，Mom had a cup of coffee and a few minutes’ rest．

      A．With her housework done                  B．With her housework being done

      C．With her housework doing                   D．With her housework to do

.Li Yuchun’s song was a______ at once and its recording tape rose to No.1 on the best seller list.

A. shock          B. strike         C. hit         D. beat

By ________ nature, you are an adventurer, full of amazement and curiosity about _________world bigger than life itself.

A．a(chǎn); the  B．the; the  C．/; a    D．the; /

-----Ｉgot more than 650 marks in the middle examination.

  ----- Congratuations! You are really clever.

  -----________!

 A. No,nothing   B. Oh, thanks a lot  C. Sometimes I’m clever D.My pleasure

There are only 1 2 shopping days until Christmas，and the British public is going present-shopping crazy．But some parents might have left it too late to buy the present their child really wants for Christmas．

    Every year there  seems to  be a  certain  craze  which  sweeps  across  Britain，whether through clever marketing or peer(對等的)pressure，so that practically every child in the country wants the same thing for Christmas．

    Of course，with thousands of parents trying to make their child’s Christmas , it’s quite easy for the most popular presents to get sold out before everyone can buy one．This leads to  parents going to extraordinary lengths to find the desired gift．

In past years,the most favoured toys have included Tracy Island，from the‘Thunder—birds’TV series，and Buzz Lightyear，from the“Toy Story”film．This year’s must—have present is the Nintendo Wii，an indication that British children are becoming more and more techologically savvy(悟性)

Other presents which are expected to top Christmas wish-lists this year are several toys related to TV Programmes，such as popular science—fiction series“Doctor Who，”and pre—school sensation “In the Night Garden”，as well as the main character from the transformcrs’movie.

    As parents esperately search shops and online retailers(零售商)for the gifts their children want，some people are cashing in．Those who predicted the trends bought some of the top  presents earlier in the year，and can now sell them for great profits on online auction websites.

    Special stock-check websites have been set up to alert(警報) parents as soon as a certain  item becomes available anywhere．But with so many people signed up it’11 still   be a race  against time to buy  the toys before they sell out again．  

    Some children will inevitably be disappointed on Cnnstmas mormng，  but let’s hope that the chocolates，Christmas dinner and the many other presents will make up for it.

71．What makes every child want the same thing for Christmas?

  A．their same interest    B．their parents’same interest

  C．the reasonable prices  D．clever marketing or peer pressure

 72．Which of the following statements is not true?

  A．Those who predicted the trends got great proiits．

  B．Some children won’t get Christmas presents on Christmas morning .

  C．It’s not easy for the most popular presents to get sold out.

  D．Many people won’t be able to buy their children presents because they leave it too late   to buy the presents and there are so many people to buy them．

73．Last year the most popular presents included

  A．Buzz Lightyear   B．Nintendo Wii

  C．Doctor Who       D．Night Graden

74．“Dcotor Who”is a__________.

  A．toy             B．fiction film

  C．TV programme    D．main character

7 5．The passage mainly talks about______.

     A．kinds of presents children like most

B．presents parents will buy for their children

C．parents buying presents for their children for Christmas

D．how to celebrate Christmas with children

______his father came out of prison_______Dickens have a chance to go to school.

A. Not before; had   B. Only before; would have  C. It was until; had D. Not until; did

     the Olympic Games cost us a lot，it bridged the distance between people and developed friendship.

  A．What    B．While    C If    D.As

Mrs Smith was very ill.The doctor said she was ___ of death.

       A.at the edge    B.at edge    C.on edge    D.on the edge

----“Each of the students, working hard at his or her lessons, _____ to go to university.”

----“So do I.”

A. hope     B. hopes     C. hoping      D. hoped

It is requested that every student             (求助于)the dictionary while having difficulty in reading.(turn)