新概念英语二习题Lesson-55-56.docVIP

新概念英语2 Lesson 55 Not a Gold Mine 并非金矿 I. 语法与词汇知识 1. His dream ______ finally. He has been working hard for many years. A. came true B. failed C. found out D. went away 2. Compass ______ for more than a thousand years. A. having been invented B. has been invented C. was invented D. invented 3. What are you ______ under your desk? A. putting B. holding C. hiding D. seeking 4. ______ with strong weapon, this country considered itself as “world police〞. A. Arming B. Arms C. Armed D. Arm 5. Don’t waste your time on doing ______ things! A. valuable B. worthless C. worthy D. valueless 6. Nothing left ______ a big round dining desk in the house. A. besides B. only C. except D. out 7. ______ rain, I went shopping with him. A. In spite of B. Yet C. Although D. Except 8. He was full of ______ when he went to the interview. A. wish B. confidence C. anger D. emotion 9. It’s not ______ for you to do so! A. fair B. just C. fairly D. justly 10. We reviewed our lessons ______ at the end of this semester. A. lively B. thoroughly C. friendly D. badly II. 阅读理解 For many people the subject of hiccups (打嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different. His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry’s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure it.　 Harry, who is now back at? \o school??????? school, described what happened to him. “When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn’t do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.〞　 After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray