---How much did your computer ________?

---It ________ me eight thousand yuan．

1. A.
   cost;cost
2. B.
   spend;took
3. C.
   take;spent
4. D.
   pay;cost

Each year this organization of men came to the Children's Home. The men would take us in groups of five to downtown to do some ___16___shopping.

I __17__ going with this gentleman three years in a row. He would ___18___ us shopping , then he would ask us if we wanted to go to the __19__. As he pulled his wallet out to pay for our tickets I watched him __20__. He looked over at me and just __21__ with his great big smile. During the movie he bought us all the popcorn and candy. I remember thinking how __22__ it was that someone would __23__ their own money on me. I remember thinking that he was like Santa Claus.

We all laughed at the __24__movie and had a good laugh about it. The man would laugh really hard and __25__ over and touch my hair to comfort me. I would just look at him, and he would just __26__ smiling with his great big wonderful smile. My nerve completely disappeared.

That trip to the movies was the first time in my life that I ever __27__as if someone really cared about me. It was a wonderful feeling which I have never forgotten, even to this day, __28__ later. I don't know if that man felt sorry for me, ___29___ I do know this: If I ever __30__ the big lottery, that man will find out that he carried a million-dollar smile.

This is ___31___I believe it is so important that the organizations __32__ to reach out and help the children who are less fortunate. __33__my particular case, it was this man's personal act of __34__ that will be remembered. Just one little act of kindness. 

I thank you, kind Sir, for a(n) __35__ which I now share with my children and grandchildren fifty years later.   

16. A. organization     B. season      C. weekend             D. Christmas  

17. A. appreciate              B. admit           C. remember  D.consider    

18. A. accompany             B. permit      C. take           D. bring

19. A.supermarket    B.airport            C. club               D. movies

20. A. closely                 B. nervously             C. delightedly         D. patiently

21. A. spoke             B. laughed                 C. smiled           D. answered

22. A. stupid                  B. strange            C. rare                   D. wonderful  

23. A. cost                    B. spend                C. contribute             D. pay

24. A. funny                   B. moving             C. boring           D. sad

25. A. glance                 B. run                          C. jump                  D. reach 

26. A. keep                        B. last                    C.start                        D. stop

27. A. seemed             B.acted             C. felt             D. thought       

28. A. months                B. weeks         C. decades      D. days 

29. A. and                      B. but               C. though                     D. so

30. A. lose                      B. buy               C. catch           D. win

31. A. when              B. because           C. why              D. how 

32. A. try               B. continue                C. intend           D. prepare

33. A. At             B. Under            C. In                 D. On

34. A. manners                  B. generosity       C. pleasure           D. kindness     

35. A. movie         B. memory              C. fortune                 D. smile 

完形填空：（共30分，每小題1.5分）

My 14-year-old son, John,  and I                        

 Spotted（挑出，察覺(jué)） the coat at the same time.  It was               

hanging at a （an）  36    clothing store. 

The coat had a black velvet collar（天鵝絨衣領(lǐng)）,  delightful

tailoring,  a Fifth Avenue label （標(biāo)簽） and a （an） 37    price of  $28.

We looked at   38   , saying nothing, 39   John’s eyes shone.  Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with   40  ,  but could    41   several hundred dollars new.

John  42   the coat.  He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious,  studied 43  that soon changed into a smile.  The   44   was perfect.  John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile.  “How did the kids like your coat? ”  I asked.  “They love it. ” He said, carefully    45  it over the chair and smoothing it flat.

Over the next few weeks, the _____46_____came over Jone. Quiet reasoned discussion was____47____argument. He became more thoughtful and eager to ___48______.“good dinner, Mum”he would say every evening .One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner, John said,“You are right, and I guess I will.”

When I    49   this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know   50  caused the changes,  she said with laughter,  “It must be his coat! ” At the library,  we  51  to meet a friend who had not seen our children for a long time.  “  52  this be John? ” He asked,  looking up to John’s new height and coat,  and extending his hand,  one gentleman to another.

John and I both knew we should never 53  a person’s clothes for the real person within them.  But there is something to be said for   54   a standard of excellence for the world to see,  for practicing standard of excellence in thought,  speech and behavior,  and for   55 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

A. second-hand        B. expensive       C. big             D. cheap

A. reasonable         B. unbelievable     C. special          D. average

A. each other         B. one another      C. the other         D. others

A. therefore          B. however         C. but             D. thus

A. adults            B. people           C. parents          D. teenagers

A. spend            B. cost             C. pay             D. take

A. touched          B. buttoned          C. held            D. obtained

A. gesture           B. expression        C. attitude         D. feeling

A. color             B. price            C. fit              D. style

A. pressing         B. taking            C. hanging         D. folding

A. happiness        B. satisfaction       C. change              D. generosity

A. because of          B. instead of         C. aware of             D. full of

A. please                B. understand        C. complain            D. apologize

A. mentioned          B. wrote            C. reported              D. explained

A. when            B. how             C. what            D. that

A. happened         B. came            C. intended         D. decided

A. Should           B. Would           C. Must            D. Could

A. watch            B. judge            C. mistake         D. consider

A. doing            B. showing          C. speaking        D. wearing

A. comparing        B. connecting        C. combining       D. matching

The space walk will last six and a half hours and the repair of Discovery is expected to __________ a little more than an hour.

A.take            B.cost            C.spend          D.adjust

Dear Dad,

I was very upset when I received your letter. I knew you  36  not like my results, but I didn’t realize you and Mum were so  37  with me. This has made me  38  very carefully about myself, and now I  39  how silly I have been.

My poor  40  have come from my own  41 . Of course, I want to do my best. I want you and Mum to be proud  42  me, but somehow when I get to school I just can’t keep my   43  on the subject and I stop  44  the teacher. So many other things seem so much more  45 , but I know that I must not  46  the chance you and Mum have given me. If I don’t work very hard  47  the next few months, I am going to get  48  results. So I am going to study hard this summer. And I will show Mum anything  49  I can’t understand so that she can give me help.

I  50  you will allow me to play some basketball. I think I need some exercise,   51 _ I will control the time I   52  on it properly.

If you want me to stop meeting Cindy, I will — but there is  53  serious. We are just good friends, and she often helps me  54  my schoolwork.

Dad, I am really sorry I have made you angry. I’m going to try my best to  55  my study. I promise that I will make you proud of me soon.

    Yours,

    Jimmy

1.A. will                      B. would        C. need                  D. should

2.A. angry                    B. upset         C. strict                   D. happy

3.A. talk                     B. speak          C. think                  D. hear

4.A. receive                   B. believe         C. insist                  D. realize

5.A. results                   B. memories     C. parents                 D. friends

6.A. stubbornness           B. carelessness     C. laziness                D. illness

7.A. of                   B. with           C. in                     D. for

8.A. head                      B. mind           C. eyes                 D. heart

9.A. listening to                B. to listen to      C. hearing              D. to hear

10.A. boring                  B. dull            C. beautiful            D. interesting

11.A. find                    B. share           C. waste                D. afford

12.A. during                  B. at             C. through             D. until

13.A. better                   B. best          C. poorer              D. poorest

14.A. which                   B. that          C. whom               D. what

15.A. wish                    B. advise        C. hope                D. decide

16.A. and                     B. but            C. so                 D. because

17.A. spend                  B. take           C. cost                D. pay

18.A. everything              B. something     C. anything             D. nothing

19.A. in                     B. on            C. with               D. by

20.A. develop                 B. improve              C. interest              D. finish