完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The young woman was feeling a little down on that Sunday in May. ________, it was Mother's Day ... and 800 miles________ her from her parents in Ohio. She had called her mother that morning to wish her a ________ Mother’s Day, and her mother had mentioned how ________the yard was now that spring had arrived. As they talked, the young woman could ________ smell the peaceful purple lilacs (丁香花) hanging on the big bush outside her parents' back door.
Later, when she mentioned to her husband how she ________ those lilacs, he immediately drove her and two children to a hill ________ with purple lilacs. With a smile, the young woman buried her ________in the flowers, drinking in the sweet smell and the ________ it brought back. And then, carefully, she picked a lilac here, another one there until her arms full of them.
_________, they returned to their car for the trip home. While the kids ________ talk
ed and the man attentively drove, the woman sat with a smile, surrounded by her flowers, a ________ look in her eyes. They stopped at a nursing home, where an elderly ________ was sitting in her wheel-chair, ________, head bowed, her back to most of the other patients. ________, across went the flowers to the old woman. She slowly ________ her head , and smiled.
For a few moments, the two women chatted, and both ________with happiness. As they drove back for home, the kids asked, "Mom, who was that? Why did you give her our flowers? Is she somebody's mother? "
The mother said she didn't know the old woman, ________ it was Mother's Day, and she seemed so lonely, and who wouldn't be________ by flowers? "Besides," she added, "I have all of you, and I still have mother, _____she is faraway. That woman needed those flowers more than I did. "
1.A. Above allB. At leastC. What's moreD. After all
2.A. freedB. tookC. separatedD. blocked
3.A. sadB. happyC. clearD. busy
4.A. colorfulB. largeC. dullD. noisy
5.A. thusB. almostC. simplyD. hardly
6.A. valuedB. forgotC. missedD. respected
7.A. coveredB. filledC. piledD. wrapped
8.A. feetB. faceC. eyesD. mouth
9.A. memoriesB. wishesC. dreamsD. imagination
10.A. SuddenlyB. FinallyC. NaturallyD. Certainly
11.A. impatientlyB. gentlyC. calmlyD. excitedly
12.A. farawayB. lonelyC. tiredD. sleepy
13.A. nurseB. doctorC. patientD. professor
14.A. unfortunateB. satisfiedC. helplessD. alone
15.A. SuddenlyB. HappilyC. HopefullyD. Eventually
16.A. noddedB. shookC. liftedD. touched
17.A.calmed downB. showed offC. came throughD. lit up
18.A. whileB. butC. asD. although
19.A. cheeredB. movedC. encouragedD. surprised
20.A. and yetB. in caseC. even ifD. as though
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项答案涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
We all wish we had just a bit more time．Just think what you could do with an extra hour or two each day: you could finally stick to an exercise routine, or spring-clean the house, or write your novel, or learn the guitar and
so on．
1. But I can help you find more hours in your day for the things that really matter．
1．Get Out of Bed Earlier
If you normally get up at 7; 30 a.m., try getting up at 7:00 a.m.. That half-hour might not sound like much, but it could be time that you use to exercise, to read that book you've been meaning to finish． 2.
2．Do the Important Tasks First
Once you get to work, get the important ones done first（not the easy ones, or even the urgent ones）. 3.
If you work like this, you'll usually save time. The urgent tasks will still get done, and you won't miss the important ones．
3．Reduce Interruptions
If colleagues have a habit of hanging around your desk to chat, or if the phone is constantly ringing, you might find that it takes you half the day to finish a simple task like writing a letter. 4.
4． 5.
A few minutes chatting, browsing the web, and so on, can easily turn into hours of wasted time over the course of a day. If your concentration is slipping, take a proper break: go and get a glass of water, or stretch your legs a bit. And if you’re facing a difficult task, try breaking it into small steps or stages so that it’s easier to deal with.
A. Stay Focused on Your Work
B. Take Break
s When Necessary
C. Constant interruptions don't just eat up time, they also break your concentration．
D. You can afford to spend at least an hour working on big, important tasks 
rather than on
all those little urgent ones．
E. Would you want me to make your day longer?
F. I can't magically make all your days 25 hours long．
G. Or simply to get your day off to a calm and organized start．
In much society, there is often greater acceptance of light skin than dark skin; Light skin may be seen as a mark of beauty, intelligence and success. These beliefs can lead to social pressures even within the same group, if some members are darker than others.
The result is that skin lightening has become very common across Africa, Asia and other areas of the world and more people with dark skin are using skin-lighting products, even if it means they may face health risks. They believe that having whiter skin will improve the quality of their lives. Many people think they will have a better family. Or they want to look like what their society generally considers beautiful.
Some beauty care（美容） products and soaps contain chemicals that make skin lighter. However, some of the chemicals are extremely dangerous. The chemicals in the products block and break down the natural barrier(障碍) to protect against sunlight. Then the skin can become thick and discolored. Usually the person will
use more of the product in an effort to correct the problem, which just makes things even worse. Doctor Ly says some chemicals are so dangerous that they may lead to blackened fingernails, infections(感染) and serious skin damage.
And these are not the only problems. Experts say some people who change their skin color suffer emotional damage. They feel regretful and sad. They feel that instead of risking their health, they should have learned to live and accept their skin color as it was.
1.What’s the result of the wrong understanding of darker skin?
A. Many people with dark skin try to make their skin whiter.
B. Many people with whiter skin live a better life than others.
C. People with darker skin try to marry people with light skin.
D. People with darker skin try to protect themselves against social pressures.
2.The third paragraph is about.
A. some medical effects that skin-lightening products have brought about
B. the mental damage that skin-lightening products have caused
C. the physical damage that skin-lightening products have caused
D. the causes why skin-lightening products can make skin whiter
3. Why are chemicals in beauty care products dangerous?
A. They can damage the skin’s color producing progress.
B. They can control people’s emotions and feelings.
C. They can make the fingernails and skin black.
D. They make more people decide to change their skin colors.
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Different Colors of Skin
B. The Dark Side of Skin Lightening
C. What Is Beauty?
D. Light Skin or Dark Skin?
Loma just had to get in touch with someone：“I had to tell my best friend something important. I tried calling her but I couldn’t get through. So I sent her an e-mail and then I spoke to her on MSN. Without technology I would not have been able to tell her. ”
Staying connected with friends and family is important for us. That’s why we asked our readers to tell us how cell-phones, e-mail, blogs, text messaging, and personal pages help them keep in touch. More than 1,500 responded.
Most of them told us they couldn’t live without technology：80％of teens said they need technology to stay in touch. Almost 30％said they’d be completely out of their friends without their cell-phones and other methods of communication.
What do they do when they’ve got news they need to share now? Most teens say they try to reach their friends by phone. But if they don’t reach them, they use QQ, e-mails, and text messaging to get the words out.
Lots of people use one way of c
ommunication—like text messaging—to get a friend’s attention and then use another where they can talk more. “My friends and I always tell each other everything that happens. So I send them text messages to tell them to come online so we can talk about it,” said Sabeiha.
“When planning to get together with friends”, Julian said, “the easiest and fastest way I know is to send a text message to my contact group.” Jocelyn said. “If I want to go to see a movie with a few friends, I usually send text message to them. By telephone, you have to call every single friend one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many as you’d like, which saves a lot of time.
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. E-mails. B. Blogs.
C. Personal pages. D. Personal letters.
2.What do most young people use first when they have news to tell their friends?
A. MSN. B. QQ. C. Phones. D. Text message.
3.The underlined part “get the words out” means“”.
A. send the message B. send the e-mail
C. talk with their friends D. meet their friends
4.In which part of a newspaper can you find this passage
?
A. Sport. B. Education.
C. Technology. D. Culture.
Peter Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he 
persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobody paid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 
1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825, but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad. He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."
1.For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _______.
A. improving worker's houses
B. helping people to save money
C. preventing men from getting drunk
D. providing the children with a good education
2. From the passage we may infer that Owen was born _______.
A. into a rich family B. into a noble family
C. into a poor family D. into a middle class family
3.Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _______.
A. he lost all his money
B. he did not buy enough land
C. people who visited it were not impressed
D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly
4. We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until
____.
A. 1771 B. 1816 C. 1825 D. 1860
Asia-Pacific consumers are the world's largest group of online shopping lovers and many rely on Internet reviews when making purchases, research firm Nielsen said this week.
The firm said 35% of consumers in Asia-Pacific used over 11% of their monthly spending to make online purchases, compared to a global average of 27% of consumers.
South Koreans were the heaviest online buyers in Asia, with 59% direc
ting more than 11% of their monthly spending to online purchases, followed by 41% in China, Nielsen said in a report.
A further 31% of Asian
consumers use between 6% and 10% of their monthly shopping purchases to buy items online.
More Asia-pacific consumers also intend to buy online in the next six months than those from other regions, with South Koreans and Chinese the most likely to make such purchases.
Among the purchases consumers in the region are likely to make in the next six months are books, clothing, shoes, airline tickets, electronic equipment and hotel reservations.
"Technology and the Internet will very likely basically change how and where shoppers spend their money and interact with sellers,” said Pete Gale, a managing director at Nielsen's Retailer Services.
"We are seeing a strong trend in markets like Korea, where a significant population of online shoppers buy essentials such as groceries, cosmetics and nutrition supplies over the Internet."
Nielsen said opinions posted online were important in Asia-pacific customers' decisions to buy products such as cosmetics, cars, software and food.
Asia-pacific consumers were also the most likely to share dissatisfaction at a product on the Internet compared with consumers elsewhere.
"The increasing accessibility of the Internet and unbelievable popularity of social media and online discussion forums mean today's brands have nowhere to hide, " said Megan Clarken, Asia-Pacific managing director at Nielsen's online division.
Nielsen said in June that social media such as Facebook and Twitter or blogging sites had become powerful tools influencing what people buy and urged businesses to embrace the trend.
1.What influences Asia-Pacific consumers most when making purchases online?
A. Other buyers' comments
B. Powerful online tools
C. The varieties of online item
D. The price and the way to play
2.Who uses more than 11% of their monthly spending to buy online?
A.31% of Asians B. 41% of Chinese
C. 41% of south Koreans D. 26% of global consumers
3.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The trend of doing e-business is speeding up.
B. Asians are most likely to shop with a “click.”
C. Online shopping is developing quickly worldwide.
D. Asia-Pacific consumers are fans of online discussion forums.
