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--- Mum, my old bike has gone wrong again. What shall I do?
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--- Great! But can I have a mountain bike?
--- Why a mountain bike? There’re no mountains around here.
--- Mountain bikes are stronger, and they’re better at going up hills. But I …
--- 2.--- Money. Do you know how much they cost? At least $300 each! How can I get so much money?
--- 3.
--- Over a year! But I need one now.
--- 4.
--- I suppose about $150 each.
--- Well, that sounds more reasonable. If you save $5 a week, you’ll have enough in about six months.
--- 5.
--- Well, go ahead with your saving and I’ll make up the rest in six months. Now, go and get your old bike repaired.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
“But what if I break my arm again?” My five-year-old daughter asked, looking very _________ . I knew how much she wanted to learn to _________ .Yet ever since she fell off her bicycle and broke her arm, she’d been afraid .
“Oh, honey,” I said. “I don’t think you’ll break another arm .”
“_________ I could, couldn’t I?”
“Yes,” I _________ . At that time, how I wish I _________ someone who might help me find the right words to make my girl’s problems disappear.
“ I don’t want to ride,” she said and got off her bike.
“ You know, honey,” I said. “_________ everything you do comes with risks. You_________ break your arm in a car accident and then be afraid to ever ride in a car. You could have your arm _________ jumping a rope. You could get a broken arm at sports. Do you want to _________ going to do sports?”
“No,” she said. And with a determined spirit, she agreed to try it again. I _________ her bike until she found the_________ to say, “Let’s go!” I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a brave little girl overcome a _________, and congratulating myself for being a useful parent after a painful divorce.
As we walked home, she asked me about a conversation she overheard me having with my mother. “Grandma wanted you to find someone to _________,””What grandma wants is for someone to _________ my heart again.”I lost control. ”But, Mom.” ”You are too young to _________ it.”I told her, “I think love isn’t like a broken arm. I don’t want to think about it again.” Then she said she knew uncle Steve was the man for me.
“It’s nothing,” I told her.
Then she said something_________ me to think about.
Unable to answer, we went on walking in _________ . When I got home, I called my mother and_________ her for talking about this to my daughter. Later I did what my brave girl did that afternoon. I agreed to meet Steve.
Steve was the man for me. We _________ a year later. It turned out mother and my daughter were _________ .
1.A. satisfied B. nervous C. sad D. excited
2.A. ride B. buy C. drive D. walk
3.A. And B. However C. But D. Instead
4.A. laughed B. cried C. sighed D. replied
5.A. have B. will C. had D. has
6.A. Most B. Mostly C. Hardly D. Almost
7.A. must B. could C. should D. would
8.A. break B. to break C. broken D. breaking
9.A. try B. stop C. start D. begin
10.A. held out B. held up C. held on D. held on to
11.A. strength B. courage C. feeling D. sense
12.A. shame B. difficult C. fear D. mistake
13.A. help B. live C. teach D. love
14.A. destroy B. break C. warm D. harm
15.A. accept B. understand C. believe D. receive
16.A. of B. for C. with D. by
17.A. surprise B. a hurry C. silence D. pleasure
18.A. appreciated B. thanked C. scolded D. charged
19.A. argued B. left C. moved D. married
20.A. clever B. wrong C. right D. careful
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Peter was disappointed to see the bike he had ________ went wrong again.
A. repaired B had repaired C. repair D. to repair
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My colleague is tearing up what he has written _______ and beginning over again.
A. constantly B. amazingly
C. efficiently D. skeptically
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—What’s wrong with you yesterday?
—When I was playing football, my strength ___________ and I fell down.
| A．gave up | B．gave off | C．gave out | D．gave in |
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短文改错. 本题共有10处错误，请在原文中改正（满分10分）
My bicycle went wrong again. Tired with repairing it again and again, I decide to buy a new one. After school, I went to a shop locating in the center of the city with a friend called Jack. The black bicycle attracted my eyes as soon as we went into the store. It looked such cool that I could hardly wait to ride it. The shopkeeper told us that it is the latest bicycle. He wanted to charge me 800 yuan, that was too high for me. I just couldn’t afford for such an expensive one. Then I chose another one, which cost him only 200 yuan. It was not perfect, it was much better than the old one.
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I had just visited my best friend in hospital with my mum, 1.hadn’t seen my friend since she’d gone into hospital six months earlier.
I knew where she was coming from as she was2.(grave) ill, but as I’d been visiting her every week I had stopped seeing the obvious; my friend3.(lose) most of her body weight and her hair was falling out, it wasn’t looking good.
After the visit I took my mum to the station4.(see) her off on her train; the mood was understandably bleak but I stayed positive as well you do, don’t you? I went to get 5. (we) some coffee and my mum some food for the journey. I misread the amount of my purchase and didn’t have enough money.
6.some reason, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back; I burst into uncontrollable7.(tear) as a massive queue was gathering behind me. A woman came up to me and offered to pay, putting an arm round my shoulder, no questions8.(ask).
I could barely say thank you through the confusion and the flood of emotion that was pumping through me 9. running off in embarrassment. After composing myself I ran round the station 10.(try)to find this kind lady to thank her properly but never did.
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My 18-month-old son, Adam, called from the front door. “Look, Mama! Doggie!” I dropped what I was doing and stuck my head out of the door. Brandy, our next-door neighbor’s 11-year-old dog, was over again. “Go away!” I shouted.
Brandy’s owner had died about a month earlier. The woman’s family had emptied the house and stuck a “For Sale” sign in the front yard, but the family had left old Brandy behind. For weeks, she’d been wandering around the neighborhood.
It wasn’t that I disliked dogs or anything like that. I just didn’t think about them very much. I never had a dog growing up and had never thought to get one.
Brandy went away and I stayed outside with Adam. Then the phone rang. I went inside to take the call. When I came back, Adam was gone. I searched the yard, front and back, then the basketball court and public pool. No trace of him. I was so nervous that I ran home and called the police, then my husband.
Police searched the neighborhood. Suddenly I heard anothersound: a dog barking. “It’s coming from the woods,” one of my neighbors said. We followed the barking to a wooded cliff（悬崖）. There we found my son, and he was just inches away from the edges of the cliff, fast asleep. Brandy was beside him, leaning（斜靠着）against him to keep him away from the edge（边缘）. When I picked Adam up, Brandy sank down on her side, breathing quickly. She must have been holding Adam there for hours!
I thanked the police and brought Adam and Brandy back to our house. She hesitated a moment on our doorstep, no doubt remembering the time I’d driven her away.
“Come on, girl,” I said. “This is your home now. ” Brandy stepped in, and once she saw she was really welcome, she relaxed and lay down on the floor just inside the door. She’d done a great thing, and I wondered if she knew it. She’d certainly touched me in a way that no animal ever had. What a pity a dog like Brandy had been left behind!
1.What is the correct order for the events in the story about Brandy?
a. She was left behind by her owner’s family.
b. She stepped into the woman’s house.
c. She appeared at the woman’s front door.
d. She stayed beside the woman’s son for hours.
A. d, c, b, a B. a, c, b, d
C. c, d, b, a D. a, c, d, b
2.What did the woman do when she first saw Brandy?
A. She gave her some food. B. She took her home.
C. She drove her away. D. She said thank you to her.
3.How were they able to be aware that the woman’s son was near the cliff?
A. By searching the neighborhood.
B. By hearing a dog barking.
C. By following a dog’s footsteps.
D. By hearing her son’s crying.
4.What’s the woman’s attitude towards Brandy at the end of the story?
A. Gratitude. B. Dislike.
C. Sympathy. D. Indifference.
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For years I have had no idea what I have been doing with my life. I was a 30-year-old lawyer(律师) in New York. But being a lawyer was never my dream or goal in life. I honestly wanted to be a writer. I have a great imagination and would write amazing stories in my head. But I always knew that being a writer was never possible for me because it was a better financial decision to stay a lawyer.
Recently, I couldn’t fall asleep at my usual time of 10 p. m. and when I did fall asleep I had the same dream over and over again. The dream starts with me in the ocean trying to go for a swim and I’m searching for something, but I start to drown(溺水) and have no control over my body. Then a light shines through the waters and when I look up all I can see is myself in a bright white room writing a novel. Then I hear a voice say repeatedly, “Now is the time to try something new!”
It wasn’t just a dream；it was my opportunity to make something good out of my life. That afternoon, I quit my job at the law firm and I couldn’t have been any happier. My life started at 30, and every day since that point I haven’t stopped enjoying life. I started to write and have been on the best-sellers（畅销书） list for the last two months. Things have definitely turned around.
Change is a good thing; it gives us an opportunity to take a chance. So my two favorite words I live by and so should you are “change and chance”.
1.From the first paragraph, we can know that ________.
A. a lawyer is likely to earn more than a writer
B. it is unlikely that the author becomes a writer
C. the author is a 30-year-old lawyer at present
D. the author prefers to be a lawyer rather than a writer
2.The second paragraph mainly talks about the author’s ________.
A. strong desire to become a writer
B. difficulty in sleeping at night.
C. wish to have a swim in the waters
D. terrible swimming experience in the ocean.
3.The best title of the text might be _________.
A. Change and Choice B. Lawyer or Writer
C. Change and Chance D. Risk or Opportunity
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--- _____the bike be repaired by him?
--- No, I’d rather he _____ it repaired.
A. Will…has B. Shall … had
C. Should…have D. Can…has