There is _____ rain in summer in the south this year.

　 A. many 　        B. plenty of

　 C. a great many 　 D. a great number of

_____ people who buy IBM PC686 is larger than ever before.　 A. A lot of 　      B. A number of

C. A great many 　 D. The number of

With all the tasks finished ahead of time, she felt a great weight 　　　 her mind.

A．picked up         B．ended up          C．taken off          D．put down

　　There was once an honest boy in a mountain village. He was very fond of (1) ,but his family was too (2) to buy him any books .In a village far away ,there lived a rich man (3) had a library in which he kept all kinds of books .This man liked (4) friends with honest children. When he (5) this ,the boy went a long way to see him and asked the rich man to (6) him some books. The man said to the boy ,”You can (7) any books you want if only you keep them (8) and return them in time”

　　For many years the boy (9) finished reading the books in a given time and was never late in returning them .In this way the boy read a lot of books and when he grew up he (10) a great scientist.

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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
On the day before the bass（鲈鱼）season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.
　　When his pole  1 he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with    2  as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.  3 , he very cautiously lifted the   4  fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen,   5  it was a bass.
　　The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish, gills（鱼鳃）playing back and forth in the moonlight. The father  6 a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.——two hours    7  the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.
　　“Dad！”  8  the boy.
　　“There will be other fish,” said his father.
　　“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy again.
　　He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere    9  in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.  10  no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could  11 from his father’s voice that the decision was not changed. He slowly  12  the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the   13  water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.
　　That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was   14 . He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he caught that night long ago. But he does see that same fish—— again and again——every time he   15  a question of ethics(道德).
For his father taught him, ethics are simple 16 of right and wrong. It is only the  17  of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking？We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the   18 . The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our   19 . It is a   20  we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren.