【正文】 val?B. Don’t you know about the Spring Festival? It’s ___22___ your Christmas holiday. It’s ___23___ 答案（21C. preparing （22） B. like （23）B. the most（24） A. How long （25） B. isn’t allowed（26） B. for （27A. is given （28. A. to buy （29）B. themselves （30.）C. telling 53. For thousands of years, people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. Only recently ___21___ e to ___22___ something looked through. Stores ___23___ their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars ___24___ food and drink allow us ___25___ the contents. Glass ___26___ spectacles, microscopes, telescopes, and ___27___ very useful 答案（21）B. do they （22）D. think of it as （23）C. display （24）C. that hold （25）B. to see （26）B. is used to make （27）B. many other （28）A. and （29）A. perfectly (30) A. from 54. Helen was a very __21___ girl, and her parents were quite proud of her. A lot of young men in the town wanted to marry her, but she was not satisfied ___22___ any of them.答案(21. A. pretty 22. B. with 23. D. marry 24. C. won’t 25. D. play 26. C. really 27. B. talking 28. C. up 29. C. left 30. D. man 55 The last patient left his office. Mr. South had a look at the __21___ on the wall. It was a quarter to six. It meant that he had to stay there for fifteen minutes. A friend of his asked him to dinner that evening. Of course he should ___22___ some flowers for her. He brought out the purse and ___23___ the money in it. He had sixty dollars and it was enough to do 答案21. C. clock 22. A. buy 23. B. counted 24. B. remembered 25. D. about 26. B. strange 27. B. Nothing . remember 29. B. tell 56 Mr. Brown is a very rich man, ___21___ he loves money more than any other thing. One day, Mr. Brown went into a hotel. He ___22___ the clerk for a ___23___ room ___24___ a bath. The clerk was very ___25_. He said, “Dear Mr. Brown, your son always lives in 答案21. D. but 22. A. asked 23. C. cheap 24. A. with 25. B. surprised 26. C. the best 27. A. choose 28. D. better 29. B. much 30. A. don’t 57. Modern zoos are very different from zoos that were built fifty years 21 . At that time, zoos were places 22 people could go to see animals from many parts of the world. The animals lived in cages that were made 23 concrete with iron bars, cages that were easy to keep clean. 答案(1) B：ago (2) D：where (3)C：of (4)A：Unfortunately (5)D：anything but (6) D：Although (7)A：freedom (8)B：fortably (9)B：through (10)A：that 58 Fire can help people in many ways. Fire can heat water, 21 your house , give light and cook food. But fire can burn things too. Nobody knows 22 people began to use fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very long time ago. He 23 the sun by a rope and brought fire down.答案 21. B. warm 22. D. how 23. C. went up to 24. B. make . dangerous 26. A. about 27. B. put out 28. C. oxygen 29. D. from 30. B. hurt 59. Paris, which is the capital of the European nation of France , is one of the most beautiful and __21__ cities in the world.答案21. B. most famous 22. A. all over 23. A. divides 24. C. cross 25. D. which 26. D. located 27. B. such as 28. 29. B. built 30. C. where 60 Scientists have studied consumer behavior recently and found 21______the look of the package has a great effect 22______the quality of the product and on how well it 23 ______because Consumers generally cannot 24 ______between a product and its package. Many 答案21. A. that 22. D. on 23. B. sells 24. C. tell 25 .A. attention 26. C. going up 27. B. Shapes 28. B. pleasing 29. D. why 30. C. buy 61 For the first time in our marriage, I had decided to 21 my holiday alone, without my wife. We had not 22 . My mon sense told me that all habits even good ones should be 23 from time to time. Doing everything together with my wife had bee very 答案 (1) B：spend (2) D：quarreled (3)A：broken (4)D：on (5)D：hot (6)C：covered (7)D：think of (8)、A：enjoying (9)、B：awake (10)、D： playing 62 Nowadays most people decide quite early what kind of work they would do. When I was at school, we had to choose __1__ when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. “In the future, scientists will earn a lot of money,” my parents said. ___2__ I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the end I decided that I ___3__ a scientist. It was a long time before I told my parents that I . what to study 2. b. For three years 3. c. would not be ever 4. a. I didn’t either 5. b. Neither 6. b. while 7. a. understand 8. b. to say 9. c. a bit 10. d. but63 Man can39。 means a group 答案(21) A. as (22)C. way (23)A. harmful (24)B. race (25)D. vehicles (26) A. There (27)C. run into (28)B. killed (29)D. A great (30)A. through2New ers to the United States are often surprised by the schools. American schools sometimes seem so different from schools they know in __21__ parts of the world.答案(1) A：other (2) B：idea (3) C：for (4)、A：place (5) B：how (6)、B：want (7)C：nothing (8)、A：important (9) B：growth (10)、 D：chanceOf all the things we eat and drink, water ___21___ the most important. Not ___22___ people realize this, ___23___ it is quite true. The human body can go without 答案(1) D：is (2) A：many (3)B：but (4)、A：or (5) D：much (6)、A：at (7) D：enough (8)、 B：thirsty (9)、 A：when (10)B：ways3 One day a young man had to stop his car soon after he started for London because he heard a strange noise from the back of his car. He 21 of it and examined 答案(1). C：got out (2)、A：nothing (3)、A：reached (4)、C：in (5)、 D：quickly (6). B：pulled up (7)、A：Then (8)、C：had to (9)、D：thankful (10).A：back3 On May 27, 1995, our life was suddenly changed. It happened a few minutes past three, __21__ my husband, Chris, fell from his horse as it jumped over 答案(1)、 C：when (2)、B：unable (3)、 A：sharing (4) C：wonderful(5)A：med