请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.

    A   41   came, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to   42   that shirt away, but gave it to her   43  .” I was speechless. I wanted to hide.

    I   44   the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her   45  , “I will no longer work for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life’s   46   was something greater.

    The next morning she   47   with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to   48   a university.

    After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “You are   49  , aren’t you? I think I have a   50   for you as a teacher’s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of   51  .” Mom accepted the opportunity very   52  .

    For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling   53  . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal   54   in her classroom. The principal said, “We have watched how you   55   the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working   56   over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you   57   be the teacher of this class.”

    My mom spent more than 20 years there.   58   her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the   59   comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle   60   situations and never give up.

A. noise                     B. voice                       C. sound                       D. tune

A. get                     B. take                      C. carry                        D. throw

A. otherwise               B. anyhow                    C. instead                            D. actually

A. settled                   B. pushed                     C. stored                      D. stuck

A. teacher                B. employer                  C. director                 D. adviser

A. purpose                 B. encouragement     C. achievement                     D. victory

A. went                         B. met                  C. worked                    D. stayed

A. visit                      B. continue                   C. attend                      D. prepare

A. serious                  B. fortunate                  C. careful                      D. responsible

A. career                  B. duty                         C. position                 D. part

A. learning               B. judging                   C. obeying                    D. imagining

A. patiently                     B. eagerly                     C. successfully              D. skillfully

A. upset                   B. frightened                C. guilty                       D. ashamed

A. looked up            B went up                     C. took up                  D. showed up

A. believe             B. protect                      C. treat                         D. receive

A. spirit                   B. intention                  C. action                      D. attempt

A. must               B. would                      C. might                       D. should

A. At                     B. During                     C. On                         D. With

A. worthless         B. thoughtless         C. hopeless                   D. helpless

A. challenging          B. different                   C. dangerous                 D. strange

---- Did you have ________ fun at the party?

   ---- Yes. It’s ________ shame that you missed it.

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

The old man was found _______ on the floor _______.

A．lying; died              B．lying; death             C．lying; dead              D．laying; dead

---Where are you, Tom?

   ---Here in the sitting room, ___to Professor Smith.

   A. to write    B. writing    C. is writing    D. to be writing

--- Do you have anyone particular in ___for the job?

  ---In my opinion, Tom is the right person.

   A. head    B. heart    C. mind    D. brain

Two farmers in northeast China Heilongjiang Province have been sentenced to nine and five years in jail because of eating a tiger, the local court said on Tuesday.

       Zhang Licheng and Gong Weisheng, both farmers in Dongning County, were put into prison for the crime of illegally hunting and killing endangered wild animal species, according to the People’s Court of Dongning County.

       The Siberian tiger, mistakenly trapped but intentionally（故意的）eaten by the farmers, was an endangered animal which is under the first-class state protection in the country. The farmers, living in a village very close to forests, used to trap wild animals like roe deer and hares when the dying tiger unfortunately caught in their trap in February 2003.

       Knowing that tiger trade was illegal, Zhang and Gong, however, thought eating a dead tiger’s meat was not breaking the law. They decided to cover it up and therefore did not report to the relevant authorities, the court said.

       Six days later they secrectly carried home the tiger that had died of hunger as they had expected.The two farmers burnt the tiger’s skin, ate its meat and hid away the bones, according to the court. The crime was uncovered and reported to the police about a year later and the transgressors（违反者）were arrested on Jan.16, 2004.

64.When the two farmers found the tiger trapped, they ______________.

A.wanted to kill it for its skin

B.were pleased to have the chance to eat its meat

C.hoped to sell it at good price

D.reported the case to some departments of the government

65.After reading the passage, we know that ___________.

A.roe deer are being well protected

B.the Siberian tigers do no harm to people

C.China values the protection of endangered animals

D.farmers in Dongning County won’t like endangered wild animal species any longer

66.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Tigers Are Endangering

B.Two Unlucky Farmers

C.Tigers Are Well Protected in China

D.Two Farmers Jailed for Eating Tiger

67.The right statement of the following about the tiger is ____________.

A.It died of hunger.

B.It was eaten by the farmers unintentionally.

C.Before dying, it had eaten roe deer and hares.

D.It was skinned and its bones and meat were sold.

七、短文改错（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

         2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

Great changes have been taken place in the way people communicate with each other. In the past people write letters to share informations and later they talked with each other in the telephone 。Now more and more people use our own mobile phones to communicating. And instead writing on the paper, they e-mail to each other on the computer. As a result, people find that quicker and easier to communicate, and at the same time some people feel that they become poorer in writing. They worry about whether people can be as closely as before.

. I don’t know whether the computer was lost or stolen；        , it’s gone．

A. besides       B. anyhow          C. thus         D. indeed

. Jack is always occupied __________ his work, which makes him have no time to stay with his family.

A. by                           B. for                    C. with                  D. to

 .The United States signed up Friday for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo,_______it the last major country to join the event.

A.making      B. made       C. to make       D.having made