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2
Lesson 55
Not a Gold Mine
骞堕潪閲戠熆
I.
璇硶涓庤瘝姹囩煡璇?/p>
1. His dream ______ finally. He has been working hard for many years.
A. came true
B. failed
C. found out
D. went away
2.
Compass
______
for more than a thousand years.
A. having been invented
B. has been invented
C. was invented
D. invented
3. What are you ______ under your desk?
A. putting
B. holding
C. hiding
D. seeking
4. ______ with strong weapon, this country considered itself as
鈥?/p>
world police
鈥?/p>
.
A. Arming
B. Arms
C. Armed
D. Arm
5. Don
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t waste your time on doing ______ things!
A.
valuable
B. worthless
C. worthy
D. valueless
6. Nothing left ______ a big round dining desk in the house.
A. besides
B. only
C. except
D. out
7. ______ rain, I went shopping with him.
A. In spite of
B. Yet
C. Although
D. Except
8. He was full of ______ when he went to the interview.
A. wish
B. confidence
C. anger
D. emotion
9. It
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s not ______ for you to do so!
A. fair
B. just
C. fairly
D. justly
10. We reviewed our lessons ______ at the end of this semester.
A. lively
B. thoroughly
C. friendly
D. badly
II.
闃呰鐞嗚В
For many people the subject of hiccups (
鎵撳棟
) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a
fifteen-year-old
schoolboy
from
Birmingham,
it
was
something
quite
different.
His
hiccups
began
one
Sunday
lunchtime
and
continued
day
and
night
for
two
weeks.
After the first week, Harry
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s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for
the doctors to cure it.
Harry,
who
is
now
back
at school,
described
what
happened
to
him.
鈥淲hen
I
began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn
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t do any good. That evening I
had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath
and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn
鈥?/p>
t work
either.鈥?/p>
After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of
his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.
鈥淭hey gave me some medicine and
my
hiccups
slowed
down,
but
it
was
another
week
before
the
medicine
worked
completely and my hiccups stopped.鈥?/p>
11. Harry
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s hiccups lasted______.