Sometimes it is impossible to deliver（投递）all the mail that arrives at the post office. Perhaps there is an mailing address and there is no return address. The post office cannot just the mail, so it becomes “dead mail”. Dead mail is to one of the U.S. Post Service’s in Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco. Seventy-five million pieces of mail can be put in these offices in one year.
There the workers of the dead mail offices have ways to deal with all of these pieces of dead mail. First of all, they look for something that can help them deliver the mail; they open packages, expecting that something will show where the package came from or is going to. Dead mail will also be listed on a so that people can call in and check to see if a missing thing is there on the screen. However, all of this mail cannot simply be forever; there is just too much of it. When a lot of dead mail comes together, the dead mail offices hold public auctions (拍卖). Every three months, some people who are are invited to the offices with objects（物品） found in dead mail packages and they are sold to the bidder (出价者).
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完形填空阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Every day I can watch a little girl basketball from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practised so . She said: “I would like to go to college. The only way is a scholarship(奖学金). I like basketball and I want to be the player in college. My dad told me: ‘If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.’ ” She changed her mind. I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school.
One day before she graduated high school, I saw her sitting on the grass . I asked her what was wrong. She told me her coach said she was such a girl that she couldn’t be a good basketball player, so she should dreaming about going to college. She was heartbroken and it made me feel sad. Then she smiled and told me her father said that coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream. Her father said to her: “If you really want to the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you can stop your dream.”
The next year, she and her team went to a big game. She by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the basketball team of their college. She was about to get the college education that she had dreamed and worked towards for all those years.
“If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” It is true.
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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。
Do you like shopping on the Internet? I like to buy books online(在线的). Usually, the books online aren’t ________ . You needn’t pay(付钱) a lot. When I want to know something about a book, I write an e-mail to the online shop for ________ . I am shy(害羞). It is not easy for me to talk to the shopkeepers in real(真实的) shops.
Sometimes online shops have pictures of the book. They can show you some pages of the book, too. I think this is very ________ . I don’t like to read books in shops because the shopkeepers may come and talk to me. I don’t know ________ to say to them.
I can shop at midnight ________ I want to. Real shops close at nine o’clock in the evening. Some people may worry that the postman(快递员) may damage(损坏) the things they ________ from online shops, but I don’t worry about that.
Some people say that shopping in real shops is good because you can go with your friends and ________ many different things. They call this window shopping. I don’t have any friends and I don’t like to talk too much---it makes me ________ .
I am ________ my grandmother how to shop online. She cannot walk very far so it will make shopping easy for her if she shops online. My brother ________ wants to learn how to do it. He is very busy most of the time. When he has a little free time, he can shop online.
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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，并将答案填涂在答题卡相应的位置。
Wang Bing, a 12-year-old boy, likes sports very much and does ________ in sports.
One afternoon, he is very glad ________ his father waiting for him after school when he comes out of the classroom. “Let’s go,” says Dad “I will ________ dinner and you can do your homework. Mum is still ________ .”
On their way ________ Wang Bing sees some boys skating in a park.“ Can I go and learn skating, Dad ?”asks Wang Bing“I’m sorry, my boy, you must go home and do your homework,” answers his father,“but I can buy you an ice cream”.
Then his father buys an ice cream ________ him. When Wang Bing wants to eat it, a fly(苍蝇)flies to ________ ice cream.
“Drive off the fly,” says his father, “ ________ very dirty.” Wang Bing says ________ a smile,“You don’t let me skate, ________ can you let him skate for a while ?”
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完形填空
With a hat by his feet a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He put up a sign that said, “I am blind, please help.”
Only a few people put ______ in the hat. A man was walking by. He _______ some coins into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it ________, and wrote some words. He put the sign back and left.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people ________ to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who came to see ______things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who ________my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “ I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a ________way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day,__ ____ I cannot see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Both the_____ told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply________ people to help by putting some money into the ______. The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the ________ of the day, but the boy couldn’t _________ he was blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn _______ this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can. ________, be creative. Think differently .There is always a better way.
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完形填空
Sui Lu is now well-known as a Chinese gymnast (体操运动员). She was one of the ‘brightest’________ at the Guangzhou Asian Games. At the Games 18-year-old Sui won ________gold medals in team, all-round, balance beam and floor exercise.
Sui started ________in gymnastics at the age of 3 and joined the national team in 2005. The Hunan girl was first ________when she got two gold medals in the 2008 National Championships (锦标赛) in Tianjin. ________thought Sui would go to the Beijing Olympics. But Sui made a few small ________in the following two World Championships in Russia and France. She wasn’t________to be in the Olympic team. The ________girl cried her heart out.
The failure changed Sui ________a quieter, but more hard-working person. ‘These last two competitions have helped me learn to become more________, especially on the balance beam,’ Sui said.
She proved________again at the 11th Chinese National Games. At the Games she ________ two gold medals.
Now, Sui’s ________is to go to the London 2012 Olympics. ‘I’ve ________been to the Olympics,’ said Sui. ‘I will try my best to get the chance to go to London and I won’t give up ________ the last moment.’
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