That was the first time ______ I ______ face to face with the president.

A. when; had come    B. that; have come   

C. when; came        D. that; had come

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Americans are proud of their variety and individuality （个性）, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of a lift operator or the uniform of a five-star general（将军）．   

       Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian （百姓的） clothes．People expect higher quality from a man who wears a uniform．   Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform．What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a hairdresser, or a waiter to lose professional identity （职业身份） than to step out of uniform?

          They are often more comfortable and more lasting than civilian clothes．

       Among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them．Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement．    

         Though they are long-lasting, often their initial（最初的） expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes．Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes．

       A．Americans think highly of uniforms ．

       B．Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?

       C．When people wear the same uniforms, they are likely to think, speak, and act similarly on the job at least．

       D．Uniforms also have many practical good points

       E．Some practical problems with uniforms arise．

       F．The television repairman who wears a uniform is likely to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes．

       G．People's identity can be recognized more easily by their uniforms

—John has put forward _______ most challenging question for us to answer.

—Yes, it really is. I have never heard _______ harder one.

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

Susan decided not to work on the program at home because she didn’t want her mother to know what she _____.

  A. has done        B. had done        C. was doing      D. is doing

        the secret of nature, they young scientist has little time for entertainment.

A．Devoted to betray    B．Devoting himself to bring to light

C．Devoted to unearthing     D．Devoting to exploring

The professor along with his assistant came in, ________ by a group of excited students.

       A. follow                            B. following          C. followed                  D. to follow

Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children‘s playground.

    As a result of his kindness， many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk， Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humor.  He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射） in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman， thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

    The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain， asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

Johnson became a rich man through _________.

 A. doing business.

    B. making whisky.

    C. cheating.

    D. buying and selling land.

Many people wrote to Johnson to find out  __________.

    A. what kind of whisky he had.

    B. how to live longer.

    C. how to become wealthy.

    D. in which part of the neck to have an injection.

When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening，he really meant that ______.

A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

    B. he needed an injection in the neck.

    C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D. there was something wrong with his neck.

Scientists from the Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, have presented the first experimental evidence that people do end up walking in circles if lost in unfamiliar areas．The study, published in the journal Current Biology, examined the tracks of people who walked for several hours in the Sahara desert in Tunisia and in the Bienwald forest in Germany．Researchers Jan Souman and Marc Ernst said the scientists used the global positioning system （GPS） to record these paths．The results showed that the walkers were only able to keep a straight line when the sun or moon was visible．As soon as the sun disappeared behind some clouds, people started to walk in circles without even noticing it．

       Souman said one explanation offered in the past for people walking in circles was that most people have one leg longer or stronger than the other, which would produce a systematic bias（偏差） in one direction．To test this．the researchers asked people to walk straight while blindfolded which removed the effects of vision．They found that these circles were rarely in a systematic direction, with the same person sometimes switching to the left and sometimes to the right．

       "Most of the participants in the study walked in circles, sometimes in extremely small ones．Walking in circles is therefore not caused by differences in leg length or strength, but more likely the result of increasing uncertainty about where straight ahead is," said Souman, "Small random errors （随机性误差） in the various sensory signals that provide information about walking direction add up over time, making what a person perceives to be straight ahead drift away from the true straight ahead direction．"

The underlined word "this" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____．

       A．the effects of vision              B．a systematic bias

       C．the leg length differences          D．one explanation offered in the past

What is the probable reason for people's walking in circles?

       A．The invisible sun or moon．

       B．The increasing uncertainty about directions．

       C．Differences in leg length or strength．

       D．Wrong signals providing information about areas．

Why are the subjects required to be blindfolded?

       A．To encourage them to walk straight．    B．To stop them from seeing each other．

       C．To dismiss the effects of vision． D．To keep the test a top secret．

Which of the following statements is true?

       A．People walk straight in the day．

       B．The farther people walk, the greater the direction bias grows．

       C．People walk only in large circles．

       D．Researchers use the global positioning system to record their tracks．

书面表达

假如你叫李明。你的好友Mark生病了，在家复习迎考。以下是学校关于英语期末考试的说明。请根据该通知写一封信给Mark，询问病情并告诉他考试的有关事宜。

注意：1、短文必须包括所有要点，可适当发挥；

      2、字数：120词左右;

3、短文的开头与结尾已给出;

4、提示：短语：phrase 句型：sentence pattern

平时的练习：daily exercises 作文：composition

Dear Mark，

   Sorry for your illness. Are you feeling any better now?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hope you will recover soon and also get a satisfactory mark in the exam.

Yours truly，

Li Ming

--- It’s been a wonderful party. Thank you very much.

--- __________.

A. I’m glad you enjoy it       B. No, thanks

C. It’s OK                  D. With pleasure