There are about _____ people taking part in the election, most of whom are well educated.

   A. four thousands of     B. four thousands   C. four-thousand        D. four thousand

Flight CZ3254 from Guangzhou to Beijing __________________ (take off) at 8:20 am. and ________________ (get to) Beijing at 10:55 am.

 To their great fear, they found _______ in the heaviest snowfall they had ever had.

A．they were catching                                     B．themselves caught

C．they had caught                                         D．themselves catching

On the train from New York to Boston, I found next to me sat an elderly blind gentleman. My PhD director was a blind man, so I started a talk with him. To my enjoyment, the blind man was a good talker, so we shared a happy and interesting journey. It was then a time when a racial conflict broke out in Los Angeles, so our topic turned to the racial prejudice.  

The old man told me he was born in the South and that he was brought up to believe black people were a lower race. In the South he had never gone to dinner or school with black people. Their family had used black servants.

Then he went to school in the north. Once his class appointed him to organize a picnic. He went so far as to attach to the invitation the message “We reserve the right to refuse anyone”. In the South it means “Negroes are not welcome”. This aroused a huge row in the class, and their form teacher dealt him a severe scolding. He went on. Sometimes when he happened to be served by a black assistant in a shop, he would place the money on the counter for the black man to take so as to avoid hand-to-hand contact. I asked, smiling, “So you wouldn’t marry a person of colour?” He said laughingly, “I shut myself off from them, let alone marry a black woman. Truth to tell, at that time I thought any white person who married a black person would bring shame upon their parents. ”

During his graduate years in Boston he was caught in a car accident. He was lucky enough to survive, but he lost his sight, unable to see anything. He was admitted to Carroll Center for the Blind, where he learned to read Braille, walk with the aid of a stick and other skills. Gradually he came to live on his own. “What worried me most was that I couldn’t make out the colours of the people around. I went to a psychological counselor and told my problem to him. He helped me a lot and won my complete trust so that I was willing to tell everything to him. One day he told me he himself was black.” After that, his prejudice was thoroughly gone. He couldn’t tell whether the counselor was white or black but he knew he was a good man. The colour of skin meant nothing to him.

When the train was pulling into the station, the old man stood up and said, “I’ve lost my sight and also prejudice ----- What a fortunate thing!” His wife was already on the platform. As soon as the old man got off, the couple threw themselves into each other’s arms. To my surprise, his wife was an old black lady! I had a sudden insight: Eyes often mislead and even cheat us while an eyeless man is sometimes lucky, because he has to “look” at the world with mind’s eye; what eye views may be one-sided and incomplete while what mind’s eye views is always the true nature.

 Key European governments insist Iraq’s cooperation ____(be) good and military action______

（delay）to allow inspections to continue.

 During his stay in Xi’an, Jerry tried almost all the local foods his friends ________,

A. would recommend                               B. had recommended

C. have recommended                                                                        D. were recommending

 —What about __________ lecture yesterday?

—Well，__________ most boring one indeed.

  A.／；the    B. the；a    C. the; the   D.／；a

Dear Han Meimei,

I’m sorry to know that you have some trouble   61   (learn) English. It goes without saying that learning a foreign language is anything but  62   easy task, but there are many things   63  we can do to overcome the difficulties.

First, obtain as large a vocabulary as   64   , which can pave the way for future study. So   65   is necessary to develop a good habit of doing some reading every day and making efforts to learn some sentences with new words   66   heart. Second, just as you know, practice makes perfect. Therefore,    doing enough exercises  67   bound to improve your listening and writing.

As for examination   68   (anxious), it’s wrong to stay   69   before the exam. Instead, you should go to bed earlier than usual. Otherwise, you will feel tired the next day. Most Importantly, try to be confident in    70  .  Your efforts will surely pay you back in time.

I hope you can improve your English.

                                                       Yours, Li Hua

Starting from my early young age, I was a happy child. However, at age twelve, my life had a

huge  41    . I developed obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). I started to wash my hands ten times an hour to   42   bacteria and I frequently checked my kitchen oven to make sure that it was   43     . This way of life continued for four    44   years, and by then, my OCD had led to      45   . I was no longer the happy little girl I had been. I told my mother that I was suffering from depression. So Mum took me to a   46   . The medicine didn’t help me very much. I was still    47    sad, believing that my life no longer   48   .

   One autumn evening two years ago, I hit rock bottom. I  49    thought suicide was the only   50    to my depression problem, so I wrote a suicide   51     to my family. As I was folding the note, my    52   fell on a photograph. It was a picture of a lovely little girl with dark-blue eyes   53    of adventure and curiosity. It took me a few minutes to    54      that the smiling girl in the photo was me. The photo had been taken at one weekend at my uncle’s house when I was seven. Suddenly I felt a chill (惊悸）and it was like my younger  55   had sent me a message. Once I had been a   56      little girl, and I had to become strong like that again.

   I tore up my suicide note and swore that I would have to    57     the depression with my mind, too. I could make myself happy again. It has been two years    58     I “rediscovered” myself. I am OCD- and depression-free. I am prepared for whatever   59     life may bring. My hero is a seven –year- old girl,   60     back at me from a photo on my desk.

41. A. request      B. breakdown    C. outcome      D. drawback

42. A. avoid        B. breed        C. carry         D. examine

43. A. down        B. hot          C. off           D. clear

44. A. boring       B. careful        C. shy          D. painful

45. A. impression   B. pressure       C. motivation    D. depression

46. A. doctor       B. stranger       C. teacher       D. schoolmaster

47. A. generally     B. suddenly      C. occasionally    D. constantly

48. A. changed      B. mattered      C. succeeded    D. failed

49. A. still          B. even           C. yet         D. barely

50. A. situation      B. method       C. solution      D. relation

51. A. essay        B. notice         C. note         D. poster

52. A. hands        B. heart         C. head         D. eyes

53. A. full          B. free           C. proud        D. fond

54. A. imagine      B. realize         C. predict       D. guess

55. A. brother       B. sister         C. uncle         D. self

56. A. strong       B. beautiful        C. young       D. curious

57. A. accept       B. fight           C. relieve       D. distract

58. A. when        B. after           C. before       D. since

59. A. concerns      B. demands       C. challenges    D. chances

60. A. crying        B. shouting       C. smiling       D. going