One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be  36  for the night, “I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said politely, “we are all  37 tonight.  38 ,you could stay in my room if you don’t mind. I’m 39 ,so I’ll be here.” The young man gave the sincere advice.

The elderly couple accepted his  40  with gratitude. They apologized for the  41  they had caused him. The next day, the rain stopped and it  42 . When the old gentleman went to pay his bill, the same clerk said, “The room you and your wife stayed in is not a proper   43  room in this hotel, so you don’t need to pay.”

The old gentleman nodded in  44  : “You are an employee that every boss in the hotel business would dream of . Perhaps someday I’ll build a hotel for you.” The clerk was  45  but, deciding that the guest must have been 46  , he gave the remark  47 thought.

Two years later, the young man received a letter from the old gentleman, in which he  48 the experience of that dark stormy night. The letter also  49 a formal invitation, asking that young man to pay a visit.

At a street corner in Manhattan, the young man met his  50  guest. The old gentleman, pointing to a magnificent new building  51  over the crossroads, “Look, that is the hotel I 52 to build for you. I hope you will  53  it for me .Remember what I said then? Well, I was  54  about it.”

The young man stammered, “But…will there be any   55 , sir? Why do you choose me? And who are you?”

“My name is William Aster.” This building was none other than the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a symbol of supreme status and honor in New York.

1.                A．put up         B．put away        C．stay up   D．set up

2.                A．preserved      B．conserved       C．booked   D．occupied

3.                A．Meanwhile      B．Moreover       C．Otherwise D．However

4.                A．on duty         B．on display       C．on stage  D．on hand

5.                A．service         B．view           C．offer D．invitation

6.                A．Instruction      B．consideration    C．Inconvenience D．interruption

7.                A．cleared away    B．picked out       C．cleaned up    D．cleared up

8.                A．living          B．double         C．admirable D．luxury

9.                A．appreciation     B．admiration      C．surprise  D．excitement

10.               A．excited         B．skeptical        C．annoyed   D．respectful

11.               A．lacking         B．covering        C．joking D．cheating

12.               A．not more       B．no more        C．some D．another

13.               A．described       B．stated          C．recited    D．recalled

14.               A．swapped       B．included        C．attached   D．added

15.               A．former         B．original         C．formal D．primitive

16.               A．displaying       B．towering        C．flying D．hovering

17.               A．determined     B．promised       C．tended    D．intended

18.               A．get            B．keep           C．manage   D．make

19.               A．sensitive        B．concerned      C．curious    D．serious

20.               A．Scene          B．situation        C．condition  D．Occasion

1) If you s________ something bad, you are in a situation where something painful happens to you.

2) She looks young, but she's __________ (实际上) 50 years old.

3) Luckily, nobody was killed in the accident and the i________ has been taken to a hospital.

4) The car was a _________ (便宜货) at that price.

5) He gave the children some chocolate to r________ them for behaving well.

6) The headmaster gave the _________（信号） to begin.

7) One cannot s_________ unless he tries hard.

8) She closed her eyes and ____________ (装作) to be asleep.

9）His order is really c__________ and I don’t know exactly what to do next.

10) She accepted his _____________(邀请) to join him for lunch.

         Scientists have devised（发明） a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.
While U.S. diet is relatively identical（同一的）, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also
present as heavier isotopes. The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over
the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.
Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes（同位素） along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds（相当） to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.
They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
“It’s not good for pinpointing（精确）,” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”
Told Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said,  “But it narrows it way down for me”.
72. What is the scientists’ new discovery?
A. One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B. A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.
73. What does the author mean by “You’re what you eat and drink” (Line 1, Para.3)?
A. Food and drink affect one’s personality development.        
B. Food and drink preferences vary with individuals.
C. Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues（组织）.           
D. Food and drink are similar to one’s existence.
74. What did Cerling’s team produce in their research?
A. A map showing the regional differences of tap water.        
B. A collection of hair samples from various barber shops.
C. A method to measure the amount of water in human hair.      
D. A chart illustrating the movement of the rain system.
75. What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?
A. It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.
B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.
C. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.
D. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子
71.You may                   (指望) he will come to help you.(rely)
72.He was busy writing a letter            (而不是)doing his homework.(rather)
73.—He was late again this morning.
—He                               (本应该出发) earlier. (set)
74.Can’t you see that your design            (正在被讨论)? Have some patience, please.(discuss)
75.E-mail, as well as letters,                (正起着重要的作用) in daily communication. (play)
76.I would rather you                       (求助于他) yesterday, than now. (turn)
77. He gave the long speech without                    (看他的笔记).(refer)
78.                (无论哪一本词典)you want to buy, I’ll pay for it. (whichever)
79. The school                   (缺少) for experienced teachers now. (badly)
80. Justin kicked the ball into his own goal.                   (由于) his stupidity that we won the game. (thanks)

When someone takes shoes to a shop to be mended, he is given a ticket with a number on it. Then,  21 his shoes are ready, he goes back to the shop, gives the ticket to the shoemaker, gets his shoes and  22  for them.

One day Mrs. Smith gave her husband a  23 of her shoes which needed mending and asked him to  24 them to the shop. Mr. Smith did so, and put the  25 for them in his pocket.

He went back four days  26 to get the shoes,  27 when he went into the shop, he was not able to find his ticket  28 ,and the shoemaker did not want to give him the  29 until he got the ticket.

“How do I know that the shoes are  30 unless you give me the ticket?” he said. “If I give them to you now, somebody  31 may come into my shop with the ticket tomorrow, and then I shall not be able to give him the shoes.”

Mrs. Smith needed the shoes very much, so her husband  32 for a moment and then went out to his  33 , which was at the side of the road   34 the shop. He  35 the door, and whistled（耳语）to his wife’s small  36 , which was sitting on the back seat. Then he went back into the shop and  37 it, “Get the shoes!” The dog began to  38 around the shop, and soon it found Mrs. Smith’s shoes and brought them to Mr. Smith one after the  39 .

“That should prove（证明）that they are my wife’s.” Mr. Smith said.

The shoemaker  40  and then he gave the shoes to Mr. Smith.

1.                A．before         B．when          C．since D．unless

2.                A．cares          B．looks           C．pays D．waits

3.                A．pair           B．set            C．kind D．piece

4.                A．show          B．change         C．lead D．take

5.                A．bill            B．paper          C．ticket D．list

6.                A．late            B．later           C．ago  D．long

7.                A．but            B．because        C．and  D．or

8.                A．everywhere     B．anywhere       C．nowhere  D．somewhere

9.                A．return         B．idea            C．shoes    D．answer

10.               A．what           B．whose         C．where D．yours

11.               A．else           B．some          C．every D．all

12.               A．worried        B．cried          C．thought   D．hoped

13.               A．train           B．bus            C．boat  D．car

14.               A．inside          B．outside         C．up   D．round

15.               A．opened        B．closed         C．broke D．built

16.               A．clock          B．dog            C．cat   D．hen

17.               A．said to         B．replied         C．answered  D．talked

18.               A．hear           B．taste           C．smell D．see

19.               A．each           B．once           C．any   D．other

20.               A．surprised       B．frightened      C．cried out  D．laughed