What makes online shopping so popular is it shortens the distance between manufacturers and consumers.

A .how B. that

C. whether D. why

Teaching is not ____ a matter of spreading knowledge----it also calls for the ability to build up the students’ personality.

A. simply B. partly

C. equally D. obviously

This new model of car is so expensive that it is _____the reach of those with average

incomes.

A. over B. within

C. beyond D. below

A notice was ________ in order to remind the students of the changed lecture time.

A．sent up B．given up

C．set up D．put up

— Why do we get up so early?

— If we _______ the flight we would have to stay here for another day.

A. miss B. would miss

C. missed D. had missed

Tom’s little sister is a girl of great _______. She takes an interest in everything.

A. ambition B. caution

C. curiosity D. strength

— What is the man, actually?

—I don’t know for sure. But I think he can be _______ but a policeman.

A. nothing B. something

C. everything D. anything

the instructions on the packet when you take the drug and the drug, I think, will work soon.

A. Follow B. To follow

C. Following D. Followed

In 1822 Gregor Mendal was born on a farm in Austria. His father found that Mendal was interested in plants. He knew that his son was clever, and he Mendal to high school. At that time people attended high school. However, since his father could not give him enough money, he always went . Luckily, the other students always gave him food from their Later, Mendal became a monk(修道士)and his studies. He took care of the gardens at the where he and the other monks lived, and he did with pea plants for eight years. He wanted to prove that parents features to their children. Around 1860, Mendal that plants have recessive and dominant(顯性的) genes.

He grew a tall pea plant with a short pea plant. Every one of the first generation of four pea plants was tall. This that tall was the dominate gene. in the next generation of four pea plants, one plant was very . The recessive short genes it received from both of its parents had made it short.

From these experiments, he understood that dominant genes the most often in the . Recessive genes only appeared and only when both parents carried the genes for the features.

To his finding with others, he wrote a paper. But during his lifetime, no one what he had discovered. At the time of his death, he still felt very sad.

, his important discovery was accepted in 1990. We now know that both plants and animals have genes and that genes play a major role in we look, how we act, and whether or not we are to get certain diseases. Today we honor Mendal as Father of hereditizm(遺傳學(xué)).

1.A. drove B. sent C. forced D. had

2.A. few B. a few C. many D. a lot

3.A. anxious B. crazy C. hungry D. straight

4.A. plates B. dining-rooms C. dorms D. lunches

5.A. lasted B. stuck C. started D. continued

6.A. village B. hometown C. temple D. school

7.A. researches B. surveys C. observations D. experiments

8.A. passed B. gave C. offered D. hid

9.A. noticed B. discovered C. declared D. prove

10.A. agreed B. meant C. announced D. informed

11.A. Thus B. Instead C. Despite D. Yet

12.A. strange B. fine C. short D. cool

13.A. showed up B. stood out C. set aside D. turned on

14.A. parents B. students C. children D. monks

15.A. seldom B. sometimes C. actually D. mainly

16.A. compare B. share C. satisfy D. cooperate

17.A. concerned with B. worried about C. trusted in D. cared about

18.A. However B. Though C. Finally D. Regardless

19.A. how B. what C. where D. which

20.A. possible B. obvious C. able D. likely

Once upon a time, there was a lovely vegetable field, on which grew a very thick tree. Both the vegetables and the tree gave the place a wonderful appearance, which was the joy of the garden’s owner. What no one knew was that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn’t stand each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow, because it left them only just enough light to survive. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they drank nearly all the water before it could get to him, leaving him with just enough to survive.

The situation became so extreme that the vegetables got totally fed up and decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree answered back by refusing to give the vegetables shadow from the hot midday sun, so they both began to dry up. Before long, the vegetables were really thin and the tree’s branches were drying up.

Neither of them thought that the gardener, on seeing his vegetable field becoming worse, would stop watering it. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables really learned what thirst was. There seemed to be no solution, but one of the vegetables, a small courgette（小胡瓜）, understood what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Despite the little water and the unbearable heat, the little courgette did all he could to grow, grow...He managed to grow so big that the gardener started watering the field again. The gardener wanted to enter that beautiful big courgette in some gardening contest.

And so the vegetables and the tree realized that it was better to help each other than to fight. They should really learn how to live in harmony with those around them, doing the best they could. So they decided to work together, using both the shadow and the water in the best combination to grow good vegetables. Seeing how well they were doing, the gardener now gave the best of care to his vegetable field, watering it better than any other field for miles around.

1.What is the problem between the tree and the vegetables?

A. They looked down upon each other.

B. They didn’t leave water to each other.

C. They couldn’t stand each other.

D. They didn’t know how to protect themselves.

2.What is the result of the fight between the tree and the vegetables?

A. They grew taller and stronger.

B. They were both drying up.

C. The tree defeated the vegetables.

D. The vegetables defeated the tree.

3.The courgette thought of ways to solve the conflict by .

A. making peace with the tree

B. working together with other vegetables

C. entering the gardening contests

D. growing big enough

4.What can we learn from this passage?

A. We ought to live in harmony with others.

B. We ought to save as much water as possible.

C. We ought to learn from each other in some ways.

D. We ought to learn to respect each other.