16、Liu Xiang ______ our expectation and got another gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the East Asian Games in Macao.

A. according to             B. depended on      C. fit in with          D. lived up to

15、He traveled to many mountain villages and saw many poor children out of school. This experience ______ his life.

A. would change           B. had changed      C. was to change          D. was changing

14、We needn’t get ready yet; the guests ______ come for another hour. 

A. mustn’t                B. shouldn’t       C. shan’t            D. needn’t

13、Can you imagine the singer _____ so much in public?

A. being admired        B. admire           C. to be admired   D. admiring

12、I used to swim with my little friends in this lake every summer, but not once since I left my hometown in 1992 _________.

A. I have swum         B. have I swum    C. did I swim     D. I swam

11、So far a series of problems ________ brought about by this decision.

A. have                    B. has             C. has been            D. have been

10、Was it _____ he was training in the field _____ he got hurt?

A. that, when            B. where, that       C. that, where        D. when, that

9、—My parents will have more time to rest at home after their retirement.

—This is ______ you’re wrong. Most of the old hope for a more active life after they are retired.

A. where                 B. what           C. why          D. how

8、The year was 1964. A man I worked with had   1    a couple of 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed (題寫) footballs and was selling them at a real   2    price. My first son was on the way. I bought the football as his "coming home from the hospital"    3   , and it was something truly special.

Several years later, young Tom was rummaging (亂翻) around in the garage  4   he came across the 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football. He asked if he could play with it. I 5   to him that he was still a bit too   6   to play carefully with such a special ball. We had the same   7   several more times in the next few months, and soon the requests  8 away.

The next fall, after watching a football game on television, Tom asked, "Dad,   9    that football you have in the garage? Can I use it to play with the guys now?" And I replied, "Tom, you don't just go out and   10   throw around a 1963 Chicago bears-inscribed football.  I told you before: it's special. "

  11   it wasn't special any more. I stood   12   in the garage. It had been a long time since the boys moved away from home, and suddenly I   13   that the football had never been so special at all. Children playing with it when it was their   14   to play is what would have made it special. I had blown those   15   moments that can never be reclaimed(找回), and I had   16   a football.   17   what?

    I took the football across the street and gave it to a   18   with young kids. A couple of hours later I looked out of the window. They were   19  , catching and kicking my 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football.

    Now it was   20  .

1. A. acquired        B. required             C. produced           D. stored

2. A. possible                B. reasonable         C. good                 D. low

3. A. mark                    B. blessing             C. honor                D. gift

4. A. once                    B. when                C. before               D. until

5. A. referred                B. warned              C. shouted             D. explained

6. A. amateur                B. young               C. weak                D. soon

7. A. adjustment            B. argument           C. conversation      D. discussion

8. A. faded                   B. ran                    C. floated                     D. went

9. A. recall                    B. take                  C. remember          D. collect

10. A. normally            B. happily              C. carefully            D. casually

11. A. But                     B. And                  C. So                    D. As

12. A. again                  B. once                 C. alone                 D. still

13. A. realized               B. doubted         C. considered               D. concluded

14. A. pleasure              B. right            C. chance          D. time

15. A. short                  B. precious        C. important          D. consistent（相容的）

16. A. saved                 B. hidden          C. damaged         D. bought

17. A. On                            B. Of             C. For             D. With

18. A. group                 B. family               C. school               D. kindergarten

19. A. throwing             B. holding              C. betting                     D. sharing

20. A. worthless            B. expensive          C. gone                 D. special

7、I found myself a little while ago in one of the largest American prisons. It was like a stone castle, its high towers watched by guards with guns. I had been there several times before, on earlier visits to the USA. But this time I had come to see one particular prisoner. He was nineteen and after two years by himself in one room was awaiting execution for murder. He had just heard the result of a fresh trial. He was to serve life imprisonment instead. He was white-faced and talkative, a boy who had failed in high school and had all too easily got caught up in a night’s adventure that had ended with burning down buildings, two deaths and those two years awaiting death.

This prison is no worse than many others and it is certainly better than some. After you have passed through the complicated series of gates and doors and the electronic instruments have checked that you have no metal on your person — that you have no gun in fact — you enter within the walls. At once you are astonished at the difference between the strict controls outside and curiously easy going way of life inside. Here are men walking about, often smoking cigars; the football team is being trained on the field; there is a good deal of standing around waiting for something to happen. And of course things do happen: a sudden shout, a rush to the water tower, a mad climb to its top, senseless disobedience for days. But this is somehow a symbol for a bigger senselessness of that.

This time I was wondering what twenty years (and that would be the minimum) might mean for one boy pushed into this organized idleness.

1. Which of the following is true?

A. They were taking the prisoner out to kill him.

B. The punishment had been changed from life imprisonment to death.

C. The punishment had been changed from death to life imprisonment

D. They were taking him out for a fresh trial.

2. The prison is ________.

A. the worst in America                               B. the best in America

C. the second best in America                      D. somewhere between the best and worst

3. How did the writer feel when he went inside?

A. Greatly surprised        B. Pleased.             C. Disappointed.            D. Frightened.

4. When one shows disobedience, he is ________.

A. doing whatever he likes                           B. making a lot of noise

C. not doing what is necessary                            D. not doing what he is told to