In China ______ graduates go abroad to have a further study every year ．

A．a great deal of B．many a       C．masses of        D．a plenty of

 

 (江西省南昌二中2009届高三5月模拟考试)

Horror gripped(紧握)the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a  36   with continuous gunfire whizzing(飕飕地移动)  37   his head, the soldier asked his lieutenant(中尉), if he might  38   into the “No Man’s Land” between the trenches to bring his  39   comrade back.

“You  40   go”,      said the Lieutenant. “but I don’t think it will be  41   it. Your friend is  42   dead and you may  43   your own life away.” The Lieutenant’s words didn’t matter, and the soldier went anyway.

Miraculously (不可思议地) he  44   to reach his friend, hoisted (扯起) him onto his  45   , and  46   him back to their company’s trench. As the two of them  47   in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer cheeked the  48   soldier, and then looked  49   at his friend．“I told you it wouldn’t be worthy of doing it,” he said．“Your friend is  50   , and you are mortally wounded.”

“It was worthy of doing it, though, sir,” the soldier said．

“How do you mean ‘worthy of doing it’?” responded the Lieutenant. “Your friend has already died!”

“Yes sir,” the private answered．“But it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive, and I had the  51   of hearing him say, ‘Jim, I  52   you’d come.’”

 53   in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not really depends on how you look at it.

Take up all your  54   and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not

 55   not doing it later in life.

36．A．hole                   B．place                  C．trench                D．room

37．A．above                 B．over                   C．on                      D．to

38．A．go out                B．leave out             C．put out               D．jump out

39．A．fall                     B．fallen                  C．falling                 D．to fall

40．A．should                B．can                    C．shouldn’t            D．can’t

41．A．worthy               B．worth                 C．value                   D．workable

42．A．maybe                B．surely                 C．must                  D．probably

43．A．put                     B．lose                    C．throw                 D．leave

44．A．managed             B．tried                    C．went                  D．walked

45．A．head                   B．arm                    C．hands                 D．shoulder

46．A．took                   B．fetch                   C．brought              D．drove

47．A．tumbled              B．walked               C．came                  D．went

48．A．dead                   B．clever                 C．sick                   D．wounded

49．A．angrily                B．surprisingly         C．kindly                 D．happily

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

51．A．surprise              B．strange                C．excitement          D．satisfaction

52．A．had known         B．have known        C．know                 D．knew

53．A．Once upon a time B．Many a time        C．At a time            D．At one time

54．A．strength              B．courage               C．wisdom               D．power

55．A．forget                 B．remember            C．regret                  D．mean

I'd been expecting ________ letters the whole afternoon, but there weren't ________ for me.