完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that   21   men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them,   22  , who to trust, how to care for others and how to live life    23  the fullest.

Recently, John lost his    24  Janet. For eight years she fought against cancer, but in the end her sickness had the last   25  . One day John took out a folded piece of   26  from his wallet. He had found it, so he told me, when he   27   up some drawers at home.

It was a   28   love letter Janet had written. The note could look like a school girl’s scrawls (潦草地写，乱涂) about her dream guy.   29   the letter was written by a woman who had had seven children, a woman who fought for her life and who   30   only had a few months left to live.

It was   31   a beautiful recipe (处方，食谱) for how to keep a marriage together. Janet’s   32   of her husband begins like this, “Loved me. Took care of me. Worried about me.”

“Helped me when I was ill.” The next   33  reads. After that she turned   34   the paper and added “Warmth. Humor. Kindness. Thoughtfulness.” And then she writes about the husband she has   35  with and loved most in her life. “  36   there when I needed you.” The last words she wrote   37   all the others. I can see her for me when she added thoughtfully “Good friend.”

I stand beside John now, and cannot pretend to know how it feels to lose someone who is as close to   38  as Janet was to him. I need to   39   what he has to say much more than he needs to talk.

“John,” I ask. “How do you stick together with someone through 38 years – not to mention the sickness? How do I know   40  I can bear to stand by my wife’s side if she becomes sick one day?”

“You can.” he says quietly, “If you love her enough, you can.”

21．A．old  B．wise C．young    D．foolish

A．for instance    B．at no time   C．in that case D．as a matter of fact

A．in B．to   C．at   D．for

A．friend  B．colleague    C．wife D．sister

A．possibility B．chance   C．hope D．word

A．handkerchief    B．cloth    C．leather  D．paper

A．fixed   B．looked   C．tidied   D．put

A．small   B．long C．descriptive  D．talkative

A．So  B．But  C．And  D．While

A．probably    B．surely   C．certainly    D．definitely

．A．only   B．firstly  C．lastly   D．also

A．imagination B．description  C．dream    D．expectation

A．letter  B．note C．line D．paragraph

A．away    B．down C．off  D．over

A．lived   B．dealt    C．quarreled    D．argued

A．Constantly  B．Always   C．Never    D．Seldom

A．take the place of   B．get rid of   C．take away    D．sum up

A．me  B．Janet    C．John D．you

A．speak up    B．repeat   C．discuss  D．hear

A．why B．where    C．if   D．when

--- Well, it’s getting late. I must be going. Thank you for inviting me to the evening party of the Rabbit Year.

    ---           .

    A．Oh, it’s so late.       B．Thank you for coming.

    C．All right.       D．I really had a happy time.

Please tell me the after service of the computer; I’m worried about        a breakdown sometime．

    A．there being B．it being     C．there is     D．it is

As the idea of low-carbon life is now _____ accepted, more and more people

travel by public transport.

 A. mainly              B. slightly         C. widely               D. deeply

完形填空（共20小题；每题1分，满分20分）

    阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to     21     for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve      22     a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked     23     so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it      24    , and then hesitatingly asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she     25    . “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __26   .” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger     27    , but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.

Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called      28     to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now     29     , was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light    30     his eyes. Immediately, he     31     and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

     32   in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He      33    her at once. He went back to the consultation room and      34     to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave    35__attention to her case.

After a long      36    the battle was won. Dr. Kelly    37     the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was     38     that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her     39  . She read these words…

“Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she    40     silently. “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”

A．call    B．make C．beg  D．prepare

A．while   B．when C．though   D．unless

．A．thirsty    B．lazy C．tired    D．hungry

A．slowly  B．unexpectedly C．steadily D．hurriedly

A．announced   B．shook    C．replied  D．doubted

A．reward  B．kindness C．hand D．value

A．physically  B．mentally C．normally D．properly

A．up  B．for  C．on   D．in

A．rich    B．famous   C．observant    D．vivid

A．fixed   B．consulted    C．filled   D．concentrated

A．rose    B．raised   C．got  D．left

A．Worn    B．Having   C．putting  D．Dressed

A．recognized  B．knew C．spared   D．regained

A．desired B．declared C．determined   D．declined

A．special B．ordinary C．normal   D．no

A．decision    B．preparation  C．struggle D．debate

A．ordered B．requested    C．confused D．compressed

A．negative    B．uncertain    C．positive D．obvious

A．presentation    B．preference   C．attention    D．arrangement

A．praised B．pretended    C．pressed  D．prayed

The education of _______young is always _______ hot and serious topic in modern society.

A. the; /           B. a; the           C. /; the           D. the; a

—Is it for two months ______ they have stayed here?

    —No,it is only three weeks ______they arrived here．

    A．that;since   B．that;when    C．when;that    D．since;before

—Excuse me, Dad, but I’m going to the club to meet my friends in the football team.

   —OK. ______

单句改错（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

每句只有一个错误。按下列情况改正：该句多一个词，把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉；该句缺一个词，在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该句右边横线上写出该加的词；该句错一个词，在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：不要改动原句的意思。

1. Little Mary felt cold, so she stood closely to her mother.                                     

2. There are a huge number of workers are striking in the street for better working conditions.       

3. Please put the book to where it was, so that we can easily find it.                            

4. One of the world’s largest art galleries, the Louvre, located in Paris.                            

5. I would gladly pay twice as many for the book, because it is quite a useful one.               

In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

   For each prediction that has come true today, several others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn’t consider how people would want to use the technology, or if people really needed it in their lives or not. Let’s look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

    Robot Helpers

   Where’s the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he’s probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other manufacturing environments.

   Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people’s homes.

   So why hasn’t it happened?  Probably because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And maybe the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too weird. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

    Telephones of Tomorrow

   In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn’t caught on yet.

   Why? The technology worked fine, but it over—looked something obvious: people’s desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just step out of the shower?  Probably not---it could be embarrassing! Just because a technology available doesn’t always mean people will want to use it.

   And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It’s not so crazy anymore! But a flying car remains one of the most fascinating technology ideas to capture our imagination. Keep watching the news, or perhaps the sky outside your window, to see what the future will bring.

The whole passage is mainly about ________________.

   A. predictions that have come true.      B. predictions that haven’t come true.

   C. why predictions don’t come true easily. D. what technology will bring about.

The author of this passage won’t believe that _________________.

   A. predictions needn’t consider people’s practical use of technology.

   B. the future isn’t always easy to guess.  

   C. not all past predictions have come true.

   D. many of the high—tech things our parents thought we’d be using by now

   simply never appeared.

The underlined word “weird” probably means __________.

   A. wonderful   B. stupid    C. practical    D. strange

What does the author think of the flying car?

   A. It is too difficult to imagine.   B. It is too crazy an idea.

   C. It is likely to be made.        D. It is often reported in the news.