Like some of my classmates, I cannot live up to my teachers’ expectations; ______ I let them down.

A．in other words        B．after all        C．what’s more  D．more or less

Premier Wen urged all the members of the State Council to devote themselves ______ an overall Xiaokang society.

A．building         B．to being built    C．to build          D．to the building of

He was thinking about it when a thought _____ into his mind.

A．went        B．came          C．flashed         D．hit

—Johnson was taken by police yesterday.

—Sure. It is said that he was _____ of a theft.

A．charged         B．suspected      C．caught          D．questioned

All the doctors in the hospital insisted that he ______ badly wounded and that he _____ at once.

A．should be; be operated on                         B．were; must be operated on 

C．was; should be operated                     D．was; be operated on

Had the boy worked harder, he ______ the exam.

A．must have got through                         B．could get through  

C．ought to get through                                 D．would have got through

If you go by _____ train, you can have quite a comfortable journey, but make sure you get __________ fast one.

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

—Would you please make a copy for everybody and ______ extra ones for the visitors.

—I would like to.

A．other          B．many        C．few            D．some

It is  1  secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents（养父母）than with the parents that nature dealt them. It is especially  2  of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated because the law blindly(盲目地) favors biological parents(亲生父母). It is also true of children who stay for years in foster（寄养）homes  3  biological parents who can’t or won’t care for them but  4  to give up custody（监护）rights.

       Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays  5  neither description, but her recent court victory could  6  children who have this kind of experience. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who  7  her and her biological parents, with whom she has never  8  . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can  9  with the only father she has ever known and that her biological parents have no legal right on her.

       Shortly after  10  in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were  11  switched（调换）and sent home with the   12  parents. Kimberly’s biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical test  13  that the child wasn’t their own daughter,  14  Kim was, thus leading to a custody battle with Robert Mays.

       In 1989, the two families  15  that Robert Mays would continue to have custody right with the biological parents getting  16  rights. Those right were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being  17  .

       The decision to leave Kimberly  18  Mr. Mays caused a heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue（起诉）on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was  19  a personal possession of her parents. Biological parents does not mean a complete  20  that cancels（取消）all the rights of the children.

1．A．not                       B．no                       C．a                        D．the

2．A．terrible                  B．true                     C．sad                     D．natural

3．A．for                       B．because               C．because of           D．as

4．A．have                     B．stick                   C．want                   D．refuse

6．A．save                     B．help                    C．trouble                D．surprise

7．A．bore                     B．protected             C．grew                   D．raised

8．A．played                   B．thought               C．lived                   D．met

9．A．remain                  B．leave                  C．share                  D．talk

10．A．birth                   B．operation             C．treatment             D．illness

11．A．mistakenly           B．purposefully         C．hopefully             D．additionally

12．A．own                    B．wrong                 C．bad                     D．other

13．A．explained             B．said                     C．showed               D．announced

14．A．therefore             B．but                      C．or                       D．so

15．A．quarreled             B．thought               C．prepared              D．agreed

16．A．visiting                B．equal                   C．watching             D．biological

17．A．wounded            B．hidden                 C．forbidden            D．hurt

18．A．with                    B．on                       C．by                      D．in

19．A．more than            B．just                     C．no more than       D．rather than

20．A．control              B．order                   C．belong               D．ownership

It is a matter of common observation that although incomes keep going up over the years, people never seem to become much better off！ Prices are rising continuously. This is called inflation（通货膨胀）. The money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. People have got used in recent years to higher and higher rates of inflation. What could be bought ten years ago for one dollar now costs well over two dollars. It seems that this rate of inflation is tending to rise rather than to fall. If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate as prices one might think that inflation does not matter. But it does. When money is losing value it lacks one of the qualities of a good money-stability（稳定） of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value; and it becomes an unsuitable standard of deferred（延期） payments. Nobody wants to hold a wasting possession, so people try to get rid of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore stimulates people spending, and prevents people from saving.

1．From the passage, we can know inflation ______ .

       A．seldom happens                                   B．is very common at present

C．is a must                                             D．has become less in recent years

2．According to the passage, if incomes and prices rise together______.

A．the business will become better             B．money will hold its value

C．inflation won’t be a problem                 D．inflation will remain to be a problem

3．When money loses its value______.

A．it’s no longer stable                              B．the price of the goods will go down

C．foods will lose their value                     D．income will keep rising

4．In a period of inflation, people are likely to ______.

A．put much money on the stock market   

B．stop spending money

C．hold on to money as a dependable possession

       D．spend money as soon as possible