— I don’t feel like going to the sports meet next week. There are too many excellent athletes.

— It is foolish of you to _______ trying.

In order to help her children with their lessons, the woman _______ to some magazines and newspapers last week, though she doesn’t make much money.

Only in recent years ______ begun to realize that wild dogs, kept within bounds, often do more good than harm.

______ a little more time to think, he might have acted more sensibly.

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. In fact, she 16  everyone, except her loving boyfriend who was  17 there for her. She used to tell her boyfriend, “If I could only see the   18  , I would marry you.”

One day, someone donated (捐赠) a pair of   19   to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything,   20   her boyfriend for the first time. He asked her, “   21    you can see the world, will you  22   me?” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was  23 . The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn’t  24  that. The thought of looking at them for the rest of her life led her to   25  to marry him.

Her boyfriend left   26  and a few days later wrote a note to her,   27 : “Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for   28  they are yours, they were mine.”

This is how the human brain often  29  when our status (地位) changes. Only a very few remember what   30  was like before. Life is a gift. Today before you say a(n)   31  word, think of someone who can’t speak. Before you complain about the   32   of your food, think of someone who has 33  to eat. Before you complain about life, think of someone who went to heaven too early. Before you complain about your old house, think of the people who are   34   in the streets. And when you are tired and complain about your job, think of the   35 . So enjoy what you have and don’t forget your past.

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Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.

A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.

The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.

Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.

Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.

There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.

The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.

“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph［20km/h］has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”

1.According to the passage, melody roads use        to create different notes.

2.We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on        .

3.The underlined word “optimal” in the passage might mean        .

4.In order to hear the music well, you have to        .

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

1.一些人订阅了多达两三种不同的报纸。

2.你在会上提出的建议值得考虑。

3.事实上，我使用这辆自行车越多，似乎我就越增肥。

4.他们告别了家乡，动身前往城市。

5.不要把自己直接暴露在强光下。

The driver was at____ loss when ____word came that he was forbidden to drive for speeding.

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

----Is there any possibility of the film _____in Paris International Festival?

   ----Not in the least, because the audience generally think little of it.

   A. being tried out          B. tried out        C. trying out    D. to try out 

Many people believe we are heading for environmental disaster _____we radically(彻底地) change the way we live.

   A. but              B. although          C. unless          D. until