阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

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

这位老人说我偷了他的钱包并坚持让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)

那个穿着白色T恤衫的男生是我们校队里的金牌球员，他的粉丝遍布全校。

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

有时候老人是如此独立，以至于不愿意总是让孩子们照顾着。

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

今天早上传来了这位著名年轻的钢琴家突然去世的消息，这使他的粉丝们很震惊。

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

一旦她下定了决心，就没有什么能够改变她。

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

尽管她从未当面见过她的外国笔友，这是她第五次给他写信了。

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

我学英语很多年了，但与讲本族语的人交流仍然有困难。

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

她发现很难在躲藏处安定平静下来，因为她担心是否被发现。

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

直到他们讨论了那个问题几个小时之后才做出决定。

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

他说他与玛丽相爱两年了，明年就要结婚了。

阅读理解

　　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(大祸). 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