- Do you know ______ the Great Wall is?

- I think it’s more than 5000 kilometers long.

A. how deep　　 B. how wide　　 C. how far　　　　 D. how long

—______is the Changjiang river in China, do you know?

—Yes, it’s about 6,380 kilometers long.

A. How many B. How wide C. How long D. How much

How old was I? I can’t remember. Maybe I was only 10. It was the first    16   without my father because he was away for something. He left me to fill that sad place in my mother’s heart. It was the Christmas when I stopped being a    17   and tried to play Father Christmas myself. I really wanted to make it happy and bright again. It was the Christmas of the    18  .
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, a nice    19   shop in our town’s little shopping mall. It was dark green. And it was a    20  , heavy, wool dress coat. Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up. “Long enough,” she said in a low voice and    21  .
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror. She looked good on any clothes,       22   this coat suited her much better. She looked at the    23  , then hung the coat back on the rack, standing there once more to    24   
Eighty-seven dollars. But I decided to buy it for her. As we moved on    25  the mall, I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to    26   the coat.
I helped clean every yard(庭院) in our neighbourhood—some yards twice, and soon I got the coat. The store ladies helped me put it in their biggest    27   with bright blue paper and thick silver ribbon(絲帶). I don’t remember    28   I got it home, but I can still feel the wonderful    29   and pride that filled me. I would imagine the big space which the box would take up under our tree. Here it was—joy, peace and    30  —all in the box, waiting for Mom’s surprise.

Ted worked in a factory in a big town．He liked ___1___ very much，and was very good at it．Whenever he was free，he ___2___ to the small river behind the factory and tried to catch some fish，___3___ there were very few there，because the river was ___4___．Then one summer，he went to a town by the sea ___5___ his holidays and stayed at a small cheap ___6___．

“I've never fished（釣魚）in the sea before，” he thought．He was ___7___ that it would be rather different from fishing in the rivers．So he asked the owner of the hotel to tell him ___8___ to fish in the sea．

On the first day，he caught a lot of fish and was very ___9___．He went back to the hotel where he stayed．He ___10___ all the fish and asked all the guests（客人）to eat with him．The guests enjoyed it very much．Ted had a good time during his holidays．

1．A．swimming           B．boating             C．fishing

2．A．had to go            B．would go          C．didn't go

3．A．but                 B．a(chǎn)nd                C．so

4．A．clean                B．wide              C．polluted

5．A．before              B．for                C．a(chǎn)fter

6．A．hotel                  B．building             C．restaurant

7．A．happy                B．satisfied           C．a(chǎn)fraid

8．A．why                B．how              C．what

9．A．sad                 B．a(chǎn)ngry             C．happy

10．A．sold               B．bought            C．cooked