Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn
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Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn’t find enough players for two full teams or an empty lot big enough for a field. And when he played ball in his back yard, he just broke windows and got into trouble. So Davey began playing with a plastic golf ball and a broom handle for a bat.
When his dad, David Mullaney, a former semi-pro baseball pitcher(投手), realized his son was hurting his arm trying to throw curves with the little plastic ball, he decided to find a better solution. Mullaney got a bunch of hollow plastic spheres from a local factory, sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife. He thought maybe the holes would alter the ball’s flight and help his son throw curves and sliders without hurting his arm.
All the balls failed—except the one with the eight oblong(长椭圆形的) holes cut into one of the hemispheres. This ball curved naturally and sharply without a violent snap of the wrist. In fact, Davey was now striking out so many batters; he called his new ball a “wiffle ball”. A year later, Mullaney borrowed $20,000 from family and friends and started producing Wiffle Balls in his little suburban town of Shelton, Connecticut.
“I didn’t want investors.” He said, “I wanted to control my own company.” This was the beginning of one of the hottest fads(时尚) of the fifties and a perennial(长久的) best seller well known all around the world. Since then millions of boys and girls have enjoyed countless hours of safe, wholesome fun playing with a Wiffle ball and bat. Esquire Magazine has even called the Wiffle Ball “a national treasure”. By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business.
Over the years, they’ve had plenty of offers to buy them out, but they’re still working out of a small factory in Shelton, making a new Wiffle Ball every couple of seconds. Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth. If he gave up his attempts at trying new things, Mullany would not have invented the wiffle ball, nor would he have made such a big fortune.
小题1:From the passage we can know that . | A．Mullaney made the invention of Wiffle ball with the help of his son | | B．fifty years ago people didn’t like playing baseball very much | | C．Mullaney’s attempts to help Davey better enjoy ball-playing led to the invention of Wiffle ball | | D．playing balls would hurt one’s arm before the Wiffle ball’s appearance |
小题2:All the following are true EXCEPT .| A．Davey was a good ballplayer after the Wiffle ball came into existence | | B．David Mullaney wanted to run the family business on his own | | C．Mullaney’s family made a big fortune through the production of Wiffle balls | | D．Mullaney’s business was nearly bought out but they worked hard to keep it |
小题3:The underlined word “spheres” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .| A．balls | B．bottles | C．bags | D．boxes |
小题4:The two important factors for Mullaney’s successful family business are .| A．time and fortune | B．persistence and creativity | | C．quality and fame | D．cooperation and efforts |
小题5:The passage mainly tells us something about . | A．Davey, a famous baseball player | B．a popular ball game in the 1950’s | | C．the birth of Wiffle ball | D．the success of a family business |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C |
解析
试题分析：文章介绍Mullaney为了让孩子更好的享受打球发明洞洞球，并创办了自己的家族产业，生意越做越大，洞洞球深受年轻人喜爱，他们也挣了一大笔钱。
小题1:推理题：从第二段和第三段的描述，可知Mullaney为了让孩子更好的享受打球导致洞洞球的发明，选C
小题2:细节题：从第四段的句子：By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business. 可知Mullaney家族的生意非常成功，选D。
小题3:猜词题：从第二段的句子：sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife.可知spheres 是“balls”，选A
小题4:细节题：从最后一段的句子：Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth.可知Mullaney成功的家族生意是因为坚持和创造力，选B
小题5:主旨题：从全篇文章：可知这篇文章讲的是洞洞球是怎么发明的，选 C |
举一反三
Tess was a precocious(早熟) eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad taling about her little brother,Andrew.____ __she knw was that he was very sick and they were completely _____money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the doctor’s bills and their house .Only a(n) _____could save him now.
Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly(果冻) jar from its hiding place. She poured all the out on the floor and counted carefully. Three times,even.The total had to be absolutely exact. No here for mistakes. After carefully placing the coins back in the jar, she slipped out of the back door, and her way six blocks to a chemist’s.
She waited patiently for the pharmacist (药剂师) to give her some ,but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a noise. Nothing. She cleared her with the most awful sound she could muster. No good.
Finally the pharmacist asked in an tone of voice, “What do you want? I’m talking to my brother from Chicago I haven’t seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question.
“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,” Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. “His name is Andrew and he has something bad inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry, I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said, his voice a little.
There was a man there whose clothes were admirable. He asked the little girl, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”
“I don’t know” Tess replied with tears in her eyes. “I just know he"s sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t pay it, so I want to use my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man. “One dollar and eleven cents,” Tess answered.
“A dollar and eleven cents ― the price of a miracle for your little brother,” smiled the man, “Take me to you live. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neurosurgery (神经外科). The operation was completely charge and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again and did well.
Mom and Dad were happy but they wonder how much the operation would have . Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost…one dollar and eleven cents…plus the of a little child.
| 小题1: | | A．As | B．All | C．All what | D．That |
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| 小题2: | | A．in need | B．in short | C．out of | D．sort of |
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| 小题3: | | A．miracle | B．doctor | C．God | D．operation |
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| 小题4: | | A．change | B．jellies | C．candies | D．cookies |
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| 小题5: | | A．way | B．doubt | C．chance | D．wonder |
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| 小题6: | | A．drove | B．fought | C．made | D．struggled |
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| 小题7: | | A．pills | B．attention | C．medicine | D．tablets |
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| 小题8: | | A．mouth | B．eyes | C．ears | D．throat |
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| 小题9: | | A．anxious | B．exciting | C．annoyed | D．tired |
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| 小题10: | | A．who | B．where | C．because | D．which |
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| 小题11: | | A．finding | B．planting | C．showing | D．growing |
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| 小题13: | | A．soft | B．soften | C．softened | D．softening |
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| 小题14: | | A．really | B．real | C．firm | D．firmly |
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| 小题16: | | A．actual | B．exact | C．average | D．true |
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| 小题17: | | A．the place | B．the apartment | C．the complex | D．where |
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| 小题18: | | A．free | B．free of | C．not | D．no |
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| 小题19: | | A．spent | B．paid | C．cost | D．took |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．value | C．patience | D．faith |
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Twelve years ago, when I was 50,I wondered what 60 or 70 would be like? I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not fair, I thought. Young people have so many styles to choose from, but older people have just one choice. So I decide to do something about it , something practical.
I worked on my fitness by joining exercise classes in town. A few years later, my husband and I moved to a retirement community, and I wanted to teach aerobic（有氧运动的）classes. The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around and find any available empty room.
One day, the community center staff came to me and asked if I would help with the entertainment for a Hawaiian luau（夏威夷式宴会）they were putting on. I said yes. Then I talked five other ladies into dancing with me. We performed the hula（呼啦舞）and a war chant and brought the house down. Someone had a camera and took pictures, and then sent them to our local paper. We got requests for more engagements, which in turn led to more publicity and yet more engagements. Soon we had invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!
I think the real secret of the Dancing Grannies is out attitude. I was raised extremely poor ---no-food poor. If we wanted toys we had to make things up to play with ,so I learned early to be very creative. And you know,I think being poor was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasures.
That’s what I’m still doing today—looking for the treasure in growing old. I’m getting better and better.
It’s true that antiques have to be treated a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.
小题1:What did the writer think of the living style of the older people when she was 50?| A．Unsatisfying | B．Favorable | C．Pleasant | D．Practical |
小题2:Why did the writer have to walk around and find an empty room? | A．Because she couldn’t offer an expensive room. | | B．Because she wasn’t given a room to teach in by the community center. | | C．Because she wanted to find a better one. | | D．Because she wanted to keep fit by walking. |
小题3:What can we infer from the writer’s performance? | A．It was just so-so. | B．It was a failure. | | C．It was average. | D．It was a success. |
小题4:What made the writer learn to look for treasures?| A．Being active | B．Being creative | | C．Being rich | D．Being poor |
小题5:What does the underlined word “antiques” (in the last paragraph) refer to? | A．Ancient treasures | B．Poor children | | C．Old people | D．The Dancing Grannies |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入
对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
| 小题1: | | A．job | B．project | C．observation | D．course |
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| 小题2: | | A．checked | B．noticed | C．watched | D．waited |
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| 小题4: | | A．scenes | B．senses | C．marks | D．signs |
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| 小题5: | | A．nobody | B．somebody | C．everyone | D．anyone |
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| 小题6: | | A．curiosity | B．suspect | C．sympathy | D．worry |
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| 小题8: | | A．insert | B．interrupt | C．talk | D．request |
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| 小题9: | | A．taught | B．shown | C．forced | D．instructed |
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| 小题10: | | A．added | B．wrote | C．made | D．folded |
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| 小题12: | | A．back | B．bottom | C．top | D．edge |
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| 小题13: | | A．drop | B．raise | C．fall | D．lift |
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| 小题14: | | A．keep | B．thank | C．forgive | D．honor |
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| 小题15: | | A．remembered | B．punished | C．removed | D．replaced |
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| 小题16: | | A．silence | B．heart | C．peace | D．memory |
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| 小题18: | | A．birth | B．passing | C．loss | D．starting |
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| 小题19: | | A．awoke | B．reminded | C．forgot | D．apologized |
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| 小题20: | | A．simply | B．hardly | C．seriously | D．angrily |
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My 9-year-old daughterAnd I were flying from our home in Carolina to spendA week with my husband in Florida.We were__ _About the trip because we hadn"t seen him for five months,And __ her Dad terribly.
As usual on the Charlotte-to-Miami flight, the plane was totally__ . Because we did not get our boarding passes until we__ At the gate, KallieAnd I could not get seats togetherAnd were __ by theAisle（过道）. IAsked two passengers in my row if they would switch places with KallieAnd me, __ we could be together. They __ , saying they thought they should stay in theirAssigned seats.
Meanwhile,A motherAnd her three children were inA _ several rowsAhead of us. There had beenA mistake in their boarding passes,And _ the whole family had been split up. The passengers in her row_ refused to move elsewhere. She was very__ About the younger boy sitting with strangers. She was in tears, yet nobody__ to help her.
There wereA troop of Boy Scouts(童子军) on __ . Suddenly the Scout leader stood upAnd said, "Ma’am, I think we can help you." He then __ five minutes rearranging his group so thatAdequate space was __ for the family. The boys followed his directions cheerfullyAnd without _ ,And the mother"s relief was obvious.
Kallie, however, was beginning to panicAt the _ not being next to me. I told her that there wasn’tAnything I could do. __ , the man sitting next to the Scoutmaster, __ to meAndAsked, "Would youAnd your daughter like our seats?" __ to himselfAnd the Scoutmaster. We traded seatsAnd continued our trip, very much relieved to be togetherAnd watch the scenery from Kallie’s window seat.
| 小题1: | | A．worried | B．excited | C．anxious | D．eager |
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| 小题2: | | A．loved | B．considered | C．imagined | D．missed |
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| 小题3: | | A．full | B．crowded | C．empty | D．overweight |
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| 小题4: | | A．reached | B．arrived | C．landed | D．knocked |
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| 小题5: | | A．divided | B．blocked | C．separated | D．connected |
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| 小题6: | | A．in case | B．even if | C．as if | D．so that |
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| 小题7: | | A．prevented | B．refused | C．agreed | D．promised |
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| 小题8: | | A．panic | B．hurry | C．rush | D．seat |
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| 小题9: | | A．however | B．otherwise | C．therefore | D．instead |
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| 小题11: | | A．concerned | B．curious | C．particular | D．content |
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| 小题12: | | A．suggested | B．offered | C．provided | D．supplied |
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| 小题13: | | A．duty | B．watch | C．board | D．spot |
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| 小题14: | | A．took | B．cost | C．paid | D．spent |
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| 小题15: | | A．convenient | B．available | C．probable | D．comfortable |
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| 小题16: | | A．permission | B．excuse | C．apology | D．complaint |
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| 小题17: | | A．thought | B．end | C．feeling | D．sense |
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| 小题18: | | A．Immediately | B．Puzzlingly | C．Clearly | D．Amazingly |
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| 小题19: | | A．turned up | B．turnedAround | C．turned out | D．turnedAway |
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| 小题20: | | A．sticking | B．keeping | C．waving | D．referring |
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36 ~ 55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to work on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t by the normal body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Then, I checked their registration form out of curiosity. No address—they were .The waiting room was warm. I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a homeless in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of on Christmas, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients, our team worked to meet the needs of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
| 小题1: | | A．customers | B．patients | C．workers | D．doctors |
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| 小题2: | | A．showed up | B．took in | C．came out | D．looked on |
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| 小题3: | | A．tired | B．hungry | C．sick | D．warm |
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| 小题4: | | A．descriptions | B．comments | C．instructions | D．results |
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| 小题5: | | A．accompanied | B．adjusted | C．acknowledged | D．affected |
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| 小题6: | | A．therefore | B．otherwise | C．however | D．moreover |
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| 小题7: | | A．after | B．since | C．before | D．when |
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| 小题8: | | A．shyly | B．happily | C．calmly | D．politely |
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| 小题9: | | A．lonely | B．greedy | C．clever | D．homeless |
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| 小题10: | | A．family | B．holiday | C．woman | D．Christmas |
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| 小题11: | | A．operating | B．interrupting | C．managing | D．working |
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| 小题12: | | A．present | B．warm | C．relief | D．approval |
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| 小题13: | | A．beneficial | B．friendly | C．medical | D．different |
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| 小题14: | | A．rewarded | B．offered | C．allowed | D．ordered |
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| 小题15: | | A．neighbors | B．relations | C．brothers | D．guests |
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| 小题16: | | A．borrowed | B．received | C．collected | D．bought |
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| 小题17: | | A．expensive | B．useful | C．convenient | D．available |
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| 小题18: | | A．healthy | B．physical | C．tragic | D．mental |
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| 小题19: | | A．Soon | B．Later | C．Next | D．Gradually |
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| 小题20: | | A．to run | B．run | C．running | D．and ran |
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