A. put up B. put on C. put away D. put off

39. —Did Tom and Bob go to the dancing party?

—They had been invited, but ______ of them showed up. A. each

B. either

C. neither

D. none

40. —Excuse me, can you tell me ______?

—Of course.

A. where is there a good place to eat C. where is a good place to eat

B. where there is a good place to eat

D. where a good place is to eat

三、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

From North Wales comes the story of a young woman who returned to her car in

the local multi-story car park and found an elderly lady sitting in the back seat. As it was a ______(41) make of car, she first ______(42) the number plate. And she went around it to make sure it was indeed her car. She asked the lady what she was doing there. The old lady explained she had been shopping with her daughter and grandchildren but had felt ______(43) and wanted to return to the car for a rest. She said her daughter’s car was the same make, ______(44) color as the young woman’s and she must have got into the wrong one – a ______(45) explanation. The old lady then began to breathe heavily and, holding her ______(46), asked to be taken to the local hospital, which the driver ______(47) to do. But just as the young woman was about to start up the car, she noticed in the rearview mirror that the old lady’s shawl (披肩) had ______(48) a little, showing a muscular arm, thick with hair. “What should I do?” she asked herself. She was very ______(49) that she would soon be in trouble. At the moment the young woman had an idea. She asked the old lady to

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______(50) her out of the parking space by standing to one side of the bay, and felt ______(51) when she agreed to do this. Once out of the parking place, the young woman ______(52) the doors and sped off the nearest police station to report the ______(53). Police officers then ______(54) the car, finding a rope and an axe under the passenger seat. The young woman had ______(55) to drive away fortunately, although the whole thing would not have happened in the first place if she had remembered to lock her car up before she went shopping. 41. A. common 42. A. cleaned 43. A. unwell 44. A. price

B. simple

C. popular

D. cheap D. moved

B. checked B. hungry

C. protected C. anxious

D. excited

D. lock

B. model B. strange B. chest

C. smell

45. A. weak 46. A. head

C. reasonable

C. stomach

D. correct

D. nose

47. A. agreed 48. A. risen

B. pretended

B. moved B. excited B. take

C. refused C. changed

D. meant D. fallen D. worried D. remind D. lonely

49. A. surprised 50. A. follow 51. A. sorry 52. A. broke 53. A. accident 54. A. stopped 55. A. tried

C. disappointed C. direct

B. happy B. pushed B. secret

C. nervous

C. locked

C. news

D. repaired

D. matter

B. searched

C. fixed

D. drove

D. managed

B. preferred C. afforded

四、阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

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阅读下面三篇材料，从每篇材料后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，

选出最佳答案。

56. The ad. is mainly about ______. A. Sunclose Farm

B. fruit kinds

C. fruit sale

D. picking fruits

57. We know from the ad. that ______.

A. you have to drive to the farm

B. there is enough free parking on the farm C. you can buy only three kinds of fruit

D. the farm will not be closed at 1:00 pm on Sundays

58. The Sunclose Farm is mostly close to ______.

A. P&R section

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B. Milton

C. A14 D. Cambridge Town

59. The ad. above is taken probably from ______.

A. Sunclose Farm’s report C. a Cambridge Magazine

B. a Milton newspaper D. a local website net

60. The words ‘NOW IN STOCK’ in the ad. means ______.

A. it’s the time for picking fruits C. half price for all the fruit

B

In China, children like to make promises by hooking pinkies (勾手指) with each

B. a lot of fruit ready for sale D. welcome to Sunclose Farm now

other and saying: “A pinkie promise must be kept for 100 years.” Then, they may press their thumbs together to complete the promise. Sometimes, couples will hook pinkies and promise to be together forever.

There are many theories (推测) on the beginning of the pinkie promise. Some say

it comes from a nursery rhyme. Others say it was introduced from the West – born out of a love story where a man and a woman hooked fingers.

One theory is may have something to do with the role of fingers in Chinese

culture. The Chinese character for “finger” also means “aim (旨)” (referring to people’s thoughts). So hooking fingers can be seen as the exchanging of thoughts.

Therefore, the fingers play an important role in making an oath (盟约): they can

not only be used to complete a promise, but also be cut for making a blood oath. When someone swears (发誓) to heaven, they use their fingers to point to the sky.

Generally, hooking fingers means making a serious promise. In some gangster (黑

帮) movies, a person who breaks a promise may have his little finger cut off!

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Of course, this kind of thing is not very likely to happen in real life. But we can

still see how important “pinkie promises” can be. 61. The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. where “hooking pinkies” first came from B. there are many theories on “hooking pinkies” C. a “pinkie promise” is important in real life D. what happens in some gangster movies

62. It is clear that ______.

A. only kids like to make pinkie promises B. “hooking pinkies” is happening very widely C. all pinkie promises are kept for 100 years D. a blood oath is the most serious kind

63. Children in China may finish “hooking pinkie” by ______.

A. pointing to the sky

B. saying words to each other D. seeing a gangster movie

C. pressing their thumbs together

64. In the writer’s opinion, “hooking fingers” means ______.

A. being together forever

B. making a blood oath D. swearing to heaven

C. making a serious promise

65. The best title for the passage is ______.

A. Don’t make a “pinkie promise” C. “Pinkie promise” is popular

C

B. Don’t break a “pinkie promise” D. “Pinkie promise” is dangerous

I read a lot of newspapers for my job, but the one I liked best is called The Family

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