Very few ___ his address in the town.A、has knownB、are knowingC、knowD、knows

A.faint

B.obscure

C.gloomy

D.indefinite

A.hard against

B.hard on

C.hard with

D.hard to

A.few

B.a few

C.little

D.a little

From the first paragraph we can learn that ______.

A) very few people have the sensitivity of the blind'

B) blind people can manage to see things, but not clearly

C) not everybody sees with his eyes

D) it is possible to narrow the photosensitive areas of the body

on the ship for several months at a time. When he woke up in the morning and looked out, he only saw the sea, __22__ sometimes a port.

When he was twenty-four, Dick __23__ and bought a small house with a garden in his wife's town. It was far away fromthe sea. Then he had to go back to his ship, and he __24__ home for two months. He went from the port to the town by bus, and was very happy to see his wife again.

The next morning he slept until 9 o'clock. Then he woke up suddenly and looked out of the window. There were trees a few feet __25__. He was very frightened and jumped out ofbed, shouting, "We've hit land!"

21.

A.or

B.did not come

C.so

D.got married

E.away

22.

A.or

B.did not come

C.so

D.got married

E.away

23.

A.or

B.did not come

C.so

D.got married

E.away

24.

A.or

B.did not come

C.so

D.got married

E.away

25.

A.or

B.did not come

C.so

D.got married

E.away

e library.He keeps ___1___ to the radio every morning and reading newspapers after supper.So he knows much and teaches well.His students worship（崇拜）him very much.

Mike,Mr.Clarke's little son,is only nine.He ___2___ likes reading books.And he often asks his father some questions.Mr.Clarke always thinks he's too ___3___ to understand him and chooses the easiest ones to answer.Of course the boy is not pleased with that.

One day Mike read ___4___ about the lights and was interested in it.When his father told him to do some housework,he went on thinking of it.He asked him ___5___ questions,and his father answered all.Then his father said proudly,"Fathers always know more than sons!"

The boy thought for a while and said,"I don't think so!"

1-5:A：a few B：listening C：also D：young E：something

A rich American went into a shop in London. He wanted very much （1) a nice-looking wat

ch.He saw a watch and liked it so much that he decided to buy it. But the owner of the shop asked five hundred dollars for it.While the American was hesitating, a young man suddenly came into the shop, took the watch out of the owner's hand and ran out with it. It all happened in (2) seconds. When the owner ran out into the street, the young man had already (3) among the people. The American went on. At the next corner, he saw the young man with the stolen watch in his hand, "Do you want to buy a fine watch, sir？" he said in a low voice,"I's only a hundred dollars."

"The young man doesn't know I saw him (4) the watch just now," he thought. The American paid at once and went happily back to his room with the watch. He told his friend about the fine watch. His friend (5) a look at the watch and started to shout immediately. He said, "You are a fool. This watch is worth only ten dollars. I'm sure the shop owner and the young man planned all this together."

A.a few

B.disappeared

C.to get

D.took

E.stealing

political or forensic.

Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood. Not even books wherewith to inform. and train his mind were within his reach. No school, no university, no legal faculty had any part in training his powers. When he became a lawyer and a politician, the years most favourable to continuous study had already passed, and the opportunities he found for reading were very scanty. He knew but few authors in general literature, though he knew those few thoroughly. He taught himself a little mathematics, but he could read no language save his own, and can have had only the faintest acquaintance with European history or with any branch of philosophy.

The want of regular education was not made up for by the persons among whom his lot was cast. Till he was a grown man, he never moved in any society from which he could learn those things with which the mind of an orator to be stored. Even after he had gained some legal practice, there was for many years no one for him to mix with except the petty practitioners of a petty town, men nearly all of whom knew little more than he did himself.

Schools gave him nothing, and society gave him nothing. But he had a powerful intellect and a resolute will. Isolation fostered not only self-reliance but the habit of reflection, and indeed, of prolonged and intense reflection. He made all that he knew a part of himself. His convictions were his own—clear and coherent. He was not positive or opinionated and he did not deny that at certain moments he pondered and hesitated long before he decided on his course. But though he could keep a policy in suspense, waiting for events to guide him, he did not waver. He paused and reconsidered, but it was never his way to go back on a decision once more or to waste time in vain regrets that all he had expected had not been attained. He took advice readily and left many things to his ministers; but he did not lean on his advisers. Without vanity or ostentation, he was always independent, self-contained, prepared to take full responsibility for his acts.

It is said in the second paragraph that Abraham Lincoln ______.

A．was illiterate

B．was never educated

C．was educated very late

D．behaved rudely when he was young

ho discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the wails of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water.

Fresco, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of the thousands of people who stand under Michlangelo's heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world.

The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also a great fondness for small, intimate pictures. The subdued tones of watercolor had a remarkably strong appeal for them.

What is the main theme of the passage？

A．The decline of fresco painting.

B．The predominance of oils over watercolor.

C．The rediscovery of watercolor in England.

D．The origins and development of watercolor.

udget，his clients trusted him completely and he made them feel secure. In exchange they paid him very well. We had a nice life then. At that time，my yoga studio(瑜伽馆)was just starting to make a profit，and I had recently decorated it. At last，I was in control of my working life and poured my heart and soul into making it succeed.

When we first met，I fell hard for Christopher right away. although I wouldn't call it love. I'd never been with a man who was prettier than I was，but after a while I got used to this. and it didn't bother me so much. I was recovering from a broken heart and needed something to help me move on. If it wasn't love，it was good enough，and when he asked me to marry him I jumped at the chance. knowing that it might be my last.

Things started out so well. I was working steadily and Christopher was patiently climbing up the ladder in his department. Then，without any warning，one gray winter afternoon in year five，he just upped and left his desk at the bank，handed in his resignation，and came home and told me he wanted to start an interior design business.

He has always loved mixing and matching，and has a real eye for color，texture，and shape，but the idea of turning a hobby into a business wasn't something we had ever discussed. I thought the stress of his job was becoming too much and perhaps he would take a few months off over the spring and summer to relax and get the idea out of his system. I didn't believe he could be serious. But once he had a few clients，he began to draw up plans，ordering catalogues and turning our empty workshop into a kind of makeshift studio with all of his sketches pinned to the wall. After spending a lot of time and money on all of this preparation，and really doing quite a nice job of it,he called each client in turn and apologized，saying he wouldn't be able to design their living spaces after all.

As a financial planner，Christopher______.

A．paid his clients very well

B．was trusted by his clients

C．was making his yoga studio profitable

D．could make his family's budget balanced