We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over. A middle-aged policeman came up to the car and was really being troublesome at first. Lecturing us, he said, “You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?” Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. His way towards us totally changed. He asked, “Oh, so you boys are in a band（乐队）？” We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it. Suddenly, he stopped and said, “Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don’t you?” Tim said, “Yes.” So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn’t know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Next thing we knew, the policeman was putting Tim in the back of the police car he had parked in front of us. With that, he threw the car into reverse（倒车），stopping a few feet in back of our car. Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn’t know if we were all going to prison, or if the policeman was going to sell Tim on the black market or something. All of a sudden, the policeman’s voice came over his loudspeaker. He said, “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90.” Turns out, the policeman had told Tim that the only way he was getting out of the ticket was if he sang part of one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
1.The policeman stopped the boys to________.
| A．put them into prison | B．give them a ticket |
| C．enjoy their performance | D．ask some band questions |
2.The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they________.
| A．had long been at the band | B．played the music he loved |
| C．were driving for a show | D．promised him a performance |
3.The boys probably felt ________ when they drove off.
| A．joyful | B．calm | C．nervous | D．frightened |
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We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over. A middle-aged policeman came up to the car and was really being troublesome at first. Lecturing us, he said, “You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?” Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. His way towards us totally changed. He asked, “Oh, so you boys are in a band（乐队）？” We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it. Suddenly, he stopped and said, “Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don’t you?” Tim said, “Yes.” So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn’t know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Next thing we knew, the policeman was putting Tim in the back of the police car he had parked in front of us. With that, he threw the car into reverse（倒车），stopping a few feet in back of our car. Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn’t know if we were all going to prison, or if the policeman was going to sell Tim on the black market or something. All of a sudden, the policeman’s voice came over his loudspeaker. He said, “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90.” Turns out, the policeman had told Tim that the only way he was getting out of the ticket was if he sang part of one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
1.The policeman stopped the boys to________.
| A．put them into prison | B．give them a ticket |
| C．enjoy their performance | D．ask some band questions |
2.The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they________.
| A．had long been at the band | B．played the music he loved |
| C．were driving for a show | D．promised him a performance |
3.The boys probably felt ________ when they drove off.
| A．joyful | B．calm | C．nervous | D．frightened |
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We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over. A middle-aged policeman came up to the car and was really being troublesome at first. Lecturing us, he said, "You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. His way towards us totally changed. He asked, "Oh, so you boys are in a band (乐队)?" We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual broad questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it. Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don't you?" Tim said, "Yes." So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn't know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Next thing we knew, the policeman was putting Tim in the back of the police car he had parked in front of us. With that, he threw the car into reverse(倒车), stopping a few feet in back of our car. Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison, or if the policeman was going to sell Tim on the black market or something. All of a sudden, the pollen's voice came over in a loudspeaker. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90.” Turns out, the policeman had told Tim that the only way he was getting out of the ticket was if he sang part of one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
1.The policeman stopped the boys to ______.
A. put them into prison
B. give them a ticket
C. enjoy their performance
D. ask some band questions
2.The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they ____
A. had long been at the band
B. played the music he loved
C. were driving for a show
D. promised into a performance
3.The boys probably felt ______ when they drove off.
A, joyful B. calm
C. nervous D. frightened
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We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over(被迫停车). A middle-aged policeman came up to the ear and was really being troublesome at first. He said, "You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. Then his way towards us totally changed. He asked, "Oh, so you boys are in a band?" We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it.
Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don't you?" Tim said, "Yes. " So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn' t know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Then the policeman put Tim in the back of the police car and threw the car into reverse(倒车), stopping a few feet in back of our car.
Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison. Suddenly, the policeman's voice came over in a loudspeaker. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90." Later we knew, the policeman had told Tim that if he sang one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car, we would get out of the ticket. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
1.Why did the policeman stop the boys?
A. Because they drove too fast.
B. Because they were late for their show.
C. Because they didn't see the policeman.
D. Because they had to answer the band questions.
2.The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they ______.
A. had long been at the band
B. played the music he loved
C. were driving for a show
D. promised him a performance
3.The underlined word "ticket" in paragraph 2 means "a piece of paper that ______".
A. allows you to enter a cinema
B. shows the price or size in a shop
C. shows that you have paid to travel on a bus
D. orders you to pay money because you have done something wrong
4.How did the boys probably feel when they went on their way again?
A. Happy.
B. Calm.
C. Angry.
D. Frightened.
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We were on the way from Hutchinson to Chicago for a short spring break. For many years I had wanted to take my family on the train. We all had been to Chicago four years ago, and the kids loved it. Chicago is one of my favorite cities, too, so the thought struck me again last fall to ride the train to Chicago. Of course, flying would have been faster. But I don’t think flying is easier, especially these days, with all the security and waiting in lines at airports.
Though we were tired in the middle of the night, the kids got on the train with the exhilaration of this adventure. “We’re moving,” my son William shouted happily with big eyes as the train began to pull away from the Hutchinson station.
I removed my shoes and lay down to try to finish my night’s sleep. The sleeper car would have better enabled that, but the ordinary train seats were not too bad. An airline flight is a more miserable experience for me: not enough room, two hours of pain with my knees almost touching my chin, the hard seatback in front cracking my kneecaps (膝盖) with every move of the body planted in front of me. On the train I could almost outstretch all of my 6-foot-2-plus body in the generous legroom.
The journey didn’t feel at all as long as it was. We all found the train ride a joy. The car ride would have felt every minute of 13 hours. But on the train you are free to walk around, sit in the observation carriage for a while and enjoy the scenery out the windows, have a nice meal in the dining car, read a book, or play a board game.
In short, the train is all about enjoying the trip, which isn’t something I do so much when traveling by airline or by car, when the trip seems more of a mission (任务) to get there than an experience to enjoy along the way.
Chicago offers much to do for a family. This time, getting there was half the fun.
1.We can learn from the first paragraph that _____.
A．the kids love the train journey
B．Chicago is one of the kid’s favorite cities
C．the author didn’t enjoy the long train journey
D．it was the first time that the kids were taken on the train
2.What does the underlined word “exhilaration” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Excitement. B．Relaxation. C．Tiredness. D．Worry.
3.In the third paragraph, an airline flight experience is mentioned to show _____.
A．an airline flight is easier B．a train ride is too long
C．an airline flight is miserable D．a train ride is more comfortable
4.Which of the following words best describes the whole family’s feeling about the train journey?
A．Moved. B．Delighted. C．Disappointed. D．Nervous.
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A few days ago my family and I were out for an evening walk. As we headed home, dark _____ started rolling in and we knew we probably wouldn’t make it back without getting wet. _____ enough, the rain started falling just as we______ our neighborhood. We all ____ down the street and into the house but when we got there I noticed that one of my sons was _______ I went back out in the rain and found him _____ in an irregular pattern in front of the house. His face was one of ______as he seemed to be going in circles. This is my child that usually hates getting _____.
I shouted to him, “What are you doing?!!”
“I hate getting wet!” he _____ back.
“Then why are you running around in the _____ ? Hurry inside!”
“I’m trying to but I have to _____ the rain drops!”
He was getting more wet than any of the rest of us _____ he was trying to avoid the raindrops. As I went and put him _____ my arm and walked him inside, I realized that there is a good_______in this story.
How often do you_______life “avoiding the raindrops”? How often do you get so worried about the little _____that might happen, the failures that you miss out on the great _____ that you could be having? We can spend all of our time running around in circles trying not to fail or we can accept that failure is going to come and ______forward anyway. Any happy and successful person will tell you that the road to success is _____with failures.
But every time you fail, you learn. Every time you learn, you improve. The more you improve, the more ______ you will be.
1.A. buses B. clouds C. mosquitoes D. smoke
2.A. Sure B. Anxious C. Strange D. Funny
3.A. surrounded B. noticed C. crossed D. entered
4.A. paced B. escaped C. hurried D. advanced
5.A. missing B. outstanding C. disturbing D. charming
6.A. jumping B. trembling C. running D. sliding
7.A. happiness B. pleasure C. excitement D. suffering
8.A. cold B. wet C. hungry D. thirsty
9.A. screamed B. waved C. turned D. looked
10.A. distance B. darkness C. rain D. wind
11.A. collect B. experience C. fight D. avoid
12.A. because B. though C. unless D. if
13.A. with B. under C. by D. beside
14.A. ending B. plot C. lesson D. theme
15.A. care about B. rely on C. sort out D. go through
16.A. failures B. accidents C. emergencies D. disasters
17.A. pains B. dangers C. diseases D. adventures
18.A. float B. wander C. move D. flow
19.A. equipped B. paved C. buried D. covered
20.A. successful B. generous C. considerate D. intelligent
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A few years ago, My Heart Will Go On was a popular song among young people, ______ were often heard singing it at parties.
A．who B．which C．they D．that
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Last winter, we were on a vacation in Dubai. One day, we were ____ Abu-Dhabi, traveling with a few passengers in a bus. At our first stop, we got out to ____ some pictures. At our second top, we ____ that we’d forgotten our shoulder bag at the first stop. The ____ part was that our passports and many other valuables were inside it. We were in great ____, as we had to return to India in 2 days.
During the process of ____ our bag we met so many strangers who were quite concerned and helpful with our ___.
A tour guide helped us stop a taxi so that we could travel back to the first stop to ____ our bag.
A taxi driver stayed with us for 3 hours. He took us to a mosque（清真寺）near the first stop, ____ that a cleaner might have found the bag and taken it to a ____ place. He took us to the nearest police station and helped us with our ____ with the policeman, who only spoke Arabic, He ____ comforted us by saying, “Nobody ____ their goods in our country. There’s no ____ for you to worry!”
A tourist who was walking outside the masque hail to be somewhere. ____, he decided to lend us a helping hand.
A local man, who ____ found our bag，cheeked the bag and found a (n) ____ of a travel guide. He called him, so we got our bag back at last.
On that day t there was ____ worry inside me and I was thinking of what would happen next all the time.
I’ll never forget those strangers. I’m grateful to them for their acts of _____! The world needs more humane like them and I decide to try to ____ one of them.
1.A. following B. visiting C. evaluating D. distributing
2.A. enjoy B. purchase C. deliver D. take
3.A. realized B. ignored C. decided D. admitted
4.A. most B. latest C. worst D. least
5.A. regret B. panic C. embarrassment D. disappointment
6.A. searching for B. aiming at C. coming across D. looking through
7.A. ambition B. dilemma C. situation D. expectation
8.A. lake over B. send for C. greet D. find
9.A. hoping B. remembering C. promising D. doubting
10.A. private B. safe C. busy D. new
11.A. relation B. negotiation C. discussion D. communication
12.A. eventually B. personally C. constantly D. immediately
13.A. leaves B. hides C. misses D. loses
14.A. time B. need C. chance D. luck
15.A. Besides B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore
16.A. actually B. merely C. specially D. deliberately
17.A. address B. number C. certificate D. photo
18.A. real B. slight C. temporary D. innocent
19.A. bravery B. patience C. kindness D. generosity
20.A. benefit B. promote C. influence D. become
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One year my children came home from school asking where we were going on your summer vacation. It seemed that all the other kids were______ where they were spending the summer. I couldn’t ______to take them anywhere but I didn’t want to tell them that so I just said, “It’s a surprise!” They were_______ That bought me a little more ________.
I called several amusement ______to see if there was a half-price event during the summer but no such _____ . I tried everything, with no success, so I called some of the other moms to find that most were in the same______that I was. We decided to ______something fun for our kids to do. We had a meeting, all five of us, and_____ what is now called a “playcation”.
One mother was a _____ , so on Mondays the kids would all go to her house. They would play games using plants and ______. They also planted vegetables and_______them grow over the summer.
Another mother had Bible_______on Tuesdays. She asked some questions about Bible. The kid who answered ______got a penny, which they all turned in at the end to buy their goodie bags(礼品袋).
At our house on Wednesdays, I made an outdoor ______training with my spare tires. The kids also walked a balance beam and raced through large cardboard boxes taped together.
On _____they had arts and crafts across the street. Fridays were______by a wonderful single dad with a metal detector(金属探测器)who took everyone out treasure_____ .
The summer was a big ______ . Okay, it wasn’t Disney World,_______the kids didn’t miss anything. My son actually asked me, “Can we do this again next year?”
1.A. rejecting B. discussing C. learning D. reporting
2.A. sacrifice B. offer C. select D. afford
3.A. disappointed B. satisfied C. shocked D. delighted
4.A. time B. money C. confidence D. patience
5.A. schools B. shops C. parks D. libraries
6.A. hope B. luck C. attitude D. hobby
7.A. situation B. gap C. direction D. process
8.A. come up with B. face up to C. look forward to D. step away from
9.A. discovered B. enjoyed C. created D. controlled
10.A. teacher B. doctor C. gardener D. grocer
11.A. books B. vegetables C. sweets D. toys
12.A. guessed B. watched C. affected D. felt
13.A. debates B. readings C. explanations D. contests
14.A. easily B. patiently C. correctly D. hurriedly
15.A. computer B. obstacle C. painting D. speech
16.A. Thursdays B. Saturdays C. Sundays D. Mondays
17.A. hosted B. forced C. avoided D. forbidden
18.A. hiding B. making C. hunting D. donating
19.A. failure B. challenge C. business D. success
20.A. and B. so C. or D. but
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On our journey to Australia last summer, our luggage was ________ at the customs. We were not allowed to carry food such as meat and vegetables.
A. looked through B. put through C. gone through D. got through
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In the summer of 1978 an English farmer was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered that some of his wheat was lying flat on the ground. The flattened wheat formed a circle about six meters across. Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat. The five circles were in a formation like five dots. During the following years, farmers in England found the strange circles in their fields more and more often.
The circles are called “crop circles” because they appear in the fields of grain ― usually wheat or corn. The grain in the circles lies flat on the ground but is never broken; it continues to grow, and farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September.
At first, people thought that the circles were a hoax. Probably young people were making them as a joke, or farmers were making them to attract tourists. To prove that the circles were a hoax, people tried to make circles exactly like the ones that farmers had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of grain without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the grain without breaking it.
Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circles to communicate with us from far away and that the crop circles are messages from them.
Scientists who have studied the crop circles suggested several possibilities. Some scientists say that a downward rush of wind leads to the formation of the circles — the same downward lash of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash. Other scientists say that forces within the earth cause the circles to appear. There is one problem with all these scientific explanations: crop circles often appear in formations, like the five-dot formation. It is hard to believe that any natural force could form those.
1.In the summer of 1978, an English farmer discovered in his field that ______.
A. some of his wheat had been damaged
B. some of his wheat had fallen onto the ground
C. his grain was growing up in circles
D. his grain was moved into several circles
2.The underlined word "hoax" in Paragraph 3 is probably ______.
A. a research on the force of winds
B. a special way to plant crops
C. an experiment for the protection of crops
D. an attempt made to fool people
3.Which of the following may prove that the crop circles are not made by man?
A. The farmers couldn’t step out of the field.
B. The farmers couldn’t make the circles round.
C. The farmers couldn’t leave without footprints.
D. The farmers couldn’t keep the wheat straight up.
4.One explanation given by scientists for the crop circles is that they are made by _____.
A. airplane crashes B. air movement
C. unknown flying objects D. new farming techniques
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