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[填空题]Falling down a manhole is not the best way to make a good impression. Or so I thought before coming to China. One day,{{U}} (36) {{/U}}on Heping Li Xijie--a potholed street crowded with taxis, bicycles, three wheel{{U}} (37) {{/U}}, and fruit and vegetable sellers, my front wheel{{U}} (38) {{/U}}down a hole and threw me over the handlebars.{{U}} (39) {{/U}}, I waited for the unkind laughing comments of{{U}} (40) {{/U}}. But when I rearranged myself and{{U}} (41) {{/U}}to laugh at my accident, a crowd of onlookers broke into a round of{{U}} (42) {{/U}}and gave me a double thumbs up. So I was able to ride away without{{U}} (43) {{/U}}of face.
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[单项选择]The best way to make friends is to start a conversation with someone and __________ What your common interests are and go from there.
A. lead to
B. lay down
C. keep on
D. find out
[单项选择]Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this only ______the crisis.
A. precedes
B. prevails
C. ascends
D. accelerates
[单项选择]Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know now often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He always found it hard to satisfy himself.
When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him. He began to notice a strange humming in his ears. At first he paid little attention, but it grew worse, and at last he consulted doctors. They gave him the worst news any musician can hear: he was gradually going deaf. Beethoven was in despair, he was sure that he was going to die.
He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligenstadt, and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers. In this letter he told them how depressed and lonely his deafness had made him. "It was impossible for me to ask men to speak louder or shout, for I am cleat," he wrote. "How could I possibly admit an infir
