中考英语首字母填空及答案 16页

英语首字母填空 ‎1.‎ While travelling in Russia, Ed Jackson ran short of money. So he wrote t his brother, asking for ＄500. “Send the m by telegram to the bank here,” he wrote. After a week Ed began v the bank. He s his passport to the bank clerk(职员). “Nothing has come for you, Mr. Jackson,” he was told.‎ This went o for three weeks, and Mr. Jackson got very w . He then phoned his brother, asking w the money was. The brother said it had been sent three weeks b . That evening Ed Jackson was arrested(被捕) for failing to p his hotel bill. He tried to tell the police what his problem was, but no one would believe him. At last he was s to the police station for fifteen days.‎ ‎2.‎ Once there was a king. He liked to write s . He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to his people. As his people were afraid to criticize(批评) the king’s stories, they all said that his stories were very good. One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to praise(表扬) those stories. But the writer said his stories were so b that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry w ___ him and sent him to prison(监狱). After s time the king had pity on the writer and set him free. When the writer returned from prison, the king ordered him to come to his palace. Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked him what he thought of them. After r them, the writer at once turned to the soldier and said, “Take me back to prison, please.”‎ ‎3.‎ Last May I stayed in Santo Lusa for a week. That was my f trip there. One morning I s out to visit a famous museum, but I didn’t know w way to go, so I stopped a strange and asked, “ Excuse me, does this street lead(通向) to the Grand Museum?”‎ ‎“Yes,” he answered. “Go along this street and turn left and turn left at the second crossing. You can’t m it.”‎ So I w two blocks(街区) and turned to my left, but the museum w there. Then I asked a second stranger. He said, “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing.” But a I couldn’t find the museum. I asked a third stranger and he said the same thing.‎ This time I found the Grand‎ ‎Museum. Just then s walked up and said. “Excuse me, where’s the nearest b ?” I answered q , “Go along this street and turn left at the second crossing!”‎ ‎4.‎ Often, doctors tell some people to go on diets(节食). The doctors hope the diets will make the people feel b . They hope the diets will make the people healthy.‎ Alana was on a diet, but she didn’t like it at all. She was not a to eat her favourite food by the doctor. While her brother Frank ate chocolate, she had to eat an apple. Alana was on the diet for two months. Her doctor was pleased with her. “You have been very good,” he said. “You can eat some of the foods you like best. But only a little. Don’t eat too many sweets. Don’t eat too much ice cream. If you do, you will get a lot of weight a .”‎ Then the doctor put Frank on a diet. It was a different kind of diet. “You c eat chicken or eggs. Frank,” said the doctor. “These foods will make you in trouble.”‎ ‎“How long will I have to be on the diet?” asked Frank.‎ ‎“A long time,” said the doctor. “Maybe for the r of your life.”‎ ‎“But I really like chicken,” said Frank. “You said it is one of the best meats to eat.”‎ ‎“It is a very good food for most people,” said the doctor. “But when you eat it, it makes you sick. It is not a good food for you.”‎ ‎“You’re right,” said Frank. “Well, I’ll eat more cake i .”‎ ‎5.‎ At different times in a man’s life his food has different effects(影响) on his body. Among children f is quickly changed to the power(力量) to run and play games. Most of a young man’s food is spent on growing t ; we grow upwards only d the first twenty years of our l , not later. Working men get their strong bodies from their food; and if they work h , they do not get fat. Office workers eat well and s ______ ‎ down a lot, and may begin to grow fat when still quite young. Many older p try to work much and walk often. Perhaps the most difficult time is when a man r sixty years of age. His body and mind b restful, without much work or interest. That is when food changes quickly to f .‎ ‎6.‎ Dear Li Ying,‎ Thank you very much f your letter and the beautiful p .‎ How time flies! It is n the end of the term. We are now b preparing for the exams. I h I can do well and go on to study at ‎Guang‎ Ming Middle ‎School---‎ o_____ of the best schools in our city.‎ But unluckily our English teacher, Miss Song, was b hurt last Sunday. She can’t ‎ g us lessons b she is still in hospital. But don’t w about our studies! Another teacher has taken her place.‎ With best wishes! ‎ Yours,‎ Zhou Yun ‎7.‎ Stop reading for a minute and think about what you see when you look up in the sky on a clear night. You may see many stars. Long long ago, farmers w some stars to know when to plant their crops. Travellers did s to find their ways in the dark. Today stars are s important to some people. ‎ Scientists found out that most stars are very big. In fact some stars are so far away from us that it would take m of light-years to get to them even by spaceship.‎ A thing we know today about stars is that some are made up of hot gases. The gases are so hot that they send out light. If you o look up at a star carefully at night, you may find it twinkle sometimes. As you may understand, light from a star must shine t the air before you can see the star. Air is always moving, it makes light from the star m . When the light moves, it makes the star twinkle. Stars also have ‎ different c . To our surprise, the cool stars are red and the hottest o are blue white.‎ ‎8.‎ Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide ‎ r in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l , but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f , he just swims across to their boats or asks them to ‎ v him.‎ Ming’s father is a fisherman but he never u a line or a net. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds’ n so that they can’t eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b the fish to people. And then people reward them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o .‎ ‎9.‎ All fruits have a bright colour when they are ripe(成熟), but they grow on green ‎ o ___ dark brown trees. Why? Perhaps you do not know the reason. Here is the a : The tree wants birds and animals to see its fruit c . The fruit has seeds(种子) i . There will be no y trees if the seed is not carried away and put into the ground somewhere else. Birds and animals eat the flesh(果肉) of the fruit ‎ w they see its bright colour and they drop the seeds here and there. For example, the orange tree grows the s flesh of its fruit and gives it a bright colour so that some animals m eat it and carry away the seeds.‎ ‎10.‎ What do you know about the sea? We know that it l very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. We a know that it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other t do you know about it?‎ The first thing to remember is that the sea is very big. When you look at the m of the world you will find there is more sea than land. The sea covers three q of the world. Some parts of the sea are shallow(浅的). But in some places the sea is very deep. The h mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. But the deepest place of the sea is n 11 kilometers deep.‎ The sea can be very cold. At the top, the w may be warm. But if you go down, it b colder and colder. In most parts of the sea, there are l of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. O live deep down.‎ You know that the sea is salty. If you swim in the sea, you can taste the salt. Some parts of the sea are more salty than other places. For example, the Dead Sea is so salty that swimmers can’t sink in it! And fish can’t live in it, either. What a s sea!‎ ‎11.‎ We can find many wonderful things around us. For example, some kinds of whale with ‎ n ___ teeth is so huge in size, but they live on very small things. Indeed it is ‎ i _____ for this kind of whale to eat a big fish. Instead of teeth, its mouth h a kind net made of whalebone(鲸须). The water of the sea where the whale lives is full of very small things, both animals and vegetables. They are so small that men can hardly see t . As the whale m along, it fills its mouth with seawater, which passes t the net of whalebone, leaving the small living things behind. Of course, a whale eats huge amounts of this food. But s it is very wonderful that this kind of large whale should be able to live on s small things and should be unable to eat larger things.‎ ‎12.‎ A young man was going to spend his holiday in a mountain village. That night he ‎ s at a small hotel near the railway station. B going to bed, he went to the owner of the hotel and said, “Excuse me, sir. Will you please w me up at a quarter to five tomorrow morning? I’ll take the five o’clock t .”‎ ‎“Oh, sorry,” the owner said i a hurry, “I’m afraid I can’t. I won’t be able to get up s early.”‎ They young man was about to return to his r when he stopped and asked, “Have you got an alarm-clock? M it can help me.”‎ ‎“Yes, here you are, young man.”‎ The young man thanked the owner happily. But when he looked at the alarm-clock closely, it seemed there was something w with it.‎ ‎“Will it ring o time?” he asked.‎ ‎“Sure! You just give it a good shake at a quarter to five. And it will ring.”‎ ‎13.‎ ‎“I don’t want to move!” Fred said to his father. “I like living here in New York City. And I l to play in the streets. My Friends are h . I want to stay!”‎ ‎“We have to m , Fred,” Mr. Sparks said. “I have a n job in the Islands. Why d you wait until you see them? Maybe you will like living t .”‎ ‎“Never!” was Fred’s r .‎ A week later l , the Sparks family left the city by plane. They f over land for hours. In San Francisco they took a big plane. This time they flew over water.‎ At l they saw land. “There is Hawaii,” Mr. Sparks said. “And there is the island we are to live i . But we will visit the other islands, too. A of them are beautiful.”‎ ‎“I don’t care w they are like,” said Fred. “I wish I could go b to New York City right now!”‎ ‎14.‎ If I have a magic-stick, I’ll make President Bush s the war on Iraq. I don’t think it’s a r war, because America n care about UN, nor other countries’ complaining, and started the war all by itself! From the news, we all know c , that a ‎ lot of citizens of Iraq died or hurt seriously. I feel very sorry to see that. If I can stop ‎ e war in the world with my magic-stick, I believe the whole earth will be a paradise (乐园) for everyone else.‎ If I have a magic-stick, I will build a new school building for all my s . As the building is built by itself and it’ll finish in one night, we don’t need to move to other schools, and we don’t need to spend any time or money on it. It’ll be very quiet and ‎ w any pollution. It’ll have the greatest facilities (设施) in it.‎ If I have a magic-stick, I will design a new kind of uniform for all the students. In s , when it’s very hot, the uniform will spray some small drops of cool water on your legs and arms. In winter, it’ll get t with the temperature. You even don’t have to wear sweaters, only this uniform can make you feel that the s is here right now!‎ ‎15.‎ Many people who work in London p to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train or car, even though this m they have to get up ‎ e in the morning and reach home l in the evening.‎ One advantage of living outside London is that houses are c . Even a small flat in London without garden costs a lot of m . With the same money, one can get a small house in the c with a gardened one’s o .‎ Some people, however, take no i in country things; for them h lies in the town, with its c and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dancing-halls and restaurants.‎ Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live o London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s visit to the s every summer is all the content (内容) they want; the rest they are quite prepared to leave those who are glad to get away from London every night.‎ ‎16.‎ Yesterday morning, Mike got up early. After breakfast, he went to school. When he ‎ p by a house by the roadside, he saw a cloud of s coming out of the window.‎ ‎“Oh, there must be something on f .” he thought. “The house is in d .” Then he ran away as fast as he could. He wanted to fetch (取来) some w to put out the fire.‎ After a short time, he came back w a bucket (桶) of water. Without hesitation (犹豫), he poured the water into the w .‎ The smoke was gone. To his s , an old man looked out of the window with a smoke pipe (烟斗) in his hand. He was w all over. He shouted a , “What are you doing, boy!”‎ ‎17.‎ Now standing in front of you is an optimistic (乐观的) and confident girl, but no more than half a year a , things were quite the opposite. I was recommended for admission to Fudan‎ ‎University, so my parents sent me to s with undergraduates. I really had a hard time fitting in. Since it was the first time for me to live in a dormitory, and all the students a me are two or three years older. W of all, I couldn’t get used to the food there. I kept ‎ complaining to my father on the phone, hoping to get some comfort. To my surprise, he said to me: “Stop complaining, my dear. You are so lucky. You don’t have to take part in the college entrance examination, so you can manage your time f . The difficulties you have now will make you braver. Just remember: gratitude is the right attitude every day.” After my father told me the last few words, I realized how I should lead my life. That is to take a grateful attitude towards my family, my friends, the people who helped me, and even the d I had. I should thank my family for taking care of me, and always being there to support me. I should ‎ t my friends for sharing good times and bad with me. I should never miss a chance to smile and say “Thank you.” to others. I should also thank the difficulties I have, because by overcoming them, I will i a lot.‎ ‎18.‎ ‎“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”‎ That may s a strange thing to say so. But touching things can help you to see them better.‎ Your e can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by h it in your hands, you can f how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is.‎ When you feel all these about the ball, you r see it.‎ With your skin (皮肤), you can feel b . For e , your fingers can tell the difference b two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.‎ You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They m like to feel the sounds of music.‎ If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really s !‎ ‎19.‎ Japan‎ is m up of islands that lie off the coast of Asia. People c to live in Japan from the nearby countries of China and Korea. From these o countries, the Japanese borrowed ideas, i and habits.‎ F many years, the Japanese built buildings like those in China. They d like the Chinese. From China came their way of w and their habit of drinking tea.‎ ‎20.‎ Before you u your new microwave oven (微波炉), read the instructions c . Each oven has its own control panel (控制板), but most microwave ovens operate in a similar way. Look at the control panel shown here, it shows the time at the top of the panel. Under the time are the different functions. You can Press Defrost, Cook, Clock or Power. You can also w food by pressing Reheat Times.‎ Under the functions are the numbers. These numbers are shown as on a calculator, from zero t nine. You can p the numbers to set the cooking time in seconds or m . Under the numbers are Start and Clear.‎ ‎21.‎ The computer is a m that works very fast. It can add numbers much faster than a ‎ p can. It can remember better than a person. It can do many other things. In school a computer can do maths. It can help boys and girls read, w , and spell. It can r the names of all the students in the school.‎ Computers help people drive cars and f planes. A spaceship needs many computers. Telephones and televisions use computers, too. Some computers, c fax machines, can send letters. The letters can travel f .‎ A computer can remember w is in a store. It knows all the prices. It tells you how much to p . It gives you change. Computers can play games, too. A computer named Big Blue is very good at c . It beat the best chess player in the world.‎ Computers are changing the way we live.‎ ‎22.‎ In all the world there is no other city l Venice‎, ‎Italy. Its street are canals (运河). Its cars are b .‎ Venice‎ is b on about 100 small islands. The islands are made of soft mud (泥土). Big, heavy posts hold up the b .‎ How did a large city come to be built like this? It happened more than a t years ago. In the North, there lived people called Huns (匈奴人). No one was safe from them. The people of North Italy got t of wars with the Huns. Many m to the mud islands. There they began to build a city. There they were s . In time, Venice grew large and beautiful and strong. It was called the Queen‎ ‎City.‎ ‎23.‎ Coffee has been a p of people’s lives for thousands of years, and today it is still one of the most favourite d in the world. Many people in the world begin their b day by drinking a cup or several cups of coffee. They have a said that a cup of coffee in the morning helps them begin their day in the right way. So they say a cup of coffee is necessary for them in the morning.‎ Do you know what in the coffee m our bodies and brains active? It is caffeine.‎ Caffeine may i a person’s mental and physical abilities. For example, two cups of coffee will make you breathe f and augment body heat. All this makes your heart ‎ b faster, and doctors warn that this may be a little dangerous.‎ Caffeine is f in tea, coffee, chocolate and some other foods. A little caffeine is probably not h , but too much caffeine can make people nervous and sleepless.‎ ‎24.‎ Dreams c as people’s age. People may have several dreams each n . Some are like films and usually in colour. They come to us over and over again. That may be ‎ b the dreamer is worrying about something and trying to find the a . Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dreams clearly.‎ It is r that too much dreaming is b for our health. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at w . That is why we may have a long sleep and ‎ s feel tired when we wake up.‎ ‎25.‎ Do you know that a fast reader can get the ideas better than a s reader can? Of course, you s time by reading fast, but this is not the main reason for fast reading. The main reason is that you u better what you’re reading when you read f .‎ As your eyes move along the line of prints, they make fixations (注视) of pauses. It is important that you see s words at affixation. It is also important that your e leave a group of words quickly and move on to another group. The number of l or words that you see at a fixation is called your eye span. Pay more attention to i your rate of reading. With practice you can learn to read faster than you usually read.‎ ‎26‎ SARS has brought us m trouble. However, everything has two s . It also makes people think about the value (价值) of l . SARS teaches people to be t . Many doctors and nurses s all their time with people who have SARS, and some of them lost their lives. One student says he wants to be a d when he grows up. “Though they know their job is d , doctors and nurses are trying their best to s people’s lives. We must learn from them.” he says.‎ ‎27‎ Cartoon films have very f limits (限制). If you can draw something, you can m it move on the cinema screen. The u of new ideas and modern computer programs means that cartoons are becoming exciting again for people of all ages.‎ By 1970, the cinema world had decided that cartoons were only for c . But soon a that, one or two film makers had some new ideas. They proved that it was possible to make films in which b grown-ups and children could enjoy them.‎ However, not every cartoon film was s . The Black Cauldron, for example, failed, mainly because it was too frightening for children and too childish for grown-ups. Film makers learnt from this m , and then cartoons were welcomed by both children and grown-ups and again the film companies began to make large amounts of money.‎ ‎28‎ Thomas Edison was p the greatest inventor the world has ever known. W his inventions, people may not have lights, films and other things.‎ Edison‎ began to make a talking m in 1877. At first he used paper with holes to make a sound. He worked for m on this idea. At last he found h to record (记录) a person’s voice. He changed some parts and he put some new ones on the talking machine. This time the voice could be p and the voice was also very clear. After the Second World War others used his method to record m and songs. Then came the tape recorder. It is much e to record voice. How great Edison was!‎ ‎29.‎ Sam Francisco is a l city in a beautiful bay (海湾) in the USA. It’s got lots of great b and places. It’s s and much more modern than London, but it’s l interesting. ‎London ‎ has a lot more theatres and museums. The Americans are usually more interested in ‎ m than culture! The buildings and streets in London are very great, and the parks and markets are w . London isn’t as dangerous as San Francisco. I feel much s living here---nobody carries a gun. The police don’t carry guns, e .‎ ‎30‎ Maybe the most b place in Hawaii is Kattai. You can visit its long, s beaches in the south and west of the island and m and forests in the north, but be careful, there are many mosquitoes (蚊子) , and don’t be s if it rains in the center of the island. Daytime temperatures there are usually a 24℃ to 26℃ by the sea, and only a little ‎ c by late evening.‎ ‎31.‎ Ladies and Gentlemen:‎ ‎ Welcome to Brighton. I hope you will enjoy your walk a the town. We are now in the center of the town. We p the cross roads just now, and now we are going a ‎ North Street‎ and you will see a s church on the left. Look back a the road to the old palace. Now we are going to a café, then we will come to the e of the street. And our walk c to an end. I hope that you have e this walk around Brighton. You have s a small church, a palace and many other places of i . Thank you and goodbye.‎ ‎32‎ A detective is a p , but he doesn’t wear a uniform (制服). He works in his ordinary c . If he wears a uniform, robbers will know that he is a policeman. Then they will run away f him.‎ To “detect” means “to find out”. A detective finds out who does bad things. He can s in a coffee shop with other customers. He can l to people talking. Some thieves may w ‎ to rob a shop. If they talk, a detective may h them. Then policemen will hide in the shop. When the thieves come, the policemen will c them.‎ A detective w hard and helps to p us.‎ ‎33‎ Last year a group of G students went to England for a h . Their t told them that the English people h shake hands. So when they m their English friends at the station, they kept their hands b their backs. The English students had l ‎ that the Germans shake hands as often as possible, so they put their hands in front and got r ‎ to shake hands with them. It made both of them laugh.‎ ‎34‎ Do you know h to write an English letter and envelope?‎ When we write a letter in C , we always put the d at the end of the letter. But it is d in English. We have to put it on the l corner. And above the date, we also write the number of our house and the n of our street, city and country. To begin the letter, we always use words l “Dear sir”, “Dear Mr. /Mrs./ Ms…” To the e , we ‎ always use words like “Yours”, “Yours ever” or “Truly yours”.‎ ‎35‎ Have you n that chocolate bars are shrinking? The p of chocolate and sugar are always going up. The chocolate bar makers p the money on to buyers. They know that people don’t want to pay m , so they make s chocolate bars. In one year a chocolate bar may go from 150g to 125g in weight while the price s the same. When the bar g so small that no one will buy it, they will make it l and the price goes up, too.‎ ‎36‎ A love their pets, Every year, they spend a lot of money buying, f and raising them. Cats and dogs are the most popular pets and are often t as members of the family.‎ But for many people, their pets are more than j their friends.‎ B people have depended on (依靠)dog guides for over 60 years. Dogs for the Deaf, founded in the 1970s, trains dogs to let deaf people know w a telephone rings, someone is at the door or a baby cries. But even w special training, pets have s that they can i the quality (质量) of our lives. Scientists say that people who live a , but have pets, are healthier and happier than those who don’t have pets.‎ ‎37.‎ We go to school to p for the time when we will be b and will have to work for ourselves. We learn our own l , learn foreign languages, history and so on. What we learn at school is, of course, quite u , but is that the only reason why we go to school?‎ No. We go to school, above all, to learn h to learn, so that when we have left school, we can c to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be s , because w he has to do something new, he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the o hand, is either unable to do something new, or does it badly. So the purpose (目的) of school is not just to teach the students these useful subjects but teach the w to learn.‎ ‎38‎ An American visiting Scotland met an old man with a beautiful sheepdog. The American o ‎ ‎$50 for the dog, but the old man r , “I couldn’t part with Jock,” he said. Just then, an English man w up and made the same offer. The old man a , pocketed the money and handed over the dog. The American was very a . “You told me you wouldn’t s the dog!” he cried. “No, no!” said the old man. “I said I couldn’t part with him. England’s not far a and Jock will be back in two days. But he couldn’t s ‎ across the Atlantic(大西洋).”‎ ‎39‎ Travelling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier, but how well do we know and u ‎ each other? Here is a simple test. Imagine you will hold a m at four o’clock, what time should you e your foreign business friends to come? If they are German, they will a ‎ on time. If they are American, they’ll probably be fifteen minutes early. If they are British, they’ll be fifteen minutes late.‎ The British seemed to think since the English l was widely used in the world, what they did was certain to be widely understood. Very soon they f they were completely (完全地) wrong. For e , the British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss business matters with a drink during the meal; the Japanese p not to work while eating. Lunch is a time for them to relax and get to know e other and they don’t drink at lunch. The Germans like to talk business b dinner; The French like to eat first and talk afterwards. They have to be well fed and watered before they discuss anything.‎ ‎40.‎ About four hundred years ago, Mr. Bacon said the warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. But few people believed him u 1970. In that year Dr. Kell, a well-known scientist, found that Mr. Bacon was r . He filled one o bowl with cold water, and the o with warm water. The he exposed (暴露)b to the same low temperature. The warm water froze first. The s was that the two bowls had no covers. Some of the warm water c into vapour (水蒸气). It went into the air. This m ‎ that less of the warm water was l to freeze. So the warm water froze f than the cold water though it had a greater temperature drop to make.‎ ‎41.‎ Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa (比萨斜塔) in Italy lean (倾斜)? It leans because of a mistake. It has leaned almost since the day the tower was b .‎ In 1174, the people of Pisa‎, ‎Italy wanted to build a bell tower. They wanted the tower to be the ‎ m beautiful bell tower in Italy. The city a needed a bell tower because the church did not have o .‎ As soon as the first floor of the building was finished, the tower started to lean. Builders tried to make the building s again as they added more floors, but he leaning tower got w ‎ as the tower grew.‎ It took about 180 years to finish the tower. Today, the Leaning‎ ‎Tower has eight f . It is 54.5 meters t , and it leans almost 4 meters to one s . The tower is also sinking into the g on which it was built. Every year, the tower leans another 1.5 cm.‎ ‎42.‎ In the past few months two important e have taken place in the world. The war on Iraq m thousands of people lose their homes. How people all over the world w ‎ they could live a peaceful (和平的) life! Many people died of SARS. It’s e duty to make a contribution t fighting SARS. We all believe i we work with one heart, world people peace is c one day and science is able to win the war a SARS, just like the Chinese climbers who overcame (克服)d and finally r the top of Mount Qomolangma on May 21, 2003.‎ ‎43.‎ Dear Penny,‎ ‎ I hope you’re all well. We’re all terribly busy, even Polly, who has finally managed to find some work. U , it’s not a very good job, but at least it’s a job, and maybe she will find something better in the future. She has also found somewhere e to live---a small flat about five miles away, so now there’s only Joe and me left at home. After 24 years of having children to look after, it’s very strange to have the house to ourselves, although I do enjoy coming home to a tidy house at the e of a day. By the way, Polly has broken up with her boyfriend, Peter. We were very sorry, because we got on well with him, and they s ‎ to be in love.‎ ‎ Alice has some interesting news, as well. She passed her final exams. We heard last week, so of course, we had a small family celebration. She doesn’t know what she wants to do yet, but she has plenty of time to decide. She doesn’t have a boyfriend at the moment, either. I don’t know what’s the matter with them! They’re both pretty e ! Joe’s fine, but he hasn’t been able to do m in the garden because of the weather, which has been terrible. Actually it has rained every day for the p few weeks. It’s unbelievable, isn’t it?‎ ‎ Anyway, that’s all for my news. How are you all? What are you up to?‎ ‎ Do write soon and tell me everything!‎ Love.‎ Jacky ‎44.‎ A storm dropped heavy rains on central and southern parts of China.‎ The radio says that a the Xianjiang River in Hunan, floods caused by terrible r ‎ in the past weeks killed 25 people and 13 others were missing.‎ The Chinese Government named some parts in Yunnan and the city of Chongqing of possible heavy rains over the n few days.‎ In Changsha water level rose to 38 meters early Monday morning, about 3 meters a the danger line.‎ In Guangdong, at l 21 people have been killed, while there were s hurt and seven went missing w heavy floods hit northern parts by Saturday.‎ The cities of Shaoguan, Meizhou and Heyuan w hardest hit and many people went left homeless.‎ About 620 million yuan has been lost in the floods. Guangdong has sent something u to Meizhou, Heyuan and Shaoguan to help the people who had lost homes build their h ‎ again.‎ ‎45.‎ Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom l to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the o way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For e , if you can’t remember something when you are doing your homework, what will you do? You can look at your book to f the answer.‎ How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are i ‎ in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually g at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by w ‎ hard, by reading books, and sometimes by asking o people. These are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep doing l these for a long time, you are sure to have great ‎ s in your study.‎ ‎46.‎ Everyone has a dream. China also has a dream, an Olympic dream A hundred years ago, a newspaper in Tianjin raised some questions about China’s Olympic dream: the f , when can China send a team to the Olympic? The second, when can China w an Olympic gold medal? The third, when can China host (主办) an Olympic Games?‎ Most of us know that China sent its team nearly 70 years ago and got its first gold medal in 1984. S then, we have all been hoping to answer the third. Nine years ago Beijing lost to Sydney in hosting the 27th Olympic Games. D those eight years the Chinese people did a lot of things so that they could realize their dream. Now the dream has come t .‎ ‎47.‎ Now many middle school students have got a mobile phone. Because a lot of parents think ‎ i their children have a mobile phone, it is e for their parents to keep in touch with their children at any time. If a child is in t or lost, they can help him or her in time. But some teachers don’t b it is a good idea for students to carry mobile phones to schools. They say students depend too much on them. For example, if they forgot something, they may phone home and tell their parents to b it to school. Some other teachers say students should not have mobile phones at school because some students send short m ‎ or play games and don’t listen to the teachers carefully in class. These make teachers feel a ‎ and they are bad for studying. So mobile phones have become a p for middle schools. Many teachers think it’s not n to bring them to school. Some middle schools have banned (禁止) students from c mobile phones during school hours.‎ ‎48.‎ Christopher and Jeff had known each other since childhood. One day, Jeff told his friend that he’d fallen in love and planned to get married the n month. He asked Christopher to lend him $1,000 for the wedding party, and promised to pay him back a month later when he started his new job. Christopher knew that Jeff was not very good with money, but he s ‎ agreed. As they were old friends, they didn’t put anything in writing.‎ A month later, Christopher hadn’t heard from Jeff or received any money, s he phoned him, Jeff was very apologetic and said he would surely pay him back within a month. Six weeks later, Christopher tried to phone Jeff and f he had moved and left no link address. B ‎ this time, he was angry.‎ The one month later, to his surprise, Christopher received a cheque(支票) for $100 from Jeff and a letter giving his new address. He explained that he’d been having money p , and wouldn’t be able to pay back the remaining $900 for some time. Christopher wrote back telling Jeff to forget the r of the money and never to reach him again by message or telephone.‎ ‎49.‎ Think about watching films every day for a week! Yang Siming, a Junior 1 at No. 31 Middle ‎ School in Dongyang, is very p about the idea.‎ The Children’s Film Festival in Dongyang will run f Wednesday until June 1. About 2,000 Dongyang children will watch great movies there.‎ All the festival’s films---10 Chinese and 15 from f countries ---are for children. At the end of the festival, children can choose the f ones.‎ ‎“We hope these children can choose good f for all the Chinese children,” said Chen Jinti, head of the Chinese Children’s Film Association(中国儿童电影协会).‎ One of the Chinese films is “Girl’s Diary”. It t the story of how Ranran, a sixth-grade girl, grows up. She doesn’t like maths. B when she gets a good-looking new maths teacher, she begins to s harder on her maths. Her diary s that she loves him. But when her mother reads it, they have a fight. Then they don’t talk for a long time. But in the end, she finds that her mum is right and r loves her.‎ ‎50.‎ There are many kinds of ants (蚂蚁) in America. One kind is very s . People are afraid of it, and animals are afraid of it, too. These ants move in large g . They eat p , animals and w houses. Sometimes even people are k by them. When the ants come n , people have to l their homes. But people are sometimes glad a ‎ the ants pass t , because all the insects (昆虫) or snakes are e by them.‎ ‎51.‎ Jim Burden was back at the office after a two-week holiday abroad. “Did you have a nice holiday?” asked his friend, Dick.‎ ‎“A nice holiday? I made a big m this time, I should have stayed home.” said Jim.‎ ‎“What h then?” asked Dick.‎ ‎“Well, it was one of the w holidays I ever had. The h I stayed at was on a busy road, and I could hardly sleep for the n . The food they gave us made us ill and the d were expensive. The places we visited were f of tourist, and we were l in the sunshine for quite a few hours. But tell me, how did things go with you?”‎ ‎“Maybe I was l than you. I had no trouble at all.” was the answer. “I had b to do so I stayed at home.”‎ ‎52.‎ First take a piece of paper, perhaps a clean page from an old exercise book. The paper must be ‎ w . Now get a Chinese brush and some milk. Write your letter with the milk. Be careful not to use too m milk. When the letter is r , wait till the milk is d . You can’t see the words y , and nobody can read your letter. But how can your friend u your letter? E . Your friend may hold the paper over a c . When the paper is w enough, the milk will begin to l ‎ brown. And your friend will be able to read the letter.‎ Keys:‎ ‎1. to, money, visiting, showed, on, worried, where, before, pay, sent ‎2. stories, bad, with, some, reading ‎3.first, started/set, which, miss, walked, wasn’t, again, somebody/someone, bank/bus-stop/bookstore/bar, quickly ‎4. better, allowed, again, can’t, rest, instead ‎5. food, tall, during, lives, hard, sit, people, reaches, become, fat ‎6. for, photos, nearly, busy, hope, one, badly, give, because, worry ‎7. watched, so, still, millions, Another, often, through, move, colours, ones ‎8. river, land, friends, visit, uses, necks, bring, finished, shopping, own ‎9. or, answer, clearly, inside, young, where, sweet, may/might ‎10. looks, also, things, map, quarters, highest, nearly, water, becomes, lots, Others, strange ‎11. no, impossible, has, them, moves, through, still, such ‎12. stayed, Before, wake, train, in, so, room, Maybe, wrong, on ‎13. like, here, move, new, don’t, there, reply, later, flew, another, last, in, All, what, back ‎14. stop, right/rightful, neither, clearly, every/each, school/schoolmates, without, summer, together, spring/summer ‎15. prefer, means, early/earlier, late/later, cheaper, money, country, own, interest, happiness/home, cinemas, outside, sea, ‎ ‎16. passed, smoke, fire, danger, water, with, window/ windows, surprise, wet, angrily ‎17. ago, stay/ study, around, worst, freely, difficulties, thank, improve ‎18. seem/ sound, eyes, holding, feel, really, better, example, between, must, see ‎19. made, came, old/ older, inventions, For, dressed, writing ‎20. use, carefully, warm, to/ through, press, minutes ‎21. machine, person, write, remember, fly, called, fast/ faster, what, pay, chess ‎22. like, boats, built, building/buildings, thousand, tired, moved, safe ‎23. part, drinks, busy/ business, always/ already, makes, increase, faster, beat, found, harmful ‎24. change, night, because, answer/ answers, reported, bad, work/ working, still ‎25. slow/ slower, save, understand, fast/faster, several, eyes, letters, improve/improving ‎26. much, sides, life/lives, thankful, spent, doctor, dangerous, save ‎27. few, make, use, children/child, after, both, successful, mistake ‎28. perhaps/ probably, without, machine, months, how, played, music, easier ‎29. lovely/ lively, buildings, smaller/ smarter, less, money, wonderful, safer, either ‎30. beautiful/ boring, sand/ sandy, mountains, surprised, around/ about, cooler ‎31. around, passed, along, small/ strange, across, end, comes, enjoyed, seen, interest ‎32. policeman/ police, clothes, from, sit, listen, want, hear, catch, works, protect ‎33. German, holiday, teacher/trainer, hardly, met, behind, learned, ready ‎34. how, Chinese/ China, date, different, left, names, like, end ‎35. noticed, prices, pass, more/ much, smaller, stays, gets, larger ‎36. Americans/ Australians, feeding, treated, just, Blind, when/ while, without, shown, improve alone ‎37. prepare, big/bigger, language/ languages, useful, how, continue, successful, when/ whenever, other, way ‎38. offered, refused, walked, agreed, angry, sell, away/ ahead, swim ‎39. understand, meeting, expect, arrive, language, found, example, prefer, each, before ‎40. until, right, open, other, both, secret, changed, meant, left, faster ‎41. built, most, also, one, straight, worse, floors, tall, side, ground ‎42. events, made, wish, everyone’s, to, if, coming, against, difficulties, reached ‎43. Unluckily/ Unfortunately, else, end, seemed, enough, much, past ‎44. along, rains, next, above, least, seriously, when, were, useful, homes ‎45. listening, only, example, find, interested, good, working, other, like, success,‎ ‎46. first, won, Since, During, true ‎47. if, easy/easier, trouble, believe, bring, messages, angry, problem, necessary, carrying ‎48. next, still, so, found, By, problems, rest ‎49. pleased, from, foreign, favourite, films, tells, But, study, says/shows, really ‎50. strong, groups, plants, wood, killed, near, leave, after, through, eaten ‎51. mistake, happened, worst, hotel, night, drinks, full, left, luckier, business ‎52. white, much, ready, dry, yourself, understand, Easy, candle, warm, look.‎