—Thank you for giving us a wonderful Chinese dinner, Ms. Wang.

—__________________.

1. A.
   Oh. I’m afraid I didn’t cook very well.
2. B.
   I’m glad you enjoy it.
3. C.
   Come again when you are free.
4. D.
   It’s not polite of you to say so.

John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the bravery of ten people 16   had saved the life of another. John was studying in the room     17   he heard screaming. When he and his father rushed outside, a man ran from   18   scene. They discovered that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been cut    19    (repeat) with a knife. She was lying in her front garden    20    (bleed) very heavily. Her hands had almost been cut     21   .

It was John’s quick action and knowledge that saved Ms Slade’s life. He immediately asked many people    22   bandages, but when nobody could put    23    hands on any, his father got some tea towels and tape from their house. John used these to dress the most severe injuries to Ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by applying pressure to the wounds    24   the police and the ambulance arrived.

“I’m proud of what I did, but I was just doing what I    25    (teach),” John said.

阅读下面短文 ，掌握其大意 ，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中 ，选出最佳选项。

Preparing for tomorrow

         Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms．Shelton believed in readiness．Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth-grade on the    36    ．They quickly protested that the words were not on their    37     and they couldn’t learn them．

         Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these    38    ．She said that she would teach them something that should be given．Ms．Shelton    39     by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to    40    , maybe even be president someday, and she wanted to prepare them for that day．

         Ms．Shelton spoke those words many years ago．  41     did she know that someday one of her students—Jesse Jackson—would take them    42    ．She believed that if they were well prepared, they could    43    high goals．

         Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “People only see what they are    44     to see．” If that’s true, then it is also    45     that they only become what they are prepared to become．And many things in life are just about getting ready．

         “I want to be doing something more    46     with my life than what I am doing now,” a young man once said to me．He    47     what he was doing was just not that important．Other people have said things to me such as, “I only    48     I had a meaningful relationship．” And, “I’d really like to get a better job, but I just don’t see    49    ．”

         You fill in the blanks．What is it you would like to    50     that isn’t happening? Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet    51    ．Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you    52    ．

         Think of today as another chance to   53    yourself for the exciting future you are looking for．Today is not wasted．If you desire more from    54    , then you can use today as training．For you will experience only what you are prepared to    55    ．Something wonderful can happen．And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow．

1.A．desk        B．wall    C．chalkboard         D．door

2.A．duty         B．desk   C．mind  D．level

3.A．words     B．grammars C．pronunciations  D．sentences

4.A．started   B．ended         C．warned      D．reminded

5.A．greatness       B．wealth        C．honor                   D．failure

6.A．Seldom   B．Little  C．Hardly        D．Totally

7.A．nervously        B．eagerly       C．seriously    D．simply

8.A．keep        B．have  C．set     D．achieve

9.A．prepared         B．forced         C．attracted   D．tempted

10.A．proper  B．exact C．legal  D．true

11.A．difficult B．significant C．pleasant    D．interesting

12.A．boasted         B．behaved     C．felt     D looked

13.A．wish      B．expect        C．hope  D．imagine

14.A．what     B．when C．why    D．how

15.A．survive B．happen       C．gain   D．win

16.A．adventurous          B．active         C．ready D．intelligent

17.A．concern         B．arrange      C．adore          D．desire

18.A．prepare         B．enjoy C．imagine      D．conduct

19.A．history  B．nature        C．life      D．marriage

20.A．suffer    B．experience         C．struggle     D．work

It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland’s oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education. A 140-year-old letter written by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study medicine at St Andrews University has been discovered by researchers. Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which urged the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was released yesterday on International Women’s Day.

The document was discovered buried in the university archives (档案) by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research. She said: “We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to open up university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus (校评议委员会) at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there, but we didn’t know documentary evidence existed. While searching the archives for information about the university’s higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote.”

In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews. Although her letter was not successful, it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women. The qualification, which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students. It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.

Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. She was accepted by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877. Eventually, she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.

1.Sophia wrote a letter to St Andrews University because she wanted _______.

2.Lis Smith found Sophia’s letter to St Andrews University _______.

3.Sophia’s letter resulted in the establishment of _______.

4.When did St Andrews University begin to take full-time women students?

“I think we need to pay more attention to the artistic and cultural work that goes on in every neighborhood in this city,” Ms Martin said. “We are part of _____ makes New York unique.”