I still remember my first day in the U.S. very clearly. My friend was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o’clock in the afternoon. The weather was very      and it was snowing, but I was too excited to       _. From the airport, my friend and I        a taxi to my          . On the way I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the       _time and I stared in surprise at the famous skyscrapers and their man-made        . Helping me unpack at the hotel, my friend left and       to return the next day.

           my friend had left, I went to a      near the hotel to get something to eat. Since I couldn’t speak a single      of English, I couldn’t tell the       what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some    , but he didn’t understand me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was      . After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway       I came to Times Square with its theatres, neon lights, and crowds of people. I didn’t feel tired, so I       to walk around the city. I wanted to see     _on my first day, although I knew it was impossible.

  When I     to the hotel, I couldn’t fall asleep, lay     and thought about New York. It was a very big and amazing city with many high-rise buildings and streams of cars, and full of      and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to       English.

1.A.hot      B.      warm         C.      cold  D.      cool          

2.A.look    B.      listen         C.      enjoy         D.      mind                  

3.A.sat       B.      took C.      rode D.      used         

4.A. home          B.      hotel         C.      office        D.      school               

5.A. first    B.      one  C.      last   D.      only          

6.A.satellites     B.      lakes          C.      beauty      D.      parks                 

7.A.advised       B.      liked C.      promised  D.      hoped               

8.A.Before long         B.      Shortly after      C.   Soon          D.  Then

9.A.restaurant  B.      shop C.      supermarket     D.      pub           

10.A.letter         B.      word         C.      sentence  D.      phrase               

11.A. boss          B.      cook C.      waiter       D.      waitress            

12.A.voices       B.      suggestions       C.      sounds      D.      gestures            

13.A.looking      B.      ordering   C.      picking      D.      eating                

14.A. until          B.      when         C.      before      D.      after         

15.A.tried B.      stopped    C.      decided    D.      continued                  

16.A.anything   B.      everything         C.      something         D.      some things      

17.A.came         B.      went          C.      returned  D.      arrived              

18.A.asleep       B.      awake       C.      afraid        D.      alive         

19.A.noise         B.      voices       C.      streets      D.      places                

20.A.say    B.      talk   C.      speak        D.      tell            

It is ten years _____ I lived in Nanjing, so I know ____ about what it is like today.

A. since; nothing       B. that; everything    C. before; something    D. since; anything

I'm feeling blue, for they ate all the cake and _________left.

A. none           B. everything      C. everyone        D. no one

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　　When television first began to expand,very few of the people who had become famous as 1 announcers were able to be equally effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when they were trying to 2 themselves to the new medi-um were technical. When 3 on radio, for example, they had become 4 to seeing on behalf of the listener. This art of seeing for others 5 that the announcer has to be very good at talking. In the case of televi-sion, however, the announcer sees 6 with the viewer. His duty, 7 , is completely different. He is there to make sure that the viewer does not 8 any point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to help him 9 the images on the television screen. 10 his radio colleague, he must know the value of silence and how to use it at those moments when the pictures speak for himself.

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       The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for  21  a roll of gold wrapping paper．Money was  22  and he became very angry when the child tried to decorate a   23  to put under the Christmas tree．

24  , the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy．”He felt  25  by his earlier over reaction, but his  26  flared again when he found the box was  27  ．He  28  at her, “don’t you know that when you give someone a  29  , there’s supposed to be  30  inside it ?” The little girl looked  31  at him with tears in her eyes and said, “Oh, Daddy, it is not empty．I blew kisses into the box．All for you, Daddy．”The father’s face became  32  ．He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her  33  ．

It is told that the man  34  that gold box by his bed for years and  35  he was discouraged, he would take out a(an)  36  kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there．

In a very real  37  ,each of us as humans have been given a gold container  38  with unconditional love and kisses from our children, friends, family and God．There is no  39  precious possession anyone could  40  ．

A．buying   B．lending     C．wasting     D．damaging

A．tight      B．enough     C．short D．cheap

A．box       B．doll   C．book D．vase

A．Instead   B．However   C．Therefore  D．Meanwhile

A．disappointedB．excited       C．uncomfortable  D．glad

A．joke       B．anger C．joy    D．wonder

A．empty    B．full   C．decorated  D．broken

A．looked   B．shouted     C．called       D．pulled

A．hand      B．flower      C．lesson       D．present

A．somethingB．everything    C．anything   D．nothing

A．down   B．up     C．away D．round

A．blue     B．yellow      C．green D．red

A．understandingB．forgiveness    C．encouragement D．agreement

A．kept     B．put   C．locked      D．had

A．whatever     B．however   C．wherever  D．whenever

A．practical      B．imaginary C．valuable    D．important

A．world   B．society      C．sense D．family

A．given   B．filled C．covered    D．made

A．more    B．less   C．any   D．much

A．win     B．hold  C．buy   D．share