Cloze 16Jack lost (丢失)his job last week. It was difficult for him to find another___1___. ___2____ told him that it was possible to get a new one in a town two hundred kilometers ___3____. He decided to get there____4____.So he went to the railway station and got___5____a train. He was the only one in the car (车厢). The train started. Suddenly a man came in____6____a gun and said to him, “Your money____7____your life?” Jack sat there without____8____up.“I ____9___any money,” Jack answered.“Then why are you so afraid of me?” the man asked angrily.“Because I ___10____you were the conductor, and I didn’t buy a ticket,” answered Jack.D. one /B. Somebody/C. away/C. by train/B. on/6、A. with/D. or/B. standing/9、A. don’t have/D. thought /1-5:DBCCB 6-10:ADBAD Cloze 17Once, three fishes lived in a pond. One evening, some ___1___ passed by the pond and saw the fishes. “This pond is full of fish”, they told each other __2___. “We have never fished here before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our ___3___ and catch these fish!” So saying, the fishermen left.When the eldest of the three fishes ___4___ this, he was troubled. He called the other fishes together and said, “Did you hear ___5___ the fishermen said? We must leave this pond at once. The fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all!”The second of the three fishes agreed. “You are right”, he said. “We must leave the pond.”But the ____6___ fish laughed. “You are worrying without reason”, he said. “We have lived in this pond all ou r lives, and no fisherman has ever come here. Why should these men return? I am not going ___7____ - my luck will keep me safe.”The eldest of the fishes left the pond that ___8____ evening with his entire family. The second fish saw the fishermen ____9___ in the distance early next morning and left the pond at once with all his family. The third fish refused to leave even then.The fishermen ____10___and caught all the fish left in the pond. The third fish's luck did not help him - he too was caught and killed. (232字)D. fishermen/A. excitedly/C. nets/B. heard/B. what/C. youngest/A. anywhere/B. very/C. coming/D. arrived/ 1-5: DACBB 6-10:CABCD Cloze 18We were going to play against a team from a country school. They didn't come until the game time arrived. They look__1__than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.We all sat down. We felt we didn't__2____any practice (训练) against a team like that.It was already so late that no____3___ could be given to them for a warm-up (热身，准备活动). The game began.One of our boys ___4___the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward (前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt ___5___the pass and with a beautiful form he shot and got two points.They ____6____us. Then they got another____7____of points in a minute.Soon it was all over. The country team ___8____ us. We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another just a little ____9___. But the important lesson learned was: One can't tell a man, or a team, by the ___10____ .C. worse/D. need/D. time/ A. got/D. stopped/ A. surprised/B. pair/C. beat/ A. better / B. clothes/ 1-5: CDDAD 6-10: ABCABCloze 19Once there was a boy in Toronto. His name was Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very ___1___ at it. He drew many beautiful interesting pictures, and many people ___2___ his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be ___3___ when he was a little older, and then they were going to ___4___ these pictures for a lot of money.Jimmy's pictures were quite different from other ___5___ because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on ___6___ of it, and the other half was always ___7___."That's very clever," everybody said. "___8___ other people have ever done that before."One day somebody asked him, "Please tell me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures, ___9___ not on the top half?""Because I'm small," Jimmy said, "and my brushes (毛笔) can't ___10___ very high."D. good/ A. bough/C. famous/D. sell/B. people's/A. half/B. empty/ A. No/C. but/D. reach /19:1-5:DACDB 6-10: ABACDCloze 20Monday is the beginning of the week; it is the day most Americans like worst. The day they ___1___ most is Saturday. Saturday is the ___2___ of the workweek; it is the beginning of the weekend.Life is ___3___ on the weekend; most Americans ___4___ care of their houses, cars and gardens. They sleep ___5___ in the morning. They enjoy the feeling that the time ___6___ to move more slowly.The workweek is for things you ___7___ to do; the weekend is for things you ___8___ to do. Some people may get in a car for a ___9___ in the country. They like to take part in a sports activity out of doors. And on Saturday night they might go to a public eating ___10___ or a film.A. like/C. end/D. different/B. take/B. later/D. seems/C. have/A. like/A. drive/A. place /1-5:ACDBB 6-10: DCAAACloze 21I first saw the baby panda when she was only 10 days old. She looked like a white mouse. We ____1___her Xi Wang. It means “hope”.When Xi Wang was born, she weighed____2___100 grams. Xi Wang drank her mother’s milk for as much as 14 hours a day. When she was six months old, she started to eat bamboo shoots (嫩芽) and ____3____. Eight months later, she was not a small baby any more. She grew into a____4___young panda and weighed 35 kilos. When Xi Wang was 20 months old, she had to look after herself _____5___ her mother had another baby.____6_____, it is very difficult for pandas to live in the wild. Here are some of the _____7____that pandas like Xi Wang may have in the future.If hunters catch a panda, they will kill it for its fur. If farmers____8____trees and forests, pandas will have no place to live in.When mothers leave baby pandas alone, people will often take them away. People think that the baby pandas need ____9_____.If pandas are in danger, we should try our best to protect them. If we do____10_____, soon there will be no more pandas in the world!B. called/C. just/A. leaves/D. healthy/C. because/C. Sadly/D. problems/A. cut down /B. help/A. nothing/ 1-5: BCADC 6-10:CDABACloze 22One day John and Bill were fishing. John took his __1___ Black with him on the riverbank. When the dog saw a bird, he would run__2___ it and try to __3___ it. “All the fish are afraid and ___4__ away,” said Bill. “Be quiet, Black.” John shouted at the dog, __5___ Black did not listen to him. “Shall we go now, Bill?” asked John, “Next time I shall not bring him here ___6___.“Wait,” said Bill, “A fish is biting my line.” “Be careful!” shouted John. But it was too ____7__. The boy fell into the water. “Help! Help!” Bill shouted. But John couldn't swim, either. ____8___ Blac k came out. He jumped into the water and ___9__ the boy onto the bank and ___10___ his life.B. dog/D. afte/C. catch/B. swim/C. but/C. again/ A. late/D. Just then/C. pulled/D. saved/ 1-5:BDCBC 6-10:CADCDCloze 23Billy is a boy of fifteen. His parents died three years ago. One day when he was walking in the street, he ___1___ a wallet. He returned it to the owner, Mr. Baker. He gave his __2___ to the boy. As the boy had no job, Mr. Baker made him work for him in his ___3___. Billy worked so hard that Mr. and Mrs. Baker were ___4___ with him.Mr. Baker loved planting ___5___. The week before last, he brought a few trees home, planted them in the ___6___ himself and watered them every day. Several days ___7___, he had to leave for another city. Before he sta rted, he said to Billy, “Take good care of the trees. Some boys near our house always want to steal them.”“Don't __8__ about them.” answered Billy. Six days passed and Mr. Baker came back. He asked,” ____9__ anyone ever come to steal the trees?” “No, sir,” said Billy, “To stop someone from stealing the trees, I ___10___ them up six days ago. I have hidden them for almost a week!”A.found/C. thanks/D. home/A. pleased/D. trees/A. garden/B. later/D.worry/C. Has/B. pulled/ 1-5: ACDAD 6-10: ABDCB Cloze 24Many years ago there was a poor man. He had an orange tree 1 his garden. On the tree there were many fine oranges. 2 he found one 3 his oranges was much bigger 4 the others. It was as 5 as a football. Nobody had ever seen 6 orange. The poor man took the orange to the king. The king was so happy ___7 __he gave the man a lot of money for it.When a rich man heard of it, he said to himself, “It's only an orange. Why has the king given so much money 8__ it? I'II take my gold cup to the king. He'll give me 9 money.”The next day when the king received the gold cup, he said to the rich man, 'What a beautiful cup! I'll show you __10__ , please take this great orange."B. in/A. One day/C .of/B. than/A. big/C. such a big/B. that/D. for/D. more/C. something beautiful/ 1-5: BACBA 6-10: CBDDC。