I’ll _______ the matter as soon as possible. Just have a little patience.

A. look over B. look on

C. look into D. look for

I have finished a large part of the book; the rest ______ more difficult.

A. were B. are C. was D. is

As is known to us all, English books of this kind ______ well in middle schools.

A. sell B. sells

C. is sold D. are sold

Look, dark clouds are gathering. It is________ to rain soon.

A. probably B. possibly

C. likely D. perhaps

They each _____ a new dictionary.

A. has B. have C. is D. are

_____ Tom liked to eat was different from ______.

A. That…that you had expected

B. What …that you had expected

C. That…what you had expected

D. What…what you had expected

_____ the assignment made his father lose his temper .

A. The boy’s not having done

B. The boy not having done

C. The boy’s having not done

D. The boy having not done

At that time it was difficult to have one’s body after his or her death.

A. preserving B. preserved

C. preserve D. to be preserved

Garage sales (舊貨市場(chǎng)) are a strange pastime. I am not interested in other people’s items. My mother was, and she convinced me to her. We went to several garage sales and finally stopped at a cottage. The owner told me that he and his wife were moving away. His wife had been a (n) before she retired.

As we were the sale items, I heard the gentleman’s wife say her name to someone, and I realized who she was. She looked at me and said, “ You are Lisa Miller.” I at her in awe（驚嘆）for it had been thirty years I had been in her class.

My mother to her for any trouble I might have caused. She that if this woman remembered me after so many years, I must have done something . My teacher looked at my mother and said, “Oh, no, she was very good,” and my mother watched her in .

My teacher explained during the last week of school, I brought her a . She told us she planted the Lamb’s Ear in her garden. She looked at me and said, “Every day when I leave my house, I think of you. And when I come home these plants me, and I think of you.” welled up in my eyes. There at her home, among all her , was a piece of my life that she had nurtured(培養(yǎng)).

In that moment, she taught me more about life than I could . We give pieces of ourselves every day without thought or expectation. We seldom envision(展望) the that we have on others’ lives. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a (n) part of a life. In the end it is not the big things that , but the small things that make all the difference in the world. I never had a chance to thank her, but I hope she took a Lamb’s Ear with her to her new home.

1.A. brokenB. unwantedC. frozenD. desired

2.A. accompanyB. attachC. arrangeD. accomplish

3.A. cruelB. lonelyC. elderlyD. lovely

4.A. driverB. pianistC. athleteD. teacher

5.A. exchangingB. instructingC. selectingD. exposing

6.A. nervouslyB. immediatelyC. strangelyD. automatically

7.A. staredB. smiledC. glancedD. glared

8.A. afterB. whileC. sinceD. because

9.A. appealedB. apologizedC. laughedD. shouted

10.A. suspectedB. doubtedC. thoughtD. wondered

11.A. toughB. terribleC. flexibleD. practical

12.A. peaceB. dangerC. disbeliefD. need

13.A. bookB. phoneC. diamondD. plant

14.A. possessB. impressC. greetD. observe

15.A. TearsB. HappinessC. PromisesD. Laughter

16.A. aimsB. belongingsC. figuresD. exhibitions

17.A. needB. planC. imagineD. guess

18.A. sensesB. benefitsC. effectsD. pains

19.A. appropriateB. necessaryC. braveD. mild

20.A. careB. matterC. dependD. remain

What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定義) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph by showing we’re better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers, all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons--that is, putting it clearly, on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else’s expense.

Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes, especially those involving cruelty, are so popular with certain people.

Besides, all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it’s different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant, depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool, we don’t laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in, the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke?teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens, and so we laugh.

1.According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on________.

A. showing inferiority in another person or group

B. resulting in a sense of success

C. having a good opinion of other people

D. making people laugh unexpectedly

2.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.

B. When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes.

C. People who like jokes are usually cruel.

D. To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.

3.What will a good joke?teller always try to do?

A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.

B. Make different things happen at the same time.

C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation.

D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.