16、--- Do you have anyone particular in       for the job?

--- In my opinion, Tom is the right person.

A．head         B．heart         C．mind        D．brain

15、--- Did you tell Julia about the result?

--- Oh, no, I forgot. I        her now.

A．am going to call          B．will call               C．call                     D．am to call

14、--- Where is Mr. Black now? Is he still in India?

--- No. He is living at       place in Africa.

A．other        B．any    C．another     D．some

13、--- Measures must be taken to stop factories from wasting energy in course of production.

---         . The energy is becoming scarce day by day.

A．All right    B．Exactly     C．Go ahead         D．Well done

12、Mary felt herself       to take action to defend herself.

A．forcing     B．to force    C．forced      D．being forced

11、I prefer a farm house        comes with a garden to a flat in the city.

A．where       B．which       C．there D．when

10、I learned to play on a piano purchased at Grinnell Brothers in Detroit. My brothers and sisters were taking lessons and I   1  to play, too. “You’re   2   young,” I heard over and over. But when  began playing my sister’s   3   by heart from hearing her practice, they   4   me begin. I was four.   5   joy and comfort I found at those keys. If I had a rough day at school, I played ragtime hard and loud   6  my frustration (挫折) was gone, then I calmed my self with Mozart until I was   7  to face the world. The day I lost my first child, and my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I played until I nearly   8  . There was a comfort in those keys.

That piano followed me everywhere. I taught hundreds of   9   and adults on the keys of my own piano in Taylor for over ten years. I   10   my home to a fire in 1998 and my piano was destroyed. I felt   11   I lost my oldest friend.

The insurance (保险) supplied the money to purchase   12  . My mother asked me every time she spoke to me, “Did you get another piano yet?” even when she struggled to call me by name. After she died in 1999, I   13   an envelope containing a gift certificate (礼券) to Hammell Music for a   14  . Mother made sure that I would get another piano, knowing I wouldn’t do it   15  .

And so I purchased a Yamaha baby grand. Nearby hangs Mom and Dad’s   16  . I play every day when I come home from work. I imagine my folks are in heaven,   17   and smiling. Every song is for them and the   18   goes on.

And although I miss my first piano, the new one is a(n)  19   that old things pass away and new life   20  .

1．A．planned                 B．allowed               C．begged                D．dared

2．A．very                     B．so                       C．not                     D．too

3．A．lessons                 B．piano                   C．keys                   D．text

4．A．permitted              B．promised             C．let                       D．made

5．A．What a                  B．What                   C．How                   D．How many

6．A．until                      B．when                  C．as soon as           D．after

7．A．likely                    B．ready                  C．discouraged         D．afraid

8．A．dropped                B．went                   C．came to               D．slept

9．A．people                   B．students              C．boys                   D．children

10．A．destroyed            B．left                      C．lost                     D．rebuilt

11．A．as though            B．even though         C．even if                D．though

12．A．the other             B．another                C．a house               D．one

13．A．accepted             B．gained                 C．received              D．won

14．A．present                B．piano                   C．house                  D．sum of money

15．A．for myself           B．at all                    C．any way              D．above all

16．A．bed                     B．clothing               C．portrait                D．name

17．A．crying                 B．listening               C．singing                D．playing

18．A．joy                      B．piano                   C．sadness               D．friendship

19．A．book                   B．reminder              C．equipment           D．instrument

20．A．disappears          B．remains               C．stops                 D．begins

9、    To all of you at Chinese love links,

I am 44 years old and never married. I have always wanted to find that perfect someone that I dream about. For about the last five years I have almost given up the hope of ever finding the one I truly wish to spend the rest of my life with.

I have always tried to be a nice guy. I had found your website some four or five months before. I did not know what to expect. I don’t know how to speak Chinese and never thought truly of how I was to an Asian woman.

Well, I had a lot of replies from some very nice and pretty women. I had a hard time finding only a couple to write to. But one stood out from the rest. She was cute, nice and seemed to hold a lot of the same values as I do. In a short time I had decided to write only to her. We communicated via e – mails 2 – 3 times a day and phone calls once or twice a week.

I went and met her and her family only a week ago. Her name is Ying and she lives in Nanning. I found Nanning to be one of the most beautiful cities I had ever been to. We had even decided to marry and to bring her to the USA under the fiancée visa. Not only did she meet everything I had ever hoped to find in someone else but turned out to be what every woman should be like, at least the ones I have met. We plan to marry as soon as she is here and start a family together as neither of us has children but we both want them.

So to anyone out there reading this, I can only say this: You may not find what you are looking for if you’re not honest with your partner and yourself. This site worked for me mostly because I was honest with something that I wanted in someone else. When I did find her, love can work even across the other side of the world, between language differences and cultural differences. I wish you all luck in finding your perfect match. I have finally found mine and wish to give all my thanks to those at Chinese love links to help make it happen.

Sincerely yours,

Arthur

1．We can infer from the letter that Chinese love links is a website to         .

       A．help foreigners to travel in China

       B．help both Chinese and foreigners to find one they want to marry

       C．help Chinese and foreigners make friends

       D．receive letters from the USA

2．Which of the following is true about Arthur’s story?

       A．He was sure of finding a Chinese woman as his wife at first.

       B．He was determined to find a Chinese woman as his wife.

       C．He almost lost hope in finding a perfect wife until he found Ying.

       D．No women wrote to him before Ying.

3．Ying stood out from the rest because         .

       A．she was a Chinese

       B．she had much in common with Arthur

       C．other women stopped writing to Arthur

       D．she was cute and nice and often phoned to Arthur

4．Arthur thinks       is the most important in finding someone one wants to marry.

       A．being honest with the partner and oneself

       B．help from the website

       C．difference in languages and places

       D．difference in cultures

7、

The people who built Stonehenge in southern England thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued pigs and breaking pottery. This is according to recent work by   archaeologists—history experts who investigate how human beings lived in the past.

Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered the remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live. The village is about 4,600 years old, the same age as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt. It is less than two miles from the famous ancient landmark and lies inside a massive man-made circular dirt wall, or "henge", known as the Durrington Walls.

Remains found at the site included jewellry, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, wooden spears and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery'.  "These finds suggest Stone Age people went to the village at special times of the year to feast and party",   says Mike Parker-Pearson from Sheffield University in England.

He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten. He also said the partygoers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows,  possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them.

An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon was also found.  Here,  the experts think, people came 'after their parties to throw dead relatives in the water so the bodies would be washed downstream to Stonehenge.

Parker-Pearson believes Stonehenge was like a cemetery where ancient Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. "The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors."

The recent discovery of the village within the Durrington Walls shows that Stonehenge didn't stand alone but was part of a much bigger religious site, according to Parker-Pearson.

People still come to worship and celebrate at Stonehenge today. They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it rises on the longest day of summer. But the days of' barbecuing whole pigs there and throwing family members into the river are a thing of the past.

1．What was Stonehenge according to the text?

       A. A village where hundreds of people once lived.

B. A place that regularly hosted large parties.

C. A church where local villagers would get married.

D. A site where dead people were placed or remembered.

2．The underlined word 'It' (paragraph 3) refers to '

A. the village                 B. Stonehenge              C. the pyramid              D. the dirt wall

3．From the text we can infer that the people who came to the village .

A. liked to drink wine                                       B. knew how to hunt

C. were from Egypt                                          D. lived by the River Avon

4．What do experts think people did after the village parties?

A. Returned to live at Stonehenge.                      B. Prayed for good luck in the new year.

C. Hunted farm pigs as a sport.                          D. Put their dead relatives in the river.

5．When do people most often go to Stonehenge today?

A. When a new discovery is made.

B. At the beginning of summer and winter.

C. On the longest and shortest days of the year.

       D. When they want to have a barbecue.