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can 15. My MP4 player isn’t in my bag. Where __________ I have put it? A. can B. must C. should D. would 二、完型: “Boy goes one year without TV,” the headline read. “I don’t believe it,” I said as I stared at the kid’s picture in the ___1___. “What a liar (說謊的 人 )! __2___ can do that. A year without television for 100 dollars?” I __3__ the newspaper on the floor and turned on the TV. “Turn that off and go to __4__!” my mum shouted. “Mum, I ___5__ reading!” I glanced at her and rolled my eyes. “And I hate looking at report cards full of __6__,”she sputtered (氣急敗壞地說 ). “Now go!” I stuck my tongue out at her and picked up __7__ I had thrown on the floor. The boy stared at me with mocking (嘲弄的 ) __8__. And then he laughed at me! “I did it, but you can’t!” he said. I ___9__ the boy’s face. “Mum, I want to make a bet with you,” I said. “If I go a whole year without TV, will you give me __10__?” “Well, __11__ you can really do it.” “Of course I can do it,” I replied, __12__ to convince (說服 ) myself. So that’s ___13__ it all started, from my fear of a picture in the newspaper. I did a lot of things that year. For example, my dad taught me to ski, __14__ became my favorite sport. On many winter afternoons snowball wars with my neighbors offered the daily drama. I went on bike trips and __15__ as much as a fish. It was unbelievable how much ___16__ I had got without TV. I learnt so many new games. The biggest thing I learnt, though, was selfmotivation (上進 ). I started to ___17__. I went from being a D student to an A student within a couple of weeks. I used to hate reading, but now I enjoy it. I used to watch TV nonstop for hours but now I could __18__ all the pictures just the way I wanted them —my own little TV, right inside __19__! I am __20__ what I did. I got a lot more from the experience than the 100 dollars. 1. A. book B. magazine C. newspaper D. card 2. A. Anybody B. Nobody C. A child D. Somebody 3. A. threw B. picked up C. read D.