Alcohol is often taken as a symbol of a special celebration or as a sign of friendship．So it is    36   to see people toasting with a large glass of alcohol to the health or fortune.   37   , every year, alcohol also ruins thousands of lives and destroys many happy families .  

Some people drink alcohol to   38    their tension or pain. They   39    think that through drinking, they can   40    from their problems and worries. But it is never a   41   ．During those hours of drinking, alcohol only numbs（麻木）their senses and makes them forget their worries.   42   , when they wake up, their problems are still unsolved .

A   43   alcohol drinker is running the great   44   of getting heart diseases and liver（肝脏）failure. Too much alcohol taken into the body system, death will    45   occur. Alcohol also affects unborn babies    46   . Those pregnant mothers with    47    alcohol in their blood system risk    48   their unborn babies to suffer from defects（缺陷）at birth.     49   , babies are innocent victims due to their mothers’ mistake. Therefore they should be extremely cautious  of any alcohol and it is better to    50   all drinking during pregnancy(怀孕期).  

Drunken driving is one of the worst    51    of alcohol abuse. Every year, many lives are lost due to   52    driving on roads and highways. A drunk driver cannot see and judge the distance    clearly and will find it difficult to control his vision and    53    on the road，so he    54    control over his reflexes. That is    55    accidents occur. Not only does he hurt himself but also other innocent road users.

36.A.normal                 B.common             C.ideal                  D. regular

37.A.Accidently            B. Fortunately        C.Excitedly           D. Unfortunately

38. A. relieve                      B.increase              C.create                 D.produce

39. A.usually               B.surely            C. mistakenly             D. aimlessly

40. A.differ                  B. solve                 C. cancel              D. escape

41. A. success               B. solution            C. fact                  D. decision

42. A. However             B. Meanwhile        C. So                   D. Besides

43. A. social                 B. heavy                   C. addicted           D.light

44. A.advantages           B.possessions         C.risks                  D.measures

45. A. eventually           B. probably           C.hardly                D.strongly

46. A.anxiously            B. disastrously           C. extensively        D.differently

47. A. proper                B.little                  C. excessive           D.no

48. A. causing              B.making                     C. having              D.protecting

49. A.Above all             B.First of all          C.All in all           D. After all

50.A. run out                      B.leave out            C. cut out             D.carry out

51.A. reasons                      B. causes              C. effects              D. examples

52. A. drunken             B.normal               C.careless              D. dangerous

53.A. patience              B.emotion             C. judgement         D.imagination

54.A.manages to           B.tries to               C.refuses to           D.fails to

55.A.when                    B.what                  C.where            D. how

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.
But ___1___ a few of them are very ___2___. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U. S. A, but in other parts of the world. About 200, 000, 000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a ___3___ language. Many millions are ___4___ to do so.
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different ___5___. Have you ever ___6___ the ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?
“Learn English in six month, or your ___7___ back ...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes ___8___ you master your English in a month. ___9___ the first day your ___10___ will be excellent. Just send ...” Of course, it never ___11___ quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should ___12___ that we all learned our own language well when we were ___13___. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. ___14___ what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and ___15___ in it all the time, just imagine how much ___16___ that gets!
So it is ___17___ to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English ___18___upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and ___19___ much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will ___20___. But they cannot do the student’s work for him.

—When__________ and visit our exhibition next month?

— When_______, I will let you know.

A. will he come; he will come B. will he come; he comes

C. does he come; he will comeD. does he come; he comes

Little ____ about what others think.

    A. he cares                           B. he doesn’t care

C. does he care                     D. doesn’t he care

—What do you think of Zhang Qiang?
—      does he study hard in school,        does he keep the school rules.