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A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, everywhere. I tried to use a broom, with each swipe they just rolled across the kitchen．

For the next week, every time I was in the , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and . 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．

At the time I found those few remaining , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful .I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered（破碎）. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble his new surroundings and the of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．

When life gets you , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them you’ll start to feel whole again．

The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?

1.A．drink B．vegetable C．fruit D．meat

2.A．slipped B．walked C．ran D．moved

3.A．rubbed B．rolled C．grew D．existed

4.A． so B．a(chǎn)nd C．a(chǎn)lthough D．but

5.A．kitchen B．living room C．bedroom D．storeroom

6.A．turning up B．getting up C．taking up D．using up

7.A．left B．a(chǎn)te C．found D．planted

8.A．presents B．cans C．vegetables D．peas

9.A．woman B．child C．man D．boy

10.A．for B．of C．with D．in

11.A．wife B．life C．son D．friend

12.A．a(chǎn)djusting to B．leading to C．turning to D．a(chǎn)dding to

13.A．thank B．loss C．help D．love

14.A．close B．near C．down D．wide

15.A．get it B．leave it C．take it D．make it

16.A．grew B．bought C．frozen D．collected

17.A．specially B．fortunately C．properly D．eventually

18.A．both B．a(chǎn)ll C．either D．each

19.A．move on B．put on C．bring on D．call on

20.A．while B．because C．or D．since

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I’ve learned that you reach Beijing last month for Chinese learning. How are you getting along your Chinese studies?

I’m pleasing to tell you that I’ll go to Beijing to take part in an English Speech Contest this summer vacation. However, I have a trouble preparing it. I don’t know how to gather useful information of your speech. And I am unfamiliar with the language style of the speech article, that is total different from the common article. Could you give me some advices on the above problems?

Looking forward to hear from you!

M: Excuse me, Madame. Could you tell me where I can stay in this town, please?

W: Of course, it’s my1.(please).You must be a2.(strange) here.

M: Yes, I am here for a tour.

W: OK, I see. That’s3.you are carrying a lot of things .There are lots of hotels, but they tend to be 4.(fair) expensive. And then there 5.(be) bed and breakfast places, which are much cheaper. And you can find out about them through looking in the paper, or just walking around the streets. They have signs in the window6. (say) “Bed and Breakfast”.

M: Are there any cheap hotels?

W: Oh, yes, of course.

M: 7. are they like?

W: They are OK. All you get is a bed, but they do tend to be very cheap.

M: Do I have to become 8.member?

W: Yes, you do. But it’s very easy to join, and there is an office along the road, 9. you can go and sign on.

M: It’s very kind_10. you to tell me so much about it. Thank you very much.

W: You’re welcome.

Five years after they disappeared, lost jewels belonging to the wife of a US ambassador to the Netherlands were found.

Dawn Arnall had already received an insurance payout for her loss. However, the misplaced gems had been found and held for safe keeping by a hotel she stayed in. staff were unaware that the jewels were worth $ 9m.

The world is full of forgetful people. A man in the English town of Reading even left a sausage casserole in a bus. The dish ended up in the Lost Property Office until it was recovered by his mother, eager for her dinner.

A walker in the Lake District had his food in his mouth but … what about his teeth? After climbing a hill in 2007, David Packer stopped for a chocolate bar. He took his false teeth out, wrapped them up in a tissue and just forgot about them. It took more than a year for the walker to be reunited with them.

Over the past 78 years passengers on London’s transport network have left behind items including human skulls and gas masks from World War II. Since 1934, staff have handled an average of 200 000 items a year. Recently they have used computers to try to track down their owners.

But if you find something and can’t locate the rightful owner, is it finders keepers? It depends on what’s found and how, says John Spencer, professor of law at the University of Cambridge.

“If you pick up a coin, you can keep it unless you saw someone drop it, as you wouldn’t be able to find the owner by taking reasonable steps.”

If it’s a larger sum, you should report it to the police but if the item has been abandoned, the property is yours. One man’s loss is another man’s gain!

1.Dawn Arnall is mentioned in the first two paragraphs to .

A. attract readers’ attention to the jewellery

B. introduce the topic

C. make a summary

D. get people think

2.Judging from the examples given in the third, fourth and fifth paragraphs, people can be .

A. generous B. experienced

C. forgettable D. honest

3.What does the underlined part in the sixth paragraph mean?

A. It depends on the law whether to keep something you find.

B. One man’s loss is another man’s loss too.

C. It’s immoral to keep something that doesn’t belong to you.

D. Whoever finds something can keep it.

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增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號（），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞，

注意：1．每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞。

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Li Hua has been living in the city with his parents after he was born. During the past Spring Festival, his parents take him back to their hometown in the countryside for the first time, it made them all happy, especially his grandparents. He enjoyed staying with his grandparents as well as ran in the open air. He took a lot of pictures of the things that seemed strangely and new. He shared his pictures with his friends in the city on Internet. They showed great interest in one of the picture, arguing that he must be about a new kind of hamburger they hadn’t tasted yet. Some friends wouldn’t wait any longer and called on him for answer. After answered several calls, Li Hua quit their QQ group.

There are as many as five student clubs in our school．You can join _____ interests you most．

A． whatever B． whichever

C． whenever D． wherever

— I’ve never seen you so rude!

— I _____ something I shouldn’t have, but I didn’t mean that．

A． have said B． had said

C． did say D． was saying

Some hard working students always keep a torch in their dormitories _____ there is a power failure．

A． if B． unless

C． so that D． in case

The class teacher was anxious to hear one of his top students _____ because of family move．

A． will leave B． is leaving

C． was leaving D． has left

I _____ through the hard time but for my teacher’s generous and timely help．

A． couldn’t have gone B． could go

C． mustn’t have gone D． hadn’t gone