16、Make sure that the lighting is      so that we can see all things clearly．

A．desperate               B．urgent            C．a(chǎn)dequate              D．extreme

15、—Was the proposal passed at yesterday’s meeting?

—Yes, but some members at the committee expressed        ．

A．a(chǎn)ssociations       B．a(chǎn)uthority        C．corporations         D．reservations

14、“Does the name on the envelope       the name on the letter inside”，asked Mr．Black．

A．correspond with                                 B．a(chǎn)ppeal to

C．respond to                                           D．rely on

13、—Will this woolen sweater         when washed?

—Of course not．

A．seal            B．shrink           C．tolerate           D．snatch

12、—Can I visit the park freely?

—Of course you can．It is open to the public without         ．

A．restriction         B．policy           C．routine         D．a(chǎn)mateur

11、Within two days, the army fired more than two hundred rockets and missiles at military   in the coastal city．

A．departures         B．dilemmas      C．basis          D．targets

10、John was not listening and made a          answer when called upon to recite．

A．tough            B．dull          C．delicate            D．random

9、—I want to be a scientist when I grow up．

—A scientist must be          in making tests．

A．sacred          B．precise               C．typical        D．fluent

8、One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm．At 16, I like   1  better than driving our truck，   2   this time I was not happy．My father had told me I’d have to ask for credit（賒賬）at the store．

Sixteen is a    3    age, when a young man wants respect, not charity．It was 1976, and the ugly    4    of racial discrimination was    5   a fact of life, I’d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while the store owner    6   whether they were“good for it．”I knew black youths just like me who were    7   like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery．

My family was    8   ．We paid our debts．But before harvest, cash was short．Would the store owner   9    us?

At Davis’a store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer．I nodded  10   I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves．When I brought my    11    to the cash desk, I said    12   ,“I need to put this on credit．”

The farmer gave me an amused, distrustful   13   ．But Buck’s face didn’t change．“Sure, he said    14   ．”Your daddy is    15   good for it．”He    16    to the other man．“This here is one of James Williams’s sons．”

   The farmer nodded in a neighborly    17  ,I was filled with pride．James Williams’s son．Those three words had opened a door to an adult’s respect and trust．

That day I discovered that the good name my parents had   18    brought our whole family the respect of our neighbors．Everyone knew what to   19    from a Williams; a decent person who kept his word and respected himself   20    much to do wrong．

1．A．something           B．nothing            C．a(chǎn)nything            D．everything

2．A．a(chǎn)nd                 B．so               C．but               D．for

3．A．prideful               B．wonderful         C．respectful          D．colorful

4．A．intention             B．shadow           C．habit               D．faith

5．A．thus               B．just                C．still               D．ever

6．A．guessed             B．suspected       C．questioned        D．figured

7．A．watched           B．caught          C．dismissed        D．a(chǎn)ccused

8．A．generous             B．honest          C．friendly          D．modest

9．A．blame               B．excuse          C．charge            D．trust

10．A．until               B．a(chǎn)s                C．once            D．since

11．A．purchases         B．sales              C．orders            D．favorites

12．A．casually            B．confidently       C．cheerfully          D．carefully

13．A．look              B．stare              C．response         D．comment

14．A．patiently          B．eagerly             C．easily             D．proudly

15．A．generally           B．never              C．sometimes         D．a(chǎn)lways

16．A．pointed           B．replied         C．turned           D．introduced

17．A．sense            B．way               C．degree           D．mood

18．A．earned           B．deserved          C．given            D．used

19．A．receive              B．expect            C．collect              D．require

20．A．very              B．so               C．how              D．too

7、Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team．“Football, tennis, cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless．”he says now with a laugh．But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire．It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him．At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest．Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend．Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance．At age 18, he ran his first marathon．

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Athantie Ocean．Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits（成就）．Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future．

Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy．“John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say,‘You’re completely crazy,”Saunders says．

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole．He suffered frostbite, had a close encounter（遭遇）with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit．

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton．His old playmates would not believe the transformation．

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1, 800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis．

1．The turning point in Saunders’life came when        ．

       A．he started to play ball games．

       B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

       C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

       D．he started to receive Ridgway’s training

2．We can learn from the text that Ridgway         ．

       A．dismissed Saunders’dream as fantasy

       B．built up his body together with Saunders

       C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

       D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

3．What do we know about Saunders?

       A．He once worked at a school in Scotland．

       B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole．

       C．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole．

       D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole．

4．The underlined word “Intrigued”in the third paragraph probably means        ．

       A．Excited                                     B．Convinced

       C．Delighted                                    D．Fascinated

5．It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole        ．

       A．was accompanied by his old playmates

       B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

       C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

       D．made him well-known in the 1960s