基础训练篇（19）

We are all busy talking about and   1.        (use) the Internet, but how many of us know   2.           history of the Internet?

Many people are   3.       (surprise) when they find that the Internet was not set up in the 1960s.At that time, computers were large   4.        expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well.  If one computer in the network broke      5.        , then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up.  It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was working, information could be sent   6.          another part. In this way the computer network system would keep on   7.         (work) all the time.

The Internet was only used by the government in the 1960s, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use.         8.     the start of 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet more   9.      (convenience).

Today it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day.   10.        (send) emails is more and more popular among students.

The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people’s life.

基础训练篇（20）

Once upon a time there was a rich merchant 1 __      _____ had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most.  He took great care of her and gave her nothing 2__________ the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He was very         3         __ (pride) of her and always wanted to show off her to his friends. He also loved his 2nd wife. She is __4 ___________very considerate person, always patient and in fact is the merchant’s close friend. __5___________ the merchant faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd  wife and __6____________ would always help him out and tide(帮助渡过) him 7__________ difficult times. Now, the merchant’s 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made great 8___________ (contribute) in maintaining his wealth and business as well as 9____________ (take) care of the household. _10   ________, the merchant did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.

基础训练篇（21）

Bassanio fell in love  (1)          Portia, but he couldn’t ask her to marry him   (2)          he was poor. He had to borrow some money  (3)    ______    his friend Antonio, a merchant of Venice. Antonio had no money then. He went to Shylock, a cruel and  (4) ______   (greed) money-lender. Shylock agreed to lend him the money on condition that he would cut a pound of his flesh  (5) ______   he couldn’t repay him within three months.

Unfortunately Antonio’s ships were lost   (6)       sea. (7)  ______   (know) that Antonio probably had to die, Portia asked Bassanio to go to see his friend at once. She dressed herself  (8)          as a lawyer and turned up at the court. She let Shylock cut just one pound of flesh   (9) ______    Antonio, no more, no less, no drop of blood, otherwise he   (10)  ______     lose all his money. Her clever idea saved Antonio and made Shylock give half of his money to Venice.

基础训练篇（22）

Dear Lifeline,

I shall be getting married (1)_______ August. My mother wants me to have a white wedding in (2)_________, because I am the only daughter, and she wants me to have the kind of wedding that she had. I, on the other (3)____________, should like to have a simple wedding (4)____________ a small party (5)______________ for immediate family and close friends. I don’t want my parents (6)___________ go to a lot of expense just for one day; I’d rather they spent the money (7)__________ things that my husband and I will need, that will last us for many years.

Do you agree (8) ____________ me that this is a (9)_____________ (reason) point of view ? Can you think of a way in which I might persuade my parents (10)        _____________ think as I do?

Yours,

Money-Conscious

基础训练篇（23）

There was once a teacher in a village. He was a man named Goldsmith. He was a kind-hearted man. He was always poor (1)___________. He taught himself  (2)___________, so sometimes people called him Doctor Goldsmith. One day a poor woman asked Mr. Goldsmith to go and see her husband, because he was very ill and couldn’t get up. Mr. Goldsmith did (3)____________. He found that the family needed help very much. The man had been out of work for a long time, but he was not (4)__________. He was just hungry because there was no food in his house.

“Come to my room this (5)_________”said Mr. Goldsmith to the woman, “I will give you some medicine for your husband.”

In the evening the woman came. Mr. Goldsmith gave her a little paper box.

“(6)__________is the medicine,” he said.” Take it and it will (7)_________ your husband a great deal of good, but don’t open the box until you get home.”

“What are the directions for (8) _________ it?” asked the woman.

“You will find them inside the box.” he answered.

When the woman (9)_______________ home, she sat down by her husband’s side, and they opened the box. They found it was full of money. And on the top were the (10)______________(direction)：“TAKE IT WHEN YOU NEED IT.”

Goldsmith had given all the money he had.

基础训练篇（24）

Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact   1.           she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished  2.           a driving mistake.

Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without  3.          (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason  4.                     she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak        5             old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished  6.            he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she  7.              (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had  8.               (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts       9.                your eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary  10.          (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.

基础训练篇（25）

On keeping a Diary in English

Keeping a diary in English is one of the 1.___________ (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.

2._____________ (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 3.____________ time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. 4.____________ we persist in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 5.__________. In the first place, 6.____________ often happens that we have trouble finding appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.

As far as I _7. ______________ (concern), my  8._____________(suggest) is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 9._____ ______ great use to keep a diary in English for 10.___ ________ development of our writing skills.

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In the United States, there were 222 people __1.______ (report) to be billionaires(亿万富翁) in 2003.  The __2._______ (wealth) of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, who made his money __3.______ starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old __4._______ he first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire __5.______ the time he was 31.

__6._________, there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even __7.__________ (young) ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple. __8._________ of these child actors made over a million dollars __9.____________ (act) in movies before they were 14. But __10.__________ youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited (继承) a billion dollars when he turned 18 !           

In 1605 some Englishmen planned to kill their king, JamesⅠ, because they thought that he was a bad man. They knew that on November 5th the King   1.        go to the House of Lords to talk with his nobles.

The men rented a   2.        (build) next to the House of Lords. They dug through a wall and put many barrels of gunpowder in an underground room of the House of Lords. They   3.            （choose）a man  4.              (call) Guy Fakes to set fire  5.              the gunpowder, but something went wrong  6.                their plan.  7.                 of the men had a relative   8.        was coming to the House of Lords to meet the King. He warned his relative to stay at home.  The relative told   9.         nobles and soon the King heard about the danger. Soldiers searched   10.        underground rooms and found the gunpowder on November 4th, so Guy Fakes was caught and killed.

People __1.___________ (live) in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred __2.________ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four __3.__________ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need __4.________ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. __5._________ you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.

The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary __6.____________ (big). Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books __7.___________ (write) in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you come across __8.___________ new word, look it ___9.____________ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your __10.__________ (much) useful book.