13. A. ate up B. has used up C. has mn out of D. ran out of 14. A. get B. got C. getting D. had gotton 15. A. loves B. loving C. loved D. Lovely
6. I'm a 40-year-old lawyer. I make a living ______ ( 1 ) in different places around the world all the time.
One year ago, serious illness ______ (2)my mother's life but I even didn't have any ______ (3) to give some flowers to her. In my mind my mother is a great woman for ever. When she was alive, she did ______ (4)clean-up work to make money for my study. When she got seriously injured one day, she didn't ______ (5) to go to the best hospital. My father had to go and buy some medicine for her. Though we were very poor, my mother ______ (6)a charity to help the poorer people ill need. She was such a woman who ______ (7) went to any party to have a great time. Sometimes I argued with my mother because I was ______ (8) her. When she was old, she still helped others ______ (9). But she was always ______ ( 10)a pair of old jeans. Though I often asked the agent of my company in China ______ ( 11 )her a lot of money, she didn't spend the money ______ (12) a mobile phone, which could let her talk to me whenever she wanted to. However, she gave the money to the students who couldn't afford ______ (13)to school.
The moon ______ ( 14)round and bright tonight. I really hope I will be ______ ( 15)to fly to my motherland fight now.
1. A. work B. to work C. working D. am working
2. A. put away B. gave away C. ran away D. took away 3. A. habit B. success C. lifestyle D. chance 4. A. many B. much C. a few D. kind of 5. A. enjoy B. have fun C. hope D. agree
6. A. organize B. organizes C. organized D. was organized 7. A. always B. usually C. sometimes D. never 8. A. for B. against C. with D. good with 9. A. hardly B. lately C. luckily D. sincerely
10. A. putting on B. taking on C. wearing D. dressing 11. A. send B. sent C. sending D. to send 12. A. in B. for C. buying D. to buy 13. A. to go B. going C. go D. went 14. A. very B. greatly C. is D. was
15. A. supposed B. asked C. relaxed D. Able
7.When I studied in the senior high school, I _____ (1) live in the dormitory because the school is far away from my hometown. I was the most hard-working student in our class and did well in my study. When each semester ended, I _____ (2) the message about my report card to my grandpa, who is in good health.
One day, my best friend Lana wanted to copy my homework, because hers was always _____ (3) in my class. I said, \allow me _____ (4)you copy. Secondly, it may be a bad start.\ _____ (5). I won't be your friend anymore!\she would _____ (6)her bad habit. I was so lucky that she understood me at last. And our
friendship lasts forever.
After I _____ (7) from Peking University, I went to the rural areas, which are next to the
border of our country as a volunteer English teacher on a two-year program. The program _____ (8)by the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Young Pioneers. The village where I taught
English was 2,000 meters above sea level and the thin air made me _____ (9)nervous. I ate porridge three times a day, and there was no snack. I had some difficulty _____ (10)the students because most of them had hardly ever gone to school before. _____ ( 11 ), I found a good way to teach them. I often told them some funny stories about the outside world to _____ ( 12)their eyes. They showed great interest in them. That was a very good _____ (13)in their lives. And my husband agreed with my decision and also thought I could find my true life there. Two years later, I left there and joined Greenpeace to care for \
I still remember the _____ ( 14)where I gave my students the lessons like direct speech and reported speech. It seems that I returned to the school. I am always happy that I have had such an experience.
Do you know UNICEF or WAFT? UNICEF helps children in poor countries and WAFT cares for wild animals in danger. I have planned to join _____ (15)them next year. 1. A. must B. should C. have to D. had to
2. A. depended on B. kept on C. decided on D. passed on 3. A. bad B. worse C. worst D. the worst 4. A. keeping B. having C. making D. to let
5. A. exciting B. relaxing C. disappointing D. disappointed 6. A. look over B. look for C. get over D. come over 7. A. graduates B. graduate C. graduated D. graduating 8. A. started B. was started C. establishing D. setting up 9. A. to be B. to feel C. feeling D. get
10. A. teach B. taught C. teaching D. to teach 11. A. Fortune B. Fortunate C. Fortunately D. Lucky 12. A. open up B. put up C. fix up D. look up 13. A. lifestyle B. success C. influence D. begin 14. A. time B. reasons C. ways D. scenes 15. A. every one of B. all of C. either of D. Both
8. One day I had two amazing experiences in my dream. You can't imagine how strange they were.
In the morning, I went into a barber shop and had a haircut. The barber shop, where there was a bathroom, a bedroom and a kitchen, ____ (1) very big.When I went out of the barber shop, I found a bright UFO, which was as big as a plane, ____ (2) near Tokyo International Airport. A few minutes later, it succeeded in landing and an alien got out of the UFO, went towards me ____ (3), \me! \want you ____ (5)my guide. In the recent months, some accidents have taken place on our planet. More unexpectedly( 出乎意料地), some terrorists ____ (6)our World Trade Center and murdered many people last week. It will have meaning ____ (7) our people to catch them. But I didn't find
them ____ (8)on our planet. I heard they had run away to the earth. If you help me to find them out, we'll become heroes.\train station and caught them. The alien's modem flying machine, the UFO, took off and ____ (9) away. After his flight lasted about 2 hours, he called me up and said ____ (10) to me.
Let me tell you another experience in the same dream. In the afternoon, while I was ____ ( 11 ) my bicycle to the playground, I saw a cat with a long snake in its mouth in a tree. I climbed up the tree, caught the cat and the snake, and ____ (12) down. Then I went to the market and bought a big box ____(13) the snake. After I arrived home and closed the door, the bell rang. It was Lucy. I told the scary experiences to her. She was in ____ (14) for about 10minutes and cried hard with her hands trembling(发抖).
Sometimes I think terrible dreams can make us ____ (15) braver, so I love dreaming anything amazing.
1. A. was B. were C. being D. to be 2. A. land B. landing C. to land D. landed 3. A. saying B. to say C. said D. and said 4. A. excited B. relaxed C. surprised D. scared 5. A. are B. become C. be D. to be
6. A. destroy B. destroyed C. are destroying D. were destroying 7. A. to B. as C. as for D. with
8. A. somewhere B. anywhere C. everywhere D. nowhere 9. A. fly B. flew C. flying D. was flying 10. A. sorry B. hello C. thank D. thanks 11. A. ride B. rode C. riding D. to ride
12. A. jump B. jumped C. jumping D. was jumping 13.A.keep B. to keep C. kept D. keeping
14. A. silence B. silent C. silently D. quietly 15. A. become B. to become C. becoming D. will be
9. Some students are always complaining to their parents that they are under ____ (1) pressure. The students include those who get good grades. They say they need more time to go to the bake sale, have a haircut or take part in more ____ (2) activities. They want to have more ____ (3) to use their spare time to relax. But in fact, most of them only want to play games.
Mr. Wang thinks it necessary to give students some suitable pressure. He doesn't think most students know ____ (4) too many serious problems when they become adults. If they don't have enough abilities( 能力 )in the future, they won't ____ (5)find jobs, even hard jobs. If they don't have jobs ____ (6)money,how will they be able to buy clothes in style when their clothes are out of style? When their old classmates invite some tutors (家庭教师) ____ (7) their children but they can't, how will they feel? When their old classmates buy all kinds of the most expensive tickets ____ (8) the concerts but they can't, how will they feel? When their old classmates make more than two thousand dollars one month ____ (9)part-time writers of Teen Talk but each of them can only make five hundred dollars by working a month, how will they feel? When their old classmates
easily ____ ( 10)much money to the best schools for their children's study but they can't, how will they feel? So, on the one hand, Mt. Wang thinks it is very necessary to give students some suitable
pressure but on the other hand it is ____ (11) to give them too much pressure.
The students should know their parents ____ (12)with each other for a little money but other people's parents spend over one thousand dollars ____(13)a dinner. They should know their parents keep themselves out of five-star hotels (五星级饭店) but other people's parents often live in them. Their parents can only feel ____ (14)when they see other people's children wearing original clothes. Their parents can only look crazy when they hear other people playing the wonderful CDs. Their parents can't ____ (15) themselves with others. That's because they don't have enough
abilities( 能力)to make enough money! That's why they seem pushy and always push their children so hard! That's why they fit as much as possible into their children's study! That's why they get very ____ ( 16)with their children when they see them get on well with bad kids in their eyes ! That's why they often call up their children's teachers and ____ (17) talking about them for a long time on the phone every time! That's why they try their best to send their children to some better schools! That's why they want their children to get the same grades ____ ( 18)the best students! That's why they want their children ____ ( 19)books until they finish reading them! That's why they look so angry when they know their children fail in the test! So students can say sorry to anyone else ____ (20)their parents because both of them have already done all they can do to help them!
What about you? Do you think it necessary to give students some pressure? 1. A. too much B. much too C. too many D. too strict 2. A. relaxed B. excited C. organized D. bored
3. A. free B. freely C. freedom D. of freedom 4.A. there will be B. there will have C. there has D. there is 5. A. can B. have to C. be unable to D. be able to 6. A. make B. making C. to make D. made 7. A. teach B. to teach C. teaching D. taught 8. A. to B. of C. about D. on 9.A.for B. as C. is D. be 10. A. take B. cost C. pay D. spend
11. A. necessary B. unnecessary C. possible D. impossible 12.A. to argue B. arguing C. may argue D. argued 13.A. for B. in C. on D. at
14. A. tired B. bored C. surprised D. relaxed 15. A. compare B. comparing C. to compare D. compared 16. A. busy B. hungry C. scary D. angry 17.A. want B. keep C. stay D. hope 18.A.with B. for C. to D. as
19.A.can't return B. not return C. not to return D. don't return 20.A. beside B. besides C. except D. except that
10. I, a robot named Fuxing, was born in China and _____ (1)to the moon by rocket in 2000. Now I live in China's Huge Space Station _____ (2). I have two special eyes, which are called cameras. My job is easy and simple but _____ (3) unpleasant. It is to watch and take photos of everything everywhere on the earth. And then I send them to Chinese scientists as soon as possible.
Usually it takes a few minutes to finish _____ (4)them once.
On September 11,2001,I _____ (5)on the moon when I heard some unusual sound, which seemed to be coming from the earth. I stopped _____ (6)carefully. To my surprise, I saw a plane _____ (7) straight to the tall building, the World Trade Center(世界贸易中心),and then I saw a big fire. About 18 minutes later, _____ (8)plane was flying to the same building! My God! The tall building was falling down! At the same time, I sent the pictures to the scientists and it _____ (9)me only three minutes. About half an hour later, American reporters showed the pictures on TV.
I have a pet parrot. She often says she ______ ( 10)to predict many things in the future and some of her predictions have even ______ (11)true already. One day she told me an example. \ ______ (12)myself that Beijing would win the host of the ______ (13) Olympics in 2008! About ten hours later, Beijing got the great success !\
The following predictions are also from my parrot. There will be ______ (14) trees and more pollution if there are ______ (15)paper factories in each city. There will be none ______
(16)casually if everyone likes western-style suits. There will be more astronauts flying to the moon if China launches(发射) more spaceships. There will be no interviews in the world if everyone ______ (17) the same ability ( 能力 ). There will be no electronic snakes saving people's lives if there isn't any earthquake. There will be more strategies if there are more humans. There will be more ______ (18)if there are more writers.
It is well-known that these predictions sound funny but some of them are possible. We like talking about them because we really want to spend time in this way. The life on the moon made us feel lonely and ______ ( 19) soon after we came here. I wrote about myself to the scientists. But later I changed my mind. Everyone wants to go skating! Everyone wants to watch the World Cup! And everyone wants to brush his teeth with his toothbrush. Doesn't anyone hope to do some
housework? Doesn't anyone hope to make her shape more beautiful? But it's impossible for me to do these. That's because I am Chinese, I love my motherland deeply ______ (20) I am working hard for her. I am sure she will give me a high rating in the future!
1. A. come B. came C. coming D. is coming 2. A. alone B. lonely C. with D. and 3. A. a bit B. a few C. a lot of D. a kind of 4. A. send B. sending C. to send D. sent
5. A. walk B. walks C. was walking D. walking 6. A. watching B. was watching C. to watch D. watched 7. A. fly B. was flying C. to fly D. flying 8. A. other B. the other C. another D. else
9. A. took B. paid C. used D. spent 10. A. must B. may C. can D. is able 11. A. becomes B. gets C. come D. goes
12. A. wanted B. decided C. watched D. predicted 13. A. Twenty-nine B. Twenty-ninth C. Twenty-eight D. Twenty-eighth 14. A. many B. few C. more D. fewer 15. A. thousands B. thousands of C. some hundreds D. some hundreds of 16. A. are wearing B. putting on C. dressing D. are dressing