The old man, ______ abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland.

A．to work           B．worked           C．to have worked     D．having worked

The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ______ as the plane was making a landing.

A．seat              B．seating            C．seated            D．to be seating

There were two roads ______ to the station.

A．lead             B．led               C．leading           D．to lead

Mary doesn’t speak French, and         does Joan.

A．so               B．also              C．either            D．nor

She was disappointed to find her suggestion _________.

A．turning down      B．to be turned down   C．turned down       D．to turn down

The world is ____________ five continents.

A．divide by          B．separated from     C．made up of        D．divides into

Suddenly he ____________his mother in the crowd and ran to her .

A．lost sight of        B．caught up with      C．caught sight of      D．in sight of

Many years ago there lived a young couple in a small town. The husband was out of job for a long time and the wife   36 make a living by sewing for others. They were so poor that there was almost nothing in the house but a jar under a  37 table, in  38 was a little rice  39 from their neighbor for the coming New Year. 40 New Year’s Eve, the wife had already fallen asleep, but the husband was  41  in bed, worrying about the life. Suddenly he heard something. In the darkness he saw a man breaking into the room.

“It  42   be a thief.” He thought, “but it  43   matter, there is nothing that can be 44 .” So he  45  to be asleep and kept watching over the thief.

The thief began to 46 the room. At last he found the rice in the jar.

“But  47 can I take it away?” the thief thought hard. Then he had an idea. He 48 his coat and spread it on the ground between the bed and the table. After that he turned round to take the jar.

Now the husband realized what the thief 49 . He picked up the coat quickly and 50 himself with it while the thief was turning around.

The thief 51 the jar, poured the rice out on the place where he had just spread his coat and squatted (蹲) down to feel it. But to his surprise, his coat had  52  .

“Hey”, he couldn’t help 53  out. The   54  woke up the wife. She asked her husband, “Did you hear any sound? Maybe there is a thief in the room.”

“ Nonsense(胡说)!” replied her husband. “Go back to sleep. There is no thief in the room.”

“No, that’s   55  ,” the thief shouted loudly. “If there isn’t a thief, then, where’s my coat?”

1.                A．was able to      B．wanted to       C．had to    D．would

2.                A．good           B．old            C．nice D．broken

3.                A．it              B．which          C．where    D．that

4.                A．borrowed       B．asked          C．lent  D．taken

5.                A．During         B．At             C．In   D．On

6.                A．working        B．sewing         C．lying D．thinking

7.                A．will            B．must           C．can  D．may

8.                A．isn’t          B．wasn’t        C．doesn’t D．didn’t

9.                A．lost            B．carried         C．destroyed D．stolen

10.               A．pretended      B．tried           C．decided   D．started

11.               A．look into        B．search         C．discover   D．examine

12.               A．what           B．when          C．why  D．how

13.               A．used           B．took off        C．put on D．brought

14.               A．had done       B．did            C．would do  D．could do

15.               A．hung          B．covered        C．studied    D．dressed

16.               A．shook          B．laid            C．lifted D．touched

17.               A．lost            B．missed         C．left   D．disappeared

18.               A．to cry          B．crying          C．to jump   D．jumping

19.               A．sound          B．voice          C．noise D．saying

20.               A．right           B．all right         C．nothing   D．impossible

Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable. People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.

It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along. 

1.A good title for this reading passage is______.

A．Popeye the Sailor                       B．The Truth About Spinach

C．A Mistake with Numbers                  D．Folic Acid Makes You Strong

2.Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A．They thought spinach made them strong.

B．They thought Popeye was funny.

C．Spinach had a lot of iron.

D．People liked folic acid.

3.A research group told people that spinach______.

A．made Popeye strong

B．was a green vegetable

C．had less iron than other green vegetables

D．had more iron than other green vegetables

4.The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A．iron              B．folic acid          C．spinach           D．exercise

5.Folic acid is ______.

A．something in food   B．a vegetable        C．dangerous         D．a certain kind of spinach

If you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn't breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, move his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn't work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (the two holes at the end of your nose, through which you breathe and smell things) together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional help arrives.

To bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If, in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey colour, and you can feel no pulse(脉搏), then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.

With arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don't be too hard or you may break a rib. Check how effective you are by seeing if his colour improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.

1.If you want to save someone drowning, you __________.

A．have to pull off his clothes first .

B．should try to get him out of water as quickly as possible.

C．should first make out who he is.

D．ought to throw a life coat to him first .

2.Once a person stops breathing, it means ___________.

A．you have no more than 4 minutes to bring him to life again .

B．his brain is completely damaged .

C．he has passed away.

D．there is no way to save his life .

3.To press his chin upwards is a way to _____________.

A．keep the tongue from blocking the airway in the throat .

B．prevent the tongue from stopping the airway in the throat .

C．wipe the tongue out of the throat .

D．see if he can possibly be saved .

4.If the drowning boy has no pulse,_____________.

A．press his chin upwards is enough to get him breathing .

B．blow air into his mouth is sure to save his life .

C．press his nostrils together with your fingers can work .

D．press is the last chance of saving his life .

5.Which of the following statement is true?

A．Don’t stop pressing his chest, if the drowning man starts breathing again.

B．If you see someone drowning, you must give him mouth-to-mouth breathing.

C．If a man does not breathe for four minutes, his brain will be completely destroyed.

D．When pressing, you can do it as hard as you can.