阅读短文，然后根据其内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项（有一项为多余选项）。
Shopping is popular with many people around the world. They seem to find new ways to buy things every day. They visit shopping centers, order things through the mail, or buy things on the Internet. 【小题1】
For young people, one of the most popular ways to shop is to use a vending machine (自动售货机). These machines offer all kinds of things and you can find them everywhere. In the USA, there are vending machines which sell CDs. 【小题2】 The strangest product on sale from a vending machine is in Japan. Just put your coins in the vending machine Tokyo, press the button, and out comes a “kabutomushi”，that is, a black beetle（甲壳虫). You keep it as a pet!
Japan now has “Robosho”—a shop with no shop assistants, only robots. A robot reads your credit card(信用卡)and then gives you what you what.【小题3】  People are very surprised that the robots can serve them as well as shop assistants do.
Some shops in the UK are like social clubs for teenagers. Many of them have a café inside. The Youth Station has a large nightclub for teenagers under 18, with a DJ playing music in a room that hangs the ceiling. Sports Town has a big screen, where you can see live sports from around the world. 【小题4】

A．And some robots can even talk. B．Many American people usually go shopping. C．You won’t miss any exciting ball games even when you go shopping. D．People’s shopping habits are always changing. E. New CDs are put in the machine every week.

请根据首字母或汉语提示，完成单词的填写，使文章通顺、完整。
Dear grandma，
How's it going? I hope that grandpa is well now, I was sorry to 【小题1】h_______    that he had a cold last week I hope you are in good 【小题2】h____________    .
Things are fine here, I【小题3】f ________  my end-of-year exams last week and got my report【小题4】c_________     today. I always get【小题5】___________(紧张) when I see me envelope from school in the mail. put luckily I did OK this time. I had a hard time with science this semester and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher. She said I was 【小题6】 __________(懒惰), which isn't true. It's just that I find science really difficult. 【小题7】_______________(另一个)disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do 【小题8】__________________ (更好) .  The good news is that my 【小题9】__________(数学) teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good.
Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Mom and I 【小题10】D______    send their love.
Love，
Alan

One day Trudy saw an advertisement in a magazine. It offered a packet of 100 mixed stamps for $10. Trudy wanted to start a stamp collection so she ordered the packet. One hundred mixed stamps seemed a good way to begin a collection. She sent a postal order to the stamp company with her order, and waited excitedly for the stamps arrived. Trudy checked the mail every day for four weeks but the stamps didn’t arrive. So Trudy decided to write to the company. “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote, “a month ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. They haven’t arrived. Please send them by return of mail.” another month passed. The stamps still didn’t arrive and she didn’t receive any replay to her letter. She asked her father for advice. Her father said, “You must write a stronger letter. Make the stamp company worry that you will report them to the authorities.” “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote in her second letter. “I am writing to complain about your poor service. Two months ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. I didn’t receive the stamps. A month ago I wrote to inform you of this. I still haven’t received the stamps, and you haven’t replied to my letter. If I do not receive the stamps within seven days. I shall report this matter to the authorities.” Two days later Trudy received the stamps in the mail.
【小题1】Trudy ordered the stamps because _______.

A．it seemed a good way to start a stamp collection

B．she wanted to give them to her father

C．she need them to mail some letters

D．she thought they were cheap

【小题2】Trudy paid for the stamps with ________.

A．cash

B．a check

C．the credit card

D．a postal order

【小题3】Trudy checked the mail every day for ______.

A．4 months

B．a week

C．a month

D．for 3 weeks

【小题4】In her second letter Trudy complained about how _______.

A．expensive the stamps were

B．boring the stamps were

C．poor the company’s service was

D．slow the postal service was

【小题5】Trudy received the stamps ______ after she sent the second letter.

A．a week

B．a month

C．two months

D．two days

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

When I was nine years old, I used to go to the post office with my mother, sending greeting cards to my aunt in Singapore. To me, these trips were really   16   memories. And receiving mail through a mailbox outside our gate was just as exciting. My small hands could   17   get the mail without using a key! I always couldn’t wait to see how much I was   18   . Oh, a letter! From Singapore! I would run back home and show it to my   19   . When there was a letter for me, I wouldn’t run—I would open it right there.

After my family moved back to Singapore, I    20   going to the post office. Years later, my company sent me to Shanghai, and the post office found me again. Two years ago I celebrated my  21   with five friends on top of the mountain in Longsheng, China. At sunrise we   22   up to a beautiful view from the mountain top. Later in the afternoon, as we were going   23   the mountain and returning from the sunrise viewing place, a    24    shop caught our attention. It only sold noodles, coffee and had a China    25   sign.

We asked the owner if she could really send mail. She happily said yes. It seemed hard to believe,   26   we were at the highest top of the mountain. I picked one postcard out and asked my friends to write   27    a birthday note. We bought a stamp, wrote some notes and gave the shop owner the postcard.

Three weeks later, I arrived home and   28   my mailbox: Hello, postcard! I broke into a big smile.

That birthday postcard attracted me again to the post office and all its delights. I had   29  the post office all these years. Today I   30   send postcards to friends. And every time I am at the post office buying stamps, I cannot help but smile—how one postcard will make its way across the world and brighten up someone’s day.

1.A. bad             B. poor              C. good               D. short

2.A. easily           B. simply             C. hardly             D. specially

3.A. weighing        B. getting             C. selecting           D. accepting

4.A. friend           B. aunt               C. mother             D. owner

5.A. enjoyed         B. stopped            C. hated               D. considered

6.A. wedding         B. return             C. success             D. birthday

7.A. broke           B. woke              C. grew               D. stood

8.A. around          B. over               C. up                 D. down

9.A. cold            B. dirty               C. small              D. modern

10.A. Traffic          B. Life               C. Police              D. Post

11.A. because         B. though             C. while              D. when

12.A. him            B. me                C. her                D. them

13.A. bought          B. repaired            C. painted            D. opened

14.A. missed          B. influenced          C. studied             D. visited

15.A. just             B. seldom             C. still                D. never