妙语短篇C1首字母填词测试题.doc

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妙语短篇C1首字母填词测试题

1.James had a terrible toothache. It kept him awake all night. His cheek was swollen and it was difficult for him to eat or drink. Anything very hot or cold made the toothache w_____. If James ate anything sweet the pain was u____.
James did not want to take time off from work, so he tried to bear the pain. He took a pain-killer every hour.
However, the tooth h_____ so much when he tried to eat his lunch that he knew he had to go to the de dentist.
He asked his boss for time o____. His boss could see that James was in great pain, and told him to take the rest of the day off.
The dentist agreed to see James immediately.
‘‘Open your mouth,’’ he said, ‘’and let’s have a look.’’
James opened his mouth.
‘’Which tooth is giving trouble?’’ the dentist asked next.
James t______ the tooth with his finger.
The dentist x-rayed the tooth, then he put the x-ray a______ a bright light.
‘’Oh, yes.’’ He said ‘’I can see the problem. There is a cavity in the tooth. I’m afraid the h______ is too big to fill. I must take the tooth out.’’
‘‘That’s all right ’’ James said ‘’Just stop the pain.’’
The dentist gave James an i_______ and quickly pulled out the tooth. He d______ it into the garbage can.
‘‘Don’t throw it away.’’ James said ‘‘Let me have it please.’’
‘‘Why do you want your old tooth?’’ the dentist asked.
‘‘I’m going to take it home ,put it in a bowl of hot honey and watch it s______.’’

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2.The Gordon family was spending a day on the beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon were sitting on the sand, reading their magazines. Mr. Gordon was too s_______ to rent a chair. Their twelve-year old daughter, Sandra was playing at the water’s e_______.
Suddenly a huge wave l_______ Sandra up and carried her out to sea.
Fortunately, a lifeguard was on duty and he saw the wave carry Sandra away.
He ran along the beach and d______ into the sea. He swam quickly to where the girl, with her h_____ only just above the water, was shouting for help.
She was very frightened. When the lifeguard reached her she struggled with him , as d_______ people often do.
However, he knew what to do and soon took h_____ of her and swam with her back to the beach.
By the time he reached it, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had realized what had happened. They had run down to the water’s edge.
Neither of them could swim. They just stood in the s________ water, and worried about their daughter. Had the lifeguard reached her in time?
Fortunately, he had.
“That was quick work, young man,” Mr. Gordon said. He turned to his wife. “Give the lifeguard a dollar.”
“A dollar!” Sandra cried. “Dad, how can you give him a dollar! He saved my life. I was half dead.”
“Quite right, girl,” Mr. Gordon said, pleased by his daughter’s a________ of the value of money.
He turned to his wife again and said, ”She’s right. She was only half dead. Give him fifty c________.

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3. Kathy was a university student. Like most students she had very little money, but she wanted to buy a car.
“If I can buy one really cheap that w______,” she thought, “I will save money on bus f_____. Then I’ll have more to speed on food.”
She spent a day l______ at cars in the second-hand car yards. Most of them were m_____ too expensive, but at last she found one for $250.
The car was r_______ and the paint was b_____ damaged, but it worked.
“It’s got a good engine,” the salesman said, “and the gear box is o.k. Forget everything else.”
Kathy bought the car and drove it out of the car yard. Everything was wrong with it expect for the engine and gear box, which worked very well.
“As long as they work,” Kathy thought, “nothing else m______. The salesman was right.”
Unfortunately, a few days later, while she was driving to her university, a police car drove up beside her and made her stop. A young policeman got out of his car and walked a_______ Kathy’s car. He looked at it d__________.
He made a list of the things wrong with the car. It was a very long list .
Then he looked inside the car.
“Does your speedometer work?” he asked.
Kathy shook her head.
“It is against the law, miss,” he said, “not to know how fast you are travelling.”
Kathy smiled at him s_______.
“Oh, but I do know how fast I am travelling,” she said. “Up to 30 miles an hour, the doors rattle. Between 31 and 50 miles an hour, the whole car rattles. Over 50 miles an hour, I rattle.”

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4. When someone who is in good health dies suddenly, there is usually an inquest.
An inquest is a kind of court of inquiry. The person in charge of an inquest is called a coroner. His job is to find out exactly how a person died.
If there is nothing suspicious about the death ,he will decide that the person died from n______ causes or an accident. If however, he is s_______ ,he may decide that the person’s death was caused by a person or persons unknown.
At one inquest. the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman, Henry Wang.
The man’s widow was giving her e_______. She was very upset and had to stop from time to time.
The coroner did not want to upset her more than necessary, but he had to find out the truth. There were questions he had to ask her.
“Mrs. Wang, I know this is p______ for you.”he said.“but I want you to think very carefully and then answer my questions. You and your husband were having dinner at home. Is that correct?”
“Yes.”
“Suddenly he f_____ to the floor?”
“Yes.”
“You stood up and h______ to him? You knelt beside him? He was in great pain? ”
“Yes.”
“Did he say anything?”
The widow l______ her head.
“Please, Mrs. Wang, you must answer the question. What were his last w_____?”
The widow took a deep breath and then spoke.“He said,”she w_______,
“I’m not surprised you were c_______ only 50 cents for that seafood we had for dinner.”

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5. It was a dark and windy night. The wind howled and the rain b_____ down.
Harry and his wife were in bed. Although Harry slept t_______ he storm, his wife woke up. She lay in bed, u_______ to sleep, listening to the noise of the storm.
Suddenly she heard a different noise. It sounded like someone t_______ on the window.
She was very frightened. She woke her husband up.
“Harry,” she whispered,” there’s someone outside, Listen.”
“It’s nothing,” he said,” just a b________ of a tree tapping against the window in the wind. Go back to sleep.”
He turned over and went back to sleep.
The tapping continued. It got louder and louder, then the window began to rattle.
Harry ’s wife woke him up again.
“Harry, it isn’ t j______ the wind. There’s somebody there. I know there is. Get up and look.”
Harry got out of bed and walked across the room to the window. He p_____ the curtain a little and looked out. He saw a man standing on a l______ outside the window. He smiled at the man and then went back to bed.
“Well?” his wife asked, “Was there anyone there?”
“Yes,” Harry said. “There’s a b______ trying to get in . ”
“Then do something!” his wife cried. “Phone the police.”
“Not yet,” Harry said. “Wait until he opens the window. I’ve been trying to get it open since we had the house p______ last year.”

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6.
Sarah Williams went to a boarding school .Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school.
Wentworth Girl’s School
Beachside
July 25th
Dearest Mom and Dad,
I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you .I have been very n______ and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.
The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed. This is against the r______, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.
As I was smoking, I heard f______ coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.
Unfortunately, the cigarette f______ into the waste-paper basket, which c______ fire.
There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was b________.
The principal phoned the fire department. The school was a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in f_______. Many of the girls are in the hospital.
The principal says that the fire was all my f_______ and you must pay for d_______. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.
I’m very sorry about this.
Much love.
Sarah

PS. N______ of the above is true, but I have my exams. I just want you to know how bad things could have been!

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7. Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She could not walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs. She was soon out of b______.
“I suppose I had better go to the doctor,” she thought.
She went to the doctor and told him her problem.
“I’m not at all surprised.” he said. “It’s o_______ what your problem is.”
He e______ her and then gave her some advice.
“If you don’t do what I say, Mrs. Parker,” he said, “then you will have a heart a______. It could kill you.”
Ellen was very worried as she left the d_________.
She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be easy and that it would take time.
The next day she went shopping. The first shop she went into was a b_______ shop.
“I’d like ten pounds of steak, please,” she said.
“Certainly, madam,” the butcher replied and went into the cold s______ room and found a large piece of steak.
He brought the huge piece of meat back into the shop and placed it on the s________.
“That’s just under ten pounds,” he said.
“That’s big enough, ”Mrs. Parker said.
The butcher worked out the price.
“At $4.99 a pound that will be $45.50 please. Shall I cut it up into smaller pieces for you?”
“Oh, I don’t want to buy the meat,” Mrs. parker said.
“If you don’t want to buy it,” the butcher replied angrily, “why did you ask me to get it for you?”
“My doctor told me that I am o________ and must lose 10 pounds. I wanted to see what 10 pounds of f____ looked like.”

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8. “We should do something nice for the old people of our town,” the teacher said to her class one day . “What could we do?”
“Can we give them a picnic?” one of the children asked. “We can send out i_________ and bring cakes and sausages and all kinds of good things to eat.”
“That’s a very good idea,” the teacher said. “We’ll ask all the old people to a p______ by the river.”
The children worked hard g______ ready for the picnic. Their parents made cakes and pies or gave money, and the children wrote invitation cards to the old people. Then they took the cards to the old p______ homes.
On the morning of the picnic the sky was blue and the sun was s_______. The children were all looking f________ to giving the old people a happy day.
Then one of the children said. “Oh! We forgot to invite Mrs. Waller.”
They did not like Mrs. Waller. She looked like a w______.
“We must invite her now then,” the teacher said. “She will be h______ and angry if we don’t ask her.”
She looked around the class and then pointed at one of the boys. “Tom, take an invitation card to her house. A_______ for being late. Don’t tell her we forgot her.”
Tom did not want to go to Mrs. Waller’s house, but he was a brave boy, and said, “All right, Miss Lee.”
He went to the old woman’s house and knocked on the door, Mrs. Waller opened it. She looked very angry.
“Well,” she said, “what is it? What do you want?”
Tom gave her the invitation card and said, “I’m sorry we did not ask you before, but please come to our picnic. It’s a beautiful day.”
Mrs. Waller knew that the children thought she was a witch. She guessed that they had forgotten her.
“You’re too late,” the woman said. “It’s a beautiful day now, but I’ve already a_______ for rain this afternoon.”

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9. Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world’s greatest wonders．
“In my opinion, ” the first man said, “the E_______ pyramids are the world’s greatest wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still s______. And remember: the people who built them had only simple t_______. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and e________ have today.”
“I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful, ” the second man said, “but I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back s_______. In seconds, they carry out mathematical calculations in s_______ that would take a person a hundred years to do．”
He t_____ to the third man and asked, “What do you think is the greatest wonder in the world?”
The third man thought for a long time, and then he said, “Well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too．However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is this t______”
And he took a thermos out of his bag and h_____ it up．
The other two men were very surprised. “A thermos?” they exclaimed, “But that’s a simple thing．”
“Oh, no, it’s not, ”the third man said. “In the winter you put in a hot drink and it s______ hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it is winter or summer?”

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10. Wally worked in a shop that sold clocks. One day his next door n_______, Harry, came into his shop. Harry was very stingy. His s_