The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running, ______ meant spending tens of thousands of pounds.

A. who           B. that            C. as       D. which

Whenever he was asked why he was late for class, he would answer carelessly, always ______ the same thing.

A. saying        B. said            C. to say        D. having said

_______ environmental damage is done, it takes many years for the ecosystem (生態(tài)系統(tǒng)) to recover.

A. Even if              B. If only        C. While         D. Once

--- There is a story here in the paper about a 110-year-old man.

--- My goodness! I can’t imagine _________ that old.

A. to be          B. to have been      C. being         D. having been

I wish you’d do ________ talking and some more work. Thus things will become better.

A. a bit less     B. any less      C. much more        D. a little more

A poet and artist ________ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon.

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

We haven’t settled the question of ______ it is necessary for him to study abroad.

A. if        B. where        C. whether     D. that

I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real  1 .

He had gone out of the study for some  2 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see 3  was on his desk. In the  4  was a small piece of paper on which were written the  5  “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物傳記)”.

A(n)  6  boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the  7 . I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a  8  until the start of the exam so I could not  9  reading it.

When the headmaster  10 , I was looking out of the window.

I should have told him what had  11  then. It would have been so  12  to say: “I’m sorry, but I  13  the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to  14  it.”

The chance passed and I did not  15  it. I sat the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t  16  to cheat, but it was still cheating anyhow.

That was thirty-eight years  17  when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before,  18  have I tried to explain to myself why not.

The obvious explanation is that I could not admit I had seen the title  19  admitting that I had been looking at the things on his desk.  20  there must have been more behind it. Whatever it was, it has become a good example of how a little mistake can trap (使陷入) you in a more serious moral corner (道德困境).

1. A. plan                         B. fault                     C. grade                    D. luck

2. A. reason                      B. course                  C. example                D. vacation

3. A. this                          B. which                   C. that                      D. what

4. A. drawer                     B. corner                  C. middle                  D. box

5. A. names                      B. words                   C. ideas                    D. messages

6. A. honest                      B. handsome             C. friendly                 D. active

7. A. desk                        B. paper                    C. book                    D. answer

8. A. question                   B. key                       C. note                     D. secret

9. A. help                         B. consider                C. practise                D. forget

10. A. disappeared             B. stayed                   C. returned                D. went

11. A. existed                    B. remained               C. happened              D. continued

12. A. tiring                      B. easy                     C. important              D. difficult

13. A. saw                       B. gave                     C. set                       D. made

14. A. repeat                     B. defend                  C. correct                 D. change

15. A. take                       B. have                     C. lose                      D. find

16. A. remember               B. learn                     C. mean                    D. pretend

17. A. past                       B. ago                       C. then                     D. before

18. A. either                     B. never                    C. nor                       D. so

19. A. by                          B. besides                 C. through                D. without

20. A. But                       B. Though                 C. Otherwise          D. Therefore

The Marches were a happy family. Poverty, hard work, and even the fact that Father March was away with the Union armies could not down the spirits of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Marmee, as the March girls called their mother.

The March sisters tried to be good but had their share of faults. Pretty Meg was often displeased with the schoolchildren she taught; boyish Jo was easy to become angry; golden-haired schoolgirl Amy liked to show up; but Beth, who kept the house, was loving and gentle always.

   The happy days passed and darkness came when a telegram arrived for Mrs. March. “Your husband is very ill,” it said, “come at once.” The girl tried to be brave when their mother left for the front. They waited and prayed. Little Beth got scarlet fever (猩紅熱) when she was taking care of the sick neighbor. She became very ill but began to recover by the time Marmee was back. Then Father came home from the front and at that joyful Christmas dinner they were once more all together.

  Three years later the March girls had grown into young womanhood. Meg became Mrs. Brooke, and after a few family troubles got used to her new state happily. Jo had found pleasure in her literary efforts. Amy had grown into a young lady with a talent for design and an even greater one for society. But Beth had never fully regained her health, and her family watched her with love and anxiety.

  Amy was asked to go and stay in Europe with a relative of the Marches’. Jo went to New York and became successful in her writing and had the satisfaction of seeing her work published there. But at home the bitterest blow was yet to fall. Beth had known for some time that she couldn’t live much longer to be with the family and in the springtime she died.

   News came from Europe that Amy and Laurie, the grandson of a wealthy neighbor, had planned to be married soon. Now Jo became ever more successful in her writing and got married to Professor Bhaer, and soon afterwards founded a school for boys.

   And so the little women had grown up and lived happily with their children, enjoying the harvest of love and goodness that they had devoted all their lives to.

1. The members of the March family were Father March, Mrs. March and their _______.

   A. four daughters                 B. five daughters   

C. son and four daughters      D. son and five daughters

2. Who was the most successful in career (事業(yè)) among the March girls?

  A. Jo.                     B. Beth.                 C. Amy.                 D. Meg. 

3. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

  A. The March Family                    B. The March Parents  

C. The March Girls                  D. The March Relatives

4. It can be inferred from the passage that the March family had ______.

  A. both happiness and sadness      B. wealthy neighbors 

  C. more girls than boys                        D. a lot of rich relatives

  The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson and it was shown in Sweden in 1997. Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born. Two years later in Holland , the first series of Big Brother was filmed. Again, it was a great success and the final program was watched by 15 million people. Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens. The ordinary people who take part in the programs are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big, big business.

  For the TV producers, reality TV is a dream come true because many of the programs cost nothing to make. At some point, the television viewers are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply to take part in the show. It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows. One of the most popular shows is Pop Idol. In the show a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars. TV viewers vote for their favorite person on the show. The winner makes a record and millions of copies of the record are sold. His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of newspapers, and then, they are quickly forgotten.

   But not everyone is happy about reality TV. In Portugal, two TV channels got into trouble because they showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows. In France, reality TV is called “rubbish TV” and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week. In Greece, Big Brother was described as “ against human rights and civilization”.

1. Those who take part in the reality TV shows are usually _____.

  A. common people     B. pop TV stars   C. attractive people    D. famous film stars  

2. Who would pay for the cost of the reality TV shows according to the passage?

  A. TV producers who make reality TV shows

  B. TV actors who take part in reality TV shows.

  C. TV viewers who telephone reality TV shows

  D. TV companies which broadcast reality TV shows

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

   A. Pop Idol is one of the popular reality TV shows in the world.

   B. Big Brother was one of the first reality TV shows in the world.

C. Rubbish TV is one of the personal reality TV shows in the world.

D. Expedition Robinson was the first reality TV shows in the world.

4. It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

 A. everyone is happy about reality TV.

 B. reality TV will do well in many countries.

 C. all the people in Europe are in favor of reality TV

   D. reality TV will not be broadcast in any countries.