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1. He didn’t ________ enough time for his central work, so he hurried through it at the last moment, its quality being unsure.

A. draw B. pass C. decide D. budget [1].

2. Tom helped to clean my house for an hour as my friend, but just imagine he should ________ 500 dollars for it .

A. recover B. charge C. withdraw D. discharge [2].

3. Angry and clamorous, the woman ________ her way through the crowd to catch the last bus, wishing to arrive home in time for the New Year’s Eve.

A. elbowed B. handed C. backed D. headed [3].

4. A man living alone for long may have no bosom friend, for the latter can not be made without frequent sincere ________.

A. reaction B. response C. interaction D. interruption [4].

5. According to the ________ in my college, every time some colleague is rewarded with the fat prize money, he or she is willing to invite other ones to dinner.

A. conversation B. convention C. contract D. conclusion

[5].

6. She criticized me for loving ________ , but I refuted her flatly, “ It doesn’t mean I don’t love my job, nor that I am lazy!”

A. happiness B. service C. scenery D. leisure [6].

7. She is fond of ________ the domestic situation, and it ought to have been fine. But to my surprise she should be disinterested in news reports.

A. assessing B. deciding C. improving D. correcting [7].

8. If you insist on ________ into the economic case, you will risk offending your father-in-law, for he is chief-in-charge of this department.

A. intruding B. entering C. combining D. probing [8].

9. The married couple have worked hard many years in their private retail shop. ________ they have earned a large amount of money.

A. Particularly B. Rationally C. Consequently D. Repeatedly [9].

10. We are both clever enough to fulfill the task; we don’t lack ________ but lack the determination to endure hardship.

A. devices B. advances C. attentions D. processes

[10].

11. ________ the limited 20 minutes, she has done a good job of giving your house a thorough cleaning. Why complain to her about it?

A. Giving B. Given C. Give D. Gave

[11].

12. Each one attending the happy ________ has shared a feeling that they belong in a warm collective, forever helping each other.

A. collecting B. gathering C. grouping D. forming

[12].

13. What the rules and regulations mean is that they are impartial to everyone and have the very ________ as their essence.

A. personality B. impersonality C. personification D. person

[13].

14. Developing a healthy style of life is of great ________ to one’s longevity, as is shown by a large amount of survey data.

A. significance B. application C. improvement D. denotation

[14].

15. They have ________ a survey of the children aged 5 in terms of oral expression ability, thus knowing the girls are superior to boys.

A. handled B. solved C. conducted D. proposed

[15].

16. The ________ of a good habit in daily life demands of us not only sound judgment but also strong will--- it’s clear to you?

A. requirement B. commitment C. acquisition D. contribution

[16].

17. Her mother’s death by traffic accident sank her in deep sorrow, and yet my solacing words ________ it to some degree.

A. relaxed B. loosened C. tightened D. alleviated

[17].

18. Not having ________ with her, I don’t know whether she is likely to go abroad with me on a month-long journey.

A. interacted B. cooperated C. isolated D. conflicted

[18].

19. The cause of her jealousy of me is very simple: I have a(n) ________ amount of money and moreover mine is far more than hers.

A. considerate B. considerable C. ignorable D. ignorant

[19].

20. Some say one’s ________ is a born thing while others think it is acquired from the long process of life unconsciously.

A. quality B. style C. character D. tendency

[20].

Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet (平底锅) is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Stalwart lumberjacks and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset with more signs of indigestion than afflict those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation (消化) than when deep fat was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary (营养的) tract more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope, that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with \Volumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum has been accepted no fried edibles (食物) of any sort for children. A few will go so far as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself, the absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a powerful gastric apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach. We don't need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably arose because an \Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.

54. This passage focuses on ____. [A] the digestibility of fried foods.

[B] how the experts can mislead the public in the area of food preparation. [C] why fried foods have long been frowned upon. [D] methods of preparing foods.

55. Apparently much fried food is eaten because ____. [A] it is easily prepared [B] it is healthful

[C] it is easily digested

[D] people do not read about nutrition

56. The author strongly implies that the public should ____. [A] avoid fried foods it possible [B] prepare some foods by frying

[C] fry foods intended for adults but not for children [D] prepare all foods by frying

57. When the author says that an \fried item on the menu\ [A] bitter [B] factual [C] humorous [D] sarcastic

58. The selection was probably taken from ____. [A] a medical journal

[B] a publication addressed to the general public [C] a speech at a medical convention [D] a laboratory report

The first United States airmail stamp has an interesting story. Printed in 1918, this 24-cent stamp with a blue plane inside rose border became the center of much attention. One hundred of the stamps sold to the public became known as \worth over $ 100,000.

The story of these stamps began on May 14, 1918, the day after they were placed on sale. In Washington D. C., W. T. Robey, a man interested in stamps, decided to buy a sheet of the new stamps and so went to the New York Avenue branch post office in Washington. When the clerk handed him a sheet of the stamps, Robey noted that they were poorly centered. He looked at other sheets and found that none was well centered. The clerk asked Robey to return later in the day when more stamps were expected.

About noon Robey came back, and the same clerk was on duty. He reached for the new sheets and handed one to Robey. The collector's heart stood still as he saw that the sheet which had been offered him had inverted centers. Excited by his find, Robey shopped other branch post offices for more sheets with inverted centers but found none. Then be told his friend of his discovery, and they, too, looked in the city's post offices - also in vain. Not being a rich man, Robey decided to cash in on his good fortune. He turned down the first offer of $ 500 from a Washington stamp shop owner and took the sheet to New York. There he planned to show it to a collector, Colonel E. H. R. Green, as well as to stamp dealers.

Colonel Green was out of the city, and no one else wanted to bid on the sheet for fear that Robey's might not be the only upside down sheet. As the news of his great find spread, many people said that other such sheets had been found. These stories proved to be false.

Robey left New York without having made a sale, and stopped in Philadelphia on the way home. There, dealer Eugene Klein arranged to buy the sheet for $ 15,000 and finally did buy it. Within a few days, Klein sold the sheet to Colonel Green, the same collector whom Robey had failed to contact in New York. There is a tale that the Colonel was in Texas at the time, and that Klein phoned him there and sold him the sheet, sight unseen, for $ 20,000! Robey's sheet had cost him $ 24, and his profit was $ 14,976 while Klein gained $ 5,000.

Of the 100 stamps first bought by Mr. Robey, stamp collectors are now able to account for 96. What has happened to the others is not known. When a copy is offered for sale it is a major event in the stamp world. A block of four stamps has been sold for sale it is a major event in the stamp world. A block of four stamps has been sold for as much as $ 500,000. Few people have ever seen a copy. Yet no matter how much this valuable stamp is bought and sold, no owner can match the thrill that W. T. Robey had on that day in 1918 when he made America's luckiest stamp find!

59. This article is about ____.

[A] the first-class stamps eighty years ago [B] revenue stamps in the United States [C] the first United States airmail stamps [D] special delivery stamps

60. These stamps were valuable because ____. [A] the centers of them were \ [B] they were the wrong color [C] they were off center [D] there were so few of them

61. When Robey told his friends of the find, they ____. [A] tried to buy his stamps

[B] also went to look for such stamps [C] reported Robey to the government [D] none of the above

62. The dealers knew that if there were other sheets like Robey's then ____. [A] Robey must be lying [B] there were no perfect ones [C] the stamps were no good

[D] Robey's stamps would be worthless

63. Robey's stamps have seen by ____. [A] many people [B] no one [C] few people [D] everyone

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The next time you do a card trick, remember this: You're playing with history. The playing cards we use today are much like those used for hundreds of years. The most interesting things are the suits and face cards. A \playing card is not a thing to be worn. It means Hearts, Spades, Diamonds or Clubs. The figures are placed on each card with the number or value of the card. The face cards are the Jacks, Queens, Kings, and, of course, the Jokers. What do you think the suits stand for? Let's take the Heats first. When you say that an athlete has a lot of heart, what do you mean? You mean that he is brave. So, you see, the King of Hearts is a \

Look at the design of the Spade on a card. The word \comes from the Italian word which means \shorter on the card.

The Diamond and Club designs also have interesting stories. The Diamond design is one that you probably know already. It stands for the expensive gems that you and I have seen in jewelry stores. At first it stood for the rich traders who found and sold such gems. The Club looks a little like a three-leaf clover design. Its shape came from a French design with three leaves. It has the lowest rank of the suits.

Now you see how some suits of playing cards have more value or power than others. The face cards are usually powerful in any card game. The King is one of the strongest. There are four different Kings, and each one stands for a real person. The King of Hearts first meant Charlemagne. He lived about 800 years after the birth of Christ. He was one of the most powerful kings in Europe after Julius Caesar of Rome. Julius Caesar, by the way, is the King of Diamonds.

We must go further back in history to find out the names of the two other kings. The young Alexander the Great of Macedonia is the King of Clubs and King David is the King of Spades. David is the person who killed the giant Goliath. When someone talks about a David and Goliath, he means that a smaller, or weaker, person is trying to fight a very large and strong enemy. David beat Goliath and became a king. He probably never thought that he would have a place in playing cards.

We must go back to the Bible and the times of David again to find two of our Queens. Rachel was a famous woman in the Bible. She is the Queen of Diamonds.

Remember that the heart stands for bravery. A very brave woman is the Queen of Hearts. That was Judith, who killed an enemy general.

When Alexander the Great was a general, one of the important woman goddesses was Athena. She stood for wisdom. Athena is the Queen of Spades.

Queen Elizabeth I of England is thought to be the Queen of Clubs. She ruled England when America was mostly a wilderness.

The Jacks are sometimes called Knaves. A knave is usually a person who gets into trouble. But the playing cards stand for famous knights in history. These men made themselves famous for their courage and bravery, but they were not kings

The Joker of the card deck is the one that doesn't always fit. He is sometimes used as an extra card. He sometimes becomes more powerful than any other card. He does not stand for any one person, like some of the other cards. But I think that you can see what his name means.

So, you see that you can hold some history in your hands. History from King David to Queen Elizabeth I is all on the front of playing cards.

64. Today's playing cards are ____.

[A] different from those used in the past [B] exactly the same as those use in the past [C] much like those used for hundreds of years [D] not stated in the article

65. Hearts stand for ____. [A] sword [B] courage

[C] Julius Caesar

[D] love

66. The word spade comes from a (n) ____word. [A] Roman [B] Italian [C] French [D] English

67. The club design looks like a ____. [A] sword [B] gem [C] shovel

[D] three-leaf clover

68. Four face cards stand for Kings who were known largely for their ____. [A] religion [B] power [C] kindness [D] wisdom

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