Though ____ to go to bed many times, the little boy just turned a deaf ear and fixed his eyes on the cartoons．

       A．urging    B．being urged    C．urged              D．having urged

Many children are ____ in the countryside when their parents flood into the cities for jobs．

       A．left behind       B．left off     C．left aside   D．left out

We were about to climb up to the top of the mountain ________ it began to rain heavily.

A. as                            B. while                C. when                D. since

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During the past hundred years, the railway, the car, the radio, the cinema and now the TV, have produced very  1  changes in the amusement (娛樂活動) with which people pass their  2  time.

    A hundred years  3 , people were in the habit of making their own amusements. When a group of people  4  together, they talked, played cards or other games, read aloud to each other, or went out riding, shooting or walking. Most people could sing a little or play  5, so at a party the guests amused each other. Above all, conversation was an art. Amusing conversation could  6  people happy for hours.

    As for games,  7  football and tennis, people were also in the habit of playing them themselves. Most of them did not play very well,  8  they amused themselves and their friends. Nowadays we are amused  9  professional (專業(yè)的) singers or players.  10  listen to your friends singing when you can hear the great singers of the world over the radio or on TV? What about playing football with players who  11  very good at it when you can see some of the best players playing an important match? You may just sit comfortably  12  and watch the game without the trouble of going outside.

    The art of conversation and the habit of playing and singing are dying. People are becoming more and more lookers and listeners, and  13  doers and talkers. This change does more  14  to people than good. It is better to do something not very well oneself than  15  to sit and watch others doing it.

A. great       B. much      C. well        D. big

A. busy B. free        C. work       D. day

A. later      B. before     C. ago         D. passed

A. came       B. got         C. worked      D. put

A. basketball       B. the basketballC. piano       D. the piano

A. keep B. made      C. bring      D. let

A. for example    B. such as       C. like         D. for

A. and  B. for          C. but         D. so

A. of    B. on          C. in          D. by

A. Why not       B. Why don’t  C. How about D. What about

A. is B. are          C. is not      D. are not

A. at a cinema  B. at school    C. at home      D. in a park

A. much     B. little       C. more       D. less

A. harm     B. harmful      C. bad         D. badly

A. sometimes   B. always           C. usually       D. never

Most young architects ----particularly those in big cities ----can only dream about working in a building of their own. And marking that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile electrical –parts firm in Atlanta. Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting(生銹的) walls.

In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city’s West End. Built in 1947, the structure had been abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right, so Yocum bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition(拆除), pulling rubbish out through the roof, because it was too dangerous to go inside the building, The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to think about what he wanted to do, and “to treasure what was there – the walls, the rust, the light,” Yocum said.” Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It’s like an art installation(裝置) in there-a slow-motion show.”

 Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer(緩沖) zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.

Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.

According to the passage, it is       for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own.

A. easy            B. unnecessary          C. unrealistic      D. common

Yocum bought the old building because  __.

A. it was a bargain to him             B. it was still in good condition

C. it was located in the city center       D. it looked attractive from the outside

Working on the old building, Yocum and Bell＿.

A. pulled rubbish out through the roof             B. removed the skylights from the bathroom

C. presented a slow–motion show in an art gallery  

D. built a kitchen at the back part of the old building

It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell __.

A. benefited a lot from pulling down the roof      B. turned more old buildings into art galleries

C. got inspiration from decorating their old building

D. paid more attention to the outside of the gallery

The main idea of the passage is that __.

A. people can learn a lot from their failures

B. it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building

C. people should not judge things by their appearance

D. creative people can make the best of what they have

----Smoking is bad for your health.

  ---- Yes, I know. But I simply can’t ______.

   A. give it up      B. give it in         C. give it out         D. give it away

– I didn’t mean _____ her.

  -- But talking like that means ____ her.

  A. to hurt; to hurt   B. hurting; hurting   C. to hurt; hurting   D. hurting; to hurt

All the neighbors admire this family _______ the parents are treating their child like a friend.

A. why   B. where  C. which   D.that

Was it eight o’clock _______ you got to the cinema yesterday evening?

A. that     B. which   C. until       D. when

—More than fifty students competed _______each other in the composition competition.

   —But they could only compete _______three medals.

 A. in; for             B. against; with           C. against; on            D. with; for