A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day that I decided to go for a  11  in the country. On the way back home，my car stopped. It was out of  12  on a lonely   road far from a town. I decided to walk until I found someone who could  13  me a gallon（加仑） or two of petrol. I had  14  almost a mile before I finally found a big house near the road. I was     15  to see it because it was starting to get dark. I  16  at the door and a little old lady with long white hair answered. She said, “I have been  17  for you a long time. Come in. Tea is almost ready.”

“But I only came for some petrol.” I answered. I couldn’t  18  what she was talking about.

“Oh, Alfred! Petrol? You used to  19  tea.”

I quickly  20  that I needed some petrol, but she didn’t seem to hear me. She just kept calling me Alfred and talking about how long it had been since she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was  21  to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could.  22  , there was another house down the road and I was able to buy several gallons of petrol. When I told the man about my  23 . He said, “Oh, that is Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s  24  but she wouldn’t hurt anyone. She is still waiting for the man she was supposed to marry thirty years ago. The day before their  25  he left home and never came back because of the war.”

11. A. walk             B. holiday           C. drive              D. picnic

12. A. work             B. petrol            C. order              D. sight 

13. A. buy              B. borrow           C. sell                D. send

14. A. rested            B. stopped          C. stepped            D. walked

15. A. amazed           B. pleased           C. surprised           D. tired

16. A. beat              B. stood         C. knocked           D. struck

17. A. waiting           B. searching       C. longing             D. looking

18. A. order             B. hear        C. imagine             D. remember

19. A. like               B. have       C. drink               D. make 

20. A. explained          B. realized       C. noticed          D. discovered

21. A. excited            B. anxious          C. worried          D. amazed

22. A. Fortunately         B. Lately           C. Immediately    D. Personally

23. A. expression         B. idea             C. schedule       D. experience

24. A. kind              B. funny            C. strange        D. angry  

25. A. marriage           B. journey          C. plan           D. wedding

26. ___________ (follow) the old man, the young people started walking slowly.

27. He _________ (bring) up in North Yorkshire by his grandmother.

28. It is __________ (believe) that a seven-year-old boy can speak 10 foreign languages.  

29. Taking a walk after supper is beneficial __________ your health.  

30. She has always been encouraged to swim to build up the _________ (strong) of her muscles.

31. Five years ago her brother was _________ university student of physics.   

32. I find _________ impossible that she finished the work within two days.

33. It must___________(rain)last night because the ground is wet.

34. Those _________ keep working hard will soon be successful.

35. We tried to save the building, _________ it was a hopeless task.

36. He celebrated the _________ (arrive) of the New Year with his families.

37. The fact is _______ he worked for 12 hours every day.

38. She went to the party _________ the homework finished.

39. My mother is interested in _________ I have learnt in lecture.

40. This is the place _________ the accident took place last night.

66. If the neighbours do not give any sweets , the children might ______ ______ ______ ______ (捉弄) them.

67. He is full of curiosity, but his mother tells him not ______ ______ ______ ______(对……好奇) everything.

68. It’s not easy ______ ______ ______ ______ (谋生) if you don't have any skills in the modern society.

（2）As is well -known, computers are playing an important role in our daily life.  (改写)

   ______ ______ ______ ______ computers are playing an important role in our daily life.

70. I don’t like the film. They talked about the film yesterday.（合并为定语从句）

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71. We could finish the work only with your help.  (用倒装句改写)

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72. 我想知道你是否介意我们问几个问题。 (翻译)

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73. 很明显，他在撒谎。 (翻译)

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Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站)about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

    I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.

    I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

    Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池)was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

    “Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.

    “Thank you” - two powerful words. They're easy to say and mean so much.

41. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City_________.

A. to visit a friend                B. to see his parents

C. to pay at the cash register        D. to have more gas for his car

42. The words “took off” underlined in Paragraph 2 mean “______”.

 A. turned off   B. moved off    C. put up   D. set up

The story happened during the Second World War. An old man lived in a small town of Germany. He had three sons and they all worked in the same factory where he had worked. After the war had begun, his sons were all made to join the army one after another and they all died in the fights. The old man was very sad. He didn’t have enough food and was often hungry. And nobody helped him and he didn’t know how to go on living.

It was a very cold winter night. The old man couldn’t go to sleep. He had been hungry for two days and it was so cold in his room that ice could be seen. He had to get up and began to run in the room until he lay down on the floor. The next morning he had to beg from door to door. He had been to a lot of cities and knew a lot.

Once he came to a village, but the villagers were all poor and couldn’t give him anything. He was too hungry to go to another village. He thought hard and found a way. He came to a police station and called out, “Hitler is a foolish pig!”

Out came an old policeman at once. He took the old man into a room, gave him some bread and a cup of tea. Then he said, “Don’t say so in our village, sir!”

“I’m sorry, sir,” said the old man. “I don’t know it’s Hitler’s hometown.” “No, no, sir,” the policeman said in a hurry. “It’s pigs’ hometown!”

46. The old man’s sons joined the army because_________.

A. they were all strong      B. they loved their country

C. they wanted to be full     D. they had to do so

47. The old man was sad because _________.

A. his three sons had to join the army         B. his three sons lost their lives during the war

C. he lived in the small town alone           D. he had neither food nor clothes

48. From the passage we can infer that _________.

A. the old policeman would send the old man into prison   

B. the old policeman hated Hitler, too

C. the old policeman thought Hitler was better than pigs

D. the old man found a friend at the police station