完形填空。（10分）

Bruce is only an 8 years old boy.He loves the 33    very much.Many students in his class have pets(宠物), 34    he doesn’t have one.So he wants his mother to buy him a 35    .It’s Sunday today.Bruce and his mother go shopping.Bruce asks,”Mom,could you buy me a pet?”

“Let me see…What pet do you 36  ?”his mother asks.

“I want a  37   .I like it very much.”

“Oh,dear.You can’t have a pet monkey.It will  38  your bananas.”

“How about a panda?It’s cute.It’s my 39   animal.”

“A panda?No.It will drink your milk.”

“Well,”Bruce 40   a moment(一会儿).”Oh,I can have a pet elephant.It can’t drink my milk.It is very kind,too.”

“It’s so 41  and we don’t have a big room for it,”says his mother.”You can have a pet.It isn’t big,and it can’t drink your milk or eat your bananas.”

“Well,I know.”

“ 42   is it,my dear?”

“Dad!Bruce says happily.

1.                A．food           B．animals         C．clothes   D．vegetables

2.                A．so             B．and            C．but  D．then

3.                A．book           B．banana         C．desk D．pet

4.                A．want           B．bring           C．see  D．give

5.                A．lion            B．tiger           C．monkey  D．cat

6.                A．drink          B．eat            C．wait D．cook

7.                A．good           B．well            C．love D．favorite

8.                A．thinks          B．looks           C．helps D．goes

9.                A．old            B．young          C．big  D．nice

10.               A．How           B．Where         C．Whos     D．What

–Little boy, don’t play with the knife, __________ you’ll cut your hand.  –Sorry, I won’t.

Many objects that people use each day started with a simple idea. These objects have often changed the way we  46 . Some help us to do a job more   47 . Others fill a need or solve a problem.

In 1858, Lipman had such an  48 . He took out a pencil, a piece of paper,   49 an eraser. Then he began to write. Sometimes he needed to  50  a word. Each time he had to search under his books and papers to   51  the eraser. “ I wish my eraser would stay in one 52 !” he said.

Then Lipman had his simple idea. He   53  a groove(凹槽) in one end of the pencil. He glued(粘牢) the eraser into the groove. Lipman had solved his problem. Later he thought that others might like to have such a pencil. So he sold his  54 .Some pencils with erasers were 55 . His design earned $ 100000.

_______ there were only five soldiers left at the front,______ they went on fighting.

  A.Because;so     B.If;and        C.Though;but        D.Though;/