Our experiment had got into _____trouble, so we decided to take _____ chance and add more water, and luckily, we succeeded.

A．/ ; /              B．/ ; a              C．the; a            D．a; a

On Saturday morning, I went in a boat trip with my big family. They got on a boat on Lamma Island. Grandpa and Dad go fishing. Uncle Billy and his family lied on the deck enjoying the sun. I played cards with my cousins happy. Suddenly, weather became very bad and it started to rain! We both felt surprised and disappointing. We decided to stop the trip. Uncle Billy invited us to pay a visit on to his home on Lamma Island. Bought some seafood, we cooked a delicious seafood dinner at Uncle Billy’s home. Although we stopped our boat trips, we still had a better time

My sister Daisy worked at Standard Bank in Malawi. When she        

got m      , we were all excited. She invited me to her house to           1.___________

help her open the gifts and s        some thank-you notes to all         2.___________

the _________(亲戚）and friends that came to the wedding party.            3____________

While_________ (仔细地) going through the gifts, we came across this        4.___________

nice vase. Inside ______was a note that read, “You might not know me.     5.__________

My name is Bill. I often v      Standard Bank for business. In the         6. __________

past years you have helped me a lot when I was _______ trouble.        7.__________

I will never forget __________ you did. God bless you.”                   8.___________

It was impossible for us to w__________ a thank-you note back to        9.___________

this person for there was no name or _________( 地址) so we decided to     10.____________

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

It was almost Christmas. We wrote to my father, asking him to  36  an artificial tree for us and   _37  it to us in several smaller boxes. Two days before Christmas we were in a  38  . All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for the one with the tree  39 . We decided to wait one more day.

Meanwhile, in Bremerhaven, a young mail clerk  40  a box under a counter. He  41  that someone would be without a tree for Christmas. Although he was closing up and there was no  42_   on Christmas, he processed the mail and got it to Mannheim.

After putting the  43  on the proper shelf, he headed to the snack bar. The place was  44   and he ended up sharing a table. Two men were speaking and the clerk discovered that one of his  45  at the table was working in Mannheim. He said to the man, "You could  46  play Santa for someone in Mannheim tonight if you'd like to." The man  47  to deliver it and the two walked to the mail room to  48  the package.

At home in Mannheim, we were busily  49  to think up some way to put our tree together, but couldn't  50  a workable solution. We were ready to give up  51  the door bell rang. There stood a stranger holding a long  52  carton, our tree trunk. We invited him in,  53  it was Christmas Eve and he was  54  to get home to his own family.

The next day as we watched our little boy's eyes light up at the  55  of our beautiful tree, I whispered a little prayer: "Bless the stranger who brightened up our Christmas with his kindness."

36. A. sell              B. buy              C. deliver                 D. bring

37. A. send            B. pass                 C. carry                 D. take

38. A. surprise          B. hunger             C. pleasure                     D. panic

39. A. leaf            B. trunk                C. stand                 D. branch

40. A. watched        B. caught               C. spotted                D. broke

41. A. directed         B. whispered           C. realized                 D. confirmed

42. A. delivery         B. customer             C. money                 D. letter

43. A. present         B. tree              C. mail                           D. package

44. A. crowded         B. small             C. noisy                  D. normal

45. A. friends          B. colleagues           C. relatives               D. companions

46. A. really           B. confidently        C. kindly                 D. patiently

47. A. overcame       B. agreed              C. astonished             D. struggled

48. A. fetch              B. transform           C. post                       D. consult

49. A. solving          B. explaining          C. trying                 D. worrying

50. A. come across      B. come back to        C. come upon             D. come up with

51. A. while             B. when              C. as                        D. since

52. A. slim            B. beautiful           C. thick                 D. heavy

53. A. but               B. so                  C. because                D. or

54. A. in surprise       B. it, the, way         C. in a hurt7                    D. in lime

55. A. sight            B. back            C. corner                  D. scene

I’m sorry to tell you that we decided __________ your plan.

A．to abandon        B．abandoning        C．to quit            D．quitting