阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　In some parts of the United States, ____l____ is easy. But farming has always been ____2____ in the northeastern corner of the country, ____3____ is called New England.

　　New England has many trees and thin, rocky ____4____. Anyone who has wanted to start a new ____5____ has had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down trees. The ____6____ job has been digging the stumps（树桩）of the trees ____7____ the soil. Then the farmer has had the difficult job of ___8____ stones from his land.

　　This work of removing stones never really ____9____, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the ____10____ soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to ___11____ removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep ____12____ more stones.

　　That is why stone walls are used ____13____ fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high; a man can easily ____14____. But they keep the farmer's cows ___15____his neighbor's cows.

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　　Two men are in hospital living 1 door to each other. 2 are alive because of 3 sixteen-year-old boy, a high school student 4 Jim Brand. One of the men he 5 was his father; the other was his boss.

　　Driving to the park with his son last Sunday, 6 suddenly 7 a pain in his chest（胸部）Jim 8 him to their family doctor, who 9 that he should be sent to the hospital at once. Mr Brand said it was not 10 , but Jim begged him to 11 the doctor's advice 12 they got to the hospital, Mr Brand had a had 13 attack. If he had been anywhere 14 , he would have 15 .

　　 Two days 16 , as Jim drove out to the store where he worked part time, he saw a man 17 away. Then his boss, Mr Green staggered（摇摇晃晃）out to Jim's 18 and fell down 19 it. He was injured（受伤）seriously by that time. Jim rushed him to the hospital just 20 to save his life.

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　　Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrases for greeting people, but as an American, I always found myself 1 to speak freely when it came to seeing guests off at the door. Just a good-bye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the 2 books. So I would smile and nod, bowing like a Japanese and searching madly for words that would 3 over the visitor's leaving and make them feel they would be 4 to come again. In my unease, I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husband's kindness.

　　Then finally, listening to others, I began to pick up the phrases that 5 relationships and sent people off not only successfully but also skillfully.

　　 6 for the Chinese includes a lot of necessary habitual practice. Although as a 7 , I'm not expected to observe or even know all the rules, I've had to learn the expressions of politeness and 8 at a leaving-taking.

　　The Chinese feel they 9 see a guest off to the farthest possible point--down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the 10 bus stop. I've sometimes waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off, 11 he's gone to the bus stop and waited for the 12 bus to arrive.

　　That's very well, but when I'm the guest being seen off, my protests are always 13 My hostess or host, or both, insists on 14 me down the stairs and well on my way, with my repeating the“Don't 15 to see me off at the every landing” . If I try to go fast to 16 them from following, they are simply out to the discomfort of having to run after me. Better to accept the inevitable（不可避免的）.

　　Besides, that's going against Chinese 17 ,because haste (doing things quickly) is to be avoided. What do you say when you 18 someone? Not“Farewell or Godspeed（祝福）” , 19 “Go slowly” .To the Chinese it means“Take care”or“Watch your 20 ”,or some such caution（谨慎）, but translated literally（字面意思）it means“Go slowly”.

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，选出最佳选项．

　　I have been interested in animals since before I could remember. When I was four years old, I stayed on a farm where I helped to ____1____ hens' eggs. I became ____2____, and asked those around me,“Where is the hole big enough for the eggs to come out?” When no one answered to my ____3____, I hid in a henhouse for some four hours to ____4_____. When my mother saw me rushing toward the house, she noticed my ____5_____. Instead of scolding me for disappearing for so long (the family had even ____6____the police!), she sat down and listened to me tell the wonderful story of how a hen ____7____ an egg. Then my childhood dream was as strong as ever：I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient ____8____.

　　I was ____9____ enough to meet the late（已故的）Louis Leakey, who gave me this ___10____ chance to find out about the wild chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the animal world. When I go back there, I see some ___11____ that I knew in the sixties, and one individual（个体）, her name is Fifi. She was a little baby when I arrived in ____12____ and she's about 43 years old now, she's the matriarch（女家长）of her community. When I look into her eyes, I think“this is my oldest chimpanzee friend, and she and I ____13____ memories that no other being in the world shares because they're not there any more.” And when I look into those eyes, I know I'm looking into the eyes of a thinking, feeling being. ____14____ I'll never know what she thinks about me. It's always a ____15____, there's always something to learn.

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　　My name's Jim Shelley and I'm an addict（有瘾的人）...”

　　With these words I began to __1__ the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people __2__, from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I __3__ to be phoned. I wanted to phone. Just one more call.

　　It started socially--a few calls each day. It seemed __4__, just a quick chat. Gradually though, the __5__ got worse, soon it was __6__ use, until, finally, addiction.

　　And it began to affect（影响）my __7__. During the day I would disappear for __8__ call. If I couldn't make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more __9__, in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else, __10__ myself just one more call.

　　I was phoning people and __11__ messages to make sure __12__ calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends, homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the __13__“Is it OK if I just use the phone...? At work, I became __14__ when my fellow workers tried to __15__ me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally the police caught me __16__ a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was __17__ to see a psychiatrist（心理医生）.

　　I haven't __18__ a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it's several days __19__ I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are __20__ people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.

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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，选出最佳选项。

　　Since mankind ___1___, people have looked to the stars, ___2___ them to be Gods. Some called them the“Wanderers”, and invested a complex mythology（神话）in them. Many ___3___ worshipped（敬神）them through song, praise, prayer（祈祷）. For thousands of years people thought the planets, moons and Sun ___4___ the Earth, and that the Earth was the ___5___ of the universe. When telescopes were ___6___ in the seventeenth century, people began to think that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, and that the planets did not revolve around the Earth, but ___7___ the Sun. This concept was called heliocentrism. People started ___8___ of the planets as worlds very much like our own, and not the mythological Gods people thought they were. People started to think that other civilizations（文明）___9___ on other planets which were too far to see. As ___10___ were improved, more planets were found. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There may even be other planets ___11___ Pluto, but only time will ___12___ the answer to that question.

　　Our solar system has 9 planets that orbit a big star called the Sun. (An orbit is the path that a planet moves through. )All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical （椭圆的）paths.

　　All the planets ___13___ different amounts of time to get all the way round the Sun. ___14___ takes a year to make one complete orbit. In fact, that's how we decided ___15___ a year should be--it's the length of time it takes us to get all the way around the Sun!

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　　As science developed rapidly in the direction of technology, it supplies man a better and more comfortable life. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours, while housewives will also be able to have more free time. Can you imagine doing housework without a housewife? Scientists believe this will __1__ into realities in not very long time, and perhaps during your life time house-robots will take __2__ of housewives.

　　When I __3__ this kind of machine with housewives, some 90 percent of them replied __4__,“__5__ can I buy one?”__6__ 10 percent said,“I would be terrified to see it __7__ about my house.”But when I realized that it is __8__ to them that it could be turned __9__ or stopped, they quickly realized that it is a __10__ object.

　　In my own __11__ we have found that the washing-up machine is regarded as a good __12__ in the room. There's no greater __13__ than to go to bed in the evening and __14__ that the washing-up is being done downstairs after we are __15__.

　　Some families would __16__ to have their robot slaves __17__ all the downstairs housework after they were in __18__ at night, while others would have it __19__ in the mornings. But this would be entirely a matter of __20__.

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　　How often one hears children wishing they were grownups. And old people wishing they were __1__ again. Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age __2__ him without wasting his time in useless __3__.

　　Childhood is a time then there are few responsibilities（责任）to make life __4__. If a child has good parents, he is __5__, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is __6__ that he will ever again in his life be __7__ so much without having to do anything in return. __8__, life is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their __9__ for older people because they are too __10__. But a child has his __11__, he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is __12__ being told not to do something, or being __13__ for what he has wrongly done.

　　When a young man __14__ to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to __15__ his food, his clothes, and his room, but has work if he wants to live __16__. If he spends most of his time playing about in the ways that he used to as a child, he will __17__ hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society __18__ he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, __19__, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of __20__ for himself his position in society.

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　　Have you ever wondered why we buy more things than we need when we go shopping? Even if we're not in the mood for shopping it __1__ that many of us waste money on unwanted purchase（所购物）. However, consumers __2__ to admit this and in general see themselves as being __3__ enough not to be influenced by advertising, retailers'（零售商) __4__ or even their own mood when shopping.

　　__5__ surveys（调查）which have been carried out, there's a strong __6__ between people's psychology（心理）and their purchases. In other words, if consumers feel __7__, they buy more. It seems retailers have realized this, so they play __8__ to create a more pleasant atmosphere. Apart from __9__, visual（视觉的）tricks are used as well. __10__ goods are placed on shelves where they can easily be __11__ by adults, while children's goods are displayed on __12__ shelves. Other ways of making people buy without __13__ that they are being influenced is the use of vivid __14__ to make products stand out or the smell of baking bread or fresh coffee flowing __15__ the store, which may attract the shoppers' appetite（食欲）.

　　Therefore, it isn't. __16__ to go shopping when you are hungry since you are more likely to __17__ products you don't really need in addition, don't carry __18__ money when out shopping because the more you have the more you __19__.

　　So are you a smart shopper or one that gets tricked into buying without realizing it? __20__ next time you go shopping!

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　　Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing something to make their neighbourhood a trouble-free area.

　　When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't __1__ drive to a store and back home. He always looks __2__ up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for any-thing __3__ such as strange cars, loud noises, __4__ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

　　Tim __5__ to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighbourhood watch group __6__ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's __7__ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community __8__. Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police __9__ their homes, streets and families safe.

　　Tina Stedman, president of __10__ neighbourhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime（犯罪）happens to other people but not __11__ them. Well, it's never happened to me, ”she said,“but I don't think anyone has the __12__ to steal from other people or to make them feel __13__ sitting in their own homes.”

　　Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbours __14__ out for one another.“We __15__ each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbourhood at night and on weekends. Usually a __16__ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the __17__. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for __18__, or someone destroying property（财产）, we report to the police.”

　　Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups __19__ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees,“Police are good people, but they can't do __20__.”