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Cloze test.     This is a true story about something that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer-
Care Executive (客服主管). The following complaint was received by General Motors "...It may sound crazy,
but it"s a fact that every time I buy a   1   ice cream, and come back from the store, my car won"t start. If I get
any other kind of ice cream, the car starts   2   fine. Why?" The executive was   3   about the letter, but sent an
engineer to check it out anyway.
     The   4   made three visits to the store with the customer. The first time, he got chocolate ice cream. The car
started. The second time, he ordered strawberry. The car started. The third time he got vanilla. The car failed to
start. The engineer   5   to believe that the man"s car was allergic (过敏的) to vanilla ice cream. He   6   his visits,
and noted all sorts of data: the types of gas used and the time it took to drive back and forth.
     Soon he came a clue: it took the man less   7   to buy vanilla than any other flavor (味道). Why? The answer
was in the layout (布局) of the store. Vanilla, as the most   8   flavor, was in the front of the store for quick
pickup. All the other flavors were kept further back, where it took longer to buy them.
     Time was now the   9   not the vanilla ice cream! The engineer quickly put forward an answer:"engine
trouble." The extra time taken to get any other flavor 10  the engine to cool down longer. When the man got
vanilla, the engine was still too hot to start.
     Even crazy-looking problems can be real. What really  11  is your attitude to the problem.
     Don"t just say something is "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort into  12  it out. If you look closer,
you may discover that it"s possible after all.

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(     )1. A. chocolate
(     )2. A. just
(     )3. A. worried
(     )4. A. customer
(     )5. A. pretended
(     )6. A. stopped
(     )7. A. time
(     )8. A. strange
(     )9. A. effect
(     )10. A. prevented
(     )11. A. matters
(     )12. A. looking

B. strawberry
B. only
B. crazy
B. engineer
B. decided
B. continued
B. effort
B. familiar
B. reason
B. encouraged
B. impresses
B. figuring

C. vanilla
C. still
C. doubtful
C. executive
C. struggled
C. valued
C. cost
C. terrible
C. problem
C. let
C. bothers
C. trying

D. banana
D. ever
D. cheerful
D. shopkeeper
D. refused
D. repeated
D. speed
D. popular
D. solution
D. allowed
D. concerns
D. testing

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Direaions: Read the following Passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage
and required words limit.

     Imagine eating the dishes of 102 different countries in as many consecutive (连续的) days. That"s what
Noah Galuten has done. He raced around the Southland (the name given to the towns and cities that surround
Los Angeles county in California) for almost four months, indulging in (沉迷于) lunches, dinners and a few
breakfast without a break.
     Although he"s not chef (厨师), Galuten grew up around good food. His mother mainly cooked Italian food,
and he recalled standing on a stool (板凳) making sauce when he was six years old. He also cooked dinners
for friends during his college years. And he had experimented and adapted food from many cultures.
     Galuten"s food journey began after he graduated from college. Unemployed and back in Los Angeles, he
decided to try something that he had a passion for. And he hoped it would help him "keep his mind off his
unemployment depression.
     Then he set up a blog and began his food journey. The requirement was to eat one dish at each place. After
each meal, he would write a biog about the food, the cost, the environment and the company. It was indeed an
incredible challenge. Sometimes Galuten searched online and contacted a friend of a friend for a restaurant tip
or seeking out local food companies, he mostly dined at inexpensive restaurants.
     His journey also used up his savings. Galuten figured that he spent about $11,000 during the 102-day
experiment, including groceries, meals, gasoline, rent and other living cost. Now that he has used up all his
money and is $4,000 in debt, he is seriously joy-hunting.
    But he pointed out, "I feel very happy now, although I am in debt. It"s not to say that a lack of money has
caused my happiness, because the feeling is not related to money at all. It"s more about doing that is important
to you and sticking to what makes you happy, then making it the focus of your life."

1. What led Galuten to start his daily food journey? (no more than 10 words)
    _____________________________________________________________________________
2. How did Galuten collect information for his food journey? (no more than 8 words)
    _____________________________________________________________________________
3. What canwe leam from Galuten"s words in the last paragraph? (no more than12 words)
    _____________________________________________________________________________
4. What is the passage mainly about? (no more than words)
    _____________________________________________________________________________

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     John had been on the road visiting clients (客户) for more than three weeks. He   1   wait to get back to
Ohio to see his wife and children. It was coming up on   2 , and he usually tried to   3   it "back home", but
this year he was just too tired. He was just   4   the small town where his Mum lived when he drove by a
flower shop. He went into the small shop and saw a young boy talking to the clerk. "How many   5   can I
get for six dollars, madam?" the boy asked. The clerk was trying to explain these flowers were   6 . Maybe
the boy would be happy with carnations (康乃馨).
     "No. I have to have roses", he said, "My mom was sick so much last year and I didn"t get to spend much
time with her. I want to get   7   special. It has to be red roses, because that"s her favorite." He was   8 .
     The clerk looked up at John and was just   9   her head. Something inside of John was  10  by the boy"s
voice. He wanted to get those roses so badly. John had been blessed in his business and he looked at the clerk
and  11  mouthed he would  12  for the boy"s roses.
     The clerk looked at the boy and said, "OK, I will give you a dozen red roses for  13  dollars." The young
boy almost jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran from the store. It was worth the extra thirty-five
dollars just to see that kind of  14 . John ordered his own flowers and had the clerk be  15  that delivery to the
town would include a note  16  his mother how much he loved her. Then he drove away from the shop, feeling
good. He caught a light about two blocks from the shop. Waiting at the light, he saw the young boy walking
down the sidewalk. He watched him cross the street and enter a park through two huge gates.  17 , he realized
it wasn"t a park. It was a cemetery. The light changed and John slowly crossed the crossing. He  18  and got
out and began to follow the boy down the fence line. The young boy stopped by a monument and went on his
  19 . He carefully laid the roses on the grave and began to sob.
     When John saw this scene, he drove quickly to the florist and told the clerk he would take the flowers  20 .

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(     )1.A.needn"t
(     )2.A.Mother"s Day
(     )3.A.catch
(     )4.A.inside of
(     )5.A.flowers
(     )6.A.fresh
(     )7.A.something
(     )8.A.afraid
(     )9.A.shaking
(     )10.A.attracted
(     )11.A.silently
(     )12.A.buy
(     )13.A.forty-one
(     )14.A.excitement
(     )15.A.careful
(     )16.A.explaining
(     )17.A.All of a sudden
(     )18.A.sped up
(     )19.A.knees
(     )20.A.back

B.mightn"t
B.Mother"s Birthday
B.make
B.away from
B.roses
B.available
B.nothing
B.firm
B.nodding
B.shocked
B.calmly
B.offer
B.thirty-five
B.surprise
B.aware
B.telling
B.At last
B.pulled over
B.hands
B.personally

C.couldn"t
C.Thanksgiving Day
C.get
C.outside of
C.carnations
C.valuable
C.everything
C.terrified
C.lowering
C.touched
C.anxiously
C.afford
C.six
C.disappointment
C.sure
C.reminding
C.In fact
C.broke down
C.head
C.home

D.shouldn"t
D.Halloween
D.put
D.over there
D.pumpkin
D.expensive
D.anything
D.confused
D.raising
D.affected
D.excitedly
D.pay
D.no
D.satisfaction
D.clear
D.warning
D.As a result
D.stood up
D.feet
D.straight

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     My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the   1   shelter to pick out a dog
to keep her   2  . Grandma decided on a little dog with a reddish-brown spot above each eye   3   these spots,
the dog was named Penny.
     Grandma and Penny quickly became very   4   to each other, but that attachment grew much stronger about
three years later   5   Grandma had a stroke (中风). Grandma could no longer   6  , so when she came home
from the hospital, she and Penny were   7   companions.
     After her stroke, it became a real   8   for Grandma to let Penny in and out because   9   was at the bottom
of a flight of stairs. So a mechanism (机械装置) using a rope and pulley (滑轮) was  10  from the door to a
handle at the top of the stairs. Grandma just had to pull the handle to open arid close the door. If the store was
11  Penny"s favorite dog food, Grandma would make one of us  12  Penny browned beef with potatoes in it.
I can remember  13  my grandmother by saying that she loved that dog better than she loved her family.
     As the years passed, it was not  14  for Grandma and Penny to separate each other. If Grandma went to take
her nap (打盹), Penny stayed by her side until she  15 . As Penny aged, she could no longer jump up on the bed,
so she  16  on the rug (垫子) beside the bed. If Grandma went into the  17 , Penny would walk along beside her,
wait outside the door and accompany her  18  to the bed or chair. Grandma never went anywhere without her
19  companion by her side.
     The time came when both my grandmother"s and Penny"s  20  were failing fast. After fifteen years of loving
companionship, Grandma and Penny passed away within a few hours of each other.

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(     )1.A. animal
(     )2.A. business
(     )3.A. In spite of
(     )4.A. linked
(     )5.A. before
(     )6.A. think
(     )7.A. contrary
(     )8.A. problem
(     )9.A. the door
(     )10.A. repaired
(     )11.A. out of
(     )12.A. show
(     )13.A. drawing attention to
(     )14.A. necessary
(     )15.A. recovered
(     )16.A. rolled
(     )17.A. kitchen
(     )18.A. back
(     )19.A. splendid
(     )20.A. smell

B. toy
B. firm
B. Because of
B. fastened
B. while
B. speak
B. content
B. question
B. Grandma
B. fixed
B. ahead of
B. hand
B. making use of
B. possible
B. awoke
B. stood
B. bedroom
B. up
B. remote
B. health

C. fish
C. company
C. Instead of
C. attached
C. until
C. work
C. confident
C. practice
C. the window
C. bought
C. away from
C. buy
C. breaking away from
C. important
C. slept
C. waited
C. living-room
C. off
C. faithful
C. habit

D. bird
D. friend
D. In front of
D. tied
D. when
D. walk
D. constant
D. rule
D. Penny
D. loaded
D. apart from
D. cook
D. making fun of
D. convenient
D. screamed
D. lay
D. bathroom
D. down
D. legal
D. living

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     Life is like potato salad; when it"s shared it becomes a picnic.
     When my three children were young, my husband, Roy, and I were very   1 .
     "Can we go on a picnic, Mom?" my six-year-old daughter, Becky   2 . "Please".
     I had said no so many times in the   3   months, and I decided the usual Saturday morning chores (日常工
作) could wait. To her   4  , I agreed.
     I prepared a few sandwiches and   5   a cooler with ice and drinks and called Roy   6  . My eleven-year-old
twin sons put the cooler and the picnic basket in the trunk and off we went to spend some   7   time together
as a family.
    About the time I got the lunch   8   out on the table, Roy arrived on the   9 .
     That was one of the happiest meals we ever shared together. The meal was filled with  10 . We felt a
closeness that hadbeen hidden by work and school  11  for so many months. Roy and the boys  12  rocks
into the lake. Becky fed the ducks and I sat quietly on the picnic table,  13  God for blessing me with such
a wonderful family.
     That night as our  14  went to bed, I kissed their cheeks and realized what a wonderful life I had.
    As I walked out of the room it dawned on me that even the busiest  15  could become a picnic when it"s
shared with the ones you  16 .
     Even though the kids have now grown up and  17  from home, I can still remember how I felt that day
while sitting at the picnic table.
     Maybe today would be a good time to  18  potato salad, call all of my grown kids, feed some hungry  19
and skipped a few rocks into the lake. Since life is like potato salad, let"s make it a  20 .

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(     )1.A. old
(     )2.A. begged
(     )3.A. coming
(     )4.A. doubt
(     )5.A. supplied
(     )6.A. off work
(     )7.A. unhappy
(     )8.A. spread
(     )9.A. scene
(     )10.A. sadness
(     )11.A. orders
(     ) 12.A. missed
(     )13.A. praying
(     )14.A. family
(     )15.A. lifestyle
(     )16.A. enjoy
(     )17.A. left alone
(     )18.A. supply
(     )19.A. ducks
(     )20.A. salad

B. poor
B. asked
B. recent
B. disappointment
B. provided
B. at home
B. quality
B. taken
B. view
B. expectation
B. charges
B. took
B. praising
B. children
B. time
B. own
B. pass away
B. cook
B. children
B. life

C. busy
C. doubted
C. following
C. sadness
C. combined
C. at work
C. quantity
C. made
C. event
C. hope
C. activity
C. skipped
C. thanking
C. friends
C. world
C. have
C. ran away
C. watch
C. family
C. picnic

D. miserable
D. wondered
D. later
D. surprise
D. filled
D. on business
D. sad
D. cooked
D. landscape
D. laughter
D. responsibilities
D. left
D. trusting
D. parents
D. family
D. love
D. moved away
D. plant
D. people
D. hope

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     Mr. Dawson was an old bad-tempered man, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his
yard to pick apples, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his gun.
    One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They had to   1   Dawson"s house,
but as they got   2 , Janet saw him sitting on his front porch and suggested they cross over the street. Like
most, she was   3   of the old man.
    Amy said, "Don"t   4  ." When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his   5   frown (皱眉), but
when he saw it was Amy, he gave a broad   6  .
     Amy smiled back and told him that they were going to listen to music. Dawson told them that sounded
   7 , and gave them each a(n)   8  .
     Later, Janet asked Amy, "Everyone says he"s the   9   man in town  10  he was so nice to us?"
     Amy explained that when she  11  started walking past his house, he wasn"t very  12 , either, but she
pretended he was wearing a(n)  13  smile, so she always smiled. It really took some time  14  he one day half-
smiled back.
     After a while, he started smiling a real smile and then  15  to her. She said he always  16  her an apple now,
and was always very kind.
     In our everyday life we are always very busy doing a lot of things and trying to accomplish so much. It"s
30  17  to forget that we can bring  18  to ourselves and others. Giving a smile takes so little  19 , but few
people are aware of that. Please do remember after a while most people can"t  20  our sunniness at all.

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