9. 10 , think twice before you
make the decision.
Passage 8
根据首字母填空
Getting
plenty of exercise is very important. I enjoy swimming very much. Last summer I
went to the 1. s_______ every day. I plan to go there 2. t_______ summer too,
but I may not be able to. I have a new 3. j______ . Sometimes I have to work
until 4. _______ at night. Although I now work 5. m_______ hours than I used
to, 6. y______ I do receive a larger salary. I didn’t receive much pay on my 7.
o_____ job. I like my new job, 8. b______ if I had known that it would take up
so much of my 9. f______ time, I would not have taken it. I prefer 10. s______
to making more money.
I
have heard that riding a bike is good exercise. Maybe I will be able to 11.
s_____ enough money to buy a bike. My neighbour, Mrs Wilson, has a bicycle that
I could 12. b_______, but I would rather own my own bike. If I used 13. h_____,
I would worry about 14. d_______ it. Since I make 15. m______ money now, I
think that I can afford to buy my own. Getting a bike is really a good 16.
i_______ ,because while I’m riding to and from, I will be getting 17. e_____ at
the same time. It’s easier to get to the seaside on a bike, too. I might be
able to go 18. s_____ every day after all. This new job is great! I’m very 19.
e______. This will be a summer full of 20. e______.
Passage 9(根据首字母填空)
In
the middle of the night, Peter's wife suddenly fell ill. She rolled from side
to side crying, “ Oh, my stomach! Get the 1.d !”
Peter,
awaking from a deep sleep, thought his wife was only having a 2.t _____ dream.
“Stop
that noise,” he said to her. He turned over and tried to go to 3.s
______ again, but his wife
still cried out, “Oh help!help! I’m 4.d .”
Peter
got out of bed and started dressing, but he could not find him any clothes.
“Where
is my shirt?” he asked. His wife was 5.t ill to tell him, and she
could only cry. “Oh my poor stomach!”
As
soon as he had put his clothes on, he said, “Now, my dear, are you quite 6.s that you
need the doctor? Surely you can
wait 7.t
morning, can’t you ?”
“No,
I can’t. Go,go,go,”his wife shouted,” 8.o you will find me
dead in the morning.”
So
Peter went out into the dark street. He had only gone a few steps when he heard
his wife 9.c
him again.
“I’m
10.w again
now, and I shall not want the doctor,”she said, softly.
Hearing
this, he started running as 11.f as he could
towards the doctor’s house. When he arrived there, he knocked at the door with
his stick, loudly enough to wake 12.e around.
The
doctor put his sleepy head out of the bedroom window and said, “Er? Who’s
there?”
“Oh,doctor,”Peter
called up to him, ”I’ve very 13.g news
for you.My wife fell ill with a terrible stomachache. I was on my way to bring
you to her, but she called me back to say that the trouble had suddenly 14.l her.
So you need not come. Go back to 15.b now,
and sleep well!”
