The water tap was leaking(漏水) again, and the noise was driving Cassie crazy. Cassie looked at her watch. It was nearly nine o’clock. She climbed out of bed and stood on a chair by the shelf. Her mother’s Mr. Fix-It Book was on the top shelf. Cassie stepped down quietly. She read the book quickly until she found the page she was looking for, and then began to read carefully.

Next, Cassie opened a box in the kitchen and picked out the tools she needed--- a hammer, a wrench, and several small things. It was so easy job for her to do the repair, and she tried several times. Finally, the water tap was in pieces. One by one, she carefully laid them out on the table. That way she would know how they went back. While this was going on, her cat walked over to watch what she was doing.

Cassie worked late into the night. At one point, she thought she was done. Oops! A small piece that she had forgotten still lay on the table. Slowly Cassie took the water tap apart(分开) one more time. This time she made sure everything was in place. She turned the water tap on and then off. One…two…three… She waited a full minute. There was no leak! Cassie smiled and put the tools back into the box. Then she went back into bed.

The next morning, Dad was in the kitchen when Cassie got up.

“Notice anything, Dad?” she asked.

He looked around and listened. “Hmm, something’s missing… I can’t find out what it is… Wait, it’s too quiet in here!”

“That’s right,” Cassie said. ‘Something is missing. I fixed the water tap. It doesn’t leak any more.”

“That’s my girl,” Dad said. “It’s a good thing you are really like your mother.”

1.Mr. Fix-It Book is probably a book on how to ________.

A. train pets       B. fall asleep       C. fix things        D. cook food

2.Cassie took the water tap apart again because_______.

A. she had forgotten one piece          B. the tap was still leaking

C. the cat had taken one piece away      D. she hadn’t understood the book

3.The water tap wasn’t fixed until_______.

A. nine o’clock    B. late that night    C. the next morning    D. the next afternoon

4.We can learn from the last sentence of the passage that ________.

A. Cassie’s mother is good-looking         B. Cassie likes her mother very much

C. Cassie’s mother is good at fixing things   D. Cassie looks quite like her mother

A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the __35__ was he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of ___36___ because of the dead battery(电池). Nothing could be done but to ___37___ in the cold car. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the arrival of the rescue who saved him.

It is almost unimaginable that he could stand the cold and great fear in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his ___38___: “First of all I checked up my ___39___ conditions and found myself not in deadly danger. As there was no way to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from losing blood. In this way I dozed (打盹) off. ”

His story put an end to my regret for the failure of an exploration adventure（冒险） that happened last year. A group of young men ___40___ to explore a mountain cave and got lost. Unable to find a way out in the dark cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of ___41___. Finally they fell dead in fear and tiredness. According to the rescue people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the ___42___ of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to ___43___ themselves, they would probably sense a faint(very little) light glimmering (闪烁) not far away.

Don’t you think that you can compare it with ___44___ itself? When you meet with obstacles or big problems in life and work, you are lost in darkness. ___45___ you it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle immediately. It seems not to be an active attitude, ___46___ a person who can afford to do so must have foresight（预见） as well as a great courage in the first place.

(   )35. A. hopeless    B. worst              C. more               D. best

(   )36. A. service        B. way                  C. work               D. control

(   )37. A. cry            B. lie                    C. sleep                D. wait

(   )38. A. plan           B. decision           C. excuse             D. explanation

(   )39. A. physical     B. mental             C. working           D. medical

(   )40. A. had           B. managed          C. tried                       D. planned

(   )41. A. sight         B. direction          C. hearing             D. feeling

(   )42. A. opening     B. top                  C. end                  D. side

(   )43. A. save          B. help                 C. stop                       D. calm

(   )44. A. adventure  B. life                  C. work               D. human

(   )45. A. Mind         B. Watch              C. Imagine           D. Warn

(   )46. A. and           B. so                   C. but                   D. while