The news came as no surprise to me. I _____ for some time that the factory was going to shut down.
A. knew B. had known
C. have known D. know
假设你是李华，作为选派的交流学生在美国某中学学习了一年，寄住在Mr. Brown家里，刚回到国内。回国后你发现自己的一本英语词典遗忘在他家，因此给他写一封信，请他帮助寄回词典。信的主要内容如下：
1．感谢在美国期间他所提供的帮助。
2．一本英语词典被忘记带回。
3．词典是美国老师送的，非常珍贵。
4．词典很可能丢在卧室的书架上。
5．邮资自己付。
注意：1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
2．参考词汇：邮资—postage
Everyone in our village likes my father, so he has a sense of humor. On other words, he can make others laugh easy and people feel happy to be around him. I admire him very much and dream of that some day I will be as humorous as him. I even asked him how have a good sense of humor, but what she replied disappointed me. “Not someone can be humorous, because those who is humorous are usually born to be humorous,” he said. However, later, he adds, “But you can be humorous too if you know a lot of joke.” That’s why now I’m reading a book of jokes.
A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. _1.___water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder__2.__had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__3.__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled _4._ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home_5.__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let__6._student taste the water. He spit it out, __7.__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_8.__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__9.__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__10.__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
Once a man came to a wise man's house and said, “I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I ____ first？” The wise man said, “Never tell lies ___ always speak the truth.” The man ____ to do so and went home.
At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he ___ for a moment about the promise he had made to the wise man. “If he asks me where I have been, what shall I say? Shall I say I went out ___？No, I cannot say that. But nor can I ____.If I tell the truth, everyone will start __ me and call me a thief. I would be ___ for stealing. ”So the man ____ not to steal that night，and gave up this ___ habit.
The next day, he ____ to drink wine. When he was about to do so, he said to himself，“What shall I say to the wise man ____ he asks me what I did during the day？I cannot tell a lie. ”And so he gave up the ___ of drinking wine.
In this ___， whenever the man thought of doing something bad, he ___ his promise to tell the truth at all times.____，he gave up all his bad habits and became a very ____ person.
Telling the truth is a very good __. If you always tell the truth, you can keep yourself away from a lot of ____ and become a person whom everyone __ and favors.
Make a promise：I shall always speak the truth.
1.A. take out B．give up C．add up D．turn off
2.A. so B．but C．and D．or
3.A. promisedB．happenedC．settledD．began
4.A. playedB．drankC．thoughtD．slept
5.A. walking B．stealingC．studyingD．climbing
6.A. move B．sayC．lieD．help
7.A. hating B．catching C．killingD．believing
8.A. expectedB．hurtC．sufferedD．punished
9.A. decidedB．forgotC．askedD．pretended
10.A. specialB．funnyC．greatD．bad
11.A. wentB．wantedC．learnedD．stopped
12.A. beforeB．sinceC．ifD．as
13.A. ideaB．wordC．powerD．use
14.A. baseB．wayC．placeD．time
15.A. imaginedB．plannedC．brokeD．remembered
16.A. By the wayB．In a wordC．First of all D．One by one
17.．A. good B．strong C．rich D．common
18.．A. custom B．habit C．gameD．example
19.．A. money B．hope C．pleasureD．trouble
20.．A. serves B．cheats C．likesD．Controls
“No man is an island” is a wellknown line from John Donne's Devotion, written more than three hundred years ago. Even now people still agree with him. Without other people, life became empty and sad.__ 1._
For some of us, though making friends is not difficult, we may not want to make the first move. It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.
There are many books about friendship, but Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence(影响) People，written in 1936, is the most famous.___ 2._ It was later put into 28 languages.
Here is the list of advice from his book：
·__3.__
Always greet with a smile. Begin with “excuse me” or “would you please”， when you want to ask somebody. Remember to say “thank you” and try to be as helpful as you can.
·Go out of your way to be nice.
__4._ Making some soup for a sick neighbour may seem like a little thing to you, but it will make your neighbour feel a lot better.
·Remember names.
They say that the sweetest music to a person's ears is the sound of his or her own name.
·_5.__
Try to understand other people's ways and ideas and learn something from them.
·Listen patiently.
When someone is talking to you, look at him or her, listen carefully and say something when necessary.
A．This “How to” book about getting along with other people became a best seller.
B．It's also important to keep close friends in our daily life.
C．So we all need to have friends.
D．Be openminded.
E．Be friendly and polite.
F．Try to help your friends get out of trouble.
G．Find some time to do some things for other people.
