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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The giant panda 1. (love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists 2. (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very 3.(care) mother. For 25days, she never left her baby, not even to find something 4. (eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural 5.(enemy) that would try to eat the little comforting panda. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does. 6. it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother continued to care for the young panda 7. more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed 8.(it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother 9. (drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, 10. it was also time for the young panda to be independent.

    Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact______she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished______a driving offence(犯规).

Then one day she nearly______her record. A police car______her, and the policemen in it saw her______a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed______that she would be punished.

____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was______old to drive a car, and that the______why she had not stopped at the red______was most probably that her eyes had become weak______old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was______, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was______and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she______a needle(针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had______done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed______the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your______. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight." The judge took the______and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case(案例) against Mrs. Jones was______, and her record______unbroken.

1.A.which B.when C.that D.this

2.A.about B.on C.to D.for

3.A.kept B.won C.missed D.lost

4.A.watched B.after C.followed D.ran after

5.A.pass B.go C.past D.rush

6.A.sure B.indeed C.certain D.perhaps

7.A.Before B.While C.Until D.When

8.A.so B.very C.too D.quite

9.A.cause B.reason C.matter D.trouble

10.A.light B.lamp C.sign D.one

11.A.with B.because C.for D.of

12.A.speaking B.saying C.talking D.telling

13.A.seeing B.getting C.carrying D.bringing

14.A.took B.brought C.picked D.chose

15.A.almost B.hardly C.successfully D.successful

16.A.both B.all C.neither D.either

17.A.time B.turn C.chance D.job

18.A.thread B.glasses C.needles D.needle

19.A.dismissed B.passed C.settled D.studied

20.A.was B.kept C.seemed D.remained

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．选项中有两项为多余选项。

Healthy habits are important to all of us. Here are a few tips that can help you improve your healthy habits.

● Compulsory breakfast. 1. There is a saying like our lifetime will be shorter when we don't eat breakfast. Breakfast is important to keep a healthy and a problem­free stomach.

● Good sleep. A good sleep is necessary for a healthy body and mind. Good sleep not only means sleeping for a long time (8 hours preferably) but also sleeping with a peaceful mind. 2.

● 3.Water is the best medicine for most diseases. We need to drink a lot of water every day, almost 8 glasses every day. Water helps us keep our body clean and fit.

● Relationships. 4.This causes your mind and heart to be more fresh and peaceful. This in turn leads to a healthy life. Speak to your children or old people at least for an hour every day, which reduces (减轻) your burden (负担) greatly . Healthy relationships lead to a healthy life.

● 5.Take a good walk every day, which is a very good habit regardless of the age or gender (性别). Walking helps you keep your mind at peace and helps in keeping a healthy body.

A.A peaceful sleep is important for a good healthy life.

B.Drink lots of water.

C.The first is to eat our breakfast every morning.

D.These are very healthy habits for all.

E.Spend at least half an hour for exercising each day.

F.Always keep healthy relationships with other people.

G.Take a good walk.

    The baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert (警觉的). Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze(凝视) starts to lose its focus—until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns: she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?

Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly(随意地)on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise(同样地) when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.

1.The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the baby's ________.

A.sense of hearing B.sense of sight

C.sense of touch D.sense of smell

2.Babies are sensitive to the change in ________.

A.the size of cards B.the colour of pictures

C.the shape of patterns D.the number of objects

3.Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?

A.To reduce the difficulty of the experiment.

B.To see how babies recognize sounds.

C.To carry their experiment further.

D.To keep the babies' interest.

4.Where does this text probably come from?

A.Science fiction. B.Children’s literature.

C.An advertisement. D.A science report.

    Wealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time. Call it the piggy bank strategy ( 策 略 ). There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container.

Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. If you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day.  If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax,you will have your trip money.

When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I should save money to buy it.  We  associate  piggy banks  with  children,  but  in  many countries,  the  little  containers  are also popular with adults. Europeans see a piggy bank as a sign of good fortune and wealth. Around the world, many believe a gift of a piggy bank on New Year’s Day brings good luck and financial success. Ah, but you have to put something in it.

Why is a pig used as a symbol of saving? Why not an elephant bank, which is bigger and holds more coins? In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish. Potters  ( 制 陶 工 ) made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay (黏土) called “pygg,” and folks saved coins in pygg jars. The Middle English word for pig was “pigge”. While the Saxons  pronounced  pygg,  referring  to  the  clay,  as  “pug”,  eventually  the  two  words  changed  into  the same pronunciation, sounding the “i” as in pig or piggy.  As the word became less associated with the orange clay and more with the animal, a clever potter fashioned a pygg jar in the shape of a pig, delighting children and adults. The piggy bank was born.

Originally you had to break the bank to get to the money,  bringing in a sense of seriousness into savings. While piggy banks teach children the wisdom of saving, adults often need to relearn childhood lessons. Think about the things in life that require large amounts of money --- college education, weddings, cars, medical care, starting a business, buying a home, and fun stuff like great trips. So when you have money, take off the top 10%, put it aside, save and invest wisely.

1.What is the piggy bank strategy?

A.Paying 1% income tax at a time.

B.Setting a goal before making a travel plan.

C.Aiming high even when doing small things.

D.Putting aside a little money regularly for future use.

2.Why did the writer’s parents give him a piggy bank as a gift?

A.To delight him with the latest fashion.

B.To encourage him to climb mountains.

C.To help him form the habit of saving.

D.To teach him English pronunciation.

3.What does then underlined word “something” (Paragraph 3) most probably refer to?

A.Money B.Gifts

C.Financial success D.Good luck

4.The piggy ban originally was _____.

A.a potter’s instrument B.a cheap clay container

C.an animal-shaped dish D.a pig-like toy for children