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YOU CAN HELP!
Everyone was born with his own built-in burglar(窃贼) alarm. It’s called the sense of sight and sound.Unfortunately, many of us go around with the alarm switched off.
We don’t see the stranger wandering outside the house next door.
We don’t notice the sounds from the flat upstairs.
(Weren’t they supposed to be on holiday?)
The police can only do so much to prevent crime. There never can be enough of them to guard every home in every town. So they need your help in fighting with the burglars,the vandals(恣意破坏者), and the car thieves.
Not, of course, by setting out to have a go every time you see something suspicious. It’ll always be the job of the police to arrest criminals.
But by acting as a line of communication between them and your community, for instance, you probably know far more about your immediate neighborhoods than the police ever could.
A stranger in someone’s garden would probably be far more obvious to you than it would to even the local police, if, of course, you were on the look-out.
That’s the whole idea behind the Neighborhood Watch schemes, springing up around the country to create a spirit of watchfulness within a community, anything suspicious being reported to the police.
It’s early days yet, but results so far are very encouraging. The crime figures are already dropping in many of the areas running the scheme. And all due to people like you.
61. The underlined word “them” refers to “______”.
A. criminals B. the police C. neighbors D. strangers
62. The advertisement points out that many people______.
A. are not ready to help the police
B. are not as watchful as they could be
C. don’t look after their gardens well
D. don’t tell their neighbors about their holidays
63. One of the ways we could help prevent crime is to______.
A. turn on the alarm system in our home
B. try to stop criminals from escaping
C. look out for people behaving suspiciously
D. inform the police if we hear noises upstairs
64. The purpose of the advertisement is to __________in their neighborhood.
A. ask people to join the police force
B. advise people how to protect their homes
C. warn people about the increasing risk of crime
D. encourage people to be on watch for possible crime
第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
My son Joey was born with club feet(天生特厚的畸形脚). The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk 36 , but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were 37 in surgery(手术). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a 38 when you saw him walk.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during 39 , and Joey would jump right in,run and play, too. We 40 told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to 41 as well as the other children. So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he 42 to go out for the cross country team. Every day he 43 with the team. He worked harder and ran 44 than any of the others — perhaps he sensed that the 45 that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. 46 the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential (潜能) to 47 points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He 48 to run four to five miles a day, every day — even the day he had a 103 degree fever. I was 49 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him 50 all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more51 to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. 52 he looked straight ahead and kept running.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were 53 . Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in 54 grade — the other six team members were all eighthgraders. We never told him he shouldn’t 55 to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it...so he didn’t know. He just did it.
36. A. quickly B. slowly C. normally D. comfortably
37. A. spent B. wasted C. suffered D. lost
38. A. pain B. problem C. treatment D. surgery
39. A. holidays B. day C. fun D. play
40. A. seldom B. never C. always D. once
41. A. study B. run C. walk D. behave
42. A. decided B. preferred C. refused D. agreed
43. A. gathered B. camped C. trained D. competed
44. A. more slowly B. less C. faster D. more
45. A. ability B. strength C. power D. energy
46. A. Since B. Because C. After D. Although
47. A. increase B. score C. hold D. take
48. A. continued B. stopped C. liked D. hoped
49. A. sad B. surprised C. angry D. worried
50. A. running B. resting C. crying D. sleeping
51. A. tests B. miles C. lessons D. examinations
52. A. Otherwise B. So C. Yet D. Thus
53. A. included B. called C. shown D. found
54. A. sixth B. eighth C. seventh D. fifth
55. A. manage B. determine C. expect D. attempt
your answer, I would have come back two weeks ago.
A.If I received |
B.Should I receive |
C.Had I received |
D.If I could have received |
Some people themselves by reading; others have been by the radio and television.
A.interest; entertained |
B.entertain; entertained |
C.amuse; delighted |
D.excite; amused |
—Wow, what a large crowd!
—Yes, And they______ in the cold wind for hours. You know, Premiere Wen Jiabao is coming here.
A.will be waiting |
B.have waited |
C.are waiting |
D.have been waiting |
—How do you find your boy-friend?
— .
A.I can’t find him anywhere |
B.By searching the whole building |
C.He’s all right, as long as you do what he says |
D.I haven’t seen him for long, he is very busy these days |