Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack．But without a heart transplant（移植）her life was in constant   21  ．

    Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very   22  : finding a donor heart that   23  Maria’s blood type could take years．  24  , Carmen was determined to save her mother．She kept   25   hospitals all over the country．

    Days stretched out．By Christmas, Maria had trouble   26  from one end of the room to the other．Carmen lost all hope．She fell into a   27  of the hospital, crying．

“Are you okay?” a man asked．   

Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her   28  ．This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t   29  it through the night．Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind．He knew Cheryl had always wanted to   30  something from herself．Could her   31  go to Carmen’s mother?

After reviewing the data, doctors   32  Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect   33  for Carmen’s mother．They were able to   34  the transplant．

That cold night, when Cheryl was   35  dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door．She was   36   for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently．Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange   37  as they hugged and cried．

On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s   38  with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on．”

One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria   39  with Cheryl’s heart．Yes, Cheryl’s loving

heart would go on, for it was   40  in another loving mother’s chest．

A．change            B．danger       C．disorder        D．pain

A．small             B．distant          C．hard          D．precious 

A．matched           B．replaced      C．controlled    D．cooperated

A．Certainly           B．Otherwise     C．However       D．So

A．finding           B．phoning       C．touring         D．interrupting

A．rolling             B．running        C．walking       D．jumping

A．corner             B．bed             C．man            D．nurse

A．mother           B．story           C．error           D．dream

A．put               B．support         C．pass            D．make 

A．save               B．recycle         C．donate          D．separate

A．heart             B．brain         C．husband         D．spirit

A．informed           B．warned          C．congratulated   D．reminded

A．copy              B．fit              C．variation        D．baby

A．give up            B．carry out        C．search after     D．put off

A．noticed            B．predicted        C．found          D．declared

A．praying          B．begging       C．decorating      D．singing

A．belief             B．love          C．bond         D．relief

A．funeral            B．operation        C．performance     D．a(chǎn)nniversary

A．passed away        B．woke up       C．left behind      D．dressed up

A．a(chǎn)ctive            B．a(chǎn)live           C．necessary        D．changeable

You do not have to pay money on Mondays if you go to ——.

A. Blue Sky Restaurant

B. New York Museum

C. Tongcheng Shopping Center

D. Huatian Hotel

If you are free on early Sunday mornings, you can go to ____.

A. Furong Road  

B. 8090 White Road

C. Coffee Shop on 5200 No.7 Road

D. Vanier park, 1200 Chestnut St. New York

Which place is still open after 10:00pm on Thursday?

A. Blue Sky Restaurant

B. New York Museum

C. Tongcheng Shopping Center

D. Huatian Hotel

If you want to go out for lunch on Sunday, you can dial the number____.

A. 4444872    B. 7868432   C. 2751352   D. 5674398

____by the horrible earthquake, many buildings needed to be repaired in the capital of Haiti.

A. To be destroyed   B. Destroying     C. Destroyed    D. Having destroyed

.--- An explosion at a coal mine killed at least 62 workers and left another 13 missing.

   --- Yes, _________  news came as ________ shock to us all.

A. the; the            B. /; /              C. /; a             D. the; a

Bamboo, which is a common plant in the south, is used ______ in buildings, food, furniture and so on. It is used to make clothes as well.

A. other than           B. more than            C. rather than               D. less than

Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It expresses agreement or approval.

    Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(喬克托語). The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.

But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s.    Some foreign-born people wrote “ all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK. Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put the first letters of his name---O and K---on each object people gave him to send on the train. 

  The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born---Old Kinderhook, New York.

Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.”    One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.

There are also funny ways to say okay.    These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way. He says okely-doke.

A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.

B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.

C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.

D. But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means.

E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.

G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.

We work together to achieve our common purpose: _________world that is safer, cleaner and healthier than ________ one we found.

A. the; the          B. a; /              C. a; the             D. the; /

---You couldn't have chosen any gift better for me.

   ---______.

  A. Oh, don't you like it?

  B. I'm glad you like it so much.

  C. That's all right. I'll give you a better one next time.

  D. I thought you might like it.

I finally got my ideal job. I _____ so delighted in all my life.

A. haven’t felt          B. didn’t feel       C. hadn’t felt         D. don’t feel

One day a famous speaker gave a speech to a crowd of people. He held up a   36   bill. He asked, “Who would like this $20 bill ? ” Hands were   37   . Then he said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first let me do this.” He began to crumple（弄皺）the   38  . He then asked the audience, “   39   still wants it ?” Still the hands went   40  in the air.

  “ What   41   I do this? ” He asked, and he   42   it on the ground, and started to step on it. He   43   it up. Now the bill was   44   and crumpled. “ Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went up.

  “My friends,” He continued, “You have all   45    a good lesson . No matter   46   I did to the money, you still wanted it because the bill did not lose its   47   . It was still worth $20. Many times in our   48  , we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on, because we sometimes  49   wrong decisions, or we may   50   with something we do not   51  .When that happens, we feel depressed and think we are   52  . But in fact no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. The worth of our life comes not   53   what we do or whom we know, but in who we are! Don’t forget ‘the worth of a thing does not depend on its outside   54   , but on its inner value.’ This is the   55   of life.

A. 20 dollar         B. 20 dollars              C. 20-dollars      D. 20-dollar.

A. risen         B. put                C. raised               D. held

A. bill          B. paper               C. cash                      D. change

A. Somebody    B. Nobody             C. Anybody      D. You

A. up           B. down                C. above              D. around

A. should          B. can                 C. if            D. whether

A. threw           B. dropped             C. fell                D. put

A. showed         B. lifted                C. brought           D. picked

A. good            B. clean                C. large               D. dirty

A. given           B. learned              C. taught              D. taken

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

A. value           B. price                C. effect              D. part

A. studies          B. work               C. fields               D. lives

A. do              B. make                C. give                       D. take

A. meet            B. deal                 C. talk                 D. get

A. like             B. hope                C. wish                D. expect

A. worthless      B. weak                C. poor                D. careless

A. from            B. in                  C. about               D. at

A. beauty          B. face                 C. looks              D. impression

A. lesson           B. truth                C. saying            D. story