---- Have we ________ water?

   ---- Yes. We’d better get some.

       A. run out              B. run out of                 C. run into                    D. run across

—How do you think he managed to improve his English in such a short time?

       —______ four hours on it every day．

       A．Because of spending       B．To spend            

       C．By spending            D．Spending

Jack’s dad told him he could have________ he wanted for Christmas.

   A. however      B. whatever     C. whichever     D. whenever

__________ from heart trouble for years Mr. White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.

     A. Suffered      B. Suffering    C. Having suffered       D. Being suffered

Tayka Hotel De Sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $95 a night

Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim．Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床墊) and blankets)．The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat．Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries．When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $240 a night

Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑輪)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure．As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy．Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read．You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $92 a night

Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet．Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly．Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side．You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a ffew steps ot the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose．Cotta “go”(想要方便一下)? Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.

Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash．But your stay will be much more modern．Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer．(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

Which of the following about Tayka Hotel de Sal is true?

      A．The hotel is the cheapest among the four mentioned.

      B．Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

      C．It is on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

      D．It is located on a prehistoric lake.

What is the similarity of the four hotels?

      A．Being expensive.     B．Being beautiful.      C．Being natural.  D．Being unique.

What does the underline part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

      A．The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

      B．The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

      C．The name of the hotel.

      D．The name of the hotel owner.

Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

      A．Tayka Hotel De Sal  B．Green Magic Nature Resort

      C．Dog Bark Park Inn B&B       D．Gamirasu Cave Hotel

What may be the purpose of the writer writing the passage?

      A．To show his wide knowledge. B．To introduce some interesting hotels.

      C．To develop business in tourism.      D．To attract attention from the readers.

閱讀下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后從每題所給的 A , B , C , D四個選項中選出最佳答案。

    It was a winter afternoon．Some friends and l were eating at a restaurant and talking．We talked and talked and soon   36   became the topic．Suddenly I   37   upon an idea．“Wouldn’t it be fun to go swimming ? Others go   38   in winter，but why couldn’t we ?   39   , we could be healthier if we did．”I told them about this , and they all said it was a good idea   40  .

    Early the next morning , we four were standing at the bus stop，with bags in our hands  41    

for a bus to take us to the  42  ．The sky was clear；the sun was shining，but it was very cold all the same．  43  0ur heavy overcoats were not enough to keep us wall．We all felt we should go ___44__ but no one wanted to speak out .

    We soon reached the sands．There was nobody there，but we were not discouraged．Instead we were   45   that we were the only ones that dared to challenge the weather．  46   we changed our clothes quickly．

    But things were not going so  47  ．The freezing sea wind was blowing．We left very cold and  48  all over．At last we made up our minds to   49  into the water．We put our feet in first,   __50__ to take them back very quickly．The water was unbelievably cold．

    Then I suggested we all jump in．We all went back ten steps .  I gave the  51  ，and we all rushed forward and jumped in．I shall never forget the moment I was in the water. I was up __52__ and rushed again to the shore．So it was with my friends．We   53   0ur clothes as quickly as possible．

    On the way back home，we talked about this unforgettable   54  ．The four of us did not __55____ school for the following three days．We all suffered a lot from a very bad cold，but we thought it was all worth it．

A．films           B. music         C. sports         D. plays

A．caught          B. fell           C. came          D. hit

A．swimming       B. skating        C. skiing         D. camping

A．Specially        B. Besides        C. Really        D. Clearly

A．indeed          B. surely         C. certainly       D. truly

A．1ooking         B. searching      C. waiting        D. asking

A．river            B. lake          C. pool           D. sands

A．Even            B. Yet           C. If             D. And

A．a(chǎn)head           B. forward        C. away          D. back

A．excited         B. happy          C. proud         D. lonely

A．So             B. However       C. Still           D. Or

A．wrong          B. right           C. bad           D. smooth

A．walked         B. changed        C. trembled       D. hid

A．go             B. drop           C. fun           D. rush

A．just            B. then           C. only           D. but

A．message        B. order          C. mark          D. information

A．slowly         B. nervously       C. happily        D. immediately

A．had on         B. put on          C. wore          D. dressed

A．1ife           B. experiment      C. chance         D. experience

A．a(chǎn)ttend         B. reach           C. enter          D. go

  I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble.

I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of

my pocket and put it on her desk.

    Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

    Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

The story took place（發(fā)生） exactly ____________ .

   A. in the teacher’s office                  B. in an exam room

   C. in the school                        D. in the language lab

The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____________ .

   A. she had not brought a pen with her   

   B. she had lost her own on her way to school

   C. there was something wrong with her own

   D. her own had been taken away by someone

The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____________ .

   A. to go on writing his paper           

   B. to stop whispering

   C. to leave the room immediately       

   D. to stay behind after the exam

The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was(were) ____________ .

   A. honesty          B. sense of duty         C. seriousness      D. all of the above

The boy knew everything ____________ .

   A. the moment he was asked to stay behind   

   B. when the teacher started talking about honesty

   C. only some time later   

   D. when he was walking out of the room

—Have you seen my English dictionary?

—I put it right here just now, but now it’s nowhere ______.

   A. to see                 B. being seen                C. seen           D. to be seen

The girl in plain clothes,       was wonderfully calm in face of danger, was just sixteen years old.

A. when        B. which        C. what D. who

There ______ many people ______ in the office, but now nobody is allowed to.

A. used to be；smoking                B. used to have；smoking

C. used to be；smoke                  D. used to have；smoke