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.

巩固强化二十三篇
语法填空（每篇共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请根据上下文填入适当的词语，
或使用括号中的词语的适当形式完成语法填空，并将答案填写在相应的位置上。
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.

When you are in England you must be very careful in the streets __1._____ the traffic drives on the left. Before you cross a street you must look to the right first __2._____ then the left. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from _3.______, the streets are very busy. Traffic is most __4._______ (danger) then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, __5.______. Always remember that the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. __6._______ (have) a look first, or else you will go __7.___________ wrong way.
In many English cities, there are big buses __8.__________ two floors. You can sit on the __9.________ (two) floor, from __10._______ you can see the city very well. It’s very interesting.

More than 7 million tickets will go on sale for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which is more than the number of tickets   1             (sell) in the 2004 Athens Games, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 29th Olympiad (BOCOG) said on Friday.
Of the tickets, about 4.9 million,  2            70 per cent will be sold within China and the rest 30 per cent will be sold abroad.
“Since we have more   3               (seat) than Athens, we can sell     4                tickets,” said Rong Jun, an   5              (office) from the BOCOG Marketing Department.
It  6         (report) that Athens offered 5.3 million tickets  7       the 2004 Olympics.
“The  8             (open) ceremony will be held in the National Stadium, 9               is able to seat 91,000 people. Since  10              large number of seats will be taken by broadcasters and the media, there will be only about 60,000 for ordinary audience.”

Without proper __1________(plan), tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places __2_________ are also enjoyed by the inhabitants(居民) of a country. If tourism creates too much traffic, the inhabitants will become __3________ (annoy) and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists __4_______ to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. __5_________ is important to think about the people of a destination country and ___6________ tourism affects them. Tourism should help __7________ country keep the customs and beauty that attracts tourists. Tourism should also advance the wealth and ___8_______ (happy) of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism __9_________ (grow) too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work __10________ the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.

五、单词拼写及完成句子（共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）
73. All of my friends like eating             (在户外) in summer.
74. He soon ___________ （恢复）his health after he came to the south.
75. He looks old, but a            he is only twenty years old.
76. Tom tried to p           his father to give up smoking, but he failed.
77. As is known to all, the news from CCTV is the most            (可信赖的).
78. The old man’s leg was i           in the traffic accident.
79. When the old man was in danger, the policeman came to r          her.
80. Give Mary my             (祝贺) and tell her I’ll come soon.
81. An earthquake left the whole city in____________(废墟).
82. The People’s Republic of China was f __________on October 1st,1949.
83. Mandela offered guidance to poor blacks on their (法律的) ________problems.
84. The young man was s           to death for killing the president.
85. When she heard the sad story , she b__________ into tears
86.. She had changed so much that I could hardly r___________ her when she came into my office.
87现在，他们非常关心他的健康状况。
They _____very ______  ______ his health now.
88.那时，我总是对她说我愿意帮忙。
Then I told her I ______  _______  ______ help.
89似乎没有人懂这个，所以我只好向王教授求助。
Nobody seems to understand ,so I have to _____ _____ Professor Wang for help.
90.雷磊总是致力于帮助他人。
Lei Lei always _________ his life ________ helping others.
91.昨晚我梦想在这儿见到你。
I _______  ________  ________ you here last night.
92.那一天恶劣的天气增加了我们的困难。
The bad weather ________  ________ our difficulty that day.