When I got off the bus, I found my wallet ________.

A. missing         B. missed               C. losing        D. disappeared

To the man in the fog, 

I’d like to thank you for your kind help in the terrible fog last week. I was so   1   ---I could hear my heart beating very fast,   2   you made me feel safe with your   3  .

That Monday, I tried to take my usual   4   home before the fog got too thick, but the bus conductor told me to go to Green Park by   5   and find a taxi there. I followed his   6  . When I arrived at Green Park and got to the station entrance, it was   7  . The fog lay like a thick grey cloud. Weather that bad is really   8  these days. It was impossible to find a   9  .

I had to walk in the fog. I became frightened as I could hear   10   but couldn’t see anyone. You spoke to me and offered help. I was frozen with   11   for a moment, but then I decided you had a(an)   12   voice, so I answered you.

It was the best decision I ever   13  . You took my hand and led me   14   through the foggy streets to my house. Your hand was   15   but strong and warm. Imagine my surprise when you told me you were   16  ! I wanted to invite you to my home to rest for a while, but you   17   so quickly to help other people who were   18   in the fog. I regret that I didn’t have the chance to express my   19   to you. If anyone knows this kind man, please contact me

  20   the newspaper so I can thank him personally.

Polly Townsend

1. A. kind                  B. frightened         C. brave                D. rude

2. A. so                    B. since             C. but                  D. and

3. A. kindness             B. smile                C. figure                   D. sadness

4. A. underground             B. taxi                 C. train                    D. bus

5. A. bus                   B. plane              C. taxi                      D. underground

6. A. steps                    B. idea               C. advice                   D. way

7. A. filled                   B. crowded           C. deserted             D. occupied

8. A. rare                     B. common            C. usual                D. ordinary

9. A. man                     B. taxi                   C. woman            D. policeman

10. A. music             B. footsteps           C. wind                 D. jokes

11. A. cold                   B. dark               C. heat                D. fear

12. A. nice                B. famous             C. kind               D. interesting

13. A. made              B. had                  C. met                  D. saw

14. A. easily               B. attentively          C. carefully           D. confidently

15. A. rough                 B. cold                C. dirty                 D. big

16. A. tall                       B. blind                C. short                  D. deaf

17. A. came                 B. arrived           C. left                    D. returned

18. A. left                   B. walking            C. working              D. lost

19. A. sorrow            B. thanks            C. fortune             D. happiness

20. A. through         B. by                     C. in                             D. on

    Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.

    Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.

    Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places.

    Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants the land can become desert more easily.

1. Small green plants are very important to dry places because _______.

A. they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier

B. they don’t let the wind blow the earth away

C. they hold water

D. A, B, and C

2. Land is becoming desert little by little because _______.

A. plants can’t grow there

B. there is not enough rain

C. people are doing bad things to the earth

D. scientists know little about the deserts

3. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Scientists know how to change deserts into good land.

B. Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good land.

C. If scientists can bring water to deserts, people can live and grow food there.

D. More and more places are becoming desert all the time.

4. After reading this, we can learn that ______.

A. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert

B. it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts

C. all places without much rain will become desert

D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than on deserts

Another Use of Britney’s Songs

    Pop singer star Britney Spears would feel happy (or amused) if she knew what her songs can do for some German farmers.

    Recently, some farmers in Germany have been playing Britney’s songs very often on their farms. Not that they like her songs a lot, but that her songs can drive away the troublesome wild boars（野猪）.

    As the boars are an endangered(濒临灭绝的) animal in Germany, people can’t shoot or kill them. Farmers there tried their best to stop the boars from destroying their crops but failed.

    One day, one of the German farmers noticed that all the boars were scared away when he started to play one of Britney’s songs!

    The farmer was delighted and then he tried some other singers on the boars. Madonna’s and Robbie Williams’ songs didn’t work at all.

    Only Britney’s songs seemed to have the magical power. Every time her songs were played on his farm, the boars would go running away in a rush.

    It’s reported quite a number of German farmers are using Britney’s magic songs to protect their vegetable and fruits.

1. The farmers played Britney’s songs on their farms so that _______.

A. they can protect their crops and fruits

B. they don’t feel tired from work

C. their crops may grow better

D. they can get some money from the music company

2. The farmers cannot shoot the boars because _________.

A. they are not allowed to own guns

B. they are afraid the boars might attack them

C. the boars are protected by law

D. the boars are owned by some other farmers

3. Which of the following statements is true according to the text? 

A. Animals like to listen to music by different singers.

B. Not all the singers’ songs are liked by the boars in Germany.

C. Boars in Germany like Britney’s songs very much.

D. Britney’s songs seem to be quite different from other singers’.

During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and she is likely to take paid work until sixty.

This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic（经济的）position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.

1. We are told that in a typical family in about 1900________.

A. few children died before they were five

B. seven or eight children lived to be more than five

C. the youngest child would be fifteen

D. four or five children died when they were five

2. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she __________.

A. is younger when her children can look after themselves

B. does not like any children herself at all

C. needn’t worry about food for her children

D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty

3. According to the passage, it is now quite common for women to _________.

A. stay at home after leaving school

B. start working again later in life

C. marry men younger than themselves

D. marry while still at school

The government has launched a nationwide campaign against plastic bags, banning the production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from June 1.

People use too many of the bags and fail to dispose(处理) of them properly, wasting valuable oil used in their production, and littering the country, the State Council said in a notice posted on the central government website.

Starting from June, shops, supermarkets and sales outlets will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags and all carriers must be clearly marked with prices.

"We should encourage people to return to carrying cloth bags, and using baskets for their vegetables," the notice said.

In addition, the manufacture, sale and use of bags less than 0.025 mm thick are banned from the same date, with firms that flout(轻视) the rules facing fines or confiscation(没收) of goods and profits.

The State Council also told finance authorities to consider tax measures to discourage the production and sale of plastic bags and encourage the recycling industry, told quality inspection authorities to revise(修订) State standards for plastic bags and set up a monitoring mechanism, and urged rubbish collectors to separate plastic for reprocessing and reduce the amount burned or buried.

Residents in the country use up to 3 billion plastic bags a day and the country has to use 5 million tons (37 million barrels) of crude oil every year to make plastics used for packaging, according to a report on the website of China Trade News.

1. Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “recycling”.

2. What is the government planning to ban starting from June 1?

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3. Why has the government launched this campaign?

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As the Beijing Olympics logo says, 'One world, One dream', China is trying to provide best services for the competitors and _____.  

A. interpreters    B. receptionists    C. spectators       D. volunteers

The driver was at____loss when_____word came that he was forbidden to drive for speeding．

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

The good news _____ champagne.  

A. calls for       B. answers for     C. allows for      D. applies for

---Are you feeling tired? If so, let’s stop to have a rest over there.

---____. Let’s walk on so that we can reach the top of the mountain before noon.

A. No, I’m not a little tired                       B. Yes, I’m very tired   

C. No, I’m not a bit tired                        D. Yes, I’m a little tired