________my mathematics is very poor.

Don’t worry . I’ll help you________  I can.

A.  as far as   B. as soon as   C.  as quickly as  D. as possible as

I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout（付款臺） earlier today．All of the checkouts were    46   , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a（n）    47   ! She wasn’t happy with the number of checkouts      48    ; she wasn’t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn’t happy because this supermarket didn’t have a stand where she    49    scan her own shopping．

       I listened to her    50   looking around as I loaded（裝） my stuff onto the conveyor belt （傳送帶）．I didn’t want    51    to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I’d felt like letting someone go     52     of me, it wouldn’t be such a woman!

       But then I    53   back．Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl,    54    her granddaughter．The girl’s part of the shopping    55    some comic books．

       I couldn’t    56   it．I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt,     57    a space．“After you,” I said to the woman and the girl, and    58    them to a big     59    ．The woman was delighted, and even   60    to complain ---- until she was walking away．

       So,   61   bother（麻煩，費事） having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny’s complaint like a sponge（海綿）．She was learning how to    62    situations like that by listening to her granny．I’d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some   63    into the middle of it．We can all complain; we can all react    64    , but it doesn’t have to be like that．And, even if only for a few     65     , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way．

A．busy          B．big           C．free            D．empty

A．cry           B．argument        C．shout          D．complaint

A．opened        B．closed          C．left            D．done

A．would         B．need          C．could           D．must

A．beyond       B．without         C．with           D．by

A．something   B．nothing        C．everything           D．anything

A．ahead         B．behind       C．beside          D．back

A．went          B．looked         C．turned          D．jumped

A．only          B．surely           C．possibly        D．luckily

A．got       B．included        C．conclude       D．made

A．think        B．help          C．believe         D．forget

A．taking      B．leaving         C．bringing         D．keeping

A．returned     B．pleased         C．treated          D．served

A．smile       B．meal           C．joke            D．room

A．thanked     B．paid         C．checked        D．forgot

A．how         B．what          C．why            D．who

A．face          B．meet           C．handle          D．improve

A．truth        B．kindness       C．courage         D．money

A．actively    B．correctly       C．negatively    D．patiently

A．hours     B．chances         C．years           D．seconds

---Has your father returned from Africa yet?

       ---Yes, but he ____ here for only three days before his company sent him to Australia．

       A．was        B．has been         C．will be    D．would be

— How about buying Sam a mobile phone? After all, he isn’t a boy any more.

       —I think it necessary, for we sometimes want to make sure if he _______ home for dinner.

       A. will come        B. comes      C. has come                D. would come

After the new equipment was introduced，they produced ________machines this year as the year before.

A．as twice many        B．as many twice

C．twice as many        D．twice many as

With mum’s birthday around the corner, I have taken some money out of the bank _____ a present for her.

A．buy               B．to be bought

C．buying             D．to buy

The man from the west stopped and drew back his arm. “You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he said in a quick and angry way, “Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to pug.”“It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tall man, “you’ve been under arrest for ten minutes. Silky Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and phones us she wants to have a word with you. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. Now before we go to the station, here’s a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It’s from Patrolman Wells.?”The man from the West opened the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he finished. The note was rather short. Bob: I was at the right place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man (便衣) to do the job.

The man from the West must have broken the law _____.

A. in Chicago    B. in New York    C. in his hometown    D. somewhere else

The man from the West recognized the tall man not to be the one he had been waiting for because the tall man ____.

A. had a different accent from his       B. had a different nose from his friend’s

C. was his another old friend           D. said "Chicago wants to talk with you.?"

The two men may have walked _____.

A. for ten minutes    B. arm in arm     C. face to face       D. both A and B

We can suppose Jim _____.

A. was afraid of the man from the West

B. got another man to help him when necessary

C. had an appointment with Bob 20 years ago

D. had something else to do and couldn’t come himself

Besides calling 911, here is what to do in some life-threatening emergencies when no oneis