1、.阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号的相应位置。 （1）In the United States, there were 222 people 1._（report）to be billionaires（亿万富翁）in 2003. The 2._of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, who made his money 3._starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old 4._he
2、 first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire 5. _the time he was 6._, there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even 7._（young）ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple. 8._of these child actors made over a m
3、illion dollars 9._（act）in movies before they were 14. But 10. _ youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited （继承）a billion dollars when he turned 18! （2）Finishing their shopping at the mall, a couple discovered that their new car 1._（steal）. They filed a rep
4、ort 2._the police station and a detective drove them 3._to the parking lot to look for evidence. To their 4._（amaze）, the car had been returned 5._there was a note in it that said: “I apologize for taking your car. My wife was having a baby and I had to rush her to the 6._. Please forget the inconve
5、nience. There are two tickets 7._tonights Mania Twain concert.” Their faith in humanity restored. The couple attended 8._concert. But when they returned home, they immediately found. 9._their house had been ransacked （洗劫）. On the bathroom mirror was 10._note: “I have to put my kid through college so
6、mehow, dont I?” （3）People 1._（live）in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred 2._in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four 3._ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need 4._these. To
7、read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. 5._you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary 6._（big）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books 7._（write）in easy En
8、glish. You will enjoy them. When you meet 8._new word, look it 9._in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your 10._（much）useful book. （4）When you are in England you must be very careful in the streets 1._the traffic drives on the left. Before you cross a street you must look to the right first 2._the
9、n the left. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from 3._, the streets are very busy. Traffic is most 4._（danger）then. When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, 5._. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. 6._（have）a look first, or y
10、ou will go 7._wrong way. In many English cities, there are big buses 8._two floors. You can sit on the 9._（two）floor. From 10._you can see the city very well. Its very interesting. （5）1._artist had a small daughter. Sometimes he painted women 2._any clothes on, and he and his 3._always tried to keep
11、 the small girl out 4._he was doing this, “She is 5._young to understand,” they said. But one day, when the artist 6._（paint）a woman with no clothes on, he forgot to lock the door, and the girl suddenly ran into the room. He mother ran up the stairs 7._her, but when she got to the room, the little girl was already in the room and looking at the woman 8._her parents waited for her to speak. For a few seconds the little girl said 9._, but then she ran to her mother and said 10._（angry）, “Why do you let her go about wit
