根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中由两项为多余选项。

___1___  People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. ___2 __ One of the first kinds of money was shells.

Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre. ___3___

Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.___4___ Sweden and Russia used copper (铜) to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. ___5___ The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.

Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

A. The first coins in England were made of tin (锡).

B. But people used to use all kinds of things as money.

C. No one knows for certain when people began to use money.

D. People strung (串连) them together and carried them from place to place.

E. Money, as we know, is all made of paper.

F. They began to use paper money.

G. Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
仔细阅读下列各句，根据所给中文或首字母写出相应单词的正确形式。
【小题1】 Martin Luther King’s speech was so exciting that the audience rose to a____________.
【小题2】But Gandhi（甘地）himself was shot 5 months later by an Indian who o___________ his views.
【小题3】 As is known to all, taking exercise regularly is greatly b___________ to people’s health.
【小题4】 The volunteers were kept busy d___________ food and drinks to the people affected by theearthquakes.
【小题5】Hearing that many foreign experts will visit our company, the manager made __________（安排）for a welcome team to meet them at the airport immediately.
【小题6】The study showed that the elderly of being ___________（遗弃）feared to be cared by strangers.
【小题7】Jack has the ___________（潜在的）ability to do this job pretty well.
【小题8】This medicine can prevent flu from spreading ___________（有效地）.
【小题9】The company is just a few minutes by bicycle from my home, which means I will be ___________（准时的）every day.
【小题10】The number of road accidents and the deaths __________（由……引起）from those accidents has increased over the past year.

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

仔细阅读下列各句，根据所给中文或首字母写出相应单词的正确形式。

1. Martin Luther King’s speech was so exciting that the audience rose to a____________.

2.But Gandhi（甘地）himself was shot 5 months later by an Indian who o___________ his views.

3. As is known to all, taking exercise regularly is greatly b___________ to people’s health.

4. The volunteers were kept busy d___________ food and drinks to the people affected by theearthquakes.

5.Hearing that many foreign experts will visit our company, the manager made __________（安排）for a welcome team to meet them at the airport immediately.

6.The study showed that the elderly of being ___________（遗弃）feared to be cared by strangers.

7.Jack has the ___________（潜在的）ability to do this job pretty well.

8.This medicine can prevent flu from spreading ___________（有效地）.

9.The company is just a few minutes by bicycle from my home, which means I will be ___________（准时的）every day.

10.The number of road accidents and the deaths __________（由……引起）from those accidents has increased over the past year.

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens,   and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister  and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ”

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and    daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅) me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment(失望), then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was    pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found    some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

1.The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.

2.The passage shows that ______.

3.The word “gulf” in the passage means ______.

4.What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking forgiveness?

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

6.选A。由But she lived “on the surface ”. 和全文内容可知，作者的母亲表面上很冷漠，但心里充满了对作者的爱，正确

From age eight to eleven, I attended a primary school in Bath, England. It was a(n)  21  school composed of(由…组成) four classes with about 25 children in each class according to     22 . For the most part, one teacher was responsible for teaching all subjects to the children in their class.  23  , sometimes the headmaster would come in and spend an hour or so,  24  some subject in which he was especially  25 . The headmaster’s name was Mr. Ronald Broackes.  26   he was quite strict about rules within the school, he had a sense of humor and would   27   telling the children small stories that would make us laugh. He was a very fair man and had a great influence on many of the children. In my own   28  , I found that he took a great interest in me and he quickly discovered that I enjoyed   29  . He would often stop me as I was going to class and produce a piece of paper from his pocket, often with a puzzle  30  on it. The puzzles were usually mathematical or logical(逻辑的 ). As time went on, they slowly got more  31 , but I loved them. Not only that, they kindled(点燃)within me a  32  of mathematics and problem-solving that stays with me to this  33  . They also served to show me that intellectual activity was  34   when the correct answers were found, but perhaps more importantly it was great   35  .To this day I can remember Mr. Broackes’ joyous cry of “Well done!” whenever I got a problem  36 .This simple interaction with a man whom I  37   greatly has had a deep effect on my life. I shall forever be grateful for that. Mr. Broackes died just two weeks after the   38   that I had won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Unfortunately, I had no   39   to speak with him before he died. I learnt later that he had heard of my   40   and I will always hope that he realized the deep effect he had made on my life.