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5. is a great advantage for international communication, (gift)

有语言天分对于国际交往是一个巨大的优势。

5.Having a gift for languages

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3. She can't have been married to a penniless man,for she . (wear)

她不可能嫁给了一个身无分文的人，因为她总是佩戴那么多的珠宝。

Extreme sports and the movie Lord of the Rings are the two things that come to mind when one talks abutNew Zealandtoday. But for wine lovers across the world, New Zealand has a completely different meaning.

It's a long narrow country，but its vineyards(葡萄园) are mostly around three regions，Gis- borne,Hawkes Bay and Marlborough.

It was not until the 1980s that New Zealand wines drew the attention of the world with what is now a fashionable classic wine: Cloudy Bay. It was snapped up as it appeared on wine menus in Hong Kong restaurants during the early 1990s. This success was followed by the growing popularity of a wide range of wines from other New Zealand estates(庄园) such as Esk Vally， Villa Maria and Grove Mill. Since then,several other wine growing regions in other countries have tried to copy theNew Zealandstyle without much success.

The New Zealanders were good at white wines right from their early days，but their red wines, too,were catching the fancy of the drinking public. One example of just how fast and sure that happened is Goldwater Estate in Waiheke Island. The little island, which is just a 35-minute ferry ride from Auckland, had only 13 wineries ten years ago. Kim and Jeanette Gold-water set it up as the Goldwater holiday home,with wine making as a hobby, in 1982. But de?mand soon made them turn that hobby into a business.

Encouraged by family and friends，they decided to take their wine production a step further and entered the commercial market. In 1991 ，they took their wines to the International Wine Competition in New York and won a Gold Medal.

( ) 5. What does the author mean by saying "But for wine lovers across the world，New Zealand has a completely different meaning" in Paragraph 1?

A.New Zealand today is different from what it was in the past in wine making.

B.New Zealand is famous for good wines to wine lovers in the world.

C.Wine lovers have different opinions onNew Zealand's sports and films.

D.New Zealand is well known for its sports and movies.

( ) 6. Goldwater Estate in Waiheke Island is given as an example to show that .

A.Goldwater Estate is not very far from Auckland

B.Goldwater won great success as a holiday home to New Zealanders

C.the red wines of the New Zealanders are on their way to success

D.encouragement from family and friends can lead to gold medals

( ) 7. The underlined phrase "snapped up" in Paragraph 3 most probably means " ”.

A. refused B. removed

C. wiped out D. sold out

( ) 8. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Vineyards can be seen everywhere across the long narrow country.

B.New Zealand wines first won their place in the world with Cloudy Bay.

C.Kim and Jeanette Goldwater took wine making as a hobby at first.

D.Wine production from Goldwater was popular with the drinking public.

10. They are considering the problem . (settle)

他们正在考虑将在哪里定居。

Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth- century painters of the United States， yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said of herself; "I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. No one could have had a more productive old age.

She，Anna Mary Robertson，was born on a farm in New York State，one of five boys and five girls. At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty-seven, she mar?ried Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State,at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived;her husband died in 1927. Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery(刺綉) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore(杂货店) and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930*s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures：detailed and lively portrayals(描绘) of the country life she had known for so long,with a wonderful sense of color and form. "I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it”，she said.

( ) 4. According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to

A. make herself beautiful B. keep active

C. earn more money D. become famous

( ) 5. Grandma Moses spent most of her life .

A. nursing B. painting C. embroidering D. farming

( ) 6. The underlined word "survived" means .

A.graduated from college

B.examined the condition of the house

C.lived longer than the other children

D. gave up themselves to the police

( ) 7. From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was .

A. independent B. pretty C. rich D. nervous

( ) 8. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Grandma Moses：Her Life and Pictures

B.The Children of Grandma Moses

C.Grandma Moses：Her Best Exhibition

D.Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists

I once knew an old man whose bad memory made him famous. John Smith was so forgetful that he sometimes forgot what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence. His wife had to constantly remind him about his meetings, his classes―even his meals. Once he forgot, he ate breakfast twice, at home and at school. His wife liked to remind her neighbors, "If John didn't have his head tied on,he would forget that too!" Since Smith was a professor at a well-known university, his forgetfulness was often an embarrassment. It wasn't that he was not clever, as some critical people tended to say,just very,very absent-minded. One hot summer day,Pro?fessor Smith decided to take his children to a seaside town about a three-hour train ride away. To make the trip more interesting for his young children，he kept the name of the town a secret.

However, by the time they arrived at the station, Smith forgot the name of the town he was planning to visit. Luckily, a friend of his happened to be in the station. He offered to take care of the children while Smith hurried back home to find out where he was going.

The professor's wife was surprised to see him again so soon. "Oh,my dear,I forgot the name of the town. ""What? You forgot the name? Maybe one day you will forget my name!Now I'll write the name of that town on a piece of paper, and you put it in your pocket and please, please don't forget where you put it."

Satisfied that she had solved the problem, she sent her husband off again. Ten minutes later she was astonished to see him outside the house for the third time.

"What is the matter now?"

"As you told me,I didn't forget where I put the name of that town,but I forgot where I left our children！"

( ) 6. In the opinion of the writer of this passage, the professor is .

A. careless B. absent-minded

C. foolish D. forgetful

( ) 7. The underlined word "embarrassment" in the first paragraph may mean .

A. amusement B. satisfaction

C. fun D. discomfort

( ) 8. From the end of the story,we know Mrs. Smith would probably be very .

A. satisfied B. sorry

C. angry D. funny

10. If you like, (you can) take_________________ . (whatever)

如果喜欢,想拿什么就拿什么。

10. water is fundamental to the development of life, (fact)

事实是水是万物进化的基本因素。

10. My elder sister had a (疼痛的) cut on her thumb.

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