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On Thursday afternoon, with all the housework 1. (finish), Mrs White locked the door and went to the women’s club __2.__ usual. It was a pleasant way of passing time for an old woman who lived alone. When she came home, she sensed something 3. (usual) . Had someone got in? The back door and the windows were all locked and there was no sign of forced entry. Had anything been taken? She went from room to room, checking, and found her camera and watch 4. (miss).

The 5. ( follow ) Thursday she went out at her usual time, but didn't go to the club. Instead, she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home, 6. (let) herself in through the back door. She settled down to wait and see what 7. ( happen).

It was 4 o'clock when the front doorbell rang. Mrs White was making tea at the time. The bell rang again, and the next moment she heard her letter-box being pushed open. Picking up the kettle(壶)of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knot(圆形旋钮)on the door-lock . Mrs White raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. A sharp cry was heard outside as the wire fell to the floor and the hand was pulled back, 8. was followed by the sound of running feet.

It wasn’t long 9. the police caught the thief. And Mrs White was admired at the club for her 10. ( success ) self-protection.

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Always remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone “ hang on our words” is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody. For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction, but when it is our turn to be audience, let us remember how we felt as the actor, and let’s be genuinely (真正地) interested in what the other fellow is saying.

Other people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person’s world.

1.This passage is mainly about_______.

A. the ways of talking to a shy person

B. some favorable qualities to be a psychologist

C. how to make yourself attractive to your listeners

D. how to make a friend and be a friend

2.The words “ bring him out of his shell” in this passage most probably mean _______.

A. make him become active

B. make him feel more nervous

C. help him understand the question better

D. help him listen intelligently

3.According to the passage, an important way in making friends is to ________.

A. attract them B. be attracted

C. listen attentively D. talk widely

Danielle Steel, America's sweetheart, is one of the hardest working woman in the book businessUnlike other productive authors who write one book at a time, she can work on up to five. Her research before writing takes at least three years. Once she has fully studied her subjects, ready to divide into a book, she can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk. Danielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education. After graduation, s he worked in the public relations and advertising industries. Later she started a job as a writer which she was best fit for. Her achievements are unbelievable: 390 million copies of books in print, nearly fifty New York Times best-selling novels, and a series of “Max and Martha” picture books for children to help them deal with the real-life problem of death, new babies and new schools. Her 1998 book about the death of her was shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out. Twenty eight of her books have been made into films. She is listed in the Guinness Books of World Records for one of her books being the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.

Not content with a big house, a loving family, and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Danielle Steel considers her readers to be the most important resource and has kept in touch with them by e-mail. While she is often compared to the heroines of her own invention. Her life is undoubtedly much quieter. But if she does have anything in common with them, it is her strength of will and her inimitable style. There is only one Danielle Steel.

1.Children who have read “Max and Martha” picture books may know ________.

A. how to deal with affairs at school

B. what to do if Max and Martha die

C. what to do when new babies are born into their families

D. how to solve the difficult problems in their writing classes

2.One of Danielle Steel' a achievements is that ________.

A. some TV plays were based on her books

B. her picture books attracted a lot of young men

C. one of her books became a best-seller in 1998

D. she wrote the Guinness Book of World Records

3.We can learn from the passage that Danielle Steel ________.

A. lives an exciting life

B. values her readers a lot

C. writes about quiet women

D. is pleased with her achievements

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表).

The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip (连环漫画) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

1.Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on walls of caves probably because ______.

A. they loved animals

B. they enjoyed seeing pictures

C. they preferred painting pictures to telling stories

D. they thought pictures helpful

2.The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______.

A. the former was easy to write

B. there were fewer signs in the former

C. the former was easy to pronounce

D. each sign stood for only one sound

3.In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.

A. should be made easy to understand

B. are of much use in our life

C. should be made interesting

D. are disappearing from our life

4.The possible title of this article may be ______.

A. Pictures and Writing

B. The Best Way of Writing

C. Home of the Comic-Strip Stories

D. The Earliest Language in the World

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The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

—— Thomas Macaulay

About thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neill gave a math ______ to our class. When the papers were ______, she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the ______ mistakes throughout the test.

There is nothing really new about ______ in exams. Perhaps that was ______ Mrs. O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to______ after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs. O’Neill asked ______ questions, and she didn’t ______ us, either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the ______ words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to copy these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.

I don’t know about the other eleven boys. Speaking for______ I can say: it was the most important single ______ of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they ______ seem to me the best yardstick (准绳) now because they give us a way to ______ ourselves rather than others.

______ of us are asked to make ______ decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called ______ daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet, ______ in the street, be put into a pocket or ______ to the policeman? Should the ______ change received at the store be forgotten or ______? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

1.A. paper B. question C. test D. problem

2.A. marked B. completed C. examined D. answered

3.A. easy B. same C. funny D. serious

4.A. lying B. discussing C. guessing D. cheating

5.A. because B. when C. why D. how

6.A. remain B. apologize C. leave D. come

7.A. many B. certain C. no D. more

8.A. excuse B. reject C. help D. scold

9.A. above B. common C. following D. unusual

10.A. herself B. ourselves C. themselves D. myself

11.A. chance B. incident C. lesson D. memory

12.A. still B. even C. always D. almost

13.A. adjust B. control C. help D. measure

14.A. All B. Few C. Some D. None

15.A. quick B. wise C. great D. personal

16.A. upon B. out C. for D. up

17.A. finding B. found C. find D. founded

18.A. turned up B. turned on C. turned over D. turned back

19.A. small B. extra C. some D. necessary

20.A. paid B. remembered C. shared D. returned

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