1  He thought that crying is a sign of ____________ (虚弱).

2  His words are full of ____________ (谎言) about this matter .

3  It is healthier to keep a ___________ (均衡的) diet every day .

4  ___________(好奇心) is part of a child’s nature .

5  I don’t want any cake , I’m ____________ (减肥) 。

6  If you ___________ (怒目而视) at someone，you look at them with an angry expression on your face .

7  We set a time __________ (限定) of thirty minutes for the test .

8  As students , we should ______________ (结合) book knowledge with practice .

9  The new credit cards will be of great ____________ (好处) to our customers .

10  __________ (查阅) the dictionary when you come across any new words .

11  The first ___________ (场景) of the play was almost over when they got to the theater .

12  The best thing that a manager can do in this situation is to help the employees __________ (寻找) professional guidance .

13  She ____________ (发现) what was wrong with the air conditioner .

14  The doctor will not ____________ (允许) him to walk until his leg has fully recovered .

15  You needn’t feel sorry for what happened . After all , it wasn’t your _____________ (过错) .

A young British woman had shortly arrived in Hongkong and had not yet  16   anything about the Chinese   17  . One day she went to the home of a Chinese friend and was   18   given a cup of Chinese tea. She was not   19   and she also found this type of tea rather   20  . However, since she had been given the tea , she felt she should drink it. Hoping to finish it   21   so that she would not feel about having to drink this tea which she did not   22   , she started to drink as much of it as she could. But as soon as her cup became half - full, the host   23   giving her more. Several times she told the host that she had had   24    , but it seemed to have no   25   . Her cup kept being   26  , and she kept on drinking. During the time of her   27  , she drank about twelve cups of tea. Later she found out that she should have just  28   the tea, and that this would have meant that she had had enough. Influenced by her  29   culture, she felt it too   30   to leave the tea and could not understand why the host took no notice of her protests(抗议) that she had had enough!
16.A. learned       B. got           C. remembered D. taught 
17.A. language      B.  Culture      C. habit        D. food
18.A. certainly     B.  hardly        C. immediately   D. carefully 
19. A. happy      B.  tired          C.  interested   D. thirsty
20. A. sweet        B.  bitter        C. cold         D. nice
21. A. slowly       B. in time       C. quickly       D. gradually
22. A. have        B.  take          C. buy         D. like
23.A. stopped       B. insisted on     C. practiced    D. tried
24.A. some         B. a little        C. all          D. enough
25.A. importance   B. end          C. effect        D. value
26.A. filled        B. changed      C.  moved     D. emptied
27. A. visit        B.  talk        C. party       D. investigation
28. A. left         B. absorbed     C.  drunk     D. filled
29. A. ancient      B. modern      C. eastern      D. western
30. A. impolite     B. polite        C. easy        D. uneasy

Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog". Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say" Sheep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them. Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk. We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment, Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded(点头)and held my nose. "What do you think it is?"   "It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry."Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe!" I said."We should take it back.""We can't ".said my sister. "Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!"

31.The writer and Mary didn't know______.

A. how Zip carried its first present home

B .what Zip's first present  was

C .what Zip's first present was made  of

D. who owned Zip's first present

32. Tom calls Zip "the keep dog" because ______.

A. he doesn't know the dog's name

B. the dog likes playing with shoes

C. the dog likes keeping things

D. he can't pronounce the word "sheep" well

33.What made the shoe strange was ______.

A. its smell              B. its color

C. that it was a silk one    D. its size

34.The word "keep" in the last sentence means "_____"

A. bringing things for others to keep

B. taking care of a small child

C. keeping things for itself

D. not letting it run about

35.We can know from the reading that the dog _____.

A. likes to give presents to people

B. likes to be called "the keep dog"

C. has brought some trouble

D. has been kept in at the writer's home

An old lady in a plane had a blanket（毯子）over her head and she did not want to take it off . The air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “I have never been in a plane before , and I am frightened. I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again !”

Then the captain came. He said, “Madam, I am the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well. ”But she continued to hide.

So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I don’t like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I’ll say one thing, ”She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plane very clean!”

36. An old lady had _________ .

A. glasses     B. a blanket over her head     C. a coat     D. a basket

37. A. She didn’t want to ________ .

A. turn it off  B.  take it off  C. talk about it  D. get it on

38. _________ spoke to her .

A. Her husband       B. One of her friends

C. The air hostess     D. The man next to her

39. The old lady had never been _________ before .

A. abroad        B. in hospital     C. in a plane       D. home

40. The woman didn’t like planes and she was never going ________ .

A. to fly again     B. to travel      C. to go abroad     D. to go home

One day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant almost exhausted was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity, the bird threw her a blade of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass, she heard a man come near. He was walking along barefooted with a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life.

41. The ant could not reach the side though _______.

A. she could smell well  B. she asked the dove to save her

C. she tried very hard  D. she cried for help　　

42. The dove saved the ant because _______.

A. she was the ant's friend

B. she took pity on the poor ant

C. the ant was almost exhausted

D. the ant had been struggled in the water for a long time

43. The ant succeeded in getting on the bank with the help of _______.

A. a leaf  B. a piece of wood  C. a blade of grass  D. a raft

44. Just as the man shot at the dove, _______.

A. the dove immediately flew away

B. the dove hid himself in the grass

C. the ant told the dove to leave at once

D. he felt something biting him in the foot

45. In writing the story, the writer wants to show _______.

A. how kind the dove was  

B. how clever the ant was

C. how the ant and the dove helped each other

D. we often need help from others, therefore we should help others as much as we can