It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen,
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It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the 小题1: and take my seat. I 小题2: the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books, 小题3: full well that I will be 小题4: on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s 小题5: —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be 小题6: .
Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am 小题7: with the usual big hugs and smiles. 小题8: , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home 小题9: the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and 小题10: new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our 小题11: home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 小题12: the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously 小题13: to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were 小题14: great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my 小题15: would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the 小题16: . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information 小题17: the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is 小题18: about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as 小题19: to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the 小题20: free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.
| 小题21: | | A．friends | B．strangers | C．regulars | D．waiters |
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| 小题22: | | A．make | B．take | C．bring | D．order |
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| 小题23: | | A．remembering | B．knowing | C．deciding | D．learning |
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| 小题24: | | A．stuck | B．focused . | C．fixed | D．turned |
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| 小题25: | | A．certain | B．early | C．late | D．clear |
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| 小题26: | | A．washed | B．cleaned | C．filled | D．covered |
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| 小题27: | | A．armed | B．satisfied | C．occupied | D．greeted |
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| 小题28: | | A．Finally | B．Suddenly | C．Actually | D．Particularly |
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| 小题29: | | A．away from | B．similar to | C．apart from | D．close to |
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| 小题30: | | A．create | B．play | C．write | D．hear |
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| 小题31: | | A．inner | B．outer | C．warmer | D．smaller |
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| 小题32: | | A．answer | B．talk | C．mention | D．mend |
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| 小题33: | | A．choose | B．determine | C．pretend | D．expect |
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| 小题34: | | A．pretty | B．that | C．too | D．rather |
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| 小题35: | | A．health | B．friendship | C．conditions | D．grades |
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| 小题36: | | A．place | B．benefit | C．point | D．view |
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| 小题37: | | A．relate | B．requiring | C．reflecting | D．regarding |
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| 小题38: | | A．also | B．still | C． more | D．even |
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| 小题39: | | A．available | B．beneficial | C．familiar | D．encouraging |
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| 小题40: | | A．special | B．occasional | C．unusual | D．natural |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:B
小题9:A
小题10:A
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:D
小题18:A
小题19:C
小题20:B |
解析
试题分析：本文讲述的是一个大学生找到了一个餐厅可以让自己安静地学习并和朋友在一起开心地度过很多快乐的时光。
小题1:A 名词辨析。A朋友B陌生人C常客D服务员；前面node(点头)；根据常识应该是对熟悉的朋友点头。
小题2:D 动词辨析。A生产B拿走C带来D点菜；根据上文的waiters可知我来到是餐厅，那么应该是点菜。
小题3:B 动词辨析。A记得B知道C决定D学习；我打开书本知道我会在书本的同一页上卡住的。
小题4:A 形容词辨析。A卡住的B/C聚焦于D转向；我打开书本知道我会在书本的同一页上卡住的。
小题5:B 词义辨析。A当然B早C晚D清楚；很清楚我的那一群同学就会在那里。
小题6:C 动词辨析。A洗B清扫C充满D覆盖；我等待着那些未知被人坐满了。指我的朋友会来到这里看书。
小题7:D 考查常识。朋友来了以后，我一个问候她们，故greet问候正确。
小题8:B 副词辨析。A最后B突然C实际上D尤其；突然这个24小时营业的地方停止营业了成为我的家一样的地方，远离那些像监狱一样的宿舍。
小题9:A 词义辨析。A远离B与…相似C除…之外D接近；指这个地方成为了我的家，远离我不喜欢的宿舍。
小题10:A 动词辨析。A创造，编造B玩C写D听见；这里是指我们编造的一些玩笑话。描述朋友一起的情形。
小题11:A 形容词辨析。A心的B外面的C温暖D小的；这里就成为了我们内心的家园。
小题12:C 固定搭配。Not to mention更不必说，更不必提；我开始来到这里和远离了宿舍，和舍友们没有了联系，更不要说有电话等方式的联系。
小题13:D 动词辨析。A选择B决定C假装D期待；怎么样才能期待着有一个很好的学习习惯呢？
小题14:B 语法分析。这里的that=so如此；我经常来这里不仅仅是因为这里的馅饼是如此的好。
小题15:D 名词辨析。A健康B友谊C条件D成绩；也许在这里我会打开我的书本开始学习，我的成绩也会提高。
小题16:C 词义辨析。A地方B益处C意义D观点；但是这并不是意义所在。
小题17:D 词义辨析。Regarding关于；教授会讲授一些我不感兴趣的关于黑斯廷斯战役的信息。
小题18:A上下文串联。A也B仍然C更加D甚至；根据16空后的not only说明这里不是“也”。
小题19:C 形容词辨析。A存在的B有益的C熟悉的D鼓励人的；这里的familiar与介词to连用，指我很熟悉。
小题20:B 形容词辨析。A特别的B偶尔的C不同寻常的D自然的；是指在这里皮尔会有免费的冰激凌提供。
点评：本文本句抽象，讲述的是一个大学生找到了一个餐厅可以让自己安静地学习并和朋友在一起开心地度过很多快乐的时光。本文要求考生具有扎实的英语词组、短语、习惯用法等英语搭配的知识，这对于理解文章的逻辑关系特别有利。文章的逻辑关系不外乎列举、原因、结果、让步、对照、补充、目的、条件等关系。解题时应联系上下文寻找相关线索，如某一个词的原词、指代词、同义词、近义词、上义词、下义词和概括词等。但由于我们在做题时不可能总是重复地阅读文章，因此，在做完形填空时要培养一种捕捉并记忆相关信息的能力。 |
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Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong.
The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
小题1:According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.| A．people who stay up until the next morning | | B．people who get up early in the morning | | C．people who feel sleepy in the morning | | D．people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning |
小题2:Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?| A．Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time. | | B．Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise. | | C．Because he / she wanted to test which school is better. | | D．Because he / she found that the productivity was higher. |
小题3:The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.| A．going to bed after midnight | | B．asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits | | C．getting up early occasionally | | D．pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping |
小题4:What’s the author’s sleep pattern?| A．Going to bed early and getting up early. | | B．Going to bed late and getting up late. | | C．Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time. | | D．Going to bed early and getting up late. |
小题5:The passage is mainly about ________.| A．main schools of thought on sleep patterns | B．how to have a good sleep | | C．wrong strategies for getting up early | D．how to become an early riser |
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When I was learning calligraphy (书法), my teacher told me a story.
A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practiced handwriting with old sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you"ll write better.”
The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered，“When you used old newspaper to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft. It didn"t matter if you wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn"t pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper and you"ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity of chances and you"ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you"ll do the handwriting much more attentively than practicing. Of course you"ve made rapid progress.”
Indeed, we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspaper”．We don"t care if we scrawl and waste it, thinking that it will come endlessly—the “old newspaper” is inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there"s no chance for us to draft. That"s because what we call “draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed.
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper.
小题1:The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought ________.| A．the student would practice more carefully on the best paper | | B．it was comfortable to write on the best paper | | C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper | | D．the student could write more on the best paper |
小题2:The student didn"t make much progress at first because ________.| A．he didn"t follow his teacher"s advice | | B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write on | | C．he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft | | D．he was not used to the calligrapher"s teaching manner |
小题3:We learn from the passage that ________.| A．the student finally gave up | | B．the student made rapid progress by practicing more carefully | | C．the calligrapher was strict with his students | | D．old newspaper is not useful |
小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．What teachers say is always true. | | B．Success calls for attentiveness. | | C．Handwriting is easy to practice. | | D．New things are always better than old ones. |
小题5:The writer wants to tell us that ________.| A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting | | B．life is like old newspaper | | C．we should learn from the student in the story | | D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft |
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Growing up, I remember my father as a silent, strict man—not the kind of person around whom one could laugh. As a teenager knowing little about life, I wanted a father who could 小题1: the mysteries of the human journey. In college, when friends called home for 小题2:, I would become 小题3: for what I didn’t have.
Then one night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, he 小题4: the problem with me. Obviously my knowledge of law helped him a lot. I talked through the problem with him, 小题5: the motives of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies.
He 小题6: patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I’m a 小题7: man.”
My father is a 小题8: scientist who has a good knowledge of the building blocks of nature. 小题9:, human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized he was simply not skilled at 小题10: people. It’s not in his 小题11: to understand human desires.
It was no one’s 小题12: that my father showed no interest in human emotions while I placed great importance on them. We are sometimes born more sensitive, and dreamy than our 小题13: and become more curious, and idealistic than them. 小题14: I, who knew my father as an intelligent man, had never understood his intelligence didn’t cover all of my 小题15: feelings.
I believe that coming home has 小题16: me years of questions and confusion. I nowadays consider my parents as people who have other relationships than just being my parents, relationships that 小题17: and define them.
Best of all, I nowadays regard my parents as 小题18:: people who ask me for advice; people who need my 小题19: and understanding. And I’ve come to see my past in a 小题20: view. Knowing them makes me feel safe in where I come from and where I’m going.
| 小题21: | | A．think | B．produce | C．explain | D．explore |
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| 小题22: | | A．money | B．advice | C．love | D．agreement |
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| 小题23: | | A．unhappy | B．unhelpful | C．unknown | D．unpopular |
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| 小题24: | | A．exchanged | B．solved | C．found | D．shared |
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| 小题25: | | A．proving | B．recording | C．analyzing | D．guessing |
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| 小题26: | | A．replied | B．learned | C．chatted | D．listened |
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| 小题27: | | A．simple | B．weak | C．lazy | D．blind |
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| 小题28: | | A．special | B．lively | C．brilliant | D．humorous |
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| 小题29: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Indeed | D．Anyhow |
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| 小题30: | | A．meeting with | B．dealing with | C．talking with | D．fighting with |
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| 小题31: | | A．nature | B．plan | C．wish | D．major |
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| 小题32: | | A．relief | B．secret | C．pity | D．fault |
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| 小题33: | | A．relatives | B．classmates | C．parents | D．families |
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| 小题34: | | A．Besides | B．And | C．However | D．For |
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| 小题35: | | A．strong | B．strange | C．different | D．unique |
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| 小题36: | | A．told | B．gave | C．added | D．saved |
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| 小题37: | | A．raise | B．protect | C．shape | D．enjoy |
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| 小题38: | | A．friends | B．teachers | C．travelers | D．leaders |
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| 小题39: | | A．visit | B．support | C．wisdom | D．knowledge |
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| 小题40: | | A．richer | B．harder | C．rougher | D．clearer |
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“I didn"t hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said "yes" and it was announced again."
It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana -- she was still on cloud nine.
"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience (观众) that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.
Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete (比赛). "She"s always been my role model. I"ve danced with her since I was six. She"s been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I"ve learned to get over bad life"s experiences and learned how to move on because of her."
One of those bad life"s experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the rough days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot..."
As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens (青少年) about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Shelley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to many other things to help the youth.
When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don"t let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."
小题1:What do the words "on cloud nine" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．frightened | B．troubled | C．very happy | D．very angry |
小题2:Shelley takes her dance teacher as a role model mainly because she is ________.| A．determined | B．friendly | C．strict | D．experienced |
小题3:How many children did the Hennigs have according to the text?小题4:What did Shelley often do after she became Miss Louisiana Teen?| A．She visited drunken drivers. | | B．She gave dance performance. | | C．She made speeches on safe driving. | | D．She helped other teens with their studies. |
小题5:What suggestion does Shelley give to the teens?| A．Be yourself with the support of friends. | | B．Meet friends whenever possible. | | C．Go easy on yourself and others. | | D．Have a good role model |
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I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar 31 of Disneyland from TV, she 32 her nickels and dimes (零钱) in a piggy bank in 33 of visiting there someday. Her parents 34 her with a trip when she was four, however, and didn"t even 35 her to use her own money!
When Skylar returned. It was 36. She decided to buy presents with her 37. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local 38 shelter called "The Road House". She 39 asked her mother what "homeless" meant and why those children 40 coats and warm clothes. She couldn"t seem to get the homeless off her mind.
Her mother took her to the store to buy 41. Instead of buying for herself or her family, however, she 42 to purchase a warm coat, socks and gloves for a little girl in the 43 .She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she 44 she didn"t have enough money, she left the doll 45 .
When Skylar got home, she chose one of her 46 dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could hardly wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her carefully 47 gifts to a homeless child. She was much filled with joy at 48 helping someone else.
"Perhaps it"s good to have a beautiful mind, 49 an even greater gift is to have a beautiful heart," says Nobel Laureate John Hash. Young Skylar has a beautiful heart. It is one 50 , above all else, which makes beautiful people.
| 小题1: | | A．learned | B．cared | C．thought | D．reminded |
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| 小题2: | | A．saved | B．gathered | C．took | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．honor | B．favor | C．hopes | D．search |
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| 小题4: | | A．disappointed | B．annoyed | C．helped | D．surprised |
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| 小题5: | | A．order | B．require | C．persuade | D．force |
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| 小题6: | | A．Christmastime | B．payday | C．birthday | D．school time |
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| 小题7: | | A．expenses | B．earnings | C．savings | D．debts |
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| 小题8: | | A．poor | B．homeless | C．big | D．famous |
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| 小题9: | | A．generally | B．curiously | C．strangely | D．seriously |
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| 小题10: | | A．used | B．took | C．needed | D．liked |
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| 小题11: | | A．presents | B．dolls | C．socks | D．gloves |
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| 小题12: | | A．refused | B．decided | C．hesitated | D．wished |
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| 小题13: | | A．shelter | B．nursery | C．house | D．hospital |
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| 小题14: | | A．predicted | B．promised | C．explained | D．discovered |
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| 小题15: | | A．out | B．behind | C．aside | D．alone |
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| 小题16: | | A．expensive | B．cheap | C．favorite | D．useless |
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| 小题17: | | A．collected | B．bought | C．selected | D．demanded |
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| 小题18: | | A．deeply | B．quickly | C．truly | D．exactly |
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| 小题20: | | A．quality | B．expensive | C．sense | D．expression |
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