40.  A. sad

39.  A. rest

38.  A. allowed

37.  A. some reason

36.  A. careful      

35.What shall we use for power when all the oil in the world has_________?

A.given out   B.used out   C.been run out    D.used up

Tom used to work at a little railway station. He was very   36   in “rules”. For         37  , he never smoked in a nonsmoker (不准吸烟的车厢), nor  38  a passenger to do so.

He was there for 50 years and then he had to  39  . He asked for a part of an old railway carriage（车厢）which, he thought, would remind him of the   40  days he had spent at the station.

About a week later, a carriage was   41   and was taken into Tom’s back   42    . Tom worked at it, just as he had worked at the station. It was  43   and painted, and in a week   44   so it looked very nice.

One day, I went to visit old Tom. It was a  45  day for a visit. It was raining hard. I walked to the front door and   46  , but there was no answer. However, the door wasn’t   47  , so I opened it and went in. He was   48   to be seen. I thought he   49   be in that old railway carriage. So I went to the back. Sure enough, he   50   there, but he wasn’t sitting in the carriage; he was outside, on the step of the carriage,   51  his pipe. His head was   52   with a sack and the rain was running down his  53  . “Hello, why on earth are you sitting here? Why don’t you go inside the  54  out of the rain?”

“Can’t you see?” said Tom. “The carriage they sent me was   55  .”

34. As her husband became more and more violent every time he had too much to drink, the poor woman went ________her life.

A.in fear of   B.in favour of    C.in case of   D.in spite of

33.Can you imagine what great trouble he took __________ English?

A.in studying    B.with studying    C.for study   D. to study

32.---Are you kidding?

  ---I’m not joking;I______________.

A.minded my business                    B.got down to business

C. went about my business                D. meant business 

31.___________of the students went to visit the musenm last week.

A. good many  B.Masses  C.Many   D.A large amount