As she walked round the large shop, Edith realized how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas for her father.
She that he were as easy to please as her mother，who was satisfied with perfume (香水). , shopping at this time of the year was a most job. People on your feet, pushed you with their shoulders and almost you over in their hurry in order to something cheap ahead of you.
Partly to have a rest，Edith paused in front of a counter, where some beautiful ties were on . “ They are silk，” the shop assistant told her with a smile trying to her to buy one. But Edith knew from past that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
She moved on slowly and then, quite by chance， where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter. She found some fine pipes on sale and the were very beautiful. Edith did not hesitate for long, although her father smoked a pipe once in a while, she believed this would please him.
When she got home, with her small but present hidden in her handbag，it was time for supper and her parents were already table. Her mother was in great . “ Your father has at last decided to stop smoking，”，she told her daughter happily. Edith was so that she could not say a single word.
A．suit B．card C．thing D．gift
A．believed B．wished C．hoped D．supposed
A．never B．seldom C．always D．scarcely
A．Therefore B．Fortunately C．Besides D．Finally
A．unhappy B．careful C．exciting D．tiring
A．walked B．stepped C．lifted D．stood
A．turned B．hit C．brought D．knocked
A．watch B．find C．grasp D．sell
A．time B．show C．board D．duty
A．real B．cheap C．poor D．exact
A．hope B．ask C．force D．persuade
A．experience B．things C．books D．school
A．stopped B．saw C．asked D．found
A．money B．cigarette C．shapes D．shop
A．always B．nearly C．only D．never
A．hardly B．impossibly C．possibly D．certainly
A．cheap B．well-chosen C．expensive D．ready-made
A．on B．by C．beside D．at
A．excitement B．anger C．sadness D．disappointment
A．glad B．happy C．surprised D．excited
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
There are many ________ of chocolate. If you love it, you can’t forget DOVE --the most famous chocolate brand. But do you know what the _________ of DOVE is?
Dove chocolate is born because of status. One day in 1919 Princess Bazaar of Luxembourg's royal family first met the royal kitchen helper Leon. Many nights Leon slipped into the kitchen and various ice creams for Bazaar. They soon fell in love. Unfortunately owing to their quite different social , both of them had to bury the deep feelings in heart.
Afterwards Bazaar was ________ to accept an arranged royal marriage against her wishes. For many days Leon could not see Bazaar, and he was burning with impatience. Finally Bazaar at the table a month later. While serving desserts, Leon wrote the letters "DOVE" is an abbreviation of DO YOU LOVE ME hot chocolate on Bazaar's ice cream. Leon expected that Bazaar could understand his feeling.
A few days later, Bazaar got married. Leon, broken-hearted, could not bear the mental and left for America, he and his own family ran a candy store years later but lived unhappily.
Many years later, met again before Bazaar’s death. Bazaar recalled that she did eat the ice cream that afternoon didn't see the melting letters and also didn't receive any from Leon and she had to give in to her fate and missed him all her .
Hearing this, Leon in tears. that chocolate had been solid, those letters would never have melted and he would not have lost his chance. Leon decided to create a solid chocolate which can preserve a long time.
After lots of research, he and each piece of chocolate was firmly engraved(刻) with the –DOVE. It is a symbol of the love between Leon and Bazaar.
Now more and more people fall in love with this chocolate. Giving someone DOVE sending the whisper of love DO YOU LOVE ME?
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Deo sat staring straight ahead, so as to think about this. Then they were a bridge so high he felt he were in the airplanes again, and Muhammad said, “Manhattan,” and at a horizon of buildings impossibly tall, giant trees, like a sky of pillared (成柱状的) clouds at sunrise in the mountains. a time Deo began to notice vacant lots, and buildings with wood their windows. When Muhammad turned off a main avenue onto a side street, Deo wanted to ask, urgently, they were stopping here. A few yards away, a man stood urinating (撒尿) the wall of a building. The sidewalk was covered with empty cans and and all sorts of paper trash. Muhammad led the way a brick building with broken windows and letters scribbled(潦草地书写的) here and there on the walls. High up on one wall there were three letters , as if each letter were swollen: P E N. He followed Muhammad , the air reeking of urine and excrement (排泄物), up a staircase with a busted railing (破碎的栏杆), finally into a room with a dirty wooden floor, a room with door and no furniture. At the end of a hallway, there was a toilet, completely stopped up.
Muhammad said he stayed here to money. He didn’t have to pay rent for this room. His whole reason for being in New York was to and save as much as he could. He would be for Senegal in a few weeks. Deo should do as he had—work here for a while and save, then start a new life. But he should do this back in Africa, not in New York. “Because it’s so hard here,” Muhammad said.
A．delivering B．travelling C．building D．crossing
A．only if B．as if C．even if D．if only
A．stared B．glared C．pointed D．shot
A．like B．in C．as D．from
A．Before B．When C．While D．After
A．rushing B．passing C．covering D．flowing
A．finally B．hopefully C．thankfully D．fortunately
A．why B．what C．how D．where
A．through B．against C．from D．off
A．flowers B．bottles C．windows D．tables
A．from B．on C．in D．toward
A．heard B．read C．seen D．painted
A．inside B．outside C．sideways D．upward
A．but B．and C．or D．for
A．all B．some C．any D．no
A．sunny B．light C．dark D．bright
A．keep B．save C．raise D．lose
A．obtain B．achieve C．earn D．reach
A．leaving B．arriving C．searching D．staying
A．anywhere B．everywhere C．somewhere D．nowhere
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Times were tough in our household.My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything for him.In addition to going to nursing school full-time,1 was working three part-time jobs to put food on the table for our family of five.
After a rather___ meal one night,I answered the ringing phone. With no ,a voice asked,’’Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.”Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our situation. It was up to us to decide whether we a voice on the telephone.
1 was desperate. With food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a ?When I uneasily got to a ranch home as ,I found there was no car in the garage. ,lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy （轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman me, not much different than our phone conversation!’’Look around. If you see what you want,_ yourself.”'He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same .This couldn't be real!
I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what we needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man.Be here next week. You’ll of the food by then “was his reply”.
Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for items and canned goods from local grocery stores and folks like us who had fallen on hard times.
I never knew what our weekly menus would be I had “shopped" in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.
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阅读后面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
“I will be a photographer. I'm going to bits of Australia back home with.” I told myself this before, yet I feel so____ on this plane that’s flying me thousands of miles away. I don’t want to put down my bag. I was so ______ _ yesterday, but today I feel like a child. I don’t belong on this plane ____ __ men sit with briefcases on their laps reading newspaper. They’re all ______ __.
I’ve never been out of the US, and now, all by myself, I’m traveling to Australia, a world I know _____ ___ about. A part of me ______ __ it as home. My heart is what’s pulling me there.
I remember little about my mother, but I remember that she had an Australian accent. She was ______ __ and wasn’t like my friends’ moms, who would take us to the mall. ______ ___, my mom would take us to New Jersey beaches, where we would _____ ___ the whole day taking walks along the shore, _______ _ it was October and the water was ____ __ our toes. My mom told me that in Australia, _____ __ was always spent on the beach with friends and family, and everyone ______ __ Santa hats with their bathing suits. It never got cold and bitter there; the sun was always bright and warm. My mom was _____ _ and I was so proud of her.
I don’t know how she met my father, but they met somehow years ago and they got ____ __ and moved into an apartment in New Jersey, where my dad grew up. Then I was born and we just a perfect ______ ___ of three who went out to dinner, watched movies in the dark and _______ __ each other.
I know things have been hard on my father ______ __ my mom died years ago. It’s hard for me, too, which is why I have to _____ ___ the wonderful place my mom grew up in and loved. My mom talked about Australia so much and now I have to see this place that ______ _ me to her.
This is an adventure. My adventure.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。
During all those summers as a kid when I worked at Indian Jan’s Taco Stand, I like working with an old Indian woman named Darlene. She would tell me about our heritage. It is important that my white skin doesn’t overpower my native , according to her.
I the importance of my heritage. It’s one of the things I’ve learned from Darlene. 39 I’m a half Native American, you would never guess it by looking at me. On the , I look like my mother—I have her light hair, German eyes, and pale skin. My father is the native one, and I grew up fully aware of the between his skin and mine. People in the small Nebraska town where I grew up often seemed of his dark skin and shiny black hair. He often wore it long and in ponytail（马尾辫）, something that men in our just didn’t do.
I grew up feeling like I didn’t belong to either of my-parents’ and that I couldn’t ever be anything in-between. When I was at home in Nebraska, people would say “Broken Rope? What kind of a name is that？” , in the summer, when we visited the reservation（美洲印第安人居住地）where my father grew up, I would always be the whitest person around, sticking like snow.
I Darlene all of these when I was thirteen. She stopped kneading（揉）the bread and kept for a minute, just looking at me. she leaned closely to my ear and said, “We are all one people.”
I looked at her, “It doesn’t matter what your skin color is,” she said. “It doesn’t matter who your parents are, or where you live, or what you . You matter because you .You’re the past. You’re the future. You both heritages inside you, and you keep them alive forever. That’s what’s . ”
A．preserved B．accepted C．shared D．proved
A．language B．blood C．ability D．charm
A．believe in B．take in C．burst in D．cut in
A．When B．If C．Since D．Although
A．outside B．screen C．way D．contrary
A．chaos B．balance C．connection D．difference
A．concerned B．tried C．frightened D．disappointed
A．hearts B．parts C．villages D．alleys
A．cases B．accents C．cultures D．dreams
A．hear B．change C．write D．give
A．Then B．Thus C．However D．Otherwise
A．around B．out C．together D．up
A．offered B．showed C．told D．reminded
A．calm B．awake C．quiet D．occupied
A．Wildly B．Luckily C．Typically D．Finally
A．confused B．amazed C．bored D．ashamed
A．miss B．like C．want D．have
A．care B．exist C．prepare D．insist
A．defend B．choose C．distinguish D．carry
A．innocent B．alternative C．important D．ambiguous