1 . 根据新概念原文填入正确的单词或短语,每空填一个单词或短语。

So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy     1     butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I     2     the voice of Mrs Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. I had     3     got back to the kitchen     4     the door-bell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!

2 . 根据新概念原文填入正确的单词或短语,每空填一个单词或短语。

This morning, however, a fireman accidentally discovered the cause. He noticed the     1     of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The     2     was simple but very unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then     3     it on to the wires.

3 . 根据新概念原文填入正确的单词或短语,每空填一个单词或短语。

We have just moved into a new house and I have been working hard all morning. I have been trying to get my new room     1    . This has not been easy because I own over a thousand books. To make matters worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor. A short while ago, my sister helped me to carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs. She went into my room and got a big surprise     2     she saw all those books on the floor. This is the     3     carpet I have ever seen, she said.

4 . 根据句意完成短文

This wonderful plane can     1     seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can     2     anywhere: on snow, water. … The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a     3     island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him….

5 . 《新概念》原文填空：根据原文填入正确的单词或短语,答案可能是一词或多词。

He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm    1    .A gust of wind    2    the bed off the roof and sent it    3    into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed    4    the ground.

I sat in the front of the bus to get a good    5    of the countryside. After some time, the bus stopped.    6    , I realized with a shock that I was the only passenger left on the bus. “You’ll have to get off here,” the conductor said. … “We are going back now,” said the conductor.“Well, in that case, I    7    stay on the bus,” I answered.

First of all, he wrote out a long list of all the foods which    8    . The list    9    most of the things Herbert loves: butter, potatoes, rice, beer, milk, chocolate, and sweets. Yesterday I paid him a visit. I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Herbert was still as fat as ever. He led me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was    10    that he was very embarrassed.

6 . 根据原文填入正确的单词。

Their sleeping bags were warm and comfortable, so they all slept     1    . In the middle of the night, two boys woke up and began     2    . The tent was full of water! They all leapt out of their sleeping     3     and hurried outside... The stream wound     4     way across the field and then flowed right under the tent!

7 . 根据原文填入正确的单词。

I am     1     art student and I paint a lot of pictures. Many people     2     that they understand modern art. ...My sister is only seven, but she always tells me     3     my pictures are good or not. She came into my room yesterday...

8 . 根据原文填入正确的单词或短语,答案可能是一词或多词。

The whole village soon learnt that a large sum of money had been lost. Sam Benton, the local butcher, had lost his wallet while taking his     1     to the post office… It had been     2     up in newspaper and it contained half the money he had lost,     3     a note which said: ‘A thief, yes, but only 50 per cent a thief!’

When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport, workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing… It suddenly     4     one of the workers to open up the box. He     5     what he found. A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of wooden goods.

A public house which was recently bought by Mr Ian Thompson is up     6    . Mr Thompson is going to sell it because it is haunted…     7     Mr Thompson had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning.
My dentist had just pulled out one of my teeth and had told me to rest for a while. I tried to say something, but my mouth     8     cotton wool…     9     these questions I either nodded or made strange noises.     10    , my tongue was busy searching out the hole where the tooth had been.

9 . 根据原文填入正确的单词。

The railway station was big, black and dark. I did not know the way     1     my hotel, so I asked a porter. I not only spoke English very carefully, but very     2     as well. The porter, however, could not understand me. I repeated my question several     3     and at last he understood.

10 . 根据原文填入正确的单词或短语,答案可能是一词或多词。

Lesson 32: … A detective recently watched a     1     woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was     2     for the detective to watch her. …

Lesson 33: Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she     3     from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat     4     a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. …On     5     at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. …

Lesson 34: Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he       6     a letter from the local police. … Ted was     7     surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was     8     twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.

Lesson 35: Roy Trenton     9     drive a taxi. …When he was driving along Catford Street recently, he saw two     10     rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. …