Neither I nor Amy ______ to attend the business conference if we are busy.

_______, the teacher asked whether anyone wished to ask a question.

Study shows that walking fast at your old age is a ___ that you will live a long life.

The____of hanging clothes across the street is a common sight in many parts of the city.

reminded

One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to       Mr. Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house. As they got    , Janet saw him sitting in his front yard and           they should cross over to the other side of the street. Janet was      of the strange old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.
Amy said not to      . Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown （皺眉頭）.       , when he saw it was Amy, a broad    changed his entire face as he said, “Hello Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little         with you today.”
Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying        and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson said that sounded       , and gave them each a freshly picked        off his tree.
When they         Dawson’s house, Janet asked Amy, “How come he was so         to us?”
Amy         that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very         and she was afraid of him, but she      he was wearing an invisible （看不見的）smile and so she         smiled back at him. After some time, he started smiling real smiles and then started        to her. Now he always    her an apple, and was always very kind.
Smiles are contagious （感染他人的）. If you pretend he is smiling an invisible  smile at you and you smile back at him,         he will really smile.

Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address (="tell)" it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
【小題1】We can infer that passage is to ________.

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. I am one of those unfortunate people who have        sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get        on my way there. When I was young I was so       that I never dared ask strangers the way and so I used to      round in circles and hope that I would happen to get to the place I was heading for. I am              too shy to ask people for directions, but I often       replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will      on telling you the way, even if they do not know it ; others who are      to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long        of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to       between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the        direction. If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a      to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong       but even this can have embarrassing (尷尬的) results. Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would     him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my        reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I      that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and       him in the crowd behind me       I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting. Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the      man who had asked for directions to my office and his      when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

twice

--- Shall we go out for dinner tonight?

--- _________.

A. That’s right. B. It must be funny.

C. That sounds great. D. Have a nice time.