先通讀短文,掌握其大意,然后從A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出一個(gè)可以填入相應(yīng)空白處的最佳答案,并將其標(biāo)號(hào)填入題前括號(hào)內(nèi)。
(一)
I love charity[慈善] shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every ___1___ street. The charity shop is a British institution, ___2___ everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you wont find in the shops ___3___. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good ___4___ and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for ___5___ goods.
The first charity shop was ___6___ in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charitys ___7___ to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been ___8___ with donations[捐贈(zèng)物]. They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to ___9___ money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the ___10___ Cross shop, where I always find childrens books, all 10 or 20 pence ___11___.
Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, there is often a manager who gets ___12___. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the ___13___. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, ___14___ although they dont encourage this, rather ask people to ___15___ things in when the shop is open.
The shops have very low running costs: all go ___16___ to charity work. Charity shops raise more than £110 million a year, funding[資助] medical research, overseas aid, ___17___ sick and poor children, homeless and ___18___ people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good ___19___ sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread ___20___ on the environment.
( ) 1. A. low B. short C. high ? D. long
( )2. A. selling B. buying C. borrowing D. lending
( )3. A. anywise B. anymore ? C. anyway D. anyhow
( )4. A. place ? ? B. space ? ? C. count ? D. cause
( )5. A. undoubted B. unfinished C. unfair ? D. unwanted
( )6. A. formed B. set C. opened D. built
( )7. A. appeal B. appear C. demand D. advice
( )8. A. floated B. hid ? ? ? C. blew ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. flooded
( )9. A. rise B. raise C. save D. spend
( )10. A. White B. Black C. Red D. Green
( )11. A. every B. each C. either D. other
( )12. A. paid B. spent C. acquired D. devoted
( )13. A. government ? B. nation C. organization D. public
( )14. A. since B. although C. or D. therefore
( )15. A. bring B. take C. buy ? D. keep
( )16. A. wages B. profits C. rewards D. taxes
( )17. A. growing B. advocating C. providing D. supporting
( )18. A. enabled B. unable ? C. disabled ? D. enjoyable
( )19. A. normal B. moral ? ? C. minded D. healthy
( )20. A. lightly B. heavily ? ? C. slowly ? D. shortly
(二)
Jimmy was gone. Sally walked out of the Childrens Hospital for the last time now after spending most of the last 6 months there. She ___1___ the bag with Jimmys things in it on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ___2___ and it was even harder to go into an ___3___ house. She took the ___4___ to Jimmys room and started ___5___ the model cars and things back in his room exactly where he always kept them. She ___6___ down across his bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow.
Sally ___7___ up about midnight and lying beside her on the bed, was a letter ___8___ up.
She opened the letter, it ___9___… I know you are going to miss me, ___10___ dont think that I will ever forget you or stop loving you because Im not ___11___ to say I LOVE YOU.
Ill ___12___ of you every day, mom, and Ill love you even more each day.
___13___ day we will see each other again. If you want to ___14___ a little boy so you wont be so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to ___15___ with. If you decide to get a ___16___ instead, she probably wouldnt like the same things ___17___ us boys do, so you will have to buy her ___18___ and stuff girls like.
Dont be sad when you think about me, this is really a great place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and ___19___ me around some places, but it will ___20___ a long time to see everything here…
( )1. A. took B. put C. sent D. fetch
( )2. A. difficult B. bad C. hard D. unpleasant
( )3. A. empty B. ugly C. unhappy D. alone
( )4. A. doll B. car C. book D. bag
( )5. A. returning B. going C. placing D. getting
( )6. A. got B. laid C. brought D. played
( )7. A. woke B. slept C. lied D. bent
( )8. A. opened B. bent C. printed D. folded
( )9. A. read B. said C. told D. talked