My uncle John used to live in a beautiful little house by the sea in Atlantic City. I say he “used to” live there he doesn’t live there any more. He was killed two years ago.
Uncle John wrote novels. He not only his job, but also made a lot of money doing it. When he died, he had $ 60 million in the bank.
After Uncle John’s death, I came to stay in his house for a while. I had been there for two days when a message on the screen of the old computer. I was very surprised, because I thought the computer had been . The message said, “You have new ! ” When I read it, I thought it looked like the of a novel. “This looks interesting,” I thought. “It must be one of Uncle John’s friends.” I decided I should make an answer to the e-mail to tell him or her that Uncle John was . However, the computer would not let me .
Every day for the next three weeks, more e-mail kept arriving. I printed of all of them. The story was about Jane Winterbourne, a young writer working on her first novel. She sent her novel to Jack Tanner, an old writer and asked him to her to publish it. However, he cheated her, and published the novel himself — pretending that he had it. The novel was very . Tanner made a lot of money, and bought himself a house by the sea in Atlantic City. It was then that I realized that “Jack Tanner” and “Jane Winterbourne” were names. “Jack was to be Uncle John.”
A．so B．because C．though D．once
A．lost B．finished C．changed D．enjoyed
A．sent B．noticed C．read D．typed
A．broke down B．turned off C．sold out D．put away
A．information B．post C．mail D．business
A．picture B．story C．end D．beginning
A．like B．about C．from D．to
A．dead B．sick C．out D．busy
A．play B．reply C．watch D．stop
A．copies B．pieces C．parts D．covers
A．teach B．help C．show D．refuse
A．missed B．corrected C．written D．bought
A．new B．expensive C．important D．successful
A．false B．true C．long D．beautiful
A．pointed B．spelt C．meant D．called
完形填空先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案
Mr. King was a strong man. He liked playing football and a lot of time on it when he studied in a medical college. Unfortunately, his left leg when he was playing football with his friends. He couldn’t play football any longer. He was for it, but he still liked watching the matches.
Now Mr. King works in a hospital. He is a good dentist and here are always patients in his office. He is always busy and has time to watch the matches. He has to watch them on TV at home in the evening. But the biggest football match in their city would at four one afternoon. Mr. King hoped to watch it, but the leader of the hospital didn’t agree to let him take the leave at working hours. “You can go out all the patients in your office leave,” he said.
It was three twenty when there were about ten patients in the waiting room. Mr. King was . He thought for a moment and then he had an idea. He said to the old woman who was lying on the chair, “Cry , madam! I’ll pull out all your bad teeth for free if you frighten away the other !”
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All over the world men and women, boys and girls enjoy sports. Sports help people____ healthily and happily.
What sports do you like ____? Is it hot in your city? Then swimming is one of your sports. There are beautiful rivers and lakes across the country. The weather is also good _ swimming. Or do you live in a cold city? Then you would like _________. There are many skiers in Austria. There are big mountains and cold winters. ________ it often rain in your country? Then kite flying would not be one of your sports.
People in Switzerland love to ___________ the wonderful mountains of their country. Mountain climbing is _________ favourite sports there.
The cowboys of the USA use their horses for their work. They also use them for their sports. They ride, jump, use ropes and catch __________ animals---all on horseback.
__________ is work for many people who must get their food this way. But for other people it is a sport. How nice it is to go fishing __________there is no school!
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完形填空,先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice. The look on his face said that one of us did something .
“Which one of you did this?”
We all looked down at the step. There was child’s handwriting in chalk there. I had a lot of . I hoped no one could see it. Would he guess it was me? I was so worried. When he asked me, I lied, “Not me, Dad.” The others denied（否认）it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of must have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn’t find the courage to tell the truth.
To who had written on the step, Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. “I want each of you to exactly what you see on the step.”
I tried my best to write the words . I didn’t want Dad to be able to tell it was me.
He our pieces of paper and looked at them. “Since none of you will admit (承认) to have done it, then I will punish (惩罚) you .” I stood there and said nothing. The last thing I wanted was for Dad to me.
“I did it.” My sister said she did something that she didn’t. Father grounded her for a month.
We didn’t talk about that day for many years. Not until we were all older and I knew it was to finally tell my dad it was really me. I always felt sorry for it. That was the last time I let anyone take the blame (责备) for me.
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完形填空,先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
A mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden. One day, she said to her ________ , “Betty, come here. Look at all these little yellow marks (斑点)on the ________ of the cabbages ( a kind of vegetable ). They are eggs of a kind of insect. They are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages. This afternoon you must ________ all the eggs on the leaves and kill them. In this way, you will help us have ________ , greener and bigger cabbages.”
Betty didn’t think she could do it ________ and in the end she forgot all about it. The mother was ill for a few days and ________work in her garden. When she was well, she took Betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages. To ________ surprise, the insects have eaten every leaf. When Betty saw this, she began to ________ . Then her mother said to her, “We should never put off (推迟) what we have to do today till ________. And you must learn to deal (处理) with the bad things ________ they are small, or it will turn into a big problem.”
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Mr. Smith works in a museum. He likes his job and always goes to work________than others.
One day Mr. Smith forgot the lunchtime, so he planned to buy ________to eat at a shop. When he came into the shop, he met an old friend. They didn’t see each other________ about five years, so they were very excited. His friend wanted him to drink together. Mr. Smith didn’t agree(同意) with him at first, because he worried about being________, but he agreed at last. They went into a restaurant and drank a lot. Then his friend said, “ You drank too much. Let me ________ you back to your office.
“No, no,” said Mr. Smith. “My office is ________ five minutes’ walk. I can go there by myself.” Then his friend left. It was ________ to stand up and it was too late, so he stopped a taxi. When he got into the taxi, the driver asked, “________ are you going, sir?”
“Park Street.”
The driver________surprised（惊讶的）and said, “Oh! It’s just Park Street here, sir.”
“OK！”Mr. Smith said and got off the taxi. He brought out some________ and gave it to the driver and shouted. “But don’t drive so fast next time.”
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