety. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police 5     their homes, streets, and families safe.

Mrs. Stedman, president of 6    _____     neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪)  happens to other people but not 7      them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “but I don’t think anyone has the 8       to steal from other people or to make them feel 9     sitting in their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors look out for one another. “We 10     each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a 11     of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the 12     .For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 13    , or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups 14     a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do 15      .”

1. A. hardly           B. still                C. simply            D. rather

2. A familiar            B. unusual           C. expensive             D. interesting

3. A. attends           B. belongs           C. goes              D. turns

4. A. meets           B. quarrels           C. sings              D. searches

5. A. keep             B. hold                C. let                D. protect

6. A. its              B. his                C. their               D. your

7. A. round           B. on                C. about             D. to

8. A. right             B. chance               C. courage           D. mind

9.A. unlucky         t&n癰sp; B. unsafe                C. disappointed         D. discouraged

10. A. care            B enter                C. watch            D manage

11. A. group            B. set                C. number           D. crowd

12. A. judges         B. police             C. firemen          D. doctors

13. A work           B. burden               C. service               D. trouble

14. A. produce           B. find               C. get               D. help

15. A. anything        B. everything            C. harm                D. wrong

 

Gordon Summer is a very good-looking man admired by millions and so rich that he can afford all he could ever wish for.  1  known as Sting, he’s the lead singer of The Police.

Suddenly Sting has become a   2  .“I can’t walk down a street any more without feeling that people are  3  me,” he says.

“When I’m not working, all I want to do is to be a   4   person. I make a point of walking round the street, just being  5  .”

He and Frances bought the house in   6  when Sting returned from The Police’s highly successful world tour.

“I picked Ireland because, apart from being  7  ,you can stay in touch with England while  8  life at a slower pace!”He also has Irish ancestry(祖先)and an Irish  9  ,Frances, a well accepted actress.

Sting is very much a man  10  the eighties:“Frances  11  to be considered as only my wife, which I’m   12   about. She has her own  13  .She’s ambitious(雄心勃勃的)and clever, but she has never let it affect her. It’s  14  been that way. When we got married and had Joseph,”explains Sting,“we both agreed that being  15  was not going to affect our work.”

A fixed  16  life is clearly important to Sting. It remains the one constant factor in a world that has changed completely for him since he   17  a job in teaching for the music business. Sting loved  18  ,but could not help playing in bands. So he tried to  19  both, teaching by day, playing by night. It left him so  20  that he knew he had to choose one or the other.

1. A.Hardly                            B. Better

C. More?                           D. Less

2. A. superstar                         B. teacher

C. singer                            D. player

3. A. following                         B. calling

C. watching                          D. waving

4. A. famous                            B. rich

C. normal                           D. poor

5. A. myself                           B. himself

C. ourselves                         D. themselves

6. A. England                           B. America

C. Scotland                          D. Ireland

7. A. near                               B. area

C. pleasant                           D. mountainous

8. A. suffering                       B. leading

C. protecting                          D. enjoying

9. A. wife                              B. friend

C. partner                            D. parent

10. A. of                              B. in

C. for                              D. at

11. A. agrees                            B. asks

C. refuses                          D. likes

12. A. worried                       B. glad

C. thankful                         D. angry

13. A. child                            B. life

C. job                              D. mind

14. A. seldom                           B. sometimes?

C. recently                         D. always

15. A. parents                          B. singers

C. players                           D. teachers

16. A. singing                           B. family

C. teaching                         D. playing

17. A. took up                          B. gave up

C. picked up                         D. put up

18. A. working                         B. traveling

C. changing                          D. teaching

19. A. make                             B. get

C. have                            D. do

20. A. given out                          B. picked out

C. died out                         D. tired out

 

Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific  1   ;I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my  2  .“All great discoveries,”he said,“are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”  3   a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him.  4   wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the  5  of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the   6   discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different  7   fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that  8   to the Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well,  9   of that. Yet I  10   if those“best years”were true in other  11   .

Then how about the field of   12   ? Surely it needs the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it  13   ,but look when these people  14   their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln  15   the life of a country lawyer and was elected to government. At what age? Twenty-six.

But why  16   best years some after thirty? After thirty, I  17   ,most people do not want to take risks or try   18   ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, while the latter was  19   trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!

Perhaps there is still  20   for me.

1. A. invention                             B. discovery

C. experiment                               D. progress

2. A. mind                                   B. idea

C. attention                                  D. thought

3. A. As                                     B. Being

C. However                             D. Beyond

4. A. Everybody                               B. Somebody

C. Nobody                                 D. Whoever

5. A. names                                   B. ages

C. addresses                                 D. oldest

6. A. modern                                  B. scientific

C. last                                      D. oldest

7. A. heights                                  B. sizes

C. weights                                 D. things

8. A. led                                    B. meant

C. stuck                                    D. referred

9. A. plenty                                    B. enough

C. much                                   D. none

10. A. believed                               B. trusted

C. wondered                                D. asked

11.A. fields                                  B. countries

C. courses                                  D. ages

12. A. agriculture                              B. politics

C. industry                                  D. society

13.A. is                                     B. will

C. has                                    D. does

14. A. finished                              B. went

C. started                                   D. failed

15. A. devoted                                B. gave up

C. began                                   D. led

16. A. don’t                                 B. the

C. can                                       D. not

17. A. say                                     B. know

C. guess                                    D. agree

18. A. other                                 B. new

C. best                                    D. their

19.A. always                                  B. still

C. seldom                                  D. enjoying

20. A. discovery                               B. problem

C. wish                                   D. hope

 

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