閱讀下列各小題，根據括號內的漢語提示，用句末括號內的英語單詞完成句子，并將答案寫在答題卡上的相應題號后。

71. Saying that I had stolen his wallet, the old man insisted that__________ the police station with him. (go)

這位老人說我偷了他的錢包并堅持讓我跟他一起去警察局。

72. The boy ___________ a white T-shirt is the top basketball player in our school, and he has fans all over the school.  (dress)

那個穿著白色T恤衫的男生是我們校隊里的金牌球員，他的粉絲遍布全校。

73. Sometimes the old ___________ that they are not willing to be taken care of all the time by their children.  (independent)

有時候老人是如此獨立，以至于不愿意總是讓孩子們照顧著。

74. The news of the sudden death of the young famous pianist came this morning, ___________. (shock)

今天早上傳來了這位著名年輕的鋼琴家突然去世的消息，這使他的粉絲們很震驚。

75. Once she ____________, nothing can change it.    (mind)

一旦她下定了決心，就沒有什么能夠改變她。

76. Although she has never seen her foreign pen friend in person, it is the fifth time that she___________ him in English. (write)

盡管她從未當面見過她的外國筆友，這是她第五次給他寫信了。

77. I have learnt English for quite a few years, but I still ___________ native speakers. (trouble)

我學英語很多年了，但與講本族語的人交流仍然有困難。

78. She found _____________ to settle and calm down in the hiding place, because she was concerned about whether they would be discovered. (difficult)

她發(fā)現很難在躲藏處安定平靜下來，因為她擔心是否被發(fā)現。

79. Only after they had discussed the matter for several hours_________ a decision. (reach)

直到他們討論了那個問題幾個小時之后才做出決定。

80. He said that he _____________ Mary for two years and would get married the next year. (in)

他說他與瑪麗相愛兩年了，明年就要結婚了。

閱讀理解

　　We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude(序幕)to an unforeseen(意料之外的)series of catastrophes(大禍). While you are on the phone，the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery(陶器)and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attended to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

　　Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue．The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-diver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!

1．What would have most upset the woman the day every thing went wrong for her?

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A．She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.

B．The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.

C．Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.

D．She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2．There was a second angry argument because _____.

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A．the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accident

B．the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move again

C．the lorry-driver did not think he should be made to sweep up the glass

D．two dogs had devoured what was left of the cake

3．In the sentence“It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions”,“set up”means“_____”.

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A．establish　　　 B．build

C．cause　　　　　D．fix

4．According to the passage，the lorry stopped suddenly _____.

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A．in order not to hit the car in front

B．in order to draw up alongside the car

C．because the driver didn't want to run over the dogs

D．because the driver has seen a cake in the air