With the help of the firefighters ,the workers managed to escape from burning mine , ___________.

   A )hungry and frightened     B)hungrily and frightening

   C )hungry and frightening    D) hungrily and frightened              

It’s difficult to _______ a conversation with someone who only says “yes” and “no”.

  A. put up   B. pick up   C. keep up   D. live up

.With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _________ each year.

A. is washing away                                    B. is being washed away

C. are washing away                                   D. are being washed away

．If I _________too late last night, I could not have fallen asleep in class.

       A．didn’t stay up          B．hadn’t stayed up

       C．don’t stay up           D．haven’t stayed up

 -- I will take part in the English lecture competition next week.

    -- ________.

    A. Come on       B. Congratulations   C. Good luck         D. Never mind

Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart．Both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists．

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon．The next day, this news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper．The Beldon Post:

FIRE AT SEABREEZE

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom．The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire．We say again to all our visitors： “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed．” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years．

    The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one：

    ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel．An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire．The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels．When I put my bedside light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp．” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield．

What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident．There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact．Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel．

    Now what do you think of the rest of the “news” ?

1．Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text?

       A．Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer．

       B．A fire broke out at night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer．

       C．It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers．

       D．Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter．

2．Which of the following are probably facts? 

       a．The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel．

       b．A cigarette started the fire．

       c．An old lamp started the fire．

       d．The fire broke out at night．

       e．There has never been a fire in Canfield．

       A．b and c     B．a(chǎn) and d     C．c and e     D．a(chǎn) and c

3．The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think _______．

       A．hotels in Beldon often catch fire

       B．hotels in Beldon don’t often catch fire

       C．this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

       D．Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe

4．The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that _______．

       A．the bedroom lamps were very old at the Seabreeze Hotel

       B．the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place

       C．the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other things

       D．such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years

The Antarctica is actually a desert.

The Antarctica is all ice all the year. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero at the South Pole. Explorers(探險家) used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snowfalls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture(水分) falls in parts of the Sahara.

The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts(融化). It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep, it is turned to ice by the weight of the snow above it.

1. Antarctica is called a desert because it _____.

A. is sandy

B. has the same temperature as a desert

C. has little moisture

D. all of the above

2. The Antarctica has _____.

A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara

B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara

C. about one-tenth the moisture of the Sahara

D. none of these

3. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it _____.

A. never stops falling

B. piles up year after year

C. never melts

D. Both B and C

4. The best title for this passage is “_____”

A. A Strange Continent

B. The Antarctica—An Ice Desert

C. Snowfall at the South Pole

D. The World’s Greatest Desert

 –Excuse me, _____ where is the nearest hospital?

   --Sorry, I am a stranger too.

   A. but   B. and   C. /   D. please 

 --You look troubled.

    --Father asked me to finish this task today. How can I _________ ？

    A. manage to      B. attampt to        C. decide to         D. happen to

With so many tress and flowers _____ about, our school campus looks like a beautiful garden.

      A．planted     B．to be planted    C．planting    D．being planted