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　　Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She couldn't walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs, she was soon out of____1____.

　　“I____2____I had better go to the doctor,”she thought.

　　She went to the doctor and told him her____3____.

　　“I'm not at all____4____,”he said.“It is clear what your problem is.”

　　He examined her and then gave her some____5____. “If you don't do what I say, Mrs. Parker,”he said,“____6____you will have a heart attack. It could ____7____you.”

　　Ellen was very worried as she left the doctor's.

　　She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be____8____and that it would____9____time.

　　The____10____day she went shopping. The first shop she went into was a____11____shop.

　　“I'd like ten pounds of steak, please,”she said.

　　“____12____, madam,”the butcher replied and went into the cold storage room and____13____a large piece of steak.

　　He brought the huge piece of meat____14____into the shop and placed it on the scale（秤）.

　　“That's____15____under ten pounds,”he said.

　　The butcher worked out the____16____.

　　“____17____$ 4.99 a pound that will be $ 45.5, please.____18____I cut it up into small piece for you?”

　　“Oh, I don't want to buy the meat,” Mrs. Parker said.

　　“if you don't want to buy it,”the butcher____19____,“why did you ask me to get it for you?”

　　“I just want to see____20____ 10 pounds of meat looked like.”

For most of the day construction worker Sidney Smith and his brother – in – law Joseph Chambers had been   21  along the banks of Lake Waco with little   22 . Chambers suggested they go home, but Smith　33　　that there were still several hours of daylight　24　　and there was one other place they might try a bit longer before 　25　.

Smith drove his pickup（小货车）a couple of miles along the　26　road to get to the other side of the lake. This road, in the truest sense, was a path wagging in the heavy　27　area. Even with the sun still high in the cloudless sky, the　28　of trees formed a leafy　29　over the road and it suddenly seemed 　30　in the evening.

“A guy could get lost and nobody would ever find him,” said Chambers.

Smith smiled, “We’re　31　there.” He said. A few seconds later, the smile was 　32　　from his face.

“What the hell is that?”

　　He braked to a stop. Less than twenty feet away was what appeared to be a  33 .

　　For several minutes the two men sat in the pickup　34　to decide whether they had happened to　35　someone’s bad practical joke or something far more serious. Smith with his brother-in-law got out of the pickup and 　36　walked towards that thing some distance before them.

It was a young man who was already dead. They had got to tell　37　. Back into the pickup, Smith backed the pickup down the road　38　he could turn around, then　39　back. With the dead young man still on his mind, Smith felt as if he was going to be sick. God, how he　40　　they had given up fishing and gone home early.

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Miss Gorgers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”

Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That’s very good,” Miss Gorgers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gorgers said, “Yes? Kate.”

“I disagree. Your brother would hear you earlier because when it’s 11 o’clock here and it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.” Kate said.

1. Miss Gorgers was teaching her class ______.

A. how to telephone         B. about electricity

C. about time zone           D. about sound　

2. Miss Gorgers raised this question because she wanted to know whether ______.

A. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles

B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away

C. her students had understood her lesson

D. sound waves were slower than electricity

3. Kate thought Tom was wrong because ______.

A. clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York

B. electricity was slower than sound waves

C. Tom was not good at physics at all

D. Tom’s answer had nothing to do with sound waves

4. Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?

A. Tom’s. 　　                  B. Kate’s.          C. Both A and B. 　　          D. Neither A nor B.