People live in different houses. You may know a wooden house or a paper house. But do you know a(n)    1   house?

In 2008, the first ice house in North America opens its    2   to welcome some visitors. The floors, windows and walls are all made of ice. It has ten bedrooms    3   twenty people can stay there each night. Visitors to the house    4   in ice beds, sit on ice chairs and eat from ice plates. Well, the toilets are not made of ice, of course.

It’s usually below zero so it is very    5   inside the house. However, do the visitors just sit there to    6   warm? No, visitors have to    7   special clothes. These can make    8  feel warm until morning.

Workers    9   about four weeks designing the ice house. Visitors can only stay in this ice house in winter. It isn’t    10   in hot summer. Because this house is so special, it is becoming popular with young people.

There’s a big supermarket called Jiahui in our city. It’s very   46  to find. It is in the center of our city. It’s   47  the bus stop and it’s also very easy to take a taxi, too.

The supermarket is big   48  nice. It    49  at 8:30 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m. So every day, lots of people go   50  at it    51  work. You can buy   52 , drinks, clothes, shoes, vegetables,…and stationery there. The workers at the supermarket are very  53  . So many people like shopping there.

At the weekend, people don’t go to work or go to school, so there are  54  people shopping there. We must  55  our turn a long time to pay for what we buy.

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Mr. Johnson is a bank clerk. 26______ wife, Mrs. Johnson, is a shop assistant. Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson have 27________ sons, Jack and Tom.. Jack and Tom are very 28_______. They don’t like to 29________ their mom do the housework. One day, Mr. Johnson goes back home from a long journey (旅行). He buys a 30________ for his sons. Jack and Tom both like the toy and they 31____ it. Mr. Johnson says to his sons,  “ I want to 32_____ the toy to the best boy. 33____ helps your mom clean the room? It’s you, Jack 34_____ it’s you, Tom?” The two brothers say to their ______, “ You can give the toy to yourself, Dad.”

Stuart and Steve were twin brothers. Stuart loved to play basketball. But Steve loved to read books.

One day Stuart was playing basketball   41   he fell and broke his leg. When they took him to the hospital, the doctor said he wouldn’t be able to play for six months. Steve went   42   him and brought him books on basketball. At first Stuart wasn’t going to read them. Then he began to read them and   43   that there were ways he could play basketball better. He began to think that books weren’t that   44  .

When Stuart’s leg started getting better, Steve would help him by going for walks with him.   45   Stuart’s doctor said he could start playing basketball again. Then Stuart showed Steve how to toss (投) for baskets. Steve found that he enjoyed it.

Then Stuart was ready to   46   the basketball games. Steve went to games and enjoyed himself. They then   47   practiced basketball and read books together.

So you can see, when   48   happens, something good may also happen. Steve showed Stuart about books and Stuart showed Steve about basketball. So you can also   49   showing others something that you like to do and they can show you something that they like to do.   50   you can find new things to do.

41. A. until                    B. when                C. after                 D. where

42. A. on seeing            B. to call                C. to visit                     D. to look

43. A. saw                    B. looked               C. read                  D. found

44. A. good                   B. bad                   C. better                D. worse

45. A. But                            B. However           C. Finally               D. So

46. A. take part                    B. win                   C. lose                  D. join in

47. A. always                B. never                C. seldom                     D. much

48. A. anything good    B. something nice C. something bad   D. anything wrong

49. A. try                     B. practice             C. enjoy                D. like

50. A. On the way         B. By the way      C. All the way        D. In this way

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of __36__ through which I learned __37__ from his experiences. He always told me, “ You __38__ have goals (目标) like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both __39__, we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very __40__. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to __41__ with my father and to be in deep thought __42__ develop my patience.

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me __43__ I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the bird’s singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my __44__. I wanted to __45__ climbing, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it __46__ reaching the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”

At that time, I was too young to understand his __47__. But later after that, I __48__ know the meaning of hope in life. I found __49__ standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as __50__ as crystal.

36. A. conversations      B. emotions                   C. conclusions               D. expressions

37. A. classes                B. tests                         C. lessons                     D. news

38. A. can                     B. may                          C. would                       D. should

39. A. spent                  B. enjoyed                     C. hoped                       D. kept

40. A. busy                   B. lazy                          C. weak                        D. free

41. A. play                   B. work                        C. talk                          D. study

42. A. as much as          B. as soon as                 C. as long as                 D. as well as

43. A. though                B. because                    C. and                          D. but

44. A. legs                    B. ears                          C. eyes                         D. fingers

45. A. put up                B. take up                     C. get up                       D. give up

46. A. after                   B. when                        C. before                      D. since

47. A. stories                 B. words                       C. pictures                    D. lessons

48. A. wanted to            B. tried to                      C. got to                       D. hoped to

49. A. myself                B. himself                     C. yourself                    D. ourselves

50. A. blue                    B. white                        C. clean                        D. clear