---What do you think of the two students ______ to take part in the competition?

---They are hardworking as well as intelligent.

A. selecting B. to select

C. selected D. having selected

______ more than half of us were against the new plan, he still decided to carry it out.

A. As B. Since C. Unless D. While

---I hear Tony ______ as a lawyer. Why did he quit teaching?

---Who knows? Maybe he just wants to experience a totally different life.

A. worked B. is working

C. was working D. will have worked

---She looks very happy. She ______ have passed the exam.

---I guess so. It’s not difficult after all.

A. would B. should

C. must D. ought to

China’s education reforms aim to better develop students’ ability to think ______.

A. independently B. obviously

C. regularly D. fluently

With the audience ______ at her, the little girl felt nervous on the stage．

A. staring B. to stare

C. stare D. stared

---What’s the matter with John? He has been sitting there for hours.

---A postcard from his father ______ an attack of home-sickness in him.

A. took up B. cheered up

C. brought in D. set off

---Are you satisfied with the result ?

---Not at all. ______.

A. I must be better

B. It can’t be better

C. I could have been better

D. It couldn’t be worse

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment (约会) at 9:30.

The nurse had him take a in the waiting area, him it would be at least 40 minutes someone would be able to see him. I saw him his watch and decided I would examine his wound, since I was busy – my didn’t come at the appointed hour. While taking care of his wound, I asked him he had another doctor’ s appointment.

The gentleman said no and told me that he to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his . He told me that she had been for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be if he was a bit late. He replied that she knew who he was, and that she had not been able to him for five years now. I was , and asked him, “And you go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”

He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back as he left.

Now I that in marriages, true love is acceptance of all that is. The people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just the best of everything they have. is not about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

1.A. breath B. seat C. test D. break

2.A. telling B. promising C. understanding D. persuading

3.A. if B. after C. since D. before

4.A. taking off B. fixing C. looking at D. bringing

5.A. very B. also C. seldom D. not

6.A. patient B. doctor C. nurse D. friend

7.A. when B. where C. why D. whether

8.A. needed B. forgot C. agreed D. happened

9.A. daughter B. wife C. mother D. sister

10.A. late B. well C. around D. there

11.A. lonely B. worried C. doubtful D. hungry

12.A. so far B. neither C. no longer D. already

13.A. recognize B. answer C. believe D. expect

14.A. interested B. disappointed C. surprised D. satisfied

15.A. only B. then C. thus D. still

16.A. imagination B. tears C. words D. excitement

17.A. realize B. suggest C. hope D. prove

18.A. happiest B. richest C. most healthy D. most responsible

19.A. learn B. make C. favor D. try

20.A. Adventure B. Beauty C. Trust D. Life

John Dalton was born in England in 1766. As a small child, John worked in the fields with his older brother, and helped his father in the cloth-making shop. Most poor boys at that time received no education, but John was lucky to attend a nearby school. John was a good student and loved learning. His teachers encouraged him to study many things.

When he was twelve, he opened his first school in a nearby town, but there was very little money. He had to close his school and work in his uncle’s field.

Three years later, he ran a school in Kendall, England with his brother and a friend. They taught many subjects. There, John studied the weather and the nature around him. He collected butterflies and snails. He did many other scientific tests.

In 1793, John moved to Manchester to teach at New College, and began observing the behavior of gases. He began to think about different elements (元素) and how they are made up of.

In 1808, Dalton published a book, A New System of Chemical Philosophy. His atomic masses were not all careful and exact, but they formed the basis for the modern periodic table (元素周期表).

John Dalton died in 1844 in England. Today, scientists everywhere accept Dalton’s idea of how the atoms were made. A simple country boy showed the world a new way of thinking about the universe and how it is made.

1.The following statements are true except that ________.

A. John Dalton was born into a poor family in England

B. John Dalton continued his study in a nearby town at 12

C. John Dalton worked as a teacher in Kendall at 15

D. John Dalton began to think about how things are formed at 27

2. We can learn that _______ from the fifth paragraph.

A. the book A New System of Chemical Philosophy is useless

B. John Dalton shouldn’t have made so many mistakes in his book

C. John Dalton was the first to publish the modern periodic table

D. the modern periodic table was based on John Dalton’s work

3.According to the passage, we can infer that _______.

A. John Dalton showed great interest in science when he was young

B. John Dalton worked as a school student in most of his early years

C. John Dalton was even more famous when he was 40 years old

D. if John Dalton had been in the city, he wouldn’t have been successful

4.The passage is organized in the order of _______.

A. time B. importance C. events D. space