You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you       today wasn’t made until the Qin Dynasty. They spent most of the important       work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to      words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary（牛津字典）. The        for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor（编者）of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to      . At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in bank.       he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job. Murray had a small house       in  his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and      in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years but after five year, he was       adding（增加）words for the letter “A”! He worked on the dictionary       he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

1.A. use        B. write           C. copy          D. miss

2.A. easy      B. boring          C. early          D. dangerous

3.A. spell      B. invent          C. collect         D. make

4.A. way       B. idea            C. use           D. prize

5.A. school    B. cinema         C. village        D. collage

6.A. Later      B. Longer before   C. So far        D. Ever since

7.A. sold      B. built           C. broken       D. drawn

8.A. read     B. wrote           C. worked       D. thought

9.A. already  B. still            C. usually        D. always

10.A. if      B. because         C. until         D. since

It’s 3:00 a.m. Angela is ready to start the day at the family bakery. She has three children, and they all   1   at the bakery. Vincent and his wife, Angela, are the owners of his family’s bakery.

Vincent’s father owned the bakery, and   2   Vincent’s grandfather owed the bakery. Now, Vincent and his wife own and run the bakery.

   3   in the family works in the shop. The oldest daughter, Claire decorates many of the special cakes. Marie, is the   4   child. She works at the counter, and sometimes she makes cookies. Paul, the youngest, is 14, and he makes bread. Vincent says, “Paul has good hands for bread.” The whole family works in the bakery, but the children only work here before or after

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The bakery is open from 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every day   6   Monday. The bakery sell cookies, cakes and bread. For special holidays,   7    Easter and Christmas, Vincent keeps the bakery open   8   6:00 p.m., and Angela always prepares fresh coffee for their customers.

Mr Martino is a regular customer. He visits the bakery every morning. He always buys the round loaf of bread with no butter. He says that it’s good. Mrs Salerno is   9   a regular customer. Every Friday she buys two loaves of Italian bread and a large box of cookies. Her

  10   daughter, Laura, always gets one free cookie. Mrs Salerno says that Vincent’s bakery is the best in the area.

1. A. play            B. study           C. help           D. eat

2. A. at least        B. later on        C. since then      D. before that

3. A. Everyone        B. Someone         C. No one         D. Only one

4. A. first           B. middle          C. only           D. last

5. A. school          B. breakfast       C. lunch          D. class

6. A. from            B. on              C. except         D. to

7. A. for example    B. such as          C. as well as     D. in addition  

8. A. after           B. before          C. at             D. until

9. A. just            B. still           C. also           D. even

10. A. six year old   B. six years old    C. six-old-years  D. six-year-old

Life in 30 years will be   31  because many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?

The population is growing fast. There will be    32   people in the world and most of them will live longer than before. Computers will be   33  smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important  34  in school.

People will work fewer hours than they are doing now, and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and  35 . And more people will go to other countries  36  holidays.

There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for  37   new towns and houses. Then there will be less  38  for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe people won’t eat it every day, they will eat more vegetables and fruit instead. Maybe people will be healthier.

Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will  39  by robots. Because of this, many people will not have  40  to do. This will be a problem. 

1.A. same                    B. difference                C. different      

2.A. little and little     B. less and less              C. more and more

3.A. much                   B. many                   C. more          

4.A. subject                  B. subjects                 C. way                   

5.A. easily                   B. more easily              C. easier           

6.A. for                     B. with                    C. at           

7.A. build                   B. building                 C. to build        

8.A. rooms                  B. room                    C. spaces        

9.A. done                   B. do                      C. be done       

10.A. works enough             B. enough works             C. enough work

I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I ____ on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my ugly, sightless, cloudy grey eye lived on ____ me.

    Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever the kids played ____, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on me.

    Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that ____.

    As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or run into something ____ because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to ____ my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

    In high school I even became the ____, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would ____ to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is ____ instead of your appearance (外貌).”

    My mum's love was the ____ that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be ____ but also to have deep compassion (同情) for others.

    “Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I tell ____ to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.  286

1.A. stood                   B. landed                     C. found                      D. worked

2.A. for                       B. like                           C. by                   D. with

3.A. games                           B. jokes                        C. toys                          D. sports

4.A. glass                     B. topic                        C. reply                        D. saying

5.A. immediately                 B. accidentally            C.continuously  D. expectedly

6.A. show                    B. meet                        C. behave                    D. hide

7.A. president            B. teacher                   C. teenager                 D. adult

8.A. write                    B. add                          C. cry                           D. face

9.A. beside                           B. outside          C. inside                      D. alongside

10.A. suggestion                 B. experience            C. sunshine                 D. introduction

11.A. confident                   B. unusual                   C. similar                     D. ordinary

12.A. it                                  B. them                        C. that                          D. those