Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end.
Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or directly dialed. You cannot get an immediate answer by a mere "hello", let alone go deep into your lover's heart by one call. Usually it had to be relayed by an operator, and you have to be patient in waiting. Destiny(命运) is the operator of this phone, who is always irresponsible and fond of playing practical jokes to which she may make you a lifelong victim intentionally or unintentionally.
Love is a telephone which is always busy, When you are ready to die for love, you only find, to your disappointment, the line is already occupied by someone else, and you are greeted only by a busy line. This is an eternal regret handed down from generation to generation and you are only one of those who languish for（因…受煎熬） followers.
Love is telephone, but it is difficult to seize the center time for dialing, and you will let the opportunity slip if your call is either too early or too late.
Love is a telephone which is not always associated with 
happiness. Honeyed words are transmitted by sound waves, but when the lovers are brought together, the phone serves no purpose that many lovers observe that marriage is the doom of love.
Love is a telephone which, when you use it for the first time, makes you so nervous and excited that you either hold the receiver upside down or dial the wrong number. By the time you've calmed down, you will beat a loss to whom you should make the call.
Love is a telephone which often has crossed lines. And this usually happens to you unexpectedly. Your time will either cross or be crossed. Both cases are referred to as "triangle". Fortunately, all such occurrences are transient(转瞬即逝的).
1.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Love is transient
B. Love is permanent
C. Love is a telephone
D. What’s love in life
2.Which statement has the closest meaning to the underlined sentence?
A. "all shall be well，Jack shall have Jill。“（有情人终成眷属）
B. A lifelong love is not only romantic but also practical
C. Love is all we have in life
D. Beauty is in the eyes of beholder
3.Which is the synonym with the underlined word ”doom”?
A. monument B. final end C. key point D. substitute
4.In which part can this passage probably be found ?
A. advertisement B. financial C. emotion D. lottery
“Global warming could make humans shorter,” warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses to shrink(收缩) nearly 50 million years ago. In fact, a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says it has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals – horses, in this case.
The scientists used foss
ils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest appearance 56 million years ago. As temperature went up，their size went down, and vice versa（反之亦然）;“ At one point they were as small as a house cat,” said Dr Jonathan Bloch, curator（博物馆长） of the Florida Museum of Natural History, which was quoted by the "Daily Mail" as saying.
The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect on mammals and could even make humans smaller."Horses started out small, about the size of a small dog . What's surprising is that after they first appeared, they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that exactly corresponds to the global warming event, followed by cooling”
"It had been known that mammals were small during that time and that it was warm, but we hadn't realized that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size," Dr Bloch said in the "Science" journal.
1.How did scientists find out the horses’ earliest appearance millions of years ago?
A. searching the data on the net
B. sorting through the pictures of ancient times
C. using fossils to follow the evolution
D. analyzing the related images
2.What can we infer form the passage?
A. As temperatures went up, horses dramatically increased in size
B. The temperature has no effect on mammals’ evolution
C. As temperatures went up, horses’ size went down
D. In history, it used to be warm at early times , followed by a certain period of sharply cooling down.
3.Which is the most closest meaning to the underlined words most probably mean _______.
A. react to B. be contradictory to
C. be consistent with D. differ from
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Global warming is to disappear
B. The temperature on earth is to decrease
C. Global warming makes human shorter
D. Mammals are dying out.
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注意：1.信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；2.词数120左右。
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下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 每次错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When I was in high school，most of my friend had bicycles. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a secondhand bicycle，that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money. But he said he could only give me half money. He should find the other half myself. So I went to sell newspapers after school. My father was pleased if I showed him the money a month after. He gives me the other fifty. You can imagine how much happy I was when I rode to school on my own bicycle.
There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her.
One day, feeling very sad and lonely, she was walking through a grassland 1. she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn (荆棘) bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of 2. (fly)away, the little butterfly changed into 3. beautiful fairy(仙女).
“For your wonderful kindness,” the good fairy said to the girl, “I will give you any wish 4. can help you get what you want.” The little girl thought 5. a moment and then replied, “I want to be happy.” The fairy leaned toward her, whispered in her ear and then disappeared.
As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land 6. (happy) than her. Everyone asked her about the secret of happiness .She would only smile and answer, “The secret of 7. happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.”
When she 8. (die)， the neighbors all gathered around her, fearing that her 9. (believe) secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us, please,” they begged, “Tell us 10. the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me!”
Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, and then he sold_ _he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents. He had_ schooling, for being so poor, how could they_ _school fees?
When he was fifteen, he worked a servant in a school. Looking at other children studying in the classroom，he felt_ _for himself. How he__ _to have the same chance! He decided to study by__ _.In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he__ _stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he_ _during the day. He worked_ _hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater_ 
_he showed in his lessons. A math teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and_ __him to sit at the back of the class. In one exam, he was the_ _one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship if he__ _a regular student of the school.
Robeson_ _through six long years with his study of math and wrote several articles which captured the_ of some university professors. They admired his talent__ __his diligence. To give him a good chance, they hired him as a librarian and_ _him free guidance. Robeson felt_ _, for he was sure that before him there was a broad road_ _success.
1.A. whether B．which C．that D．what
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2.A. many B．few C．little D．much
3.A. buy B．afford C．send D．read
4.A. as B．like C．for D．by
5.A. angry B．happy C．proud D．sorry
6.A. hated B．decided C．wished D．regretted
7.A. the teacher B．himself C．his parents D．his schoolmates
8.A. could B．ought to C．should D．would
9.A. had learned B．has been taught C．has heard D．had been written down
10.A. very B．so C．too D．quite
11.A. joy B．interest C．time D．taste
12.A. allowed B. agreed C. let D. refused
13.A. worst B．only C．last D．laziest
14.A. had been B．has been C．is D．was
15.A. learned B．listened C．mastered D．struggled
16.A. notice B．influence C．eyes D．attention
17.A .except for B．according to C．as well as D．in spite of
18.A. taught B．offered 
C．lent D．sent
19.A. sad B．angry C．happy D．disappointed
20.A. leading to B．coming from C．made of D．covered with
