(   )24. A. sad             B. cold                   C. warm               D. clean

(   )25. A. cloth            B. food                   C. light                D. chair

(   )26. A. prepare        B. cook                  C. buy                  D. have

(   )27. A. join             B. help                  C. attend               D. enjoy

(   )28. A. and             B. while                 C. then                  D. when

(   )29. A. coldness        B. sickness            C. kindness            D. comfort

(   )30. A. moved     B. sent          C. built         D. found

三、阅读理解 (共15小题;每小题2分，计 30 分)    阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

(A)

On the wall in my mother’s bedroom there was a photo, which showed a soldier with a gun. Below the photo was the word “Speaking”.

“Who’s that soldier called Speaking?” I asked one day.

“He was Harold.” She said. “He was my only brother. When the Second World War began, Harold was eighteen. I was twelve then, and my sisters were ten and nine”.

“Harold liked to play with us, and we often quarreled. When we quarreled, we said：We’re not speaking to you. But before long we were all happy again, and then we said: I’m speaking now. Are you speaking to me?”

“When the war broke out, Harold joined the army. A month later, he came to see us. He brought the gun to show us. Then he went miles away to the war. We didn’t see him for three years, three long, empty years. We didn’t often hear from him. But one day in May there was a loud bang(砰)on the front door…”

“I ran to open it. It was Harold! He was an old Harold, a thinner Harold. He looked at me with his two green eyes and smiled. That smile was just the same as before, then he said one word: ‘speaking’”.

“I didn’t…I couldn’t…answer. I just fell into his arms and he dropped his gun. He stayed with us for a month. We played all our old games again. Then he went back to the war, and never came back again. So I wrote the word on the photo.”

(   )31. How old was the storyteller when Harold came back for the last time?

A. twelve          B. Eighteen.   C. Fifteen.  D. Twenty-one.

(   )32. Harold never came back again because________.

A. he didn’t want to speak to his sister any more   B. he died in the war

C. his sister had not answered him when he came back  D. he went far away to the war

(   )33.Why did the mother hang the photo in her bedroom?

A. She wanted to keep a memory of her childhood.B. It could awake her happy memories.

C. It could show that her brother was a great man.

D. She hung it there in memory of her brother.

(B)

Men sometimes say:“We are better and cleverer than woman. Women never invented things. We do .”It is true that men have invented a lot of useful things :the alphabet, machines, rockets, and guns, too. But scientists and archeologists(考古学家 )now agree that women invented one very important thing. It had changed the history. They invented agriculture. Before the invention of agriculture men were hunters. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals—sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day, too. They collected roots, fruit and grass. Then , one day, more than 10,000years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds. She dropped them near her home in the Middle East. They grew—and the first wheat was born. The idea grew, too . Women planted roots and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the children—and the animals. Women liked baby animals: dogs, cows sheep and goats .That idea grew, too. Then their husband did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and cities. Men began civilization—after women invented agriculture.