40.Thand you for ___so much trouble __ me with my geography.
A．taking… helping B．taking…in helping C．taking..for helping D．taking…to help
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day, a woman from The Express News called. She said she wanted to work on a(n) on me. When she had finished me for the article, she asked, “What are you planning to do next?”
Well, at that , there was actually nothing I was planning on doing next, and what _ out for us was, “I’m thinking about the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest-Talking Female.”
The newspaper article came out the next day, and the writer had my final remarks(评论)about trying to break the World’s Fastest-Talking Female record. At about 5:00 that afternoon, I got a from Larry King, asking me to go on the . They would me up at 8:00 — because they wanted me to do it that night!
I the phone for a while, and then I called Guinness to find out to break a fast-talking record. They told me I would have to recite something. I began . I was both and excited at the same time.
At 8:00, the car came. I practised the whole way there, and by the time I reached the ___ . I was tongue-tied. I asked the woman in charge, “What I don’t break the record?”
“Larry doesn’t if you break it or not,” she said. ” “He just cares that you try it on his show.” So I asked myself, “What’s the that can happen? I’ll look like a fool on television!” A thing, I told myself, I could live through that. And what if I break the record?
So I decided just to give it my best shot, and I did. I broke the record, becoming the World’s Fastest-Talking Female speaking 585 words in one minute!
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I still remember my first day in the U.S. very clearly. My friend was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o’clock in the afternoon. The weather was very and it was snowing, but I was too excited to_. From the airport, my friend and I a taxi to my . On the way I saw the skyline（天际线） of Manhattan（曼哈顿） for the_time and I stared in surprise at the famous skyscrapers （摩天大厦）and their man-made . Helping me unpack（卸下包裹） at the hotel, my friend left and to return the next day.
my friend had left, I went to a near the hotel to get something to eat. Since（因为） I couldn’t speak a single of English, I couldn’t tell the what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some , but he didn’t understand me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was . After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway I came to Times Square with its theatres, neon lights, and crowds of people. I didn’t feel tired, so I to walk around the city. I wanted to see _on my first day, although I knew it was impossible.
When I to the hotel, I couldn’t fall asleep, lay and thought about New York. It was a very big and amazing city with many high-rise buildings and streams of cars, and full of and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to English.
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完成句子（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）午休时间我经常去学校图书馆，而且我还可以免费借书回来阅读。
I usually go to the school library during the lunch break and I can also borrow some books from it to read at home __________ __________.作为学生，我们应该不遗余力地努力学习。
As students, we ______ __________ to spare no effort to study hard in case we fall behind.我们不应该为自己的外表感到羞愧，不是吗？
We shouldn’t be __________ ____________ the way we look, should we?爸爸妈妈比预料地早一天度假回来。
Mom and Dad arrive back from vacation a day earlier ________ __________.所以，尽管我们不排除这种想法，但是我们也在调查其他的可能性。
So, while we have not dismissed the idea, we are _____ ______ other possibilities as well.
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We were a group of people who took a bus to work every day. One of the __ was a small old man who took the bus to the health center every morning. He always chose to ___ behind the driver. No one ever paid much ___ to him.
But one July morning he said good morning to the driver and __ at others. The driver nodded. The rest of us were ___ as usual.
The next day, the old man got on the bus and said in a loud voice, “A very good___ _ to you all!” Some of us looked up, ___ , and said, “Good morning!” From then on he said good morning to us every day and we began to ___ to each other.
One morning he had some flowers in his hand. The driver turned around ____ _ and asked, “Are these for me, Charlie?” We never got to know his name was really “Charlie”, ____ _ he waved(挥动) the flowers and said ____ _. People laughed. Every morning after that Charlie always ___ a flower.
Until one morning Charlie wasn’t _____ at his usual stop. And he wasn’t there the next day and the day after that. What might have ____ to him? When we came nearer to the health centre, a woman ____ _ the driver to wait a moment. We all held our ___ _ when she went to the door.
She said she knew ____ _ we were talking about. The elderly gentleman was sick. They ____ _ him back on Monday.
The next Monday when Charlie got on the bus, all of us who he had brought ____ to in that summer sat with a ____ _in our hands.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For many years, my parents had a fortune from a fortune cookie that , “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” They it in a framed picture of themselves smiling near a beach in Cuba. I always enjoyed seeing the picture and the fortune; it gave me a of stability(稳定). I would say that they had a wonderful twenty-six-year . There were, of course, good times and times, but they were able to work together to make the life they wanted. In my opinion, there is not much more than one can ask .
When my mother was fifty-one, she got a cancer（癌症）on her tongue. Operating would have bad effects on her voice, and she would have been required to use a feeding tube for the of her life. She chose radiation treatment（化疗）. More than one year later she was forced to have a tracheotomy(气管切开术), which meant that she her voice and had to start using a tube. She decided with my father not to go through any more treatments and to at home. During this difficult time, I married my husband. We moved in with my parents to my father and to be with my mother. Five weeks after my wedding, my mother at home with the whole family present.
The day after her death, my family went out to – we really weren’t up to cooking a big family meal. My father chose a Vietnamese(越南) . We ate our dinner, talking about my mother and memories. It was a bittersweet . We had all loved her so much, but at the same me we were that her suffering was over. After dinner, we our fortune cookies. My husband’s fortune read, “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” We .
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