She doubted whether he would be ______ to the task, so he was not admitted.

  A. similar        B. equal                 C.familiar     D. content

Hard-working Making People Live Longer 努力工作使人长寿

Scientists find that hard-working people live longer than average men and women. Career women are ___1___ than housewives, Evidence (证据) shows that ___2___ are in poorer health than the job-holders. A study shows ___3___ the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate increases correspondingly (相应地) by 2%. All this ___4___ one point: Work is helpful to health.

      Why is work good for health? It is because work keeps people busy, __5___ loneliness and solitude (孤独). Researches show that people feel __6___ and lonely when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are ___7___. Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are happiest when they are working hard. Work serves as ___8___ between man and reality. By work, people ___9___ each other. By collective (集体的) activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss of work __10___ the loss of everything. It affects man spiritually and makes him liable to (易于)___11___.

      __12___, work gives one a sense of fulfillment (充实感) and a sense of ___13___. Work makes one feel his value and status in society. When ___14___ finishes his writing or a doctor successfully __15___ a patient or a teacher sees his students ___16___, they are happy __17___.

      From the above we can come to the conclusion ___18___ the more you work, __19___ you will be. Let us work hard, __20___ and live a happy and healthy life.

1. A. more healthier              B. healthier          C. weaker             D. worse

2. A. career women         B. the busy          C. the jobless        D. the hard-working

3. A. that whenever              B. whether           C. that though               D. since

4. A. comes down to         B. equals to          C. adds up to        D. amounts to

5. A. 不填                   B. off                  C. in touch with      D. away from

6. A. happy, interested                             B. glad, joyful

  C. cheerful, concerned                          D. unhappy, worried

7. A. busy                      B. free               C. lazy                  D. empty

8. A. a river                   B. a gap         C. a channel           D. a bridge

9. A. come across                                 B. come into contact with

  C. look down upon                              D. watch over

10. A. means                  B. stands            C. equals                      D. matches

11. A. success                 B. death         C. victory              D. disease

12. A. Besides                       B. Nevertheless    C. However        D. Yet

13. A. disappointment       B. achievement      C. regret             D. apology

14. A. a worker                B. a farmer        C. a writer            D. a manager

15. A. manages                 B. controls         C. operates on        D. deals with

16. A. raise                    B. grow         C. rise                   D. increase

17. A. in a word             B. without a word  C. at a word         D. beyond words

18. A. that                     B. which                C. what                 D. 不填.

19. A. the lonelier and weaker                     B. lonelier and weaker

   C. happier and healthier                      D. the happier and healthier

20.A. study well             B. studying well     C. study good        D. studying good

   A little girl was given so many picture books on her seventh birthday that her father. Who should have run his office and let her mother run the home, thought his daughter should give one or two of her new books to a little neighbor boy named Robert, who had visited their home sometimes.

   Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking sweets from a baby, but the father of the little girl had his way and Robert got a couple of her books. “After all, that leaves you with nine,” said the father, who thought he was a child psychologist（心理学家）,and couldn’t shout his big stupid mouth on the subject.

  A few weeks later, the father went to his library to look up “father” in The Oxford English Dictionary, eager to enjoy the praise of fatherhood through the centuries, but he couldn’t find volume（册）F-G and then he discovered that others were missing too. A-B,L-M, V-Z. He looked everywhere for them, and learned what had happened to the four missing volumes.

   “A man came to the door this morning” said the little daughter, “and he didn’t know how to get from here to Torrington or from Torrington to Wintec, and he was a kind man, much nicer than Robert, and so I gave him four of your books After all, there are thirteen volumes in the Oxford English Dictionary, and that leaves you with nine.

According to the writer’s opinion,      

A. a mother should keep house and father educate the children

B. A father should run the home as well as his office

C. A father should run his office and leave his children to his wife

D. A father shouldn’t only run his office but educate his children

“The father of the little girl has his way” means       

the father went out to work in his office 

B. the father decided to the girl a lesson

C. the father still did what he wanted to.

Considering himself a psychologist, the father        

couldn’t stop discussing the subject    

B. couldn’t helping（禁不住）talking about the subject

couldn’t refuse to listen to the subject  

D. couldn’t give an explanation of he subject

What’s still unclear to us in the story?

A. The exact number of the picture books the girl had received.

B. How many volumes the Oxford English Dictionary includes.

C. Whether each volume of the dictionary includes entries beginning with two letters.

D. Whether the father knew his daughter’s mind well

What do we know about the little girl?

A. She liked Robert very much.            B. She liked reading dictionary

She dislikes what her father did to her picture books.  

D. She is a kind and helpful girl.

One of my favourite films is Mr. Bean At a Fancy（化装）Restaurant. In the film, after  being   21  at his table，Mr. Bean takes out a  22   ，writes a few words on it，signs his  name，puts it into an envelope and    23   it on the table．After a moment，he looks at the   24   but this time he looks surprised，as if he did not know it was there．He opens it to find a birthday card and delightedly puts it on the table for everyone to see．

     When he looks at the  25  ，an astonished look quickly   26  on his face．He takes all   27  out of his pockets，counts it and puts it in a saucer（碟子）．He then looks from the menu to the money with   28   until he finds one thing that makes him smile. He 29  a dish called “steak tartare.” When the dish arrives，he is   30   to discover that “steak tartare” is  31   a raw（生肉的）hamburger．He   32    an attempt to eat it，but it is   33  ，from the look on his face，that he finds the taste really terrible．He cannot   34   his feelings，except when the waiter asks whether everything is OK．He smiles and nods， 35   that everything is fine．36  no one is looking，however，he  37    himself hiding the raw meat anywhere he can  38   ，inside a sugar bottle，a tiny flower vase and under a plate．He becomes so disappointed in the end that he   39  hides some inside the  40  of a woman sitting near him and throws some under the seat of the restaurant’s violinist！

    I like to watch Mr. Bean on TV but I wouldn’t want to meet someone like him in real life．

A．treated                B．invited                         C．accepted                       D．served

A．magazine                    B．book                            C．card                       D．wallet

A．throws                       B．places                  C．removes                D．spreads

A．waiter                B．watch                    C．envelope                      D．table

A．customers           B．tablecloth                     C．surroundings           D．menu

A．appears               B．grows                  C．turns                            D．shows

A．cards                         B．money                  C．bills                     D．keys

A．satisfaction         B．care                      C．confidence                    D．concern

A．buys                          B．orders                  C．washes            D．breaks

A．shocked                    B．pleased                 C. moved             D．frightened

A．mostly                    B．indeed                          C. actually                          D．nearly

A．makes                      B．gets                     C．tries                              D．takes

A．doubtful                   B．sure                             C．clear              D．likely

A．hide                           B．express                   C．prevent                  D．explain

A．admitting           B．recognizing                  C．indicating                D．realizing

A．Because                   B. When                     C．Once                            D．Although

A．pretends            B．helps                            C．prepares                 D．busies

A．reach                        B．see                       C．get                 D．arrive

A．rather                      B．almost                  C．exactly                    D．even

A．hand                      B．purse                       C．blouse          D．hair

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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

When you are traveling, whether on business or for pleasure, you often need to stay in a hotel. There are small hotels with very few services, where the prices are low, or there are large hotels with all the very latest comforts, where you could spend all the money you have in the bank for one very comfortable night.  Some want to live, rather than just stay, in a hotel; the hotels which are designed to meet their needs are called residential(居住的) hotels.  

single rooms, for the use of one person, and double rooms, for the use of two people.

In addition, in large hotels, there are also suites(套房), which include two or more rooms connected together---perhaps a bed-room and a living room.

A. They are for people who are very rich or very important.

B. We have to choose which hotel is suitable for us.

C. The kind of hotel you choose probably is decided above all according to how much money you want to spend.

D. Do you know about the two kinds of rooms?

E. However, most people who stay in hotels are either business people or tourists on holiday.

F. In most hotels, there are two kinds of rooms:

G. There are several different kinds of people who go to hotels.