先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Seven cats are good friends. They live in the same town. They always go   1  together on Saturdays. Every time one of them finds a place to go.

Today, a   2  called Mimi should find a place, but she doesn’t give   3 calls to her friends. The other cats are angry (生气). They all go to Mimi’s house and ask her, “You give us no call.  4 ?”

Mimi hears (听到) this and begins to cry. She  5  , “I will move to a new house with my father. It is in another town. I can’t go shopping with you    6 .”

Her friends hear that and talk for a long time. Then they have an idea. “Don’t   7 . We will go to that town and do the shopping    8   your new house.”

Mimi is very happy. She jumps high.

Two days later, Mimi comes to her friends and says, “I don’t need to move. My father    9  a new job here in this town.”

Her friends are happy again. They still go shopping together on    10  .

One bright summer day, boys and girls were having a walk with their teacher near the zoo. They walked and   1   happily.

After a while, they came to a   2   over the river, and they took turns to go across it. When they just reached the middle, there came a great shout of warning behind them. The teacher told them   3  , and she turned back and listened. When she heard the voice “ 4  ！”, she knew what would happen. Before she could do anything she saw a wolf   5   towards the bridge.

“Children,”said the teacher, “Don’t worry, don’t move  6  cry. ” Then she ran to the back of the children   7   the wolf should meet her first.

The wolf came, and its mouth was widely open. When it passed the teacher, the wolf saw a boy. It stopped and wanted to snap(咬) at the boy. When the teacher   8   this, she put her right hand into the wolf’s   9   quickly. The wolf was so frightened, and it   10  at once.

When people heard of it, they all spoke highly of her bravery(勇敢).

(   1. A. singing                  B. sing                       C. sang                        

(   )2. A. garden                  B. bank                      C.bridge

(   )3. A. to cry                   B. to shout                  C. not to cry                

(   )4. A. Snake                   B. Wolf                      C. Bear                        

(   )5. A. running                B. joining                    C. arriving                    

(   )6. A. or                        B. yet                         C. so                           

(   )7. A. too to                   B. so that                    C. as well as                 

(   )8. A. warned                 B. seemed                   C. saw                         

(   )9. A. ears                     B. mouth                    C. legs                         

(   )10. A. ran away     B. fell over      C. fell down     

Listen! Someone            in the next room.

Smiling is the most attractive human behavior. The power of smiling can work out many wonders. I love to take a walk around the small neighborhood where I live. Whoever I meet on the way, they always give me a friendly greeting with a nice smile as soon as our eyes contact  1 . I smile back. This kind of smiling exchange represents the most   2  part of my jogging experience in the States.

My daughter's smile is just like sunlight, which warms me inside the same way   3   the sun warms my body. It can clear away any clouds and unpleasant feelings. The smile of my wife, however, makes me enjoy the   4  of an elegant woman, it can sometimes relax me quite a lot.

Julia Robert's    5  is nothing but roaring like an earthquake. Americans may have   6   opinions in many things, but they all agree that Julia is America's sweetheart. Her laugh plays a very good part in her acting. Once I tried some candy in a store, the owner asked me how sweet the candy is, I said sweeter than Julia Robert.   7  both of us broke into a kind of Julia's laugh. Yes, laugh is something we can not do without. Otherwise, our life would be too   8  .

Smiling does not belong to human alone. Once I stayed at an American home and he had a little dog named Mini. When I held her gently and asked her to give me a little smile,   9   just opened her mouth wide and half closed her eyes, looking like smiling.

Los Angles is not only the place where it has the most sunshine in a year,   10   where most people smile! That’s why so many people love to travel there all year round.

1.                A．contact         B．close           C．change   D．open

2.                A．fashionable      B．painful          C．enjoyable     D．educational

3.                A．though         B．like            C．as   D．from

4.                A．pride          B．courage         C．success   D．beauty

5.                A．cry            B．laugh           C．smile     D．performance

6.                A．different        B．similar          C．same     D．strange

7.                A．All             B．Both           C．Neither   D．None

8.                A．lonely          B．cool            C．sunny    D．sad

9.                A．it              B．she            C．he   D．I

10.               A．even though     B．as if            C．so that    D．but also

It was Friday. Andy Barton was in a bad mood . At six o’clock his __1__ programme, “Travel with us”, was on TV. Andy liked to get home in ___2___ for that. But then, just as he was leaving his office a little earlier , a customer (顾客) rang up with a few complaints for the next fif­teen minutes. “I can ___3__ get home in time if I hurry,” Andy told himself as he___4___out of the office. As he drove off in his car, he ___5___ that he was almost out of petrol(汽油). “I’ll have to stop at Fenton’s”, Andy thought. He ___6___Fenton’s because it was a self-service petrol station. “You do all the work yourself, but you pay___7____for the petrol,” he used to complain. At Fenton’s, the pump (泵) was not working properly and it ___8__ much time to get petrol. So when Andy got home, it was already two minutes past six. Just then the phone rang. “Shall I answer it?” Andy thought. He tried to___9__ his attention on the programme and forget the phone. But it kept ringing and finally he picked it up.

“Mr Barton?”__10__said. “Fenton’s Ga­rage here.”“Fenton’s?” Andy said. “Why, I was at your place only a few minutes ago, getting some petrol. Did I _11_ something behind or what?” “No, you didn’t, Mr Bar­ton.” And the voice went on. “That’s just the __12__ ! You went off without paying for your petrol, you __13___！ Now normally, when that happens, we ring up the police. But Luckily I knew you and I know it was a _14__.” “I’m really very sorry,” Andy said. “Oh, that’s all right, Mr Barton. But could you __15__round now and pay for your petrol? And please hurry! We close at half past six!”

1.                A．favourite       B．funny          C．popular   D．lovely

2.                A．chance         B．time           C．seat D．spirit

3.                A．surely          B．obviously       C．normally  D．still

4.                A．stepped        B．climbed         C．looked   D．rushed

5.                A．observed       B．noticed         C．thought   D．suggested

6.                A．hated          B．liked           C．meant    D．promised

7.                A．a little          B．the same        C．a lot D．the bill

8.                A．cost           B．spent          C．took D．spared

9.                A．draw           B．pay            C．fix   D．force

10.               A．a woman       B．a man          C．a recorder D．a voice

11.               A．lose           B．leave          C．forget D．destroy

12.               A．trouble         B．worry          C．excuse    D．reason

13.               A．remember      B．see            C．do   D．drive

14.               A．mistake        B．joke           C．trick  D．truth

15.               A．look           B．come          C．show D．turn