On Oct. 6th, 2011, a piece of breaking news hit the world: Steve Jobs, the founder of the Apple Company, 16 (pass) away after years of battle against pancreatic cancer. I as well as many people 17 (be) sad at the news. We saw him make miracles again and again, and we hoped that he would always give us a surprise. We enjoy using an iPod to listen to music and we like to play games with 18 iPad. We love to communicate with our friends by iPhone. 19 seemed that Jobs always understood what we really wanted. So he could devote himself to his career by creating the amazing products constantly. But now he quietly left, 20 (leave) us a great pity.
U.S. President Barack Obama called Jobs a visionary 21 (lead) and one of the greatest U.S. innovators. He said in a statement, "Steve was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and 22 (talent) enough to do it."
Steve Jobs’ family said in a statement, “Steve died 23 (peace) today surrounded by his family. We are grateful for the support and kindness of those 24 share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time 25 grief.”
Dad loved children. And he always wanted a 1 family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us all to visitors.
Once, Dad 2 presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our 3 model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all, we are 4 the 1953 model some time next month.”
But what he 5 most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted 6 that he had seen eleven people in our car, not 7 Mum and Dad. 8 , Dad called out over his shoulder, “You 9 the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure whether he was telling us the 10. Mum, who was a psychologist, once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the 11 . When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was 12 except that one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been 13 . When he pointed at the child that had been 14 Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He 15 next door.”
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Even if you had not been able to see her, you ______ us.
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A．told |
B．had told |
C．should tell |
D．should have told |
—Because of the rain, we’ll have to ______the football match.
—I’m free next Sunday if you would like to play then.
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A．abandon |
B．ignore |
C．postpone |
D．recover |
Due to bad weather, the police had to __________ the search for the missing boy.
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A．resign |
B．abandon |
C．conduct |
D．release |
This August will be very precious for graduates by which time they _________into a university.
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A．will be admitted |
B．will have admitted |
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C．have been admitted |
D．will have been admitted |
