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Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific  1   ;I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my  2  .^All great discoveries, ̄he said,^are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty. ̄  3   a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him.  4   wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the  5  of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the   6   discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different  7   fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that  8   to the Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well,  9   of that. Yet I  10   if those^best years ̄were true in other  11   .

Then how about the field of   12   ? Surely it needs the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it  13   ,but look when these people  14   their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln  15   the life of a country lawyer and was elected to government. At what age? Twenty-six.

But why  16   best years some after thirty? After thirty, I  17   ,most people do not want to take risks or try   18   ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, while the latter was  19   trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!

Perhaps there is still  20   for me.

1. A. invention                             B. discovery

C. experiment                               D. progress

2. A. mind                                   B. idea

C. attention                                  D. thought

3. A. As                                     B. Being

C. However                             D. Beyond

4. A. Everybody                               B. Somebody

C. Nobody                                 D. Whoever

5. A. names                                   B. ages

C. addresses                                 D. oldest

6. A. modern                                  B. scientific

C. last                                      D. oldest

7. A. heights                                  B. sizes

C. weights                                 D. things

8. A. led                                    B. meant

C. stuck                                    D. referred

9. A. plenty                                    B. enough

C. much                                   D. none

10. A. believed                               B. trusted

C. wondered                                D. asked

11.A. fields                                  B. countries

C. courses                                  D. ages

12. A. agriculture                              B. politics

C. industry                                  D. society

13.A. is                                     B. will

C. has                                    D. does

14. A. finished                              B. went

C. started                                   D. failed

15. A. devoted                                B. gave up

C. began                                   D. led

16. A. don¨t                                 B. the

C. can                                       D. not

17. A. say                                     B. know

C. guess                                    D. agree

18. A. other                                 B. new

C. best                                    D. their

19.A. always                                  B. still

C. seldom                                  D. enjoying

20. A. discovery                               B. problem

C. wish                                   D. hope

 

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Gordon Summer is a very good-looking man admired by millions and so rich that he can afford all he could ever wish for.  1  known as Sting, he¨s the lead singer of The Police.

Suddenly Sting has become a   2  .^I can¨t walk down a street any more without feeling that people are  3  me, ̄ he says.

^When I¨m not working, all I want to do is to be a   4   person. I make a point of walking round the street, just being  5  . ̄

He and Frances bought the house in   6  when Sting returned from The Police¨s highly successful world tour.

^I picked Ireland because, apart from being  7  ,you can stay in touch with England while  8  life at a slower pace! ̄He also has Irish ancestry(怕枠)and an Irish  9  ,Frances, a well accepted actress.

Sting is very much a man  10  the eighties:^Frances  11  to be considered as only my wife, which I¨m   12   about. She has her own  13  .She¨s ambitious(俛伉鴎鴎議)and clever, but she has never let it affect her. It¨s  14  been that way. When we got married and had Joseph, ̄explains Sting,^we both agreed that being  15  was not going to affect our work. ̄

A fixed  16  life is clearly important to Sting. It remains the one constant factor in a world that has changed completely for him since he   17  a job in teaching for the music business. Sting loved  18  ,but could not help playing in bands. So he tried to  19  both, teaching by day, playing by night. It left him so  20  that he knew he had to choose one or the other.

1. A.Hardly                            B. Better

C. More?                           D. Less

2. A. superstar                         B. teacher

C. singer                            D. player

3. A. following                         B. calling

C. watching                          D. waving

4. A. famous                            B. rich

C. normal                           D. poor

5. A. myself                           B. himself

C. ourselves                         D. themselves

6. A. England                           B. America

C. Scotland                          D. Ireland

7. A. near                               B. area

C. pleasant                           D. mountainous

8. A. suffering                       B. leading

C. protecting                          D. enjoying

9. A. wife                              B. friend

C. partner                            D. parent

10. A. of                              B. in

C. for                              D. at

11. A. agrees                            B. asks

C. refuses                          D. likes

12. A. worried                       B. glad

C. thankful                         D. angry

13. A. child                            B. life

C. job                              D. mind

14. A. seldom                           B. sometimes?

C. recently                         D. always

15. A. parents                          B. singers

C. players                           D. teachers

16. A. singing                           B. family

C. teaching                         D. playing

17. A. took up                          B. gave up

C. picked up                         D. put up

18. A. working                         B. traveling

C. changing                          D. teaching

19. A. make                             B. get

C. have                            D. do

20. A. given out                          B. picked out

C. died out                         D. tired out

 

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This was one of my experiences    1   .When I was in my 30s,I was working for a large international company which had its head office in London. I was working in the   2   department.

The company had a training center which was just outside London. Different courses were held there throughout    3    and I    4    go on one training course a year. These usually started    5    a Sunday evening and lasted six days.

Once I was    6    a week¨s training course with about forty    7    sales people. I was in the bar on the Friday evening and suddenly a woman who was    8    behind the bar asked me a curious question.^I hope you don¨t    9   my asking, ̄ she said, ^but I¨ve been     10    about it all week. Have you got a sister   11     Mary? ̄ The woman¨s name was June. And she used to do various jobs at the training center¨s worked in the office, she organized all the food and drink for the center and she worked in the bar at lunch time and in the evening.

My answer    12    June¨s question was ^Yes ̄,and June said,^I thought    13   .I met her last September when she was organizing a course here. ̄ At that time, my sister was working for   14    company but in a different part of the country. That was    15    she came to be at the training center.
      16    surprised me was how June guessed we were brother and sister. Three things made it even more   17    .First, she had met my sister six months before she met me. Second, they have about sixty new people every week at the training center¨s about one thousand five hundred people had    18    the center in those six months. And    19   ,my sister is married, so she doesn¨t have the same family name as me.

We¨re not    20    ,but I guess we must look quite like each other.

1. A.in work                            B.out of work

C.at work                            D.about work

2. A.selling                             B.sales

C.sale                              D.sold

3. A.the year                            B.the month

C.the week                           D.the day

4. A.used to                           B.once

C.get used to                          D.was used to

5. A.at         &Unbsp;                       B.in

C.during                            D.on

6. A.on                                B.in

C.during                            D.over

7. A.other                             B.another

C.the other                           D.one other

8. A.hearing                            B.waiting

C.serving                           D.seeing

9. A.matter                            B.care for

C.remind of                          D.mind

10. A.understanding                       B.wondering

C.discovering                         D.worrying

11. A.called                            B.calling

C.calling on                          D.calling up

12. A.of                               B.about

C.to                               D.for

13. A.that                                 B.it

C.such                             D.so

14. A.the same                          B.a different

C.another                           D.the other

15. A.where                           B.when

C.what                             D.how

16. A.All                              B.What

C.That                &Unbsp;            D.It

17. A.surprising                          B.surprised

C.strange                           D.puzzled

18. A.passed through                      B.passed away

C.left                             D.passed by

19. A.finally                           B.at the end

C.at last                           D.later

20. A.friends                            B.relatives

C.twins                            D.brother and sister

 

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堋響和中玉猟��貫玉猟朔侭公光籾議膨倖僉�遑�A、B、C、D��嶄僉竃嬬野秘腎易侃議恷煮僉�遏�

Nicolette Morganti¨s friends can¨t understand why she joined a dating agency(脂咆初府侭).

She has a good job    1    a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature(猟僥),is so    2    with British    3    that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.

^English men are usually materialistic and have    4    imagination, ̄ she says.

^I have    5    years being bored by men who never do anything    6    . ̄

^I¨m almost 30 now and I would really love to    7    a husband and have    8   .I¨d like to live in London for six months of the year and in the States for   9     six months. ̄

In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once    10    an advertisement in a magazine for    11    people and had 400 replies.

But she says, ^I only met one or two of them.  12    of the others sounded very   13   . ̄

Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months    14    and has met    15    then.

She says, ^I    16    that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang   17    in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to    18    the call. ̄

^I¨ve met five so far but I¨m looking for someone very    19   . I¨d like to find a caring, well-educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a    20    of adventure. ̄

1.A.like                               B.being

C.as                                D.with

2.A.tired                               B.bored

C.pleased                           D.angry

3.A.men                              B.games

C.music                             D.master

4.A.some                              B.much

C.a little                             D.no

5.A.passed                             B.spent

C.entered                           D.wasted

6.A.exciting                           B.moving

C.interesting                         D.living

7.A.marry to                            B.accept

C.receive                           D.find

8.A.friends                            B.work

C.a home                           D.children

9.A.another                            B.some

C.the other                           D.other

10.A.wrote                            B.put

C.gave                             D.posted

11.A.single                             B.married

C.only                             D.lonely

12.A.Most                             B.Few

C.All                                D.Some

13.A.worrying                              B.encouraging

C.boring                               D.surprising

14.A.before                           B.later

C.more                                 D.ago

15.A.from                             B.since

C.after                               D.until

16.A.expect                           B.suppose

C.know                             D.feel

17.A.one                             B.it

C.them                                 D.him

18.A.pay to                            B.pay off

C.pay for                           D.pay back

19.A.ordinary                           B.handsome

C.special                            D.lovely

20.A.feeling                           B.sense

C.way                             D.kind

 

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I had a friend who visited me from out of town and I wanted to show him the CN Tower. It was one of the tallest structures on the earth. So I thought it would offer a(n)  36  sight.

We were standing in line for 45minutes to enjoy the   37  up to the watch point. When we got there, we went around the  38  of the tower and saw the hard wire fence 39   to the structure serving as a barrier. We went back inside to look for the glass floor that provided a direct view  40  . As soon as both of us 41  , we stopped before walking onto it. We found that our legs began to  42  . I stopped for a minute considering the step, taking several seconds to  43  the edge before moving.

And then I had a thought in my mind�此�It is far  44  compared to any other floor in this building. There is no real danger to me ! it¨s   45  an illusion. Look at all the people standing on it, and think about those who have stood on it before. ̄I began to 46  that step onto the glass floor. I didn¨t look down ! 47  not for a few minutes.

I walked on the   48  and looked around and thought about how  49  the experience was. I even found myself jumping up and down. There was no 50  , and it was certainly an illusion.

I considered how many things in our lives we 51  and exactly how many of them are actually illusions. I thought about all the things we  52  ourselves from doing because we have  53  ourselves into thinking there¨s risk. I thought about all the things that I still have yet to do that appeared 54  . I was glad to discover that although fear isn¨t a stranger to me, my desire to live a life without   55  has a much stronger pull.

36��A��expressive        B��impressive        C��frightening      D��beneficial

37��A��bus            B��ladder           C��car            D��elevator

38��A��outside          B��top             C��center          D��surface

39��A��connected        B��surrounded        C��referred        D��combined

40��A��around          B��up              C��down          D��out

41��A��understood       B��approached       C��talked          D��returned

42��A��wave           B��move            C��tremble         D��wander

43��A��look over        B��think over        C��look up         D��think up

44��A��tighter          B��taller            C��weaker         D��stronger

45��A��happily          B��simply           C��greatly         D��relatively

46��A��take            B��choose           C��decide          D��pick

47��A��at most          B��at least           C��at last          D��at best

48��A��fence           B��floor            C��edge           D��tower

49��A��grateful          B��useful           C��wonderful       D��helpful

50��A��death B��warn            C��trouble D��danger    

51��A��handle          B��ignore           C��fear           D��hide

52��A��block           B��protect           C��help           D��separate

53��A��forced          B��advised          C��entered         D��led

54��A��amazing         B��worrying         C��exciting        D��interesting

55��A��cost            B��doubt            C��regret          D��waste

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