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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Though she had been in a coma（昏迷）for nearly six months, it was still a when my grandmother passed away．I was not yet thirteen when she ．I'd understood that death awaited her, but in those first moments of knowing, I could not that "eventually" had finally come to pass．

Friends came to the funeral home to pay their last respects to my grandmother and to show their support for my mother．Not where to be or what to do, I stayed off to the side．The finally ended with the arrival of my friend Kelly．

Kelly and I had been friends ever since she was three and Four．We were “home" friends, the kind who rode bikes together after school, went to a KFC a few blocks away, even though we weren't allowed to leave the block．

At the funeral home, Kelly came right to me．In her hands were two packages of M&M's．Kelly knew that was one of my ．We had often taken long trips to the store for ．We sat in the back, eating M&M's and talking quietly．A experience had suddenly become easier to bear, with a childhood offering of chocolates and the of a devoted friend．

Trying to come up with something to offer a heartbroken person is ．Kelly had understood, even at twelve, that there wasn't much she could do to reduce my pain be there with me and bring something that just might make me ．

Now, whenever Kelly and I find ourselves at funeral home for family member of ours, the other has always shown up M&M's, a small offering of to take the edge off the hovering sorrow．We've that when we' re old, the one who dies first will have a crazy old lady throwing M&M' s into her grave．M&M's will be significant to me．They will me that even when something as painful and powerful as comes to claim what’s most important to me, there will always be Kelly… and her chocolate．

M&M's, melt（溶解）in your , not in your hand．

1.A．shock B. topic C．story D．custom

2.A．returned B．died C．cried D．recovered

3.A．tell B．pretend C．find D．believe

4.A．knowing B．seeing C．guessing D．planning

5.A．activity B．introduction C．ceremony D．awkwardness

6.A．directly B．separately C．secretly D．hurriedly

7.A．collections B．favorites C．presents D．choices

8.A．dolls B．pens C．dresses D．chocolates

9.A．valuable B．familiar C．painful D．previous

10.A．duty B．dream C．company D．greeting

11.A．strange B．clever C．difficult D．reasonable

12.A．but B．or C．so D．and

13.A. think B．wonder C．smile D．jump

14.A．for B．with C．at D．by

15.A．cheer B．excitement C．reward D．patience

16.A．worried B．remembered C．suspected D．joked

17.A．even B．always C．also D．merely

18.A．warm B．promise C．recur D．remind

19.A．darkness B．pressure C．death D．failure

20.A．mouth B．heart C．arms D．eyes

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Fun day

To celebrate the Year of the Snake

Organized by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High school

Date：2 February 2013

Time：10 am – 5 pm

Place：Kwn Tong Playground

Fee: $ 20 (buy three get one free)

Programmes：drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performance

Highlights: 1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera

2) learn to make festival food

John us on the Fun day!

All are welcome!

Note:

★Ticket are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Centre.

★For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before

the activity.

1.What you have just read is a .

A. note B. report C. schedule D. poster

2.What is going to take place on 2 February, 2013?

A. A big event to welcome a Chinese new year.

B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.

C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun.

D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.

3.How much do you have to pay in total if four of you go together?

A. $ 20. B. $ 40 C. $ 60. D. $ 80.

4.Which of the following statements is true?

A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School.

B. It’s unnecessary to take soft drinks with you.

C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody.

D. Festival food will be served without extra charge.

Dolphins(海豚) live in a dark underwater world. It’s often impossible to see each other or anything else around them, so sound plays an important role in their survival. To communicate with each other, dolphins produce all kinds of sounds.

Only other dolphins understand what the sounds mean. Scientists haven’t uncovered their secret communication, except for one kind of whistle. It might last less than a second, but this whistle is a big deal. Why? Because these whistles are actually names of dolphins - and every dolphin has one. Scientists call these sounds a “signature whistle.” When other dolphins hear the whistle, they know which dolphin is calling.

Dolphins often hunt by themselves but still need to stay connected to the group. Since they can’t always see each other, dolphins use their signature whistles to check in with other dolphins hundreds of yards away. “In coastal areas, dolphins exchange whistles even when they’re a third of a mile apart,” says Greg Campbell, who studies animals. That means dolphins shout out to group members that might be nearly five football fields away.

What’s amazing is who names the baby dolphin. Not the mother. Not an auntie dolphin or another group member. Scientists believe the baby dolphin itself comes up with the signature whistle. Like human babies, a baby dolphin plays with sounds throughout its first year. While testing its sound skills, a baby dolphin is doing something amazing. It’s creating or figuring out its signature whistle. How or why it chooses its signature whistle is not clear. Studies show that most of the time the signature whistle is nothing like its mother’s or group members’ whistles.

When the baby dolphin is about a year old, its signature whistle is set. It repeats it of ten so the other dolphins learn to recognize it.

Deciphering(破译) dolphin names is just the beginning of figuring out what dolphins communicate about. Do they chat about sharks? Discuss the tides? Maybe they even have a name for people. Someday scientists to decipher the rest of dolphins’ communication.

1.Sound is important for dolphins because of ______.

A．their poor sense of direction

B．their living environment

C．their strong enemies

D．their big groups

2.The dolphin’s signature whistle ______.

A．lasts along time

B．can travel long distances

C．is especially helpful in hunting

D．can be recognized by other animals

3.The author writes the text mainly to ______.

A．encourage readers to study dolphins

B．tell reader s how dolphins communicate

C．show how lovely and clever dolphins are

D．introduce a special sound made by dolphins

4.A baby dolphin gets its name ______.

A．soon after it was born

B．according to its size

C．all by itself

D．with the help of its group

I have found that spreading kindness is not always about 1. you do for someone, but it can also be what you say．One day I was standing in line at the gas station．Ahead of me were 2.other people．3. of them had a smile on their face and they all seemed to be in a hurry ．After the cold ,snowy winter, we were having a warm, sunny day．I wanted to cheer them up, so I spoke up and said, “I don’ t know 4. one of you ordered this fantastic day for us, but l want to say I really appreciate5. and thank you ．”After that, the five of us smiled 6. we started talking to each other．What I had said made 7. big difference to everyone’s day．You can see that it is much easier to spread kindness8. words．

______ she has earned her PhD, she wants to find a job with higher pay.

A．As if B．Now that

C．Even though D．In case

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My dad, “Mutt” Mantle is a father to me, sometimes more like a good judge of talent—“故选A”

He was about baseball. He made his living working in mines. But he played baseball in several town teams.

From the day I was born, Dad said he wanted me to make my living as baseball player. He named me Mickey a catcher he liked. He hoped I would play for the New York Yankees.

Dad often a toy baseball to my crib(摇篮). One day, . I caught one. Then he was sure that I’d be a ball player!

I learned about the on a ball field before I learned my ABC’s. When I was three, Dad had Mama make me little uniform. He liked to around town in it.

When I five, I started school. That same day, I had my first in switch-hitting(左右手都能击球)

Dad and Grandpa were in the yard when I came home from school. They had a small bat and two “Mickey,” said Dad, “ Grandpa and I have thought up at a new . Take this bat and try to hit our

pitches(投掷).I’m left-handed. When I throw, you swing right-handed you always have. Grandpa’s right-handed. When he throws, turn around and swing left-handed.”

Dad was going to make me a ! He knew that a player who can bat both right and left has a good of making hit.

That day I tried and tried. But I couldn’t swing left-handed. After about 15 minutes, I yelled to Mama for help. She said, “ I know it’s easy. But please try. , to make Dad happy.”

So, every day after school we had switch-hitting . After two weeks, I didn’t it any more. My were getting trained. I began to hit a few.

After a year or two, Dad and Grandpa began throwing as as they could. And they put real curves(曲线)on those tennis balls. Then as I grew older, they began to use baseball .

So you know I, today’s baseball star Mickey Mantle, got my star as a Switch-Hitter.

1.A. more than B. rather than C. other than D. less than

2.A. curious B. crazy C. nervous D. particular

3.A. after B. with C. for D. in

4.A. hit B. swung C. tied D. threw

5.A. on purpose B. by intention C. by chance D. without accident

6.A. limits B. positions C. experiences D. hits

7.A. see me off B. take me off C. carry me off D. show me off

8.A. lesson B. period C. lecture D. shift

9.A. baseballs B. tennis balls C. uniforms D. cribs

10.A. trick B. attack C. game D. match

11.A. as B. when C. like D. although

12.A. baseball star B. good pitcher C. baseball player D. switch-hitter

13.A. benefit B. potential C. chance D. percentage

14.A. somehow B. anyway C. someway D. somewhat

15.A. drills B. arrangements C. lessons D. exchanges

16.A. miss B. train C. hit D. mind

17.A. hits B. throws C. muscles D. legs

18.A. far B. close C. possible D. hard

19.A. instead B. indeed C. either D. immediately

20.A. why B. how C. when D. what

I hate nosy (爱管闲事的) neighbors and it’s very unlucky that I had one for myself. They moved in a couple of months back and although I never felt that they were a strange family, I’ve always hated the way they get “too close” to me, my house, my garden, and even my garbage cans.

One day, my neighbors were mowing their lawn (草坪). My garbage cans were near their lawn. For some strange reason, I found the wife looking through my garbage cans. I felt angry but since they were from a different culture, I thought that maybe it was “normal” from their ideas.

That afternoon, the couple knocked on my front door. When I opened, they gave me a plastic bag. Inside were my old daily bills, credit cards and bank statements, and an old birthday card that my old uncle sent. They said that they were returning them to me because these documents contained very private information that may be used by others.

I’ve heard of it before. I asked them how those documents can be used by others and they started telling me their very own experience, which forced them to leave their home and move next door to us. The wife told me that she never destroyed the bills. They also had a “nosy neighbor” who looked through their garbage cans which they actually thought was pretty strange. Little did they know that this “nosy neighbor” was collecting their personal information from their rubbish. Then all their money was taken out from the bank by their neighbor.

It was a very painful experience for all of them and they wanted to leave it all behind so they left. I was very thankful. They were not nosy neighbors. They simply didn’t want us to experience the same thing that they did.

1.What made the author angry?

A. His neighbor’s wife was looking through his rubbish.

B. His neighbors were mowing their lawn one morning.

C. His neighbors got too close to his own home.

D. His neighbors came to knock at his door at night.

2.Why did the couple come to the author’s home?

A. To introduce themselves to the author.

B. To get to know each other better.

C. To return the documents to the author.

D. To borrow some money from the author.

3.Which of the following can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. The author was kind and helpful to the neighbors.

B. The neighbors had to move from place to place.

C. The neighbors didn’t have enough money.

D. The author changed his idea about his neighbors.

A public health campaign _____ the number of heart disease deaths by 80 percent over the past three decades．

A．had reduced B．had been reduced

C．has reduced D．has been reduced

The manager should take_______ action if safety standards are not being met.

A. awkward B. average

C. appropriate D. automatic

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