1.
A. approaching      B. comfortable    C. hiding  D. intelligent    E. inevitable       
F. lately          G. put          H. remark   I. tempered      J. universally   K. tremendous
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It was already midnight. At one end of the big house, on a sort of a raised platform, Major was already sitting in comfort on his bed of straw. He was twelve years old and had __1__ grown rather fat, but he was still a majestic-looking (威武的) pig, with a wise and kind appearance. Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves __2_ _ after their different fashions. First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. The hens rested themselves beside the window. The pigeons flew up to the rafters(房梁). The sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs. The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs (马蹄) with great care in
case there should be some small animal __3_ in the straw. Clover was a motherly horse ___4___ middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth baby. Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses ___5____ __ together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate ___6__ __, but he was ___7__ __ respected for his steadiness of character and ___8___ powers of work. After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst ___9___ __. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some ironical __10__ _----for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would rather have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.
2.
A. alternative  B. appointed  C. valued    D. investment E. issued 
F. mentioned    G. noticeable  tiltH. reward      I. returns    J. surprise   K. ensure
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  When Minnesota Bank and Trust opened in 2008, CEO Kate Kelly was determined to make it a place people wanted to work. So she __1__ three volunteers to the employee event committee and waited to see what would happen. Soon, there was lawn bowling, miniature golf, blue-jean Fridays and a(n) __2__ _ holiday trip to Wal-mart where each worker got $ 10 to buy a Secret Santa gift.
    ‘It is nice every once in a while to just laugh,’ Kelly said. ‘There is a(n) ___3__ _ difference in the mood here after an event. Everyone is chatting and laughing. You don’t have to spend a lot of money.’
    Yet the __4_ __ is significant: people want to work there. And that’s important, according to a report __5__ __ by the Society of Human Resources Management. If employers don’t want their best talent to slip out the door for good, they need to develop the programs aime
d at keeping their employees.
    Some executives say they are determined to keep their best talent and to spend the time and money necessary to __6 __ that all workers have a fun, engaging workplace where they feel ___7_ _. Kelly said her bank grew from 20 employees to 33 in four years. At the same time, she’s lost just three workers since 2008. It takes 12 to 18 months of training to replace a person who leaves. So her ___8_ __ in fun makes a lot of sense.
  Jessica Pecoraro is a member of the Women President Organisation. Every leader in that group ‘is looking for _9__ methods other than salary to motivate people, one, so they perform and two, so they stay.’
Beyond money, they look for ways to have fun. Other _10__ on investments come in all sizes of smiles and in all manner of nuttiness(疯狂) that often have little to do with the job at hand.
3.
A. change      B. connected    C. constant  D. drawn      E. gaps
F. illustrated    G. journeys    H. parallel  I.purposefully    J. simply   K. relationship
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  In this section, children are introduced to botany and zoology, and to the life cycle. And the circle of life is __1__ with the seasons, and the cycle of the seasons is explained. The help of the parent or teacher is much needed in explaining the seasons to young children.
  Most adults know that the seasons are not determined by the earth’s rotation (自转), which __2_ causes the daily cycle of light and dark. But __3__ _ in our educational system have left many parents and teachers with a rather unclear understanding of the cycle of the seasons. Surveys show that many Americans think the earth is closer to the sun in summer than in winter. In fact, the earth is farthest away from the sun in our summer and closest in winter, though the difference in distance is of minor importance. It is the tilt (倾斜) of the earth on its axis (轴) (toward the sun in summer and away from the sun in winter) as it ___4
___ around the sun that causes the seasonal __5__ __ of winter and summer. To help children understand the seasons in North America, it will be most useful to use a physical model. Here’s a simple suggestion for one.
  The seasonal __6__ between the earth and the sun can be __7___ _ to a child by putting a knitting needle through a tennis ball to ‘act’ as the earth and its axis. On the surface of the tennis ball, the equator (赤道) should be __8___ __ at right angles to the knitting needle. The tennis ball can then be circled around a burning light bulb in a plane(平面) __9__ __ to the floor at the same height as the bulb, keeping the axis at a(n) ___10__ _tilt toward the north. As the ball circles close to the bulb, the dark and light sides of the ball will be clearly seen, and so will the differences in light intensity on different parts of the ball.
4.
A. academically      B. bumped  C. confirm  D. flattened  E. fit 
F. inferiority        G. inner  H. mistrust    I. painfully   J. suspected   K. satisfaction

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