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 . 《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.

5 . 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.

6 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

When he had killed the guard, the prisoner of war quickly dragged him into the     1    . Working     2     in the darkness, he soon changed into the dead man's clothes. Now,     3     in a blue uniform and with a rifle over his shoulder, the prisoner marched boldly up and down in front of the camp. He could hear shouting in the camp itself. Lights were blazing and men were running here and there: they had just discovered that a prisoner     4    . At that moment, a large black car with four officers inside     5    , stopped at the camp gates. The officers got out and the prisoner stood to attention and saluted     6     they passed. When they had gone, the driver of the car came     7     him. The man obviously wanted to talk. He was rather     8     with grey hair and clear blue eyes. The prisoner felt sorry for him, but there was nothing else he could do. As the man came near, the prisoner knocked him to the ground with     9     sharp blow. Then,     10     into the car, he drove off as quickly as he could.

7 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace,     1     was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all other buildings in the world,     2     it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the     3     buildings of all time and a lot of people from many countries came to see it. A great many     4     were sent to the exhibition from     5     parts of the world. There was also     6     great deal of machinery on display. The most wonderful piece of machinery on show was Nasmyth’s steam hammer. Though in those days, travelling was not as easy as it is today, steam boats     7    thousands of visitors across the Channel from Europe.     8     arriving in England, they were taken to the Crystal Palace by train. There were six million visitors in all, and the profits from the exhibition     9     to build museums and colleges. Later, the Crystal Palace was moved to South London. It     10     one of the most famous buildings in the world until it was burnt down in 1936.

8 . 新概念英语原文填空（答案可能是一词或多词）

After reading an article     1     “Cigarette Smoking and Your Health” I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with     2     and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone     3    up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement     4    I produced a packet of     5     from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt     6     uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took     7     guiltily, lit it and smoked     8     satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.     9    , as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He    10    has done it lots of times!