1. The research will take Joanna and Paul about five months; it will be a long time        we meet them again.

  Something interesting 1.        (happen) by the end of the last Christmas shopping hour in London. A poor man,who,though no fault of his own,2.        (find) that he himself 3.        (lock) in a big store late on Christmas Eve.

 No doubt the store was crowded with people buying presents and the assistants 4.        (be) dead beat and wanted to go home. It seemed that all the necessary checks 5.        (make) before the store was locked,and the assistants 6.          (go) home to enjoy the three-day holiday.

  However,the man was still in the store. When he 7.        (realize) that，he decided to make the best of it. In the store,of course,there was plenty of food,drink and bedding. There must 8.        (be) radios and television sets,which no one could tell whether the man 9.        (use) .  When the store reopened，the man was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside him. He seemed to have been very happy. Everyone else was enjoying Christmas,so he saw no reason why he 10.        (do) the same.  Happily enough he let the police take him away. Perhaps he 11.        (have) a better Christmas than usual. It was reported that the man would have to stay in prison for seven days. It seemed,however,the judge was not going to do anything for the store，as he said that the store 12.        (become) better

known through the story in the newspaper and on television.

5. —When will you come to see me,Dad?

—I will go to see you when you will finish the training course.       

4. It has been five years when we graduated,but those memories are as sweet as ever before.           

3. It was some time when we realized the truth.           

2. He was about to tell me the secret while someone patted him on the shoulder.                                                                                  

單句改錯(cuò)

1. —Did Jack come back early last night?

—Yes. It was not yet eight o’clock until he arrived home.           

  In the last fifty years,a lot of people have left Europe and gone to live inAustralia. One of them was a Hungarian man. He lived inAustraliafor a long time,and he had a lot of good friends there. He always said to them,“Australia is beautiful,butHungaryis beautiful,too. ” Then one year he said to his friends, “I’m going to go back toHungaryto visit my hometown. ” All his friends said to him, “We want to go with you,because you often sayHungaryis a beautiful country,and we want to visit it. ” The Hungarian Australian took his friends from Sydney to Rome in a big plane,and then they went from Rome to Budapest in a train as they wanted to see the mountains，and the villages and the towns.

They stayed in Budapest nearly a week,and they liked it very much. One day they went to the zoo in Budapest and saw two kangaroos there.

These Australians were very happy because kangaroos were from their hometown. They said to them, “Come here,old friends!Come and see your Australian brothers!” But the kangaroos did not move.

But then the Hungarian Australian spoke to them in Hungarian. “Come here!” he said，and both of the kangaroos ran to him.

The other Australians laughed and said, “Look at that. They’re Australians,but they only know Hungarian!”

1. The Hungarian possibly moved toAustralia           .

   A. last year

   B.  a few years ago

   C.  about 50 years ago

   D.  over 100 years ago

2. The Hungarian wanted to go back toHungaryto            ,

   A. see the kangaroos

   B.  visit his hometown

   C.  visit his old friends there

   D.  pay a visit to the zoo

3. How did they get to Budapest from Sydney?

   A. By air and by train.   B. By ship.

   C.  By air.   D. By train.

4. Kangaroo is a kind of famous         in Australia.

   A. animal   B. tree

   C.  language   D. plant

  Music is the food of love,according to poets. And classical music,it seems,may be fine rain for restaurants. The music of Mozart,Bach and Beethoven played in restaurants makes diners feel richer and encourages them to spend money,according to the research made by the University of Leicester in centralEngland.

“When you hear a piece of music,it activates(激活)   all types of knowledge,^ said Adrian North,a senior lecturer in psychology at a university who carried out tests in a restaurant near Leicester over a period of three weeks. “If you hear classical music，it gives you the feeling of wealth and it makes you feel a bit noble.In a restaurant,this has the effect of making you spend a bit more money. ” Researchers found that classical music，often connected with wealth,was the most successful in encouraging people to pay cash,with diners spending more than 24 pounds a head.

But when the music was Britney Spears’，diners spent less than 22 pounds a head，they found. With no background music，spending fell to around 21 pounds. “Where people were really spending the money was on the luxurious(奢侈的) things，such as desserts and coffees，” said James Davis， owner of Softleys Restaurant in Market Bosworth，where the research was carried out. He also said, “I think this research will certainly affect what we will play in the future. ”

1. How did people feel while listening to classical music?

   A. They only feel noble.

   B.  They feel they are luxurious.

   C.  They feel that they are a little noble and wealthy.

   D.  They have the feeling that money is less important.

2. Which music has the most obvious effect on people’s spending?

   A. Britney Spears’ music.

   B.  Classical music.

   C.  Pop music.

   D.  Not mentioned in the passage.

3. What does the underlined sentence mean?

   A. People like to have desserts and coffees.

   B.  The desserts and coffees are very expensive.

   C.  People spend money in enjoying music in restaurants.

   D.  Having desserts and coffees makes people spend more money.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that          .

   A. James Davis might accept the idea

   B.  most people don’t believe the idea

   C.  restaurants will never play Britney Spears’music

   D.  every restaurant will play classical music in the future

5. What is the best title of the passage?

   A. Classical music makes diners spend more money

   B.  Music and restaurants

   C.  Diners love music

   D.  Music is the food of love

W ： I saw a beautiful fish in the market the other day. It was orange and

blue. I m thinking of 1.        (buy) some next Sunday.

M ： Where would you keep them?

W ： In that round bottle over there.

M： It’s a bit small,2.        it?

W ： 3.        are the fish.

M： I think you should get a tank 4.        you want to keep fish.

W： Really?

M： Yes. You 5.        never keep fish in a small round bottle. They don’t get enough air. I suggest we go 6.          (shop) together and look for a nice tank.

W ： 7.        might be quite expensive.

M： Check the prices before you buy 8.          .  And you ought to put a few large rocks in the tank. Fish love swimming around the rocks and through holes in them.

W： Is there anything else that I ought 9.        (get) ?

M： Yes,you need to get some underwater plants. For one thing they keep the water clean. Also they make the tank look much 10.        (pretty) .