阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper—and had a meal I had never had before. All the friends invited were a little (36) . It’s not that Ben is unsociable, or a bad cook, but it’s just that he never (37) more than he has to. So how come he was inviting us round for a meal Had he bought something (38) for his friends He greeted us at the door and showed us into his dining room where a (39) table was waiting for us. "Nothing but the (40) for my friends!" saidBen. We all sat down and looked (41) at each other—what was he (42) Ben returned with four bowls of hot soup. "It’s a (43) of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes," said Ben. The next (44) was also a little strange (45) we didn’t quite know what it was again. It was just another mixture of vegetables. As we ate we chatted and finally the (46) turned back to what we were eating. "Was there a recipe for this," asked Marina, "or did you (47) it up" Ben put his fork down, "What I cooked (48) what I could find. "Marina was surprised," But you can find anything in supermarkets these days." "But there’s (49) choice in what you can find (50) supermarkets," he replied. (51) that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the troth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually (52) away five percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of (53) , boxes of vegetables and fruit thrown away. So Ben had (54) provided a decent meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of food thrown away is enough to (55) millions of people.
A. cheap
B. special
C. practical
D. usual
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听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 What was Tom supposed to do a quarter later
A. [A] He was supposed to go out for lunch.
B. He was supposed to come back home.
C. He was supposed to have a meeting.
C The English author, Richard Savage, was once living in London in great poverty. In order to earn a little money he had written the story of his life, but not many copies of the bock had been sold in the shop, and Savage was living from hand to mouth. As a result of his lack of food he became very ill, but after a time, because of the skill of the doctor who had looked after him, he got well again. After a week or two the doctor sent a bill to Savage for his visits, but poor Savage hadn’t any money and couldn’t pay it. The doctor waited for another month and sent the bill again. But still no money came. After several weeks he sent it to him again asking for his money. In the end he came to Savage’s house and asked him for payment, saying to Savage, "You know you owe your life to me and I expected some gratitude from yon." "I agree," said Savage, "that I owe my life to you, and to prove to you that I am not ungrateful for your work I will give my life to you." With these words he handed to him two copies entitled THE LIFE OF RICHARD SAVAGE. In the text the underlined sentence means "______".
A. Savage had clothes to wear and food to eat
B. Savage had no money to buy clothes or food
C. Savage was very poor and ill
D. Savage was too poor to live on
B Our surroundings are being polluted faster than ever and it seems that people cannot prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. What can explain and settle this problem The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his desire for a modern way of life. We make "increasing industrialization" as our first aim. So we are often ready to offer everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the country-side into the cities, eager for the achievements of our modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last 20 years, pollution has become a serious problem. Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going—and why It makes one think of the story about the pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker," I’ve some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we are lost and don’t know where we’re going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when speaking of our modern society. What does the writer really want to say in the passage
A. With the development of technology, pollution has become a serious problem.
B. We should control the speed of the development to stop pollution.
C. It’s time we did something to reduce pollution.
D. As industry is growing fast, pollution is the natural result.
D Water, water everywhere. It lasted almost two months, but in August it ended. It left 45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states of the USA. It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded. In St. Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All the three rivers were flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees broke upriver. A levee is built of river sand and clay. Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960s. The walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis, water almost reached the top of flood walls. It measured 49.4 feet. The flood referred to in the passage ______.
A. was the heaviest one in the history
B. happened in Missouri and Illinois states
C. happened in less than 20 percent of the states of the USA
D. was recorded several times