This picture was taken when my father was a child and even I myself couldn’t _____.

A. find him out    B. pick him out    C. put him out    D. take him out

The island is ____ attractive in spring and autumn because of the pleasant weather in both seasons.

partly  B.  merely  C.  nearly  D. equally

The news she looked forward to ____.

       A. come at last                                          B. coming at last

C. come recently                                D. came at last

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次）are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”

The hours she’s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”

The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself—— and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret, “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”

Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______.

  A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family

B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure

C. she needed the right time to look after her children

D. she felt tired of taking care of patients

Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.

A. they never clean their offices

B. they look down upon cleaners

C. they never do their work carefully

D. they always make a mess in their offices

When at work, Margaret feels _______.

A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers

B. happy because the building is fully lit

C. tired because of the heavy workload

D. bored because time passes slowly

The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______.

  A. help care for her children

B. regret what they had said

C. show sympathy for her

D. feel disappointed in her

It was the training ________ he had as a young man ________ made him so excellent.

   A. what; that      B. that; which      C. that; what         D. which; that 

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題紙上將該項涂黑。

A Beautiful Dress

My neighbor’s eight-year-old daughter used to live in the countryside, her native place. Recently her parents   51   her to town to live with them. Wild and uneducated, she would use   52   words when she was angry. Sometimes she went so far as to   53   on the ground, to the   54   of all people around. Her parents tried to   55   her by beating and kicking. However, she became more   56  . Finally they became thoroughly   57   with her.

       One day their next-door   58  , a retired teacher, gave the girl a snow-white dress, which was very   59  . It immediately caught the girl’s   60   and made them shine brightly.

       The girl put on the dress and became quite a   61   person. She no longer acted rudely or hit others. She   62   seldom rolled on the floor. She knew running wild was not   63   for her in a beautiful dress. Since then, the girl had been   64  , neat, and lovely.

       The story set me   65   a lot. Perhaps everyone has a beautiful dress   66   somewhere in his or her heart. Only some people are not aware of it,   67   it or take no notice of it.   68   is a powerful force or weapon — that’s something   69   by many of us. It can arouse fine qualities that humans are   70   with but have so far hidden somewhere. It has a soul-shaking influence that is indeed unmatched.

A. left             B. brought               C. met                      D. taught

A. dirty           B. new                     C. creative                D. attractive

A. trap                B. weep                        C. roll                          D. jump

A. surprise             B. delight                         C. mercy                     D. regret

A. advise         B. encourage              C. support                 D. educate

A. mature           B. violent                            C. changeable               D. considerate

A. tired             B. pleased                  C. relaxed                 D. disappointed

A. office          B. stranger                  C. neighbor                 D. apartment

A. beautiful         B. modern                    C. shabby                     D. fragile

A. attention    B. ears                      C. eyes                        D. imagination

A. rude         B. different              C. violent                   D. unique

A. even       B. also                   C. still                    D. ever

A. bad         B. much                 C. enough               D. suitable

A. voluntary      B. conscious                 C. merciful                   D. gentle

A. imagining    B. moving                  C. thinking                  D. puzzling

A. ruined      B. hidden                     C. disappeared            D. rediscovered

A. forget           B. criticize                    C. advocate                   D. remember

A. Love         B. Violence              C. Beauty                         D. Honesty

A. cared        B. valued                   C. unlearnt                  D. unrealized

A. dealt           B. born                       C. grown                     D. lived

He was good at arts, but ______, he was studying hard ______ being admitted to an engineering college.

A. strange enough; in the hope of         B. strangely enough; in the hope of

C. strange enough; in the hope that              D. strangely enough; in the hope that

Country life provides him with peace and quietness, ______ what he can't enjoy living in cities.

 A. that is        B. which is       C. what          D. is for which

The popular cartoon Mulan is a (an) _____ of a Chinese poem for children．

       A．imagination          B．plot            C．story          D．adaptation

Tom should not be sent to____ the task, for a start he hasn’t had enough experience.

A. look out    B. run out   C. find out   D. carry out