阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　Every year millions of people travel by plane without difficulty. I don't _____1____ very often, but I always seem to _____2___ into trouble. Troubles seem to like me;“goes with me___3___a friendly dog! Last year, for example, I wanted to come home ____4___ a winter vacation in Miami, Florida. I had to ___5____ a plane to Atlanta and then take another plane home. We left Miami on a Sunday morning. The ___6____ there was warm and sunny. We arrived in Atlanta at 12∶30 p.m., but then it_____7___to snow. In the next three hours, ten inches of snow fell. ____8____ the plane could not leave. After twenty-four hours at the Atlanta airport, I was able to _____9____ my journey. I arrived home and went to _____10___.“You look tired,”the people at work said.“You need a vacation! ”

　　This year I had to go to Washington DC for an important business meeting. ____11___ the plane journey, I wore sports clothes; they were old, but I felt ____12___ in them. My good clothes for the meeting were in my suitcase. That was a very ____13____ idea! I ____14___ in Washington, but my suitcase didn't. Maybe it went to London or _____15___ to San Francisco, I don't know, but it didn't arrive in Washington _____16___ me! I went to my important meeting _____17___ my tennis clothes. Now that is not a good way to _____18__ business! People in Washington wear suits to business meetings, not shorts and tennis shoes. My meeting did not _____19___ well. That was two weeks ago. Now I am home again, and I am ____20___ waiting for my suitcase.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　Every year millions of people travel by plane without difficulty. I don't _____1____ very often, but I always seem to _____2___ into trouble. Troubles seem to like me;“goes with me___3___a friendly dog! Last year, for example, I wanted to come home ____4___ a winter vacation in Miami, Florida. I had to ___5____ a plane to Atlanta and then take another plane home. We left Miami on a Sunday morning. The ___6____ there was warm and sunny. We arrived in Atlanta at 12∶30 p.m., but then it_____7___to snow. In the next three hours, ten inches of snow fell. ____8____ the plane could not leave. After twenty-four hours at the Atlanta airport, I was able to _____9____ my journey. I arrived home and went to _____10___.“You look tired,”the people at work said.“You need a vacation! ”

　　This year I had to go to Washington DC for an important business meeting. ____11___ the plane journey, I wore sports clothes; they were old, but I felt ____12___ in them. My good clothes for the meeting were in my suitcase. That was a very ____13____ idea! I ____14___ in Washington, but my suitcase didn't. Maybe it went to London or _____15___ to San Francisco, I don't know, but it didn't arrive in Washington _____16___ me! I went to my important meeting _____17___ my tennis clothes. Now that is not a good way to _____18__ business! People in Washington wear suits to business meetings, not shorts and tennis shoes. My meeting did not _____19___ well. That was two weeks ago. Now I am home again, and I am ____20___ waiting for my suitcase.

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 　　1 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe　　　 ___2　 .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been 　3　 for many years—often from 　4　 childhood. These stories may have no 　5　 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations　 6　 my development? I was never 　7　 to work on cars or be around　 8　 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later,　 9　 , I was at California University, working on my doctors degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I　 10　 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the　 11　 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 　12 and told him about my 　13　 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “　 14　 is it that you can solve 　 15　 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 　16　 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 　17　 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been　 18　 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 　19　 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 　20　 we choose.

1. A. away 　　　　　 B. off 　　　　　　　 C. up 　　　　　　　　　 D. down

2. A. them 　　　　 B. myself 　　　　　 C. yourself 　　　　 D. others

3. A. said 　　　　　 B. spoken 　　　　　 C. spread 　　　　　 D. repeated

4. A. as long as 　 B. as far back as 　 C. as well as 　　　 D. as much as

5. A. basis 　　　　 B. plot 　　　　　　　 C. cause 　　　　　　　　　　 D. meaning

6. A. lead 　　　　　 B. improve　　　　　　 C. affect 　　　　　 D. change

7. A. encouraged B. demanded 　　 C. hoped 　　　　　 D. agreed

8. A. means 　　　 B. tools 　　　　　　 C. facilities 　　　　 D. hammers

9. A. therefore 　 B. somehow 　　　 C. instead 　　　　　 D. however

10. A. settled 　　 B. turned 　　　　　 C. took 　　　　　　　　　　 D. got

11. A. passive 　　　 B. active 　　　　　 C. negative 　　　　　 D. subjective

12. A. experiences 　　　 B. trips 　　　　　　　　　　 C. roads 　　　　　　 D. paths

13. A. unexpected B. poor 　　　　　　 C. excellent 　　　 D. average

14. A. When 　　　 B. What 　　　　　　 C. How 　　　　　　　 D. Why

15. A. complex 　 B. advanced　　　　　 C. common 　　　　 D. primary

16. A. arise 　　　　 B. separate　　　　　　 C. suffer 　　　　　 D. come

17. A. believe 　　 B. suspect 　　　　 C. adopt 　　　　　　 D. receive

18. A. weakening B. strengthening 　 C. abandoning 　 D. accepting

19. A. As a result 　　　 B. At the same time C. In addition 　　 D. On the contrary

20. A. anything 　　 B. something 　　 C. nothing 　　　　 D. all

　　April 27 is Take Our Daughters to Work Day in Britain. Started at first in the United States and brought to Britain in 1994, Take Our Daughters to Work Day has become a special day for girls between 11 and 15. On that day thousands of girls take a day off school and go together with one of their parents to their work places. The purpose of this day is to broaden girls' horizons（视野）and raise their self-confidence（自信）.

　　For many years people have thought that boys can do better than girls in society. But actually, “girls can be whatever they want to be just like boys, whether it is a pilot, a nurse or a chief executive（主管）,”says the chairman of Our Sons and Daughters Chartable Trust, an organization which supported the activity of the Day. “Now the girls have a close look at what their parents are doing and this may help them to be more self-confident when they are faced with a choice of work.”

　　Schools and many companies support the activity too. Palmers Green High School for girls in the north of London has made the Day a necessary part of careers education.

　　Zarina Bart, 15, from Palmers Green, went with her mother Gwen to her Lawyer's Office this year's Take Our Daughters to Work Day. “I learned how to fill in a legal aid（法律援助）and I read details（细节）of a case. Then I went to see the actual trial（审判）,” she said.

　　Zarina found it interesting to see her mother at work. “It's really strange seeing Mum at work--running around, getting serious and telling people what to do.” She has always liked the idea of going into law and thinks it likely that she will follow in her mother's footsteps. Having a chance to see how her mother works has given her more self-confidence.

　　Experts believe that girls with higher self-confidence aim higher and are more likely to be successful in life. Parents have important effect on the confidence of teenage girls. If parents believe in their daughters and show examples both at work as well as at home for them, this will give a lot of help to girls. Take Our Daughters to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction.

(1) The writer's purpose in writing this text is to ________.

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A．introduce to us a special day for girls

B．broaden girls' view and raise their confidence in themselves

C．show us that girls can do things as well as boys

D．tell us how the special day for girls came into being

(2) We can infer that the aim of “careers education” is mainly to ________

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A．teach children to respect their parents

B．help children to get along with grown-ups

C．help children learn about the future jobs

D．get children to be fit for the social life

(3) A particular mention of Zarina's story ________

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A．serves as an example of how the Day works

B．shows a successful mother's effect on the daughter

C．explains why a girl should go to see her mum's office rather than her dad's

D．shows what a woman lawyer's daily work is like

(4) After seeing her mum at work, Zarina Bart ________.

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A．learned how to work as a lawyer

B．decided to become a lawyer

C．started to work with her mum

D．felt more certain about her future

(5) In the text the writer especially suggests the importance of________.

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　 Qiao is a sixth grader at Yuhui Primary School.He is only 12 years old but has been smoking for three years.Liu,15，is a Junior 2 student at Chicheng No.2 Middle School.He began smoking four years ago.“Smoking is part of my life，” Liu said.Qiao and Liu are not those boys’ real names.But their problem，smoking，is a very real problem.In many countries，smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people.Most smokers start in their teens (years of a person’s age from 13 to 19) or earlier.

　 A study of 8,000 Beijing students last May told us that smoking is a problem for many Chinese kids.More than 21% of middle school students and 6% of primary school pupils said they smoked.

　 “If young people start smoking early，they will probably get addicted to nicotine.And it will be very hard to give up later on，” said a professor.

　 Every year，about four million people die because of smoking.And if people keep smoking，that number will go up to about 10 million a year by 2030，the World Health Organization (WHO) says.So we have to learn and tell others about the dangers of smoking.

1.The sentence “Smoking is part of my life.” probably means “　　　 ”.

　 A.I don’t smoke very often.

　 B.Smoking is very important to me.

　 C.I don’t smoke at all.

　 D.I’m going to give up smoking.

2.What will probably happen if a person starts smoking early?

　 A.He will surely die early.

　 B.He cannot stop smoking.

　 C.It will be difficult for him to give up smoking.　

　 D.He will become lazy soon.

3.The study in the passage shows that　　　　 .

　 A.smoking is a serious problem among Chinese students

　 B.there are more and more smokers in China

　 C.some student smokers have already been seriously addicted

　 D.most of smokers are young students

4.The main idea of this passage is that　　　　 .

　 A.smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people

　 B.many people die because of smoking every year

　 C.WHO asks young people to give up smoking

　 D.nicotine makes people addicted

5.As middle school students，what should we do from now on?

　 A.We should start smoking after middle school.

　 B.We should ask others to smoke outside.

　 C.We should laugh at smokers.

　 D.We should say no to smoking.