1.According to the passage, which of the following is TERE?
A. Those Americans who live above the poverty line won’t go hungry.
B. 13 million American children are food insecure for lack of transportation.
C. Among all the states in the USA, food insecurity in Mississippi is severest.
D. Neighborhood banks have no additional requirements for food packaging.
2.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To warn readers against dangers of insecure food.
B. To urge readers to help the poor out of poverty.
C. To inform readers of the severe food shortage in America.
D. To advocate readers contributing to food relief in America.
Wildflowers in a mountain meadow are a gift of nature. But what about those wildflowers blooming along busy__________? Well, nature had a__________.
Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, the wife of our thirty-sixth President, Lyndon B. Johnson wanted
______to be a national priority.
As a little girl growing up in “deep east Texas,” wildflowers helped her get through__________times. Her mother had died when she was five, and her father__________most of his time at the general store he
owned. Her older brothers were away at school,______ Lady Bird turned to nature for
______. “Nature was my friend and my teacher,” she says. “It was a joy to me, and it’s never___________ me.”
After high school, Lady Bird left home for the University of Texas in Austin. _________ she found joy in nature—in the vast quantities of Texas bluebonnets（德克萨斯州羽扇豆）. It was there that Lady Bird met and fell in love with Lyndon B. Johnson. He proposed to her on their first ____________.
“The whole country __ the President,” Lady Bird said, “but only one man selects the First Lady—and it is highly___________ that he was thinking of her as First Lady when he proposed!”
When she got to know the __ disappearance of “America the Beautiful” due to land development and pollution, Lady Bird __ the President to propose a Highway Beautification Act that allocated money to ___________roadsides. The act was passed in 1965.
Lady Bird __________ that many wildflowers, like people, were immigrants. “They __________ the nation on the wheels of covered wagons, perhaps ___________ in the pockets of children.”
Lady Bird is certainly our First Lady of__________. She has made us see that highways can be beautiful.
She is the reason why wildflowers now__________our travels through almost every state.
1.A. streets B. highways C. roads D. lanes
2.A. helper B. discoverer C. creator D. protector
3.A. liberty B. traffic C. justice D. beauty
4.A. lonely B. exciting C. happy D. disappointed
5.A. wasted B. spent C. found D. killed
6.A. so B. but C. or D. for
7.A. aid B. company C. rescue D. happiness
8.A. ignored B. scared C. troubled D. failed
9.A. Absolutely B. Naturally C. Again D. Often
10.A. date B. try C. vote D. appearance
11.A. shapes B. serves C. selects D. supports
12.A. unlikely B. unnecessary C. unusual D. uncertain
13.A. sudden B. complete C. gradual D. final
14.A. warned B. persuade C. forced D. ordered
15.A. lengthen B. widen C. monitor D. landscape
16.A. let out B. found out C. pointed out D. figured out
17.A. visited B. left C. passed D. crossed
18.A. then B. even C. yet D. still
19.A. wildflowers B. wagons C. roadsides D. travels
20.A. decide B. guide C. brighten D. shorten
---What a waste of time to watch such a boring match！
--- . Why not switch the channel?
A. It’s no big deal B. With your permission
C. My feelings exactly D. You’ve got to be kidding
The founding of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which widely recognized and praised, aims to build friendly international relations.
A. .was B. were
C. has been D. had been
After 40 years of reform and opening-up, China still has a long way to go it becomes a “developed economy”.
A. until B. before
C. after D. unless
Mr. Wills, who was being helped up onto the platform to take the prize, looked as if he by lightning.
A. was just struck B. were just struck
C. would just be struck D. had just been struck
