阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Hundreds of years ago in a small town, a moneylender lent a lot of money to a poor man. The moneylender , who was old and ugly, _____ the poor man’s beautiful daughter. So he came up with an idea. He said the poor man didn’t need to return the money to him _____ he could marry his daughter. Both the man and his daughter were________.
The moneylender then told them that he would put a small _______ stone and a small white stone into an empty bag. The girl would have to ______ one. If she took the black stone , she would become the moneylender’s _______ and her father’s debt would be let go. If she picked the white stone, she didn’t need to marry him and her father’s debt would______ be let go. Her father would be put into prison if she refused to pick a stone.
As they talked, the moneylender picked up two stones. As he did that, the girl______that he had put two black stones in the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her stone from the bag.
The girl thought for a while and then had an idea. She put her hand into the bag and took out a stone. ______ looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it ______ became lost among all the other stones. “ Oh how______ I was！” She said, “But never ______. If you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to _______ which stone I picked.” This ______ tells: Sometimes we can think about things in a _______way. Most difficult problems do have an solution.
A．pleased B．attracted C．loved D．saw
A．if B．unless C．so D．but
A．bored B．frightened C．relaxed D．excited
A．pink B．red C．black D．yellow
A．show B．damage C．check D．choose
A．daughter B．cousin C．wife D．friend
A．again B．still C．never D．hardly
A．said B．feared C．thought D．noticed
A．On . B．About C．For D．Without
A．usually B．surprisingly C．immediately D．slowly
A．worried B．clever C．careless D．lucky
A．laugh B．mind C．cry D．complain
A．tell B．explain C．ask D．arrange
A．saying B．story C．news D．man
A．careful B．funny C．different D．normal
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阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
The world is divided into two parts. One half of the world is rich and the________half is poor. In the poor part, a lot of people ________get enough to eat. When they are ill, none of the hospitals can ________them because they have no money. In the rich part, a lot of people eat too much. For example, a dog________ a cat in North America eats better than a child in the poorer countries. The poor countries have some ________ problems. Sometimes the land is too poor to grow ________ on. People there have neither rich land nor enough water. The land can be made better,________ a lot of things must be done. The people must be taught and water must be found.
But rich countries have ________,too. There are not always good places to live in. Sometimes the air is not clean and the rivers are too________ to swim in o r to drink. The roads and streets are full of people and buses. Cars and buses have to move________ . There is too much noise. Something must be done about these problems. The air and the rivers must be cleaned and be kept clean. More houses have to be built. But these can’t be done easily.
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完形填空,阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。
I started to love running at a young age. I loved to race my father and my sister around the backyard. I wished I could run in the Olympics and win lots of medals.
One day my mother saw ______ for a race in a newspaper. “Would you be interested in _____ part in this race ? ” she asked me, pointing to the advertisement.
“Yes, of course.” I answered.
I _______ the next few days practicing for my big race. My sister set up a table in the backyard so she could ______ me water and time ..
On the day of the race, just before the race , my _______ said to me , “ Don’t use up all your energy at the beginning of the race. You need to have energy _______ you can run much faster at the end. ”
The race _______. Following Dad’s words, I didn’t run as fast as I could. Then the other runners started passing me, which made me feel _______. I began to feel tired, and I started slowing down and breathing _______ .
Just at that moment I heard, “ _______, Kelly! You can do it ! Don’t give up . keep running!” Out of the comer of the corner of my eye I saw Dad running beside me around the outside or the track .
I took a ________ breathe and tried my best to go on running. I didn’t win the race. I came fifth, but I felt like a _________. I had done my best, and I hadn’t given up.
Later, as I thought about the race, I felt thankful that my dad had________ left my side. He always encourages me when I _______ giving up. He runs alongside me through my life. I’ll ________ my dad’s words forever, “Never give up. You can be a winner, even if you lose.”
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I had been in London for two years. During the time I was _________there, my strong wish was to ___________ instead of staying in the city I didn't know well.
So when the day came for my __________ .I had a strange feeling and my mind was full of beautiful things in London-----the tall trees around my __________ , the clean streets, the school library, the old church(教堂)near the school and so on. I was for the first time not sure ___________ I really wish to go. I was becoming good at spoken English and interested in the different way of living in London. Most important of all, I did not want to leave my ________ who were near and dear to me during the two long years. I felt like running into the head teacher's office and telling him that I really didn't want to go home. But on the second thought I stopped myself __________ the plan. My parents are quite old and I might have no time to see them again if I gave up this plan.
At the airport, most of my teachers and friends came to see me off and quite a few gave me __________.Many group photos were taken and before long the final moment came. Everyone shook hands with me and said goodbye to me. Their eyes ___________ tears and I knew they were ____________ at the moment.
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In learning English, spoken English is very important, but many students complain that they can’t understand what other people say. So their spoken English is not good, ________. Well, what can we do to improve our __________ English quickly?
The most important thing is to believe in ___________. Maybe many of us are afraid to _____________. But as students, we usually make progress by __________ the problems in learning. It doesn’t matter if our __________ can’t be as good as native speakers. We should __________ it as a challenge and then get __________ practice. We shouldn’t worry at all that native speakers will__________ us. Be brave, and then we’ll speak good English soon.
Don’t be shy or ___________. We should speak English aloud in front of others, no matter what we say is right or wrong.
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Every Sunday morning, Alice goes to visit her grandparents. They live in the south of the city. It usually takes her about 20 minutes to________ there by bus.
It’s Sunday today. Alice gets everything________ at 8.00. She wants to take some eggs and vegetables to her grandparents. At 8.10, she comes to the bus stop to ________ the No.7 bus to her grandparents’ place. At about 8.30, she knocks ________ the door. Her grandpa and grandma ________ her at home. They are very happy to see Alice.
At about 10.00, Alice and her grandma do some ________ in the supermarket. They put some rice, meat ________ some fruit into the shopping basket. Her grandma is ________ at cooking. Every Sunday, she cooks some nice food for Alice.
After lunch, Alice ________ her grandma do the dishes. Then Grandpa takes Alice to his small ________ . They water the flowers there.
Alice feels very happy to stay with her grandparents.
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