It’s 10:00 pm. A man leaves a restaurant, gets into his car and drives away. 200 metres further he’s stopped by a police officer.
Officer: Good evening, sir. We’re testing drivers for drunk driving. Would you please blow（吹）into this machine?
Man:   I’m sorry, I can’t do that. If I blow into that machine, I will get out of air.
Officer: Please come along to the office and we can give you a blood test.
Man:   I can’t do that. If you give me a blood test, I will bleed（流血）to death.
Officer: Then you’ll have to get out and walk five metres along this white line.
Man:   I can’t do that, either.
Officer: Why not?
Man:   Because I’m dead drunk! I can’t open the door.
【小题1】The man is stopped ______ metres away from the restaurant.

A．he is badly ill	B．he will get out of air
C．he is dead drunk	D．he will bleed to death

---I’ll take part in the Writing Competition next week. I’m afraid I can’t do very well.

---________!

短文填空。（每空2分，共20分）

根据短文内容，在后面空格处填入一个正确的单词（含缩写词）。

I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one class was the most important.

It happened last term just after I had got a  1.   grade in an exam. I was sad, but I didn’t want to give up. So I decided to go to a class which could tell me how to be successful.

    The speaker walked into the room. She didn’t begin talking like a teacher.    2. , she held up a 20 yuan note!

    “Who wants this?” She asked. There was no wonder that everyone in the class put up their  3.  .

The teacher smiled. Then she stuck (贴) the note on the blackboard and asked               the  4.  question. Again, we all put up our hands. The teacher smiled again, but didn’t say   5. . Suddenly, she threw the note onto the floor! Then she asked the question a third time.

    I didn’t understand   6.   she was doing. Why was she asking the same question again and again? I didn’t know what to do. But I wanted the note, so I put my hand   7.  once again. Suddenly, the teacher started to laugh. Then she picked up the note. “You have all just told me how to become successful,” she said.

    “The note is worth（值） 20 yuan. It is still worth 20 yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are just   8.  the note. No matter what happens to you, you still have your worth(价值). If you realize that, and believe in   9., you will be successful!”

When I   10.  those words, I was deeply moved. Suddenly, I realized I was worth a lot. I may have done badly in an exam, but it doesn’t mean I can’t do it well in the future.

One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite   1  at the answer. Thinking he had not made   2   understood or the girl had not heard him clearly, he said, “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” But the girl still kept saying, “No.” In the end the American boy could not understand and didn’t know   3   to say.

What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t   4   a compliment (恭维)in the same way as the American people do. She should answer, “Thank you” instead of “No”. She     5      understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel proud and   6  when they are praised(赞扬). So if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”

In our country we think being modest is a virtue (美德) and being proud is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not   7  being proud, so sometimes you should be confident    8   being modest.

  9    you are modest and say, “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it well”, while working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down on by others. When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “Let me have a try ”, he or she will  10  get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.

1.                A．excited         B．surprised       C．relaxed   D．frightened

2.                A．her            B．herself         C．himself   D．him

3.                A．when          B．which          C．what D．how

4.                A．accept         B．receive         C．refuse    D．disagree

5.                A．hardly          B．really          C．rarely    D．badly

6.                A．kind           B．modest         C．shy  D．confident

7.                A．think           B．say            C．ask  D．mean

8.                A．different from   B．as well as        C．instead of D．the same as

9.                A．Unless         B．Until           C．Whether  D．If

10.               A．expect to       B．fail to          C．succeed in     D．believe in