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     Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoy the hot
chocolate.  
     1 , winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother  2  it
didn't snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions.  3  one day, she
promised (许诺) that she would make it snow on my next birthday.     
     That year,  4  my birthday, my grandmother died. I was sad but angry because she had promised to
make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window,  5  to see just one snowflake.
But there was no snow. I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.
     By my sixteenth birthday, I  6  all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for  7 . During
my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly happy. I  8  the best time ever! Then I saw the
white snow  9  down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming (尖叫) and laughing. My
friends all laughed  10  me, but I didn't care.
     When I  11  home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was  12  because he had given me a gift. It
was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake (水晶雪花) with a card
that  13 , "Happy Birthday." 
     How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother's final  14  on my "sweet sixteenth". I cried. 
     I was  15  that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.
( )1. A. Certainly   
( )2. A. when        
( )3. A. But         
( )4. A. on          
( )5. A. hoped       
( )6. A. was losing  
( )7. A. it          
( )8. A. had         
( )9. A. fell        
( )10. A. with       
( )11. A. arrived at 
( )12. A. excited    
( )13. A. wrote      
( )14. A. order      
( )15. A. certain    
B. Unfortunately
B. how         
B. Or          
B. after       
B. hoping      
B. lost        
B. her         
B. was         
B. to fall     
B. at          
B. remained    
B. confused    
B. said        
B. mistake     
B. angry       
C. Importantly
C. whether   
C. Then      
C. before    
C. to hope   
C. would lose
C. him       
C. played    
C. fallen    
C. from      
C. got       
C. pleased   
C. explained 
C. wish      
C. sad       
D. Luckily  
D. why      
D. So       
D. in       
D. hope     
D. had lost 
D. me       
D. feared   
D. falling  
D. off      
D. entered  
D. frustrated
D. appeared                          
D. decision 
D. anxious  
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1-5     BDACB      6-10   DAADB      11-15    CBBCA

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If you ask some people, “How did you learn English so well?” you may get a surprising answer: “In my sleep!”

These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments (实验) to test “the learn while you sleep” method (方法), which is now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects. English is among them.

Scientists say that this sleep study method greatly speeds language learning. They say that the ordinary person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day—and this does not affect (影响) his rest in any way. However, sleep teaching will only put into your head what you have studied already while you are awake.

In one experiment, ten lessons were broadcast over the radio for two weeks. Each lesson lasted twelve hours — from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary (词汇) were given with the students awake. At 11 p.m. a lullaby (催眠曲) was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio in a soft and low voice broadcast the lesson again into his sleeping ears. At 2 a.m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes to go over the lesson. The soft music sent him back to rest again while the radio went on. At 5 o’clock his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson again for three hours before breakfast.

小题1:In the experiment, lessons were given____ .

A.in the night time

B.after lullabies were broadcast

C.while the student was awake

D.all through the twelve hours小题2:Before each lesson finishes, the student has to____ .

A.get up and take breakfast

B.be woken up by a loud voice

C.listen to the lesson again in sleep

D.review (复习) the lesson by himself小题3:The sleep study method is being tried in many countries to teach____ .

A.the English language

B.grammar and vocabulary

C.a number of subjects

D.foreign languages