“It + be + 时间名词+before / since”从句句型中用before引导时，句意是 “过了多久才……”，主句中的be动词为过去时或将来时态；用since引导时，其句间是“自从……以来已经多久了”，主句中的be动词多为现在时(或现在完成时)或一般过去时。

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

1.Don’t be too rude to your father. Never in his life _______________ in that way up to now. （speak）

不要对你的父亲那么粗鲁，到目前为止还没有人像那样对他说话。

2.When his mother came home from work, he was lying on the sofa, ____________. (absorb)

母亲下班回家的时候，他正躺在沙发上专心致志地看书。

3.________________ different languages and cultures does a lot of good to children. (expose)

接触不同的语言和文化对孩子们大有裨益

4.I think that it is I rather than my sister _______________ for what happened. (blame)

我认为出了事不能怪姐姐而应该怪我。

5.Although house construction _________________, you can find many diverse styles in each country. (vary)

每个国家的建筑结构都不尽相同,然而在每个国家你能发现各式各样的风格。

6.With ____________, the problem that they had worked on for a long time was eventually worked out. (adopt)

由于采取了新方法，他们钻研了很长时间的问题终于解决了。

7.If he hadn’t hesitated for a moment before kicking the ball, he ______ a goal. (score)

要是他在射门前不迟疑，他就进了一球。

8.Have you ever had a case____________ getting the wrong end of the stick? (accuse)

你们有没有这样的情况：别人控告他们说他们的报道完全失真？

9._________________ is that while I am concentrating on my study, my classmates make so much noise. (put)

我不能忍受的是在我全神贯注地学习时，我的同学那么吵闹。

10._____________to you whether I like it or not, because you never listen to me. (difference)

我喜不喜欢对你来说没什么差别，因为你从来就不听我的。

That year , in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners……
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff : sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, Little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him……
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
【小题1】根据短文第二三段描述，可知这位新老师的工作很有创造性，故选A。
【小题2】根据短文最后一段Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.描述，可知选B，这个所谓的最蠢的学生其实比其它学生知道的多。
【小题3】根据Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school.描述，可知选B。
【小题4】联系上文To do this they used all kinds of stuff :可知选C。
【小题5】The math lessons became interesting again because of the new teacher’s ___________.

2011年10月13日下午5点30分，在广东佛山一五金城内，2岁女童小悦悦在过马路时不慎被一辆面包车撞倒并两度碾压，随后肇事车辆逃逸，随后开来的另一辆车辆直接从已经被碾压过的女童身上再次开了过去，七分钟内在女童身边经过的十几个路人，都对此冷眼漠视，只有最后一名拾荒阿姨上前施以援手。2011年10月21日，小悦悦经医院全力抢救无效，于0时32分离世。由此引发网友广泛热议。请根据下面提示，以“Say no to indifference and awaken true love”为题写一短文，简述这一事件及事后人们对此的不同反应，并谈谈你自己的看法。

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens,   and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister  and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ”

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and    daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅) me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment(失望), then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was    pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found    some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

1.The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.

2.The passage shows that ______.

3.The word “gulf” in the passage means ______.

4.What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking forgiveness?

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

6.选A。由But she lived “on the surface ”. 和全文内容可知，作者的母亲表面上很冷漠，但心里充满了对作者的爱，正确