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Helen was a very __21___ girl, and her parents were quite proud of her. A lot of young men in the town wanted to marry her, but she was not satisfied ___22___ any of them.
One evening, one of the handsomest of the young men who want to ___23___ Helen came to visit her in her parents’ house and asked her to become his wife. She answered, “No, Tom. I ___24___ marry you. I want to marry a man who is famous, who can ___25___ music, sing and dance very well, who can tell ___26___ interesting stories, who doesn’t smoke or drink, who stays at home in the evenings and who stops ___27___ when I am tired of listening.”
The young man got ___28___, took his coat and went to the door. But before he ___29___ the house, he turned and said to Helen, “It isn’t a ___30___ you are looking for. It’s a television set.”
21. A. pretty 22. A. to 23. A. like
B. sad B. with B. heat B. didn’t B. hit
B. hardly B. talking B. upon B. lived B. men
C. handsome C. for C. won’t C. beat C. really C. talked C. up
C. left C. boy
C. understand
D. ugly D. at D. marry
24. A. hasn’t 25. A. dance 26. A. fairly 27. A. talk
D. hadn’t
D. play
D. to talk D. down D. stayed D. man
D. possibly
28. A. back 29. A. went 30. A. thing
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The last patient left his office. Mr. South had a look at the __21___ on the wall. It was a quarter to six. It meant that he had to stay there for fifteen minutes. A friend of his asked him to dinner that evening. Of course he should ___22___ some flowers for her. He brought out the purse and ___23___ the money in it. He had sixty dollars and it was enough to do that. And then he ___24___ he bought a newspaper on his way to the hospital after lunch. He was too busy to read it. Now he brought it out, but then came in a man ___25___ forty. He looked at him carefully. The man looked ___26___. Mr. South didn’t know what he came for.
“What’s wrong with you?” asked Mr. South. “___27___, Mr. South,” said the man, “But…” The man began to smile and said, “Don’t you ___28___ me, Mr. South? You cured（治愈）my rheumatism（风湿病）three years ago.”
“Mr. Bell?”
“Yes. Did you ___29___ me not to get myself wet?” “Yes, I did,” answers the ___30___.
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“Well, I come here to ask you if you think it’s OK for me to take a bath now?” 21. A. watch 22. A. buy
23. A. drew 24. A. forgot 25. A. at
26. A. healthy 28. A. hear 29. A. say
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Mr. Brown is a very rich man, ___21___ he loves money more than any other thing. One day, Mr. Brown went into a hotel. He ___22___ the clerk for a ___23___ room ___24___ a bath. The clerk was very ___25_. He said, “Dear Mr. Brown, your son always lives in ___26___ room when he comes here. That room doesn’t fit you. You had better ___27___ a ___28___ one.”
“My son has a father with ___29___ money, but I ___30___.” Answered Mr. Brown. 21. A. so
B. because B. wanted B. big B. without B. a cheap B. cleaner B. much
C. when C. found C. cheap C. has C. afraid
D. but
22. A. asked 23. A. clean 24. A. with 25. A. glad
D. gave
B. picture B. look for B. counted B. remembered B. for B. strange
C. clock C. pick C. saw C. thought C. on
C. weak
D. map D. borrow D. found D. decided D. about D. tall
27. A. Everything B. Nothing B. listen to B. tell B. nurse
C. Something C. remember C. hope C. patient
D. Anything D. left
D. help
30. A. doctor D. friend
D. good
D. hasn’t D. angry D. a small D. better
D. won’t
B. surprised
26. A. the brightest 27. A. choose 28. A. cheaper 29. A. little 30. A. don’t
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C. the best
C. smaller
B. to choose C. chose C. more
D. chooses D. no
B. liked C. also have
How much do you know about manners? Different countries have different manners. In ___21___ Asian countries, it is good manners to take off your shoes before you go into a house. ___22___ in European countries, even if they sometimes became very dirty, this is not done. If you are a ___23___ in a Chinese house, when you have a meal, you usually do not finish the food.
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You often leave a little to ___24___ that you have had enough. But in England, a visitor always finishes food to show that he has ___25___ it. We must know the customs of other countries, so that they will not think ___26___ bad-mannered. People all over the world ___27___ that a well-mannered person should be kind and ___28___ to others. If you remember this, at least you will not go very far wrong. ___29___ likes a person with good manners, but no one likes a person with bad manners. ___30___ your manners. 21. A. some 22. A. And 24. A. say
23. A. stranger
B. any
C. other
D. few
B. So C. But C. visitor
D. Or
B. traveler B. see B. me B. know B. helpful B. Make
D. foreigner D. show D. drunk D. him D. agree D. healthy D. Everybody D. Keep
C. understand C. taken C. us
C. guess
25. A. finished 26. A. them 27. A. find 28. A. careful 30. A. Take
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B. enjoyed
C. hardworking C. Nobody C. Mind
29. A. Somebody B. Anybody
Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four parts, ___21___ a part. You can have days ___22___ more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and ___23___with more or fewer than seven days.
Your ship goes into ___24___ time part every day if you make a five-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean. As you go into each part, the time ___25___ one hour. Traveling west, you ___26___ your clock back; traveling east, you let it ahead. Each day of your journey has ___27___ twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___28___ the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day ___29___. When you go across the line, you change your calendar one ___30___ day, back or ahead.
21. A. four hours 22. A. between 23. A. years
B. two hours B. with B. months
C. half an hour C. for C. seasons
D. one hour D. at
D. weeks D. a moving D. makes D. set
24. A. a different 25. A. turns 26. A. take 27. A. neither
B. the same B. changes B. give B. not
C. an interesting C. has C. put C. either
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D. never
28. A. cross 29. A. lasts 30. A. all
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B. get B. begins B. more
C. catch C. follows C. full
D. touch D. breaks D. less
Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain ___21___, so I decided I would leave the children in the car ___22___ I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to ___23___ anything and told them I would be ___24___ within a few minutes, then I locked all the doors and left ___25___ happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had disappeared! I could hardly believe my ___26___. The car doors were ___27___ locked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat ___28___ only two coats. Being frightened, I ran to the corner of the street ___29___ there was no sign of them. I ___30___ up to an old lady nearby and asked whether she had seen two small girls, but she said “no”. 21. A. heavy 22. A. before 23. A. talk
B. hard B. since B. reach B. out B. her B. words B. again B. were B. which B. looked
C. big
D. hardly D. which D. touch D. along D. themselves D. heads D. still D. are
C. after C. hear C. back C. herself C. eyes C. already C. had C. that C. rushed
24. A. away 25. A. them 26. A. ears
27. A. even 28. A. have 29. A. where 30. A. arrived
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D. when D. left
Cats and dogs can __21__ their way home, often over long distance. We often hear of cats which disappear when the people __22__ keep them move to a new area and are later __23__ back at their home. We do not know how they find the way. In the same way, many kinds of birds __24__ from one side of the world to another every year. This is known as migration（迁徙）. It is thought __25__ they follow the sun or the stars but no one can be sure. The salmon － a kind of fish that __26__ its eggs in rivers and swims back to the sea to live － returns to the same river it first came from, often after crossing thousands of miles of sea. Salmon are __27__ to be able to smell
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the difference between one area of water and another. Dogs know when it's time for the walk, __28__ they can't tell the time from the clock. __29__ disappear from home when the people are away __30__ holidays and appear again an hour or two before they return. 21. A. find 23. A. find
B. to find B. where B. finding B. traveled B. how B. lays B. believe B. however B. Rats B. about
C. finding C. who C. found C. travel C. that
C. lying C. belief C. but C. of
C. Pigs
D. found D. which D. to found
D. traveling D. what D. laid
D. believed D. that D. with
D. Bears
22. A. when 24. A. travels 25. A. who 26. A. lies
27. A. believing 28. A. although 29. A. Cats 30. A. on
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A rich American went into a shop in London. He wanted very much ___21___ a nice-looking watch. He saw a watch and liked it so much that he decided to buy it. But the owner of the shop asked five hundred dollars for it.___22___ the American was hesitating, a young man suddenly came into the shop, took ___23___out of the owner's hand and ran out with it. It all happened in___24___seconds. When the owner ran out ___25___the street, the young man had already ___26___among the people. The American went on. At the next corner, he saw ___27___with the stolen watch in his hand, \a hundred dollars.\
\young man doesn't know I saw him ___28___the watch just now,\he thought. The American paid at once and went happily back to his room with the watch. He told his friend about the fine watch. His friend ___29___ a look at the watch and started to shout immediately. He said, \ou are a fool. This watch is worth only ten dollars. I'm ___30___the shop owner and the young man planned all this together.\21. A. buy
B. taking B. When B. much B. of B. lost
C. to get C. If
D. sold D. While D. some dollars D. a little D. in
D. disappeared D. another young man
22. A. Because 23. A. a watch 24. A. many 25. A. into
26. A. missed
B. the money C. the watch C. a few C. on C. run
27. A. the young man
B. the owner C. the American
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