阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Five-year-old Marry loved to play in the street with her friends. This made her parents __41__. They did __42__ to keep her off the street. __43__, day after day they found her out there. Thankfully, the street wasn’t very __44__. But it was often traveled by soldiers and sometimes they would drive very fast.

         Every time he drove by the lifeless animal that had __45__ in the road, Steven __46__ think of his daughter. And so he continued trying to teach her the __47__— with little __48__. Then one day as Steven was driving home, he saw something that helped __49__ an idea, which became an action by the time he got home. He walked over to where Marry was playing.

         “Come on, sweetheart,” he said. “You and Daddy are going for a __50__.”

         They drove back along the way he had just traveled, finally __51__ just behind a mound (堆) of something.

         “What is it, Daddy?” Marry asked as they got out of the __52__.

         “Look __53__, but don’t touch it,” Steven said. “Can’t you tell what it is?”

         She studied it for a few minutes, unsure of its __54__ until she picked out its familiar ears. “A rabbit! What happened?” Marry asked.

         “It was playing in the road, and a car came along and ...”

         “... and squished (压扁) it?” Marry broke __55__.

         “That’s right,” Steven said. “It got squished because it was playing in the road.”

         “Yuck!” Marry said. For the first time, Steven saw __56__ in his daughter’s eyes.

         The next evening, when Steven drove by a group of children playing in the street, he __57__ what Marry was shouting from the sidewalk.

         “Come on, you guys! Stop playing in the street, __58__ you’ll get squished!”

         So, if your message isn’t getting through to others, no matter how many times you __59__ it, you should try something __60__. This is Steven’s lesson.

1.A. disappointed                   B. worried                    C. ashamed                          D. puzzled

2.A. something                 B. nothing                   C. anything                           D. everything

3.A. Thus                              B. Still                                    C. Then                                 D. Also

4.A. flat                                     B. dirty                              C. wide                              D. busy

5.A. wandered                    B. banned                   C. competed                        D. gathered

6.A. might                       B. could                                  C. would                               D. need

7.A. accident                           B. experience                  C. lesson                      D. practice

8.A. success                            B. hope                       C. approval                     D. panic

9.A. create                                    B. discover                           C. decide                              D. cause

10.A. walk                                      B. ride                                   C. talk                                    D. visit

11.A. stopping                     B. passing                    C. staying                     D. hiding

12.A. bus                          B. car                       C. train                               D. boat

13.A. quietly                                 B. deliberately                     C. closely                              D. steadily

14.A. weight                                  B. color                                 C. identity                   D. shape

15.A. out                                       B. in                            C. away                         D. through

16.A. delight                       B. understanding                   C. anger                                D. regret

17.A. realized                          B. watched                            C. heard                                D. felt

18.A. or                                          B. and                                    C. but                               D. yet

19.A. represent                            B. respond                           C. repeat                    D. refresh

20.A. funny                                   B. simple                               C. easy                                  D. different

 

Five-year-old Marry loved to play in the street with her friends. This made her parents __41__. They did __42__ to keep her off the street. __43__, day after day they found her out there. Thankfully, the street wasn’t very __44__. But it was often traveled by soldiers and sometimes they would drive very fast.

       Every time he drove by the lifeless animal that had __45__ in the road, Steven __46__ think of his daughter. And so he continued trying to teach her the __47__— with little __48__. Then one day as Steven was driving home, he saw something that helped __49__ an idea, which became an action by the time he got home. He walked over to where Marry was playing.

       “Come on, sweetheart,” he said. “You and Daddy are going for a __50__.”

       They drove back along the way he had just traveled, finally __51__ just behind a mound (堆) of something.

       “What is it, Daddy?” Marry asked as they got out of the __52__.

       “Look __53__, but don’t touch it,” Steven said. “Can’t you tell what it is?”

       She studied it for a few minutes, unsure of its __54__ until she picked out its familiar ears. “A rabbit! What happened?” Marry asked.

       “It was playing in the road, and a car came along and ...”

       “... and squished (压扁) it?” Marry broke __55__.

       “That’s right,” Steven said. “It got squished because it was playing in the road.”

       “Yuck!” Marry said. For the first time, Steven saw __56__ in his daughter’s eyes.

       The next evening, when Steven drove by a group of children playing in the street, he __57__ what Marry was shouting from the sidewalk.

       “Come on, you guys! Stop playing in the street, __58__ you’ll get squished!”

       So, if your message isn’t getting through to others, no matter how many times you __59__ it, you should try something __60__. This is Steven’s lesson.

41. A. disappointed            B. worried                    C. ashamed                   D. puzzled

42. A. something                B. nothing                     C. anything                   D. everything

43. A. Thus                         B. Still                          C. Then                        D. Also

44. A. flat                                B. dirty                      C. wide                     D. busy

45. A. wandered                   B. banned                     C. competed                 D. gathered

46. A. might                     B. could                       C. would                      D. need

47. A. accident                         B. experience             C. lesson                D. practice

48. A. success                    B. hope                       C. approval                D. panic

49. A. create                        B. discover                   C. decide                      D. cause

50. A. walk                          B. ride                          C. talk                          D. visit

51. A. stopping                    B. passing                     C. staying                     D. hiding

52. A. bus                        B. car                        C. train                      D. boat

53. A. quietly                       B. deliberately               C. closely                            D. steadily

54. A. weight                       B. color                        C. identity                     D. shape

55. A. out                           B. in                       C. away                 D. through

56. A. delight                 B. understanding           C. anger                       D. regret

57. A. realized                   B. watched                   C. heard                       D. felt

58. A. or                             B. and                          C. but                       D. yet

59. A. represent                   B. respond                    C. repeat                D. refresh

60. A. funny                        B. simple                      C. easy                         D. different

China's educational authority yesterday gave the green light to college students planning to get married.

Starting from the fall, students reaching the legal age for marriage don't have to ask their university for approval when they plan to tie the knot, Ministry of Education officials said yesterday at a press conference in Beijing to announce revise Guidelines on University Students. The current campus regulations were issued in 1990.

But it doesn't mean the government encourages collegians to marry, said Sun Xiaobing, director of the ministry's legal office.

Students should focus on their studies, Sun said, "College students should handle properly the issues of studies, marriage and family. They aren't financially prepared yet for marriage."

"The ministry lifted the ban to get in line with the country's new Marriage Law, which came into force in 2003." said Sun.

The new Marriage Law says a person needn't get approval from his or her employer for marriage registration. But sources said only one in every 10,000 students has registered for marriage.

The revised campus regulations also offer university officials more say in punishing students who are caught cheating in an exam or plagiarizing（剽窃）research achievements.

A university can kick out a student if he or she takes an exam for another candidate, hires a proxy（替考者）to take an exam, organizes exam cheating, cheats through telecommunications devices like a cell phone, or steals ideas from a published research paper, the guidelines say.

On March 3, a district court in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, ordered Zhengzhou University to cancel its order to dismiss a student who had been caught cheating in an exam. The court said the punishment was too cruel, according to the campus rules. To better protect students' rights, the new guidelines allow students to appeal to their school or even the provincial-level education authority if they are unhappy with a punishment.

1. The Ministry of Education called off the ban in order to ________.

A. better protect students' rights             

B. encourage collegians to marry

C. be in line with the country's new Marriage Law

D. challenge the current campus regulations issued in 1990

2. The underlined phrase “tie the knot (in Paragraph 2)” has the same meaning with the word “______” in the passage.

A. get married     B. change school rules       C. make a tie       D. graduate earlier

3. According to the new campus regulations, students reaching the legal age for marriage______.

A. should concentrate on their studies

B. should earn more money to prepare them for marriage

C. can decide when to marry at their will

D. must get approval from his or her university

 

1.To save time. I suggest taking a _______(直达的) flight to NY.

2.We are hoping our government will ________ （降低）the prices of houses.

3.I enjoy watching my daughter playing on the _______（秋千）in the park.

4.At present, there’s no certain c______ for this disease.

5.Mike suddenly a___________ that he would marry Anna.

6.Everybody should learn to s_________ against difficulties.

7.Water p_______ by all kinds of industrial wastes is not suitable for use.

8.After 90-minute’s playing, we d_______ the other team.

9.Because they found what he said was c________, most of them took his advice after attending his lecture.

10. As winter a_________, the weather becomes colder.