【正文】 C. begin D. move 21. A. old B. normal C. first D. present 22. A. used B. was like C. had D. happened 23. A. what B. how C. when D. where 24. A. stops B. appears C. starts D. continues 25. A. from B. through C. than D. with 三、閱讀理解 閱讀下面的短文，然后根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容選擇最佳答案。（本大題共 30 分，每 小題 2 分） A You go to a store. You see many new things. You know about them before you get to the store. How do you know? You saw these things on TV. You learned about them through advertising. People have been advertising for thousands of years. Long ago, men called “criers” walked up and down the street. They shouted about things that were being sold. Later, people met at one place. This place was a market. Some people came to sell. Other people came to buy. But only those people who were at the market knew what was being sold. When people learned about printing, things changed. Soon there were newspapers. Many people read the newspapers. They saw many advertisements in the papers. Later, more people saw and listened to the advertisements on TV. Are the people who sell to us “criers”? 26. According to the passage, we go to the store to ___________. A. read the newspaper B. buy things we hear about C. look at the ads on TV D. know other people 27. People have been advertising for ___________. A. hundreds of years B. three hundred years C. thousands of years D. three thousand years 28. The main idea of the whole story is ___________. A. people advertise to sell things B. people cried when they had to advertise C. people went to the market D. people never advertise B Fred liked playing tricks on others. One afternoon he went to a shop and bought some bread. On his way home he saw Johnson, an old man about sixty riding a donkey (驢 ). The boy walked to the old man and decided to play a trick on him. He thought for a moment and then he had an idea. “Hello, my friend,” Fred said in a loud voice. “Please e and have a piece of bread.” “Thank you very much.” Johnson got off the donkey and said gladly.” “But I have already had lunch.” “I’m sorry. I’m talking to your donkey, not to you.” Fred said with a smile. Johnson understood at once that the boy was playing a trick on him. He became angry, but he didn’t show his anger. He just turned quickly to his donkey, held up the lash (鞭子 ) and hit it on the back. “Before we set off, I asked if you had fiends in the town. You said again and again that you hadn’t. Can you explain why the young man asked you to have the bread, then?” The more the old man said, the less he could control his anger. He finally shouted, “I’ll beat you to death if you dare fool me again!” Hearing this, Fred’s face turned red and he left away quickly. 29. Fred __________. A. was clever but not polite. B. liked playing with donkeys C. often help others D. wasn’t clever 30. Johnson __________ at first. A. beat his donkey to death B. was angry to meet the boy C. wanted to eat the bread D. thought the boy was talking to him 31. Which of the following is true? A. The old man didn’t beat the donkey. B. The old man taught Fred how to be polite. C. The old man beat the donkey to death. D. The man played a trick back on the boy. C I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance (保險(xiǎn)業(yè) ) pany. I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack (心臟病 ). A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma (精神創(chuàng)傷 ) and pain of the loss for my 16yearold daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(徹底調(diào)查 ) any further. He admitted(接受 ) my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our fam