Not until about 2000 BC________________________done.

A．were known of the oldest paintings B．the oldest of known paintings were

C．the oldest known were painting      D．were the oldest known paintings

To know more about the British Museum, you can use the Internet to go to the library, or _______.

      A. neither           B. some             C. all            D. both

 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Sandy is at home. She is now calling Lisa, her classmate.

Sandy: Hi, Lisa. Have you finished helping your parents?

Lisa: I finished cleaning the living room a little while ago, but I haven’t cleaned my bedroom yet. 61

Sandy: I know what you mean. 62Do you think you’ll be finished soon?]

Lisa: It should be done in about an hour.

Sandy: 63  

Lisa: I did the English homework last night. 64I don’t understand it.

Sandy: Me neither. 65 We can help each other work it out. 

Lisa: OK. Then we can go and have our hair cut.

Sandy: Great. See you in a little while.

A. I don’t math at all. 

B. But I haven’t started my math yet.

C. Housework is tiring, and I’m tired  

D. What do you think we should do then?  

E. Why don’t we do it together this afternoon?  

F. Have you looked at Monday’s homework yet 

G. I also hate doing the cleaning around the house.

一When did you learn the news that Obama made a trip to Canada as President?

    一_______ was on my return．

A．That       B．It       C．There      D．This

President Bush may talk about a plan to Mars, but Bruce Jones thinks there is still a healthy thirst for exploration into underwater worlds on our own planet. After growing up with a grandfather in the marine construction① business, Jones quickly got a feel for the water. He started diving at age 9 and, by the 1980s, began offering advice for those interested in the submarine② business. By 1993, he was running his own company, U.S. Submarines, which designs and builds submarines for others.

Jones has $40 million spent in building a hotel where the most expensive rooms will be 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge — the only undersea hotel now, just off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. — guests at the Poseidon won’t need to put on a wet suit to their rooms. They also won’t need to worry about changing pressure levels since the rooms will be kept at above-surface pressure. Instead, they can move easily to their $1,500-a-night underwater rooms by escalator③.

“I think there are a large number of people who would be interested,” said Jones, “including anyone who is looking for a different experience.”

Each room will feature strong walls that look out onto coral④ gardens. There will be controls in each room that guests can use to change the lighting of the underwater worlds outside their windows and to provide food to fish swimming just outside. It sounds exciting— but will it happen? It’s hard to say.

“By now I envisioned⑤ we’d have whole underwater cities,” Cooper said. “It’s about time some of these visions became reality.”

Notes:

① marine construction  海洋建筑

② submarine  adj. 海下的

③ escalator  n.  自动梯

④ coral  n.  珊瑚

⑤ envision  v.  展望

1. The first paragraph takes President Bush for example in order to ______.

  A. praise President Bush’s plan to Mars

B. humorously introduce the main subject to readers

  C. support President Bush’s plan to Mars

D. show Bruce Jones is against President Bush’s plan

2. According to the text, who had a great effect on Bruce Jones?

  A. His father.     B. His friends.       C. His grandfather      D. His grandmother

3. According to Bruce Jones’s undersea hotel, we know that ______.

  A. fish outside can be seen through the hotel’s walls

  B. the hotel has been built and came into use

  C. it will be easy to swim into the underwater rooms

  D. visitors will have to wear wet suits against water

4. According to Cooper’s words, his attitudes towards the underwater hotels are ______.

  A. disappointed       B. critical       C. objective      D. hopeful

In front of me_______, where many athletes from all over the world will compete for Olympic gold medals.

A. stands the Water Cube   B. stand the Water Cube

C. the Water Cube stands   D. does the Water Cube stand

----My room gets very cold at night.

  ---____________.

A. So is mine    B. So mine is    C. So does mine    D. So mine does

Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children.And they must have 1 how difficult it is to write a 2 children's book.Either the author has aimed too 3 , so that the children can't follow what is in his (or  more often, her) story, 4 the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children's books are 5 very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the 6 who hears the story and the adult who 7 it.Unfortunately, there are in fact 8 books like this, 9 the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 10 to solve.

This may be why many of books regarded as 11 of children's literature were in fact written for 12 .“Alice's Adventure in Wonderland”is perhaps the most 13 of this.

Children, left for themselves, often 14 the worst possible interest in literature.Just leave a child in bookshop o 15 and he will 16 willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children's comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the 17 of teachers and right-thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash childrensintos 18 our taste in literature.After all children and adults are so 19 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 20 books.So I suppose we'll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.  

1.A.hoped      B.realized       C.told     D.said

2.A.short B.long     C.bad      D.good

3.A.easy        B.short    C.high     D.difficult

4.A.and   B.but      C.or D.so

5.A.both  B.neither C.either   D.very

6.A.child B.father   C.mother D.teacher.

7.A.hears B.buys    C.understands D.reads

8.A.few   B.many           C.a great deal of  D.a great number of

9.A.but   B.however      C.so D.because

10A.hard B.easy     C.enough D.fast

11.A.articles   B.work    C.arts      D.works

12.A.grown ups     B.girls     C.boys    D.children

13.A.difficult  B.hidden C.obvious       D.easy

14.A.are        B.show    C.find     D.add

15.A.school    B.home   C.office   D.library

16.A.more      B.less      C.able     D.be

17.A.lovingness     B.interests      C.objections    D.readings

18.A.receiving       B.accepting     C.having D.refusing

19.A.same      B.friendly       C.different      D.common

20.A.common B.avarage       C.different      D.Same

Maureen stood by the lake. Suddenly the children came running through the trees with sharp cries of ___1___. They rushed up to the ___2___, leaning over the clear water, watching the crowds of tiny fish. Some children demanded loudly to go to the boats, but ___3___ those who had been left behind at the ice-cream stall(小摊) came running up to make some announcement or other, and they all ___4___ the water and dashed back the ___5___ they had come. With growing excitement, Maureen ___6___ them.

When she ___7___ what had been running for, she stopped running. They were ___8___ things again. The toy stall was ___9___ and they were crowded around it. Behind the ___10___ a calm middle-aged woman was selling a great variety of small rubbish. She took ___11___ from the forest of small hands in exchanging for little boats, plastic dolls, yellow pencils, anything. Maureen leaned against a ___12___, looking on. The idea of ___13___ washed against her face like a strong current(流), trying to draw her in.  

Nona Parker pushed out to the edge of the group and ___14___ what she had bought on the ground so that she could see what money she had left in her white purse. Under Maureen’s ___15___ lay a boat, a mouth organ(口琴) and a brown load of bread. Maureen was so full of the ___16___ for the things like that she couldn’t bear to look at it. She turned her ___17___ sharply. Her face was against the tree. She shut her eyes and ___18___ eagerly for some money, for the price of a set toy plates. In a moment, she opened her eyes, ___19___ she didn’t turn back to the stall. It was too ___20___ to see the others buying whatever they wanted. She rubbed almost round the tree, her eyes on the ground.

1. A. fright          B. surprise       C. shout        D. excitement

2. A. space           B. hill          C. lake          D. river

3. A. what’s worse  B. all at once    C. all the time   D. more or less

4. A. left          B. polluted       C. painted     D. entered

5. A. street           B. way         C. boat          D. restaurant

6. A. ran after      B. searched for  C. glared at      D. got rid of

7. A. blamed        B. saw          C. praised      D. helped

8. A. destroying        B. stealing      C. buying      D. eating

9. A. closed         B. tall           C. dull          D. open

10. A. toy                B. stall         C. building       D. mirror

11. A. fish           B. advice         C. money       D. food

12. A. tree           B. wall         C. stall       D. car

13. A. leaving      B. running       C. sleeping           D. spending

14. A. laid           B. let            C. drew         D. tasted

15. A. feet           B. eyes         C. shoulder       D. hands

16. A. edge          B. tiredness      C. wish          D. relation

17. A. friend        B. suggestion          C. way          D. head

18. A. went          B. stood        C. prayed        D. searched

19. A. even if       B. if             C. so          D. but

20. A. painful      B. nervous       C. enjoyful     D. near-sighted

Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult __1___ was

to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy __2___ (please) as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume.

Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not ___3___ pleasant experience：people stepped on your feet or ___4___ (push) you with their elbows(肘部), hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.

Jane paused in front of a counter ___5___ some attractive ties were on display. “They are real silk,” the assistant tried to attract her. “Worth double the price.” But Jane knew from past experience that her ___6___ (choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father.

Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes ___7___ sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smokeda pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please __8___.

When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already ___9___ table having supper. Her mother was excited. “Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane ___10___ (inform).