M: Mrs. Williams, please excuse us for being so noisy last night.

W: It doesn't matter. But you made a lot of noise upstairs, young man.

M: Yes. 1 It was so exciting, so wonderful.

W: I don't care for rock music. 2

M: 3

W: Yes, they do. By the way. 4

M: Not very often.

W: Thank goodness.

M: 5

(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________ (4) ________ (5) ________

Choose the best answer to complete the dialogues.

M: I can't believe it! 1

W: Why are you complaining? That's not a bad grade.

M: I worked on it for weeks. I spent hours in the library checking on things.

W: Well, getting a B is good. 3

M: But Barry didn't spend half as much time on his project and he still got an A.

W. Barry always gets good grades on his projects. 4

M: I'm really not in the mood to speak to that teacher.

W: Maybe your grade can be changed. 5

M: I suppose that's the best thing to do.

(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________ (4) ________ (5) ________

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

　　A giant dam was built many years ago to control the Colorado River in the U.S. This dam was b________ to protect the land and houses around the river.

　　This huge dam is in the Black Canyon. It is p________ to drive a car from one side of the river to the other on a road, which is on the t________ of the dam. This dam is so big that there is an elevator inside. The elevator goes down forty-four stories from the road to the b________. There is enough concrete in this dam to build a highway from New York to San Francisco. Thousands of people worked on this dam for five years.

　　This huge dam was c________ Boulder Dam when it was finished in 1936. Later it was renamed Hoover Dam in honor of a president of the United States. Hoover Dam, one of the h________ dams in the world, is situated between the states of Arizona and Nevada.

Choose the right sentence and complete the following dialogue.

A: Can I help you, Madam?

B: 1 I want to buy a pair of sports shoes.

A: What size do you want, please?

B: Size ten or eleven.

A: All right. 2

B: Sorry. I do not like brown. 3

A: Other colors? Oh, yes. We've got blue, white and black ones.

B: Can I have a look at the blue pair?

A: 4

B: Can I try them on?

A: Sure. They fit you well.

B: 5

A: Thirty-five yuan.

B: OK. I will take this pair. Here's the money.

A: 6

(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________

(4) ________ (5) ________ (6) ________

Choose the right sentence and complete the following dialogue.

Waiter: Would you like some dessert now, miss?

Jane: I'd like to see the menu again, please.

Waiter: Here you are, miss. 1

Jane: No, thanks. I do not like chocolate. 2

Waiter: 3

Jane: 4

Waiter: I'm sorry, but that's gone, too.

Jane: How about some fresh fruit?

Waiter: 5 All we have is chocolate cake.

Jane: 6

Waiter: Fine. I'll bring you your coffee right away.

(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________

(4) ________ (5) ________ (6) ________

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

　　People have been eating and drinking coffee for t________ of years. Yes, eating! The Ethiopians d________ coffee around 600 years ago. They used coffee beans and animal fat as food on long journeys across Africa. The Arabs were the f________ to drink coffee. They found it helped them stay awake while praying at night.

　　Around 1,600 people in Europe began to drink coffee. One Dutch farmer decided to g________ his own coffee. He started a plantation on the island of Java in Indonesia. Soon farmers in Central and South America were doing the s________. Today, most of the world's coffee still comes from Africa, Central and South America and Indonesia.

　　Medical studies say that three cups of coffee a day is OK. H________, some people want to stop completely. Doctors say they should stop s________. They should drink fewer cups of coffee each day for a week. People who stop too fast often get terrible headaches as a result.

Complete the following dialogue.

A: Hi, Kitty. 1

B: Hi, Helen. Glad to see you, too. Where did you go during the summer holidays?

A: Well, we went to our home town in Jiangxi. 2

B: Oh, they must be very happy to see you again.

A: Sure. 3

B: My parents took Dick and me to a few cities in the south.

A: That would be very interesting. 4

B: We visited Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi and Hangzhou.

A: Oh! 5 I think you were sure to have a good time.

B: Yes, we really enjoyed ourselves very much.

Complete the following dialogue.

A: Hi, are you going to come with us tomorrow?

B: 1

A: We're going to have a picnic on Sheshan.

B: 2 I'd love to. Where shall we meet?

A: Outside the school gate.

B: When shall we meet?

A: At eight. 3

B: 4

A: By bus. 5

B: OK, see you tomorrow.

A: See you.

(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________ (4) ________ (5) ________

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

　　Climbing a mountain is a hard work. But one step after another finally brings a person to the t________. Along the way, he can stop and look around. And the h________ he climbs, the more wonderful his view is. If he keeps climbing, he will have a new world before him. He will have a new way of seeing everything.

　　Now learning a________ language is something like climbing a mountain. This new language can give you a new view of life. And it is more than a look at the surface of things. It can open the way into people's minds and hearts, into a culture very different from the one of your own. This will m________ you richer, richer in things that money can't buy. Even though you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can be an armchair traveler through books.

　　Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to e________ the scenery around him, everyone who is interested in reading will find f________ in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language.

Choose a word or an expression in the box which is closest in meaning to the underlined part of each sentence.

(1) He hadn't eaten anything since the night before his capture.

(2) The road continues beyond the village up into the hills.

(3) Police have finally succeeded in solving the mystery.

(4) He seized the burglar by the collar.