根据对话语境，从所给句子中选出能填入每个空白处的选项，使其完整。

M：Why do you look unhappy these days?

W：Because    (1)

M：Are you serious? Is it true?    (2)

W：I don’t care about the scores，but I didn’t find out    (3)．Maybe I don’t work hard．

M：    (4)

W：Yes．1 spent the whole weekend on my lessons．

M: You’d better     (5)

A．Did you study hard for the exams?

B．I feel very sorry for you．

C．Why I failed the examination

D．I failed in the biology(地理)and biology(生物)examinations．

E．ask the teacher for advice．

A

One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I give twenty dollars.” “All right” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephants?” “I didn’t find the bad ears” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I never saw an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1                 the elephant.

A. The young man sells      B. The old man sells

C. The two men sell         D. The old man buys

2 The young man looks at the elephants. He wants to find    

A. some meat              B. some money  

C. bad ears                D. what it looks like

3 The young man looks at the elephant slowly because he     

A. wants to find something    B. likes the elephant

C. helps the old man         D. doesn’t see the elephant before

4 Hearing what the young man said, the old man will be     

A. angry     B. happy     C. dangerous     D. hungry

5 A. knows the elephant has bad ears

B. wants the elephant

C. looks after the elephants      

D. will not get any money from the old man

  B

Many young people in China know about Celine Dion （席琳•迪翁），the famous French Canadian pop singer. She sang the song “ My heart will go on” for the movie Titanic. But do you know she had already become popular before she sang this song.

Celine Dion’s hometown was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the youngest of the fourteen children in a musical family. Her parents and the large family formed a singing group. They traveled and played folk music. They were well known in their hometown. Celine’s mother wrote her first song for her, and she recorded it with her brother when she was twelve years old. Then a local rock manager named Rene Angelil was interested in them. He asked Mrs Dion to take her two children to come to his office. Later on he gave strong support for Celine. In 1994, they were married.

As a singing star, Celine Dion won many prizes and soon became popular all over the world. She sang at the opening of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. In 1997, she made the whole world hit with the song “My heart will go on”.　                                 

6Celine Dion was a _______.

        A. drawer   B. scientist    C. singer    D. manager

7There were _______ people in Celine’s family.

        A. 15      B. 16         C. 17       D. 18

8Celine Dion’s family were ______ in their hometown.

        A. famous   B. rich        C. poor     D. kind

9 Celine Dion recorded her first song with ______.

        A. her sister B. her mother   C. her father   D. her brother

10 In _____, Celine Dion sang at the opening of the Olympic Cames.

        A. 1999     B. 1998       C. 1997      D. 1996  

情景交际（本题共５小题；每小题2分，满分１0分）

从方框内选出适当的选项完成对话，有两项是多余的。

A: Hello! Mr. Wang. (1)_______  What are you doing?

B: I’m looking for a book called A Tale of Two Cities.

A: (2)_____________

B: That’s right. I’m thinking about asking some students to act a play about the book.

A: (3)_____________ But I think that’s a bit hard for our students.

B: Well. (4)_____________ By the way, I hope you can be the hero of it.

A: Really? I’ll try my best.

B: OK. (5)_____________ Then I’ll give you one week to get ready.

在下面对话的空格内填上一个适当的词，使对话意思完整，语句正确。

 （A）

A：Mum, I shall not have lunch at home today.

B：Why not, Linda?

A：I want to go to the pet（宠物） shops at noon with my classmates. Most of the students in our class have their own pets. Mum, as you know, I 1    got a pet yet.

B：What 2    of pet do you want to have?

A：A dog 3    a cat. I haven't decided yet.

B：You'd better not keep a dog in our flat. It would make much noise．And a dog has to go out every day, and there isn't a 4    near our building．And the dog food is expensive.

A：Then I'll have a cat．Cats are cheaper than dogs, and they are quiet, too.

B：Yes, cats are easier to5    

（B）

A：Huang Hai, why do you look so tired and worried today?

B：I got up very early this morning as my family has moved to a new building. The new flat（套间） is much 6   than the old one.

A：Congratulations!  You've moved to a new flat!

B：Thanks．But it's about ten kilometres from my new house to the school. It takes me a longer time to go to school. The population of Guangzhou is 7    very fast, you see．But there is not enough space for us to build new buildings in the city centre. Most of the new buildings have to be built in the places 8  away from the city centre.

A：I quite 9  with you．And people spend more money and more time on their way to work.

B：What's more, the traffic will be heavier and the air will be 10   because there are more and more buses and cars. So the population problem may be one of the serious problems of the world today.

（C）

A：Huang Xumei, I'm  glad you can come  for our Thanksgiving（感恩节） dinner.

B：Thanks for  11    me, Helen. Why do you call it dinner when we are eating at noon?

A：Because it's a big  12  . We call it dinner when we have a lot to eat.

B：Is that a chicken? It's so big!

A：No, it's a turkey（火鸡）. It's 13    bigger than a chicken.

B：Why do Americans and Canadians celebrate （庆祝）Thanksgiving?

A：It's  14   your  Mid-autumn Festival.  In China, families get together and enjoy looking at the bright, round 15   In America and Canada, families get together to celebrate the harvest（收获）.

B：So we each have an autumn festival. Something is the same in China, America and Canada．