37. publish                                                               38.July

39. about                                                                   40. toy

41. merely                                                               42. compare

43. voung                                                                  44. where

45. new                                                                     46. find

47. chair                                                                    48. bird

49. trust                                                                   50. driver

IV．完形填空。（本大题共20小题，每小题0.5分，共10分）

A．从下列单词中选择恰当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

Do you have a pet? Are you  51  in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. They are often   52   “vets ”. Many of them work in animal  53  . Others may work on farms or at a   54   . Some study animal diseases and try to find   55  to keep the animals from getting   56  . They do studies in  57  for animals. Vets listen to an animal’s heart. They check its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They   58   on animals when they need   59  . They may give the animals shots(注射) and tell the pets’   60  what food is best.

B．根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

So at about eleven every night when he sat down for his   61  , I would come out of the kitchen and sit down  62  to him and read articles from the front page of the  63   .

When I ran into a word I didn’tknow (and I didn’tknow half of the article, because any word   64   than a couple of syllables gave me trouble) he explained the   65   of the word and gave me the   66  .Then he’d send me   67  . to the sentences so I could understand the word in  68   . Then I would take the paper away with me, armed now with the meaning of those words, and reread and reread the article  69  that the meaning of those words would get_ 70   into my memory. Every evening we did that.

V．根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。（本大题共1 0小题，每小题2分，共20分）

71.Special Agent X came to the cabin to                      .

72. Even though the man in “Love of Life” was saved and had enough to eat, he still hid food

 because he __________.

73. We shouldn’tbe bound by the dictionary in choosing our words because _______.

74. In the story of “Hobbyist”, the druggist makes money by ___________.

75. In the story of “Little Things Are Big”, the author _______ to the white lady bec