12．The umbrella is a poor from heavy rain．( )A．houseB．toolC．supplyD．shelter——青夏教育精英家教网——

12．The umbrella is a poor ________ from heavy rain．（　　）

11．He has a good command ________ maths and plays an important part ________ our team．（　　）

10．She's the student ________ handwriting is the best in my class．（　　）

9．The US is a large country ________ many different dialects are spoken．（　　）

8．Be sure to read the ________ before you take the medicine．（　　）

7．While previewing his lessons，the little boy will make a question mark ________ there is a question．（　　）

6．He'll never forget his stay in the park ________ he found his cellphone which had gone missing days before．（　　）

5．My friend，Emma Daniels，spent the summer of 1974traveling in Israel．During her month-long stay in Jerusalem she often went to a café called Chocolate Soup．It was run by two men，one of whom-Alex-used to live in Montreal．One morning when Emma went in for coffee，while chatting with her new friend Alex，she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to read．Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like，and that he'd be happy to lend it to her．As he lived just above the café，he quickly ran up to get it．The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings，a book by a former Secretary-General of the United Nations （UN）．
Emma had never read it，nor had she ever bought a copy．But，when she opened it up，she was flooored to see her own name and address inside the cover in her own handwriting．It turned out that the summer before，at a concert back in Montreal，Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends．They decided to exchange addresses，but neither of them had any paper．The man opened up a book he was carrying in his backpack（背包） and asked Emma to write her name and address inside．When he returned toCalifornia，he left the book behind in Montreal，and his friend Alex kept it．When Alex later moved to Jerusalem，he took the book along．

1．The first owner of the book with Emma's name in it is probablyAlex'sCalifornianfriend/Alex'sfriendfromCalifornia/Alex'sfriend-aCalifornian．（within 5words）
2．The underlined sentence indicates that Emma feltsurprised/astonished/puzzled/confused when she opened the book．（ with one word）
3．Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2．（with one word）California
4．Where did Emma write herAt a concert in Montreal
5．For what purpose did the Californian go to Montreal？（within 8words）
name and address inside the book？（within 8words）Hewenttheretovisitfriends．/Tovisitfriends．

4．Their use was limited by laws，the first of which ______ the 14th century．（　　）

3．As US President Barack Obama _____London，fresh figures showed US house prices were falling at their fastest pace on record．（　　）

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