-A woman answered the phone. I suppose it was his wife.
-It ________ his wife. She has been dead for ages.
科目：高中英語 來源：桂壯紅皮書活題巧解巧練 高考英語 題型：054
創(chuàng)新升級
America's latest strategy for single persons who don't want to be single any longer has marry names: speeding-dating, express-date, 10-minute-dating or simply mini-date.
The principle is the same: Why spend an 1 evening with a stranger 2 you realize after only the first few minutes that you can't 3 the person?
The solution: The man and woman sit down 4 each other. A bell is sounded, and in the next 7 to 10 minutes each one tries to find out as much as possible about the 5 persons. When the bell 6 off a second time; the man stands up and moves 7 to the next female.
At such a meeting in San Francisco 8 , some 200 men and women between the ages of 30 and 60 had a 9 expression on their faces, in two long 10 opposite each other. The signal was given, and then almost everybody started 11 away.
Richard Gosse, 12 of“AMERICAN SINGLES”, says this is the fastest, most effective and at the moment“ 13 ”way to search for a partner. Minute-date has become a 14 .everywhere from computer fans in Silicon Valley to young people in San. Francisco to the suburbs of Chicago. Gosse says the quick method to get to know each other is helpful above all for 15 singles who are not brave enough to speak to a stranger in a bar.
His 16 : Don't talk about money, your weight or about your former partner, but 17 about your dreams, desires and hobbies.
Most speed-dating meetings cost about US $ 25 per evening, 18 a person to get to know 15 to 20 people 19 the opposite sex. Speed-dating is so much in demand in America that most meetings are 20 out weeks and months in advance.
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科目：高中英語 來源：2004全國各省市高考模擬試題匯編(天利38套)·英語 題型：054
完形填空
閱讀下面短文，從后面所給各題的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
The London Tea Trade Centre is on the north bank of the River Thames. It is the centre of 1 of great importance in the 2 lives of the British. Tea is without 3 the British national drink: every man, woman and child over ten years of age has 4 average over four cups a day or some 1,500 cups a 5 . Some thirty percent of the world's exports of tea makes its 6 to London. Britain is by far the 7 importer(進(jìn)口商) of tea in the world. A large number of Samples (樣品) of tea brought into the country to 8 the national thirst go to the London Tea Trade Centre, where they are tasted by 9 professional tea tasters before being sold at each week's tea 10 . It is interesting to see them at 11 . Over a hundred samples are 12 in a line on long tables. Teas are generally tasted with milk, since that is how the 13 in Britain drink their tea. The tasters 14 down the line with surprising 15 , tasting each sample from a spoon and deciding what is a 16 price for each tea. The types of tea that are popular in Britain are 17 inexpensive but they are of a very 18 quality. The best are fine 19 of numerous teas from 20 sources (來源) and countries.
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科目：高中英語 來源：雙色筆記高年級英語2 題型：054
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
A．Shelter for the HomelessLast summer I was a volunteer(志愿者) at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn't working that summer and was 1 only two classes in summer school, so I had some 2 time.
Three nights a week, I 3 in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and 4 for 45 people hot meals 5 vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless people 6 this good food because many of them usually didn't eat well.
I 7 this volunteer work, making 8 with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student, 9 me.
I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories 10 me with sympathy(同情). Some of them had 11 with alcohol(酒) or drugs while others only had bad 12 . One woman worked for almost 30 years for a small company, and 13 she lost her job. She looked for a 14 job, but couldn't find one, for she was too 15 . She could do nothing but sell her furniture－sofas, chairs, and tables 16 she could pay for her food. The woman 17 on job hunting, but she 18 couldn't find one. She had no money for her 19 and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone, 20 , and homeless, she finally came to the shelter.
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科目：高中英語 來源：雙色筆記高年級英語2 題型：054
多項選擇式完形填空題
Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till I'd got one.
I had seen an agency(中介機(jī)構(gòu)) advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the 1 in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as 2 as if I were going on the stage. Finding the 3 quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter without knocking, if you please.”
The simple atmosphere of the office 4 me. The woman looked carefully at me 5 through her glasses, and then 6 me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather 7 . She wondered why I was looking for this sort of 8 . I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be 9 to get a job without 10 . I wondered whether I ought to leave, 11 the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say, “ 12 , I've got someone in the 13 at this very moment who might 14 .” She wrote down a 15 , and held it out to me, saying, “Ring up this lady. She wants a 16 immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.” “Oh yes,” said I 17 having cooked for more than four in my life. I 18 her again and again, and rushed out to the 19 telephone box I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.
I spent the next few hours 20 cook books.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
完形填空 （共20小題，滿分33分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從16-35各題所給的四個選項中，選擇最佳答案。
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist(打擊樂器獨奏演員) though she was a disabled woman.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 16 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 17 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion(酷愛) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 18 . Doctors told me that the nerve (神經(jīng)) damage was the 19 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 20 me.”
“My 21 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 22 to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play using my feet and can 23 the pitch of a note(音調(diào)高低) by the vibrations(振動). I feel through my body and through my 24 . My entire sound world exists by making full ___25___ of every sense that I have.”
“I was 26 to be considered as a musician, but not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 27 this before and some teachers were ___28___ to admit me. However, based on my performance, I was 29 admitted and went on to 30 with great honour.”
“After that, I became a full-time solo percussionist. I 31 a lot of musical pieces since 32__ had been written specially for solo percussionists.”
“I have been a soloist for over ten years. 33 the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t 34 that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 35 by others’ attitude. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”
A. conditions B. opinions C. actions D. suggestions
A. enjoying B. choosing C. taking D. giving
A. sight B. hearing C. touch D. taste
A. evidence B. result C. excuse D. cause
A. left B. excited C. supported D. disappointed
A. achievement B. decision C. promise D. goal
A. turned B. learned C. used D. ought
A. tell B. see C. hear D. smell
A. carefulness B. idea C. imagination D. experience
A. use B. effort C. feeling D. idea
A. dissatisfied B. shocked C. determined D. unhappy
A. done B. accepted C. advised D. admitted
A. learning B. excited C. willing D. unwilling
A. usually B. finally C. possibly D. hopefully
A. study B. research C. graduate D. progress
A. wrote B. translated C. heard D. read
A. enough B. some C. many D. few
A. However B. Although C. When D. Since
A. mean B. seem C. conclude D. say
A. failed B. beaten C. taught D. affected
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