I paid 30 yuan for a watermelon the other day. When I ate it at home I found it more bitter than sweet. I was 36    to throw it away for it cost me money 37   . But to eat it was a 38   thing no better than tasting goldthread(黄连)

    Things like this  39  occur in our daily life. For example, last week when going on a tour we failed to find the  40  we had been seeking.  41  we were so uncomfortable as if on pins and needles(如坐针毡).In such a case we had better  42  home immediately, but most of us tourists still chose to  43  our way until we finished visiting all the scenic spots,  44  actually we did not quite enjoy them.

    If we   45   , we’ll get nothing; we would have spent money  46   .If we don’t give up, what we’ve got is something to cause suffering or pain, or    47   disaster. Since that’s the case, why are we still unwilling to  48  with it? The only 49 _ is: it means money.

    Then what 50 __does money contain? Its importance lies in none 51 __the following two aspects: (1) it can be used for our living;(2) it can be used for daily life. When a sum of money that should be able to obtain joy or enjoyment is certain to 52 the purpose, isn’t it wise to give it up? Isn’t it a sort of 53 for money-spending or even for enjoying ourselves?

   To abandon and forget a sum of money that is to be of no value or to produce   54   values can be counted as   55  value of money. Isn’t it so?

1.A. unwilling      B. ready        C. uncertain       D. anxious

2..A. above all      B. after all    C. in all          D. for all

3.. A. pleasant      B. painful      C. dangerous       D. special   

4.. A. regularly     B. recently     C. hardly          D. frequently

5.. A. friendship    B. memory       C. pleasure        D. experience

6.. A. On the whole  B. In this way  C. In other words  D. On the contrary

7.. A. call          B. leave        C. arrive          D. return

8.. A. feel          B. continue     C. stop            D. make

9.. A. because       B. since        C. although        D. unless

10.. A. give away     B. give up      C. give out        D. give in

11.. A, in relief     B. in fact      C. in reality      D. in vain

12.. A. even          B. still        C. ever            D. more

13.. A. stay          B. part         C. take            D. break

14.. A. excuse        B. reason       C. topic           D. ambition

15.. A. value         B. message      C. secret          D. surprise

16.. A. less than     B. better than  C. rather than     D. other than

17.. A. ignore        B. serve        C. fail            D. meet

18.. A. possibility   B. mistake      C. wisdom          D. choice

19.. A. proper        B. negative     C. wonderful       D. various

20.. A. little        B. whole        C. other           D. another

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母或汉语意思，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的正确的完全形式（每空限写一词）。

1.There are different t________ of blood, as you know.

2.He seems to be doing nothing , but _____________ ( 实际上 ) he is just waiting for his chance.

3.There was a choice of four prizes, and the winner could s____________ one of them.

4.The two brothers looks the same in a_____________，but they are different in character.

5.The family began to d___________ the Christmas tree with glass balls and lights a week ago.

6.After p_____________ him to give up smoking, Kate was in relief.

7.We can d____________ many songs from the internet nowadays.

8.Since we are short of money, I can’t afford to buy a new car to _________ (取代) my old one.

9.I would be most g__________ if you would send me the book immediately.

10.Ye Shiwen won two gold m____________, which surely makes the “west society" uncomfortable.

Dad taught me a lot about life, especially its hard times. I remembered one of his ___21___ one night when I was ready to ___22___ a political campaign I was losing, and wrote about it in my diary.

Tired, feeling the months of ___23___ in vain, I went up to my study to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil in the back of my desk drawer ___24___ I turned up one of Dad’s old business cards that he was proud of: Andrea Cuomo Italian-American Groceries --- Fine Imported Products. Then I thought about how he ___25___ with difficult situations. A lot of pictures ___26___ into my mind, but one scene came sharply into ___27___.

We had just moved to Holliswood, New York. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, ___28___, was a great blue spruce (云杉) that must have been 40 feet tall.

Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost ___29___ from the ground and thrown onto the street. When my brother Frankie and I saw the spruce, our hearts ___30___. But not Dad’s.

The rain was falling. Then he ___31___ , “Ok, we’re going to push him up!” “ What are you talking about, Dad? The ___32___ are out of the ground!” “ Shut up, we’re going to push him up, he’s going to grow again.” We couldn’t say ___33___ to him. So we ___34___ him into the house and got what rope ___35___ was and tied it around the top of the tree that lay on the street, and then he stood up by the house, ___36___ me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (桩) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”

   I looked at the card and wanted to cry. I ___40 ___ wait to get back into the campaign.

1..

. A. ideas            B. lessons          C. talks        D. conversations

2..

 A. bury              B. attempt          C. trap             D. quit

3..

 A. struggle          B. operation        C. performance      D. application

4..

 A. as                B. before           C. while            D. when

5..

. A. did              B. occupied         C. settled          D. dealt

6..

 A. appeared          B. bumped           C. leapt            D. burst

7..

 A. spot              B. view             C. scene            D. site

8..

. A. in relief        B. in need          C. in particular    D. in all

9..

 A. absolutely        B. accidentally     C. totally          D. automatically

10..

 A. suffered          B. carved           C. sank             D. infected

11..

 A. announced         B. challenged       C. barked           D. distributed

12..

 A. trunks            B. roots            C. branches         D. leaves

13..

 A. anything          B. no               C. nothing          D. something

14..

. A. accompanied      B. hiked            C. joined           D. followed

15..

 A. it                B. that             C. there            D. this

16..

 A. along             B. via              C. by               D. with

17..

 A. to help           B. helped           C. helping          D. help

18..

. A. problem          B. time             C. way              D. means

19..

 A. drove             B. removed          C. delivered        D. dragged

20..

 A. needn’t          B. wouldn’t        C. shouldn’t       D. couldn’t

After I was   1.   by an   2.    who used cards with hotels, I could “think” 3.  and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a  4.  revolution and the start of my “artificial  5. ”.

In relief, Daisy burst into  6. . “Don’t laugh,” said the elephant, “We used to be an  7.  species. Farmers hunted us without  8. . They said we  9.  their farms, and money from tourists only went to the large  10.  companies.

The consulting room is in a mess; I wonder why the doctor didn’t get everything _______before starting to see his patients.

A. in place               B. in relief                     C. in surprise                    D. in detail