Your smile is one of the strongest tools that make ______ possible for you to meet new people.

   A. it                B. them             C. this            D. /

 Carol said the work would be done by October, _________ personally I doubt very much.

 A. it              B. that               C. when             D. which

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

The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international __1__， American officials believed they should __2__ the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in __3__. “The __4__ may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA __5__ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After the World War Ⅱended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA's __6__ had to be changed，__7__ the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to __8__ Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was __9__“ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know __10__ English to completely understand its __11__ English broadcast. So VOA __12__ a simpler kind of English, __13__ uses about 1,500 words and is spoken __14__ of course, it is special English.

In the __15__ of most VOA listeners, the most __16__ program is the news report. News from around the world __17__ into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in __18__ cities and also from other __19__ like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to __20__ news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

1. A. business        B. culture     C. support          D. information

2. A. reply          B. answer       C. join             D. interrupt

3. A. same          B. short           C. English          D. German

4. A. news          B. problems       C. effects           D. opinions

5. A. stations        B. news           C. announcers       D. officials

6. A. home         B. position         C. purpose          D. results

7. A. if            B. supposing      C. considering       D. in order that

8. A. reach         B. satisfy         C. attack           D. support

9. A. known        B. reported         C. called           D. printed

10. A. American            B. British         

C. standard             D. enough

11. A. normal        B. fast           C. good            D. exact

12. A. invented       B. discovered    C. taught          D. stopped

13. A. it            B. who         C. which           D. that

14. A. slowly        B. rapidly     C. normally        D. loudly

15. A. pleasure      B. course       C. opinion          D. advice

16. A. difficult      B. important    C. various          D. common

17. A. flies         B. sends       C. delivers          D. pasts

18. A. all           B. major       C. American       D. news

19. A. broadcasts        B. forms

C. newspapers       D. countries

20. A. broadcast        B. announce      

C. translate         D. prepare

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       When you are learning English, you find   21   wrong to translate a sentence word for word into your   22   language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an   23  . If you look   24   each word in the 25  , one at a time, what is your   26  ? It must be a   27   sentence in your native language. Languages do not only have different sounds, they are also   28  in many other ways. It is very   29  to master the rules of word   30   in the study of English, too. If the   31   puts words in a very unusual order, the listener doesn’t   32  the speaker’s sentence easily.

       Another thing we must always   33  is that there are a lot of   34   in the English language. For example when we say “look out!” to a man who is in danger, we   35   mean “Be careful!”

       When people are parting, they often say “Good—bye   36  ” “Bye—bye!” But sometimes they   37  say “Good morning!” or “Good afternoon!” or “Good evening!”  38  “Good night!” to one another   39  “Good—bye!” You will find few people   40  who know that “Good—bye!” is a short way of saying “God be with you!”

A. it                   B.  that                C. you                  D. yourself

A. second            B.  spoken            C. native               D. foreign

A. advice            B.  example          C. article               D. answer

A. up                  B.  at                   C. after                        D. down upon

A. sentence      B.  book                  C. phrase               D. dictionary

A. idea            B.  meaning         C. answer                     D. translation

A. wrong            B.  interesting       C. puzzled                    D. strangely

A. same              B.  different         C. similar                     D. alike

A. important           B.  easy               C. simple               D. hard

A. place              B.  stress              C. order                D. formation

A. speaker           B.  listener           C. reader               D. writer

A. read            B.  repeat             C. translate            D. understand

A. emember     B. say                   C. do                    D. deal with

A. letters             B.  words             C. phrases              D. idioms

A. hardly            B.  nearly             C. really                D. clearly

A. and                B.  or                  C. instead                     D. as well

A. don’t             B.  must            C. should               D. may

A. or                  B.  nor                 C. either                D. neither

A. without          B.  instead of     C. unless               D. more than

A. today             B.  tomorrow           C. in future                   D. in the past