Ⅴ.完形填空
(Penny, Jane, and Bruce will meet in the park.)
Penny sits in the park. It is cold, but she is ____ 1 ____ for Jane. And then Jane comes here with Bruce. “Hello, Penny,” says Jane. She looks at Penny. “You are so ____ 2 ____. You are blue.”
Jane sees that there is ____ 3 ____ inside Penny's coat. “What is that?” she asks. Penny ____ 4 ____ Socks and puts him on the ground. He runs around ____ 5 ____ and then comes back to Penny. She strokes(轻抚) him. Jane strokes him too.
“His ____ 6 ____ is Socks,” says Penny. “He is ____ 7 ____ the rubbish bin.”
“That is horrible(可怕的),” says Jane. “That is really horrible. Some people always do ____ 8 ____ things to little animals. You poor little thing,” she says to Socks. “You ____ 9 ____ live in a rubbish bin.”
“You are a very kind girl,” Jane says to Penny.
“____ 10 ____ I have a problem,” says Penny. “I can't tell my ____ 11 ____ about Socks. He can't live at my home.”
“So you have a little dog, but no ____ 12 ____ for it. That is a problem,” says Jane.
“Would you like to ____ 13 ____ him?” asks Penny.
Jane thinks ...
“Please? A home for Socks?” says Penny.
But Jane worries a lot. Bruce ____ 14 ____ little dogs. Bruce is nice with people but he isn't nice with little dogs. “I can put Socks into the kitchen and ____ 15 ____ the door,” she thinks.
Socks licks Jane's hand. “OK, but only for one day, and then we must find another way out,” says Jane.
1. A. paying
B. waiting
C. looking
D. catching
2. A. hot
B. warm
C. cold
D. cool
3. A. something
B. anything
C. everything
D. nothing
4. A. puts out
B. sets out
C. finds out
D. takes out
5. A. slowly
B. happily
C. quickly
D. carefully
6. A. hobby
B. habit
C. name
D. need
7. A. from
B. with
C. in
D. on
8. A. different
B. difficult
C. bad
D. big
9. A. can't
B. don't
C. needn't
D. mustn't
10. A. So
B. But
C. And
D. Then
11. A. friends
B. classmates
C. teachers
D. parents
12. A. house
B. family
C. home
D. room
13. A. look after
B. wake up
C. look at
D. worry about
14. A. picks
B. dislikes
C. knows
D. wants
15. A. close
B. open
C. clean
D. answer

| Pockets are this year |
| are pockets this year's fashion trend? |
| People usually don't need bags to take many things with them. They take money with them now, and there are no diaries or maps. People only need phones and . Pockets are enough. |
| More than practical |
| Pockets also make us about the rights of men and women. Hundreds of years ago, men enjoyed sewn-in pockets . But women could only wear tied-on pockets on the outside. There were no tied-on pockets later. But it still made some people feel that pockets were special for men. |
| Fashionable accessories |
| Even if we don't use pockets to carry things, pockets can make us feel fashionable. Pockets now have sizes. Designers also put many beautiful or special pictures on them. |
| Men get better pockets |
| Pockets in women's jeans are usually 48% less deep, and 6.5% slimmer than men's jeans pockets. Only 40% of women's front pockets can keep a smartphone, and than half can keep a wallet. |
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