__________ the kids have left home,  we’ve got a lot of extra space.

A. As soon as    B. While      C. Now that     D.  Before

 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—Honey, what would you say if we have a Christmas party at home this year?

—61   . Where could you have it? The house is rather small.

—62   . We could put food on the dining room table.

—   63   .

—Let me see, --- the Turners, the Manders, and a few boys, and some girls from my office. We may have music or ---

—64   .

—That’s plenty of time. We’ll get some invitations ready and sent out soon. We’ll call to get a small Christmas tree ---65   .

—You mean you fix food?

— Well, I can do some easy things. Maybe I can do some shopping --- or, at least, wash dishes.

A．Then who should we invite?

B．You might have brought the presents in advance.

C．And if we should fix food ourselves, it would cost less.

D．We might have a small one.

E．It would be a lot of work to get the house decorated.

F．But I thought you were planning to go to the Turners’.

G．We’ve got only three weeks to go.

对标有题号的每一行判断并改正其中的错误：如果该行无误，在该行相应右边横线上画“√”；如果有误(每行只有一个错误)，请按下列情况改正：

此行多一词:把多余的词用斜线划掉（\）,在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号∧，并在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一词：在错的词下划一横线，并在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

I am very exciting to have received an e-mail from        76.        

you. I’m glad you have made such a great progress        77.        

that you can write your e-mail good Chinese. I read       78.        

your e-mail to my parents but showed them the photo you   79.        

sent it to me .How time flies! Our friendship has lasted  80.        

for several month .We have got to know and learned a      81.        

lot from each other . Yes, it is clearly that your life in82.        

your country is quite different from me . Thanks again    83.        

for writing to me. I’m looking forward to hear from      84.        

you soon. Best wishes to you and your family.              85.       

It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.

    I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, but my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!

    Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. Then along came email and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we live without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.

    Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb comes from an adjective not a noun. 

Now my children bought me a mobile phone, known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message for them on their phone. Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ ll start using it myself! 　

1.“I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means “____________”.

A. it was a firm arrangement

B. he prefers a pencil to a pen

C. the arrangement should be written as a diary

D. it was an uncertain arrangement

2.A website address can be easily found if it has been ____________.

A. favorited                          B. messaged                         C. emailed                            D. texted

3. Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet?

A. message                           B. mobile                              C. email                                 D. fax

4. The best title for this passage is____________.

A. How to use verbs

B. Development of the English language

C. Origins of verbs

D. New Verbs from Nouns

Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”

It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather case.

Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.

So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.

Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course — as hand baggage.

Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.

1.We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike        .

A. was portable

B. had a folding wheel

C. could be put in a pocket

D. looked like a magic carpet

2.We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable        .

A. were difficult to separate

B. could be split into 6 pieces

C. were fitted with solid tyres

D. were hard to carry on a train

3.We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention        .

A. kept the tyre as a whole piece

B. was made into production soon

C. left little room for improvement

D. changed our views on bag design

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A. Three folding bike inventors

B. The making of a folding bike

C. Progress in folding bike design

D. Ways of separating a bike wheel