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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

The World War II ended in 1945 and then the next year Helen and Polly went to Europe to help the blind there.

One evening in Rome， Helen felt the quick excitement of Polly’s hand. Polly was spelling   1   news. Their house in Westport had been burned. Everything was lost.    2   ， a book Helen    3    about  teacher  had   been  burned.  It  had been   4   finished. “The very first thing I will do is to start   the   book   over again,” Helen said.     5     in   Westport,  Helen’s   friends helped build a new   6  . The day when Helen and Polly moved into  their  new  home， huge  boxes  arrived. Helen’s friends in  Japan   7   her  loss. They  had   8   gifts of tables and lamps and other furniture.

She had lived through two   9  . She had always hoped for world peace. Now it made her happy to know that people of different countries and   10   would work together to help children.  Helen saw more and more blind and deaf people   11   to do useful work and become part of the living world. Much of the help had come from her.   12   most people retired，  Helen Keller was busy. “I cannot    13   to grow old while there is so much work to do，” she said, “and so many children to   14  ”.

When Helen was 75, she traveled thousands of miles around the world. She  15   many speeches and many new friends.

Now Helen could   16   travel herself, but her spirit of courage and the words of her books  17   travel around  the  world.  Helen  never   18   that   all   her  work  and  all her   19   and all the light in her life come first from her beloved teacher. One of Helen Keller’s most beautiful books is the story of Anne Sullivan Macy’s life. In a little   20   Helen wrote：

“Teacher — and that was all.It will be my answer When death calls.”

1. A. interesting    B. terrible     C. good    D. secret

2. A. After all        B. Worst of all

    C. After that     D. Above all

3. A. had received  B. had written    

   C. had bought     D. had been writing

4. A. seldom          B. hardly     C. completelyD. nearly

5. A. Coming         B. Returning  C. Arriving   D. Back

6. A. office           B. study       C. house      D. family

7. A. had heard of  B. had heard  

   C. had paid for   D. had seen

8. A. bought         B. brought     C. taken       D. sent

9. A. world wars    B. centuries   C. civil wars  D. hard years

10.A. types          B. races        C. kinds        D. worlds

11.A. asked          B. trained      C. taught      D. educated

12.A. Long after   B. Long before 

    C. Shortly after D. Before long

13.A. begin          B. keep          C. stop         D. continue

14.A. help            B. learn          C. study       D. work

15.A. attended      B. joined        C. had          D. made

16.A. no mone       B. no longer    C. also         D. never

17.A. always         B. usually       C. still          D. yet

18.A. forgot          B. realized   

    C. remembered  D. understood

19.A. riches          B. inventions    

    C. honors         D. scholars

20.A. article         B. letter      C. passage       D. poem

Keys: 1-5 BBDDD      6-10 CADAB     

11-15 DACAD     16-20 BCACD

B

Caroline Nagy， a 22-year-old American， says that she always buys the whitening toothpaste: “I don’t know if it 1 ，but having 2 teeth makes you unattractive”.

Nagy isn’t 3 . Americans will   4  US .7 billion on tooth whitening products and services in 2005. The industry has 5 by 300 percent in the past five years.

In the competitive society， US young adults are spending much more money in their  6 . And a beautiful smile is what they must have.
“You don’t have to be dressed up to  7  good if you have a bright smile. People are doing all they can 8  healthy and pretty，” said Nicholas Davis， president of the American Association of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD)(美国牙医美容协会).

Davis said that  9  is the most popular cosmetic dentistry procedure  10  young Americans. It usually takes three to four dentist visits and costs between US0 and US，000.

Many say that having a beautiful 11  helps more to start your career. According to AACD statistics， 85 percent of Americans believe that having a straight， white smile will  12  their career.

“I think 13  teeth indicate either poor personal cleanliness or 14  social class，It will 15  your job chance，” said Nagy.

Elena Castaneda， a New York image consultant(顾问) agrees. When preparing people for job interviews, she urges them: “If your teeth are yellowed， have them 16 .”

Studies back up this advice. Attractive people， including those with nice teeth， earn better 17 .

According to economic professor Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas，ugly people earn five to ten percent 18 than people of average 19 . They，in turn，earn 3 percent to 8 percent less than 20  who are considered good-looking.

1. A. makes    B. takes     C. does      D. works

2. A. black      B. white    C. yellow    D. red

3. A. lonely     B. alone    C. lonesome D. along

4. A. cost      B. pay       C. spend     D. take

5. A. grown   B. dropped  C. kept       D. lasted

6. A. education               B. appearance

   C. sports                    D. health

7. A. look     B. stay        C. change    D. find

8. A. to appear               B. to be     

    C. to seem                 D. to feel

9. A. teeth whitening       B. face whitening

   C. health keeping         D. healthy eating

10. A. betweenB. of        C. among      D. in

11. A. dress    B. face      C. tooth      D. smile

12. A. start     B. help      C. influenceD. develop

13. A. good     B. healthy  C. bad      D. clean

14. A. higher   B. better    C. worse   D. lower

15. A. effect    B. effort    C. afford   D. affect

16. A. pulled    B. pushed  C. whitenedD. cleaned

17. A. salaries B. praises   C. fames   D. goods

18. A. more    B. less       C. much     D. little

19. A. faces   B. looks      C. clothes  D. bodies

20. A. those   B. they       C. these    D. them

Keys: 1-5 DCBCA  6-10 BABAC  11-15 DBCDD  16-20 CABBA