阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

　　The famous director of a big and expensive film decided to film a beautiful sunset 　　1　　 the sea, so that people could see the man and woman players in front of 　　2　　 at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other．He 　　3　　 a group of men out one evening to film the sunset for him．

　　The next morning he said to the men, “Have you 　　4　　 the sunset for me?”

　　“No, sir,” one man answered, “We’re on the 　　5　　 coast(海岸线)here, and the sun sets in the west．We can get you a sunrise, but not a sunset．”

　　“But I want a sunset!” the director said 　　6　　．“Go to the airport, take the next 　　7　　 to the west coast, and get one．”

　　But then one of them had an idea．“Why don't we film a sunrise and then put it 　　8　　 the projector(放映机)backwards? Then it'll 　　9　　 a sunset．”

　　“That's a 　　10　　 idea!” the director said．Then he 　　11　　 to the other men and said, “Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise．”

　　The group of men went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise．Then at nine o'clock they 　　12　　 it to the director．“Here it is, sir,” they said, and showed it to him．He liked it very much．

　　They all went into the studio(摄影棚)．“All right,” the director said, “Now our players are going to say goodbye．Run the film backwards through the projector so that we can 　　13　　 the 'sunset’ behind them．”

　　The “sunset” began, 　　14　　 after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the men to stop．

　　The birds in the film were flying backwards, and the waves(波浪)on the sea were 　　15　　 the beach．

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　　My uncle John used to live in a beautiful little house by the sea in Atlantic City．I say he"used to"live there 　　1　　 he doesn't live there any more．He was killed two years ago．

　　Uncle John wrote novels．He not only 　　2　　 his job, but also made a lot of money doing it．When he died, he had ＄60 million in the bank．

　　After Uncle John's death, I came to stay in his house for a while．I had been there for two days when I 　　3　　 a message on the screen of the old computer．I was very surprised, because I thought the computer had been 　　4　　．The message said,"You have new 　　5　　!"When I read it, I thought it looked like the 　　6　　 of a novel．"This looks interesting．"I thought,"It must be 　　7　　 one of Uncle John's friends．"I decided I should make an answer to the e-mail to tell him or her that Uncle John was 　　8　　．However, the computer would not let me 　　9　　．

　　Every day for the next three weeks, more e-mails kept arriving．I printed 　　10　　 of all of them．The story was about Jane Winterbourne, a young writer working on her first novel．She sent her novel to Jack Tanner, an old writer and asked him to 　　11　　 her to publish it．However, he cheated her, and published the novel himself－pretending that he had 　　12　　 it．The novel was very 　　13　　．Tanner made a lot of money, and bought himself a house by the sea in Atlantic City．It was then that I realized that"Jack anner"and"Jane Winterbourne"were 　　14　　 names．"Jack"was 　　15　　 to be Uncle John．

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阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入短文相应空白处的最佳答案。

　　We live in“computer age(时代)”．People like using computers to do 　　1　　 work．But more than 20 years ago, 　　2　　 couldn't do much．They were very big and expensive．Very 　　3　　 people were interested in them and knew how to use them．Today computers are smaller and 　　4　　 ．Since they are useful, many people like to use them, even at home．

　　Computers 　　5　　 very important because they can work 　　6　　 than men and make fewer mistakes．Computers can 　　7　　 people do a lot of work．Writers can use computers to write．Teachers can use computers to help teaching and students use them to study．Computers can also remember what you put 　　8　　 them．Computers are very 　　9　　．They are our good friends．Do you want to 　　10　　 a computer．

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