阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中，选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

　　Susan Cleveland is the young president of a candy company in Chicago. Her father  1 the company in the 1960s. He died three years  2 Now, the company  3 Susan.

　　Susan,  4 ,did not have any experience  5 becoming head of the company. She had just finished  6 .

　　The employees (雇员) became even more concerned (受到关心)  7 Susan's first months on the  8 . Mr Cleveland had been a strong leader. But Susan  9 many employees to make their own  10 .

　　One employee said: “Old Mr Cleveland always told us what to do. He kept people on a short leash. But the company did  11 .”

　　What does a “short leash” mean? A leash is  12 rope. We use a leash to walk our pet dogs. The leash keeps the dog from running away  13 getting into trouble.

　　Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her under  14 control. The person can't make any decisions for himself or herself.

　　Ms Cleveland does not keep her workers on a short leash.   15 ,she encourages them to get better ways to do business.

　　For example, her secretary proposed an idea. She said the company should give a  16 to the best student in the high school near its factory. The   17 could use the prize money to study at a university.

　　Ms Cleveland  18 the idea. After the prize was announced, people who lived in this area of the factory began to buy  19 of the company's candy. Local newspapers  20 the competition. Business improved.

　　Ms Cleveland made her secretary the company's first Director of Public Relations. The former secretary was very pleased.

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　　As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she  1 out at the audience,  2 to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had  3 all the way from California more than 2000 miles away, to see their  4 compete in this sports meet in Cleveland , Ohio.

　　The music  5 and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music  6 her along into her turns, and she began skating with much  7 in herself. The cold fear she always had in the  8 seconds before skating onto the ice was  9 She was feeling the movement of the music and  10 it carry her. She skated easily,  11 did some jumps, a final turn, and her performance was  12 .

　　The crowd loved it and cheered  13 she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other  14 . It was the  15 that always came after a free-skating performance. But what would the  16 way? Standing beside her father, Peggy  17 for the scoring to be finished. On sides were other young skaters, some waiting both  18 alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o'clock the results were  19 . The new United States

Women's Figure Skating champion was Peggy Fleming of Pasadena,  20 ！

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　　The other day I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for some scientific 1 ; I forget what it really was. The announcer said something that caught my 2 “All great discoveries” he said,“are made by people between the ages of twenty five and 3 ”. Being a little over thirty myself , I wanted to disagree with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any discoveries. The next day I happened to be in the city library and spent several hours 4 the ages of famous people and their discoveries.

　　First I looked at some of the 5 discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 6 fall at the same speed , was made by Galileo when he was twenty six. Madame Curie started her research that 7 to a Nobel Prize when she was twenty-eight. Einstein was twenty-six 8 he published his theory of relativity. Well , enough of that. 9 I wondered if those 'best years' were true in other  10 .

　　Then how about the field of  11 ? Surely it  12 the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look  13 these people started their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of twenty-six . Abraham Lincoln  14 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government  15 what age? Twenty-six.

　　But why don't best years come after thirty? After thirty , I guess,  16 people do not want to take risks or try  17 ways. Then' I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty,  18 the latter was still trying new ways of  19 when he was ninety!

　　Perhaps there is still  20 for me.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　Mr. Gray traveled a lot on business. He sold machines of various kinds to farmers, which he thought not really a very 1 job , but Mr. Gray had always been interested in 2 , and he was quite satisfied with his life.

He had a big 3 , and usually enjoyed driving it long distances , but he was also quite 4 to go by train sometimes too especially when the weather was 5 . He was a little frightened of driving in the rain or snow , and it was 6 tiring to sit comfortably in a train and look out of the windows without being worried about how one was going to get to the next place.

　　One of Mr. Gray's 7 was often where to stay when he reached some small 8 in the country. He did not expect 9 and wonderful food, but he found it annoying (恼火的) when he was given a cool room , and when there was no hot water  10 good food after a long and tiring day.

　　Late one winter evening , Mr. Gray arrived at a small railway station. The journey by train that  11 had not been at all interesting , and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and  12 . He was looking forward to a  13 but satisfying meal by a brightly burning  14 , and then a hot bath and a comfortable bed.

　　While he was walking to the taxi stand , he said to a local man who was also  15 there,“As this is my  16 visit to this part of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to find out about hotels before I  17 home, I would very much like to know how many you have here.”

　　The local man answered,“We have two.”

　　“And which of the two would you  18 me to go to?” Mr. Gray asked then.

　　The local man scratched(搔) his  19 for a few moments and then answered, “Well, it's like this,  20 one you go to, you'll be sorry you didn't go to the other.”

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    I was 15 when I walked into McCarley's Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at  1 on the shelves, the man behind the counter, the shop owner, asked if I'd like  2 . I needed to start  3 for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during the summer for the lowest wages, and the job helped  4 my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and  5 made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most  6 .

    One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything we had at that time  7 and found other books we could order. She left the store less  8 , I've always remembered the  9 I felt in having helped her.

    Years later, as a  10 in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born  11 his fingers connected, weblike. His family could not afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in  12 , hiding his hand in his pocket.

    I  13 my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the  14 for free.

    I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his  15 hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of  16 .

    In the past, while I was  17 , I always sensed I was working for the customers , not the store. Today it's the  18 . NBC News pays my salary,  19 I feel as if I work for the  20 , helping them make sense of the world.

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阅读下面短文，从短文后给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

　　This autumn was the wettest since records began in the UK. Floods  1 large parts of the country. In Australia floods have covered an area the  2 of the whole of the Britain. How does it happen? Cars, factories and power stations  3 carbon dioxide() into the air. This gas 4 the atmosphere and causes the polar ice to  5 . Sea levels across the world  6 . What are we going to do about it? In 1990, leaders of all the big nations met in Japan and agreed to reduce  7 they put into the atmosphere. Ten years  8 , in Nov. 2000, they met again in Holland to assess (评估) the situation and decide what to do next. Maybe the following is one of the ways.

　　The village of Yaluma  9 in the mountains of Chiapas, a province of Southern Mexico.  10 people are Mayan Indians. They are some of the poorest people in a poverty stricken country.  11 now they have an extra source of income. They are being  12 to grow, develop and  13 forests by the organization  14 Formula One racing(一级方程赛车).

　　Every year, the global Formula Once racing pumps 5500 tons of into the atmosphere. The idea is that the forests being planted around Yaluma will absorb this amount. It will also provide local people  15 money while  16 out motor racing's environmental debt.

　　Projects  17 this go under the name of “Carbon trading”. The basic  18 is that governments and companies can buy the  19 to pump into the air by investing (投资) in green  20 that take it out again.

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　　Why is the White House white? As you know, the White House is the (1) residence(住处)of the president of the USA． in Washington, DC． But do you know (2) the White House is white? The story (3) back to 1812. That year England was (4) war with America. The Congress(国会)meets and the house of the president were set (7) fire in 1814, in order to (8) the marks left by the fire, the brown stone walls of the president’s house (9) white and it was called the“White House” (10) since.

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　　The Greens are Americans. They are now in Beijing. This is (1) first visit to China. They are going to stay in China (2) two months. They want to visit some cities and villages. They hope to learn some Chinese, (3) .

　　Mr. Green is a doctor. He (4) a hospital in Shanghai. Mrs. Green is a school teacher. She is going to visit (5) city schools and village schools. Their daughter (6) a middle school student. She wants (7) some Chinese students.

　　They are going to (8) some photos in China. When they are back in (9) , they will show the photos to their American friends. They want the American people to know (10) about China.

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　　Deaths and injuries from motor-vehicle accidents are increasing in developing countries around the world. Traffic accidents in the young nations of 1 have become a ：social scourge (祸害)”, and all too often the victims (受害者) are young, educated Africans 2 increased earning power has enabled them to buy a motorcycle or an automobile. Reports 3 three Latin-American countries, Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela, 4 that, as in the US, traffic accidents have become the leading cause of 5 among young adults.

　　About 250,000 people throughout the world are 6 in traffic accidents each year, and more than seven million are injured. 7 the US has the highest number of people killed in traffic accidents of 8 country (about 50,000 per year), it has one of the lowest rates of fatalities (死亡率) per motor vehicle or passenger mile, 9 , in the US there are six fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, 10 in Kenya and Uganda there are from 55 to 65 fatalities per 100 11 passenger miles. In India the fatality rate per motor vehicle is 10 to 15 times higher than it is in the US. In all countries the death rate from traffic accidents is higher for 12 than it is for females.

　　To 13 the growing epidemic (流行) of traffic 14 , the WHO has 15 a worldwide study of road traffic accidents and is encouraging the development of preventive programs. If traffic accidents are 16 by methods similar to those used 17 the great “killing diseases”, the organization states, the present epidemic of road 18 could be made to disappear 19 as plague (瘟疫) and smallpox have now been 20 almost everywhere in the world.

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　　Asians accounted for only about 1.5 percent of the American population in the last census (人口普查). But Asians make up nearly 4.5 times as large a portion (一份) of the total number of American scientists who 1 doctoral degrees. And they are more than 10 times 2 many on the lists of engineers, and 6.2 times as 3 among computer scientists. At the University of California, Berkeley, Asians 4 about one-fifth of the undergraduate students－nearly four times 5 proportion in the California population.

　　Academic prowess (学术才能) does not, however, 6 translate to economic (经济) and political power. Successful Asian-Americans rank (排行) 7 in family-income lists. But much of the Asian American group still works long hours at 8 pay.

　　Joseph Alsop and China Hand, 9 to study the Asian student phenomenon in the 1960s. He did research 10 the walls of Chinatowns in large part to the role model 11 by young Nobel Prize winners of 12 in 1957, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee. Both were born in China. More recent 13 are such computer experts as An Wang, superstar architect, Ieoh Ming Pei, and a growing list of VIPs.

　　So far, Asian-American student achievements, 14 remarkable, are usually in the 15 “hard” subjects－the sciences, maths, computers, and practical economics. Fewer of the high achievers 16 literature, history, or other “soft” subjects.

　　One Manhattan teacher explained, “After 17 a base with such 18 work and memorization, the Asian students often prove imaginative in doing creative maths or scientific work. But 19 is their willingness to work long hours at memorization in the beginning that often makes them 20 their fellow students.”

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