阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案

　The daughter, Susan, was good at growing flowers and keeping goldfish（金鱼）．Every morning, she got up early．The first thing for her was to look at her flowers and goldfish．She liked them very much．When she was eighteen years old, she went to college（上大学）．She had to leave her flowers and goldfish to her mother to look after．

　Her mother was careless enough．She was not good at growing flowers and keeping goldfish．

　By and by, the goldfish was dead（死了）, then the flowers．The mother had to write to her daughter to tell her all about her flowers and her goldfish．Susan was very sorry to learn that．She said nothing but to write back to her mother a letter with only: “Then, what about my father?”

根据短文，选择填空．

1．Susan was the name of the careless mother,wasn't it?　　　

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A．Yes, it was．　　　　　B．No, it wasn't．

2．Susan was good at growing flowers and keeping goldfish, wasn't she?　　　

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A．Yes, she was．　　　　　B．No, she wasn't．

3．How did she like the flowers and goldfish?　　　

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A．She liked them very much．　　　B．She didn't like them．

4．When did she go to college?　　　

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A．When she was nineteen years old．

B．When she was eighteen years old．

5．Susan's mother was good at growing flowers and keeping goldfish too, wasn't　　　　　　　　　　　　 she?　　　

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A．Yes, she was．　　　B．No, she wasn't

6．The mother was careless with flowers and goldfish, wasn't she?　　　

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A．Yes, she was．　　　B．No, she wasn't

7．After a not very long time, the flowers and the goldfish were dead, weren't　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　they?　　　

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A．Yes, they were．　　　B．No, they weren't

8．What did the mother have to do then?　

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A．She had to tell all about it to her daughter．

B．She had to tell a lie（说谎）to her daughter．

9．How was Susan after learning that?　　　

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A．She was very glad．　　　B．She was very sorry．

10．“What about my father?”means:　　　

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A．How is my father?　　　B．What is my father?

　　情景反应.根据对话内容从方框中选择的词填入对话，使其完整通顺.

　　A. Are these your friends, Jill?

　　B: Yeah that's right. They're ________ (1), Sally and Sam.

　　A: Wow! They look exactly the________ (2).

　　B: ________ (3), not really. Sam's a bit ________ (4). She's the one on the left.

　　A: What are they ________ (5)?

　　B: Well, Sam is a bit quieter than Sally. And ________ (6).

　　A: And Sally?

　　B: Sally is more ________ (7) than her ________ (8). She is really funny, too.

　　情景反应.根据对话内容从方框中选择的词填入对话，使其完整通顺.

　　A. Are these your friends, Jill?

　　B: Yeah that's right. They're ________ (1), Sally and Sam.

　　A: Wow! They look exactly the________ (2).

　　B: ________ (3), not really. Sam's a bit ________ (4). She's the one on the left.

　　A: What are they ________ (5)?

　　B: Well, Sam is a bit quieter than Sally. And ________ (6).

　　A: And Sally?

　　B: Sally is more ________ (7) than her ________ (8). She is really funny, too.

People usually talk about two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. Warm colors are red, orange and yellow. They usually make people more        . For example, red is exciting. Therefore, sociable(好交际的)people, those who like to work with others like      . Cool colors are green, blue and purple. These colors can make people       . When people are in a place with cool colors, they are usually quiet. People who like to spend time       often prefer blue.

Scientists say that time seems to pass more slowly in a room with warm colors       in a room with cool colors. They        that a warm color such as red and orange, is a good color for a restaurant. People who are         don’t want time to pass quickly. Cool colors are better for offices or factories,        people who work there want time to pass quickly.

Scientists don’t know why people think some colors are warm and others are cool. However, almost      agrees that warm colors remind people of warm days and cool colors remind them of cool days. Why? Because in the north, the       is low and the sunlight looks quite blue during winter. And the sun is higher during summer and the hot summer sunlight looks yellow.

1.A. active     B. quiet     C. serious     D. relaxed

2.A. orange     B. red     C. yellow     D. purple

3.A. stand up     B. warm up     C. calm down     D. break down

4.A. again     B. quickly     C. carefully     D. alone

5.A. and     B. except     C. or     D. than

6.A. suggest     B. plan     C. pretend     D. decide

7.A. reading     B. thinking     C. eating     D. sleeping

8.A. so     B. because     C. but     D. although

9.A. nobody     B. anybody     C. everybody     D. somebody

10.A. lighting     B. restaurant     C. room     D. sun