One day, an expert did an experiment that the students would never forget.
As he  1  in front of the students, he said, “OK, time for a(n)  2 .” He pulled out a wide-mouth  3 and set it on the table. He also took some fist-sized（拳头大小的）rocks and carefully  4 them into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would  5 inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?”  6  in the class shouted, “Yes.” The expert replied, “Really ?” He _7_ under the table and  8  some gravel（砾石）. He dumped（倒）some gravel in and  9  the jar, causing gravel down into the  10  between rocks. He then asked the same question again.   

“Probably not,” one student answered. “Good!” He replied. He then brought out some sand and started dumping the sand into the places  11  between the rocks and the gravel . Once more he asked the same question.
    “ 12 !” the class shouted. Once again he said, “Good!” Then he grabbed （拿） some water and began to  13  it in until the jar was full. Then he asked, “What's the point of this experiment?” One student  14  his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how  15  your schedule is, if you try really hard you can  16 fit some more things in it!”   

“No,” the expert replied, “that's not the point. This experiment 17  us if you don't put the big rocks in  18 , you will never get them in at all. What are the ‘ 19 rocks’ in your life? Time with your loved ones, your education, your dreams and so on. Remember to put these rocks in first 20  you'll never get them in at all.”
1. A. spoke                   B. stood               C. bent                 D. lay
2. A. class                    B. test                  C. exam                D. experiment
3. A. jar                        B. bow                    C. plate                 D. cup
4. A. led                       B. brought       C. placed               D. carried
5. A. fit                        B. put           C. stay                  D. come
6. A. Someone             B. Nobody       C. Everyone          D. One
7. A. reached                B. held                  C. put                   D. looked
8. A. pull off                 B. pulled out          C. pull over            D. pulled on
9. A. moved                 B. shook               C. covered             D. pressed
10. A. spaces                      B. rooms          C. air             D. place
11. A. marked             B. dug            C. taken          D. left
12. A. No                    B. Certainly      C. Yes            D. Of course
13. A. pipe                   B. pour           C. flow           D. take
14. A. rose            B. waved          C. raised          D. shook
15. A. important      B. full             C. much                D. poor
16. A. never                 B. always           C. seldom         D. even
17. A. teaches          B. writes          C. says           D. gives
18. A. first             B. second         C. third           D. last
19. A. beautiful          B. dull            C. important       D. big
20. A. but             B. and             C. or             D. while

 (吉林省实验中学2008届高三第三次模拟考试)

Three weeks ago, Paul David was given up for dead. Today the 24-year-old truck driver is on the road to getting   21  , thanks to quick,  22  first aid of six skilled college student nurses, who were traveling a few minutes   23  his truck and got to him   24  it crashed.

The student nurses were on the way back from a day of medical   25  at a hospital. When they saw the   26  , they jumped out of their car. They   27  that David was already dead, but they wouldn’t move on without seeing for   28  . With the help of three men they lifted him out. He was bleeding   29  and his heart almost stopped beating. He was obviously   30  .

One girl found an ice-cream  31  on the ground and made an airway down his throat. Another student held his tongue down. Then a third girl found a towel and   32  down with it on David’s neck to slow the bleeding. A fourth nurse brought a blanket and   33  David to warm him up. They kept his legs   34  .“We kept talking to him,” Miss Taylor said. “We   35  that the last thing you lose is your   36  .”

The student nurses kept David   37  until he could be gotten to hospital. There, he was brought out of   38  . A doctor said that David would have choked and bled to death without the   39  of the six student nurses. That is   40  he is alive today.

21．A．well                    B．worse                 C．buried                 D．away

2,4,6

22．A．physical              B．scientific             C．gentle                  D．exact

23．A．earlier                 B．later                    C．behind                 D．before

24．A．before long          B．long before          C．long after            D．soon after

25．A．training               B．team                   C．exercise              D．examination

26．A．driver                  B．accident              C．incident               D．car-racing

27．A．were told             B．discovered           C．checked              D．reminded

28．A．him                     B．them                   C．himself                D．themselves

29．A．hardly                 B．badly                   C．sadly                   D．slightly

30．A．died                    B．dead                    C．dying                  D．death

31．A．stick                   B．box                     C．paper                  D．packet

32．A．pulled                  B．took                    C．pressed               D．lay

33．A．covered               B．removed              C．dressed               D．offered

34．A．rising                  B．risen                   C．raising                 D．raised

35．A．found out            B．suggested            C．thought               D．learned

36．A．breathing             B．seeing                 C．hearing                D．smelling

37．A．talking                 B．bleeding               C．alive                    D．lively

38．A．control                B．danger                 C．car                     D．life

39．A．care                    B．cure                    C．talk                     D．study

40．A．because              B．why                    C．what                   D．where