14、______earliest English poetry was written in _______kind of English that is now difficult to

understand．                                                                    A．The ; the         B．The ; a       C．The ; /    D．A; a

13、______ nice and delicious, the roast ducks in this shop are always sold out soon.

A．Tasting              B．Tasted         C．Being tasted     D．To taste

12、— Why _____ you leave right now? Don't you know it's raining heavily outside?

—1 know , but my parents are expecting me.

A．should       B．must          C．will       D．won't

11、Today, if you find something useful on the Internet , you can download and____it in your personal computer file (文檔).

A．save                B．spare        C．share           D．turn

10、Americans don't like using Mr. 、Mrs. or Miss . So , if they don't use your last name or titles ,that really doesn't mean any________.

A．lack respect                                             B．lacking respect 

C．lacking respecting                                       D．lack of respect

9、Mr. Brown has three children, one of whom is a child of six ,_____twins of twelve.

A．a(chǎn)nother        B．other          C．the others        D．others

8、—Let's hurry. Doctor Susan is coming!

—Oh, I was afraid that we _______.

A．will miss her                                B．a(chǎn)lready miss her

C．had already missed her                        D．have already missed her

7、All kinds of people come in to have their shoes shined .Most folks are friendly. But this man was different.

“How much do you make a week, boy?” he asked me. I felt he was 1 at me.

He kept giving a sharp 2 around every now and then. All the time I kept 3 where I'd seen his face. Suddenly I knew. I'd seen his 4 in the post office many times. He was the big robber: 5 by the police in three states!

“You know," he was saying. “It’s imagination people lack .You'll never get 6 as a shoeshine boy."

I kept brushing away on his shoes as 7 as I could. The sooner I finished, the better. He said, “When I was sixteen ,  I had 8  $ 2,500 of my own . "

That reminded me of something. Was it $ 2,500 or $ 5, 000 or $ 25,000? I wasn't 9. But I knew a big reward was 10 for him.

But what could I do about it? 11 him with a can of shoe polish? A man like his 12 could grind (碾碎) me into the floor . If only someone would come in!

He kept talking away. “Along with 13, it takes courage. The courage to take a chance. Start something on a shoes trings.

Suddenly I saw Officer Dailey 14 across the street. Then, really fast, I be?gan tightening the man's shoestrings.

The policeman was at the window when I cried out. “Officer Dailey, 15! This man is a robber. ”

“ 16,” the man shouted angrily . He started to jump off the stand. But he didn’t go the 17 he planned. He fell flat on his face and knocked himself out cold.

“That was pretty 18 of you.” the officer said. “You’ll get a reward of $ 7,500 for him.”

“Well, it really wasn't my 19 .” I said. “It was his .He told me if you had courage and imagination you could start something 20 on a shoestring.”

1．A．staring             B．looking                 C．laughing                   D．pointing

2．A．look                  B．walk                    C．word                      D．tongue

3．A．considering        B．remembering        C．caring                     D．wondering

4．A．notice                B．picture                 C．mail                        D．warning

5．A．wanted              B．searched              C．caught                    D．shown

6．A．everything          B．something            C．a(chǎn)nywhere                D．somewhere

7．A．carefully            B．slowly                  C．well                        D．fast

8．A．made                 B．stolen                   C．borrowed                D．gathered

9．A．curious              B．sure                     C．interested                D．clear

10．A．a(chǎn)fforded           B．offered                 C．suggested                D．shown

11．A．Injure              B．Warn                   C．Hit                          D．Avoid

12．A．size                 B．a(chǎn)ge                      C．height                     D．kind

13．A．money             B．support                C．cleverness               D．imagination

14．A．wandering        B．looking                 C．coming                   D．speeding

15．A．help                 B．danger                 C．stop                        D．a(chǎn)ttention

16．A．Mind you         B．Shut up                C．Hurry up                 D．Hands up

17．A．method            B．position                C．manner                   D．way

18．A．clever              B．brave                   C．helpful                    D．lucky

19．A．business           B．idea                     C．reward                    D．praise

20．A．small              B．valuable               C．important                D．big

6、If it 's possible to see red about not seeing red , that is what I was doing . We had misjudged the timing of our autumn trip to see the changing leaves in the Great Lakes states, and I was really upset .No matter how I strained my eyes (使勁用眼), I couldn't spot red anywhere . Not even a bit of golden yellow broke through the dull greenery.

This vacation was a complete waste. I sat alone in the backseat of our rented car and got angry as we drove north through the dull, dark green. In the front seat my husband and father chatted merrily, obviously unconcerned.

Then a motto came to mind: “Happiness is a decision.” It must have been some?thing my mother said．She was always passing on words of advice. When I was a child she gave me a little black book with empty pages. On the flyleaf (扉頁) she had written, “Look for a beautiful thing and you will find it ."I was supposed to keep a record of the most beautiful thing I saw each day.

I remember spending hours debating what I'd write down. A baby's dimpled smile? A stone shining with fool's gold? Pictures in the clouds, or tulips, (郁金香) tipping their heads ? I found so many things it was impossible to pick just one.

Now, on the road，I played Mother's game again. I took in the all — green scenery. Thick forests lined both sides of the highway. The long conical ( 圓錐形的 ) pines and spruce (云杉)were seen here and there . Maple leaves danced in the gentle wind．I felt like a girl again —surrounded by beautiful things.

Later in the trip after we crossed the Upper Peninsula and drove into Canada, I found the bright fall plants I had been looking for. But by then I'd already seen a million shades of green, the infinite variety and beauty that only our heavenly Father can produce. And that we can always find — if we look closely enough.

1．What was the purpose of the author's trip?

A．To see the green forest.

B．To have a sightseeing across America.

C．To see red leaves in fall.

D．To try out the motto her mother gave her.

2．What's the point the author wants to show in the passage?

A．Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it.

B．No pains, no gains.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Beauty exists if you have an eye for it.

3．Which of the following can best describe the author's feeling at the end of her trip?

A．Delighted             B．Angry                 C．Disappointed        D．Surprised

4．The underlined phrase “see red” in the first paragraph probably means________.

A．get discouraged                                B．get angry

C．get ashamed                           D．get excited

5、Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their pictures on a postage stamp. Vanity (虛榮) stamps with personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer's photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp printed a different scene from a traditional painting along with the photo.

The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help encourage interest in letter-writing in the Internet age. “Certainly e-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way.” said Hatsumi Shimizu, an official in the Post Ministry. “We want to show young people that letters can be fun, too.”

While similar stamp sheets appeared in Australia in 1999 and are now sold in some 12 nations and territories, Japan's fondness for commemorative photos is likely to make them especially popular here. Indeed, officials had prepared 1,000 sheets but they were sold out in less than 30 minutes. Although the stamps are currently only available as a special service during the exhibition, postal officials said they may start selling them on a regular basis in the future.

1．The best title of this passage might be_________.

    A．Never Miss a Chance to be Photographed

    B．Your Own Face on a Postage Stamp

    C．First Japanese Postage Stamps with a Photo

    D．Letters are as Fun as E-mails

2．By saying "little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo" the author really means____.

     A．this service is not very expensive

    B．the cost of this service is very high

    C．food in Tokyo is very dear

    D．$ 8.80 is a very small amount of money

3．The purpose of this activity is_________.

    A．to make the international postage stamp exhibition more interesting

    B．to make more stamps for normal use

    C．to draw interest in writing letters

    D．to satisfy Japan's fondness of commemorative photos

4．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

    A．Japanese people like to take photos.

    B．This kind of stamps must be used to mail letters.

    C．Japanese people can get this kind of stamps easily after the stamp exhibition.

       D．This service is more popular in Japan than in other places.