–Do you know what speed _______ for a rocket to escape from the pull or gravity of the earth to send a satellite into outer space?

　 ---No idea at all. I have never got the ______ of it.

　 A. it needs; idea 　　B. is taken; hang 　　C. is needed; hang 　 D. it takes; thought

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從 1—20 各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、和D）中，

選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.

But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   ___7  .

As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11  :

She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy    17    one in the morning…

It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!

And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

1. A. admit                B. adopt                    C. deny                    D. refuse

2. A. intended             B. liked                     C. tended                    D. hesitated

3. A. stress                 B. spare                     C. strengthen             D. spend

4. A. poor                  B. great                     C. faithless                   D. pretty

5. A. merely              B. usually                  C. never                       D. often

6. A. wished              B. hoped               　 C. expected                  D. desired

7. A. supported           B. understood            C. approved                 D. disgusted

8. A. 1iving-room       B. kitchen                 C. bed loom                 D. study

9. A. including             B. containing         C. possessing             D. pinning

10. A. handwriting    B. description             C. tone                        D. scratch

11. A. wrote               B. recorded                C. memorized              D. read

12. A. event               B. content            　 C. schedule                  D. circumstance

13. A. or                   B. for                       　 C. but                          D. so

14. A. At                   B. In                        　 C. On                          D. By

15. A. impressed        B. printed                    C. presented                 D. pressed

16. A. buy                 B. abandon                C. get                          D. swap

17. A. before             B. until                     C. after                        D. when

18. A. see                         B. hear                 C. realize                     D. tell

19. A. actual              B. true                      C. imaginary            　 D. visual

20. A. sad                  B. bitter                    C. happy                      D. exciting

Mary kept weighing herself to see how much ______ she was getting.

A. heavier B. heavy

C. the heavier D. the heaviest

Have you read the book ____ I lent to you?

A. that 　 B. whom 　 C. when 　 D. whose

-Are you satisfied with her answer??-Not at all. It couldn’t have been _____.

　 A. worse 　 B. so bad

　 C. better 　 D. the worse

Before the Hope Project was carried out in this poor area, children here had no ______ to education.

A. access　 B. approach　 C. attitude　 D. attraction

As far as I’m concerned, the g _____ in this supermarket are qualified and you needn’t worry about them.

Britain almost more than any other country in the world must seriously face the problem of building upwards, that is to say of accommodating(居住) a considerable proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the Englishman objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks or flats have been associated with(把……同……聯(lián)系起來) the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details, important notwithstanding(然而), as easy facilities for disposal(處理) of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages on the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing. It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus individual houses will continue to rage(風(fēng)行) on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned, and it is unfortunate that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those who oppose the building of flats base their case primarily on the assumption that everyone prefers individual home and garden and on the high cost per unit of accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a scattered(分散)community and the cost in both money and time of the journey to work for the suburban resident.

1. We can infer from the passage that ____.

　 A. English people, differently from most people in other countries, dislike living in flats

　 B. people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flats

　 C. people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flats

　 D. modern flats still fail to provide the necessary facilities for living

2. What is said about the blocks of flats built in the past in Britain?

　 A. They were mostly inhabited by people who did not earn much.

　 B. They were usually not large enough to accommodate big families.

　 C. They were sold to people before necessary facilities were installed.

　 D. They provided playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings.

3. Some people oppose the building of flats because ____.

　 A. this living expenses for each individual family are higher

　 B. it involves higher cost compared with the building of houses

　 C. they believe that people like to live in houses with gardens

　 D. the disposal of rubbish remains a problem for those who lives in flats

4. The author mentions that people who live in suburban houses ____.

　 A. do not have access to easy facilities because they live away from the city

　 B. have to pay a lot of money to employ people to do service work

　 C. take longer time to know each other because they are a scattered community

　 D. have to spend money and time going to work every day