同义句转换。

56.　 The school is so large and there are so many new students, so it is hard for me to remember all the faces and names.

The school is so large and there are so many new students, so it is a _______________ for me to remember all the faces and names.　

57.　 When I came to this school, all my teachers encouraged me a lot and now I have made much progress.

When I came to this school, all my teachers gave me ______________ _______________ and now I have made much progress.

58.　 Tom, our monitor, quarrelled with our headteacher, and it made all of us surprised.

Tom, our monitor, quarrelled with our headteacher, which _______________ us all.　

59.　 I found that the homework was a bit of challenge for me at the beginning.　

I found the homework a bit _______________ for me _________ _________.　

60.　 Cooking was very interesting as I learnt how to buy, prepare and cook food, and I am glad that all my classmates liked the cake I made.　

Cooking was _________ _________ as I learnt how to buy, prepare and cook food, and I am glad that all my classmates _________ _________ _________ the cake I made.

61.　 It is difficult to improve your cooking skills in such a short time, but you should still keep practising.

_______________ it is difficult to improve your cooking skills in such a short time, you should still keep practising.

62.　 As soon as my brother arrived at the airport, he called me up at once.　

_________ ____________ at the airport, my brother called me up at once.　

63.　 We require that students should inform the parents of events such as outings and school plays.

We require students _________ _________ the parents of events such as outings and school plays.

64.　 Daniel, where is the money for dog food? How did you deal with the cash we left?　

Daniel, where is the money for dog food? What did you _________ _________ the cash we left?　

65.　 We thought you were an adult, a person who would make good decisions.

We thought you were an adult, _________ would make good decisions.

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　I find it pleasant to be alone the greater part of the time; to be in company, even with the best, is soon tiresome and wasteful, and I never found a companion so companionable as solitude(独处).

　　We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad than when we stay in the meeting-rooms, for solitude is not measured by the miles of space between a man and his fellows.

　　The farmer, who can work alone all day without feeling lonesome, but must do something with others to get pleasure at night, wonders how the student can sit alone at night; he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is actually at work in his field and cutting his wood as the farmer was in his.

　　Society is commonly too cheap; We meet at very short intervals (间隔) , not having had time to get any new value for each other; we meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that unpleasant old cheese; we live thick and are in each other's way, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

　　We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable(可忍受的);certainly less frequency would be enough for all important and hearty communications between men.

　　It would be better if there were but one to live within a square mile, as where I live, for as the value of a man is not in his skin, we need not touch him.

1．The writer uses the example of the farmer and the student to show that ________ .

[　　]

A．men need to do something for pleasure after their work

B．men are not lonely when they are working

C．solitude is necessary for a student

D．people have different ideas of solitude

2．When the writer says “Society is commonly too cheap” he means that ________ .

[　　]

A．we meet not frequently enough so we don't understand each other well

B．we eat cheap food and live a simple life so we don't feel very happy

C．our lives are too regular for us to find any happiness in them

D．people don't have enough hearty communication to realize the value in others

3．The writer's opinion on the value of a man is that ________ .

[　　]

A．it is made too low by the rules of etiquette and politeness

B．it can be discovered through frequent physical touch

C．it can be found in a man's appearance

D．it doesn't lie in physical touch

4．The writer believes all but that ________ .

[　　]

A．a student and a farmer have no idea of solitude

B．the same life we live every day is the cause of man's loneliness

C．etiquette and politeness are rules that make frequent meetings tolerable

D．less frequent meetings can make us more clear about the value of men

Ever since news of widespread food recalls caused by a carcinogenic dye broke, there has been confusion（混淆） over possible links to the country of the same name, but Sudan officials say there is no connection whatever．
Sudan 1 is a red industrial dye（颜料） that has been found in some chilli powder, but was banned in food products across the European Union (EU) in July 2003．
Since the ban was put in place, EU officials have been trying to remove some food products from the shelves．So far 580 products have been recalled．
Last week Sudan’s Embassy in the United Kingdom asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for clarification(澄清) of the origin of the dye’s name．
Omaima Mahmoud Al Sharief, a press official at Sudan’s Embassy in China, explained the purpose of the inquiry was to clear up any misunderstanding over links between the country and the poisonous dye．
　　"We want to keep an eye on every detail and avoid any misunderstanding there," she said．"Our embassy to Britain asked them how the dye got that name and whether the dye had something to do with our country．But they told us there was no relationship．"
The FSA, an independent food security watchdog in Britain, received a letter from the Sudanese embassy last week．
　"They asked us why the dye is named Sudan, however, we also do not know how it got the name," she said．"People found the dye in 1883 and gave it the name．Nobody knows the reason, and we cannot give any explanation before we find out．"
Sudan dyes, which include Sudan 1 to 4, are red dyesused for colouring oils, waxes, petrol, and shoe and floor polishes．They are classified as carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer．
【小题1】What does the underlined word “carcinogenic” mean in paragraph one?

A．Causing cancer．	B．Having side effect．
C．Containing poison．	D．Poisonous．

【小题2】How did the Sudan 1 get its name?

A．The dye is often produced in Sudan．

B．The dye has something to do with the country named Sudan．

C．Nobody is sure of the origin of the name．

D．Many foods produced in Sudan contain the dye．

【小题3】We can infer from the passage that．

A．the Sudan government is paying much attention to the food safety

B．Sudan 1 is often used to be added to the food

C．people didn’t realize the danger of Sudan1 until 2003

D．many food shops will be closed down

【小题4】Which of the following is the best title?

A．Keep away from Sudan1

B．No Sudan 1 dye links to the country

C．How Sudan1 dye got its name?

D．Pay attention to the food safety

"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen hade been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

　　The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

　　Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install (安装) an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

　　We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his invented record player."

1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that __________________.

A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D. both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

2.What does the word "flaw" in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Fault.      B. Finding.        C. Origin.      D. Explanation.

3.The passage is mainly concerned with__________________.

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug

B. the development of the word bug

C. the public views of the word bug

D. the special characteristics of the word bug