根据句意，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
【小题1】---How is your business going?
--- It couldn’t be _______ (bad).
【小题2】Each of us _______ (breath) heavily after running on the playground every morning.
【小题3】For everyone’s _______ (safe), we should always remember the law against driving after drinking.
【小题4】Such a camera can help spacemen film _______ (they) during the flight.

We have no idea about  1 men first began to use salt. But we do know that it had been used in many different ways    2  the history.
For example, in many history books it is  3   that people who lived three thousand years ago 4 salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt（埃及）, salt 5  keep the dead. It can keep the dead bodies  6 decay.（腐烂）
In the eighteenth century, a person who stole salt was   7  to have broken the   8 . if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into   9  . Books also record that in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century   10  stealing salt! In the year 1553, if a man took   11  than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be   12  punished(惩罚).
Salt was very  13  on the dinner table of a king. It was always put   14 the king when he sat down to eat. Then important visitors sat near the salt   15 less important visitors were given seats farther away from it.

Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries.Most American families have one or two parents and one or two children each.

Children in the US will leave their parents’ home when they grow up.They usually live far from their parents because they want to find good jobs.They often write to their parents or telephone them.And they often go to visit their parents on holiday.

Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs.Americans think it is important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves.

Parents ask children to do some work around their house.And in many families, parents pay their children for doing some housework so that hey learn how to make money for their own use.

1.The size of most American families is ____ that of other countries’.

A．larger than

B．smaller than

C．as big as

D．as small as

2. When children grow up, they leave their parents’ home to __.

A．get married

B．be free

C．find good jobs

D．study

3.They visit their parents ______ .

A．on weekdays

B．on weekends

C．at any time

D．on holiday

4.Which of the following is NOT true ?

A．Children have the freedom to choose their own job.

B．Parents don’t ask their children to do the housework.

C．When children grow up, they usually live far away from their home.

D．Parents think it is important for children to make their own decision.

5.Some parents pay their children for doing housework because _____ .

A．they want their children to learn how to make money for themselves

B．their children asked them to do so

C．they are rich

D．the law requires(要求)them to do so

“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father’s ____ story.

My father was ___ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to a school in the morning, then ____ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no ____!

???? At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States. It was the land of gold, the land where ___ people can become rich.

???? “____ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.

????? So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ___ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke _____ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, _____ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10am to 11pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t ___ the schooling.”

?????? My father __ working hard, and reached his goal!

????? “Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come____ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

1.A.disaster????????????? ??? B.loss? ????????????? ??? C.success????????????? ????????????? D.pity???

2.A.life????????????? ????????????? ??? B. fashion????????????? C. danger???? ????????????? D. history????

3.A.famous????????????? ????????????? B.lucky???? C. rich???? ????????????? ??? D.born?????

4.A.taught???? ?? B.worked????????????? C.studied??? ? D.slept?????

5.A.until????? ? B.toward????????????? C.for????? ????????????? ??? D.during?????

6.A.experience ?? B.energy????????????? C.time????? ????????????? D.money?????

7.A.kind???? ????????????? B.poor????? C.strong???? ?? D.lazy?????

8.A.What???? ????????????? B.How???? ????????????? C.Why????? ????????????? D.When?????

9.A.discover?? ?? B.make????? C.collect????? D.spend?????

10.A.little???? ?? B.good????? C.much???????? D.excellent?????

11.A.giving???? ????????????? B.running? ? C.washing?? ? D.receiving?????

12.A.comfortable? B.cheerful? ? C.nice????? ?? D.hard?????

13.A.borrow????? B.need????? C.afford???? ?? D.pay?????

14.A.kept???? ????????????? B.finished? ? C.minded???? ? D.stopped?????

15.A.really???? ????????????? B.easily??? ? C.quietly??? ?? D.slowly?????

Be careful! Some people may use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is true, but misses important information that should be included, he can create a false impression(印象).
For example, someone might say, "I just won 100 dollars on the lottery(彩票). It was great. I took that ticket back to the store and they gave me 100 dollars!"
This man is a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he paid 200 dollars for 200 tickets, and only one ticket won. He's really a big loser.
He didn't say anything that was false, but he didn't give the other important information. That's called a half-truth. Half-truths are not lies, but in fact they are dishonest.
Advertisements sometimes use half-truths. It's against the law to lie in advertisements, so they try to deceive with the truth. An advertisement might say, "Nine-tenths of doctors believe that Fancy Pills will be good to cancer. " It doesn't tell you that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Fancy Company.
This kind of thing happens too often. It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
【小题1】What does the underlined word "deceive" mean in Chinese?