(2013·高考天津卷)It was not until near the end of the letter ________ she mentioned her own plan.

A．that?? B．where

C．why?? D．when

love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.
The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.
Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.
The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding（资助）medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment. （08天津卷）
【小题1】The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _______.

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第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：对话填空共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

M: What are you doing here (76)a_____?                                                 76. __________       

W: Just looking at the lights. I like to look at the city at night.                              

M: Everybody is standing around the piano and singing.

Don’t you want to (77)j_____us?                                                                   77. __________       

W: I’d (78)r_____stay out here for a few minutes.                                        78. __________       

Look down there where I’m pointing.

M: I don’t see anything (79)s_____.                                                             79. __________        

W: That’s (80)w_____I used to live when I was a child.                                 80. __________       

M: What kind of neighborhood was it?

W: A very (81)p_____one. Everybody was supposed to work                          81. __________        

hard and end up with a house in the outer area of the city.

M: But you’ve ended up with a flat in the sky.

W: Yes, and I don’t want to lose it.

M: I think that means that all of us had (82)b______go                                         82. __________       

home soon so that you can get a little (83)s_____.                                        83. __________        

W: I do have to be at the (84)o______in the morning.                                    84. __________       

M: Tell me, how do you do it, both work so hard and play so hard?

W: I don’t know. I just like to do (85b_____. And I don’t need much sleep.            85. __________       

love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.

The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.

Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.

The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding（资助）medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment. （08天津卷）

The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _______.

   A. its convenient location

   B. its great variety of goods

   C. its spirit of goodwill

   D. its nice shopping environment

The first charity shop in the UK was set up to ____.

   A. sell cheap products

   B. deal with unwanted things

   C. raise money for patients

   D. help a foreign country

Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops?

   A. The operating costs are very low.

   B. The staff are usually well paid.

   C. 90% of the donations are second-hand.

   D. They are open twenty-four hours a day.

Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?

   A. What to Buy a Charity Shops.

   B. Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development.

   C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate.

   D. The Public’s Concern about Charity Shops.

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第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示，2)首字母提示，3)语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

May 3 rd, Friday                         Fine

This afternoon, on my way to see a film, I saw a    

case f    ____  off a man’s bike. I shouted out to the man to  76_____________

stop him. But he didn’t hear me and _________ away.       77_____________

I was wondering what to do _________ I had an idea. I     78_____________

stopped a taxi and got into it w   ___   the case. Soon we      79_____________

caught up with the man. G   ___   the case back, he was so    80_____________

___________(感谢) that he offered me some money, but I     81_____________

refused it ___________(礼貌). Then the driver drove me   82_____________

to the     ____  (电影院). When I paid him, the driver pushed     83_____________

my hand _________ said with a smile, “Neither will I accept you84________

money, because your behavior touches me”. With these________,     85_____________

they said “Good- Bye” to each other and went separately.