Even though she had read the report carefully...

Even though she had read the report carefully over and over, she glanced it ________ before handing it in.

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With a good ______ of both Chinese and English,she had an advantage over the other interviewees.

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Even though computer screens don’t 　　　　 radiation, the stress from staring over long periods can cause harm to your vision.

A. give off　　　　         B. give in                C. give up　　         D. give away

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Small sailboats can easily turn over in the water ______ they are not managed carefully.

A. though     B. before        C. until         D. if

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Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. At school I had learned to read and write long before the other children. Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a haven from that home, those streets, and those troubled days in which even I could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me. My father didn’t like to see books in the house. There was something about them---apart from the letters he could not recognize---that offended him. He used to tell me that as soon as I was ten he would send me off to work and that I’d better get rid of all my scatterbrained ideas if I didn’t want to end up a loser, a nobody. I used to hide my books under the mattress and wait for him to go out or fall asleep so that I could read. Once he caught me reading at night and flew into a rage. He tore the book from my hands and flung it out of the window.

“If I catch you wasting electricity again, reading all this nonsense, you’ll be sorry.”

My father was not a miser and, despite the hardships we suffered, whenever he could he gave me a few coins so that I could buy myself some treats like the other children. He was convinced that I spent them on sunflower seeds, or sweets, but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed, and when I’d collected enough coins I’d secretly rush out to buy myself a book.

My favorite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons Bookshop on Calle Santa Ana. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my refuge. The bookseller would let me sit on a chair in a corner and read any book I liked to my heart’s content. He hardly ever allowed me to pay for the books he placed in my hands, but when he wasn’t looking I’d leave the coins I’d managed to collect on the counter before I left. It was only small change---if I’d had to buy a book with that pittance (极少的报酬), I would probably have been able to afford only a booklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on my soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayed there forever.

One Christmas Sempere gave me that best gift I had ever received. It was an old volume, read and experienced to the full.

“Great expectations, by Charles Dickens,” I read on the cover.

I was aware that Sempere knew a few authors who frequented his establishment and, judging by the care with which he handled the volume, I thought perhaps this Mr. Dickens was one of them.

“A friend of yours?”

“A lifelong friend. And from now on, he’s your friend too.”

That afternoon I took my new friend home, hidden under my clothes so that my father wouldn’t see it. It was a rainy winter, with days as gray as lead, and I read Great Expectations about nine times, partly because I had no other book at hand, partly because I did not think there could be a better one in the whole world and I was beginning to suspect that Mr. Dickens had written it just for me. Soon I was convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do what Mr. Dickens had done.

1.The underlined word “haven” in Paragraph 1 probably means “______”.

A. favor　　 B. mask　　 C. consultant　　 D. shelter

2.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ______.

A. the people who played a part in the author’s story

B. the difficulties the author ran into in his childhood

C. the author’s affection for books as a child

D. the author’s dreams before he met Sempere

3.The word “friend” is used twice by Sempere to ______.

A. emphasize the emotional connection Sempere feels to reading

B. imply that Sempere had one close friend in his lifetime

C. underline the importance of the author’s connection to Sempere

D. stress how friendships helped the author deal with difficulties

4.Why does the author consider Great Expectations to be the best gift?

A. Because he wanted to make the acquaintance of the book’s author.

B. Because the gift meant that Sempere regarded him as a special friend.

C. Because reading the book convinced him that he wanted to be a writer.

D. Because he’d only ever been given sweets and snacks as gifts in the past.

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They are talking about the moon ________ they had been there for years

A. as though         B. even if         C. like              D. because

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Even though she ________ much, the woman multimillionaire insists on working as a street cleanser to set her children a good example.

A．doesn’t pay      B．isn’t paid         C．hasn’t paid       D．hasn’t been paid

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Even though I’d hurt my leg, I______swim back to the river bank.

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Sarah ______ change her mind, even though she knew the plan was hard to carry out.

A. mustn’t　　　　　 　　　　 B. wouldn’t

C. shouldn’t　 　　　　　　 D. needn’t

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Sarah ______ change her mind, even though she knew the plan was hard to carry out.

A. mustn’t　　　　　 B. wouldn’t

C. shouldn’t　 　　 D. needn’t

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