15. --- What
did he say just now? --- He
asked you ____.
A. who has been to the USA in your
class
B. what was wrong with your computer
C. when did China become a member of the World
Trade Organization
D. that China had successfully held the
Olympic Games.
Tom is the son of a farm owner. One New Year’s
Day, when he was 15, his father___16___
him to work on the farm for one year when he was free. Tom was ___17__ with
his father’s idea.
“That isn’t my job. I have __18___ school
work to do.” Hearing this, his father said, “I promise
to give you
the best present if you __19__ finish one year’s work.” Tom thought for a while
and
__20___.
Starting one Saturday, the boy got up early
and worked __21___ until evening, just like any
other
farmer. Time passed quickly. Tom’s crops(庄稼)grew
well. __22___ the last day of the
year, the father called his son to him. “I’m happy to see that you have
worked very hard the whole
year,” said
the father. “Now, tell me __23___ you want.”
The boy smiled and showed his father a big
piece of bread made from his wheat (小麦).
“I’ve already got the ____24____ present. No pains, no gains. I think this is
what you wanted __25__ to know.” His father was quite pleased to hear that.
If there is a building which
symbolizes(象征) a c____67____--- such as the Eiffel Tower for France and Sydney
Opera House for Australia, then it has to be the Taj Mahal for India.
It was b____68_____ by
the king, Shah Jahan, in 1653 in memory of his w____69___, Mumtaz
Mahal. From the time they got m___70_____, they
wouldn’t be separated(分开). She f___71_____ him to wars, a____72______him on wars, and was
loved by his people for her good w____73____. But she died in 1631 d____74_____
childbirth. The king was heartbroken and h___75___the Taj
Mahal built as a sign of his l__76______.
It took more than 20 years for
the Taj Mahal to be built. Workers
were b____77______ in, not only from all over India,
b___78___ from Central Asia, too. A total of
20,000 people worked on the building.