—I’m afraid I couldn’t go to your birthday party.I have a test next Monday.

—Oh，        ！You’re my best friend and you must be there！

A.go ahead          B.come on       C.you needn’t      D.it doesn’t matter

The food in this restaurant is very good. You can’t find ______ restaurant in this town.

A. the better      B. a better      C. a best     D. the best

_____ here, come and have a cup of tea.

A. Passing           B. To pass           C. Pass                   D. Having passed

閱讀理解 （共20小題，每題2分， 共40分）

Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water! This is just one of hundreds of tips you might get if you have the hiccups(打嗝). Hiccups are so mysterious. We really don’t know why they start and why they stop. Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups. Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well. Others eat a teaspoon of sugar. Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it.

An American man named Jack O’Leary claimed to have hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years. He tried 60,000 cures, but none of them worked. Finally he prayed to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately.

It took a British plumber eight months to cure his hiccups. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well. He tried them all, but the hiccups continued. Finally, he drank a “secret” mixture someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone.

Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure.

_________ might be the best cure for hiccups.

A. Special pills             B. A spoonful of salt             C. Cold water

D. What you believe in

The plumber spent __________ in stopping his hiccups.

A. 4 hours    B. 2 days    C. 8 months    D. 8 years

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. We know why the hiccups start, but we don’t know how to stop them.

B. Saint Jude is an expert in curing the hiccups.

C. The British plumber drank a secret mixture given by an experienced doctor and then became well.

D. Some people think that a good scare is a cure for a case of hiccups.

What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Different ways to stop hiccups         B. What makes hiccups happen

C. How to get hiccups                         D. Jack O’Leary’s hiccups

When coal is burned in a boiler, two kinds of ash by-products are produced: a heavy bottom ash and a fine-as-powder fly ash. About 10 to 15 percent of the coal by-product is bottom ash which is used like sand on streets and highways covered with ice, and also on highways as paving material.

It is the fly ash, however, that is receiving much attention. Once considered a waste, fly ash is now regarded as a natural resource in the United States. It can be placed in some lower places, where it is compacted and covered with soil, for the seeds of various grasses and plants to be placed in the soil to make the land productive.

Fly ash may be added to concrete to build roads and other kinds of buildings, taking the place of the cement up to 20 percent. As a by-product of burned coal, fly ash requires no extra energy to be produced, while cement production requires great amounts of energy.

Besides, the technology is able to take out some useful minerals from the fly ash, which is still a very expensive process today. But the time may come when it is cheaper to take out these products from ash than to mine new supplies.

The bottom ash can be put on icy streets________.

       A. in order to rebuild them          B.  in order to make them colourful

       C. so that people can walk on them   D. so that cars can run faster

The fly ash_______ bottom ash.

       A. has the same use as             B.  is more expensive than

       C. has more uses than    D. is much cheaper than

The fly ash can be used to________.

       A. grow various plants   B.  take the place of soil

       C. cover productive land       D. make more productive land

Which of the following is right?

       A. To produce fly ash, some extra coal is to be burned.

       B.  Fly ash is made while producing cement.

       C. It takes less energy to produce fly ash than cement.

       D. Fly ash is a costless by-product.

The word “mine” in the last sentence of the passage means_______.

       A. to buy things from other countries

       B.  to search for useful materials in the mountains

       C. to dig deeply into the ground to get useful materials

       D. to take out certain materials from other things

Middle school students are not permitted _______.

A. to smoke                 B.  smoking         C. smoke        D. smoke d

I’m sure David will find the library—he has a pretty good ______ of direction.

  A. idea    B. sense   C. experience     D. feeling

—I wonder if you could go with me to the supermarket.

—Don，t disturb me. I _____my experiment report all the morning and haven，t finished yet.

A. write    B. was writing

C. have written D. have been writing

The key of life is to learn. The most important, in my opinion, is to gain the skill of communicating, know the _____ and weaknesses of us and others and _____ care.

  A. advantages; to     B. strengthes; \      C. advantages; \       D. strengths; \

-So what?

-I don’t want to ________ with you, man! We have already quarreled too much. Anyway, you should _______ if you are still a man.

  A. have a word; keep your words         B. have words; keep your word

  C. have words; keep your words          D. have a word, keep your word