I've spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that   36 is an occupational disease．But one year, my   37  gave me the cure for my homesickness．

It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet—a stuffed penguin（企鹅）that   38  about five inches tall．Attached to its left wing   39  a little sign with the hand-painted declaration "I Love My Dad! "．I   40  the penguin at once on my table．

On my next trip, I put the penguin in my suitcase．That night when I   41__   home, my daughter Jeanine was   42  because the penguin had disappeared．"Honey, he's here with me, " I explained, "I brought him   43  ."

  44 , the penguin came with me—as necessary as my briefcase．And we   __45  along the way．In Albuquerque, I checked into a   46 , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting．When I returned, the maid had   47  the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow．

One night, I discovered the penguin   48 , and after a mad phone call, I learned I' d   49  it in my previous hotel room,   50  it had been rescued by a maid．I  __51  a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk．In the hotel lobby（大厅）, other tired business travelers were   __52   at the reunion of my penguin and me---I think with a bit of   53  ．

Jeanine is in college now, and I don't travel   54  . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion．All those years on   55 , it was the one thing I never left home without．

1.                A．cold           B．hunger         C．loneliness D．fever

2.                A．wife           B．daughter        C．friend    D．mother

3.                A．stood          B．lay             C．jumped   D．climbed

4.                A．wrote          B．turned         C．was  D．had

5.                A．threw          B．lost            C．ordered  D．placed

6.                A．drove          B．called          C．wrote    D．went

7.                A．upset          B．happy          C．glad D．excited

8.                A．up            B．off             C．along D．down

9.                A．From now on    B．In the future     C．In future D．From then on

10.               A．had friends      B．had friend      C．made friends   D．made friend

11.               A．school         B．hotel          C．shop  D．supermarket

12.               A．given          B．turned         C．made     D．carried

13.               A．sleeping        B．going          C．living D．missing

14.               A．forgot          B．left            C．ordered   D．sent

15.               A．there          B．when          C．where D．how

16.               A．ran            B．walked         C．hurried   D．drove

17.               A．surprised       B．frightened      C．looked    D．laughed

18.               A．anger          B．admiration      C．sadness   D．illness

19.               A．as many        B．as seldom       C．so few D．as much

20.               A．the hotel       B．the meeting     C．the trip    D．the house

Dolphins（海豚）are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this, they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from almost all land animals. Their brain is nearly the same size as our own, and they live a long time―at least twenty or thirty years. Like some animals, dolphins use sound to help them find their way around. They also make these sounds to talk to each other and to help them find food. We now know they do not use their ears to receive these sounds, but the lower part of the mouth, called the jaw.
Strangely, dolphins seem to like man, and for thousands of years there have been stories about the dolphin and its friendship with people.
There is a story about sailors in the 19th century. In a dangerous part of the sea off the coast of New Zealand, they learnt to look for a dolphin called Jack. From 1871 to 1903, Jack met every boat in the area and showed it the way. Then in 1903 a passenger on a boat called The Penguin shot and wounded Jack. He recovered and for nine years more continued to guide all ships through the area－except for The Penguin.
Today, some people continue to kill dolphins, but many countries of the world now protect them and in these places it is against the law to kill them.
【小题1】Dolphins are different from many other animals in that they _____.

Phillip Island Penguins(企鹅)

The Little Penguin has called Phillip Island home for untold generations. Get to Phillip Island in plenty of time to watch a summer sunset at Summerland Beach－the stage is attractively set to see the Little Penguin leave water and step onto land.

?Leave Melbourne at 5:30 pm. for a direct journey to Phillip Island

?See the Gippsland area－Guinness Book of Records place for the world’s longest earthworm (蚯蚓)

?Journey along the coastal highway around the Bay with French Island and Churchill Island in the distance

?Cross the bridge at San Remo to enter Phillip Island－natural home for Little Penguins and many animals

?Take your place in special viewing stands(看台) to watch the daily evening performance of the wild Little penguins

Ultimate Penguins (+U)

Join a group of up to 15. This guided tour goes to an attractive, quiet beach to see Little Pen-guins. You can see penguins at night by wearing a special pair of glasses.

Adult (成人) $ 60.00      Child $ 30.00

Viewing Platform Penguin Plus (+V)

More personalized wildlife viewing limited to 130 people providing closer viewing of the penguin arrival than the main viewing stands.

Adult $ 25.00       Child $ 12.50

Penguin Skybox (+S)

Join a group of only 5 in the comfort of a special, higher-up viewing tower. Gain an excellent overview of Summerland Beach.

Adult 16 yrs + $ 50.00

73．What kind of people is the text mainly written for?

       A．Scientists.           B．Students.             C．tourists.              D．Artists.

74．We can learn from the text that Little Penguins __________.

       A．have been on Phillip Island for years

       B．keep a Guinness record for their size

       C．are trained to practice diving for visitors

       D．live in large groups to protect themselves

75．How much would a couple with one child pay for a closer viewing tour?

       A．$ 37.50.              B．$ 62.50.              C．$ 180.00.            D．$ 150.00.

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The art of giving gifts is to give something that others cannot buy for themselves.             

                                         ------A.A. Milne

I have spent most of my career as a traveling salesman. There’s 36    lonelier than having meals myself in a coffee shop. One year, my five-year-old daughter Jeanine gave me a  37  . It was a soft toy penguin with a hand –painted  38  saying “I love My Dad!”  Tears came into my eyes and immediately, I gave it a  39  place on my desk.

    Soon I had to leave on another business  40  . This time when I was  41  , I put the penguin in my suitcase. After that day, Jeanine always helped me pack with the penguin. Many years  42  by and that little penguin has traveled with me hundreds of thousands of miles all across America and over to Europe. We have also made many friends  43   the way.

      44  one afternoon after leaving my hotel, I discovered that the penguin was  45  . Frantically, I phoned the hotel. The clerk  46   , saying it hadn’t been reported. But half an hour later, he called back to say that my penguin had been found. It was late,  47   I drove several hours to get my little  48  , arriving near midnight.

   When I rushed to the hotel, I found that it was waiting at the front desk. In the lobby(大厅), some   49  business travelers looked at us, I think, with some  50  and envy(羡慕). Someone came out to shake my hand. One man told me that he had even volunteered to  51  it to me the very next day.

   Jeannie is in college now and I don’t travel  52  much anymore. The penguin spends most of its time  53   on my dresser??????????--- a reminder that  54   is the best traveling companion. All those years on the road, it was the one thing I never left home  55  .

The black and white bird came ashore on a beach in the south of the North Island nearly 4,000 miles away from its usual habitat. The creature’s astonishing journey was witnessed by a woman walking her dog as the two-foot bird waddled out of the water in front of her. She said, “It was out of this world to see it. It was this glistening white thing standing up on the sand and I thought I was seeing things.” The tale of the lost penguin is similar to the 2006 children’s film Happy Feet, in which a young penguin finds himself far from home during a voyage of discovery.
Conservationists believe it has completed an incredible journey for such a young bird — it is estimated to be around 10 months old. The most likely explanation for its appearance in New Zealand is the hunt for food. Experts said it may also have rested on an ice floe (浮冰) during its travels and was carried north for a great distance before it made a swim for dry land. Colin Miskelly, a curator of New Zealand Museum, said, “They can spend months at a time in the ocean and come ashore only to moult (脱毛,换毛)or rest.” Mr. Miskelly said the brave bird would have to find its way back south soon if it was going to survive. He said, “It is probably hot and thirsty and has been eating wet sand.” “It doesn’t realize that the sand isn’t going to melt inside it because they typically eat snow — their only liquid.”
New Zealand residents have been warned to give the bird a wide berth — it can inflict (予以) painful bites if threatened.
【小题1】Which of the following is True of Paragraph 1?