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s rather strong ’ re________your time trying to change her thoughts. A. spending B. missing C. losing D. wasting 10. I think we should let her go on holiday , she is eighteen and she isn’ t a child any more. A. No wonder B. After all C. However D. Besides 11. The music sounded familiar and it brought the happy days back to me________I was a child A. when B. that C. who D. where 12. Natural gas, like other forms of________, has greatly increased in price in recent years. A. source B. strength C. energy D. force 13. A(n)________person, you know, is easily upset or offended by other people’ s remarks or behaviour. A. skeptical B. addicted C. accessible D. sensitive 14. When he married, Tom left his father’ s shop and________his own and the business was pretty good. A. turned up B. sent up C. set up D. made up 15. In the meeting room, there is a brown sofa, ________there is a wooded ceiling. A. of which B. with which C. from that D. above which Ⅳ .閱讀理解 Justin’ s bedroom was so full of flat bicycle tires, bent tennis rackets, deflated basketballs,and games with missing pieces that you could barely get in the parents pleaded_with him to clean out his room. “ What use is a fish tank with a hole in the bottom? ” his father Justin simply smiled and repeated his motto, “ Never throw anything out; you never know when it might e in handy” . When Justin was away from home, he always carried his blue backpack— a smaller version of his bedroom— a place to store many objects that he was so worn and stretched that it hardly resembled a backpack anymore. Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise hopeless of his classmates and neighbors sought him out when they needed help with a problem. On the first day of school, his friend Kenny, came looking for Justin. “ Do you think you have something in your bag that could help me remember my locker bination? ” he asked.“ I lost the piece of paper it was written have a science class in two minutes and if I’ m late on the first day, it’ ll make me look bad for the rest of the year.” Kenny looked really worried. “ Relax, ” Justin said, taking his backpack off and unzipping the top.“ Remember how you borrowed my note