The young man admitted, after several hours questioning,_______ a wallet from the passenger on the bus.

         A. having stolen   B. to have stolen        C. being stolen              D. to steal

The twin brothers are very similar ______ appearance but quite different _____ hobbies.

   A. to , in   B. to ,from   C. in ,in   D. in, from

By the time he realizes he ____ into a trap, it’ll be too late for him to do anything about it.

A. walks          B. walked           C. has walked         D. had walked 

ONCE again, I was in new school.  36 was a girl in my class named Paris. That’s where the similarities  37  . I was tall and she was small. I was one of the   38  in the class while she was the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn’t. I couldn’t stand her, considering her my  39  .

  40  she wanted to be friends.

       One day, she invited me   41   and I said yes I was too shocked to say no．42  no one had invited me over to play before．But this girl, who wore the   43   fashions, wanted to see me．She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister- When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies which was my next   44 ．I would have thought she'd outgrown them．I had   45   played with them．But we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we   46  crazy stories about the Barbies．That's when we found out that we both wanted to be   47  when we were older．We both had wild   48  ．

       We had a great day that afternoon．Our jaws （下巴） 49  from smiling so much．She showed me her   50  , which had mostly come from a designer clothing store （時(shí)裝設(shè)計(jì)店） down the block．The woman who owned it used her as a   51  sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange．

       Paris had the whole   52   charmed．The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the 53__ gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free pieces．Soon I was   54  in her magic world．We slept over at each other's houses, spent every free moment together．My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall．

       Paris, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the   55   teenage years and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your "worst enemy" can turn out to be your best friend．

A．It           B．So          C．She        D．I

A．ended       B．started       C．came        D．began

A．youngest    B．shortest      C．oldest           D．tallest

A．enemy       B．friend        C．sister          D．rival

A．And        B．But         C．So             D．Or                  

A．off         B．up             C．over          D．in

A．However    B．Actually       C．Therefore      D．Besides

A．modem     B．new           C．late           D．latest

A．surprise      B．joy          C．delight         D．happiness    

A．once         B．ever          C．never         D．yet                

A．made for     B．made up         C．put up          D．made into             

A．writers       B．singers       C．dancers        D．designers

A．laugh      B．imaginations  C．behaviors       D．experience

A．harmed            B．a(chǎn)ched               C．injured        D．wounded

A．books        B．paintings     C．food ．         D．outfits                 

A．writer      B．outfits          C．model          D．exchange

A．family     B．neighborhood  C．class           D．school

A．colleges    B．clothing stores  C．restaurant    D．movie theater

A．a(chǎn)ttracted     B．drawn        C．included     D．a(chǎn)ttached

A．tough         B．happy          C．colorful        D．rich

Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.

The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.

“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20---25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”

What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

“This gender (性別)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.

They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.

The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.

The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

The underlined word “l(fā)ongevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _________.

 A．health         B．long life        C．a(chǎn)geing         D．effect

The text mainly talks about ________.

A．men’s heart cells                 B．women’s ageing process 

C．the gender difference             D．hearts and long life

According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _________.

A．women have more cells than men when they are born

       B．women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat

       C．the female heart loses few of the cells with age

       D．women never lose their pumping power with age

We can know from the passage that _______.

       A．the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out

       B．scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells

       C．the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss

       D．women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20

By ____ way, we are going to Japan by _____ way of Shanghai.

A the, the        B the, a             C /, /           D the, /

____ to reach the headmaster on the phone, the student sent an email instead.

A. being failed    B. Having  failed     C.  Failed     D. To fail

He was very busy, and _____ he didn’t go to the party that night．

      A．however     B．otherwise       C．therefore           D．a(chǎn)nyhow

---Which of the three optional courses did you like best, Joe?

   ---To tell you the truth, I didn’t like _______ of them.

A. either                  B. both                C. any                D. neither

As a palace, the Tower of London．was a great place to live．As a prison, it, wasn't so nice ——especially since so many prisoners lost their heads．Today tourists can explore 5the Tower in the

United Kingdom．Here are some reasons why the Tower was and still is a cool place．

Ravens（渡鴉） are like superheroes．

Well, sort of．Legend says if the ravens that live on the Tower grounds ever leave, the Tower will fall apart．No one knows when the ravens first showed up, but Charles II took the legend so seriously that in the 1670s he gave an official order that six ravens be kept there all the time．Today

there are still always six．

You might have lived at a zoo．

In 1204, King John kept a collection of animals, including lions and elephants．About 50 years later, King Henry III received a polar bear．the bear was kept on a piece of rope so it could fish from the Thames River that flows by the Tower．

       If you lived at the Tower today, your mom or dad might be in charge．

The 35 Yeoman Warders（倫敦塔衛(wèi)士）and their families are among the few still allowed to live at the Tower．Established in 1509 a;? bodyguards! for the king, today they give tours and  manage the day-to-day details of the Tower．They're called "beefeaters," possibly because their job once allowed them to eat beef from the king's; table．

       You need a secret password at night．

Called the "Word," the password changes every 24 hours and is a must-have to enter the Tower

after hours．It's written on a piece of paper and delivered to the Yeoman on duty for, the night．

You could find buried gold．

       In 1662, a goldsmith（金匠） named John Barfcstead supposedly hid more than $40,000 worth of stolen gold somewhere on．the Tower grounds．Many have searched for the gold, but it has never

been found．

Charles II decided to keep six ravens in the Tower probably because ____,．         ;

       A．he loved animals a lot                 

       B．he believed ravens helped protect the Tower

       C．he wanted to train the ravens to watch the prisoners  

       D．he thought the Tower was a cool place for the ravens to live                        

According to the passage, the Yeoman Warders ______． 

       A．have to part from their families to work at the Tower            

       B．a(chǎn)re  currently working as bodyguards for the king                                

       C．sometimes serve as tour guides          

       D．a(chǎn)re fond of eating beef                            

Which of the following is TRUE about the Tower of London?   

       A．King Henry III kept lions and elephants in it．   

       B．It stands on the bank of the Thames River．

       C．Nobody is allowed to enter it at night．         

       D．It is also used as a prison nowadays．