Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of f
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Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully____ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to ____.
Mom had a two-week ____ in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike ____ cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more ____, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane ____. Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.
In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to ____the storm in their homes, ____ others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more ____ side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.
As Ike pushed farther inland, we ____power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our ____ had remained well. Our hopes could not have been ____. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ____, and it was sitting on our living room, ____ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).
We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ____ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.
Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”
My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes ____ crying, but ____ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.
| 小题1: | | A．observe | B．appreciate | C．explore | D．improve |
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| 小题2: | | A．work | B．apologize | C．recover | D．change |
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| 小题3: | | A．vacation | B．journey | C．meeting | D．schedule |
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| 小题4: | | A．must | B．might | C．should | D．would |
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| 小题5: | | A．closely | B．constantly | C．warningly | D．differently |
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| 小题6: | | A．adventure | B．equipment | C．supplies | D．reports |
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| 小题7: | | A．basic | B．high | C．pure | D．neat |
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| 小题8: | | A．get through | B．put away | C．test out | D．suffer from |
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| 小题9: | | A．since | B．when | C．until | D．while |
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| 小题10: | | A．dangerous | B．abundant | C．peaceful | D．awesome |
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| 小题11: | | A．available | B．concrete | C．prized | D．potential |
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| 小题12: | | A．set out | B．headedfor | C．settled down | D．watched out |
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| 小题13: | | A．provided | B．reduced | C．produced | D．lost |
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| 小题14: | | A．garden | B．house | C．pool | D．yard |
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| 小题15: | | A．clearer | B．wilder | C．lower | D．higher |
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| 小题16: | | A．passed | B．stood | C．gone | D．followed |
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| 小题17: | | A．leaving | B．digging | C．filling | D．kicking |
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| 小题18: | | A．by | B．before | C．until | D．after |
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| 小题19: | | A．in spite of | B．instead of | C．apart from | D．in terms of |
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| 小题20: | | A．faith | B．will | C．strength | D．laughter |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:A
小题18:C
小题19:B
小题20:D |
解析
试题分析：作者感谢人生中的障碍，让他理解信念的含义和生存的渴望，通过讲述飓风Ike来临前人们的准备和飓风走后的情况，作者想要告诉读者面对困难，要以积极的心态面对。
小题1:考查动词辨析：A observe观察，B. appreciate欣赏，C. explore 探索，D. improve提高，从上文的Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍),可知是飓风Ike让我充分感激我们的力量之美和人类想恢复的动力。选B
小题2:考查动词辨析：A. work工作，B. apologize道歉，C. recover恢复，D. change改变，飓风之后，人们会尽量恢复损失，选C
小题3:考查名词辨析：A. vacation假期，B. journey 旅行，C. meeting会议，D. schedule时刻表，夏天妈妈有两个星期的假期，选A
小题4:考查情态动词辨析：A. must必须，B. might 可能，C. should应该，D. would将会，我们子德克萨斯东南部度假的时候，我们没有意识到Ike将会导致几个月可能几年的劳动。选D
小题5:考查副词辨析：A. closely仔细地，密切地，B. constantly连续地，不断地，C. warningly警告地D. differently不同地，“eyes of Texas”更密切的观察飓风Ike。选A
小题6:考查名词辨析：A. adventure冒险，B. equipment 设备，C. supplies供给，D. reports报告，从下文的Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.可知人们在做典型的最后一分钟疯狂购买飓风供应，选C
小题7:考查形容词辨析：A. basic基本的，B. high高的，C. pure纯的，D. neat整洁的，两天后，油和冰都需求量很高，选B
小题8:考查动词短语辨析：A. get through通过，接通， B. put away收好，储存，C. test out检验， D. suffer from遭受，一些邻居计划在家里度过风暴。选A
小题9:考查连词辨析：A. since自从，B. when当…时候，C. until 直到，D. while然而，而其他的人在做最后的准备离开，这里表示对比，选D
小题10:考查形容词辨析：A. dangerous危险的，B. abundant 大量的，C. peaceful宁静的，D. awesome可怕的；表示敬畏的；了不起的；从下文的：Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.可知Houston-Galveston地区将在风暴的更危险的一边。选A
小题11:考查形容词辨析：A. available可获得的，B. concrete具体的，有形的，C. prized被看作最重要的， D. potential有潜力的，妈妈和我收拾了一些最重要的物品。选C
小题12:考查动词短语辨析：A. set out出发，B. headed for前往，C. settled down定居下来，D. watched out当心，前往德克萨斯州东边的Lufkin.选B
小题13:考查动词辨析：A. provided提供，B. reduced减少，C. produced制作，D. lost失去，随着Ike更靠近内陆，我们在Lufkin停电了，选D
小题14:考查名词辨析：A. garden花园，B. house房子，C. pool水池，D. yard院子，在星期天，我们的隔壁邻居通过电话告诉我们我们的房子还在。选B
小题15:考查形容词辨析：A. clearer更清楚，B. wilder更野蛮的C. lower更低的，D. higher更高的，我们不会期望更高了，选D
小题16:考查动词辨析：A. passed通过，B. stood站，C. gone去，消失了，D. followed跟随，几小时后，邻居报告我们的烟囱没有了，选C
小题17:考查动词辨析：A. leaving离开，B. digging 挖，C. filling填满，D. kicking踢，在两个天窗之间留了一个洞，选A
小题18:考查介词辨析：A. by通过，B. before在…前面C. until直到，D. after在…后面，我们到9月17号才被允许回家。选C
小题19:考查介词短语辨析：A. in spite of虽然，B. instead of 代替，C. apart from除了，D. in terms of就…而言，我的邻居不能相信我在开玩笑而不是在哭，选B
小题20:考查名词辨析： A. faith信念，B. will 意志，C. strength力量，D. laughter笑声，从上文的内容，面对灾难作者没有哭泣而是笑对人生。选D |
举一反三
I’d meant to go to Miros that day. I’d packed my bag and was ready. The motor-boat in on time. The sky was cloudy, but the wind wasn’t too strong for the two-hour . I stood at my window, staring at the boat. Then I lost of her, an old light-house partly blocked my view of the harbor. A dozen passengers were their way there. I was about to join them --- when a man’s face at the light-house window.
This was strange, because the light-house had been empty, unused and for thirty years. It was stranger still --- because I’d seen that before. I couldn’t place it but it was, or had once been, familiar to me. I opened my window and across. “I know we’ve met before, but I can’t remember where.”
I him to open his if he could and answer me. He did neither. The face behind the glass motionless (静止). Seeing him more clearly now, I knew he was not looking at me. He seemed to be looking upwards, the clouds. How well I’d known that face, sometime, somewhere!
I again. “We met years ago. Was it in Athens in the 1950s? I used to live in Plaka.”
He didn’t reply nor give any that he’d heard. I went back further, to I was in the navy. “Perhaps we met at sea during the war,” and that thought at once him to mind. Commander Leftis! He was Commander Leftis of course! How could I have forgotten? I’d saved his life once. But surely he …
The motor-boat her bell. I turned my eyes. The wind had risen, but she was pulling . Laughing, I called, “Now I’ve missed her, and it’s your , Commander!”
As the boat drew away, the face at the window faded. minute it was there. Looking up, I could see the whites of the eyes. The minute it was gone.
Well, I didn’t rush to the light-house. I knew that Leftis was dead. He died at sea in 1963 or 1964. But there’s one other thing I ought to tell you: the motor-boat never reached Miros. It was lost in a storm, with all the passengers.
| 小题1: | | A．reached | B．arrived | C．went | D．came |
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| 小题2: | | A．voyage | B．crossing | C．travel | D．boating |
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| 小题3: | | A．sight | B．way | C．patience | D．chances |
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| 小题4: | | A．searching | B．finding | C．making | D．hurrying |
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| 小题5: | | A．placed | B．existed | C．occurred | D．appeared |
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| 小题6: | | A．locked | B．opened | C．rebuilt | D．chained |
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| 小题7: | | A．man | B．face | C．window | D．light-house |
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| 小题8: | | A．jumped | B．ran | C．shouted | D．screamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．expected | B．hoped | C．believed | D．asked |
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| 小题10: | | A．became | B．remained | C．seemed | D．grew |
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| 小题11: | | A．through | B．after | C．for | D．at |
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| 小题12: | | A．persuaded | B．repeated | C．tried | D．continued |
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| 小题13: | | A．suggestion | B．answer | C．sign | D．action |
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| 小题14: | | A．when | B．which | C．where | D．how |
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| 小题15: | | A．kept | B．brought | C．caused | D．changed |
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| 小题16: | | A．beat | B．rang | C．turned on | D．put on |
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| 小题18: | | A．problem | B．question | C．duty | D．fault |
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| 小题20: | | A．next | B．rest | C．other | D．last |
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I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earlier , my mother was telling me“Don’t watch the when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the , so he’ll know you it. ”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) apology: It must be direct. You must never to be doing something else. You do not a pile of letters while apologizing to a person in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad .
One of the important things we should do for an apology is a readiness to the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no for the other person to us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling about themselves. That, after all, is the of every apology. It little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault. Answering for one’s encourages others to take their share of the blame.
| 小题1: | | A．provided | B．mixed | | C．compared | D．treated |
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| 小题2: | | A．dreams | B．courses | | C．memories | D．ideas |
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| 小题3: | | A．side | B．ground | | C．wall | D．bottom |
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| 小题4: | | A．mind | B．soul | | C．face | D．eye |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．enjoy | | C．mean | D．regret |
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| 小题6: | | A．useful | B．successful | | C．equal | D．basic |
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| 小题7: | | A．pretend | B．forget | | C．refuse | D．expect |
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| 小题8: | | A．hold on | B．put away | | C．look through | D．pick up |
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| 小题9: | | A．poorer | B．weaker | | C．worse | D．lower |
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| 小题10: | | A．fault | B．reason | C．result | D．duty |
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| 小题11: | | A．cruelly | B．freely | | C．roughly | D．foolishly |
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| 小题12: | | A．manners | B．excuses | | C．efforts | D．roles |
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| 小题13: | | A．active | B．effective | | C．extra | D．easy |
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| 小题14: | | A．raise | B．perform | | C．admit | D．bear |
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| 小题15: | | A．situation | B．need | | C．sign | D．room |
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| 小题16: | | A．advise | B．forgive | | C．warn | D．blame |
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| 小题17: | | A．wiser | B．warmer | | C．better | D．cleverer |
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| 小题18: | | A．purpose | B．method | | C．end | D．advantage |
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| 小题19: | | A．cares | B．matters | | C．depends | D．remains |
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| 小题20: | | A．facts | B．states | | C．rights | D．actions |
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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting us in age.
Men often discover their similarity to each other by the common love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love my, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond(纽带) of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best container of a life preserving the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which become our steady companions and comforters.
Books are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay(腐朽), but good books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago.
The great and good do not die, even in this world. Preserved in books, their spirits walked abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect(智者) to which one still listens.
小题1:The writer introduces the topic of the passage by .| A．describing life experience of great writers | | B．telling his own story of reading good books | | C．presenting the best thoughts in good books | | D．comparing good books to good friends in life |
小题2:What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?| A．Readers feel sympathy for the author. | | B．Readers live together with the author. | | C．Readers and the author share the same feeling. | | D．Readers are the author’s companions and comforters. |
小题3:which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．We can learn about the great and good through books. | | B．The most important part of a man’s life is his treasures. | | C．Good books help us to know about their authors’ friends. | | D．Books are often regarded as best containers in our life. |
小题4:the passage mainly tells us that .
A. one should have some good friends
B one should read as many books as possible
C. one should keep company with good books
D books are the most lasting products of human efforts |
That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.
For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.
However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.
A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.
After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.
小题1:What do we know about the author’s mother?| A．She didn’t like insects at all. | | B．She liked insects more than his father. | | C．She cared for insects very much. | | D．She could only tolerate a few insects. |
小题2:The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______. | A．cigarettes for himself | B．some poison | | C．more coffee for his wife | D．some gasoline |
小题3:The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______. | A．they were no longer useful | | B．the crickets were afraid of fires | | C．they became the home of crickets | | D．the dead crickets came back to life |
小题4:We learn from the last paragraph that ________. | A．the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets | | B．the author’s parents learned to put up with insects | | C．the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire | | D．the author’s parents got divorced |
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It was raining. I went into a café and asked for a coffee. ____ I was waiting for my drink, I realized there were other people in the place, but I sensed ____. I saw their bodies, but I couldn’t feel their souls ____ their souls belonged to the ____.
I stood up and walked _______the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man _____ in front of it. “I’m Steve,” he ______ answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. “I can’t talk with you. I’m ____,” he said. He was chatting online and, ____, he was playing a computer game – a war game. I was ______.
Why didn’t Steve want to talk with me? I tried ____ to speak to that computer geek （怪人），____ not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction. I was _____. I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout, “____!”
I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the café were looking at me. I raised my head, and saw nobody showed any interest.
, I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more interested in having a relationship with the , particularly Steve. I wouldn’t want to the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines with people.
I was worried and sank in my thoughts. I didn’t even ____ that the coffee was bad, ____ Steve didn’t notice there was a person next to him.
| 小题1: | | A．Before | B．Since | C．Although | D．While |
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| 小题2: | | A．pain | B．loneliness | C．sadness | D．fear |
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| 小题3: | | A．because | B．when | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题5: | | A．beside | B．among | C．between | D．on |
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| 小题6: | | A．sleeping | B．laughing | C．sitting | D．learning |
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| 小题7: | | A．finally | B．quickly | C．patiently | D．loudly |
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| 小题8: | | A．busy | B．thirsty | C．tired | D．sick |
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| 小题9: | | A．first of all | B．just then | C．at the same time | D．by that time |
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| 小题10: | | A．surprised | B．delighted | C．moved | D．frightened |
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| 小题11: | | A．once | B．again | C．first | D．even |
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| 小题13: | | A．excited | B．respected | C．afraid | D．unhappy |
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| 小题14: | | A．Shut up | B．Enjoy yourself | C．Leave me alone | D．Help me out |
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| 小题15: | | A．From then on | B．At that moment | C．In all | D．Above all |
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| 小题16: | | A．computer | B．soul | C．shop | D．geek |
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| 小题17: | | A．tell | B．plan | C．imagine | D．design |
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| 小题18: | | A．other than | B．instead of | C．except for | D．as well as |
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| 小题19: | | A．pretend | B．understand | C．insist | D．realize |
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| 小题20: | | A．as if | B．just as | C．so that | D．even though |
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