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He recommended a reporter to us who has ________ outstanding talent for writing and is known for his sympathy for ________ poor.
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—Who telephoned you just now? — don’t know. I was about to answer the phone when it ________.
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The doctor has worked with patients of this kind for eight years, so he knows what ________ in his job.
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Our manager has gone to Paris, so I have to deal with all the letters during his ________.
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True friendship is like sound health, ________ the value is seldom known until it is lost.
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His ________ description of his adventure in the forest made us want to have a try ourselves.
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I finally persuaded her to see the new film “If You Are The One II” directed by Mr. Feng, ________ she didn’t want to.
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The families of the trapped miners’ are ________ to get any information about their relatives from the rescuing center.
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On feeling the earthquake，the teacher stayed calm in the front of the classroom，________ all the students to rush out of the classroom as quickly as possible.
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—I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t mean to hurt you by showing you those pictures. —________ It just reminded me of my old friends.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 One day last month after I received my salary, I went shopping with my little son. 36 in the crowded store, I had my pocket 37 and my whole salary was gone with it. I was so angry that I almost lost 38 of myself. What could I do? We were not very 39 . The money was really not a small sum for my family. It would 40 our life greatly. How could I tell my wife? I felt very sad and even 41 for losing the money when I got home. To make up for my 42 mistake, I gathered all my strength to give our house a thorough cleaning and then 43 a wonderful meal and cooked a special dish my wife loved to 44 her. When she came home, I 45 a smile to greet her. She was 46 to see the neat house and 47 meal. We sat at the table and began to eat. I told my story 48 . She did not respond. It was as if she had not heard my words. “I’ve 49 my salary,” I murmured to her again. “I see,” she did not shout at me as I had 50 . She didn’t lose her 51 . So I was afraid she was trying hard to 52 her anger. A moment later, my wife was still 53 and seemed to be enjoying her favorite dish. At last I could not help asking, “I’ve lost the money. Why not shout at me?” She 54 her eyes, looking at me and said, “Oh, on the contrary, I’m thinking about how to comfort you. It’s the 55 who is to blame.
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Bernstein had been appointed Assistant Conductor for the New York philharmonic only a few months before that night. Just 25 years old, he was relatively inexperienced. At the last minute, Bernstein was told he was to take Walter’s place, so he didn’t have any time to rehearse（排演）. The music he was going to conduct was very difficult. Plus, the concert was going to be broadcast nationally on the radio. Despite all these pressures, Bernstein rose to the occasion and received a standing ovation（长久的鼓掌）at the end of the concert. The event made national headlines, and Bernstein became famous overnight. Some people feel they do their best under the most stressful circumstances. What was it about Leonard Bernstein that made him do so well in such a difficult situation? Perhaps Leonard Bernstein did so well because music was his devotion. The son of a man who supplied hairdressing products, Bernstein became interested in music at the age of 10. By the time he was a teenager, he was performing in public. He became a soloist of the Boston Public School Orchestra, and for 13 weeks in 1934, he played classics on the radio. 1.The underlined word “break” in the first paragraph means “__________”.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the second paragraph?
3.Leonard Bernstein was successful at the concert because of __________.
4. From the last paragraph, we can learn that __________.
5.What might be the best title for the text?
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Peggy Hilt wanted to be a good mother. But day after day, she got out of bed feeling like a failure. No matter what she tried, she couldn’t connect with Nina, the 2-year -old girl she’d adopted from Russia as an infant （幼儿). The preschooler （学龄前儿童）pulled away whenever Hilt tried to hug or kiss her. Nina was physically aggressive with her 4-year-old sister, who had been adopted from Ukraine, and had violent tantrums（发脾气). Whenever Hilt wasn’t watching, she destroyed the family’s furniture and possessions. “Every day with Nina had become a struggle,” she recalls now. As the girl grew older, things got worse. Hilt fell into a deep depression. She started drinking heavily, something she’d never done before. Ashamed, she hid her problem from everyone, including her husband. On the morning of July 1, 2005, Hilt was packing for a family vocation, all the while swallowing one beer after another and growing increasingly angry and impatient with Nina’s deeds. “Everything she did just got to me,” Hilt said. When Hilt caught her reaching into her diaper（尿布）and smearing feces（粪便）on the walls and furniture, “a year and a half of frustration came to a head,” Hilt says. “I snapped（崩溃). I felt this uncontrollable rage.” Then Hilt did something unthinkable. She grabbed Nina around the neck, shook her and then dropped her to the floor, where she kicked her repeatedly before dragging her up to her room, punching her as they went. “I had never hit a child before,” she says. “I felt horrible and promised myself that this would never happen again.” But it was too late for that. Nina woke up with a fever, and then started throwing up. The next day she stopped breathing. By the time the ambulance got the child to the hospital, she was dead. Hilt is now serving a 19-year sentence for second-degree murder in a Virginia prison. She and her husband divorced, and he is raising their other daughter. She realizes the horror of her crime and says she isn’t looking for sympathy. “There is no punishment severe enough for what I did,” she told NEWSWEEK in an interview at the prison. 1. This story mainly tells us __________.
2.How did Hilt let out her depression at the beginning?
3. What does the underlined sentence in Para.4 mean?
4.“NEWSWEEK” in the last sentence of this text refers to a __________.
5. Why do some adoptions go so wrong？
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Most of the news in the newspapers is bad but sometimes there is a story with good news. This is one of those stories. Millions of people around the world suffer from AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other serious diseases. There are medicines to treat these diseases but for people in poor countries, these medicines are too expensive to buy. When a pharmaceutical（制药的）company produces a new medicine, they receive a special license called a patent. This license means that the new medicine or drug is protected for a period of 20 years. The company that produced the drug can fix the price of the drug and no other company is allowed to produce the same drug or a copy of the drug for 20 years. At the moment, these patents operate all over the world, both in rich countries and in poor countries. The drugs companies say that they need patents so that they can get the money to pay for research to find new drugs and medicines. In rich countries people usually have enough money to pay for these drugs but in poor countries people can’t afford to buy them and cannot treat diseases like AIDS and malaria. Last month, however, a group of experts published a report which says that patents are very bad for poor countries. The report says that drug companies do not want to find new medicines for diseases of poor people in poor countries. It says that poor countries should be allowed to buy cheap drugs without patents from other countries. The authors of the report were lawyers, scientists and a senior director from the drug company Pfizer. Of course, the pharmaceuticals industry doesn’t agree with the report, “We need patents so that we can develop new medicines to fight disease both in the developed and developing world,” said a spokesman. But the report is the first sign that there might be a change in the patent system. This change could save millions of lives in the world’s poorest countries. This really is good news. 1. Why are medicines expensive for people in poor countries?
2. What does the underlined word “patent” in Para1 mean in Chinese?
3.Why do drugs companies need patents?
4. What does the report say?
5.What might happen if the patent system is changed?
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How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child — things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his parents. He is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things or being punished for what he has done wrong. When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society. 1. According to the second paragraph, the writer thinks that __________.
2. After a child grows up, he __________.
3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
4.The underlined word "responsibilities" in the second paragraph means __________.
5. The main idea of the passage is __________.
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