The teacher thought hobbies were very important for every child. She 36 all her pupils to have one, and sometimes 37 for their parents to come and see the work they had done as a result.
One Friday 38 the teacher told the class that those who had a hobby could have a 39 that afternoon to get the things they had made as parts of their hobbies ready for their 40 to see the following afternoon.
So in the afternoon, while those of the pupils who had nothing to 41 did their usual lessons, the lucky ones who had made something 42 to go home, on condition that they 43 before five o'clock to bring what they were going to show and to arrange it.
When the afternoon lesson began, the teacher was 44 to see Tommy was not there. He was the 45 boy in the class, and the teacher found it 46 to believe he had a hobby. However, at 4:45, Tommy arrived with a(n) 47 collection of butterflies in glass cases. After his 48 had admired them and helped him to arrange them on a table in the classroom, she was surprised to see Tommy 49 them up again and begin to leave.
"What are you doing, Tommy?" she asked. "Those things must 50 here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the parents are coming to see them."
"I know 51 ," answered Tommy, "and I will bring them back tomorrow; but my 52 doesn't want them to be out of our house at night in case they are 53 ."
"But what has it got to do with your brother?" asked the teacher. "Aren't the butterflies yours?"
"No," answered Tommy. "They belong to him."
"But Tommy, you are 54 to show your own hobby here, not somebody else's!" said the teacher.
"I know that," answered Tommy. "My hobby is 55 my brother collecting butterflies."
A．stopped B．ordered C．encouraged D．agreed
A．arranged B．asked C．looked D．waited
A．afternoon B．evening C．night D．morning
A．test B．lesson C．competition D．holiday
A．teachers B．parents C．friends D．classmates
A．present B．do C．see D．eat
A．had B．used C．were made D．were allowed
A．turned out B．returned C．left D．finished
A．sad B．happy C．frightened D．surprised
A．laziest B．most curious C．cleverest D．youngest
A．difficult B．easy C．reliable D．disable
A．ugly B．small C．beautiful D．obvious
A．classmates B．brother C．father D．teacher
A．throw B．pick C．switch D．use
A．remain B．leave C．observe D．undertake
A．them B．him C．that D．this
A．sister B．friend C．brother D．mother
A．stolen B．shown C．completed D．matched
A．fired B．supposed C．related D．ignored
A．helping B．concerning C．watching D．Seeking
Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came __ in his life. He was forty __ Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his __ was set up, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from __ traditional forms of poetry with American words, in a clearly American way.
Frost the same speaker for many poems, so the poems formed a larger unity. He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a _ person who lived in the country, not the _ .
Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact, the speaker was （10 ）person. Frost, the , tried to become the imaginary person he for his poetry.
Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. he came from the other side of the country, San Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early .
This man who was born in the and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in American’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to the general.
Someone once asked another American , Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The _ thing, he said, was to have an _ childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very writer.
A．soon B．late C．quickly D．early
A．since B．until C．before D．after
A．fame B．name C．poem D．family
A．working B．using C．putting D．uniting
A．spoken B．made C．built D．formed
A．thought of B．practiced C．used D．met
A．old B．separate C．famous D．excellent
A．common B．young C．wise D．grown-up
A．city B．village C．state D．continent
A．a famous B．a real C．an imaginary D．a historic
A．artist B．man C．lady D．officer
A．loved B．respected C．admired D．created
A．In this way B．Yet C．Though D．Therefore
A．childhood B．writings C．work D．paintings
A．East B．North C．West D．South
A．learn from B．know C．study D．honor
A．teacher B．writer C．painter D．leader
A．quickest B．worst C．best D．hardest
A．exciting B．interesting C．unlucky D．unhappy
A．good B．poor C．young D．able
In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police
have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in
. A policeman often has to control traffic, either
foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time
up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop
motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we
the police to come and restore order. And they often have to
situation at great risk to their own
.
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help
and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a
, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police.
a policeman has to be
to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the
world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could
do the job of a policeman.
A. dislike B. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. shouldB. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funnyB. a pleasant C. an interesting D. an easy
A. ut B. oneC. hisD. them
A. onB. byC. underD. with
A. walkingB. driving C. wanderingD. searching
A. resting B. tired C. speedingD. drunken
A. peaceB. silence C. situationD. condition
A. wait for B. call C. think ofD. expect
A. turn toB. avoid C. deal withD. treat
A. safetyB. families C. futureD. friends
A. althoughB. as if C. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. question C. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fire C. thunder stormD. thief
A. YetB. Then C. AsD. So
A. provided B. promised C. preparedD. presented
A. future B. modern C. realD. whole
A. extremely B. speciallyC. surprisinglyD. particularly
A. hardly B. forever C. everD. never
If you have a watch, don’t repair it! I know it __. Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch __
perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to __
it up. The next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to __
by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: “The regulator(校准器) is to be pushed up __
your watch is four minutes __
.”
I tried to stop him, and tried to __him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It __faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it __
all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately __he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to __
down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to __watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he __
it to pieces and said that he could finish this work __
three or four days. I could do nothing but __
. That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept __ my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest main in the world could not __ the time by my watch. The thing was getting __
. My watch had __
two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy _
watch, which I did.
A.for reality B.for truthC.for certainD.for certainty
A.kept B.told C.observedD.struck
A.turn B.wind C.pick D.put
A.be turnedB.be taken C.be putD.be set
A.asB.as ifC.when D.if
A.fast B.slowly C.fasterD.slow
A.getB.persuade C.makeD.explain
A.gainedB.lost C.went D.won
A.had remained B.had leftC.had stayed D.had fallen
A.however B.andC.but D.therefore
A.go B.walkC.slow D.take
A.the thirdB.the secondC.the firstD.the forth
A.brokeB.took C.toreD.cut
A.afterB.beforeC.overD.in
A.to agree B.agreeC.agreeing D.agreed
A.takingB.bringing C.carryingD.fetching
A.recognizeB.tell C.know D.understand
A.seriouslyB.pleasant C.badly D.serious
A.spentB.took C.costD.paid
A.another B.the other C.oneD.one more
In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police
have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in
. A policeman often has to control traffic, either
foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time
up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop
motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we
the police to come and restore order. And they often have to
situation at great risk to their own
.
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help
and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a
, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police.
a policeman has to be
to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the
world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could
do the job of a policeman.
A. dislikeB. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. should B. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funny B. a pleasant C. an interestingD. an easy
A. us B. oneC. hisD. them
A. on B. byC. under D. with
A. walking B. drivingC. wanderingD. searching
A. restingB. tiredC. speeding D. drunken
A. peaceB. silenceC. situation D. condition
A. wait for B. callC. think ofD. expect
A. turn to B. avoidC. deal withD. treat
A. safety B. familiesC. futureD. friends
A. although B. as ifC. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. questionC. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fireC. thunder storm D. thief
A. YetB. ThenC. AsD. So
A. providedB. promisedC. preparedD. presented
A. futureB. modernC. realD. whole
A. extremely B. specially C. surprisinglyD. particular
A. hardlyB. forever C. everD. never
My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other __that guests rarely realize that she’s __
anything.
One day, my six-year-old daughter Kayla went to play at her home.. When Kayla came home, she was very __about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was __
excited about her finger-painting project. “I learned how to __
colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle __
__ with us. She said she liked the way the paint felt through her fingers,” said Kayla.
Something about my child’s excitement caught my __, and I realized that I had never finger-painted with Kayla. As a result, my child had learned about __
from a blind friend.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never __in conversation. When I told her, she didn’t __
me at first. “But Mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my __
!”Kayla insisted. “Michelle told me that my picture showed joy, __
and a sense of accomplishment. She really __
what I was doing !” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger-painting was __
Michelle taught her. I knew my child was __
--Michelle had listened to Kayla when she __
her artwork. Michelle had also __
Kayla express her pride in her work, and her excitement at her __
of the way colors mix.
We were __for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my __
.”
Yes, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
A.ways B.methods C.talentsD.senses
A.enjoyed B.succeeded C.missed D.found
A.satisfiedB.movedC.excitedD.enjoyed
A.hardlyB.especially C.reallyD.mostly
A.mixB.drawC.findD.talk
A.cooked B.played C.stayedD.painted
A.sightB.attentionC.interestD.observation
A.colorB.art C.finger D.fun
A.come around B.come acrossC.come through D.come up
A.agreeB.accept C.believeD.approve
A.attitudeB.picture C.worldD.life
A.regretB.sorrowC.prideD.achievement
A.heard B.saw C.touched D.felt
A.untilB.after C.when D.since
A.right B.wrongC.confusedD.clear
A.createdB.described C.designed D.produced
A.heardB.seenC.madeD.imagined
A.studyB.research C.knowledgeD.discovery
A.silentB.worriedC.confusedD.sad
A.hands B.eyes C.works D.feelings