We could invite John and Barbara to the Friday night party.

Yes, ____? I'll give them a call right now.

A. why not B. what for C. why D. what

_____ not to hang out at midnight, the boy headed home soon.

A. Reminding B. Having reminded

C. Reminded D. To remind

True friendship is like sound health, _____ value is seldom known until it is lost.

A. whose B. of which C. as D. which

Betty’s parents are away for the week, so I think I’d go over to keep her _____.

A. company B. firm C. absence D. favor

—_____ do you like the match?

—More exciting than _____.

A. How; to expect B. How; expected

C. What; expected D. What; to expect

It is the test system, rather than the teachers,_______ is to blame for the students' heavy burden nowadays.

A. who B. this C. that D. whom

—Jane always tries to ____.

—That’s true. She always compares herself with her friends and neighbours.

A. sleep in B. get around

C. make ends meet D. keep up with the Joneses

-— Someone wants you on the phone．

-— _____nobody knows I am here.

A. Although B. And C. But D. So

One day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me he had a good in Chicago and he wondered if I to know him.For a moment, I thought he might be ,but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was .I felt like saying that it was ridiculous to think that all the millions of people in Chicago I could possibly have ever bumped into his friend. But, , I just smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very city.He nodded, and I thought he was going to be content to the subject and talk about something else.But he was silent for a few minutes, and then began to tell me all about his friend.

His friend's main in life seemed to be tennis, and he had his own tennis court.A lot of people have swimming pools, yet only two people have private tennis court and his friend in Chicago was one of .I told him that I knew several people like that, my brother, a doctor in California. He __ that maybe there were more private courts in the country he realized, Then he asked me where my brother in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence his Chicago friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said that really was a coincidence (巧合) because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had the house next to my brother's house.

“Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He and said,“Yes. Would your brother's name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my to laugh.“Yes,” I replied.

1.A.friend B. brother C.neighbour D.teacher

2.A.managed B.tried C.happened D.wanted

3.A.expecting B.lying C.talking D.joking

4.A.funny B.serious C.careful D.disappointed

5.A.against B.far from C.beyond D.out of

6.A.instead B.actually C.indeed D.exactly

7.A.clean B.messy C.large D.small

8.A.begin B.reject C.refuse D.drop

9.A.problem B.choice C.interest D.work

10.A.just B.even C.ever D.surely

11.A.them B.those C.that D.whom

12.A.regarding B.including C.concerning D.considering

13.A.admitted B.argued C.advised D.announced

14.A.as B.that C.than D.when

15.A.traveled B.studied C.lived D.worked

16.A.if B.because C.then D.though

17.A.friend B.doctor C.neighbour D.player

18.A.hired B.visited C.designed D.sold

19.A.smiled B.nodded C.cried D.laughed

20.A.chance B.turn C.time D.pleasure

I used to think of myself as a person learned in books, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and an Australian book, my literature collection only consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I couldn’t ever found anything in translation. My reading was limited to stories by English-speaking authors.So, at the start of 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country in a year to find out what I was missing.

With no idea where to get those books, I was unlikely to find publications from nearly 200 nations on the shelves of my local bookshop, so I decided to ask the readers all over the world for help. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.

The response was amazing. People all over the world were getting in touch with me, offering ideas and book lists. Some posted me books from their home countries. In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan’s Ak Welsapar and Panama’s Juan David Morgan, sent me unpublished translations of their novels, giving me a rare opportunity to read works unavailable in Britain. Even with

such an extraordinary team of bibliophiles(愛書者) behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task. With translations making up only around 4.5 per cent of literary works published in the UK, getting English versions of stories was tricky.

One by one, the books from the countries on the list filled my heart with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. Lands that had once seemed exotic and remote became close and familiar to me. At its best, I learned, reading makes the world real.

1.The author realized she was not a learned person when she found ________.

A. she could do nothing but read books

B. she didn’t have any translated books.

C. she had never been to Indian and Australian

D. she could only read simple English stories

2.What was the challenge the author set for herself?

A. Looking for publications to publish her own books.

B. Creating a blog to offer help to other readers.

C. Reading books from nearly 200 countries in a year.

D. Giving some suggestions on learning English.

3.It was not easy to find the books mainly because ________.

A. the readers were unwilling to offer help

B. there were too few translations in the UK

C. the author had no time and no chance to do it

D. the writers didn’t want to publish their books

4.We can infer that by reading the books from other countries, the author feels ________.

A. satisfied and rewarded

B. thankful and pitiful

C. calm and peaceful

D. bored and regretful