2008 地方卷 英语

$2. You have to ________ a choice. Are you going to leave the job or stay$?

$4. For many cities in the world, there is no room to spread out further, _______ New York is an example.$

5. --- Let’s go for a walk in the garden.
--- _______, but I need to do the washing-up.

$7. The telephone _______, but by the time I got indoors, it stopped.$

$8. In the United States, there is always ____ flow of people to areas of ______ country where more jobs can be found.$

$9. I used to quarrel a lot with my parents, but now we ________fine.$

$10. Although this ________sound like a simple task, great care is needed$

13. --- Can you show me Mr. Jaffer’s office, please?
--- _____. But I don’t know if he is in at the moment.

$14. We had an anxious couple of weeks _____ for the results of the experiment.$

$37. Tracy started her work as a volunteer _______.$

38. Why did Tracy choose to be a volunteer?

39. What is Tracy’s “new idea” (Paragraph 2) of being a volunteer?

40. Who earns most according to the text?

$42. According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____.$

44. Why do people feel sleepy in the early afternoon according to the text?

45. If you get up at 6:30 am, what is the best time for you to take a nap?

What do we know about the author?

Why did the author decide to buy the Hollowell place?

52. Why did the author decide to buy the Hollowell place?

53. Why did the author want to buy the farm in a hurry?

54. The underlined words “the loss” $in the last paragraph refer to ___.$