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　　A 90-year-old has been awarded “Woman Of The Year” for    1    (be) Britain’s oldest full-time employee—still    2     (work) 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works at the pet shop    3    (run) from 9 am to 5 pm daily. Her years of hard work have    4    (final) been acknowledged after a customer nominated(提名) her to be Cheshire’s Woman Of The Year.   

    5     (pick) up her “Lifetime Achievement” award, proud Irene    6    (declare) she had no plans    7     (retire) from her 36-year-old business. Irene said, “I don’t see any reason to give up work. I love coming here and    8    (see) my family and all the friends I    9    (make) over the years. ”  

Granddaughter Gayle Parks said, “We don’t have any idea who put grandma forward. When we got a call    10    (say) she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke. But then we got an official letter and we were blown away. We are so proud of her.”

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

A man got lost while driving through a country. As he tried to read a map, he drove off the road into a ditch (沟渠)     1     (lucky). Though he was not injured, his car was stuck deep     2     the mud. So the man had got to walk to     3     nearby farm to ask for help.

“Warwick can get your car out of that ditch,” said the farmer,       4     (point) to an old mule (骡子). The man looked at the weak mule and the farmer     5     just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwick can do the job.” The man thought he had nothing     6     (lose). Therefore, he took the old man and Warwick to the ditch.

The farmer hitched (套住) the mule to the car and     7     (shout), “Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick!” And the mule pulled the car from the ditch with very little effort.

The man was     8     (amaze). He thanked the farmer and asked, “Why did you call out all of those other     9     (name) before you call Warwick?”

The farmer smiled and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. Once he     10     (believe) he is part of a team, he won’t mind pulling.”

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I am going to tell you     1     happened in my restaurant today.

This afternoon a poorly-dressed gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew     2     he was. We wondered    3     he was so hungry. We were surprised that he finished two orders of food in a very limited time. We doubted     4     the man was able to pay the bill. The gentleman asked     5    we would mind waiting for just a few minutes. Then we were shocked to see     6     he took out of an envelope—a million pound bank note.

I asked Mr Clements    7     it was genuine. Mr Clements said it was true because two of this amount had been issued by the Bank of England this year. He thought     8     the gentleman showed them couldn’t be a fake.

    9     a gentleman with a million pound note was in rags and ate in our small restaurant was a big puzzle to all the people there. I really couldn’t describe     10     excited I was.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。   

An old scholar     1    (request) to get rid of a boy’s bad habits. The boy     2     (show) around a garden when suddenly he     3     (stop) and asked to pull out a tiny plant growing there.

The boy held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then suggested that a slightly bigger plant should     4     (pull) out. The boy pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. “Now pull out that one” said the old man,     5     (point) to a bush. This time, the boy managed it but with great efforts.

After that, the old man     6     (lead) him to a big tree and said, “Now take this one out.” The boy grasped the trunk and tried his best to pull it out. But it would not move. “It’s impossible,” said the boy.

“So it is with bad habits,” said the wise man. “When they     7     (form) at the beginning, they are easy     8     (pull) out, but when they become strong, they cannot     9     (remove).”

7 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A teacher gave his     1    (pupil) some sunflower seeds to let them learn to look after a plant.One boy in the class,    2     loved sunflower seeds,was very excited.He planted the seed and looked after it    3    great care for many days. 

When the first shoot(嫩芽) finally appeared,the boy,    4     (fill) with impatience,went to see his teacher.The teacher said that he would still have to take care of the plant for quite some time before he was able to collect many seeds from just one sunflower.The boy was    5    (disappoint),but he kept     6    (look) after his sunflower. 

However,he grew     7    (increasing) impatient,and did little else but pester(纠缠) his teacher for wanting to take out the plant.As soon as the boy saw the sunflower’s first seeds,he cut the plant.But the plant was still green,and of course the seeds couldn’t    8    (eat). 

The boy was annoyed.He had put so much effort into     9    sunflower,but in the end he wasted it all for his impatience.And he was even     10    (angry) when he saw how big his classmates’ sunflowers grew.Finally,he decided not to be so impatient any more.

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Ashley Power’s mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly,     1     she couldn’t find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. One day she thought, “If I had my own website, I’d make     2     a really interesting site for teenagers.”

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website,     3     (call) Goosehead. She had no idea     4     a big success it would be, but three years later, the site was the     5     (successful) teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,     6     (ask) to write a book The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is     7     how to design a website and start a business. “I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed: I mean, I was only sixteen — I didn’t even have a car! If you were sixteen and You had your own company, you’d be stressed, too!”

In     8     interview Ashley gave advice to teenagers who wanted to start their own business, “Just be strong and have your dreams and work hard at them. And don’t listen when people tell you     9     you can’t do it, because I heard ‘no’ a lot. Just keep going     10     you’ll succeed!”

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I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate     1     a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello     2     him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought, “Why not offer him a piece of chocolate?” So I did. He was quite     3     (surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn’t usually do things like this for     4     (stranger) —at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really     5     (usual) dialect, and the train was loud.

Then he opened one of his bags and gave me     6     handful of freshly picked cherries,    7     (explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really lovely, better than those in the shops, and I enjoyed them very much. It     8     (be) just an impulse (冲动) to offer him a piece of chocolate, but if I had not done so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries,     9     I didn’t even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it’s     10     (general) true that if you give, you will receive.

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I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate     1     a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello     2     him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought, “Why not offer him a piece of chocolate?” So I did. He was quite     3    (surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn’t usually do things like this for     4    (stranger) — at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really     5    (usual) dialect, and the train was loud.

Then he opened one of his bags and gave me     6     handful of freshly picked cherries,       7    (explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really lovely, better than those in the shops, and I enjoyed them very much. It     8    (be) just an impulse (冲动)     9    (offer) him a piece of chocolate, but if I had not done so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries, which I didn’t even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it’s     10    (general) true that if you give, you will receive.