[单项选择]He was first ___________ the finishing line. He was the winner.


A. across
B. past
C. through

[单项选择]Lily went to see her grandpa yesterday ______he was ill.


A. if
B. though
C. because

[单项选择]At first he didn't mean ______ part, but he couldn't resist ______ a try.
A. to take, having
B. taking, to have
C. to take, to have
D. taking, having

[单项选择]The first day he did not have his lunch because he did not ______.


A. feel well
B. know the time for lunch
C. hear the lunch bell
D. have the money

[单项选择]When he first started in university, he really felt at ______ with his major-economics.
A. shore
B. bank
C. ocean
D. sea

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Text 4
The first great cliche of the Internet was, "Information wants to be free." The notion was that no one should have to pay for "content" words and pictures and stuff like that and, in the friction-free world of cyberspace, no one would have to.
The reigning notion today is that the laws of economics are not, after all, suspended in cyberspace like the laws of gravity in outer space. Content needs to be paid for on the Web just as in any other medium. And it probably has to be paid for the same way most other things are paid for. by the people who use it. We tried charging the customers at Slate. It didn’t work. Future experiments may be more successful. But meanwhile, let’s look again at this notion that in every medium except the Internet, people pay for the content they consume. It’s not really true.
TV is the most obvious case. A few weeks ago a producer from "Nightline" contacted Slate while
A. they earned enough money to keep the business going.
B. consumers take the trouble to read the ad in the magazine.
C. consumers read the main content of these magazines.
D. consumers understand the policy of the magazine business.

[单项选择]It ______ to me that he was the first person to help us in those difficult times
A. rectifies
B. occurs
C. reminds
D. arises

[单项选择]If he had caught the first train, he ______ to his office on time.
A. would have got
B. will have got
C. would get
D. had got

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Passage Five
When God made the first man, he put him in a beautiful garden, the Garden of Eden. Here Ad am lived in peace with all the animals. God gave Adam eternal life. But Adam was lonely in the gar den, so God made Eve. When Adam was asleep one night, God took a rib from him and made Eve, the first woman. Adam was happy when he woke up the next morning and found Eve beside him. God said to them, "Here in the Garden you have everything. But you cannot have one thing: you cannot eat the apples from the Tree of Knowledge."
One day Satan came to the Garden. He changed into a snake and went to live in the Tree of Knowledge. When Eve came near the tree one day, the snake called her. He gave her an apple and said," Take this apple and eat it. Don’ t listen to the God. Eat it. "After Eve took a bite, she the apple to Adam. He was afraid, but Eve repeated again and again: "It’ s good. Here, eat it. Why not" So he finall
A. by God from his rib
B. by Adam from his rib
C. by God from Adam' s rib
D. by Adam from God' s rib

[单项选择]What was the first thing that he saw after being struck down by the lightning


A. His wife.
B. The large tree.
C. A plough.
D. The lightning itsel