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（1）
In the United States, there were 222 people 1. _________ （report）to be billionaires （亿万富
翁）in 2003. The 2. __________ of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, who made his
money 3 . _________ st a rt i ng the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old
4 . _______ h e first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire 5. ___________ the
time he was 6. _________ , there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even
7. ________ （young）ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and
Shirley Temple. 8. _________ of these child actors made over a million dollars 9. __________ （act）
in movies before they were 14. But 10. ____________ youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und
Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited （继承） a billion dollars when he turned 18!
（2）
Finishing their shopping at the mall, a couple discovered that their new car 1. ________________
（steal）. They filed a report 2 . _____________ th e police station and a detective drove them
3 . _______ to the parking lot to look for evidence.
To their 4 . ________ （ a m aze）, the car had been returned 5. ______ there was a note in it
that said: “I apologize for taking your car. My wife was having a baby anIdhad to rush her to the
6. ________ . Please forget the inconvenience. There are two tickets
7. ___________ tonight's Mania
Twain concert. ”
Their faith in humanity restored. The couple attended 8. _____________ concert. But when they
returned home, they immediately found. 9. _________ their house had been ransacked （洗劫）. On
the bathroom mirror was 10. __________ note: “I have to put my kid through college somehow, don't
I? ”
3)
People 1 . ________ （l ive ）i n different countries made different kinds of words. Today there
are about fifteen hundred 2 . _________ i n the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A
very large dictionary, for example, contains four 3. ____________ five hundred thousand words. But
we do not need 4. _________ t hese. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand
words. 5. ________ you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary
6. ________ （big ）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books
7. _______ （write ）
in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet 8. ____________________ n ew word, look it
9. ________ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your 10. ___________ （much）useful book.
（4）
When you are in England you must be very careful in the streets 1. __________ the traffic drives
on the left. Before you cross a street you must look to the right first 2. __________ then the left. In the
morning and in the evening when people go to or come from 3. __________ , the streets are very busy.
Traffic is most 4. __________ （danger）then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, 5. __________ . Always remember the
traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. 6. _________ （have） a look first, or you will go
7. ________ wrong way.
In many English cities, there are big buses 8. ______________ two floors. You can sit on the
9. ________ （two ）floor. From 10. _______ y ou can see the city very well. It 's very interesting.
5)
1. _________ artist had a small daughter. Sometimes he painted women
2. ______________ any
clothes on, and he and his 3. ________ always tried to keep the small girl out 4. ___________ he was
doing this, “ S5.h_e_i_s _____ young to understand, ” they said.
But one day, when the artist 6. __________ （paint ） a woman with no clothes on, he forgot to
lock the door, and the girl suddenly ran into the room. He mother ran up the stairs 7. ____________ her,
but when she got to the room, the little girl was already in the room and looking at the woman
8. ________ her parents waited for her to speak.
For a few seconds the little girl said 9. ____________ , but then she ran to her mother and said
10. _________ （angry）, “Why do you let her go about without shoes and socks on when you don let me?
6)
Most Americans don 'ltike to get advice 1. ____________ members of their family. They get
advice from “ 2. _______ （__strange）” . When they need advice, they don ually g'o ttoupseople
they know. 3. _________ many of them write letters to newspapers and magazines 4. ____________
give advice on many different subjects 5. _____________ （include）family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, 6. __________ even on how to buy a house or a car.
Most newspapers 7. _________ （regular ）print letters from readers with problems. Along with the letters there are 8. ________ written by people who are supposed to know how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors, 9. ____________ are lawyers or educators. But two of the most famous writers of advice are women without special 10. __________ （train）for this kind of work.
（7）
Without proper planning, tourism can cause 1. _________ . For example, too many tourists can crowd public places 2. ________ are also enjoyed by the inhabitants（居民）of a country. If tourism create too much traffic, the inhabitants will become 3. ________ （annoy）and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists 4. _________ to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country ' s econom5.y _______ is important to think about the people of a destination country and 6. _________ t ourism affects them. Tourism should help 7. ____________ country keep the customs and beauty that attracts tourists. Tourism should also advance the wealth and 8. _________ （happy）of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism 9. __________ （grow ）too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work 10. ___________ the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country ' s economy can suffer.
（8）
London was awarded 1. ____________ 2012 Olympic Games on Wednesday, 2. _____________ （defeat）European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to British capital
3. _________ t he first time since 1948.
4. ________ Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated （淘汰）in the first three rounds London beat Paris 54—50 on the fourth ballot (投票表决) of the IOC.
In London crowds cheered and waved flags as 5. __________ watched the announcement from
Singapore 6. __________ a giant screen in Trafalgar Square and in the east London area
7. _________ the main Olympic complex (建筑群) will be based.
Blair spent two days in lobbying (游说) in Singapore 8. ______________ leaving to host the G8
summit (8 国峰会)in Scotia nd. “ My promise to you is we will be your v9fe_ ___________ (good)
partners, ” Blair said.
It ' s the fourth bid 申办)from Britain after 10. ___________ (fail) attempts by Birmingham for
the 1992 Olympics and Manchester for the 1996 and 2000.
(9)
Why is setting goals so 1 . ___________ ? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience
everything 2. __________ you want in life. Instead 3. _________ just letting life happen to you, goals
allow 4. __________ t o make your life happen. 5. _________ (success) and happy people have sets
lots of goals to help them reach their aims. By setting goals you are taking control of your life. It 's 6. _________ having a map to show you 7. __________ you want to go.
Winners in life set goals and follow through with them. Winners decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and 8. ___________________________ (set)goals. Unsuccessful people just let life
happen by accident. Goals aren 't difficult to9.s_e_t,_a_n_d aren 't difficult to reach. It is up to
you to find out what your goals really are. You are 1 0 . ________ one who must decide what to do
and in what direction to aim your life.
(10)
We often think of future. We often wonder 1. ___________ the world will be like a hundred years
time.
Think of 2. _________ space. Perhaps a permanent station on the moon 3._________ (set up).
Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as 4 . __________ . Cheap rockets for space travel will
have been developed, 5. __________ ( p e rm i t ) l o n g journeys through the solar system. When that
time comes, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting 6. _________________ planets. Great
progress will have been made 7. __________ m edicine, too. Pollution will have been controlled in a
hundred years time.
8. _________ t he world will have been developed—even Antarctica. We will have used up
most of the earth 'lansd to build our cities, 9. ____________ floating cities will have been built. The
Japanese have already plans of this kind. And there will be cities 10. __________ the sea.
（11）
Once upon a time there was a rich merchant 1. __________ had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife
the most. He took great care of her and gave her nothing 2. __________ the best. He also loved the
3rd wife very much. He was very 3 . _________ （pride）of her and always wanted to show off her
to his friends. He also loved his 2nd wife. She is 4 . ______________ v ery considerate person, always
patient and in fact is the merchant ' s5.c_lo_s_e__fr_ie_n_d_._ the merchant faced some problems,
he always turned to his 2nd wife and 6. __________ would always help him out and tide （帮助渡过）
him 7. __________ difficult times. Now, the merchant 's 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made
great 8. _________ （contribute ）in maintaining his wealth and business as well as 9. __________
（take）care of the household. 10. _______ , the merchant did not love the first wife and although
she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.
（12）
There once were a goat and a donkey 1. ___________ lived on a farm. The donkey worked the
hardest so the farmer fed it the most 2. ___________ . Sometimes the donkey was given more food
3. _________ it could eat. This made the goat so jealous
4. _________ it began plotting against （谋
划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend 5. ________________________________
（get）sick so you can take a day 6. ________ ?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So
the n ext morning, the don key lay in the stable （畜栏）on its side with its eyes 7. ________ （close）.
Right away, the farmer called the doctor. 8. _____________ looking at the donkey, the doctor said it
needed a special medicine made 9 . ____________ the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed
10. ________ goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
（13 ）
Dawn graduated several years ago. She 1. __________ （be） a successful model, and finding a
job had not been a 2. _________ —until recently .
When Dawn did start trying to find another type of 3. ___________ , she found in interview after
interview that computer literacy （能力）was a must to 4. _________ （employ ）.
Since Dawn had always been afraid 5. ___________ learning computer while in college—our
school didn't require to learn computer at that time—she managed to get a degree 6. ____________
ever confronting （面对） a computer.
Finally, after months of searching for a job, Dawn failed. She had to admit that sidestepping （回避）computer literacy （读写能力）hadn't been a good idea. 7. __________________________ , She enrolled in a
computer course at 8. _________ adult vocational school.
9. ________ （surprise）, although she had been afraid of learning computer, she took to
computers 10. __________ much that after about a year she opened her own computer-based
business.
（14）
Some day,1. _________ you are lucky, you may see a bongo （大羚羊）.But the only way most
people will see it is in a 2. ___________ . They are found in Africa, 3. ___________ they live deep in
forests. Even in Africa, very few people ever get to see a bongo. The bongo does not come out of the forest very often. It is an animal that keeps to 4. __________________________.
The bongo has beautiful coloring. Its hair is bright brown 5. __________ （mix ）with orange and
red. Down its back and across its sides the bongo has yellow-white strips （条纹）. Animals that look
6. _________ f ood at night usually have big eyes. This helps them see
7. ____________ （good）at
night. The forests in which bongos live are very dark. The eyes of bongos are very big. So, they have no trouble 8. （live）in the darkness.
Bongos in zoos do not like to go outside on 9 . _________ d ays . They only go outside on those
days 1 0. _________ it is dark or very cloudy.
（15）
Gandhi, an Indian national hero, was honored 1 . _________ the father of the Indian nation. He
has been respected and beloved by the Indians.
He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got 2 . __________ （m a rry ）at the
age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England, 3. __________ he studied law for three years and became a
lawyer. On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case.
In South Africa he 4. ___________ （surprise）to find that the problem of racial discrimination
（种族歧视）was serious. There he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight
5. _________ equal rights.
Gandhi returned to India in 1915, 6. ___________ India was controlled by the British. He led the
Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and 7. ____________ （depend）for his country. In the
political movement many Indians including Gandhi were put in prison. 8. ____________ , the struggles
never stopped. The British government had to give 9. _________ and India won its independence in
1947. 10. ________ （fortunate ）Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on
January 30th, 1948.
（16）
Mrs. Wilson, the wife of a rich man, 1. __________ some of her friends to lunch. She was trying
a new way to cook fish and she was very pleased with 2. _________ when the fish was ready. As the
fish was very hot, she put it near the open window to 3. __________ for a few minutes. Five minutes
later, when she came back for it, she was 4. _________ to find the neighbor 's cat at the fish. She was
in time to stop the cat 5. __________ it was too late. That afternoon every one enjoyed the fish. They
talked and laughed 6. _________ four o ' clock.
After the guests left, Mrs. Wilson felt tired 7. _____________ happy. She was sitting down in a
chair near the window when she saw the neighbor s cat dead 'in her garden. She was sure the fish was bad. What 8. ________________________ happen to her friends? She at once telephoned the family doctor for