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     Two college students were returning home from their part time work at 12: 30 p. m. on Saturday,
December 28, 1985 ____1____  they saw an object shoot across the sky at Dyserth Crossroads in the
Denbighshire village.
     The object appeared to have a yellow glow at its centre with green light.The students said it was
traveling  ____2____  great speed from the direction of Meliden Quarry towards fields. After some miles
the object stopped, circled and disappeared behind ____3____ cloud. The students stopped at the
scene of the landing and investigated further. ____4____  they could see nothing.
     A week  ____5____   at 8: 30 p. m. on January 4, 1986, in the neighbouring village of Trelawnyd
four people claimed  ____6____  have seen a cigarshaped craft with bright red lights. Earlier on the
same day a farmer said he saw a bright red round object hanging in the sky  ____7____  trees in the
village. He said ____8____  was some 40 feet from one side to the other.
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1. when    2. at     3. a    4. But     5. later  6. to   7. above    8.  it
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     "Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!"  Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me
expectantly.
     Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping. "Terrific,"  the director said, stepping up the stage from the
aisle(过道). "Except, could you kids face the audience a bit more?"
     The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play."
Perfect," the director said. "Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren." A pang of sadness hit me. If
only I could read to my real grandchild!
     I had a granddaughter, but I"d never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a
relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be a
grandmother to her-but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over the years,
I asked around town to try and find my son"s exwife(前妻), but it seemed that she didn"t want to be found.
     I"d just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in the play. At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the day of the show
arrived. The performance was great. "You all looked so natural up there," one of my friends said.
     Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments(茶点). I walked over to one of the girls
in the play, Rehearsals had been such a whirlwind(一片忙乱) that we never really got to talk. "How"s my granddaughter?" I joked.
     "Fine!" she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name.
     I wasn"t sure I heard the girl"s answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. "What"s your mother"s name?"
      She told me, I was still in shock. "And what"s your father"s name?" I asked. She told me. It was my
son.
     She"d only started going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, we"ve stayed
close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma.1. What was the author doing at the beginning of the story?A. Telling a story.  
B. Playing a game.
C. Preparing for a play.  
D. Acting in a movie. 2. Why did the author feel "A pang of sadness" at the words of the director?A. The director"s words reminded her of her lost granddaughter.
B. The director"s words hurt her so badly.
C. She wished that she had a real grandchild.
D. The director wasn"t content with her performance. 3. What happened in the church basement after the play?A. The author played a joke on Lena.
B. Lena treated the author as a friend.
C. The author got to know who Lena was.
D. Lena mistook the author for her grandmother. 4. This passage is mainly organized in the pattern of ________.A. time and events  
B. contrast and conclusion
C. cause and effect  
D. questions and answers 5. We can infer that when writing the story, the author felt ________.A. lighthearted  
B. heartbroken
C. confused  
D. anxious
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     Indian"s snake charmers are to be retrained as wildlife teachers under a plan to prevent their unique
skills and knowledge from being lost. The charmers, who make snakes dance to the sound of flutes, used
to be a traditional feature of Indian life, performing in towns and villages, until they were banned in 1972
to control the trade in snake skins.
      The government is now considering a plan to train the saperas, as they are known, to visit schools and zoos to tell children about forests and wildlife. There is also a proposal to set up a "dial a snake charmer"
service to help householders to deal with unwelcome intruders.
     "For generations they have been a feature of Indian life but now they can"t earn a living for fear of
arrest," said Behar Dutt, a conservationist behind the plans," if a policeman doesn"t catch them, animal rights activists report them."
     Many snake charmers have continued to work clandestinely(暗中地) since the ban, despite the threat of up to three years in jail. But their trademark clothcovered baskets, hung from a bamboo pole carried
across their shoulders, make them an easy target for police.
The fate of Shisha Nath, 56, from Badarpur, a village just outside of New Delhi, is typical of practitioners(从业者) of the dying art. "I used to earn enough to support my family and send my children to school,"  
he said. "Now it"s hard to earn even $1 a day. My children want to be snake charmers. It"s our identity.
We love the work. But it"s become impossible."
     Next month Dutt"s project to train 30 snake charmers will begin at a snake park in Pune, western India, where experts will enrich their homegrown skills with some formal knowledge.
     More than the law, though, it is the dishonest attitude of their fellow countrymen that anger many snake charmers. "We"re disturbed all the time but when people want a snake removed from the house, they rush
to us," said Prakash Nath, who was ordered recently to the home of Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party
leader.
1. What do snake charmers usually do in India? (no more than 8 words)
________________________________________________________________________
2. How long will a saperas be in prison if he is caught during the ban? (no more than 3 words)
________________________________________________________________________
3. For what purpose will snake charmers in India be retrained as wildlife teachers?
(no more than 10 words)
________________________________________________________________________
4. According to the passage, what will make snake charmers angry? (no more than 11 words)
________________________________________________________________________
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完形填空     A man wanted to make an investment (投资). An idea struck him:"Why don"t I plant a small mango
tree and enjoy the benefits when it grows into a big one?" So he went to the __1_, bought a small tree
and took it home. To the pride of his family, he _2_ it in the center of his __3_.
      He read everything about _4_ a mango tree. He got up early every morning, for he was determined
to supply the tree with all the necessary nutrients. He watered it, _5_ it with manure (粪肥), and took
good care of its leaves by removing those _6_ ones. He made sure the tree received enough care.
      Many times he sat and _7_ the beauty of the growing tree while dreaming about the _8_ mangoes
that the tree would _9_. His mind was always filled with the wish to taste the first fruit of the tree.
     Years went by  10  …now, he had a big tree with its leaves shining and healthy, its bark healthy and
hard. It was a big attraction   11   it decorated his whole garden.
     Then one day he noticed a small bud (花蕾), which in a couple of days grew into a beautiful  12  .
Now he could   13   wait for the fruit so he started to increase his supply of nutrients and care. Then one
day the tree let out its first product-a small green fruit. The man was so  14  .
     He waited for a few more weeks till the fruit grew in  15  . The day came when he decided to   16 
 the first fruit of the tree. He   17   the tree, picked the fruit and then came his  18  . The fruit was not like
what he expected. It was hard, big and round. He was puzzled. He was sad.
     Seeing this, his   19    came and asked him what happened. He told them that the fruit from his tree
was not what he wanted. When the neighbours heard this, they did not know whether to   20   or
comfort him, for what he planted years ago was not a mango tree. We can only reap (收获) what we
plant.
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(     )19. A. children    
(     )20. A. complain    
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     20 years ago, I drove a cab     1    a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pickup
at a building that was dark    2   a single light in a ground floor window. After a long pause, a small
woman in her 80"s stood before me.
     "Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took her small suitcase to the cab, and then
returned to   3   the woman. She kept thanking me for my kindness. " It"s nothing." I told her. "I just try
to treat my passengers the   4   I would want my mother treated."
     "Riverside Street, please. But could you drive through downtown?"
     "It"s not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
      "Oh, I don"t mind," She said." I"m in no  5  . I am on my way to a hospice." I looked in the back
 view mirror. Her eyes were full of  6  . "I don"t have any family   7  ." She continued. "The   8   says I
don"t have very long." While we were driving through the city, she showed me the building where she
had once worked. Sometimes she asked me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and
would   9   into the darkness, saying   10  . Not until the first ray of the sun   11   up the sky did we get
to the address she had given me.
     " How much do I   12   you?" she asked.
      " Nothing," I said. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She   13   onto me tightly,
saying " You gave an old woman a little moment of joy." Then she walked into the hospice.
     Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the   14   of a life. I don"t pick up any more passengers
for the rest of the day. I drove  15  , lost in thought.   16   I had refused to take the run? On a quick 17  ,
I don"t think I have done anything more  18   in my life. We are conditioned to think that our lives  19   
on great moments. But great moments often catch us  20  -beautifully hidden in what others may consider
a small one.

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     One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had
ordered to arrive. Suddenly I   1   that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing
in my direction, _  2       he knew me. The man had a newspaper     3    in front of him, which
he was   4   to read, but I could     5    that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter
brought my    6  , the man was clearly puzzled by the    7   way in which the waiter and I   8  
each other. He seemed even more puzzled as    9   went on and it became   10   that all the
waiters in the  restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the    11   . When he
came out, he paid his bill and   12   without another a glance in my direction.
     I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had   13  .  "Well, "he said,
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man he 15  ." "What ?"I said, showing my  16  . The owner continued, "He came into the
kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man.  I   17   say he looked very much like
you! Of course  since we know you, we told him that he had made a __18_." "Well, it"s
really  19   I came to a restaurant where I"m known, "I said. "  20  , I might have been in
trouble."
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