南师附中--对话填空练习[下学期]
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（一）
M: Hello, I’d like some i______1_______ about trips to Katmandu.
W: Well, how can I help you?
M: I hear there’s a special kind of bus with sleeping rooms.
W: Yes, that’s true.
M: How many people travel on the bus?
W: Well, the bus sleeps ten. Usually there are eight travelers, t____2_____ drivers, and a girl to act as your tour guide.
M: So, we sleep c______3_________ in the bus.
W: Yes. It’s fully equipped for cooking, and weather p______4_______ it’s got a shower system that we set up outside every evening.
M: We leave from London?
W: Yes, and r_______5________ to London.
M: Is there a________6________ special we need to bring?
W: Oh, we give everyone a list of suitable clothes and all the things to bring. Of course, space is l______7_______.
M: Oh, yes, I understand that. Now can you tell me a______8_______ the deadline for booking?
W: Well, it d_______9________. Usually six or eight months before your travel. Could you come in and we can go over the d_______10________?
M: Ok, I’ll come and see you next Wednesday.
W: Ok, thanks for calling.
1. information 2. two 3. comfortably 4. permitting 5. return
6. anything 7. limited 8. about 9. depends 10. details
（二）
W: Hi, Mr. Adams?
M: Ah, yes. You must be Kelly. Thanks for coming.
W: Here’s my card.
M: Oh, it is h_____1_______ to find a good babysitter on a Friday night.
W: Well, I like watching kids, and I need the e______2______ money.
M: Well, I h_____3_______ you were one of the best babysitters in the area, and…
W: Uh, well, I’d like to talk to you a_____4_______ my new rate increases.
M: Rate increases?
W: You see, Mr. Adams. I’ve consulted with my financial advisor.
M: What?
W: Uh, my mother, and she says I should c_______5_______ more per child since I do cook and clean your house while you’re a_______6________.
M: Oh, I see. So, what do you have in m_____7________?
W: Well, as I see it, I’d like to ask a dollar m_____8_______ per child per hour, and overtime after midnight. Based on my calculations, that’s only 10.23% above the going market, and I’m now a certified babysitter with training.
M: Oh, I never knew there were courses and certifications in babysitting.
W: Times are c_______9________, Mr. Adams. I have to figure in expenses for a benefit package to c_______10________ college tuition, retirement, and so on. Well, I will tell my dad what to do.
1. hard 2. extra 3. heard 4. about 5. charge
6. away 7. mind 8. more 9. changing 10. cover
（三）
M: So, Susan, do you have anything planned for this S______1_______?
W: Why?
M: Oh, I was w______2_______ if you’d like to get together and do something, like watching a movie or taking a walk down by the lake.
W: I’d love to, but I’m really going to be b_____3______ all day on Saturday.
M: W_____4_______ do you have going on that day?
W: First, my mom asked me to help c______5________ the house in the morning, and then I have a dentist appointment at 12:30. I can’t miss that because I’ve canceled t_____6________ before.
M: Well, what about after that?
W: After the dentist appointment, I need to meet Julie at 2:00 to help her with her science project that’s due on Monday morning at school.
M: Ok, but are you free after that?
W: Hardly. Then I have to p______7_______ up my brother from soccer practice at 4:30, and my mom asked me to cook dinner for the family at 5: 30. I feel like a slave sometimes. Then, I have to clean the dishes and finish reading my history assignment. Who knows how long that’ll t_____8_______?
M: Wow, sounds like you’re going to have a full day. Well, let’s just play a game or something.
W: S______9______ good, but give me a call before you come. My mom might try to come up with something e______10______ for me to do.
1. Saturday 2. wondering 3. busy 4. What 5. clean
6. twice 7. up 8. take 9. Sounds 10. else
（四）
W: Hi, Fred. Where have you been?
M: I’ve been to the l______1_________ and borrowed some English books. What’s wrong?
W: I t_____2_________ you’d been to the post office. Did you notice the money I left on the desk?
M: Yes, $10 altogether. But I didn’t know what it was f______3______.
W: Didn’t you see the note I left you with the money?
M: Note? What note? I didn’t see any note.
W: R______4_______? That’s very strange. I left the money with a note saying I wanted you to go to the post office and get some e_______5________ and stamps for me. I also put the ink bottle on them in case they might not draw your a______6_________.
M: I see now. Why can’t you go and get them y_______7________? The post office is only about 30 minutes’ walk from here. We often walk there after supper.
W: Of course I know how far it is from school. I can’t go there myself because I’m very busy doing some chemistry e_______8__________ in the lab. And what’s more, I have to p______9_______ for my English exam. You know I f______10_______ the last one. If I can’t pass this time, a hard time will be waiting for me.
1. library 2. thought 3. for 4. Really 5. envelopes
6. attention 7. yourself 8. experiments 9. prepare 10. failed
（五）
M: Have you heard? The British government is planning to tax plastic bags?
W: Yes, it was on the news. They want to r______1_______ the amount of rubbish. I can’t help but feel that it’s a good idea because they can’t be recycled.
M: They’ve already done it in Ireland. If you go to the supermarket there, you have to p_____2_______ for each plastic bag.
W: So most people use the s______3________ bags over again, do they?
M: Yes. And the supermarket sells thick plastic bags which last l_____4_______.
W: And there’s a lot less rubbish in the streets, isn’t there?
M: Yes. But it’s not just in Europe that plastic bags are damaging the e______5________. In many d______6_______ countries it’s even worse. They’re causing a serious problem. In south Africa, for example, they call plastic bags the national flowers because the wind blows them e_______7_______. Now the government has stopped them and you can go to prison for 10 years if you use them.
W: In Bangladesh too. They say that plastic bags were largely responsible for the terrible floods in 1988 and 1998. They blocked the drains and rainwater couldn’t flow a_______8_________.
M: It’s scary. They don’t look dangerous but there’re so many that they can kill. In India, cows eat them in the streets and then die.
W: In some parts of India they are stopped. From what I understand, you can go to prison for 7 years if you use them.
M: I can’t help but feel that sending people to prison is very hard.
W: That’s because the situation is so s_____9________. And people are not reasonable. They won’t change their h______10_________.
1. reduce 2. pay 3. same 4. longer 5. environment
6. developing 7. everywhere 8. away 9. serious 10. habits
（六）
W: Jim, thank goodness, you’ve arrived! The class presentation s______1_______ half an hour ago, and I was just beginning to panic.
M: I’m sorry I’m late, Ellen. I was out of luck this morning. I didn’t think I was going to m____2_____ it here at all.
W: Why are you so late? Our whole presentation depends on those graphs you’re holding.
M: Yes, I know. I’ll tell you about it later. First let’s see how we’re doing for time. Two groups are still a______3_______ of us, aren’t they? That means I’ve got about twenty minutes to r______4________.
W: You do look t______5_________. What happened?
M: I’ve been standing outside for over an hour waiting for a bus.
W: Over an hour! I thought your apartment was only a ten-minute bus ride to s______6_________.
M: Under the normal condition yes, but the bus was d_______7________. And when I went to call home for a ride, the bus passed by. U______8_______, there was no one at home. So I had to wait a_____9_________ forty-five minutes for the next bus.
W: Just out of luck! Well, we’d b______10______ stop talking. People are turning around and looking at us.
1. started 2. make 3. ahead 4. rest 5. tired
6. school 7. delayed 8. Unfortunately 9. another 10. better
（七）
M: Hello, Joan. Why are you so late today? You are n______1_____ late for work, are you?
Ｗ: No, I never. But…
M: Wow! Your coat’s got very d______2_______! Did you fall?
W: Yes, I had a terrible e_____3_______ on the underground train. Listen to this! A man came up to me and p______4________ out of a knife. He pointed it right at me!
M: Oh, no! Are you all right? Did he hurt you?
W: No, he didn’t hurt me, but he took my handbag.
M: Then what happened? What did you do?
W: I c____5________ hold of his knife, and he pushed me to the f_____6_______.
M: Oh, no! Why did you catch hold of his knife? That’s d_____7________.
W: I don’t know. I didn’t think.
M: What did the other p_____8_______ do? Did they help you?
W: Yes, they did. Two men ran a______9_______ the robber and seized him.
M: Did the police come?
W: Yeah. The conductor called a policeman and he took the robber to the police station.
M: W_____10_________ a story! Thank God you’re all right.
1. never 2. dirty 3. experience 4. pulled 5. caught
6. floor 7. dangerous 8. passengers 9. after 10. What
（八）
W: Why don’t we go a_____1_______ for a change, Simon? Where I’d like to go is France, Spain, or Italy.
M: Mm… I’m not that interested at all. I’d r_____2_______ stay at home.
W: Oh, come on, Simon. Think of the sun!
M: Yes, but think of the cost! The best thing about having a holiday in Britain is its c______3_______ expenses. And another thing, the traveling would be easier. No boats, planes or anything.
W: E______4________ so, we’ve been to most of the interesting places in Britain. There’s no p_______5_______ in wasting our summer holiday here.
M: I suppose you’re right. However, what I hate is the t______6_______ in changing money abroad.
W: Oh, don’t be silly, Simon.
M: And what’s more, I can’t speak any of the languages, you know that. It’s all right for you. You can speak f_____7________ languages.
W: Exactly. You see, what I’d really like to do is to p______8________ my French and Spanish. It would help me a lot at work.
M: But that’s no use to me.
W: But think of the new p____9_______ we would visit and the people we would meet.
M: But, look, if we stayed here, we wouldn’t have to plan very much.
W: Sorry, Simon, I just don’t want to have another b_____10________ English summer here.
1. abroad 2. rather 3. cheaper 4. Even 5. point
6. trouble 7. foreign 8. practise 9. places 10. boring
（九）
M: Honestly, Sandra, I’m not very p_____1_________ with you. I don’t know… it’s something about the w_____2______ you deal with your work, your a______3_______ to it, and that worries me.
W: Oh, really?
M: Well, I find that you’re not easy o work with. Yes, really, I find you are rather d_____4________.
W: I’m sorry you think that way.
M: The point is that I can’t recommend somebody for a rise who doesn’t take an a_____5_________ interest in their work. You can see that, can’t you, Sandra?
W: Er… yes I can and I’m sorry. I thought I was doing my b_____6________.
M: Maybe, but you don’t seem to like… I mean, are you happy at LTV? Perhaps you need a c______7_________. Have you ever thought about working somewhere else?
W: Well, no. it’s not that. I like it here. I like working for LTV. I think television is exciting, but what I do seems so boring, so repetitive.
M: I see. Yes, I think I understand how you feel I’m g_______8_______ you told me. But you’ve got to r_____9________, Sandra, that we can’t do exciting work all the time.
W: Yes, I know that.
M: Look, this is what I think we’d better do. Bill Fletcher who deals with audience reaction w_____10________ someone to help him on door-to-door interviews. What do you think about that?
1. pleased 2. way 3. attitude 4. difficult 5. active
6. best 7. change 8. glad 9. realize 10. wants
（十）
W: Hello, Mr. Tompkins. Our newspaper will carry some i_____1_________ about new products. Now, will you tell us about the new home your company has built? It promises to be a m____2________ for the houses of the future.
M: Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of d____3_________ things. This is a complete home system. It will make people’s lives e________4_______.
W: Ok. So tell me how this house will make my life easier?
M: When you arrive at the front door, you won’t need a key. The door will open with a touch of your f______5_________. You’ll be able to call your refrigerator when you’re in supermarket and find out hoe much you need to buy. Isn’t it wonderful?
W: Can I call the washing m______6_______ as well?
M: Sure. B______7________ you won’t need to. The house comes with a robot. It is programmed to cleaning and w_____8________.
W: And what’s the p_____9________ of the new house?
M: A million dollars.
W: A million dollars! It will be the 22nd century before I can _____10____ to buy one!
1. information 2. model 3. different 4. easier 5. finger
6. machine 7. But 8. washing 9. price 10. afford
（十一）
M: Hi, Mr. Jarvis!
W: Hi, Li Langfeng. Mr. Li plans to send me to Qingdao for a business neeting.
M: Well. It’s good for you have the c_______1______ to visit more place while working in our company.
W: Yes, it is. By the way, how is the w______2_______ there?
M: Er, generally, it is very pleasant e______3________ in summer. But it is a bit cool in spring and autumn.
W: What about the environment?
M: On the whole, the environment is very beautiful, especially along the c______4______. There are lovely beaches, ever-green grass lands and beautiful parks. But there is one thing that isn’t so good.
W: What’s that?
M: The weather is polluted, quite badly polluted from w_____5_________ I hear.
W: Oh, that’s terrible. How about the inner part of the city away from the coast?
M: Er, it’s also very pretty e_______6________ in the industrial area where the air is a little dirty.
W: Nowadays, pollution is a s_____7_______ problem worldwide. Our city has the s______8_____ problem as you can see here.
M: Yes, thankfully, people are becoming more a_______9_______ of the environmental pollution and thinking about d_______10________ ways to solve it.
1. chance 2. weather 3. especially 4. coast 5. what
6. except 7. serious 8. same 9. aware 10. different
（十二）
M: Honey, the basketball game is a______1_____ to start. Could you bring a bowl of ice cream?
W: Do you really…
M: Hey, you know they are organizing our company basketball team and I am thinking about joining. What do you think?
W: Look. I don’t want you to have a heart attack when you are up and d______2_______ in the sports ground.
M: So what are you suggesting? Should I just give up the idea? I am not that out of s____3_____.
W: Well, you ought to have a p______4________ examination before you start. I mean it has been at least 5 years s_____5_____ you last played in the game.
M: Well, OK, but…
W: And you need to watch your diet. Try cutting back on the fatty foods, like ice cream, for example. You should eating more fresh fruits and v_______6_________, too.
Ｍ: Yeah, you’re probably right.
W: And you should take up a little weight training to s______7______ your muscles or perhaps try cycling to improve your heart blood flow. Oh, and you need to go to bed early instead of w______8_____ TV half of the night.
M: They are all good ideas, but where can I cycle in the d_______9______?
W: That’s a p_____10______. Maybe you can ride your bike to work instead of using your car, and we can cycle to any place where we spend our weekends. That way, we can kill both birds with one stone.
M: Yes, very good idea. Let’s start next week.
1. about 2. down 3. shape 4. physical 5. since
6. vegetables 7. strengthen 8. watching 9. downtown 10. problem
（十三）
W: Do you e____1______ eat fast food?
M: Yes, yes, I do.
W: What kind of fast food do you n____2____ eat?
M: Oh, er, you know, hamburgers, sandwiches, well, sometimes a pizza.
W: Oh, right. And how o_____3______ do you want to eat fast food? Every day, more than once a week or less than once a week?
M: Er, well, Monday to Friday when I am working, every day, um, but not usually on w____4____.
W: And what time of the day do you eat fast food?
M: Well, at work as I said, you know at lunchtime. Sometimes, you know, if I’m going out and I’ve no t_____5_______ to cook in the evening then I’ll send out for a pizza.
W: And what do you think of the fast food? Um, “It’s c_____6________”?
M: Sure, that’s sort of the main r______7________ that I eat it. We’re paying for the convenience, you know the speed of it.
W: Right. How about “It tastes good”?
M: Yeah, um, I mean not as good as food in a good r_______8_______, but it’s not bad.
W: It’s good for you?
M: No, sort of eating q______9_______ and standing up, it’s sort of bad for you. The food itself isn’t very good for you, you know there’re not e______10_______ greens, um, you know vegetables or salad.
1. ever 2. normally 3. often 4. weekends 5. time
6. convenient 7. reason 8. restaurant 9. quickly 10. enough
（十四）
W: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Johnson, please?
Ｍ: Speaking. Who’s calling, may I speak?
W: This is the Town Job Center. We have received your email and we are quite i______1_______ in you.
M: Can you tell me more about it? What kind of job? Where?
W: Well, a college wants to find some laboratory a_______2________. It’s a kind of job you would like to do, a______3______ we can see from your email.
M: Yes, I did put that in my email.
W: Yeah. They also want a person who knows how to o______4_______ the computer. So we think you are just the r______5________ kind of person for the job.
M: What about the pay and the work time?
W: I am c______6________ to that. The pay that they have offered is s_______7_______, but the work time is a little changeable: sometimes e_____8_______ in the morning or sometimes late in the afternoon.
M: Well, I am interested in it, but I need more d_______9_______ about the work time so that I can talk over with my wife.
W: W______10________ don’t you come over here tomorrow?
M: Ok, I’ll do that. See you tomorrow then. Bye!
1. interested 2. assistants 3. as 4. operate 5. right
6. coming 7. satisfactory 8. early 9. details 10. Why
（十五）
M: I read the s______1_______ from the newspaper. It was about two students who saved their friend’s life by sending a m_______2________ on the net.
W: Sounds interesting. How did it h______3_________?
M: This girl was a chemistry student at Oxford University. She was rushed to the hospital in terrible pain and then became unserious… After all has tested for everything they could think o____4____, but got negative result from everything.
W: OK, but where did the computer come in?
M: She has two friends in London Medical University. One of them had an e-mail address of the university. He knew that f_____5_________ medical experts could be contacted through computer news groups. He looked t______6________ the diagnosis and sent out his message.
W: What response did they get?
M: The message went to many many web sites. But the one who picked it up was a doctor in Washington. DC. He had worked in the United Kingdom and was f_____7________ with many of the doctors of the girl’s hospital. He got in t_____8_______ with some of his colleagues through the internet. They all did their best to search for specially who could help.
W: Was the girl’s life s______9________?
M: Yes, fortunately.
W: Is she right now?
M: She was unconscious for 5 months, b_____10_______ she is slowly recovering.
1. story 2. message 3. happen 4. of 5. foreign
6. through 7. familiar 8. touch 9. saved 10. but
（十六）
M: Miss Dermott, do you think, w_____1_______ a few years, many people could work at home i_______2_______ of working in offices?
W: Oh, yes. It’s happening now. You see, the communication industry has made a lot of p_____3________ in the last ten years.
M: And how do these people m_____4_______ to work? I mean, what equipment do they have at home?
W: Well, they have a television set, a computer, a printer, and a telephone to c_____5______ with other computers.
M: Oh, I see. But surely there’re some a______6________ in being able to work at home.
W: Yes. Working at home, people don’t have to get up early to a_______7________ the rush hours.
M: Ah, I see. What do you think about the conditions of home-workers?
W: Oh, let me tell you what might happen. In the f_____8______ a British firm in, for example, London, might e______9______ clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could have their secretaries in Spain, and then they just use a t_______10________ to call around for the labor.
1. within 2. instead 3. progress 4. manage 5. connect
6. advantages 7. avoid 8. future 9. employ 10. telephone
（十七）
W: Do you remember Sally Green, the swimming star? She was the girl who broke all the r_____1_______ at the last Olympics. Where is she now? Last week our reporter Tom Parker went to see Sally in her Californian home.
M: Is it t_______2________ that you don’t swim at all now?
(Sally) S: I’m a______3________ so. I’m too old.
M: But you are only 20.
S: That’s too o_____4________ for a swimmer. If I swam in any national competition now. I wouldn’t win. So I’d rather not swim at all.
M: But don’t you enjoy swimming?
S: I used to when I was still young. B_____5______ if you enter the big competitions you have to work very hard. I used to get up at 6:00 a.m. to go to school. I have to train before school, a______6_____ school and the weekends. I swam 35 miles every week.
M: But you are f______7_______ at 15! And look at these cups.
S: It’s true that I have some wonderful m______8_______. I enjoyed visiting other countries and the Olympics was very exciting. But I m______9_____ more important things. W_____10_______ other girls were growing up I was swimming. What can I do now?
1. records 2. true 3. afraid 4. old 5. But
6. after 7. famous 8. memories 9. missed 10. While
（十八）
W: Hi, Phil, can you tell me h_____1______ it happened?
M: Sure. I was mountain climbing in New Hampshire in 1982. Suddenly the weather became really bad. There was a lot of snow and we couldn’t see anything. We got l_____2______. Well, we spent four days on the mountain. The t_____3_______ was 20 degrees below zero. We didn’t have any equipment o_____4______ food.
W: So what happened? I guess someone found you, right?
M: Yes, but we were very sick. I couldn’t move my legs b______5______ of the cold. I spent two m______6______ in the hospital. The doctors removed my legs.
W: Right. So you lost your legs, but you want to try your best to s_____7_____ active.
M: That’s right. In fact, I decided to make some new legs for myself. I realize that no one has to be physically disabled. We can use m_______8______ technology to help.
W: And you built these great new legs. Can you go mountain climbing a_____9________?
M: Yes, I can. In fact, these are better than climb shoes. The spring design m_____10_______ they are much more powerful.
1. how 2. lost 3. temperature 4. or 5. because
6. months 7. stay 8. modern 9. again 10. means
M: Hello, I’d like some i______1_______ about trips to Katmandu.
W: Well, how can I help you?
M: I hear there’s a special kind of bus with sleeping rooms.
W: Yes, that’s true.
M: How many people travel on the bus?
W: Well, the bus sleeps ten. Usually there are eight travelers, t____2_____ drivers, and a girl to act as your tour guide.
M: So, we sleep c______3_________ in the bus.
W: Yes. It’s fully equipped for cooking, and weather p______4_______ it’s got a shower system that we set up outside every evening.
M: We leave from London?
W: Yes, and r_______5________ to London.
M: Is there a________6________ special we need to bring?
W: Oh, we give everyone a list of suitable clothes and all the things to bring. Of course, space is l______7_______.
M: Oh, yes, I understand that. Now can you tell me a______8_______ the deadline for booking?
W: Well, it d_______9________. Usually six or eight months before your travel. Could you come in and we can go over the d_______10________?
M: Ok, I’ll come and see you next Wednesday.
W: Ok, thanks for calling.
1. information 2. two 3. comfortably 4. permitting 5. return
6. anything 7. limited 8. about 9. depends 10. details
（二）
W: Hi, Mr. Adams?
M: Ah, yes. You must be Kelly. Thanks for coming.
W: Here’s my card.
M: Oh, it is h_____1_______ to find a good babysitter on a Friday night.
W: Well, I like watching kids, and I need the e______2______ money.
M: Well, I h_____3_______ you were one of the best babysitters in the area, and…
W: Uh, well, I’d like to talk to you a_____4_______ my new rate increases.
M: Rate increases?
W: You see, Mr. Adams. I’ve consulted with my financial advisor.
M: What?
W: Uh, my mother, and she says I should c_______5_______ more per child since I do cook and clean your house while you’re a_______6________.
M: Oh, I see. So, what do you have in m_____7________?
W: Well, as I see it, I’d like to ask a dollar m_____8_______ per child per hour, and overtime after midnight. Based on my calculations, that’s only 10.23% above the going market, and I’m now a certified babysitter with training.
M: Oh, I never knew there were courses and certifications in babysitting.
W: Times are c_______9________, Mr. Adams. I have to figure in expenses for a benefit package to c_______10________ college tuition, retirement, and so on. Well, I will tell my dad what to do.
1. hard 2. extra 3. heard 4. about 5. charge
6. away 7. mind 8. more 9. changing 10. cover
（三）
M: So, Susan, do you have anything planned for this S______1_______?
W: Why?
M: Oh, I was w______2_______ if you’d like to get together and do something, like watching a movie or taking a walk down by the lake.
W: I’d love to, but I’m really going to be b_____3______ all day on Saturday.
M: W_____4_______ do you have going on that day?
W: First, my mom asked me to help c______5________ the house in the morning, and then I have a dentist appointment at 12:30. I can’t miss that because I’ve canceled t_____6________ before.
M: Well, what about after that?
W: After the dentist appointment, I need to meet Julie at 2:00 to help her with her science project that’s due on Monday morning at school.
M: Ok, but are you free after that?
W: Hardly. Then I have to p______7_______ up my brother from soccer practice at 4:30, and my mom asked me to cook dinner for the family at 5: 30. I feel like a slave sometimes. Then, I have to clean the dishes and finish reading my history assignment. Who knows how long that’ll t_____8_______?
M: Wow, sounds like you’re going to have a full day. Well, let’s just play a game or something.
W: S______9______ good, but give me a call before you come. My mom might try to come up with something e______10______ for me to do.
1. Saturday 2. wondering 3. busy 4. What 5. clean
6. twice 7. up 8. take 9. Sounds 10. else
（四）
W: Hi, Fred. Where have you been?
M: I’ve been to the l______1_________ and borrowed some English books. What’s wrong?
W: I t_____2_________ you’d been to the post office. Did you notice the money I left on the desk?
M: Yes, $10 altogether. But I didn’t know what it was f______3______.
W: Didn’t you see the note I left you with the money?
M: Note? What note? I didn’t see any note.
W: R______4_______? That’s very strange. I left the money with a note saying I wanted you to go to the post office and get some e_______5________ and stamps for me. I also put the ink bottle on them in case they might not draw your a______6_________.
M: I see now. Why can’t you go and get them y_______7________? The post office is only about 30 minutes’ walk from here. We often walk there after supper.
W: Of course I know how far it is from school. I can’t go there myself because I’m very busy doing some chemistry e_______8__________ in the lab. And what’s more, I have to p______9_______ for my English exam. You know I f______10_______ the last one. If I can’t pass this time, a hard time will be waiting for me.
1. library 2. thought 3. for 4. Really 5. envelopes
6. attention 7. yourself 8. experiments 9. prepare 10. failed
（五）
M: Have you heard? The British government is planning to tax plastic bags?
W: Yes, it was on the news. They want to r______1_______ the amount of rubbish. I can’t help but feel that it’s a good idea because they can’t be recycled.
M: They’ve already done it in Ireland. If you go to the supermarket there, you have to p_____2_______ for each plastic bag.
W: So most people use the s______3________ bags over again, do they?
M: Yes. And the supermarket sells thick plastic bags which last l_____4_______.
W: And there’s a lot less rubbish in the streets, isn’t there?
M: Yes. But it’s not just in Europe that plastic bags are damaging the e______5________. In many d______6_______ countries it’s even worse. They’re causing a serious problem. In south Africa, for example, they call plastic bags the national flowers because the wind blows them e_______7_______. Now the government has stopped them and you can go to prison for 10 years if you use them.
W: In Bangladesh too. They say that plastic bags were largely responsible for the terrible floods in 1988 and 1998. They blocked the drains and rainwater couldn’t flow a_______8_________.
M: It’s scary. They don’t look dangerous but there’re so many that they can kill. In India, cows eat them in the streets and then die.
W: In some parts of India they are stopped. From what I understand, you can go to prison for 7 years if you use them.
M: I can’t help but feel that sending people to prison is very hard.
W: That’s because the situation is so s_____9________. And people are not reasonable. They won’t change their h______10_________.
1. reduce 2. pay 3. same 4. longer 5. environment
6. developing 7. everywhere 8. away 9. serious 10. habits
（六）
W: Jim, thank goodness, you’ve arrived! The class presentation s______1_______ half an hour ago, and I was just beginning to panic.
M: I’m sorry I’m late, Ellen. I was out of luck this morning. I didn’t think I was going to m____2_____ it here at all.
W: Why are you so late? Our whole presentation depends on those graphs you’re holding.
M: Yes, I know. I’ll tell you about it later. First let’s see how we’re doing for time. Two groups are still a______3_______ of us, aren’t they? That means I’ve got about twenty minutes to r______4________.
W: You do look t______5_________. What happened?
M: I’ve been standing outside for over an hour waiting for a bus.
W: Over an hour! I thought your apartment was only a ten-minute bus ride to s______6_________.
M: Under the normal condition yes, but the bus was d_______7________. And when I went to call home for a ride, the bus passed by. U______8_______, there was no one at home. So I had to wait a_____9_________ forty-five minutes for the next bus.
W: Just out of luck! Well, we’d b______10______ stop talking. People are turning around and looking at us.
1. started 2. make 3. ahead 4. rest 5. tired
6. school 7. delayed 8. Unfortunately 9. another 10. better
（七）
M: Hello, Joan. Why are you so late today? You are n______1_____ late for work, are you?
Ｗ: No, I never. But…
M: Wow! Your coat’s got very d______2_______! Did you fall?
W: Yes, I had a terrible e_____3_______ on the underground train. Listen to this! A man came up to me and p______4________ out of a knife. He pointed it right at me!
M: Oh, no! Are you all right? Did he hurt you?
W: No, he didn’t hurt me, but he took my handbag.
M: Then what happened? What did you do?
W: I c____5________ hold of his knife, and he pushed me to the f_____6_______.
M: Oh, no! Why did you catch hold of his knife? That’s d_____7________.
W: I don’t know. I didn’t think.
M: What did the other p_____8_______ do? Did they help you?
W: Yes, they did. Two men ran a______9_______ the robber and seized him.
M: Did the police come?
W: Yeah. The conductor called a policeman and he took the robber to the police station.
M: W_____10_________ a story! Thank God you’re all right.
1. never 2. dirty 3. experience 4. pulled 5. caught
6. floor 7. dangerous 8. passengers 9. after 10. What
（八）
W: Why don’t we go a_____1_______ for a change, Simon? Where I’d like to go is France, Spain, or Italy.
M: Mm… I’m not that interested at all. I’d r_____2_______ stay at home.
W: Oh, come on, Simon. Think of the sun!
M: Yes, but think of the cost! The best thing about having a holiday in Britain is its c______3_______ expenses. And another thing, the traveling would be easier. No boats, planes or anything.
W: E______4________ so, we’ve been to most of the interesting places in Britain. There’s no p_______5_______ in wasting our summer holiday here.
M: I suppose you’re right. However, what I hate is the t______6_______ in changing money abroad.
W: Oh, don’t be silly, Simon.
M: And what’s more, I can’t speak any of the languages, you know that. It’s all right for you. You can speak f_____7________ languages.
W: Exactly. You see, what I’d really like to do is to p______8________ my French and Spanish. It would help me a lot at work.
M: But that’s no use to me.
W: But think of the new p____9_______ we would visit and the people we would meet.
M: But, look, if we stayed here, we wouldn’t have to plan very much.
W: Sorry, Simon, I just don’t want to have another b_____10________ English summer here.
1. abroad 2. rather 3. cheaper 4. Even 5. point
6. trouble 7. foreign 8. practise 9. places 10. boring
（九）
M: Honestly, Sandra, I’m not very p_____1_________ with you. I don’t know… it’s something about the w_____2______ you deal with your work, your a______3_______ to it, and that worries me.
W: Oh, really?
M: Well, I find that you’re not easy o work with. Yes, really, I find you are rather d_____4________.
W: I’m sorry you think that way.
M: The point is that I can’t recommend somebody for a rise who doesn’t take an a_____5_________ interest in their work. You can see that, can’t you, Sandra?
W: Er… yes I can and I’m sorry. I thought I was doing my b_____6________.
M: Maybe, but you don’t seem to like… I mean, are you happy at LTV? Perhaps you need a c______7_________. Have you ever thought about working somewhere else?
W: Well, no. it’s not that. I like it here. I like working for LTV. I think television is exciting, but what I do seems so boring, so repetitive.
M: I see. Yes, I think I understand how you feel I’m g_______8_______ you told me. But you’ve got to r_____9________, Sandra, that we can’t do exciting work all the time.
W: Yes, I know that.
M: Look, this is what I think we’d better do. Bill Fletcher who deals with audience reaction w_____10________ someone to help him on door-to-door interviews. What do you think about that?
1. pleased 2. way 3. attitude 4. difficult 5. active
6. best 7. change 8. glad 9. realize 10. wants
（十）
W: Hello, Mr. Tompkins. Our newspaper will carry some i_____1_________ about new products. Now, will you tell us about the new home your company has built? It promises to be a m____2________ for the houses of the future.
M: Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of d____3_________ things. This is a complete home system. It will make people’s lives e________4_______.
W: Ok. So tell me how this house will make my life easier?
M: When you arrive at the front door, you won’t need a key. The door will open with a touch of your f______5_________. You’ll be able to call your refrigerator when you’re in supermarket and find out hoe much you need to buy. Isn’t it wonderful?
W: Can I call the washing m______6_______ as well?
M: Sure. B______7________ you won’t need to. The house comes with a robot. It is programmed to cleaning and w_____8________.
W: And what’s the p_____9________ of the new house?
M: A million dollars.
W: A million dollars! It will be the 22nd century before I can _____10____ to buy one!
1. information 2. model 3. different 4. easier 5. finger
6. machine 7. But 8. washing 9. price 10. afford
（十一）
M: Hi, Mr. Jarvis!
W: Hi, Li Langfeng. Mr. Li plans to send me to Qingdao for a business neeting.
M: Well. It’s good for you have the c_______1______ to visit more place while working in our company.
W: Yes, it is. By the way, how is the w______2_______ there?
M: Er, generally, it is very pleasant e______3________ in summer. But it is a bit cool in spring and autumn.
W: What about the environment?
M: On the whole, the environment is very beautiful, especially along the c______4______. There are lovely beaches, ever-green grass lands and beautiful parks. But there is one thing that isn’t so good.
W: What’s that?
M: The weather is polluted, quite badly polluted from w_____5_________ I hear.
W: Oh, that’s terrible. How about the inner part of the city away from the coast?
M: Er, it’s also very pretty e_______6________ in the industrial area where the air is a little dirty.
W: Nowadays, pollution is a s_____7_______ problem worldwide. Our city has the s______8_____ problem as you can see here.
M: Yes, thankfully, people are becoming more a_______9_______ of the environmental pollution and thinking about d_______10________ ways to solve it.
1. chance 2. weather 3. especially 4. coast 5. what
6. except 7. serious 8. same 9. aware 10. different
（十二）
M: Honey, the basketball game is a______1_____ to start. Could you bring a bowl of ice cream?
W: Do you really…
M: Hey, you know they are organizing our company basketball team and I am thinking about joining. What do you think?
W: Look. I don’t want you to have a heart attack when you are up and d______2_______ in the sports ground.
M: So what are you suggesting? Should I just give up the idea? I am not that out of s____3_____.
W: Well, you ought to have a p______4________ examination before you start. I mean it has been at least 5 years s_____5_____ you last played in the game.
M: Well, OK, but…
W: And you need to watch your diet. Try cutting back on the fatty foods, like ice cream, for example. You should eating more fresh fruits and v_______6_________, too.
Ｍ: Yeah, you’re probably right.
W: And you should take up a little weight training to s______7______ your muscles or perhaps try cycling to improve your heart blood flow. Oh, and you need to go to bed early instead of w______8_____ TV half of the night.
M: They are all good ideas, but where can I cycle in the d_______9______?
W: That’s a p_____10______. Maybe you can ride your bike to work instead of using your car, and we can cycle to any place where we spend our weekends. That way, we can kill both birds with one stone.
M: Yes, very good idea. Let’s start next week.
1. about 2. down 3. shape 4. physical 5. since
6. vegetables 7. strengthen 8. watching 9. downtown 10. problem
（十三）
W: Do you e____1______ eat fast food?
M: Yes, yes, I do.
W: What kind of fast food do you n____2____ eat?
M: Oh, er, you know, hamburgers, sandwiches, well, sometimes a pizza.
W: Oh, right. And how o_____3______ do you want to eat fast food? Every day, more than once a week or less than once a week?
M: Er, well, Monday to Friday when I am working, every day, um, but not usually on w____4____.
W: And what time of the day do you eat fast food?
M: Well, at work as I said, you know at lunchtime. Sometimes, you know, if I’m going out and I’ve no t_____5_______ to cook in the evening then I’ll send out for a pizza.
W: And what do you think of the fast food? Um, “It’s c_____6________”?
M: Sure, that’s sort of the main r______7________ that I eat it. We’re paying for the convenience, you know the speed of it.
W: Right. How about “It tastes good”?
M: Yeah, um, I mean not as good as food in a good r_______8_______, but it’s not bad.
W: It’s good for you?
M: No, sort of eating q______9_______ and standing up, it’s sort of bad for you. The food itself isn’t very good for you, you know there’re not e______10_______ greens, um, you know vegetables or salad.
1. ever 2. normally 3. often 4. weekends 5. time
6. convenient 7. reason 8. restaurant 9. quickly 10. enough
（十四）
W: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Johnson, please?
Ｍ: Speaking. Who’s calling, may I speak?
W: This is the Town Job Center. We have received your email and we are quite i______1_______ in you.
M: Can you tell me more about it? What kind of job? Where?
W: Well, a college wants to find some laboratory a_______2________. It’s a kind of job you would like to do, a______3______ we can see from your email.
M: Yes, I did put that in my email.
W: Yeah. They also want a person who knows how to o______4_______ the computer. So we think you are just the r______5________ kind of person for the job.
M: What about the pay and the work time?
W: I am c______6________ to that. The pay that they have offered is s_______7_______, but the work time is a little changeable: sometimes e_____8_______ in the morning or sometimes late in the afternoon.
M: Well, I am interested in it, but I need more d_______9_______ about the work time so that I can talk over with my wife.
W: W______10________ don’t you come over here tomorrow?
M: Ok, I’ll do that. See you tomorrow then. Bye!
1. interested 2. assistants 3. as 4. operate 5. right
6. coming 7. satisfactory 8. early 9. details 10. Why
（十五）
M: I read the s______1_______ from the newspaper. It was about two students who saved their friend’s life by sending a m_______2________ on the net.
W: Sounds interesting. How did it h______3_________?
M: This girl was a chemistry student at Oxford University. She was rushed to the hospital in terrible pain and then became unserious… After all has tested for everything they could think o____4____, but got negative result from everything.
W: OK, but where did the computer come in?
M: She has two friends in London Medical University. One of them had an e-mail address of the university. He knew that f_____5_________ medical experts could be contacted through computer news groups. He looked t______6________ the diagnosis and sent out his message.
W: What response did they get?
M: The message went to many many web sites. But the one who picked it up was a doctor in Washington. DC. He had worked in the United Kingdom and was f_____7________ with many of the doctors of the girl’s hospital. He got in t_____8_______ with some of his colleagues through the internet. They all did their best to search for specially who could help.
W: Was the girl’s life s______9________?
M: Yes, fortunately.
W: Is she right now?
M: She was unconscious for 5 months, b_____10_______ she is slowly recovering.
1. story 2. message 3. happen 4. of 5. foreign
6. through 7. familiar 8. touch 9. saved 10. but
（十六）
M: Miss Dermott, do you think, w_____1_______ a few years, many people could work at home i_______2_______ of working in offices?
W: Oh, yes. It’s happening now. You see, the communication industry has made a lot of p_____3________ in the last ten years.
M: And how do these people m_____4_______ to work? I mean, what equipment do they have at home?
W: Well, they have a television set, a computer, a printer, and a telephone to c_____5______ with other computers.
M: Oh, I see. But surely there’re some a______6________ in being able to work at home.
W: Yes. Working at home, people don’t have to get up early to a_______7________ the rush hours.
M: Ah, I see. What do you think about the conditions of home-workers?
W: Oh, let me tell you what might happen. In the f_____8______ a British firm in, for example, London, might e______9______ clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could have their secretaries in Spain, and then they just use a t_______10________ to call around for the labor.
1. within 2. instead 3. progress 4. manage 5. connect
6. advantages 7. avoid 8. future 9. employ 10. telephone
（十七）
W: Do you remember Sally Green, the swimming star? She was the girl who broke all the r_____1_______ at the last Olympics. Where is she now? Last week our reporter Tom Parker went to see Sally in her Californian home.
M: Is it t_______2________ that you don’t swim at all now?
(Sally) S: I’m a______3________ so. I’m too old.
M: But you are only 20.
S: That’s too o_____4________ for a swimmer. If I swam in any national competition now. I wouldn’t win. So I’d rather not swim at all.
M: But don’t you enjoy swimming?
S: I used to when I was still young. B_____5______ if you enter the big competitions you have to work very hard. I used to get up at 6:00 a.m. to go to school. I have to train before school, a______6_____ school and the weekends. I swam 35 miles every week.
M: But you are f______7_______ at 15! And look at these cups.
S: It’s true that I have some wonderful m______8_______. I enjoyed visiting other countries and the Olympics was very exciting. But I m______9_____ more important things. W_____10_______ other girls were growing up I was swimming. What can I do now?
1. records 2. true 3. afraid 4. old 5. But
6. after 7. famous 8. memories 9. missed 10. While
（十八）
W: Hi, Phil, can you tell me h_____1______ it happened?
M: Sure. I was mountain climbing in New Hampshire in 1982. Suddenly the weather became really bad. There was a lot of snow and we couldn’t see anything. We got l_____2______. Well, we spent four days on the mountain. The t_____3_______ was 20 degrees below zero. We didn’t have any equipment o_____4______ food.
W: So what happened? I guess someone found you, right?
M: Yes, but we were very sick. I couldn’t move my legs b______5______ of the cold. I spent two m______6______ in the hospital. The doctors removed my legs.
W: Right. So you lost your legs, but you want to try your best to s_____7_____ active.
M: That’s right. In fact, I decided to make some new legs for myself. I realize that no one has to be physically disabled. We can use m_______8______ technology to help.
W: And you built these great new legs. Can you go mountain climbing a_____9________?
M: Yes, I can. In fact, these are better than climb shoes. The spring design m_____10_______ they are much more powerful.
1. how 2. lost 3. temperature 4. or 5. because
6. months 7. stay 8. modern 9. again 10. means