--- You didn’t do well in the interview. It seems that you are not yourself today!

---I burned the mid-night oil last night to get better prepared. Unfortunately,_________ sleep prevented me from thinking clearly enough to produce satisfying answers.

A. lack of            B. lacking of             C. lack                     D lacked of

I know what you’re thinking : pizza（比萨饼）? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a. m. if you want to I know lots of women who skip breakfast（不吃早餐）, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it . Some say they don’t have time. others think they ’re “saving” calories（卡路里）, still others just don’t like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking , R , D , who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southem California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers-it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.
【小题1】The word “leftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means              .

He didn't ______ in the party last night.

A) show off          B) show in          C) show up           D) show around

--How about the film last night?

?? ---We _________ expect a better one. This is the best one that has impressed us that much.

A. should???????? B. might?????????? C. mustn’t?????????? D. couldn’t

Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart．Both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists．

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon．The next day, this news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper.The Beldon Post:

FIRE AT SEABREEZE

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom．The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire.We say again to all our visitors： “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years.

    The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one：

    ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel．An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire．The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels．When I put my bed side light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp.” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield．

What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident．There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact．Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel．

    Now what do you think of the rest of the “news” ?

Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text?

A.Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer．

B.A fire broke out at night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer．

C. Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter．

D. It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers．

Which of the following are probably facts? 

a.The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel．

b.A cigarette started the fire．

c.An old lamp started the fire．

d.The fire broke out at night．

e.There has never been a fire in Canfield．

A.b and c       B. c and e       C. a and d       D.a and c

The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think _____________．

A.hotels in Beldon often catch fire

B.hotels in Beldon don’t often catch fire

C. Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe

D. this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that _______．

A.the bedroom lamps were very old at the Seabreeze Hotel

B.the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place

C.the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other things

D.such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years