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一、选择填空：阅读下面的对话或句子，从 A、B、C 三个选项中选出一个 能填入空白处的最佳选项。 1---- Wed be pleased if you could join us for dinner. C A.Thank you B.Yes, Id be pleased to accept. C.Thats good 2.---- why not dine out together and go to the movies? --- B A.You deserve that. B.Sounds like a good idea. C.Thank you. 3.People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money B cooking fuel. A.in B.on C.of _ _4.Li Lei is C student in our _ _ A.tall B.taller C.the tallest 5.Nick C a job in a bank, but to our surprise, he didnt take it. A.offered B.has offered C.was offered 二、 阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容从A、B、C 三个选项中选 出一个最佳选项。 When Dr. Robert Metcalf first used a solar cooker, the future changed for millions of Africans. He knew that billions of poor people around the world depend on the use of wood for cooking. As they take more and more firewood from wild areas. They are destroying habitats around the world. Wood collection is one reason why many animals have become endangered. But sunshine can be an alternative to fire. Dr. Metcalf says. Since his first solar cooked meal, he has helped people around the world to use simple new technologies to cook their food. Each morning in villages across East Africa, small children and their mothers wake up and walk several miles to collect firewood to cook their food. It takes much of the day, and the heavy firewood they carry home on their heads lasts only a few days. This is why Dr. Metcalf spends each summer in Africa. He teaches women and children in villages how to cook with the sun. So far, more than thirty thousand African families now have solar cookers, and new programs will introduce solar cookers to millions of families. To find water, women and children may have to walk long distance to dig holes in dry riverbeds or to gather water from streams and shallow