1、During the Spring Festival of 2008, southern China saw a snow disaster never seen in more than 50 years. It snowed continuously for half a month, ___36__ all the transportation. Many people were trapped in the stations and ___37___ in cars. Governments and people did everything they could ___38___ the snow disaster, no one was killed __ 39___ cold and hunger. Many moving stories happened during the ___40___. And a moving story of a swallow couple was ___41___on the Internet.

The swallow couple had not eaten anything for several days ___42__ the snow. They tried to fly into people's home to warm themselves, but every house was closed ___43__. They got to a side of a balcony ___44__ wind could not reach. The wife's body was __45__, she could not move any longer. The husband wrapped his wife with his wings. The husband lost his __46__ soon. The couple died, one __47__ another.

The next morning, the housemaster saw the __48__ swallows embracing together. Thinking of the __49__ the snow had brought to the people, he was __50__ to tears. He found a small box,   __51__   it with some hay and __52__ the swallow couple in, then buried them in the garden.

In the roof of my house lives a swallow family .They come back from the __53__ every spring to have babies. Then in autumn, they fly to the south for __54__. I wonder if they will come back this spring as they __55__.

39、请以 Is Failure a Bad Thing 为题写一篇短文，要点如下：

1.       失败是常有的事。

2.       人们对失败有各种不同的态度。

你对失败的态度。

38、Grandpa intends to have a thoroughly enjoyable and _________period without paid work.

A. broad           B. wide              C. lengthy          D. brief

37、 Juventus _________two goals in the last ten minutes.

A. achieved         B. managed           C. succeeded       D. challenged

36、 ― Which number is yours?

―_____--it's that one here, yes, this one.

A. Let me see       B. Let's say           C. Mind you        D. Excuse me

35、Please look _________the whole plan and let me know what you think.

A. into              B. up                 C. through                D. after

34、Try to _________a few hours each week for exercise.

A. put away        B. take away         C. pick up         D. set aside

33、There was a（n）_________moment when the plane suddenly dropped.

A. nervous          B. embarrassed       C. anxious          D. worried

32、People who don't do what they say they will are_________.

A. honest          B. independent       C. cruel           D. unreliable

31、He was unable to attend the meeting in Moscow, because the Russian authorities had_______ him a visa.

A. denied          B. rejected           C. refused         D. opposed