1. You may meet Americans who know very little about your country.
If this __ is __ the case,
As a __ result __ Americans
If Americans try to help you __ with __ something
in a very short time __ compared __ with many other countries------only about 300 years.
during most of this __300-year __ period.
2. has a great effect ___ C. on ___the "quality" of the product and on how well it sells，
Studies of eye movement have shown that colors draw human ___ D. attention ___ quickly.
And the word "green" today can keep food prices ___ B. going up ___.
That's __ A. why ___ the round yellow M signs of McDonald’s are inviting to both young and old
This new consumer response to the colors and shapes of packages reminds producers and sellers that people __ E. buy ___ to satisfy both body and soul.
3. But his eyes were not very __1___, and he did not get in.
But boats ___2__ very expensive, and Mike did not have much money.
But last summer Mike found a swimming club near ___3____ house.
How do you learn to swim__4___?"
Then I'm very _5____, and I swim quickly."
1. E. good 2. C. were 3. D. his 4. A. so fast 5. B.afraid
4. taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know ___1___ to do
and fell ___2____ the road.
The sack was ___3___ heavy for him to carry,
It was not long ____4___ a rider appeared,
The farmer would have dared to ask ___5___ farmer for help
1. B. what 2. D. onto 3. C. too 4. E. before 5. A. another
5. At that time, zoos were places 1 people could go to see animals
The animals lived in cages that were made 2 concrete with iron bars
3 the zoo keepers took good care of the animals and fed them well
The animals are given more ____4___ in large areas
and streams of water flow _____5 the areas that animals live in.
1. C. where ; 2. A. of ; 3. B. Although ; 4. E. freedom; 5. D. over
6. But now he ___1___ in the UK.
He lives and ___2___ with Mr. and Mrs. Green in London.
Lunch is at one ___3___. Mr. and Mrs.
He thinks they’re ___4___.
After that, he’d like some fruit. ___5___ Mr. and Mrs. Green usually have afternoon tea.
1. B. is ； 2. A. eats ； 3. D. o’clock；4. E. she’d ； 5. C. But
7.Water is very important to living things. Without water there can be___1____life on earth. All animals and plants need water. Man needs water, too. We need water to drink, to cook our food and to clean _____2____
Water is found almost everywhere. Even in the driest part of the world there is some water in the air. You can not see it ____3____ feel it when it is part of the air. The water in seas, rivers is a liquid. The water in the air is not a liquid _____4___ a gas.
Clouds are made of water. They may ___5____made of very small drops of water. Water, you have found, is very useful, so we must save water.
1. E. no；2. A. ourselves ；3. B. or；4. D. but；5. C. be
8.Fire can help people in many ways. Fire can heat water, 1 your house, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things too. Nobody knows how people began to use fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very long time ago. He 2 the sun by a rope and brought fire down.
Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very 3 .
Fire kills people every year. So you must be careful about matches. You should also learn to 4 fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or a blanket. This keeps the air 5 a fire and kills it.
Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it might hurt you.
1. B. warm ；2. C. went up to ;3. A. dangerous;4. D. put out;5. E. from
9.For the first time in our marriage, I had decided to spend my holiday alone, without my wife. We had not 1 . My common sense told me that all habits ---- even good ones ---- should be broken from time to time. Doing everything together with my wife had become very much of a habit with me. So I had gone off to Italy 2 my own to spend three weeks at a hotel at the seaside. I had hoped it would be nice and warm. But actually it was 35 in the shade, hot enough to roast an ox. I walked about in shorts, my bald head 3 with a handkerchief, sweating and thirsty. And all the time I had to think of my wife, who had gone to the mountains of North Wales and was doubtless 4 herself very much. Why had I, with my sensitive English skin, gone to Italy of all places? At night, I was kept awake by two bands 5 like mad in the bar downstairs.
1. D. quarreled;2. A. on ;3. E. covered;4. C. enjoying ;5. B. playing
10.Nowadays most people decide quite early what kind of work they would do. When I was at school, we had to choose 1 when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. " In the future, scientists will earn a lot of money," my parents said. For three years I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the end I decided that I would never be a scientist. It was a long time 2 I told my parents that I wasn't happy at school. So my father said, "Well, the best thing to do now is to look for a job."
I talked about it with my friends Frank and Lesley. 3 of them could suggest anything, but they promised that they would ask their friends. A few days later while I was still in bed, someone phoned, "Is that Miss Jenkins?" a man's voice asked. "I know your hobby is photography and I've got a job that might interest you in my clothes factory. My name is Mr. Thomson." I decided to see him. I was so excited that I almost forgot 4 goodbye to my mother.
I arrived a bit early and when Mr. Thomson came he asked me if I had been waiting a long time. I replied,"No, not long." After talking to me for about 20 minutes he offered me a job - not as a photographer 5 a model!
1. C. what to study;2. A. before ;3. E. Neither;4. B. to say ;5. D. but
11.Human language is a system of symbols. No other animal has a complex symbolic language that must be learned. Animal language is largely instinctive, 1 basic human language is learned speech, composed of sounds that symbolize things, ideas, actions, and the like.
We learn to read, often with considerable effort, by noticing or 2 taught that groups of letters stand for the sounds that we already know how to speak. We learn to write, with even greater effort, by learning to form the letters, 3 are symbols of sounds, and to put them together on paper so that others can read what we "say".
Since human language is a form of human behavior, 4 is nothing absolute about it. It has developed lowly throughout human history and will continue to develop. In the English language there are perhaps 600,000 5 , Possibly more, but most of them are known only to specialists and are rarely used.
1. D. while;2. A. being;3. B. which ;4. C. there ;5. E. sounds
12.A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real effort, because he feels that it would be useless. He won't go at a job with the confidence necessary for success. He is therefore
1 to fail, and the failure will strengthen his belief in his incompetence.
Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had an experience 2 illustrates this. When he was a small boy he was poor at arithmetic. His teacher got the idea that he had no ability in arithmetic, and told his parents what she thought in order that they would not expect 3 much of him. In this way, they too developed the idea, "Isn't it too bad that Alfred can't do arithmetic?" He accepted their mistaken estimate of his ability, felt that it was useless to try, and was very poor at arithmetic, just as they expected.
One day Adler succeeded in solving a problem which 4 of the other students had been able to solve. This gave him confidence. He rejected the idea that he couldn't do arithmetic and was determined to show them that he could. His new 5 confidence stimulated him to go at arithmetic problems with a new spirit. He now worked with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became extraordinarily good at arithmetic.
1. C. likely ;2. E. which;3. D. too ;4. B. none ;5. A. found
13.Many Chinese students don't pay much attention to spoken English at school. They think it necessary to practice speaking English in class. Here is a story to show you how important it is to speak the English language 1 in everyday life.
A foreigner once got hungry and went into a restaurant in London. He sat down at a table.
When the waiter came, he opened his mouth, put his fingers 2 it and took them out again in order to express that he wanted something to eat for he could not speak English.
The waiter soon brought a cup of tea. The man shook his head. The waiter then took away the tea and brought a cup of coffee. The man again shook his head. The man tried again and again, but he wasn't able to make 3 understood. Finally another man came in. He spoke English clearly and fluently. In a few minutes, there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table ___4___ him.
So you see a man often goes hungry if he doesn't 5 a foreign language.
1. B. freely;2. A. into;3. D. himself;4. C. before ;5. E. master
14.Glasses protect people’s yes from bright light. Microscopes make tiny things larger __1__ we can examine them. Telescopes make objects that are far away appear __2__ closer to us. However in recent years plastics have replaced glass __3__ conditions where glass might be easily broken, there are new uses Being developed for glass that were never imagined in the __4__. Perhaps the greatest __5__ of glass is that its constituent parts are inexpensive and can be found all over the world.
1. B. so that ;2. A. much;3. E. under;4. D. past ;5. C. advantage
15.William J.Sidis, was born in 1898. His father was an American psychiatrist. At the age of six months, William __1__ the English alphabet: he could read and write when he was two. When he was eight years old, young Sidis had completed both elementary and high school. At the age of nine, William entered Havard University.
As a __2__ at Harvard, Sidis displayed phenomenal knowledge in the field of mathematics, often amazing his professors. He graduated with honors __3__ the age of 16 and became a full professor of mathematics at the university at 19.
The story of William J. Sidis unfortunately, does not end happily. The promise in his early years was never fulfilled. At the age of 26, he was __4__ operating an adding machine in a store in New York.
This brilliant ex-genius died a lonely death in 1943 in a hotel room __5__ New York.
1. E. knew;2. D. student;3. A. at;4. B. found ;5. C. in
16.Mr Brown and his wife had a small bar(酒吧) near a railway station. The bar didn’t close until midnight because people came to drink while they were __1__ for trains. So the business was good.
At two o’clock one morning, a man was __2__ sitting at the table in the bar. He was sleeping Mr Brown’s young wife wanted to go to bed. She looked __3__ the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her husband and said to hime, “ You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn’t drinking __4__. Why haven’t you sent him away? It’s too late .”
“Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away,” he answered __5_ a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.”
1. B. waiting ；2. D. still；3. E. around；4. A. anything；5. C. with
17.Everyone has hobbies. A hobby __1__ be almost anything a person likes to do in his spare time. People who take up hobbies are hobbyists. They paint pictures, sing pop songs, play music instruments and __2__ stamps or other things. They grow flowers, go fishing and hunting. They climb mountains, swim, skate and play games.
People today have __3__ time than ever for hobbies. In early times, people were too busy making a living to have hobbies. Nowadays machines have taken the __4__ of many workers. More people retire at an earlier age. They have hobbies because these activities offer them enjoyment, __5__, knowledge, and relaxation.
1. C. can ；2. D. collect；3. B. more ；4. E. place；5. A. friendship
18.There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so __1__.
The mother decided that she would herself have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a book a week and do a book report for her.
One day, in Ben’s __2__, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him __3__. “Why did Ben put up his hand?” his classmates wondered. “He never said anything. What could he possibly want to say?”
Well, Ben not only __4__ the rock, but also said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew where the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were surprised. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book reports.
Ben later went on to the __5__ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
1. B. slow；2. C. class ；3. D. answer；4. E. knew；5. A. top
19.A little boy wanted to meet God, so he started his trip with some cakes and orange juice. On his way he saw an old woman __1__ in the park. The boy sat down next to her. The old lady looked hungry, so he offered her a cake. She accepted it thankfully and smiled at him. Her smile was __2__ pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he gave her a bottle of orange juice. Once again she smiled at him. The boy was very happy! They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never say a word. As it grew dark, the boy got up to leave. __3__ he left, he gave her a kiss. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy got home, his mother saw the look of joy on his face. She asked him, “__4__ made you so happy?” He replied, “ I had lunch with God. She’s got the most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen!” The old woman also returned to her home __5__. Her son asked, “Mother, why are you so happy?” She answered, “I ate cakes in the park with God. You know, he’s much younger than I expected.
1. C. sitting ；2. A. so；3. E. Before；4. B. What；5. D. happily
20.Helen was a very pretty girl, and her parents were quite proud of her. A lot of young men in the town wanted to marry her, but she was not satisfied __1__ any of them.
One evening, one of the handsomest of the young men who wanted to marry Helen came to visit her in her parents’ house and asked her to become his wife. She answered, “No, Tom. I __2__ marry you. I want to marry a man who is famous, who can __3__ music, sing and dance very well, who can tell really interesting stories, who doesn’t smoke or drink, who stays at home in the evenings and who stops __4__ when I am tired of listening.”
The young man got up, took his coat and went to the dorr. But before he __5__ the house, he turned and said to Helen, “It isn’t a man you are looking for. It’s television set.”
1. B. with ；2. A. won’t；3. D. play ；4. E. talking；5. C. left
21.In the eighteenth century, cities became larger and larger. People moved from the countryside and small towns to the 1 because there was more work for them to do in the cities.
On Sundays and holidays, they liked to leave the cities and have a good time in the countryside. But not every 2 had a horse or a wagon（四轮马车）. People needed a simpler means of transportation. Inventors in many countries tried to solve this problem.
The first bicycle, which was very simple, 3 in 1790. People called "the horse on wheel". Then in 1861, after many improvements being made, the bicycle became a practical means of transportation.
People liked bikes because they weren't as difficult as ___4___ and didn't need to be fed. They could go anywhere and were easy to 5 .
1. B. cities ；2. C. people ；3. A. appeared ；4. D. horses ；5. E. ride
22.Thomas Edison wore many caps during his life, __1__ thinking caps, the caps of many famous schools and colleges. But the most important cap was his thinking cap. It had saved his mother’s __3__. One day when he was a boy, his mother fell ill. The doctor wanted __2__ her an operation. But the light in the room was not bright. Edison quickly put on his thinking cap and he found a way to save his mother. Edison was good at __4__ his hands and his head. He was the most interesed in electricity. We can see his inventions everywhere because they are very common. They were __5__ by Edison’s thinking cap.
1. C. such as ；2. D. life；3. B. to give；4. E. using；5. A. invented
23.American people divide their days into several blocks of time, and plan different activities 1 different times.
American time is "on the dot"(准确地). If something is supposed to happen at Eight o'clock, it will begin at eight. Americans value promptness(准时)and may become angry if a person is more than 15 minutes late 2 a good reason. If you know you are going to be late, call in advance and let someone know. 3 you arrive late, you should apologize and explain why. Americans arrive 4 time for doctors' appointments. The doctor may keep you 5 , but if you keep the doctor waiting, you may get a bill with the doctor's time!
美国人把他们的时间分成几大块，然后不同的时间段安排不同的事情。
如果某事安排在八点 it will begin at eight.那就会在八点开始。美国人很看重准时，如果有人没有什么很好的理由迟到15分钟，大家都会很生气，如果知道你会迟到，一定要提前电话告知.如果迟到了，你应该道歉并解释原因. 美国人很准时按预约的时间去看病，医生可能让你等一会儿，但是如果你让医生等你，你可能要为医生等候的时间买单！
1. A. for ；2. E. without；3. D. if ；4. C. on ；5. B. waiting
24.This is my timetable. I study at No.3 Middle School of Dongfang. From Monday to Friday I get up ___1___ 6:30 a.m. I have ___2___ at 7:00 and then I go to school. I don't like to be late. Our classes ___3___ at 8:30 a.m. We have four classes in the morning. I often have lunch at school with my classmates.
In the afternoon, we have two classes. Classes are over at 3:30, and I get home at 4:00. But sometimes I don't ___4___ school so early because I play basketball on the playground. I have supper at about 6:00. After supper I do my homework. I often watch TV, but sometimes I ___5___ to do some reading and the story books are very interesting. I usually go to bed at about 10:00 p.m.
这是我的课表，我在东方三中上学。周一到周五我早上6；30起床，我7；00吃早餐，然后上学。我不想迟到。8;30开始上课我上午有四节课。 我通常跟同学们一起在学校吃午餐
下午有两节课，3；30放学，我4；00回家。有时候我不那么早就离开学校，因为我还要在操场打篮球，6；00吃晚餐，晚餐后我做作业，我经常看电视，但有时我喜欢看看书，那些故事书很有趣。 我一般10；00 上床睡觉。
1. B. at；2. D. breakfast ；3. E. start；4. A. leave ；5. C. like
25.Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four parts, ___1___ a part. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
Your ship goes into ___2___ time part every day if you make a five-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time ___3___ one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you let it ahead. Each day of your journey has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___4___ the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day ___5___. When you go across the line, you change your calendar one full day, back or ahead.
在你旅行的时候有一些奇怪的事发生，因为地球被分成24个部分，每个部分一小时。你可能过上多于或少于24小时的一天，多于或少于七天的一周。 如果你坐船在大西洋航行5天，你每天都经过一个不同的时区。你每经过一个时区，时间就 变化一小时，向西航行，你把时钟调后，向东航行，你把时间调前。每天有25小时或者23小时。 如果你坐船穿过太平洋，你就可以跨过国际日期变更线 ， 这就是一天的开始你就要把日期调前或调后一天。
1. B. one hour ；2. A. a different ；3. D. changes ；4. C. cross ；5. E. begins
26.Many people would agree that stress is a major problem in modern life. It is certainly true that worry and quarrel can cause all kinds of illnesses, 1 backache to severe headaches, or even more serious complaints such as high blood pressure.
Many of us think 2 stress as something that other people impose on us. We often complain about how other people put us 3 pressure. But we should try not to let such pressure affect us. We should not forget that we are largely responsible for some of the stress ourselves. We sometimes take 4 more work than our bodies and our minds can handle. We should learn to 5 our limitations. We should be aware of which things are really important and which are not. 很多人会认为大街是城市生活的一个问题，毫无疑问,担心争吵会导致很多疾病，从背疼到严重的头疼。甚至还有更严重的病，比如高血压。 很多人认为是别人强加我们的。我们常常抱怨，别人怎么给我们施加压力我们应该不要让这些压力影响我们，不要忘记，是我们自己该为大部分的压力负责。我们有时多做了了我们的身体和大脑不能承受的工作，我们要学会接受我们的极限，我们要知道哪些事情是重要的，哪些不是重要的。
1. D. from ；2. A. of ；3. B. under；4. E. on；5. C. accept
27.Traffic accidents killed more than 104,000 people in China last year. Chinese cities have more cars than before. Every day many people are ___1___ while they cross the road. Most of ___2___ are old people and children. Old people are often killed because they usually can't see clearly or hear very well. ___3___ are killed because they are careless.
A car, truck or bus can't stop very quickly if it is going very fast. The faster a car is traveling, the longer it takes to stop. But people walking in the street do not always understand this. It's ___4___ for people to know how fast a car is traveling.
The new traffic laws were put into use ___5___ May 1st, 2004. The new traffic laws will make the streets safer for walking and driving.
1. A. killed；2. E. them；3. C. children ；4. D. difficult；5. B. on
28.Mr. Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often borrows some books from the library. He keeps ___1___ to the radio every morning and reading newspapers after supper. So he knows much and teaches well. His students worship（崇拜）him very much.
Mike, Mr. Clarke's little son, is only nine. He ___2___ likes reading books. And he often asks his father some qusetions. Mr. Clarke always thinks he's too ___3___ to understand him and chooses the easiest ones to answer. Of course the boy is not pleased with that.
One day Mike read ___4___ about the lights and was interested in it. When his father told him to do some housework, he went on thinking of it. He asked him ___5___ questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, "Fathers always know more than sons!"
The boy thought for a while and said, "I don't think so!"
1. B. listening；2. C. also ；3. D. young；4. E. something；5. A. a few
29.Man can not go on increasing his number at the present rate. In the __1__ 30 years man will face a period of crisis. __2__ experts believe that there will be a widespread food shortage. Other experts think this is too pessimistic, and that man can prevent things from getting worse than they are now. But remember that two thirds of the people in the world are under-nourished（有营养的）or starving now.
One thing that man can do is to limit the __3__ of babies born. The need __4__ this is obvious, but it is not __5__ to achieve. People have to be persuaded to limit their families.
1. E. next；2. C. Some ;3. D. number;4. A. for ;5. B. easy
30.Do you know the story about the fox and the grapes? A fox is ___1___ food. He is very hungry. Now, he stands near a wall. The wall is very ___2___.
The fox is looking up. He sees a lot of fine grapes __3___ the wall. He smiles and says, "How nice they are! I want to eat them."
The fox jumps and jumps, but the wall is too high. He ___4___ get the grapes.
The fox says, "I must go now. I don't like those grapes. They are green. They are not ___5___ to eat."
1. A. looking for ；2. D. high；3. C. on；4. E. can't；5. B. good
31.It seems quite clearly unjust to pay two people different amounts of money for doing the same work. But it is not as easy as it appeals at first __1__ to introduce equal pay for equal work.
Two people may be working side by side in a factory and doing the same work, but one may be doing it twice as fast as the __2__; or one may be making no mistakes, while the other is making a lot. In some kinds of work, one can solve the problem of speed if one pays by the amount of work to be done and not by the hour: work paid for in this __3__ is called piece-work. But it is not always possible to do this, so it is sometimes useful to pay workers at different rates, which take differences in skill into __4__. This usually means that the younger and therefore less experienced worker gets less than the __5__ and more experienced one, which seems reasonable enough.
1. B. sight ；2. A. other ；3. D. way ；4. E. account；5. C. older
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