Cars are very popular in America. When the kids are fourteen years old. They dream of having their own ____1___. Many students work after school to ___2___ a car. In most places ____3___ people learn to drive in high school. They have to take a ___4____ test to get a license. Learning to drive and getting a driver’s ___5___ may be one of the most exciting things in their lives. For many, that piece of paper is an important symbol(象征)that they are now grown-ups.

Americans seem to love their cars almost more than anything else. People almost never go to see a doctor when they are ____6_____. But they will take ____7____ cars to a “hospital” at the smallest sign of a problem. At weekends, people ___8___ most of the time in washing and waxing(打蠟) their cars. For some families it is not enough to have ___9___ car. They often have two or even three. Husbands need a car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or ___10____ activities.  

（ ）1. A. cars      B. computers  C. bikes    D. houses

（ ）2. A. borrow   B. buy      C. lend      D. sell

（ ）3. A. old      B. tall       C. strong     D. young

（ ）4. A. language  B. listening  C. driving    D. body

（ ）5. A. address   B. book     C. name     D. license 

（ ）6. A. sick     B. healthy    C. pleased   D. angry

（ ）7. A. his      B. her       C. your      D. their

（ ）8. A. cost     B. take      C. spend     D. pay

（ ）9. A. no      B. one       C. some     D. several

（ ）10.A . other   B. another    C. others    D. else

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Zeng Zimo becomes more and more popular among friends. But do you know her story

b 1. she became a hostess for Phoenix Satellite TV（鳳凰衛(wèi)視）? When she was only 17 years old, she i 2.  on not going to Qinghua and Beijing universities. Though she had only one month to study TOEFL, she g 3. a high score first in that test.

Later she worked for a b 4.  in New York for four years. Each day she had to deal w 5. data（數(shù)據(jù)）and forms. It’s a well-paid job, but she got tired, and decided to make a change.

When she joined the TV station, Zeng said she h 6.  knew anything about the field at all. She had to learn how to do interviews all by h 7. . She had to learn how to face those c 8. . It was a challenge. But she found the new job fresh and fun.

Were her years in the bank wasted then? Zeng says that the a 9. is no. They made her smart and c 10. . "What you do in life changes the way you think. You take what you have learnt from an experience with you onto the next stage of life," she says in her book “Mo ji”.

Cars are very popular in America. When the kids are fourteen years old. They dream of having their own ____1___. Many students work after school to ___2___ a car. In most places ____3___ people learn to drive in high school. They have to take a ___4____ test to get a license. Learning to drive and getting a driver’s ___5___ may be one of the most exciting things in their lives. For many, that piece of paper is an important symbol(象征)that they are now grown-ups.
Americans seem to love their cars almost more than anything else. People almost never go to see a doctor when they are ____6_____. But they will take ____7____ cars to a “hospital” at the smallest sign of a problem. At weekends, people ___8___ most of the time in washing and waxing(打蠟) their cars. For some families it is not enough to have ___9___ car. They often have two or even three. Husbands need a car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or ___10____ activities.  
（ ）1. A. cars     B. computers  C. bikes    D. houses
（ ）2. A. borrow  B. buy     C. lend     D. sell
（ ）3. A. old     B. tall      C. strong    D. young
（ ）4. A. language  B. listening  C. driving   D. body
（ ）5. A. address  B. book    C.name     D.license 
（ ）6. A. sick    B. healthy   C. pleased  D. angry
（ ）7. A. his     B. her      C. your     D. their
（ ）8. A. cost     B. take      C. spend     D. pay
（ ）9. A. no      B. one      C. some    D. several
（ ）10.A . other   B. another   C. others   D. else