Although the average reader spends more than 4, 000 pounds on books in their lifetime, 55 percent say they buy them for decoration and have no____of reading them．

       A．advantage     B．attempt            C．evidence        D．intention

 

The director asked me to finish this task by Sunday．How can I ____to?

A．attempt

B．manage

C．decide

D．happen

 

Christmas is over. And I got my wanted radio-controlled truck. But you would not believe the___36___ and work that went into getting this holy toy.

For over a month I stared at ___37___ magazines I received from my friend until I had made up my ___38___: I wanted a Pumpkin truck. I ___39___ to work immediately, dropping hints to my father about it.

My first job was to tell him about how the steering(操纵杆) on my old car didn’t ___40___, but he just blamed the problems on my bad ___41___.

My next plan would have to be more ___42___. “Look at this, Dad, the truck with controller and battery pack—all for only US$250!” You can’t ___43___ to miss out on this bargain!”

His ___44___ was that he certainly could afford to miss this ___45___ and for US$250 you could buy ___46___ educational like a telescope. “A telescope? To look at the moon? I’ll look at it when I’m 97 years old and living in a ___47___ home! This is my youth! I am supposed to run about.”

I went to my room, ___48___ at how mean(吝啬的) my father was. It was obvious that he didn’t ___49___ that I would die if I did not get the Pumpkin radio-controlled truck.

When I ___50___ on Christmas morning I wasn’t excited. I had been ___51___. I opened all my presents until there was just one big package ___52___. “The telescope,” I thought. I ___53___ the packaging and looked at the top of the box—it was a Pumpkin truck. I had ___54___! I loved my parents! I felt like I could do anything! I could ___55___ get an A+ in English class.

1.A. pain             B. attempt        C. joy            D. shyness

2.A. housing          B. fishing        C. car            D. fashion

3.A. mind             B. idea           C. opinion        D. head

4.A. get              B. set            C. searched       D. went

5.A. operate          B. run            C. start          D. work

6.A. riding           B. driving        C. thinking       D. keeping

7.A. strong           B. practical      C. ideal          D. obvious

8.A. afford           B. pay            C. allow          D. stand

9.A. talk             B. expression     C. face           D. response

10.A. truck           B. telescope      C. chance         D. bargain

11.A. one             B. something      C. everything     D. nothing

12.A. heating         B. loving         C. nursing        D. finding

13.A. pleased         B. good           C. expert         D. angry

14.A. say             B. believe        C. care           D. learn

15.A. went off        B. woke up        C. rang up        D. found out

16.A. worried         B. instructed     C. warned         D. defeated

17.A. opened          B. wrapped        C. left           D. faded

18.A. recovered B. refused              C. reopened       D. removed

19.A. won             B. done           C. beaten         D. failed

20.A. ever            B. already        C. still          D. even

 

What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from  you. You say “I wish I could help you, but I am short of money myself.” In fact, you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie?

Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of southern California has made a scientific study of lying. According to him, women are better lies than men, particularly when telling a “white lie”, such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it’s terrible. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researchers say that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise that they have no intention of carrying out. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small, unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying “I wish I were somewhere else now”. They also tend to touch certain parts of the face, particularly the nose. One explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase in blood pressure. The tip of the nose is very sensitive to changes and the increased pressure makes it itch.

Another gesture that gives liars away is what the writer Decmond Morris in his book Man Watching calls the “mouth cover”. He says that there are several typical forms of this, such as covering part of the mouth with the fingers, touch the upper lip or putting a finger of the hand at one side off the mouth. Such a gesture can be understood as an unconscious(未察觉的) attempt on the part of the liar to stop himself from lying.

Of course, such gestures as rubbing the nose or covering the mouth, moving about in a chair can not be taken as proof that the speaker is lying. They simply tend to happen more often in this situation. It is one gesture alone that gives the liar away but a whole number of things, and in particular the context(上下文) which the lie is told.

1.According to the passage, a white lie seems to be a lie ______.

A. that other people believe   

B. that other people don’t believe

C. told in order not to hurt someone’s feelings

D. told in order to take advantage of someone

2.Research suggests that women _____.

A. are better at telling less serious lies than men

B. generally lie for more than men do

C. often make promises they intend to break

D. lie at parties more often than men do

3.Researchers find that when a person tells lies _____.

A. his blood pressure increases measurably

B. he looks very serious

C. he is likely to make some small changes in his behavior

D. he uses his unconscious mind

4.The writer of the passage______.

A. hates lying      B. enjoys lying     C. often tells a lie   D. tries to study about lying

5.Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage as a sign of lying ?

A. Touching one’s ears                 B. Rubbing the nose 

C. Moving in a chair                D. Covering the mouth

 

Many peasants in the north go to the south _____ much money.

  A. make an attempt at making      B. in attempts to make   

C. making an attempt to making     D. attempt to make