【推荐1】Having recently changed my job, I moved from a house with a yard full of trees to a small apartment two miles away. I _______ two loving cats. I brought them with me.

My cats were _______ going outside to exercise, but in my new apartment, they were not afforded that freedom. For safety reasons, I decided to keep them _______. Alley Cat was satisfied with just looking out the window. Stripes, on the other hand, didn’t _______ being cooped up（把……关起来）and cried continuously at the door. It was _______ for him to go outside because I had to walk down the stairs to let him out. After two days, I gave in and _______ the door. He walked around the tiny yard for a while and then came back.

The next time Stripes went out, he was missing for three days. I _______ the neighborhood, calling out, “Stripes, come home.

On the third day, I got a call. It was from the lady who had _______ my house. She told me that Stripes was in her yard crying, probably _______ me.

I jumped in the car and headed for my old house. Stripes was as ________ to see me as I was to see him. He started rubbing his head against my legs. The next day, the ________ thing happened—again and again. Stripes made it clear that he ________ to stay in my new apartment.

The new owners became ________ Stripes and even began feeding him. They offered to make Stripes a member of their family after I had tried many times to keep my cat and ________. It was the perfect result. I’ve heard the expression, “If you ________ something, let it go.” Unwillingly, I did. At least I had visitation rights.

1.

A．saw

B．remembered

C．caught

D．owned

2.

A．bored with

B．used to

C．afraid of

D．tired from

3.

A．inside

B．outside

C．away

D．along

4.

A．enjoy

B．mind

C．regret

D．avoid

5.

A．strange

B．difficult

C．important

D．possible

6.

A．shut

B．answered

C．broke

D．opened

7.

A．left

B．cleaned

C．searched

D．discovered

8.

A．found

B．visited

C．bought

D．wanted

9.

A．laughing at

B．looking for

C．dreaming of

D．playing with

10.

A．pleased

B．worried

C．surprised

D．nervous

11.

A．right

B．real

C．main

D．same

12.

A．refused

B．forgot

C．decided

D．needed

13.

A．hard on

B．angry with

C．interested in

D．proud of

14.

A．waited

B．failed

C．appeared

D．continued

15.

A．love

B．doubt

C．expect.

D．dislike

【推荐2】A man lived happily in a village because everyone liked him.

One day, he heard some people _________ about him when he passed by. He started listening to them. But what they said made him _________. They said he was too proud.

From that day on,whenever he saw _________ talking, he thought they were saying something bad about him. He was unhappy _________. So he went to a wise old man and told him _________.

The wise old man said, “Stay in my house tonight.”

The man _________ When he went to sleep at night, croaking of frogs (青蛙呱呱的叫声) fell in his ears. A pond (池塘) was behind his room and the sound _________ from there.

The next morning, the man went to the wise old man and said: “I_________ sleep well last night. It felt like there were hundreds of frogs in that pond.

The wise old man took him to the pond. To his surprise,there were only ten frogs. Then he went to ask the wise old man _________ the other frogs were.

The wise old man said, “Even at night there were only ten frogs. Because you paid a lot of attention to the __________, you thought there were hundreds of ducks. It is the same in your life as well.”

The man understood the wise old man’s words and thanked him.

1.

A．talk

B．to talk

C．talking

2.

A．sad

B．happy

C．excited

3.

A．other

B．others

C．another

4.

A．on time

B．in time

C．all the time

5.

A．nothing

B．everything

C．anything

6.

A．left

B．agreed

C．refused

7.

A．will come

B．is coming

C．was coming

8.

A．couldn’t

B．needn’t

C．shouldn’t

9.

A．why

B．where

C．when

10.

A．noise

B．room

C．life

【推荐3】完形填空
先通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I often watched a little girl playing basketball on the playground near my house. She would _____ shooting over and over again， sometimes until dark. One day I asked her ____ she practiced so hard. She said，"I like basketball. I want to play for the top basketball team. I want to be the ______ My daddy told me if the dream is big enough，the facts don't count(重要). "
I watched her _____ those high school years. One day， I saw her sitting on the grass，head in her arms. I walked to her and asked what was wrong. "Oh，nothing， " she said. "I am just not that tall. " The coach(教练)told her that she was too _____ to play for a top team. She was very _____ . I asked her if she had talked to her ____ about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were _____ .They just did not understand the power(力量)of a _____ .He told her that nothing could _____ her but one thing-her own attitude(态度)-if she really wanted to play for a good basketball team. He told her again，"If the dream is big enough， the facts don't count. " The next year， she was asked to join the NCAA(全美大学生体育协会)women's basketball team.1.

A．hate

B．enjoy

C．practise

D．remember

2.

A．how

B．when

C．where

D．why

3.

A．best

B．tallest

C．cleverest

D．kindest

4.

A．through

B．by

C．across

D．for

5.

A．thin

B．fat

C．tall

D．short

6.

A．happy

B．sad

C．lazy

D．excited

7.

A．players

B．teacher

C．dad

D．coach

8.

A．good

B．wrong

C．strong

D．gentle

9.

A．dream

B．team

C．fact

D．father

10.

A．follow

B．fight

C．protect

D．stop

【推荐1】Miss Brown would never forget the night when she met a robber(抢劫者) many years ago.
That evening, she went to a birthday party which ____ until two o’clock in the morning. Miss Brown walked in the____ street alone. Suddenly from the back of the dark building a tall man with a sharp knife in his right hand ran out at her. “Good morning，lady.” the man said in a low voice, “I don’t think you wish to____here!” “What do you want?” “Your earrings. Take them ____!”
Miss Brown suddenly had a ____idea. She tried to cover her necklace with the collar(衣领)of her overcoat while she used the other hand to take off both of her earrings and then quickly ____them on the ground.
“Take them and let me go,” she said. The robber thought that the girl didn’t like the earrings at all, only trying to ____the necklace. The earrings would cost ____, so he said, “Give me your necklace.”
“Oh, sir. It doesn’t cost much. Please let me wear it.”
“I am not that ____ Quick!”
With shaking ____ , Miss Brown took off her necklace. As soon as the robber left, she picket up her earrings and ran as fast as she could to one of her friends.
The earrings cost 2000 pounds and the necklace which the robber had taken away cost only six pounds.1.

A．ended

B．stayed

C．stopped

D．lasted

2.

A．busy

B．quiet

C．noisy

D．wide

3.

A．die

B．escape

C．fight

D．sleep

4.

A．out

B．away

C．off

D．down

5.

A．funny

B．safe

C．brave

D．great

6.

A．handed

B．threw

C．passed

D．put

7.

A．own

B．keep

C．have

D．get

8.

A．cheap

B．expensive

C．more

D．less

9.

A．afraid

B．angry

C．silly

D．bad

10.

A．hands

B．feet

C．head

D．body

【推荐2】Three small fish lived in the sea. When they were very young, their parents died. They had ____ each other day after day. Finally, they grew up and dared to swim deeper and further.
One morning, the three fish were ____to a shallow(浅) water by a big wave. A small boat was taken there, too. It was hard for the fish ____ back to the sea because the boat was right in front of them. The largest fish realized that they were in danger, and said they had to find a way to leave there as______as possible. The second largest fish agreed with his elder brother, ____the youngest one did not. He said that there was much water for their activities, so he would not worry at all and still swam around happily.
At last, the largest fish returned to the sea by ____over the lowest part of the boat. The second largest fish also ____ in joining his elder brother in ____side of water. But the youngest one didn’t follow them and still swam joyfully.
Two hours later, when the sun rose up, the water in the small shallow corner ____ The fish who did not try ____to the sea died of lack of water.1.

A．look after

B．looked after

C．to look after

D．to looking after

2.

A．allowed

B．given

C．invited

D．taken

3.

A．go

B．to go

C．went

D．going

4.

A．fast

B．fastly

C．faster

D．fastest

5.

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．thus

6.

A．jump

B．jumped

C．to jump

D．jumping

7.

A．success

B．succeed

C．successed

D．succeeded

8.

A．the other

B．other

C．another

D．each

9.

A．rose up

B．washed away

C．ran out

D．dried up

10.

A．return

B．returned

C．to return

D．returning

【推荐3】A wise man was walking from one town to another with a few of his followers（信徒）, and they happened to pass a lake. So they stopped there to _______ for a while, and the wise man said to one of his followers, “I am very _______. Could you please _______ me some water from the lake?”

The follower walked to the lake _______ the wise man requested（要求）. Some people were washing clothes in the water, and right at that moment, several carts（马车）started crossing the lake. _______, the water became very muddy （泥泞的）.

Then he went back and told the wise man that the water was very muddy and not _______ to drink.

After they had rested for about half an hour, the wise man again asked the _______ follower to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. As requested, the follower went to the lake again. This time he found that all the mud had settled to（沉淀）the _______. The water was very _______ and looked fit to drink. So he ________ his water bottle and took it to the wise man.

The wise man took the water bottle and drank, then looked up at the follower. “See what you did ________ the water clean?” he said. “You let it be for a while and the mud settled down on its own, ________ you could get some clear drinking water. Your ________ can also be like that lake when it is disturbed（打扰）by something. If you just let it be and give it a little ________, it will most likely settle down on its own ________ being put in any effort at all to calm it.”

1.

A．rest

B．look

C．watch

D．see

2.

A．hungry

B．thirsty

C．happy

D．sad

3.

A．get

B．keep

C．take

D．buy

4.

A．while

B．before

C．as

D．until

5.

A．However

B．Instead

C．Except

D．As a result

6.

A．fit

B．able

C．important

D．interesting

7.

A．different

B．same

C．other

D．rest

8.

A．top

B．side

C．bottom

D．lake

9.

A．dirty

B．clear

C．fresh

D．sweet

10.

A．got

B．finished

C．reached

D．filled

11.

A．making

B．to make

C．made

D．make

12.

A．so that

B．in order to

C．because

D．when

13.

A．mouth

B．ear

C．mind

D．eye

14.

A．water

B．advice

C．time

D．air

15.

A．without

B．with

C．after

D．like