Paul has always regretted ______ the car. Now he has to take the bus to work.

A. to sell B. selling C. sold

Why didn’t you stop those children _______ in the lake? It was too dangerous.

A. swim B. to swim C. from swimming

—_______ is said that we’ll have a school trip next month.

—Sounds great!

A. One B. This C. It

Our school library is very beautiful and it _______ last year.

A. builds B. . was built C. is built

Ann, you ______ shut the door, or the rain will come in.

A. must B. can’t C. mustn’t

How great the driver was! He ______ to avoid an accident this morning.

A. managed B. refused C. continued

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先通讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從A、B、C三個選項中選擇最佳答案。

Cars are very popular in America. When the kids are fourteen years old. They dream of having their own ______. Many students work after school to _____ a car. In most places _____ people learn to drive in high school. They have to take a _____ test to get a license. Learning to drive and getting a driver’s ______ may be one of the most exciting things in their lives. For many, that piece of paper is an important symbol(象征)that they are now grown-ups.

Americans seem to love their cars almost more than anything else. People almost never go to see a doctor when they are _______. But they will take _____ cars to a “hospital” at the smallest sign of a problem. At weekends, people ______ most of the time in washing and waxing(打蠟) their cars. For some families it is not enough to have _____ car. They often have two or even three. Husbands need a car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or _______ activities.

1.A. cars B. computers C. bikes

2.A. borrow B. buy C. lend

3.A. old B. tall C. young

4.A. language B. listening C. driving

5.A. address B. license C book

6.A. sick B. healthy C. pleased

7.A. his B. her C.. their

8.A. cost B. take C. spend

9.A. no B. one C. some

10.A. other B. another C. others

Let's look at two old but popular inventions we use in our daily life.

Band－Aids(創(chuàng)可貼)

The first Band－Aid was made by American Earle Dickson in 1921.The idea came to him by chance. Dickson's wife often cut her fingers in the kitchen. At that time gauze(紗布) and adhesive tape (膠帶)didn't come together. People had to cut them to the right size. Dickson found they were always too big and soon fell off. So he put a piece of gauze on the centre of a piece of tape. This is how he made the first Band-Aid.Later，Dickson's new inventions became very popular all around the world.

Bubble gum(泡泡糖)

Bubble gum was invented by accident. In 1928，American gum company worker Walter E. Diemer played around with new chewing gum recipes（口香糖配方）. Chewing gum had already been invented more than half a century before then. But Diemer found that the gum he made was easy to blow. He blew a bubble and then saw the possibilities. He took some of his new gum to a shop and it sold out in a single afternoon. Since then，Dubble Bubble—the first brand of bubble gum—has made kids happy all around the world.

1.Dickson's wife often ________ in the kitchen.

A. hurt her fingers

B. made bubble gum

C. played with new recipes

2.Before the Band-Aid was invented，________.

A. people had to cut the gauze and adhesive tape to the right size

B. people had to cover the cut with a piece of cloth

C. people had to be careful to cut the gauze quite big

3.Bubble gum was invented by ________.

A.a doctor B. a gum company worker C. a housewife

4.Bubble gum was invented around ________ years after chewing gum was invented.

A.30 B.50 C.80

5.Diemer's bubble gum sold out during ________.

A. a day B. a morning C. an afternoon

A rich young man decided that he would like to do some diving(潛水) in the sea, so he bought a diving suit and all the other things that he needed, and took some lessons at a diving school. Then one day he walked into the water by himself and began to explore（探索） the bottom（底部）of the sea. He saw a lot of beautiful fish and other things, and then, after half an hour, he suddenly saw a man waving（搖動）his arms and legs around wildly near the bottom of the sea. He was wearing only a bathing suit. The rich young man was very surprised to see him, so he took out a plastic notebook and a special pencil, which could write under water, and wrote, “What are you doing here?” He showed the notebook to the other man, who then took the pencil and wrote, “Drowning!”（溺水）

1.What did the rich young man want to do?

A. driving B. diving C. walking

2. How did he prepare himself for this?

A. He bought all the things needed for diving.

B. He took a diving lesson.

C. both A andB

3.What did he first see at the bottom of the ocean?

A. some fish B. some plants C. a man with a bathing suit

4.What did he see later?

A. some sea animals B . a man with a bathing suit C. some rocks

5.What was the other man doing?

A. swimming B . diving C.. drowning

If someone says to you: “give me five”, do not search your pocket to get five yuan! It will make others laugh! The person's not asking for your money, but your fingers. In the US, "give me five" or "give me the high five" is a popular gesture (動作). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means the clapping (拍) of each other's raised (舉起的) right hands together.

People do it when they meet for the first time or something happy happens. For example, a student has good marks in exams or wins a lottery ticket (彩票).If a football team wins a game, the players will give high fives to everyone around to celebrate.

This gesture may come from the old Roman（羅馬） gesture of raising the right arm for the emperor(皇帝). This showed that the person raising his arm did not have a sword (刀) in his hand.

Why not try to give the high five to your friends?

1.“Give me five” is a gesture to _______.

A. make people laugh

B. ask for money

C. celebrate success

2.The gesture “give me five” is the clapping of _______.

A. toes B. hands C. arms

3.When you ______, you give your friends high fives.

A. lose your money

B. pick up some money

C. win a football game

4.The gesture started in _______ according to the story.

A. Rome B. America C. China

5. Why did the Romans raise the right arm for the emperor? Because ______.

A. they wanted to show there were no swords in their hands.

B. they were happy to see the emperor

C. they wanted to show their respect to the emperor.