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1.Mike r____________ our team and gave a speech at the meeting.

2.Nothing could have been more a____________.

3.Since her c____________ she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment.

4.The party then searched the whole cave t____________ but did not find anything.

5.He has pointed out that the tree is a useful source of i____________.

6.It rained and t____________ the football match was put off.

7.The Hubble will tell us a great deal about the age and size of the u____________.

8.The most u____________ car was a Benz which had only three wheels.

9.At that time, hunger was a d____________ problem in many parts of the countryside.

10.This work will not be easy; we have to o____________ the difficulty.

I went to a local post office to send a gift to Florida yesterday afternoon. When I __1  _ the door, there were many people waiting there. A bit   2  , I decided to calmly wait for my turn to place the precious package on the    3  .

Since I didn’t    4  the tape to seal(封住)the box, I went to buy the tape. As I   5 secure the top of the box, a woman in front of me, a similar situation, asked if she could use some    6  . I gave her some and helped her put the gift into her    7  . Then a woman behind me also asked me if she could have some tape, since her envelop had ripped and I gladly    8  it to her.

When the woman  in front of me    9  who I was sending the package to, I explained that my 80-year-old   10  Selma lives in Florida, 1200 miles from my home. She has a(n)   11  

neighbor named Diane who has, on several occasions, accompanied her to the hospital. My mom  12   her “her angel” and had asked me to send her two willow tree angel.

As we spoke, the line moved and she offered me a place in front of her. I was   13  and thanked her. At that moment, the other people in front of her ushered me in front of them by the time

I __14  the counter, we were all smiling and laughing and I thanked them sincerely.

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.Mother wanted to be a good provider, a role she________since her marriage to Father.

         A.shoulders                        B.shouldered                      C.is shouldering       D.has been shouldering

Once a year we show our love for our fathers by celebrating(庆祝) Father’s Day. This is the time when you have the chance to show your dad how much you love him. On Father’s Day, children usually give gifts to their fathers and take them out for a nice meal. But when and how did Father’s Day get started?

Father’s Day was introduced in the early part of the 20th century. It was to show love for our fathers in the same way that people did to mothers on Mother’s Day. This tradition began in Spokane, Washington, from an idea of a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd.

Mrs Dodd was raised by her father after her mother died. Looking back on all the things that he did for the family made Mrs Dodd realize just how special her father was. She realized that her father was a very loving man who should be honored and praised for all the things that he did for his family. Since her father was born in the month of June, Mrs Dodd decided to celebrate Father’s Day on June 19th, so the first Father’s Day was held in June, 1910.

By the year 1926, a committee (委员会) was formed in New York City to honor Father’s Day, and in 1956, it was recognized as a day of celebration. President Nixon made Father’s Day a national holiday in the year 1972.This is when it was decided that it would always be celebrated on the third Sunday of every June.

1. What is the best title for this passage?

A. The history of Father’s Day.           B. The story of Sonora Smart Dodd.

C. Something about Mother’s Day.      D. How to show your love for your father.

2. According to Paragraph 1, what do children usually do on Father’s Day?

A. Spend the whole day with their fathers.

B. Say aloud that they love their fathers.

C. Cook something nice for their fathers.

D. Prepare gifts for their fathers.

3. We learn that Father’s Day _______.

A. started from a story made up by a woman

B. is celebrated on the first Sunday of every June

C. is surely only celebrated by children in America

D. started from a woman’s wish to honor and praise her father

4. Americans have been celebrating Father’s Day as a national holiday since_____.

A. 1910    B. 1926    C. 1956    D. 1972

When I was growing up, I seldom heard the words “I love you” from my father. If your father never   1  them to you when you are a   2 , it gets more and more   3 for him to say those words as you get older. To tell you the truth, I could hardly   4  when I heard those words from my father. Neither could I remind when I had last said those words to 5  . I decided to   6 my shyness aside and make the first move. 7  hesitating for some time, in our next  8 conversation, I spoke out the words suddenly, “Dad ... I love you!”

There was a  9 at the other end. It wasn’t after a while did he awkwardly(笨拙地) reply, “Well,  10 to you!” I laughed and said, “Dad, I  11  you love me, and when you are ready, I know you will say what you want to say.”Fifteen minutes later my mother called and  12  asked, “Paul, is everything okay?”

A few weeks later, Dad  13 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this conversation and the 14  was (were) rolling down my cheeks as I finally “  15  ” the love. As we both sat there in tears, we  16  that this special moment had taken our father and son  17 to a new level.

A short while after this special moment, my father  18 escaped death from the following heart surgery. Many times since his return to the usual state of health, I have  19  , if I did not take the first step and Dad did not  20 the surgery, I would have never heard him say those words.

1.                A．speaks         B．says            C．offers    D．provides

2.                A．man           B．mother         C．child D．father

3.                A．easy           B．possible         C．delighted D．difficult

4.                A．forget          B．remember       C．mind D．decide

5.                A．him            B．her            C．me  D．them

6.                A．drop           B．let             C．set  D．lose

7.                A．Before         B．After           C．When    D．Since

8.                A．phone         B．email           C．letter D．record

9.                A．smile          B．voice           C．cry  D．silence

10.               A．same          B．difficult         C．true D．similar

11.               A．hope          B．know          C．wonder   D．doubt

12.               A．crazily         B．delightedly      C．nervously  D．terribly

13.               A．concluded      B．disturbed       C．broke D．carried

14.               A．hairs           B．water          C．sweat D．tears

15.               A．understood     B．expressed       C．heard D．saw

16.               A．discussed       B．considered      C．believed   D．realized

17.               A．decision        B．development    C．relationship    D．situation

18.               A．narrowly       B．easily          C．unlikely   D．generally

19.               A．said           B．thought        C．dreamed  D．apologized

20.               A．think          B．fight           C．fail   D．Survive