1.I don’t want to upset you, but I found your menu so limited that I stopped worrying and started __________________ of my food.
2.At the library Wang Peng was surprised to find that his ________________ too much fat and Yong Hui’s far too little.
3.Perhaps with a discount and a new sign he could ____________________.
4.He did not look forward to __________________ because his restaurant was no longer popular.
5.Towards evening, the boat __________________ and the girl jumped into the sea.
6.One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and _______________.
7.__________________ Wang Peng inside. It was full of people. The hostess, a very thin……
8.The one with the money got ________________ that he dropped the bag.
1.My roommate always starts enthusiastically but loses interest before long. In other words, he always has 3-m__________ passion.
2.Supporters of Running Man say they can’t help b__________ into laughter when watching that fabulous TV show.
3.We have only one earth. So great importance should be a__________ to protecting our environment.
4.We firmly believe that humans are all born e__________, which means everyone is worth respecting.
5.----Can you sell this Gucci bag at a d__________?
----Sorry. It’s a new limited edition. Maybe you can try some luck at an outlet store.
6.The band Maroon5 was so popular that they could not leave the stage without p__________ two extra songs.
7.Never give up. I hold the b__________ that where there is a will, there is a way.
8.The little boy observed the cat c___________, wondering how it could get through such a small hole in the wall.
9.The ability to keep calm in an emergency is one of his many s__________.
10.The best students are those c___________ their intellectual ability with hard work.
Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure of your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms so that each could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys, grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
1.The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ____________.
A. monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B. feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
2.It can be learned from the passage that ____________.
A. only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world
B. women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated
C. in the wild, monkeys are unhappy to share their food with each other
D. monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive
3.Which of the following conclusions is true according to the passage?
A. Human beings’ feelings of anger developed from the monkeys.
B. In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.
C. Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.
D. The sense of fairness among monkeys probably dates back to 35 million years ago.
4.What do we know about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
A. The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.
B. They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
C. The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.
D. Co-operation among the monkeys remains more effective in the wild.
Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl.
One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl(珍珠) necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her mother if she would buy it for her, her mother said, "Well, it is a pretty necklace, but it costs an awful lot of money. I'll tell you what. I'll buy you the necklace, and when we get home we can make up a list of housework that you can do to pay for the necklace. And don't forget that for your birthday Grandma just might give you a whole dollar bill, too. Okay?" Jenny agreed, and her mother bought the pearl necklace for her.
Jenny worked on her chores very hard every day, and sure enough, her grandma gave her a brand-new dollar bill for her birthday. Soon Jenny had paid off the pearls. How Jenny loved those pearls. She wore them everywhere to kindergarten, bed and when she went out with her mother to run errands（差事）.
The only time she didn't wear them was in the shower. Her mother had told her that they would turn her neck green!
Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would get up from his favorite chair every night and read Jenny her favorite story.
One night when he finished the story, he said, "Jenny, do you love me?"
"Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you," the little girl said.
"Well, then, give me your pearls."
"Oh! Daddy, not my pearls!" Jenny said. "But you can have Rosy, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. And you can have her tea party outfit, too. Okay?"
"Oh no, darling, that's okay." Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. "Good night, little one."
A week later, her father once again asked Jenny after her story, "Do you love me?"
"Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you."
"Well, then, give me your pearls."
"Oh, Daddy, not my pearls! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She's my favorite. Her hair is so soft, and you can play with it and braid（编辫子）it and everything. You can have Ribbons if you want her, Daddy," the little girl said to her father.
"No, that's okay," her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. "God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams."
Several days later, when Jenny's father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling." Here, Daddy," she said, and held out her hand. She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father's hand.
With one hand her father held the plastic pearls and the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue velvet (天鹅绒) box. Inside of the box were real, genuine, beautiful pearls. He had had them all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap stuff so he could give her the real thing.
1.Which statement is NOT correct?
A. Jenny loves her father very much.
B. Jenny’s pearl necklace can turn green when it is wet.
C. Jenny has other toys she loves very much besides the necklace.
D. Jenny didn’t want to give up her necklace though she did so.
2.The reason why little Jenny wanted to give her father doll and toy horse is that __________.
A. they were lovely
B. she liked them very much
C. they were worth much more
D. she loved her necklace too much
3.What does the writer mainly want to tell us through the loving story?
A. Whatever you want, you need to earn it yourself.
B. Life is both disappointing and hopeful at the same time.
C. Your parents are always the people who would like to spoil you.
D. Only if you show your real deep love to others, will you get the same in return.
Do you ever wonder why the English have one word for some animals and a different one for their meat?
Why do they use pig and pork, cow and beef, and sheep and mutton?
To find out, we have to go back to 1066, when the Norman French invaded England and put a French king on the English throne (王位), which not only changed the government but also changed the language. French became the language of the upper classes of society. And it remained that way for 300 years. Only these high society people could afford to eat meat. As a result, French words like porc（pork）and beouf （beef） came into the English language. However, poor English farmers raised the animals. So the English language retained the words pig and cow from the Native Anglo-Saxon．
The Norman French added about 10,000 French words to the English language. Seventy-five percent of them are still in use today.
According to language experts, English speakers who have never studied French may already know 15,000 French words! Between one-third and two-thirds of all English words have French origins. Some words such as “possible” and “avenue” are the same in French and English; only the pronunciations change. Other words such as “ballet” keep their French pronunciations in both languages.
In French grammar, nouns have either a male or female gender (性别), so adjectives take different forms for each. English has only one adjective that does this, and it came from French. The word “blond” describes someone with light-colored hair. “Blond” is used for men, and “blonde” describes women. And they are also nouns.
Some French words that entered the English language have completely different meanings. The French phrase “a la mode” means “in style”. In English, the phrase means “with the ice cream”. Someone must have decided something eaten with ice cream was in style!
Now, as you learn English, you’re on your way to learning French!
1.French was once popular among the upper classes of the UK because __________.
A. too many French moved to Britain
B. French brought animals with them
C. the king and his officials spoke French
D. the king allowed French to be spoken
2.Why does an English speaker find French easy to learn?
A. Because English and French share similar pronunciations．
B. Because English grammar and French grammar are similar．
C. Because a large number of English words have French origins．
D. Because English has great influences on the French language．
3.What conclusion can we draw from the text?
A. Language is closely related to history and culture.
B. French and English words have little in common.
C. Language is controlled by the upper classes of society.
D. French combines English and the Native Anglo-Saxon.
I was aged 9 the moment I discovered my father was seriously sick. It was 1994, but I can well remember my mother’s words as though it were yesterday: “Maggie, I don’t want you to take ______ from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very cautious when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family ______. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could attend to himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it ______ to me to look after him.
We couldn’t _____ all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t ______ buy food for dinner. I ______ sit in class feeling completely ______. The teacher’s words were ________ as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not ______ my burden with anyone. I had seen how people ______ to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be _____. When my father was ______ to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too fragile to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his ______ a secret, I was truly ______ when he reached his final days. ______ and down, I called a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support. That day, she ______ me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life. I was 15 when my father ______ on. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call ______ to AIDS. I do.
1.A. trust B. joke C. food D. fun
2.A. disease B. project C. challenge D. secret
3.A. fell B. sent C. chose D. left
4.A. afford B. offer C. select D. prepare
5.A. only B. even C. yet D. still
6.A. might B. should C. could D. would
7.A. moved B. lost C. bored D. nervous
8.A. rolled B. eaten C. proved D. drowned
9.A. pack B. compare C. share D. affect
10.A. applied B. escaped C. reacted D. referred
11.A. cruel B. curious C. considerate D. confused
12.A. admitted B. concerned C. removed D. sentenced
13.A. dream B. promise C. instruction D. condition
14.A. calm B. religious C. unprepared D. devoted
15.A. Red B. Black C. Green D. Blue
16.A. kept B. talked C. reminded D. replied
17.A. died B. hid C. passed D. sighed
18.A. relief B. attention C. support D. Trouble
