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Exercise one 一、单项选择（从下面每题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳选项完成下面句子） 1 —How many people are still leading ___life under ___poverty line in the world? —Perhaps one fourth.. A. the; 不填 B. a; the C. a; a D. 不填; 不填 2. As my teacher had not changed a bit, I him at once. A．realized B．knew C．remembered D．recognized 3. The president didn’t come to the meeting though he he would. A．agreed B．proved C．promised D．pretended 4. It that a new book will come out. A．is announced B．is declared C．is pronounced D．announces 5. I’ve got some picture books for you to at . A．see B．glare C．look D．stare 6. His words might have that lovely woman, but he was never aware of it. A．wounded B．harmed C．injured D．hurt 7. Though I spoke to him many times, he never took any ________ of what I said. A. remark B. observation C. attention D. notice 8. Mrs. Green tried hard to find a job but she had no ________. A. luck B. time C. hope D. chance 9. The crop was more or less severely by the recent heavy frost. A．affected B．effected C．impressed D．influenced 10. The school has a special class to help poor readers. A．set up B．founded C．built D．put up 11. I fired and the wolf fell . A．dead B．died C．death D．die 12. Without proper lessons, you could ___ a lot of bad habits when playing the piano. A. keep up B. pick up C. draw up D. catch up
13 .The newly-built theatre is ____ the old one. A. as twice big as B. twice more bigger than C. twice the size of D. twice so big as 14. — Why did she spend so much time searching shop after shop for a blouse? — Oh, she was very ____ about her clothes, A. special B. particular C. especial D. unusual 15. He hurried to the station only ______ that the train had left. A. to find B. finding C. found D. to have found 二、完形填空 When Mt Vesuvius erupted （爆发）in 79 A.D, it destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The first excavators (挖掘者)were the people of Pompeii who, 1 to their city when the eruption stopped, dug down through the 2 of their buried homes and salvaged (抢救)what they could 3 their furniture and 4 . the tunnels they 5 through the solidified ash can still be seen in place. But a time came 6 Pompeii and Herculaneum were forgotten. Throughout the Middle Age these two buried cities were not 7 . and it was not until 1709 8 an Austrian prince sank a shaft at Herculaneum then, by means of underground tunnels, 9 the city of its treasures, in 1729 systematic(系统地)excavation began on the same site. From the end of the eighteenth century to the present day, digging had gone practically continuously,_ 10 slowly, and often with few resources. Perhaps this slowness has not been entirely a 11 ., since it has resulted in large, untouched sections of both cities left preserved for modern, scientific 12 . Archeological(考古学的)techniques have 13 so much in the last fifty years that a 14 can now be shown far more archeological information than was possible before. Today most of Pompeii and a substantial section of Herculaneum have been 15 . They are the best archaeological sites in 16 , and the most wonderful. For here, and 17 else on earth are ancient cities in which 18 did not die out but was suddenly 19 . “Behind these walls”, as one writer has said, “lies an ancient Italian town, stilled in a moment of time. To enter the 20 of this city is to walk 2000 years in the past. 1. A. arriving B. retuning C. coming D. going 2. A. walls B. floors C. gates D. roofs 3. A. of B. from C. out of D. in 4. A. thing B. tools C. ownings D. belongings 5. A. went B. got C. drove D. moved 6. A. when B. and C. that D. until 7. A. discovered B. researched C. disturbed D. reached 8. A. when B. that C. before D. after 9. A. stole B. removed C. cured D. robbed 10 A. but B. though C. even D. despite 11. A. mistake B. wrong--doing C. advantage D. disadvantage 12. A. discovery B. research C. excavation D. foundation 13. A. improved B. changed C. added to D. enlarged 14. A. spot B. site C. place D. position 15. A. thrown B. stopped C. removed D. cleared 16. A. Africa B. Asia C. America D. Europe 17. A. somewhere B. anywhere C. nowhere D. everywhere 18. A. human being B. life C. citizens D. animals 19. A. arrested B. found C. seen D. discovered 20. A. walls B. gates C. center D. roofs 三、阅读理解 A Long long ago, a God called Ratu lived in the sky. Ratu liked to play games and make people angry. The game he liked best was to fly down into the sea and frighten all the fishes. The fishes became very tired of his game. They asked Hemi, the God of the sea, to help them. So Hemi tried to catch Ratu the next time he flew into the sea, but he was too slow. Ratu laughed at Hemi as he flew past him. This made Hemi angry and he had an idea. He asked the fishes to bring him a lot of seaweed. Hemi tied it all together and made a large net from it. Soon Ratu flew down and Hemi threw the net over him. Ratu fought and fought but could not get free. He was caught. Ratu promised (保证) never to frighten fishes again if Hemi would set him free. But Hemi did not believe him. Instead, he changed
