--- Excuse me, sir. Would you do me a favour?
--- Of course. What is it?
　--- I ______ if you could take me to the station.

A．would wonder	B．did wonder
C．was wondering	D．had wondered

--- Excuse me, sir. Would you do me a favour?
--- Of course. What is it?
　--- I ______ if you could take me to the station.

A．would wonder	B．did wonder
C．was wondering	D．had wondered

阅读下面短文，根据所给语境，按要求完成下列各题。
Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died on December 5 , 1791. When he was three, he often had lessons with his elder sister. （1）His father took him through many different countries, where he played music for lots of people.
But some people didn’t believe a little boy could write such beautiful music. They asked him to stay in a room all by himself for a week and somebody watched the room all the time .（2） In a week , he finished a new piece of music . After that, people believed that he could write beautiful music.
Mozart died when he was still a young man. During his short life he studied music and taught music and played music and wrote music. Even by working so hard, he couldn’t make much money . Often he had to borrow money from his friends. But his music made him happy and for more than two hundred years his music has made other people happy, too.
【小题1】将（1）处翻译成汉语。
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【小题2】对（2）处黑体部分提问。
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【小题3】根据短文内容，完成下面的句子。（每空一词）
Mozart was a __________ talent（天才）,but he still lived a ________ life.

完形填空 （20分）
The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. one of his _21_ important inventions was the train. He _22_his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the _23_ engine on the train, he met with _24_ from the government, newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would _25_ cows, horses and sheep, that the _26_ would hurtle(炸飞) or that the hot coals from it would _27_their houses. At that time, _28_ people believed what they said.
George Stephenson _29_ the people that the train could go on small _30_, could pull carriages _31_goods and passengers and there was _32_ to them. It was a very _33_ matter for him to _34_ them believe. However, after _35_, he was able to do it; and the first train that _36_ by Stephenson himself _37_ what he had said.
The first day _38_ the people along the way _39_ the noises of the train _40_ and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius. They did not dare to come out until it had passed.

【小题1】

A．very B．a lot C．most D．much

【小题2】made   B. bought   C. introduced   D. did

【小题3】

A．electrical B．atomic C．steam D．beautiful

【小题4】

A．success B．troubles C．people D．pleasure

【小题5】

A．kill B．buy C．interest D．take away

【小题6】

A．smoke B．noise C．driver D．engine

【小题7】

A．pull down B．blow away C．set fire to D．pass

【小题8】

A．most B．few C．only a few D．the rich

【小题9】

A．said B．spoke C．told D．warned

【小题10】 A.reads    B. rivers    C. steam    D rails

【小题11】

A．short of B．full of C．empty of D．without

【小题12】

A．no great danger B．dangerous C．a lot of danger D．few danger

【小题13】

A．easy B．difficult C．pleasant D．light

【小题14】

A．get B．cause C．make D．force

【小题15】

A．sometimes B．some time C．a few times D．sometime

【小题16】

A．was sold B．were driven C．was pulled D．was driven

【小题17】

A．believed B．seemed C．sensed D．proved

【小题18】

A．of B．when C．while D．for

【小题19】

A．caught sight of B．listened to C．heard D．thought

【小题20】

A．nearby B．in the distance C．on the far D．from the distance

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A.　Goods for auction (拍卖) sales
　　B.　Definition of bidding
　　C.　Way to sell more goods by auction
　　D.　Auction sales in history
　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions
　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
【小题1】______
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
【小题2】 ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
【小题3】 ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
【小题4】 ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “lot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
【小题5】 ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.