Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening. 

One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one’s own. 

Then, in the country one can rest from the noise and hurry of the town. Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables come up, one has the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature. 

Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants. Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s (two weeks) visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want: the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get away from London every night. 

1.Which of the following statements is NOT true? 

2.One can use the same money for ________ to buy a little house with a garden in the country.

3.When the flowers and vegetables in the garden come up, those _______ have the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature. 

4.People who think happiness lies in the town would feel that _______ if they had to live it outside London. 

5.The underlined word rest in the last paragraph refers to ________.

6.C。推断题。根据其上文：这些人偶尔去公园散散步后去海边度两周假；本句接着说：其余的就留给那些每天晚上喜欢离开伦敦的人，那么，“其余的”显然指“其余的乡村”。从而可推知题

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。
__【小题1】__ Scientists and experts have proved the uniqueness of finger-prints and discovered that no exactly similar pattern is passed on from parents to children, though nobody knows why this is the case.
The ridge(隆起) structure on a person’s fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by surface injuries. Burns, cuts and other damage to the outer part of the skin will be replaced in time by new one, which bears a reproduction of the original pattern. __【小题2】_ Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own finger-prints but this is a dangerous and rare step to take.
Finger-prints can be made very easily with printer’s ink. They can be recorded easily. __【小题3】_ Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, finger-prints have often been used as a method of solving criminal case. A suspected man may deny a charge but this may be in vain. __【小题4】_ When a suspect leaves finger-prints behind at the scene of a crime, they are difficult to detect(察觉) with the naked eye. __【小题5】__ Some of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print of a quarter of an inch square can be obtained.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母或中文意思，在答题卷上按题号写出各单词的完全形式,注意单词形式的变化 (每空限填一词)。
【小题1】After years of hard work, he finally a________ great success.
【小题2】The trip to Xiamen cost us five thousand yuan, but I think it was w___________.
【小题3】Those who are c_______ with their life are more likely to live a happy life.
【小题4】She is an o__________ scientist, for she has made great contributions to her country.
【小题5】Although the teacher didn’t mention any names, everybody knew who he was r________ to.
【小题6】John, o________ the difficulty! Don’t give up.
【小题7】The method of r____________ the teaching cost has been discussed at the meeting.
【小题8】We are all inspired by the encouraging speech d____________ by our president.
【小题9】He was p __________ by his parents for telling lies.
【小题10】When a _________ the house, they found something unusual, so they stopped to have a look.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

The party began shortly after Mr. Wood, who lived in the flat below, sighed to himself as he heard excited voices and the noisy music. Luckily he had  36  some work home from the office,   37   he kept himself busy for a couple of hours, thus managing to pay no attention to the noise  38. But by eleven o’clock he felt 39 and was ready to go to bed, though from his earlier experience he knew it was  40  trying to get to sleep. He undressed and lay for a while on the bed, trying to read, but he  41  himself reading the same page over and over again. He then turned off the light and  42  his head in the pillow. But 43  he could not shut  44  the noise, finally, after 45 seemed hours, his 46 was gone.

He jumped out of bed, 47 some clothing, marched 48 up the stairs, and walked into his neighbor’s flat. The owner of the flat, who 49 him in his dressing gown, came 50 the room and,51 Mr. Wood could say anything, cried, “My dear fellow, come and 52. I know our parties 53 you. I meant to send you 54” Mr. Wood’s anger disappeared then and there. He said, “I’d better go and get 55 . Minutes later, he returned, properly dressed, only to find that the party was nearly over.

A. taken           B. carried           C. brought           D. fetched

A. with which          B. from which        C. where             D. when

A. outside             B. overhead          C. downstairs        D. nearby

A. bad            B. tired             C. sick              D. hopeless

A. useless             B. necessary         C. possible            D. helpful

A. had            B. found             C. caught             D. felt

A. buried         B. rested            C. shook                 D. turned

．A. till then              B. worse still       C. strange enough        D. even so

．A. away               B. off            C. down                 D. up

A. it                  B. what         C. that              D. which

A. sleep               B. strength        C. patience                D. anger

A. pulled on           B. dressed up      C. selected                D. wore

A. sadly               B. proudly       C. quietly               D. firmly

A. made fun of         B. stared at         C. was angry with      D. caught sight of

A. across              B. around       C. towards            D. by

A. as                  B. before       C. though             D. until

A. meet as             B. sit here          C. join us               D. scold me

A. should bother       B. would bother      C. need bother      D. shall bother

．A. a notice          B. a message      C. an invitation        D. an apology

A. washed         B. changed           C. dressed               D. prepared

You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists（拳头）.But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!
Of course he isn’t really dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why ? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catching fire, are professionals（职业）.They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks（骗局）.
There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress（床垫）. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!
But although their work depend on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing（计时）.For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion（爆炸）just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute（降落伞）failed to open, and he was killed.
In spite of（尽管）all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls too!
【小题1】Stuntmen are those who____________