Early _____ the morning of May 1, we started off _____ the mountain village.

A. in; for    B. in; to     C. on; /    D. on; for

More and more fast-food restaurants have _____ all over the town in the last few years.

  A. come up   B. taken up   C. sprung up   D. put up

The old man insisted that I ____ his wallet and that I ____ with him to the police station.

  A. take, go                   B. had taken, go           C. took, go          D. had taken, went

Father made a promise ___ I passed the examination he would buy me an MP6 player.

A. that                       B. which                    C. whether                    D. that if

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

As I hurried to the kitchen, my dad came in. “Something ____16 ____good,” he said. Following his nose, he ____17____in his chair at the table.

       After dinner I helped with dishes and watched the news. They ____18____ a homeless family with children who’d been forced out of a ____19____ due to overcrowding. That story stuck in my mind the rest of the night. ____20____when I went to bed, I kept thinking about those ____21____chidren.

       I glanced around my room and ____22____my old computer. Here I am worried about getting a new computer ____23____ that family is living on the street in the middle of winter. How could I be so ____24____?

       That night, I prayed for that family and also that if I had won, for God to show me how to ____25____the money and prize wisely.

       The next week seemed to drag as we ____26____ to hear about the contest for the Instant Game Winner from my ____27____a bag of chocolate. Finally, I believed that it was exactly what my mom and dad had thought—a ____28____. Yet I still couldn’t help thinking about the ____ 29____and how God would want me to use it.

       “It’s for real!” My dad ____30____one night after hanging up the phone. “You did win,” he said with a smile. “They’re flying the four of us to Los Angeles in April to ____31____the prize.”

       After a group hug, I caught my breath and thanked God. I realize now that ____32____do affect my everyday life. And that’s why I ____33____to give my parents the Beetle until I’m 18, ____34____$18,000 with my sister for our college fund and give $2,000 to a local ____35____shelter—to help families like the one I saw on television. That’s one sweet choice!

16. A. tastes                  B. feels                        C. touches                    D. smells

17. A. sat down             B. got up                      C. put down                  D. set up

18. A. supported           B. stood                       C. showed                    D. stayed

19. A. school                B. shelter                      C. shoulder                   D. sight

20. A. Even                  B. Once                        C. So                           D. Again

21. A. tiresome             B. stupid                      C. lovely                      D. diligent

22. A. stared at              B. stepped into              C. left for                            D. looked after

23. A. while                  B. before                      C. after                        D. since

24. A. proud                 B. wise                         C. selfish                      D. lovely

25. A. make                  B. use                          C. get                           D. earn

26. A. happened            B. moved                            C. began                       D. waited

27. A. buying                B. selling                      C. forgetting                 D. remembering

28. A. question              B. trouble                            C. difficulty                  D. trick

29. A. computer            B. money                            C. chocolate                  D. television

30. A. permitted            B. promised                  C. announced                D. answered

31. A. offer                  B. supply                      C. receive                     D. refuse

32. A. dishes                 B. families                    C. worries                    D. choices

33. A. decided               B. came                        C. explained                 D. wrote

34. A. take                    B. cost                         C. give                         D. share

35. A. homeless             B. happy                      C. hopeless                   D. sick

       Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.

   Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.

   Do you know what a ‘territory’ is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.

   If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting（筑巢）season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird’s song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.

   Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.

   You can see that birds have a language of their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.

Some scientists believe that most of the time bird’s singing is actually________.

A. an expression of happiness                                   B. a way of warning

C. an expression of anger                                  D. a way of greeting

What does the underlined word “territory’’ mean?

A. A place where families of other species are not accepted

B. A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice

C. An area for which birds fight against each other

D. An area which a bird considers to be its own

Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?

A. Because they want to invite more friends

B. Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away

C. Because they want to find outsiders around

D. Because their singing helps get rid of their fears

How does the writer explain bird’s singing?

A. By comparing birds with human beings          B. By reporting experiment results

C. By describing birds’ daily life                        D. By telling a bird’s story

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个对号；如多词，则用（ \ ）划掉；如缺词，则在此处加一个（^），并把正确的写在横线上；如错一词，则在此词下面划线，，在右边横线上写出改正后的词。

A lady once wrote a long story and sent to a famous editor.        76____________

In a few weeks the story was returned to her. The lady got            77.____________

angrily. She wrote to the editor. “Dear sir , yesterday you             78.____________

sent back the story of mine. How do you know why the               79.____________

story is not good? You did not read it .After I sent it                  80.____________

to you, I pasted (粘) together pages 18, 19 or 20. This was             81.____________

a test to see whether you would real read the story.                   82.____________

When it came back yesterday, the pages still pasted together.          83.____________

Is this the way where you read all the stories that are sent             84.____________

to you?” The editor wrote back “Dear madam, at breakfast            85.___________

when I open an egg, I don’t have to eat all the eggs in order to

discover that it is bad.”

_______ you be interested, I will tell you the whole story.

A .Would    B. Might    C. Should   D. Could

Indeed,thanks to the good ideas of lots of people,like the cycling fans in the 1960s,many people around the world______the city centre streets without cars for many years.

A.have enjoyed      B.enjoyed             C.have been enjoying               D.have been enjoyed

—There is still a copy of the book in the library. Will you go and borrow_________?

   ---No, I’d rather buy _______in the bookstore.

it; one          B. one; one         C. one; it             D. it; it