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     Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since childhood, spent the
weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to the
few   1   a year when we can see each other.
     Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up   2   into the night, talking about the people she
was   3  . She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with drugs and
was   4   other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me   5   she had been lying to her parents
about where she was going and even   6   out to see the guy. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she
deserved   7  , she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have   8  .
     I tried to   9   her that she was ruining her future and heading for big  10 , but she thought it acceptable to
have such a boyfriend.
     By the time she left, I was really worried about her and  11  by the experience. It had been so frustrating,
I had come  12  to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just  13  too far apart to
continue our friendship-but I didn't. I put the  14  of friendship to the final test. We'd been friends for far too
long. I had to hope that she  15  me enough to know that I was trying to save her from  16  herself. I wanted
to believe that our friendship could conquer  17 .
     A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 18 , and then she told she
had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of  19  running down
my face. It was one of the truly  20  moments in my life.
( )1. A. instants    
( )2. A. straight    
( )3. A. hanging with
( )4. A. of          
( )5. A. how         
( )6. A. coming      
( )7. A. worse       
( )8. A. improved    
( )9. A. recommend   
( )10. A. chance      
( )11. A. exhausted   
( )12. A. almost      
( )13. A. kept        
( )14. A. power       
( )15. A. praised     
( )16. A. hurting     
( )17. A. everybody   
( )18. A. friendship  
( )19. A. surprise    
( )20. A. regretful   
B. times             
B. ahead             
B. dealing with    
B. above              
B. why             
B. stealing          
B. higher         
B. changed         
B. advise               
B. trouble        
B. satisfied          
B. forward            
B. moved          
B. difference       
B. blamed            
B. cheating      
B. nobody             
B. conversation    
B. sorrow             
B. rewarding  
C. weeks           
C. late            
C. trading with     
C. through           
C. when            
C. hurrying        
C. better      
C. strengthened    
C. convince        
C. destination      
C. encouraged      
C. close              
C. settled      
C. quality          
C. valued           
C. criticizing 
C. something        
C.  relationship  
C. joy               
C. vital        
D. scenes                
D. long             
D. comparing with      
D. into                 
D. where              
D. driving              
D. poorer          
D. disappeared        
D. introduce           
D. ambition           
D. accustomed         
D. nearby                
D. grown           
D. wisdom             
D. followed           
D. concerning           
D. anything          
D. decision           
D. disappointment               
D. urgent        
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1-5 BCADA   6-10 BCDCB   11-15 ACDAC   16-20 ADBCB

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As Philadelphia grew from a small town into a city in the first half of the eighteenth century, it became an increasingly important marketing center for a vast agricultural hinterland. Market days (1) the crowded city even more crowded, as farmers from within a (2) of 24 or more kilometers brought their sheep, vegetables, cider and other products for direct sale to the (3) . The High Street Market was continuously (4) throughout the period until 1736, (5) it (6) from Front Street to Third. By 1745 New Market was opened on Second Street. The next year the Callow Hill Market began (7) .

Along with market days, the (8) of twice-yearly fairs persisted in Philadelphia (9) after similar trading days had been discontinued in other colonial cities. The (10) provided a means of bringing handmade goods from (11) places to would-be buyers in the city. Linens and stockings from Germantown, (12) , were popular items.

Auctions were another popular (13) of trade. Because of the competition, retail (14) opposed these as well as the fairs. (15) governmental attempts to eradicate fairs and auctions were less than successful, the ordinary (16) of economic development was on the merchants’side, as increasing business specialization became the (17) of the day. Export merchants became differentiated from their importing counterparts, and specialty shops began to appear (18) general stores selling a variety of goods.

One of the reasons Philadelphia’s merchants prospered was because the surrounding area was undergoing tremendous economic and demographic growth. They did their business, (19) , in the capital city of the province, (20) to not only the governor and his circle, but citizens from all over the colony.

11()

A.outweighing

B.outreaching

C.outlying

D.outrageous

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