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There is an hour to go. Could we sit somewhere to have a drink?（）
A . Have a try.
B . Sure.
C . Don‘t go, please.
D . No, thanks.
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I didn’t hear ____ because there was too much noise where I was sitting.
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It was a long ______ to go there.
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8. M:Helen, why did you give up the job?W: It was too boring.Question: Why did Helen give upthe job?
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He refused to sit down and talk with her, which was a to their relationship.
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When asked, he said he didn’t know it was ________ to ride on the sidewalk there.
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听力原文：M: It is good to have some company for the drive. It’s a long way to Edinburgh, and it’s very boring if you are on your own.
W: I’m really lucky you stopped and offered me a lift. I’ve been waiting for about two hours but no one seemed to be going my way.
M: Are you a student？
W: Yes, I’m a biology student in London University. I’m going up to Edinburgh for the festival, but it’s so expensive on the train that I decided to try and hitch a lift.
M: Well, you are lucky because I should have been going yesterday, but something happened to delay me so I postponed my trip until today.
W: Is it all right if I put my bag on the back seat？
M: Yes, of course.
W: It started to rain just as I left the house this morning and my clothes and shoes are wet through. Would you mind if I take off my shoes？
M: No, of course not. I don’t mind. Go ahead.
W: Thanks.
M: Oh, don’t forget to put your seat belt on! You can get fined nowadays, you know, for not wearing your seat belt.
W: Yes, sorry, I forgot. Could I open this window？
M: Well, I’d rather you don’t if you don’t mind. It gets very draughty when you open that window. But you can open the back window.
W: Is it all right if I go to sleep for a while？
M: Yes, of course. I’ll wake you up when we reach the next service station. I’ll need some coffee then.
(23)
A．Because she has a company for the drive.
B．Because she can attend the festival.
C．Because the man stopped and offered her a lift.
D．Because the man provided a shelter from the rain.
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It was 3:12 a.m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.
With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.
The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother's room. He found it impossible to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and, as a fireman said later, "acted with all the self-control of a trained adult."
On the bedroom telephone, luckily still wording, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.
He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor？
Grasping firmly a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother's room. Tying one end of the string to her hand he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: "The string will lead you to mother." Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.
Why did Glenn run downstairs first？
A．He wanted to find out what was happening.
B．He was worded about his mother's safety.
C．He wanted to save his sister and brother.
D．He went to see if his father had come back from work.
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听力原文：M: Oh, it's you, Mrs. Bramley. Come in and sit down. Now, what was it？ Oh, yes, your ankle. Has .there been any improvement since last week？
W: Well, no, I'm afraid not, doctor. The leg's still the same.
M: I'd better have another look at it. HM! It's still very swollen. Have you been resting it, as! told you to？
W: It's so difficult to rest it, doctor, you know, with a house to run, and six children to look after.
M: Well, I've given you my advise. I'm sorry, but rest is necessary, otherwise I wouldn't have insisted on it. You must sit for at least four hours a day with the leg raised. Otherwise the ankle isn't going to improve. You understand that？
W: Yes, I understand, and I'll try to do as you say.
M: Very well then. I'll repeat that prescription for tablets, but the only effective treatment is rest. Ask the next patient to come in please.
What's wrong with the woman？
A．She needs to take more exercise.
B．Her uncle's health has not improved.
C．She can't understand the doctor.
D．Her ankle is swollen.
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The angry woman sat in the station office. "The railway should pay me ＄12. "She said to Harry, the man who【21】the ticket. "My ticket was【22】May 22nd, and there was【23】train from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me＄12."
Harry was worried. He remembered【24】the woman a return ticket. After he【25】the Jersey timetable for May 22nd, he knew she was right. However, had he made【26】mistake？【27】what to do, he smiled at the child, "Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey？" he said to her. "Yes," she answered shyly. "The seashore was【28】and I can swim【29】!"
"That's fine," said Harry. "My little girl can't swim a bit yet. Of course, she's only three..."
Harry turned to the mother, "I remember your ticket, madam," he said. "30 you didn't get one for your daughter,【31】you？"
"Well," the woman looked at the child. "I mean she hasn't started【32】yet. She is only four. "
"A four-year-old child【33】have a ticket, madam. A child's return ticket to Jersey costs ＄13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will【34】. ＄1.50. The law is the law, but since the mistake was【35】..."
Saying nothing, the woman stood up, took the child's hand and left the office.
(41)
A．bought
B．sold
C．got
D．paid
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听力原文：M: There was a new quiz show on television last night, but we were just sitting down to dinner when it came on.
W: I watched it and it was great! The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.
Q: What happened last night？
(16)
A．Four contestants failed to win prizes.
B．The man ate during the show.
C．The woman missed the show.
D．Five contestants won cars.
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There was no way to measure strength of the earthquake that killed the most people because the Richter Scale wasn't large enough to measure it.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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听力原文：M. Oh, it's you, Mrs Bramley. Come in and sit down. Now, what was it？ Oh, yes, your ankle. Has there been any improvement since last week？
W: Well, no, I' m afraid not, doctor. The leg's still the same.
M: I'd better have another look at it. Oh! It's still very swollen. Have you been resting it, as I told you to？
W: It's too difficult to rest it, doctor, you know, with a house to run, and six children and
M: Well, I've given you my advice. I' m sorry, but rest is necessary, otherwise I wouldn't have insisted on it. You must sit for at least four hours, a day with the leg , raised, otherwise the ankle isn't going to improve. You understand that？
W: Yes, I understand, and I'll try to do as you say.
M: Very well then. I' 11 repeat that prescription for tablets, but the only effective treatment is rest. Ask the next patient to come in please.
What's wrong with the woman？
A．She need to take more exercise.
B．Her uncle's health has not improved.
C．She can't understand the doctor.
D．Her ankle is swollen.
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The meeting was interesting to some people, and to me it was boring.
A B C D
A.A
B.B
C.C
D.D
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It’s very _____ to sit around a fire in freezing weather. （comfort)
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Sometimes it was a bit boring to work there because there wasn’t always______ much to do.
A
suchB
thatC
moreD
very
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A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée (未婚妻). The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond… but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: "When the servant enters the room, he will drop it."
On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited. Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody's face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.
6. The story took place ______.
A. in France B. in the United States
C. in Germany D. in England
7. Which of the following is true？
A. A rich young man fell in love with a beautiful girl.
B. The young man had enough money to buy a beautiful vase.
C. The young man loved the girl but the girl didn't love him.
D. The young man's family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich.
8. Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl？
A. He wanted to give her a Christmas present.
B. He fell in love with her.
C. Her birthday was coming soon.
D. They were going to get married.
9. Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man？
A. He looked very excited.
B. He was poorly dressed.
C. He looked pale and sad.
D. He said he wanted to buy a beautiful vase.
10. On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because ______.
A. the girl was in love with him
B. the girl looked beautiful
C. he was not sure whether his trick would be seen through
D. the girl was happy and gay
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During the war there was a serious lack of food. It was not unusual that even the wealthy families had to______bread for days.
A．eat up
B．give away
C．do without
D．deal with
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White people tend to be nervous of raising the subject of race and education, but are often voluble on the issue if a black person brings it up. So when Trevor Phillips, chair man of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, said that there was a particular problem with black boys' performance at school, and that it might be a good idea to educate them apart from other pupils, there was a torrent of comment. Some of it commended his proposal, and some criticized it, but none of it questioned its premise. Everybody accepts that black boys are a problem.
On the face of it, it looks as though Mr. Phillips is right. Only 27% of Afro-Caribbean boys get five A-C grades at GCSE, the exams taken by 16-year-olds, compared with 47% of boys as a Whole and 44% of Afro-Caribbean girls. Since, in some subjects, candidates who score less than 50% get Cs, those who don't reach this threshold have picked up pretty little at school.
Mr. Phillips's suggestion that black boys should be taught separately implies that ethnicity and gender explain their underachievement. Certainly, maleness seems to be a disadvantage at school. That's true for all ethnic groups: 57% of girls as a whole get five A-Cs, compared with 47% of boys. But it's not so clear that blackness is at the root of the problem.
Among children as a whole, Afro-Caribbeans do indeed perform. badly. But Afro Caribbeans tend to be poor. So to get a better idea of whether race, rather than poverty, is the problem, one must control for economic status. The only way to do that, given the limits of British educational statistics, is to separate out the exam results of children who get free school meals: only the poor get free grub.
Poor children's results tell a rather different story. Afro-Caribbeans still do remark ably badly, but whites are at the bottom of the pile. All ethnic minority groups do better than them. Even Bangladeshis, a pretty deprived lot, do twice as well as the natives in their exams; Indians do better still. And absolute numbers of underperforming whites dwarf those of underperforming Afro-Caribbeans: last year, 131,393 of white boys failed to hit the government's benchmark, compared with 3,151 Afro-Caribbean boys.
These figures suggest that, at school at least, black people's problem is not so much race as poverty. And they undermine the idea of teaching black boys separately, for if poor whites are doing worse than poor blacks, there's not much argument for singling out blacks for special measures: whites need help just as badly.
According to the text, the public response to Mr. Philips' claim is
A．a nervous impression.
B．a mixed reception.
C．a particular performance.
D．a critical comment.
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Rose: Oh, hi, Bill. How was your holiday？ Did you have a good time？ Bill: Oh, yes, it was fantastic. Thailand is really beautiful and there is so much to do. Rose: Yes, I imagine so. Did you do a lot of sight-seeing, then？ Bill: Yes, all day long! The temples were incredible. Rose: But it must have been expensive. ______ Bill: Yes, I'm sorry to say! Rose: So was it worth going to Thailand, then？ Bill: Oh, yes---definitely. It was the holiday of a lifetime.
A．Did you spend a lot of money？
B．Did you have a good time？
C．Do you regret having been there？
D．Do you want to go there again？
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The picture exhibition bored me to death. I wish I______to it.
A．have not gone
B．didn't go
C．had
D．could not have gone
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According to the writer （作者), life in Beijing was unpleasant and boring.（)
是
否
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The poor little girl was tired and hungry in the forest. She walked through the forest, hoping to find something to eat because she didn’t want to die. Then she found a little house and thought it must be a woodman’s house and she might be able to stay there. So she knocked at the door. As there was no answer, she opened it and went inside. There she saw a room with a long table. On it there were seven knives and forks, seven plates and drinking cups, and on the plates and in the cups were food and drink. The little girl was too hungry to turn away from the food, and so she took a little from each plate and each cup. At the other end of the room, there were seven little beds. She tried to lie on some of them, and when she found a very nice one, she fell into a deep sleep, for she was very tired after a long walk through the forest.
1.The little girl was happy to get to the forest.()
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Doesn’t say
2.When she got to the little house, someone opened the door to let her in.()
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Doesn’t say
3.In the house she found a few things for seven people.()
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Doesn’t say
4.The room was the home of some short kind-hearted men.()
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Doesn’t say
5.The little girl slept very well in one of the little beds.()
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Doesn’t say
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The movie was very boring and many people began to leave early.By theend, most people __________.
A．A.had already left
B．B.have already left
C．C.were already leaving
D．D.had already been leaving
