15、What a pity! I missed my father at the airport because my car was ________in the traffic jam.

A. broken up           B. kept back           C. held up           D. kept up

14、People try to avoid public transport delays by using their own cars, and this ________ creates further problems.

A. in turn             B. once again           C. in case                   D. after all

13、No matter how frequently ________, the works of Beethoven still attract people all over the world.

A. performed                              B. performing

C. to be performed                          D. being performed

12、The boss says he needs an assistant that he can ________to deal with the problems that may occur in his absence.

A. turn on             B. turn up             C. count up          D. count on     

11、You don't seem very________ about the party. Don't you want to attend it tonight?

A. crazy              B. enthusiastic          C. worried           D. anxious

10、If you________ at school, you ________ a college student now.

A. had studied hard; would have been

B. should have studied hard, should have been

C. had studied hard, would be

D. would study hard, must have been

9、It is in Qingdao ________ you are going to pay a visit to ________ this kind of washing machine is produced.

A. 不填; that           B. where; which         C. 不填; where        D. that; which        

8、--It is said that all the people trapped in the mine have been saved.  

--It is not true. In fact, the rescue ________.

A. has carried out                         B. has been carried out

C. is going on                            D. is being gone on

7、When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the   1  side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to   2  in good health, or   3  about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to   4  damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text   5   the title. Therefore, the scissors would  6  before they start,  7  halfway done when I find out the   8 result.

     Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your   9  .  You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be   10   up. But you know the future is unpredictable--the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left   11  .Thus you are caught in a difficult position and feel sad. How  12  that nice opportunities and clever ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life   13  greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

      In fact that is what  14  is like, We are often  15  with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only  16  we get into another. The   17  may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I   18  remember a philosophers' remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life. " So a casual (不经意的) or passive   19 may not be a bad one.

      Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life's storm tosses us, there must be   20  we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us.

1. A. front                  B. same             C. either                    D. opposite

2. A. get                    B. keep                C. lead                D. bring

3. A. advice                B. news               C. theory            D. report

4. A. suffer                  B. reduce             C. prevent           D. cause

5. A. on                    B. for                 C. without             D. off

6. A. use                   B. handle              C. prepare           D. stay

7. A. or                     B. but                 C. so               D. for

8. A. satisfying              B. regretful            C. surprising         D, impossible

9. A. courage               B. strength            C. attention          D. patience

10. A. given                B. held                C. made              D. picked

11. A. near                 B. alone                C. about              D. behind

12. A. dare                 B. come               C. deal                D. do

13. A. improves            B, changes                  C. progresses                D. goes

14. A. study               B. society             C. nature            D. life

15. A. faced               B. supplied              C. connected         D. fixed

16. A, before               B. after                C. until               D. as

17, A. following             B. next               C. above              D. former

18. A. still                  B. also                 C. once             D. almost

19. A. treatment             B. action              C. choice            D. remark

20 A. anything              B. something           C. everything          D. nothing

6、In every British town, large and small, you will find shops' that sell second-hand goods. Sometimes such shops deal mostly in furniture, sometimes in books, sometimes in ornaments and household goods, sometimes even in clothes.

      The furniture may often be "antique", and it may well have changed hands many times. It may also be very valuable, although the most valuable piece will usually go to the London salesrooms, where one piece might well be sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. As you look around these shops and see the polished wood of chests and tables, you cannot help thinking of those long-dead hands which polished that wood, of those now-closed eyes which once looked at these pieces with love.

      The books, too, may be antique and very precious; some may be rare first printings. Often when someone dies or has to move house, his books may all be sold, so that sometimes you may find whole libraries in one shop. On the border between England and Wales, there is a town which has become a huge bookshop as well. Even the cinema and castle have been taken over, and now books have replaced sheep as the town's main trade.

      There are also much less expensive shops, sometimes simply called "junk shops", where you can buy small household pieces very cheaply. Sometimes the profits from these shops go to charity. Even these pieces can make you feel sad; you think of those people who once treasured them, but who have moved on, to another country or to death.

      Although the British do not worshop their ancestors, they do treasure the past and the things of the past. This is true of houses as well. These days no one knocks them down, they are restored until they are often better than new. In Britain, people do not buy some- thing just because it is new. Old things are treasured for their proven worth; new things have to prove themselves before they are accepted.

1. Books found in second-hand book shops may ________.

    A. be copies of the earliest printing

    B. be on sale for the first time

    C. never be worth very much

    D. never he rare

2. What is the small town on the border between England and Wales famous for?

     A. Its sheep.        B. Its cinema.          C. Its bookshops.       D. Its castle.

3. Second-hand goods sometimes fill you with sadness because ________.

     A. they remind you of the original owners

     B. they are too expensive for average buyers

     C. they are now neglected

     D. they are sold for charity

4. The average British person ________.

     A. does not respect old things because they are not fashionable

     B. likes to build new houses simply because it is fashionable to do so

     C. likes to buy new things because they are fashionable

     D. does not like to buy things simply because they are fashionable

5. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 may refer to

     A. junk shops         B. profits              C. old things           D. old houses