Jack   41   in a small town in England. He always stayed in England   42   his holidays, but last year he thought, “I’ve never been to   43   countries. All my friends go to Spain,   44    they like it very much, so this year I’m going there, too.” So he got on a   45   to Spain and   46   at the airport of the capital, Madrid, and stayed in a hotel for a few days. On the first morning he went   47   for a walk. In England people drive on the left, but in Spain they drive on the right. Jack forgot about this, and   48   he was walking on a busy street, a bicycle knocked him down.
Jack   49  on the ground for a few minutes and then he sat up and said, “Where am I?”
Just then an old man selling maps went past him. When he heard Jack’s words, he said to him   50  , “Maps of the city, sir?”

Maria was born in Peru（秘魯）.She grew up in a small village. She  46 when she was six years old. She went to elementary school，but she  47 to high school. Her family was very  48 ，and she had to go to work when she was thirteen years old. She  49 in a shoe factory.

When Maria was seventeen years old，her family   50 to the United States. First they lived in Los Angeles，and then they moved to San Francisco. When Maria   51 in the United States，she was not very happy.

She missed her friends in Peru，and she didn’t  52 a word of English. She began to study English at night，  53 worked in a factory during the day.

Maria studied very hard，and now she speaks English well. She’s still  54 at night，but now she’s studying typing. She wants   55 a secretary. Maria still misses her friends. But she’s very happy now，and she hopes she will have a good future（將來(lái)）in the new country.

1.                A．went to school   B．go to school     C．goes to school  D．begins school

2.                A．went           B．didn’t go       C．began    D．wasn’t

3.                A．rich           B．poor           C．happy    D．glad

4.                A．works          B．is working       C．is going to work D．worked

5.                A．moved         B．go             C．stayed    D．lived

6.                A．reached        B．a(chǎn)rrived         C．got  D．moved

7.                A．tell            B．talk            C．know D．say

8.                A．when          B．so             C．or   D．a(chǎn)nd

9.                A．studying        B．studied         C．study D．studies

10.               A．to do          B．do            C．to be D．be

I was walking down the road one day when my cell phone rang.   36   voice on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!” I thought that it was a wrong number. A short while later, the call came once again, so I   37   rudely, “You’ve dialed the wrong number!” and then hung up.

During the    38    days, I often got the    39   call. But I didn’t care much about it.

    Then one day she kept calling me,    40    I didn’t answer. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, “Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m in so much    41   ! Mom said you were too busy to take care of me. But, dad, please    42    me again, OK?” It was     43    to refuse the innocent(天真的, 無(wú)邪的) ask. I made a    44    kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you…Dad, I am so…h(huán)appy, so…h(huán)appy…”

    Shortly after this, I became curious(好奇）about    45    had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to have    46    you. My daughter has had bone cancer since she was born. And her father…died in a car    47    two weeks ago. I didn’t want to tell her the news. Poor baby. When she couldn’t    48    the painful chemotherapy(化療), she would cry for her dad because her dad always    49    her. I really don’t know what to do, so I gave her a random(隨意的) phone number…”

    “How is your daughter now?” I couldn’t wait to ask.

“She has died. You   50    have kissed her on the phone, because she died with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone…”   Tears full of my eyes….

36．A．A boy’s                   B．A child’s                 C．My daughter’s         D．My son’s

37．A．spoke                    B．told                       C．returned                D．replied

38．A．following               B．front                    C．other                 D．coming

39．A．different              B．same             C．wrong           D．funny

40．A．so that                   B．a(chǎn)nd                   C．a(chǎn)s if                   D．though

41．A．danger                   B．trouble                    C．pain                 D．difficulty

42．A．look after               B．kiss                        C．help                  D．encourage

43．A．easy                     B．sad                      C．happy                 D．difficult

44．A．soft                      B．sweet                        C．low                    D．loud

45．A．that                     B．what                    C．who                   D．how

46．A．troubled                 B．a(chǎn)sked                    C．stopped             D．reached

47．A．experiment              B．event                  C．a(chǎn)ccident               D．a(chǎn)ctivity

48．A．receive                   B．fight                       C．stand                   D．face

49．A．encouraged            B．a(chǎn)mused                   C．caught                    D．missed

50．A．must                      B．might               C．should                    D．need

I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton Train Station, back when the trains will ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to 1   the train that would take me to Boston and the college. I was eager(熱切的) to go. College, with its 2  and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It 3  me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.

For eighteen years, we had never had a(n) 4  to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me, 5  I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He 6   me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were 7   it.

The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my 8   from his, and now I was learning it. The train 9    and I boarded(登上) it. My father looked smaller from the train. We 10    goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.

1.                A．return         B．catch           C．design    D．watch

2.                A．habits          B．license         C．courses   D．a(chǎn)dvertisements

3.                A．shocked        B．supposed       C．helped   D．encouraged

4.                A．time           B．luck            C．chance   D．interest

5.                A．because        B．though         C．so   D．a(chǎn)nd

6.                A．taught          B．beat           C．forgot    D．loved

7.                A．saying          B．knowing        C．creating  D．describing

8.                A．money         B．time           C．present   D．life

9.                A．continued       B．broke          C．a(chǎn)rrived   D．left

10.               A．reached        B．waved         C．talked D．cheered