Last week after a long day of traveling, I found myself delayed at a bus station
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Last week after a long day of traveling, I found myself delayed at a bus station. The bus was running two hours late! I was a little ____ and had to wait there reading a book. Just then a woman _____ and asked me if I had any spare change to help her ____ a bus ticket.
“Oh, sure,” I said.
With the words, I reached into my bag for some _____. As I handed her five dollars I _____her stomach rumble (发出辘辘声) and I knew she was very ______.
I then reached back into my _____ and brought out a Danish pastry (酥皮糕点) I had bought earlier and _____it to her with a smile.
She took the pastry and gave me a bus ticket to Milwaukee to show her _____. I don’t live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably ____ be used, but I took it. A look of ____ spread over her face. Then she went to get her ____ and I went back to my ____.
She came back a few ____ later, apologized, and told me there were five dollars ____. I gave her the money and slipped(悄悄地塞) a twenty ____. She thanked me and went back to the counter. ____ I went back to my book.
Five minutes later she came back again and ____ to return my twenty. ____ I said it was for her so she could get something else to eat and that I wasn’t taking it back, she _____crying and hugged me.
From then on, I always help others in trouble, because I believe I am really making a difference to them!
| 小题1: | | A．worried | B．terrified | C．interested | D．moved |
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| 小题2: | | A．looked around | B．came up | C．walked about | D．ran away |
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| 小题3: | | A．exchange | B．check | C．find | D．get |
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| 小题4: | | A．books | B．newspapers | C．money | D．food |
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| 小题5: | | A．felt | B．heard | C．imagined | D．proved |
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| 小题6: | | A．weak | B．sick | C．tired | D．hungry |
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| 小题7: | | A．bag | B．counter | C．pocket | D．suitcase |
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| 小题8: | | A．handed | B．showed | C．lent | D．sold |
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| 小题9: | | A．trouble | B．thankfulness | C．kindness | D．belief |
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| 小题10: | | A．always | B．ever | C．never | D．still |
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| 小题11: | | A．surprise | B．relief | C．excitement | D．fear |
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| 小题12: | | A．luggage | B．pastry | C．coffee | D．ticket |
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| 小题13: | | A．speech | B．seat | C．book | D．room |
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| 小题14: | | A．days | B．minutes | C．hours | D．weeks |
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| 小题15: | | A．short | B．missing | C．available | D．unused |
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| 小题16: | | A．as well | B．in return | C．with anger | D．by chance |
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| 小题17: | | A．Sometimes | B．Once | C．Again | D．Often |
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| 小题18: | | A．refused | B．pretended | C．agreed | D．tried |
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| 小题19: | | A．Since | B．After | C．Though | D．If |
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| 小题20: | | A．forgot | B．considered | C．started | D．avoided |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:B
小题6:D
小题7:A
小题8:A
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:A
小题17:C
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:C |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了一个帮助他人的故事。作者在车站等车，这时，过来一个妇女向作者要钱买车票，那个妇女很饿，作者给了她一些糕点，她拿着作者给的5元去买票，结果还差5元，作者又给了她5元，并且悄悄塞给她一张20的，买完票后那个妇女过来还那张20的，作者告知她，那是给她的，那个妇女感动得哭了。
小题1:The bus was running two hours late! I was a little ____汽车晚了两个小时，作者有点担心，A担忧的；B极度恐慌的；C感兴趣的；D感动的。故选A。
小题2:Just then a woman _____ and asked me if I had any spare change一个妇女走过来问作者是否有零钱，A环顾四周；B走近，即将到来；C来回走动；D逃跑。故选B。
小题3:help her ____ a bus ticket帮她买一张票，A交换；B检查；C找到；D买。Change是“零钱”的意思，她问作者要钱买票，故选D。
小题4:I reached into my bag for some _____作者伸进包里掏钱，A书；B报纸；C钱；D食物。故选C。
小题5: I _____her stomach rumble (发出辘辘声) 作者听到她的肚子在咕噜噜地叫，A感觉；B听到；C想象；D证明。故选B。
小题6:I knew she was very ______听到肚子叫，说明是饿了，A虚弱的；B生病的；C劳累的；D饥饿的。故选D。
小题7:根据“reached into my bag...I then reached back into my _____”可知，作者再次伸进包里，A包；B柜台；C口袋；D手提箱。故选A。
小题8:_____it to her with a smile作者把吃的递给了她，A传递；B展示；C借出；D出售。Hand...to sb把某物递给某人，故选A。
小题9:gave me a bus ticket to Milwaukee to show her _____她给作者一张车票以示感激，A麻烦；B感激；C善意；D信念。故选B。
小题10:I don’t live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably ____ be used, but I took it这张票作者用不到，但作者还是收着了。A总是；B曾经；C从不；D仍然。故选C。
小题11:A look of ____ spread over her face.一种宽慰的表情在她的脸上浮现出来。A惊讶；B安慰，安心；C兴奋；D害怕。故选B。
小题12:Then she went to get her ____她要钱是为了买票，A行李；B糕点；C咖啡；D票。故选D。
小题13:感觉第一段“wait there reading a book”可知，I went back to my ____作者再次看起了书，A演讲；B座位；C书；D房间。故选C。
小题14:She came back a few ____ later,她几分钟后回来，根据下一段“Five minutes later she came back again”可知，是几分钟后，A天；B分钟；C小时；D星期。故选B。
小题15:there were five dollars ____还少5美元，A短缺的；B丢失的；C可使用的；D未被使用的。故选A。
小题16:slipped(悄悄地塞) a twenty ____作者还悄悄塞给她一张20的，A也，还；B作为回报；C生气地；D偶然。故选A。
小题17:____ I went back to my book.作者再次回到书中，A有时；B一次，曾经；C又一次；D经常。故选C。
小题18:____ to return my twenty.她想还回那20元，A拒绝；B假装；C同意；D尽力。故选D。
小题19:____ I said it was for her so she could 经过作者的解释之后，她感动得哭了，A自从；B在......之后；C尽管；D如果。故选B。
小题20:she _____crying and hugged me她开始流泪，并拥抱了作者，A忘记；B考虑；C开始；D避免。故选C。 |
举一反三
I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still to have a dream.
My dream was . By the time I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and anything that moved on the football field. I was also : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me to believe in myself. He me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular _ with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike, new clothes and the of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was as as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head , trying to think of the to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job?” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made for me the difference between something right now and having a . I devoted myself to sports that summer and the year I was chosen by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was a $20,000 contract. My baseball scholarship got me through university and in 1984 I signed with Denver Broncos for $1.7 million and bought my mother the house of her dreams.
| 小题1: | | A．happy | B．polite | C．shy | D．honest |
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| 小题2: | | A．live | B．afford | C．make | D．need |
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| 小题3: | | A．athletics | B．music | C．business | D．money |
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| 小题5: | | A．right | B．popular | C．lucky | D．wrong |
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| 小题6: | | A．how | B．why | C．when | D．whether |
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| 小题7: | | A．gave | B．taught | C．brought | D．asked |
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| 小题8: | | A．accident | B．matter | C．problem | D．experience |
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| 小题9: | | A．aim | B．idea | C．start | D．purpose |
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| 小题11: | | A．mad | B．puzzled | C．frightened | D．shameful |
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| 小题12: | | A．living | B．playing | C．working | D．learning |
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| 小题13: | | A．moving | B．nodding | C．shaking | D．hanging |
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| 小题14: | | A．answers | B．excuses | C．words | D．ways |
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| 小题15: | | A．sadness | B．regret | C．hopelessness | D．disappointment |
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| 小题16: | | A．direct | B．clear | C．straight | D．bare |
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| 小题17: | | A．wanting | B．changing | C．dreaming | D．living |
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| 小题18: | | A．wish | B．dream | C．score | D．desire |
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| 小题20: | | A．paid | B．got | C．offered | D．presented |
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A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of things she wanted to do before dying.
Alice Pyne, l5, created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of the white blood cells. “I’ve been fighting cancer for almost four years and now l know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn"t look like I"m going to win this one," she wrote.
For her list, the teenager took inspiration from the 2007 film “The Bucket List”, in which two terminally ill(患绝症的) men, played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, draw up a list of things they wish to do before they die.
On her list, at the site www.alicepyne.blogspot.com, she has included making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor(骨髓捐赠者), swimming with sharks, meeting boy band Take That and getting a purple iPad computer.
Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter.
"Oh dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends!" she wrote after her site attracted huge attention. "Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me."
Pyne, who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston, revealed (透露) the management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog. A group of local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony Nolan blood cancer charity to encourage people to join its stem cell register.
小题1:What happened after Alice Pyne wrote her "Bucket List"?| A．The media called on people to help her. | | B．People sent gifts to her from all over the world. | | C．A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her. | | D．People around the world sent messages to support her. |
小题2: Alice Pyne wrote her "Bucket List" to ___________.| A．express her last few wishes | | B．say goodbye to a few friends | | C．give comfort to two terminally ill men | | D．catch people"s attention |
小题3:It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Alice Pyne _________.| A．is unaware of her own conditions | | B．is calm to know that death is approaching | | C．is very sad to know that she will die | | D．is still quite confident in fighting against cancer |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT on Alice Pyne"s "Bucket List"?| A．To meet a boy. | B．To get a cool computer. | | C．To swim with sharks. | D．To ask people to donate bone marrow. |
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One March evening I together with my friends was on a bus. The driver didn"t to start the bus soon because it was not yet .A mid-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story , not to anyone particular. On her way to the station, half of her was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked .
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect the fares. When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he that he had spent all his money he accidentally got on a wrong bus and now was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor"s side and repeated the conductor"s .
The woman was watching the incident. the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she shouted.
“Stop him! Can"t you see he"s only trying to get home”
“He doesn"t have any money!” the driver .
“Well, that"s no to throw him off the bus.” She insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here"s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a time.
All heads turned to the woman. “ It"s only money,” she shrugged.
She rode the rest of her way home a happy smile, with the money she"d lost earlier .
On the road of life, the help of strangers can our roads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the will be when we make it a little smoother for others!
| 小题1: | | A．try | B．care | C．decide | D．intend |
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| 小题2: | | A．empty | B．full | C．crowded | D．ready |
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| 小题3: | | A．tearfully | B．seriously | C．carefully | D．calmly |
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| 小题4: | | A．fare | B．possession | C．money | D．wealth |
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| 小题5: | | A．strangely | B．happily | C．secretly | D．fortunately |
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| 小题6: | | A．unsatisfied | B．weak | C．unhappy | D．excited |
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| 小题7: | | A．explained | B．declared | C．admitted | D．found |
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| 小题8: | | A．get off | B．start | C．get on | D．stop |
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| 小题9: | | A．begged | B．scolded | C．praised | D．thanked |
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| 小题10: | | A．request | B．action | C．suggestion | D．command |
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| 小题11: | | A．Unless | B．Although | C．Until | D．When |
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| 小题12: | | A．attacking | B．bothering | C．blaming | D．wronging |
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| 小题13: | | A．warned | B．whispered | C．shouted | D．repeated |
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| 小题14: | | A．problem | B．need | C．matter | D．reason |
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| 小题15: | | A．spending | B．collected | C．remaining | D．borrowed |
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| 小题16: | | A．busy | B．cold | C．hard | D．fearful |
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| 小题17: | | A．giving | B．wearing | C．taking | D．forcing |
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| 小题18: | | A．forgotten | B．used | C．earned | D．returned |
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| 小题19: | | A．move | B．increase | C．lighten | D．carry |
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| 小题20: | | A．world | B．journey | C．smile | D．friendship |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once upon a time, there was a bird made of stone. She was beautiful and magic. She lived near the entrance to a beautiful between two mountains. The bird was so that she had to walk on the ground instead of in the sky.
Though she couldn’t fly, she looking up at the trees every day. She one day being able to fly and see the forest from up high. , that dream was gone after a great fire.
When the fire was put out, all that was left of the trees were stumps（树桩）. plants and animals that had live there were gone. The stone bird was the only one that didn’t in the fire. When she saw what had to the trees, she felt very sad. Looking at the burnt trees, she couldn’t crying. She cried for hours and days. She cried with such a feeling that her were wearing away her stone . Finally all her body was worn away and the bird had some water.
But when the came out, the water rose into the sky and became a happy little cloud which could fly over the trees and see everything .
Since then, the little cloud has traveled all over the world. She enjoyed the of all the forests and beautiful countryside. She never what had burnt the trees, so she was very careful to pour her rain down on any tree she saw . She saved a lot of trees.
| 小题1: | | A．field | B．lake | C．sea | D．forest |
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| 小题2: | | A．proud | B．surprising | C．heavy | D．pretty |
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| 小题3: | | A．walking | B．trying | C．singing | D．flying |
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| 小题4: | | A．needed | B．began | C．enjoyed | D．disliked |
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| 小题5: | | A．made up | B．dreamed of | C．gave up | D．talked about |
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| 小题6: | | A．dusty | B．poor | C．small | D．beautiful |
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| 小题7: | | A．However | B．Also | C．Therefore | D．So |
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| 小题8: | | A．sadly | B．possibly | C．finally | D．suddenly |
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| 小题10: | | A．change | B．live | C．watch | D．die |
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| 小题11: | | A．happened | B．come | C．moved | D．climbed |
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| 小题12: | | A．continue | B．start | C．keep | D．stop |
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| 小题13: | | A．minds | B．feelings | C．hands | D．tears |
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| 小题14: | | A．house | B．heart | C．body | D．habit |
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| 小题15: | | A．cared about | B．turned into | C．turned up | D．looked for |
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| 小题17: | | A．below | B．above | C．backward | D．ahead |
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| 小题18: | | A．views | B．areas | C．colours | D．numbers |
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| 小题19: | | A．found | B．explained | C．forgot | D．knew |
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| 小题20: | | A．falling | B．burning | C．growing | D．shaking |
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It was very cold at 7 am that Monday morning in Harvard Square. I was nearly mad because I had just the bus, and was standing out in the freezing cold waiting for the next one. My mind was filled with anxiety and thoughts. “Why didn’t I leave two minutes ?”
the others at the bus stop was a woman in her fifties wearing a old-fashioned hat, an old pair of boots and a dark coat, but she had no . Another woman, who looked to be in her middle twenties, said to the woman, “Your hands must be very cold. You’ll get frostbitten (冻伤的) in this weather.” She her heavy backpack to the ground, bent down, and began for something inside her backpack. The older woman looked and said, ”Oh no, that’s OK. I’m .
The younger woman continued to search in her backpack and the older woman kept repeating, “Don’t yourself. I’ll be all right.” After seemed like so many minutes, the younger woman a pair of purple gloves. She took the older woman’s hands and gently a glove on each hand, covering one finger . The older woman said, “Thank you. You’re so sweet.”
Though I was very cold, the act of gave ma a warm feeling inside. It also motivated me to buy five pairs of purple gloves, similar to hers, and them in my bag, just in case I someone who was in great on a cold day.
| 小题1: | | A．missed | B．got | C．waited | D．seen |
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| 小题2: | | A．negative | B．happy | C．good | D．creative |
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| 小题3: | | A．ago | B．earlier | C．later | D．sooner |
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| 小题4: | | A．With | B．Between | C．Among | D．Before |
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| 小题5: | | A．shoes | B．gloves | C．scarf | D．coat |
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| 小题6: | | A．older | B．younger | C．latter | D．shorter |
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| 小题7: | | A．pushed | B．pulled | C．lifted | D．dropped |
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| 小题8: | | A．watching | B．caring | C．looking | D．leaving |
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| 小题10: | | A．sorry | B．glad | C．happy | D．fine |
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| 小题12: | | A．upset | B．trouble | C．save | D．satisfy |
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| 小题14: | | A．pulled out | B．picked up | C．picked out | D．put on |
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| 小题15: | | A．gave | B．placed | C．situated | D．took |
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| 小题16: | | A．at once | B．at times | C．at a time | D．at the same time |
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| 小题17: | | A．happiness | B．kindness | C．rudeness | D．sadness |
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| 小题19: | | A．took care | B．came across | C．learned of | D．turned to |
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| 小题20: | | A．honor | B．need | C．shock | D．surprise |
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