15、If the firms failed to make enough money, they would          .

A .close down               B. call off                     C. turn down                D. set off

14、She devoted herself          to her research and it earned her a good reputation in her field.

A. strongly                          B. extremely                 C. entirely                            D. freely

13、People try to avoid public transportation delays by using their own cars, and this      creates further problems. 

A. in short                   B. in case                            C. in doubt                   D. in turn

12、If we can           our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.

A. come across                    B. get over                    C .come over                D. get off

11、He began to take political science          only when he left school.

A. strictly                            B. truly                         C. carefully                   D. seriously

10、Surely it doesn’t matter where the student associations get their money from; what        is what they do with it. 

A. counts                            B. applies                      C. stresses                           D. functions

9、Water can absorb and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature, thus creating a ____________ environment. 

A. peaceful                   B. sensitive                   C. common                  D. stable

7、Many years ago, I owned a service station and roadhouse on the main road between Melbourne and Adelaide.

One very cold, wet night at about 3:30 a.m., there was a   1   on the front door of our house. A young man, wet from   2   to toe, explained that he had    3   out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He had left his pregnant(怀孕的) wife and his two children  4   at the car and said that he would hitchhike(搭便车) back.

Once I had    5    a can with petrol, I took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old children were both    6   ,saying that they were cold. Once the car had started, I suggested that he    7   me back.

Before leaving, I had turned the heater   8   in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was nice and   9   .While the little ones played and ran   10   ,I prepared bread and butter for the children, and hot chocolate for the   11   .

It was about 5 a.m. before they    12   .The young fellow asked me how much he   13   me and I told him that the petrol pump(加油泵) had    14   $15.He offered to pay “call-out fee”, but I wouldn’t accept it.

About a month later, I received a   15    from Interstate, a large bus company that we had been trying to   16   to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time. It   17   out that the young fellow I had helped was its general manager, the most   18   person in the company.

In his letter, he thanked me again and    19   me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at my service station. In this   20   ,a little bit of kindness was rewarded with a huge amount of benefits.

1.A.kick                       B. hit                     C. beat                         D. knock

2.A.finger                     B. shoulder            C head                         D. hand

3.A.driven                    B. used                  C. come                       D. run

4.A.away               B. behind               C. over                         D. out

5.A.supplied                  B. poured                     C. equipped                  D. filled

6.A.sleeping                  B. crying               C. quarrelling                D. fighting

7.A.allow               B. ring                   C. lead                         D. follow

8.A.on                          B. off                    C. in                                   D. over

9.A.neat                       B. hot                    C. warm                       D. attractive

10.A.around                  B. inside                C. nearby                            D. along

11.A.drivers                  B. guests               C. customers                D. adults

12.A.left                       B. arrived                     C. ate                           D. disappeared

13.A.gave                     B. paid                  C. owed                       D. offered

14.A.appeared               B. exhibited            C. calculated                 D. shown

15.A.call                       B. letter                 C. check                      D. notice

16.A.get                       B. force                 C. requite                            D. hope

17.A.pointed                 B. turned               C. worked                    D. found

18.A.generous               B. successful         C. serious                     D. powerful

19.A.praised                 B. persuaded          C. informed                  D. convinced

20.A.lesson                   B. business            C. aspect                      D. case

6、Karen, grown up in a very traditional family in the western United States, maintained high moral(道德的) standards throughout her youth.. In 1984,at the age of 23,she married Bill. They were blessed with two children, a boy and a girl.

By 1991 their love had deepened, and they were happy. Later that year, Bill developed a white spot on his tongue. He visited a doctor.

One day shortly after that, Bill called Karen to sit beside him. He said with tears in his eyes that he loved her and wanted to live forever with her. The doctor suspected that he had been infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

The family was tested. Bill and Karen’s results were positive. Bill had become infected before he met Karen; then he passed the virus on to Karen. The children’s results were negative. Within three years, Bill was dead. “I don’t know how to express what it is like to watch the once handsome man you love and intend to live with forever dying slowly. I cried many nights. He died three months short of ten years of our marriage,” says Karen. Though a doctor told Karen that she would soon follow her husband into death, she is still alive. The infection has progressed to the early stages of AIDS.

Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, a figure larger than the combined populations of Australia. Ireland and Paraguay. According to one UN report, Africa has 21 million of these victims. By the turn of the century that number could reach 40 million and the disease will bring on the greatest disaster in human history. Of the world’s sexually active adults aged 15 to 49,1 in 100 has already been infected with HIV. Of these, only 1 in 10 realizes that he or she is infected. In some parts of Africa,25 percent of the adults are infected.

Since the beginning of the spread of AIDS in 1981,about 11.7 million people have died of it. It is roughly calculated that in 1997 alone, about 2,3 million people died of it. Nevertheless, there are fresh reasons for optimism in the battle against AIDS. During the past few years, there has been a drop in new AIDS cases in wealthy nations. In addition, promising drugs hold out hope of better health and longer life.

1.By telling the story of Karen, the author intends to                  .

A. were people against high risk behaviors

B. stress the importance of medical tests

C. express sympathy for AIDS victims

D. show the consequences of AIDS

2.The underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means “             ”.

A. were lucky in having                             B. were asked to adopt

C. regretted having                                    D. gave birth to

3.Bill was suspected of being infected with HIV after   .

A. he got married to Karen

B .the family members were tested

C. Karen persuaded him to see the doctor

D. he found something wrong with his tongue

4.It can be concluded from the passage that     .

A. promising drugs will soon stop AIDS

B. the spread of AIDS could be controlled

C. it is hopeless to win the battle against AIDS

D. the death rate of AIDS patients has been reduced