________all kinds of difficulties，the workers have made rapid progress in the construction of

    the World Expo 2010 Shanghai．

    A．With    B．For       C．Under       D．Beyond

 Bill ______ a couch potato and now he has a healthy lifestyle.

A. is                       B. used to be         C. is used to being         D. is used to be

The oldest and hardest cow beef may be made as tender and tasty as young and choice met. ”This declaration was made by the French physicist Denis Papin in book published in 1681, which described his “New Digester” or pressure cooker.  It was a cast iron pot with an air-tight lid, which allowed liquids to boil at a higher temperature than usual, and so it cooked food in a quarter of the time.  The food was cooked by pressurized steam being forced through it at about 121℃.  All pressure cookers were made of cast iron until 1905,  when the first aluminum model was made in America. In 1938, Alfred Vischer, a man from Chicago, U. S. A., designed a simple interlocking pan and lid, and an improved pressure-tight seal（密封）—a replaceable rubber sealing ring. When Vischer’s patent（专利）expired in 1954,  many companies entered the field,  and the rapid pressure cooker became popular with people with people who had little time to cook or had to supply food for unexpected guests.

From the passage we can learn pressure cooker made of cast iron lasted at least ____years.

A. 300           B. 200            C. 90            D. 60

Which of the following shows the correct order?

Denis Papin called his invention “New Digester”.  

It began to be widely used by common families.

Instead of cast iron,  it was first made of aluminum. 

The first pressure cooker was invented in France.

Alfred Vischer greatly improved its design.          

Vischer’s patent came to an end.

g.  Many other companies began to produce it.

A. d,  a,  e,  c,  g,  f,  b                 B. a,  d,  c,  b,  e,  f,  g

C. d,  a,  c,  e,  f,  g,  b                 D. g,  e,  a,  e,  d,  f,  b

In the writer’s opinion, the best advantage of a pressure cooker is that_______.

A. the oldest and hardest cow beef can be made tender and tasty

B. it allows liquids to boil at a higher temperature than usual

C. it can help people to supply food for unexpected guests

D. it helps people to spend much less time in cooking

The best title of this passage may possibly be _______.

A. New Digester       B. Pressure Cooker   C. Favorite Cook       D. The History of Cooker

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断。如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

    Now I’d like to tell you something about my part-time

He devoted most of his time to his research, believing his hard work would___sooner or later.

A. put off                     B. take off             C. come off           D. pay off

There aren’t many seats left for the play; you had better make sure that you________two today.

       A．get        B．will get        C．are getting      D．will have got

The village has developed a lot ___ we learned farming two years ago.

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

It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework,    11    with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

   If you give your children the    12    (impress) that they can never do anything quite right, then they will consider    13    to be unfit or unable persons.  14  children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

   My daughter Carla’s fifth grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received ___15_( little) than a perfect test score, she would point __16___ what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.

   You can see the same technique when you evaluate your child’s  work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise    17   . Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes __18___ difficult task, reward him    19    a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad. Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and 20   (success)in the end. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

The deer ____when the animals , harmful to them, disappeared. 

A. multiplied  B. produced  C. laid  D. developed

They were given food and shelter________ work

   A. in need of       B. in place of    C. in exchange of    D. in charge of