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1、ａndy loved the idea. mary arthur 1 hated it. kurt mendez didn’t think it was any big deal. mr. el thought it was a brilliant idea. after all, it was 2 his idea.“it’s only fair, ” mr. el explained to his new fourth graders as they stood in line waiting for the lunch bell 3 to ring ，“that we turn things around. every year you guys line up in alphabetical ｏrder(按字母顺序). alphabetical ｏrder to go to lunch, to go to gym, to go home, ａnd so on. this year we’re using reverse（相反的） alphabetical ｏrder.”mindy vale put her hand down as mr. el pointed 4 to her. “i’ve always had to stand at the back of the line, ever since kindergarten! now i’m near the 5 front . thank you, thank you!”the teacher smiled. 6 then ， he called on christopher cash, a serious ａnd thoughtful young man. “mr. el, i think you should 7 reconsider ” this policy. this is very drastic ａnd unnecessary. this could confuse our fragile young minds!“put a lid on it, chris!” shouted david tyler.“we won’t have any outbursts like that, david! ” mr. el said firmly. he turned 8 toward “don’t 9 worry ， christopher. we only have strong minds in this class.” christopher.“how many of you think this is a good idea?” mr. el asked. as you would probably 10 expect ， most of the hands that went up were in the latter half of the line.2、one day a police officer managed to get some fresh mushrooms(蘑菇). he was so _ 1 c. pleased with what he had bought that he offered to 2 a. share the mushrooms with his brother officers. when their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on his plate.“let the dog 3 c. try a piece first,” suggested one 4 d. carefulofficer who was afraid that the mushr ooms might be poisonous.the dog seemed to 5 d. enjoy his mushroom, ａnd the officers then began to eat their meal, saying that the mushrooms had a very strange 6 b. but quite pleasant taste.an hour 7 a. later , however, they were all astonished 8 d. when the gardener rushed in ａnd said seriously that the dog was dead. 9 a. immediately , the officers jumped into their cars ａnd rushed to the 10 d. nearest hospital. pumps(洗胃器)were used ａnd the officers had a very 11 a. hard time getting rid of the mushrooms that 12 d. remained in their stomachs.when they 13 d. returned to the police station, they sat down ａnd started to 14 b. discuss the mushroom poisoning. each man explained the pains that 15 c. he had felt ａnd they agreed that these had grown worse on their 16 c. way to the hospital. the gardener was called to tell the way 17 d. in which the poor dog had died." did it 18 a. suffer much before death?" asked one of the officers, 19 b. feeling very pleased that he had escaped (避免) a20 b. painful death himself. "no," the gardener looked rather surprised, "it was killed the moment a car hit it."3、day after day, a small blue truck speeds along the streets of funen. a dog sits besides the driver, looking at him as if listening to his 1ｏrders . whenever the truck goes by, the people of funen turn ａnd stare, some in 2 a. wonder , others in admiration, for on its _ __3 d. sides are printed the words tracker dog ａnd a telephone number.yes, the passenger in the blue truck is a dog that is used to find lost things ｏr follow the 4 c. tracks of persons ａnd animals. within seven years, the dog ａnd his 5 d. owner anderson have found lost things 6 c. worth nearly $ 400,000, 7 b. among which are watches, jewelry, money, cows, pigs, ａnd 8 d. other dogs. of course, the 9 c. secret of the dog is his sensitive nose.each year the dog ａnd anderson 10 c. answer 700 calls for help. four out of five __11 b. times _ _ they find what they are 12 b. asked to look for. whenever the phone rings in ａndersons house, the dog is 13 a. immediately excited. he quickly runs to the truck, 14 a. eager to be off in search of 15 d. the lost.16 c. on _ the way, ａnderson 17 b. repeats the names of what they are looking for. so by the time they arrive, the dog is 18 b. ready to get to work. he circles here ａnd there until he picks up the 19 a. smell of an object in a place 20 c. where it doesn’t belong.4、mr. gray traveled a lot on business. he sold machines of various kinds to farmers, which he thought not really a very 1 d. exciting job, but mr. gray had always been interested in _ 2 c. traveling , ａnd he was quite satisfied with his life.he had a big 3 c. car ,and usually enjoyed driving it long distances, but he was also quite 4 a. satisfied to go by train sometimes too — especially when the weather was 5 d. bad _．he was a little frightened of driving in the rain ｏr snow, ａnd it was 6 b. less tiring to sit comfortably in a train ａnd look out of the windows without being worried about how one was going to get to the next place.one of mr. gray's 7 a. problems was ｗhere to stay when he reached some small 8 d. place in the country．he did not expect 9 b. comfort and wonderful food, but he found it annoying(恼火的)when he was given a cool room, ａnd when there was no hot water 10 a. ｏr good food after a long ａnd tiring day.late one winter evening, mr. gray arrived at a small railway station．the journey by train that 11 b. day had not been at all interesting, ａnd mr. gray was cold ａnd tired ａnd _ 12 d. hungry ．he was looking forward to a 13 b. simple _ but satisfying meal by a brightly burning _ 14 a. fire , ａnd then a hot bath ａnd a comfortable bed.while he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was also 15 b. walking _ there,” as this is my 16 c. first visit to this part of the country ａnd i was in too much of a hurry to find out about hotels before i 17 a. left home, i would very much like to know how many you have here．”the local man answered,” we have two．”“and which of the two would you 18 b. advise me to go to?” mr. gray asked then．the local man scratched(搔)his 19 c. head for a few moments ａnd then answered,” well, it’s like this, 20 a. whichever one you go to, you’ll be sorry you didn’t go to the other．”5、susan cleveland is the young president of a candy company in the city of chicago. her father began the company in the 1960's. he died three years ago. now, the company belongs to susan.susan, 1 d. however , did not have any jobs before becoming head of the company. she just finished the college.the employees(雇员) became 2 c. even more ” what does a “short leash” mean? a leash is a kind of rope. we ｕｓｅ a leash 9 our pet dogs. the leash keeps the dog ｆrom 10 away 11 getting into trouble. concerned during susan's first months 3 a. on the job. mr. cleveland had been a 4 b. strong leader. but susan permitted 5 d. many employees to make their own 6 c. decisions . one employee said, “old mr. cleveland 7 b. always told us what to do. he kept people on a short leash. 8 d. but the company did well. 9 a. to walk 10 c. running 11. d. ｏrkeeping a person on a short leash means keeping him ｏr her 12 d. under close control. the person can't make many decisions for himself ｏr herself. ms cleveland does not keep her workers on a short leash. 13 c. instead , she encourages them to get 14 d. better ways to do business. for example, her secretary proposed(建议) an idea. she said the company should 15 b. offer a sum of money as a prize to the best student in the high school 16 c. near the factory. the winner could ｕｓｅ the prize money to study at a university. ms cleveland 17 b. appreciated the idea. after the prize was announced, 18d. peopl who lived in the area of the factory began to buy 19 c. mｏre of the company's candy. local newspapers wrote about the competition. business 20 a. improved .ms cleveland made her secretary the company's first director of public relations. the former secretary was very pleased.6、governments，media ａnd people around the world have become very worried about something called sudan i (苏丹红1号). this chemical dye,_1 c. found _ in many food products, was said to _2 b. cause _ cancer. newspapers told everyone to be careful ａnd governments pulled this product off supermarket _3 a. shelves _ .sudan i is a red dye used for _4 c. coloring _ oils, waxes, petrol, shoe ａnd floor polishes（上光剂）. scientists have found if used in food, it can _5_ d. contribute to an increased risk of cancer.on march 4, beijing’s food safety office said that it found the cancer-causing dye in meiweiyuan chili（红辣椒）sauce in the city. now the _6_ b. producer, famous us food company heinz, has recalled its chili sauces ａnd chili oils sold in china.this fol lows news of food companies, including mcdonald’s, _7 d. taking back _ some products in britain after finding the dye in them.france was the first to _8 c. notice _ the chemical dye in 2003. since then ， foods _9 c. containing _ sudan i have been banned in the european union._10 a. but _ experts say that people who have eaten any of the products should not _11 c. worry _ too much. the cancer risk ｆrom sudan i is very _12 b. low， as only tiny amounts of it are used in foods.sudan i was banned ｆrom food products because experiments on rats _13 d. showed _ that it could cause serious tumors（肿瘤）. but， alan boobies， an expert in london， says there is little _14_ b. reason for the public to worry. he said that the levels fed to the rats were in much， much bigger amounts _15 a. compared _their body size. the amounts in food products eaten by humans are _16 c. tiny _.the rats that got tumors were given 30 milligrams of sudan i per kilogram of body weight， every day for two years. animals given half the amount showed no _17 d. signs _ of cancer.the tumors only _18 b. developed _ in the rats after many months. for humans， this means that if the dye were to have any _19 a. effect _， it would take around 20 years. professor boobis gives a _20 d. comparison _.”it’s ju st like the cancer risk linked with smoking just one cigarette in a lifetime，” he said.。