He missed the worst of the traffic this ...

Some pressure is good for you ________ it can help you try harder.

A. unless    B. although

C. before    D. as

How long do you suppose it is ______ he arrived there?

A.when B.before

C.after D.since

Dad thinks I should study to be a doctor，____ I’m not interested in medicine.

A.so B.and C.but D.for

He smiled politely         Mary apologized for her drunken friends.

A.as B.if

C.unless D.though

阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

I grew up in a small town where elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when we children could go home for lunch and find our mothers waiting. At the time, I didn't consider this to be so important, although today it certainly would be. Actually, our lunch time together in the past years had had a great influence on my life before I realized it.

Our lunch time when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had painstakingly practiced my lines (台词) with me. But no matter how easily I delivered them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained patiently that she needed a narrator and had written a narrator's part to the play, and asked me to play the role of the narrator. Her words, kindly delivered, still hurt me especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn't tell mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my upset, and instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard. It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) appearing unexpectedly through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with small amounts of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the bushes. “I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, pulling a blossom up by all its roots. “From now on, we'll only have roses in this garden.'' I immediately argued, "But I like dandelions. All flowers are beautiful — even dandelions."

注意：

1．所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2．至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语：

3．续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4．续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1：

“Do you mean that every flower has its own beauty?” asked my mother thoughtfully.

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Having learned what had happened, Mom patted me on the back gently and said, “but you will be a beautiful narrator.”

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