I looked carefully at the text and realized that it was____ women who lived in the countryside .

A. intended for  B. appealed for  C. taken for   D. built up for

You can’t go out since you haven’t finished your homework；       ，it is a stormy night．

 A．anyhow      B．meanwhile        C．therefore         D．besides

       The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.

     The most widespread fallacy(谬误) of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.

    During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.     In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz Concentration Camp(奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

    If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

    No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms. _O%

71. The writer offered       examples to support his argument.

   A.4                  B. 5                      C. 6                      D. 3

72. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?

   A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.            

   B. Colds are not caused by cold.

   C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.                      .  .

   D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.

73. Arctic explorers may catch colds when       .

   A. they are working in the isolated arctic regions

   B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather

   C. they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions

   D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world

74. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit       .

   A. suffered a lot   B. never caught colds   C. often caught colds  D. became very strong

75. The passage mainly discusses       .

   A. the experiments on the common cold            B. the fallacy about the common cold

   C. the reason and the way people catch colds        D. the continued spread of common colds  

----Did Susanna visit you again ______ next year?

----No, it was almost ten years before she came to see me ______ second time.

A. the; a                       B. the; /                        C. /; the                        D. /; a

 Advertisements are a good __________ sell products or services.

   A. means to        B. way of                 C. way to                         D. approach to

The cousins are alike in age, but _____ they are as different as day and night.

A. anyhow                   B. besides                    C. otherwise                 D. moreover

 ______ he did not want to, he still had to share his hotel room with a stranger.

    A. Because        B. Even though        C. When        D. As if

I came here        to see you.

A.specially    B.especialty        C.particularly         D.special

—Bill, if it doesn’t rain, we can go straight on and spend more time in Vienna.

   —       I just want to hear Mozart.

A. Well done!            B. No problem.           C. That’s great!            D. That’s it.

I realized that I was getting cold, and felt it was probably time to go back to the apartment, so I put my collar up against the wind and began to walk back up the cold street. I managed to get some food from a vendor（小贩）, and walked on.

About twenty-five minutes later I knew that something was wrong. It was getting very, very cold, there were no streetlights, and the hill I was hoping to see on my right was nowhere in sight.  There was almost no light except for mysterious red crosses shining from the tops of churches, and I was beginning to get worried.  To cut a long story short, I had walked the wrong way from a crossroads, and had wandered miles in the wrong direction. My head was aching from the cold, and I couldn’t think straight. Turing around, I started back, and a long time later was outside the house I had set off from. It was at about that time I realized that I had a gate key but no house key.  How happy I was when I found that the front door was open—my only piece of good luck that day.  My apartment was of course locked, my head felt like it was about to explode, and my hands and feet were freezing.

I tried turning the handle.  No luck.  I tried another key from England.  I wanted to avoid waking the family downstairs, so despite the fear of an early death from cold, I couldn’t break the door down.  What would my hosts think? I pulled an ATM card from my pocket and forced it alongside the inside of the lock. I didn’t think it would work, but after fifteen minutes of trying, I heard a click.  Another couple of minutes later the door was open.  Relieved, I took off my clothes in the dark and got into bed.

The purpose of the passage is mainly to            .

A. tell us how difficult it is living abroad

B. show us how terrible the weather was

C. tell us an unusual experience abroad

D. show us how afraid the author was

What made the author find he had walked the wrong way?

A. He didn’t see the house.

B. A vendor reminded him.

C. The street name reminded him.

D. He didn’t see the hill.

What can we learn from the passage?

A. The front door was closed.

B. The house had many locks.

C. The author woke the hosts.

D. The author came from England.

From the passage we can infer that the author was            .

A. careful       B. careless             C. excited                    D. annoying