In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky  1  the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird  2  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my  3  , Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue  4  and suddenly he had gone , clipped wings and all.

Kathy managed to  5  me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure （安慰）me that Perky would find a new  6  . But I was far too clever to  7  that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own  8  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the  9  of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the  10  of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to  11 the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.  12  Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and  13  that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

"The best thing  14  Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the  15  we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just  16  down and landed on my finger."

When I was finally able to  17  , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all  18  . It seems our two families had been  19  long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were  20  ! Perky lived!"

1. A. what           B. how           C. which        D. where

2. A. food           B. nest           C. friend        D. family

3. A. joy            B. horror          C. disappointment   D. satisfaction

4. A. pleasure        B. sadness         C. treasure      D. sense

5. A. forgive         B. comfort         C. help         D. delight

6. A. parent          B. home           C. master       D. life

7. A. imagine        B. suppose          C. doubt       D. believe

8. A. birds          B. happiness         C. worries      D. children

9. A. parents         B. birds            C. interests     D. games

10. A. first          B. best             C. last         D. happiest

11. A. catch         B. find             C. buy        D. have

12. A. Suddenly      B. Fortunately       C. Then       D. However

13. A. announced     B. said             C. told        D. hoped

14. A. in            B. about            C. of         D. on

15. A. day           B. place            C. way        D. story

16. A. floated         B. dived           C. settled      D. went

17. A. think          B. speak           C. interrupt     D. explain

18. A. came up       B. turned up         C. turned out    D. matched up

19. A. known        B. fastened          C. connected    D. introduced

20. A. right         B. wrong            C. silly         D. mad

11. On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Clarke locked the door and went to the women’s club as usual. It was a pleasant way of passing time for an old woman who lived  1 .

When she came home she sensed something unusual. Had someone come in? The back door and the windows were all  2  and there was no  3  of forced entry (进入). Had   4  been taken? She went from room to room,  5  , and found her camera and spare watch   6 .

The following Thursday she went out at her usual time, but didn't go to the club.   7   she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home,   8__-herself in through the back door. She settled down to wait and see what would happen.

It was 4 o’clock when the front doorbell rang. Mrs. Clarke was___9__ tea at the time . The bell rang again, and  10   she heard her letterbox being pushed open.   11   the kettle (壶) of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A   12   of wire appeared through the letterbox, and then a   13   . The  wire turned and caught around the knob (圆形旋钮) on the doorlock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and   14   the water over the hand.   15    was heard outside as the   16   fell to the floor and the hand was pulled back, which was  17   by the sound of running feet.

It wasn't long  18    the police caught the thief. And Mrs. Clarke was greatly   19   at the club for her successful   20   .

1. A. lonely                   B. alone                  C. away                  D. busily

2. A. locked           B. opened                C. broken                D. fixed

3. A. scene           B. show                  C. sign                   D. sight

4. A. anything       B. nothing                C. money                D. jewels

5. A. looking          B. examining              C. searching             D. checking

6. A. losing           B. missing                C. leaving                D. disappearing

7. A. Therefore               B. However               C. Instead               D. Again

8. A. pushing         B. letting                 C. pulling                 D. leading

9. A. cooking          B. making                C. burning               D. serving

10. A. the next moment     B. for a while               C. in time   D. at once

11. A. Putting down        B. Laying aside           C. Picking up           D. Taking away

12. A. pile                  B. set                   C. lot                       D. piece

13. A. knife                 B. hand                  C. letter                    D. key

14. A. spread                  B. dropped               C. poured               D. covered

15. A. Sad voice           B. A strange noise       C. A warning shout    D. A sharp cry

16. A. key                     B. kettle                   C. door-lock              D. wire

17. A. followed                 B. caused                C. produced             D. ended

18. A. before                  B. since                  C. until                    D. when

19. A. surprised                B. admired               C. inspired               D. supported

20. A. self-satisfaction     B. self-protection        C. self-respect          D. self-service

6. These include the ______(苦难)of the poor, and the corruption of the rich.

7. Mr. Smith had an accident last month. Fortunately, he is ______ (恢复) now from the injury.

8. Air pollution is one of the problems that we really can’t _________(忽视)

9. Rescuers are c ______ by the safety of two men trapped in the mine.

10. The success of the sports meet c_________ all of us and we should always try our best to do what we can.

 This type of bamboo grows very fast and it will take only three to five years _____ it can be used in various fields .

A. before        B. since           C. when            D. as

 I’m anxiously waiting for that day ________.

A. arrive    B. arrives   C. arriving   D. to arrive

 If the CPI （消费者物价指数） continues to        , the families below average income will find it hard to pay for their daily necessities.

       A. advance             B. decrease      C. remain       D. add

 — When can I see you, Mr. Black? Three o’clock this afternoon?

— Oh, no. I ________ a meeting then.

A. will have    B. will be having    C. am having     D. have

 The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well ______.

A. to spend         B. spent              C. being spent           D. spending

假如你是你校英语内刊的编辑李华，你校的一位同学Mary最近在网上结识的一位网友约她见面，她不知道该不该去，因此写信向你咨询。请你用英文给她写一封建议信。内容应包括：

1. 最好不要去见任何网友；

2. 如果确实想见，要保证自身安全（选择人多的公众场合；不要透露过多的个人信息）。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

      2. 文中不得使用真实姓名和学校名称；

      3. 开头和结尾已给，不计入总词数。

Dear Mary,

I’m happy that you have made friends with someone online.____________________                                                              

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Yours,

                                                               Li Hua

Amazon Introduces a Digital Music Locker

Amazon.com, plans to introduce a service that will let people upload their digital music to the Web from anywhere.   71   

The service, known as a music locker, was made available to Amazon account holders early Tuesday．Amazon will offer a Web-based hard drive backup service called Cloud Drive, where people can store documents, photos, videos and music．

It will also offer Cloud Player, which will let people listen to, download and make play lists from the music they store on Cloud Drive from any Web site or from an app on Android devices． Cloud Player will automatically upload songs bought on Amazon．   72   

    73   One key difference is that Google and Apple reportedly want to automatically make all the music that a user owns available to stream on other instruments, while Amazon will require that people upload music, except songs they buy on Amazon, to access it elsewhere．

The dream of these companies, along with many start-ups, is for people to be able to listen to their music from any computer or phone．   74   Several experts in digital music say that the music locker business is still legally ambiguous．   75   

    Amazon says it has avoided the problem, because its users would upload their songs, in MP3 to the cloud-based service, just like backing them up on an external （outside） hard drive or a Web-based computer backup service．

Companies, including Google and Spotify have been forced to delay introducing certain services while they negotiate with the music labels and publishers．

       A．People can access it from any computer and from Android phones．

       B．But they have all run into the same problem: music companies and publishers would prefer that listeners buy a new copy of a song everywhere they want to listen to it．

       C．Experts suspect that Amazon seems to be copying what Google and Apple have already achieved．

       D．They agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity （匿名） because their agreements with Amazon are confidential．

       E．It is impossible for Web companies to tell whether a song was bought legally or downloaded illegally．

       F．Amazon is racing Google and Apple, both of which are interested in offering similar services．

       G．It will also scan iTunes or Windows libraries to find other music to upload．