—Linda，why are you so late? We were starting without you．

—Oh，sorry．I      the time we should meet．

A．forget    B．a(chǎn)m forgetting

C．forgot    D．have forgotten

Mike didn’t do his English homework. The teacher asked him    31  . “I’m sorry, I   32  .” “But why did you forget?” “It didn’t seem   33   or important,” said Mike. “Are you going to punish (懲罰)me?” asked Mike. “   34  . The punishment is for me. I didn’t teach you well,” said the teacher.

“Thank you,” said Mike. “You are the best    35  in the world. I can never know as much as you , but you taught me a lot.” “How can I be a good teacher if the students do not know more than me? I will not succeed until that happens,”   36  the teacher.

Mike’s   37   teacher was a strict（嚴(yán)厲的） man.. Every day Mike played the same piece of music,and the teacher said it was not good and he must practise   38  . After two years of hard work, Mike left and felt sad.   39  when he played it in public, everyone said it was perfect, and he found he could play other pieces of music easily.   

What do you think of these two   40  ?

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　　Daniel's parents were worried 1 him. “He mustn't go through life making excuses all the time,” his father said. “Nobody will believe him. He won't be able to keep a job. No bright girl will marry 2 .”

　　 “I don't know 3 we can do,” said his mother.

　　 “I have a good 4 ,” his father said. “If this doesn't work, nothing will.”

　　The next day was Daniel's birthday. When he thought of gettins exciting presents, he couldn't wait. He woke up expecting his parents to wish him “Happy Birthday”, but all they said was “Good morning, Daniel. Hurry up, 5 you'll be late for school.” There were no presents, not even a card. He was very 6 .

　　 “Never mind”, he thought. “They'll give me a surprise after school.” But. they didn't. Finally, at dinner he said to his parents, “Today is 7 .”

　　 “Oh!” his father said. “So it is. I 8 .”

　　 “So did I.” his mother said.

　　 “How could you forget?” Daniel asked. “There must 9 a reason.

　　 “Well, yes,” his father said. “we have a really good excuse for forgetting your birthday, Daniel. We didn't remember your birthday 10 we were so busy.”

　　Poor Daniel. He never had a silly excuse for not doing something again!

To master(掌握）language，one must be able  1  and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write．Speaking，of course， 2  go without listening．If you want to pronounce(發(fā)音)a word correctly，first you must hear it correctly． If you don't listen 3  ，you'll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers．As for writing，people usually use shorter words and shorter sentences  4   their writing．The important thing is to  5   your idea clear in your head and then to write it in clear language．And if you read too slowly，by the time you  6  the end of a page，you may  7  what the beginning is about and then you'll never finish a book．When you  8  some new words，don't look them up in the dictionary at once． 9  the meanings from the context(上下文)．You may not get quite correct answers the first time，but as the new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meanings will become  10 ．In this way you can learn a language well．

1．A．speaking         B．spoke                  C．to speak

2．A．can't              B．can                      C．must

3．A．correctly        B．carefully              C．happily

4．A．in            B．from                    C．with

5．A．change           B．make                   C．start

6．A．reach             B．a(chǎn)rrive                   C．get

7．A．forget            B．forgot                  C．forgetting

8．A．feel                B．meet                    C．watch

9．A．Think            B．Guess                  C．Know

10．A．clearest         B．clearer and clearer  C．the clearest