She didn’t come to the party last Sunday. _________, she must have made the party more exciting.

A．If she came                            B．Would she come

C．Had she come                          D．Did she come

—Who do you think will get the first prize?

—Mary, of course. She ________ for the competition for months.

A．is preparing                            B．was preparing

C．had been preparing                     D．has been preparing

It’s impossible for him to escape ________ this time; he made such a big mistake.

A．to punish          B．punishing          C．being punished     D．having punished

_______ his own experiences in Italy, Mr. White created this famous novel.

A．Drawing on        B．Insisting on        C．Living on          D．Working on

I showed several old friends of mine around the city, _________ surprise，the changes had been so great.

A．whose            B．to whose          C．which            D．to which

—Happy birthday!

— Thank you! It’s the best present I_________ for.

A．should have wished                     B．could have wished

C．may have wished                        D．must have wished

After school we went to the reading-room to do some reading, only to be told that it ____________.

A．was decorated                         B．had decorated

C．had been decorating                     D．was being decorated

As many as five courses are provided, and you are free to choose_______ suits you best.

A．whatever          B．whichever         C．whenever         D．wherever

Around twenty years ago I was living in York. 31  I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find   32  work.

I was   33  a school bus to make ends meet and   34  with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had   35  five interviews(面试)with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not   36  the job. “Why has my life become so   37 ?” I thought painfully.

As I pulled the bus over to   38  a little girl, she handed me an earring   39  I should keep it   40  somebody claimed(认领)it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.

At first I got angry. Then it   41  me-I had been giving all of my   42  to what was going wrong with my   43  rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a   44  of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to   45  more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for   46  from a lady who was a director at a large   47 . She asked me if I would   48  a one-day lecture on stress(压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My   49  there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of   50 that I completely changed my life.

1.                A．As             B．Though         C．If    D．When

2.                A．successful       B．extra           C．satisfying D．convenient

3.                A．driving         B．repairing        C．taking    D．designing

4.                A．working        B．travelling        C．discussing D．living

5.                A．prepared for    B．attended        C．asked for D．held

6.                A．lose           B．like            C．find  D．get

7.                A．hard           B．busy           C．serious   D．short

8.                A．wave at         B．drop off        C．call on    D．look for

9.                A．ordering        B．promising       C．saying    D．showing

10.               A．in case         B．or else         C．as if  D．now that

11.               A．hurt           B．hit            C．caught    D．moved

12.               A．feelings        B．attention       C．strength   D．interests

13.               A．opinions        B．education       C．experiences    D．life

14.               A．list            B．book           C．check D．copy

15.               A．connect        B．turn           C．keep D．add

16.               A．her            B．a passenger     C．me   D．my friend

17.               A．hospital        B．factory         C．restaurant D．hotel

18.               A．listen to        B．review         C．give  D．talk about

19.               A．plan           B．choice         C．day   D．tour

20.               A．operation       B．speaking        C．employment    D．thinking

By the mid-nineteenth century, the “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families of their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursors of modern refrigerator, had been invented.

Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.

But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium(奖金) price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A．The influence of ice on the diet.

B．The development of refrigeration.

C．The transportation of goods to market.

D．Sources of ice in the nineteenth century.

2.According to the passage, when did the word “icebox” become part of the language of the United States?

A．in 1803                               B．sometime bore 1850

C．during the civil war                      D．near the end of the nineteenth century.

3.The phrase “forward-looking” in line 3 is closest in meaning to______.

A．progressive        B．popular           C．thrifty            D．well-established

4.The author mentions “fish” in the passage because _____.

A．many fish dealers also sold ice.

B．fish was shipped in refrigerated freight cars.

C．fish dealers were among the early commercial users of ice

D．fish was not part of the ordinary person’s diet before the invention of the icebox.