I want ______ some bird-watching this weekend.

A. do B. did C. doing D. to do

She likes tennis and she thinks it’s ______ of all sports.

A. interesting B. more interesting

C. most interesting D. the most interesting

Last year my father ______ the city where he was born.

A. visited B. visits C. will visit D. is visiting

The sweater can’t ______ in the machine.

A. wash B. washedC. be washed D. be washing

His book is wonderful. I ______ it for three times.

A. readB. have read C. am reading D. will read

I _______ you a ring if I hear anything.

A. will giveB. gaveC. have givenD. give

If you can’t find the place, I’ll show you ______.

A. where is it B. where it was

C. where was it D. where it is

I work for a major airline. One afternoon while running through LAX to my plane, I tore (撕破) one of my nylon socks. , there was a convenience store close to my gate. I knew I could buy a new pair. However, as I waited in line, I that I had no money in my purse. I thought to myself that maybe the store manager would sell me a pair and let me pay her back the next time. I have been inside her store a lot, even though we have never been . When it was my to pay, I showed her my socks and explained that I had no money on me. She laughed and said, “Take them.”

Well, for whatever reason, two months passed, and I had not paid the money back.

Then one day while I was busy doing my usual preflight preparations, a passenger asked me if I would him a newspaper.

I went off the airplane and walked to the same convenience store. I was too embarrassed (尴尬的) to go inside because I had never paid the money back, and I wasn’t carrying my . Then a man with a friendly face came near. he could walk past me, I stopped him and asked him for help. He smiled and said that he would do so gladly but wanted to know why I couldn’t do it . He was rather outgoing and kept saying, “Come on, and tell me.” I needed a newspaper, so I and told him.

Suddenly he said, “Hold on.” and then took me into his arms quickly and carried me into the store. With his free hand he reached into his pocket and out a five-dollar bill and said to the manager, “I’d like to pay for the socks this person owes you for and for a newspaper.”

I later learned that this big, gentle man was Rosie Grier, the former L.A. Rams and Hall of Fame football player.

1.A. Probably B. LuckilyC. DoubtfullyD. Hopefully

2.A. believedB. thoughtC. felt D. discovered

3.A. noticed B. mentionedC. introduced D. required

4.A. turn B. time C. chance D. duty

5.A. simply B. seriouslyC. actively D. hurriedly

6.A. even B. still C. just D. ever

7.A. return B. pass C. leave D. buy

8.A. socks B. package C. purseD. passport

9.A. After B. Until C. Before D. Unless

10.A. myselfB. himselfC. ourselvesD. itself

11.A. checked inB. gave inC. broke inD. got in

12.A. handed B. sent C. carried D. pulled

1.Which park will bring you into a magic world?

A. Disneyland.B. Dollywood.

C. Camelot Park.D. The PCC.

2.What’s Dollywood’s main attraction?

A. Magic shows.B. King Arthur’s life.

C. Polynesian culture.D. America’s southeast culture.

3.What can you enjoy in Camelot Park?

A. Meeting Snow White.

B. Experiencing ancient England.

C. Riding on the steam-engine train.

D. Feeling the Polynesian way of life.

Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?

Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!

In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!

To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”

Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.

1.Why was Lara’s success special?

A. She was just a little girl. B. She was the 2002 champion.

C. She was from Germany.D. She remembered more words.

2.What is true about Mr. Tomoyori?

A. He found pi easy to remember.

B. His memory was the best in the world.

C. He used stories to help remember words.

D. He only made one mistake while saying pi.

3.Who remembered the greatest numbers according to the passage?

A. Andi. B. Lara. C. Mr. Goto. D. Mr. Tomoyori.