-- It’s many years since I saw you last； I _____ you at all.
--- I wouldn’t have, either, if someone ______ you by the name.

— So many ages since I last saw you that I ____________ you at all!

— I wouldn’t have, either, if someone _____________ your name.

A．didn’t recognize; hadn’t called          B．didn’t recognize; didn’t call

C．haven’t recognized; didn’t call           D．wouldn’t have recognized; hadn’t called

Head held high, hands firmly gripping her walker, Mary Arnott, 99, walks slowly with dignity through the women’s changing room at the Etobicoke Olympium pool, past the teenage girls who have been blow-drying their hair for half an hour, into the mist of the showers, then out the door and first one into the heated pool. She jumps over to the shallow end, stopping to talk to friends—everyone knows Arnott here;she swims twice a week and treats it as a job—about their children, the viciousness（谬误）of bridge and their health.

 In fact, Arnott is an exception to the exception. Not only has she lived 20 years past the average lifespan for Canadians, she’s healthy, her mind is sharp and she lives independently.

Born in Brooklyn on May 28, 1909, Arnott was raised on Staten Island. She survived scarlet fever（猩红热）, helped bring up four siblings（兄弟姐妹）after her mother died in 1923 and worked as a secretary in New York City for 12 years, earning＄35 a week and a＄150 bonus at Christmas.

 Now she’s happy living in a one-room apartment with a kitchen and a bathroom in her daughter’s house. She wears a hearing aid, does the cryptic crossword（有隐义的纵横字谜）with a magnifying glass, and can’t really explain why she has lived so well so long.

Until recently, she has still liked to drink red wine—she used to drink two glasses before supper each day. It’s more likely genes, she admits. Her interest in other people and life in general may have had something to do with it. Asked if a star photographer can take her picture at the pool, Arnott seems cheerful.

“I look good in a swimsuit, ” she says, nodding her head firmly. “I look better in a swimsuit than I do in pants. ”

31. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. Mary Arnott likes to swim and is known to the local people.

B. Mary Arnott is afraid to swim at the swimming pool.

C. Mary Arnott can’t swim but she likes water.

D. Mary Arnott just likes to talk to her friends at the bank of the swimming pool.

32. Which of the following is TRUE as for Mary Arnott as an exception to the exception?

A. She has lived 30 years past the average lifespan for Canadians.

B. She’s healthy and her mind is sharp.

C. She lives with her daughter.

D. She likes to live with her children and has a happy life.

33. What happened when Mary Arnott was 14?

A. She had a disease called scarlet fever but survived.

B. Her mother died and she had to help her father to bring up her sisters and brothers.

C. She found a job as a secretary in New York City.

D. She was born in Brooklyn.

34. What may Mary Arnott think of her living alone?

A. Bitter.                        B. Happy.

C. Meaningless.               D. Boring.

35. If someone asks about swimming, Mary Arnott may ________.

A. like pants                  B. like swimsuit better

C. like to sit at the bank         D. like to swim with girls

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Recently I gave my adult students homework．It was to "go to someone you love and tell them you love them．It has to be someone you have   25  said those words to before or at least haven't   26  those words with for a long time．"
Since most of the men were over 35 and were raised in the   27  of men that were taught   28  feelings is not "manly", this was very   29  homework for some．
In our next   30  , I asked if someone wanted to share his story with us．I fully   31 one of the women to volunteer, as was   32  the case, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand．As he   33  out of his chair （all 1．85 metres of him）, he began by saying, "Dennis, I was quite   34  with you last week when you gave us this homework．   35  were you to tell me to do something that personal? But as I began driving home my heart started talking to me, telling me that I knew   36  who I needed to say 'I love you' to．"
"My father and I had a severe   37  five years ago, and since then we had  38 seeing each other unless we had to at Christmas．But even then, we hardly   39  to each other．So last Tuesday I drove to my parents' house after work and said, "Dad, I just    40 to tell you that I love you. '"
"Dad reached out and    41   me and said, 'I love you too, son, but I've never been able to say it．' Two days after my visit, my dad had a heart attack and I don't know if he will  42   it．So, I'm here to tell all of you that my    43   in this is: Don't wait to do the things    44    it is too late．Take the time to do what you need to do and do it now!"

【小题1】

A．ever B．always C．never D．even

Each year this organization of men came to the Children's Home. The men would take us in groups of five to downtown to do some ___16___shopping.

I __17__ going with this gentleman three years in a row. He would ___18___ us shopping , then he would ask us if we wanted to go to the __19__. As he pulled his wallet out to pay for our tickets I watched him __20__. He looked over at me and just __21__ with his great big smile. During the movie he bought us all the popcorn and candy. I remember thinking how __22__ it was that someone would __23__ their own money on me. I remember thinking that he was like Santa Claus.

We all laughed at the __24__movie and had a good laugh about it. The man would laugh really hard and __25__ over and touch my hair to comfort me. I would just look at him, and he would just __26__ smiling with his great big wonderful smile. My nerve completely disappeared.

That trip to the movies was the first time in my life that I ever __27__as if someone really cared about me. It was a wonderful feeling which I have never forgotten, even to this day, __28__ later. I don't know if that man felt sorry for me, ___29___ I do know this: If I ever __30__ the big lottery, that man will find out that he carried a million-dollar smile.

This is ___31___I believe it is so important that the organizations __32__ to reach out and help the children who are less fortunate. __33__my particular case, it was this man's personal act of __34__ that will be remembered. Just one little act of kindness. 

I thank you, kind Sir, for a(n) __35__ which I now share with my children and grandchildren fifty years later.   

16. A. organization     B. season      C. weekend             D. Christmas  

17. A. appreciate              B. admit           C. remember  D.consider    

18. A. accompany             B. permit      C. take           D. bring

19. A.supermarket    B.airport            C. club               D. movies

20. A. closely                 B. nervously             C. delightedly         D. patiently

21. A. spoke             B. laughed                 C. smiled           D. answered

22. A. stupid                  B. strange            C. rare                   D. wonderful  

23. A. cost                    B. spend                C. contribute             D. pay

24. A. funny                   B. moving             C. boring           D. sad

25. A. glance                 B. run                          C. jump                  D. reach 

26. A. keep                        B. last                    C.start                        D. stop

27. A. seemed             B.acted             C. felt             D. thought       

28. A. months                B. weeks         C. decades      D. days 

29. A. and                      B. but               C. though                     D. so

30. A. lose                      B. buy               C. catch           D. win

31. A. when              B. because           C. why              D. how 

32. A. try               B. continue                C. intend           D. prepare

33. A. At             B. Under            C. In                 D. On

34. A. manners                  B. generosity       C. pleasure           D. kindness     

35. A. movie         B. memory              C. fortune                 D. smile