It"s fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on
summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before 1
Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma 2 me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the
3 like me. She said, "There"s an old saying-the 4 you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter
your blood 5 to the mosquitoes." Not 6 it, I replied, "Grandma, that"s just an old wives" tale!"
Well, less than a week 7 my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted (覆盖着) with a 8 of mosquito
bites. I took many measures to keep myself from being 9 , but they all proved useless.
Late one 10 in my cousin"s home, I couldn"t bear the 11 of the bites. Hoping to find some comfort,
I 12 my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being 13 , she said,
"There is nothing you can do. Go back to sleep." With a few turns, she slept again. Enviously (妒嫉地) 14
her sleep, I hoped a big mosquito would 15 on her face. However, the mosquitoes would just lightly dance
around her face and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed, I ran to others" 16 , only to find they were
all sleeping 17 as the same thing occurred again and again.
From those bites, I came to 18 my grandma"s silly tale. From then on, I"ve always tried to keep a(n)
19 mind about those strange old wives" tales 20 they do have some truth to them. |
( )1. A. leaving
( )2. A. persuaded
( )3. A. students
( )4. A. earlier
( )5. A. grows
( )6. A. expecting
( )7. A. after
( )8. A. shade
( ) 9. A. touched
( )10. A. morning
( )11. A. noise
( )12. A. woke up
( )13. A. blamed
( )14. A. having
( )15. A. land
( )16. A. houses
( )17. A. joyfully
( )18. A. tell
( )19. A. open
( )20. A. and | B. passing
B. reminded
B. foreigners
B. longer
B. goes
B. understanding
B. before
B. pile
B. bitten
B. afternoon
B. hit
B. shouted at
B. interrupted
B. watching
B. fly
B. flats
B. anxiously
B. know
B. active
B. so | C. visiting
C. warned
C. passengers
C. sooner
C. flows
C. recognizing
C. when
C. cloud
C. defeated
C. evening
C. pain
C. looked for
C. moved
C. making
C. fall
C. rooms
C. peacefully
C. remember
C. clear
C. because | D. finding
D. informed
D. visitors
D. later
D. remains
D. believing
D. as
D. blanket
D. discovered
D. night
D. effect
D. dropped on
D. frightened
D. helping
D. wait
D. homes
D. worriedly
D. accept
D. honest
D. until |
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| 阅读理解。 | Pop singer star Britney Spears would feel happy (or amused) if she knew what her songs can do for some
German farmers.
Recently, some farmers in Germany have been playing Britney"s songs very often on their farms. Not that
they like her songs a lot, but that her songs can drive away the troublesome wild boars (野猪)!
As the boars are an endangered animal in Germany, people can"t shoot or kill them. Farmers there tried their
best to stop the boars from destroying their crops but failed.
One day, one of the German farmers noticed that all the boars were scared away when he started to play
one of Britney"s songs!
The farmer was delighted and then he tried some other singers on the boars. Madonna"s and Robbie
Williams" songs didn"t work at all.
Only Britney"s songs seemed to have the magical power. Every time her songs were played on his farm, the
boars would go running away in a rush.
It"s reported quite a number of German farmers are using Britney"s magic songs to protect their vegetable
and fruits. | | 1. The farmers play Britney"s songs on their farms so that _____. | | [ ] | A. they can protect their crops and fruits
B. they don"t feel tired from working
C. their crops may grow better
D. they can get some money from the music company | | 2. The farmers cannot shoot the boars because _____. | | [ ] | A. they are not allowed to own guns
B. they are afraid the boars might attack them
C. the boars are protected by law
D. the boars are owned by some other farmers | | 3. Which of the following statements is true ac-cording to the text? | | [ ] | A. Animals like to listen to music by different singers.
B. Not all the singers" songs are liked by the boars in Germany.
C. Boars in Germany like Britney"s songs very much.
D. Britney"s songs seem to be quite different from other singers". | | 完形填空。 | John lived all alone because his wife had died. He had worked hard as a tailor all his life, but misfortune
had left him penniless. He had 1 sons, but they only had time to 2 and eat dinner with their father
once a week.
3 the old man grew weaker and weaker, and his sons came by to see him less and less. He often
worried 4 would become of him, until at last he thought of a plan.
The next morning he went to see his friend, the carpenter, and asked him to make a large 5 . Then
the locksmith, and asked him for an old 6 . Finally the glassblower for all the broken pieces of glass he
7 . The old man took the chest home, filled it to the 8 with broken glass, locked up tight and put it
beneath his 9 .
"What"s in this chest?" his sons asked, looking under the table.
"Oh, nothing," the old man replied,"just some things I"ve been 10 ." They kicked it and heard a rattling
inside."It must be full of all the gold he"s saved over the years," they 11 to one another.
So they talked it over and realized they needed to 12 the treasure. They decided to 13 living with the
old man, and 14 they could look after him, too. So the first week the youngest moved in, the second week
the middle and the third week the eldest. This 15 for some time.
At last the old father died. The sons gave him a very 16 funeral, for they knew there was a 17 sitting
beneath the kitchen table. When the 18 was over, they hunted through the house until they found the key,
and unlocked the chest. To their astonishment, they found nothing but broken glass. But they didn"t give up,
and the eldest son turned over the chest to make sure if there was something valuable 19 among the broken
glass. On the bottom he found an inscription 20 : Honor Your Father And Mother. | ( )1. A.four
( )2. A.stand by
( )3. A.Gradually
( )4. A.what
( )5. A.shelf
( )6. A.chest
( )7. A.made
( )8. A.top
( )9. A.bed
( )10. A.making
( )11. A.whispered
( )12. A.find
( )13. A.take chances
( )14. A.on the way
( )15. A.went on
( )16. A.sad
( )17. A.old man
( )18. A.service
( )19. A.mixed
( )20. A.writing | B.two
B.pass by
B.Clearly
B.that
B.table
B.lock
B.broke
B.bottom
B.house
B.keeping
B.reported
B.own
B.take turns
B.by the way
B.kept on
B.deep
B.fortune
B.celebration
B.painted
B.reading | C.three
C.go by
C.Fortunately
C.how
C.cupboard
C.cover
C.bought
C.center
C.kitchen table
C.saving
C.shouted
C.know
C.take measures
C.that way
C.moved on
C.rich
C.guest
C.meal
C.hidden
C.telling | D.five
D.stop by
D.Hurriedly
D.which
D.chest
D.saying
D.had
D.inside
D.yard
D.using
D.pointed
D.guard
D.take actions
D.in the way
D.put on
D.nice
D.lock
D.crying
D.grown
D.speaking | | 完形填空。 | On the first day of my school life in the USA, I showed a great interest in my marketing class. My teacher,
Mrs. Tolman, suggested I 1 a national marketing club called DECA attracting many students with talent and
interest in 2 . So I did.
The first 3 was to raise money for marketing competitions later in the year by selling candles. Mrs.
Tolman said the money was due in a week and that 40 percent of the 4 would go into my personal account.
At the beginning, I tried to sell some candles to my host mom. She said that if I could show 5 and do a
wonderful sales presentation, she would certainly buy some. I started my 6 with a firm handshake. Then I
introduced all the different kinds of candles and the special sales I could offer and 7 her that our candles
were the best choice for gifts and home decorations. Finally she bought three candles.
Greatly 8 I decided to sell my candles around the neighborhood.
On Saturday morning, with great courage, I knocked all the door of my first potential 9 . "I"m a student
at Skyline High School and we are 10 money for DECA, I"m trying to sell…"
"Not today, sorry," the man 11 me and shut the door.
Embarrassed, I walked away and encouraged myself the 12 thing that might happen was being refused like
that again. I couldn"t even count how many times I was 13 with reasons like "Not today", "I don"t have any
14 money right now" or "I just bought some". 15 , I had to continue with the day. 16 , a woman kindly
bought nearly $60 worth of candles. I couldn"t even hide my 17 and said, "Thank you very much" to her with
a bow.
After a 18 hard work, I turned in $408 worth of sales of candles, which gave me $163 in my own account.
I was 19 to find out I was the second highest seller in all classes.
It was my first time working as a sales person. This experience let me know that 20 difficulties was only
wasting time and a barrier in my way to success. | ( )1. A. hold
( )2. A. business
( )3. A. chance
( )4. A. income
( )5. A. ability
( )6. A. presentation
( )7. A. told
( )8. A. puzzled
( )9. A. buyer
( )10. A. lending
( )11. A. greeted
( )12. A. worst
( )13. A. allowed
( )14. A. more
( )15. A. However
( )16. A. And
( )17. A. anger
( )18. A. week"s
( )19. A. lucky
( )20. A. overcoming | B. join
B. English
B. way
B. candles
B. confidence
B. business
B. convinced
B. delighted
B. seller
B. raising
B. bothered
B. uneasy
B. permitted
B. extra
B. So
B. Secondly
B. embarrassment
B. hour"s
B. surprised
B. dealing with | C. build
C. math
C. challenge
C. business
C. aim
C. deal
C. explained
C. shocked
C. businessman
C. returning
C. hurt
C. unluckiest
C. refused
C. little
C. Therefore
C. Firstly
C. happiness
C. year"s
C. calm
C. accepting | D. set
D. sports
D. choice
D. expense
D. expectation
D. interest
D. requested
D. encouraged
D. shop keeper
D. borrowing
D. interrupted
D. unhappiest
D. demanded
D. left
D. But
D. Finally
D. sadness
D. month"s
D. confused
D. worrying about | | 阅读理解。 | The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now,
thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online
farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.
Foodzie was started by Mr. LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech,
where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of
them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet
grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn"t work in the business had no way to
discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling
to faraway customers, either.
Mr. LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, worked in corporate sales and software
development. "With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we
needed." Mr. LaFAve said.
The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December and the site has had 43,000
visitors in the past month. So far, 29 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening them.
The founders recently hired a fourth employee to help Ms. Olson recruit (吸收) new food producers at
farmers markets and food shows. Mr. LaFAve is convinced that the recession (经济衰退) will not reduce
people"s interest in buying locally grown and handmade food."There is misunderstanding that all these foods
are more expensive than mass-produced alternatives," he said. "People are pouring their heart and soul into
these products, and they are of the highest quality." | | 1. The passage is mainly about _____. | | [ ] | A. how an online farmers" market works
B. the American local food movement
C. three youths starting an online farmers" market
D. the reasons why people are interested in local food | | 2. Why did the founders start the online farmers" market? | | [ ] | A. Because it met the need of the market.
B. Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.
C. Because some people wanted to buy locally grown food.
D. Because farmers wanted to sell their foods. | | 3. The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe _____. | | [ ] | A. food of high quality
B. terrible food
C. food of low fat
D. fried food | | 4. The founders of the site employed another person to help _____. | | [ ] | A. open new shops in faraway markets
B. buy locally grown and handmade food
C. find more food outside their local farmers" markets
D. find more food growers to open shops on their site | | 5. About the three founders, we know that _____. | | [ ] | A. they are of the same age
B. to start the website they gave up their work
C. they used to be colleague
D. they majored in farming at college | | 完形填空。 | I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn"t intend to start the bus soon because it was not yet
1 . A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story 2 , not to anyone in particular. On
her way to the station, half of her money was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she 3
still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked 4 .
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to 5 fares. When she
came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he 6 that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got
on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to get off the bus.
The old man was almost in tears as he 7 her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor"s
side and repeated the conductor"s 8 .
The woman was watching the incident. 9 the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,
she interfered.
"Stop 10 him! Can"t you see he"s only trying to get home?"
"He doesn"t have any money!" the driver shouted.
"Well, that"s no reason to throw him off the bus," she insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her 11 money, and handed it to the conductor. "Here"s his
fare and mine. Just stop giving him a 12 time."
All heads turned to the woman. "It"s only money," she shrugged.
She rode the rest of the way home 13 a happy smile, with the money she"d lost earlier forgotten.
On the road of life, the help of strangers can 14 our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the
15 will be when we make it a little easier for others! | ( )1. A. empty
( )2. A. tearfully
( )3. A. strangely
( )4. A. unsatisfied
( )5. A. gather
( )6. A. explained
( )7. A. begged
( )8. A. request
( )9. A. Unless
( )10. A. attacking
( )11. A. spending
( )12. A. busy
( )13. A. giving
( )14. A. move
( )15. A. home | B. full
B. seriously
B. happily
B. weak
B. raise
B. approved
B. instructed
B. action
B. Although
B. bothering
B. collected
B. full
B. wearing
B. increase
B. journey | C. crowded
C. carefully
C. secretly
C. unhappy
C. collect
C. found
C. praised
C. suggestion
C. Until
C. blaming
C. remaining
C. hard
C. taking
C. lighten
C. smile | D. ready
D. calmly
D. fortunately
D. excited
D. rise
D. repeated
D. thanked
D. order
D. When
D. wronging
D. borrowed
D. fearful
D. forcing
D. carry
D. friendship |
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