King Midas used to love gold. One day he met a fairy who allowed him to make a wish for something. The king replied at once , ‘‘I love gold . I want everything I touch to change into gold”. ‘‘Very well , tomorrow morning, everything you touch will turn into gold .”Saying this, the fairy disappeared.

The king waited excitedly till the next morning. To his joy, everything he touched changed immediately into gold. ‘‘I’m the richest man in the world now.” He shouted.

Soon Midas became hungry. He sat down at his table. All the foods and drinks turned into gold in his hand. ‘‘I’m dying of hunger.” He cried.

Just then his daughter came running in . ‘‘Why are you so sad, dad?” she asked, putting her arms around him. There and then she became a golden statue. The king loved his daughter very much .Seeing this, he began to cry. He looked up and suddenly saw the fairy before him.  ‘‘Don’t you like the golden touch?” asked the fairy. ‘‘Please take it away,” begged the king, ‘‘give me back my daughter.”  ‘‘Well, you have learned your lesson. Go and wash in the river. Then the golden touch will be gone.” The king ran quickly to the nearby river.

1.The fairy allowed the king to make a wish because              .

A．she hoped to make the king the richest in the world

B．She loved gold too

C．She wanted to teach the king a lesson

D．She wanted to turn the king’s daughter into gold

2.When the foods and drinks turned into gold the king was              .

A．excited           B．hungry            C．worried           D．happy

3.The king’s daughter became a golden statue when              .

A．she saw her father                      B．the king went to meet her

C．she put her arms around her father         D．the king loved her very much

4.Which of the following might have happened afterwards?

A．The king died in the river

B．The king’s daughter changed back from gold to a lovely girl

C．All the things the king had touched changed back into real ones

D．Both B and C

5.What do you think the story tries to tell us?

A．Gold makes people unhappy

B．More gold, more happiness

C．Gold is not the thing that makes life happy

D．People feel happy if they have not gold

二、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41—60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all-white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan．Many of our new __16  weren’t very welcoming．Some of the adults said __17   that we should return where we came __18 ．The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from __19 ．

Most of my teachers __20   took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher．Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being __21  ,but she didn’t say this to me．Miss Bean __22   her respect for me by teaching me just like __23   else．Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a __24   to show that I was smart．Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me __25? myself．She insisted on knowing what I thought about difficult questions．Was Thomas Jefferson __26   to buy Louisiana from France?__27  ?She expected me to have an opinion and to be able to __28   it up．Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for yourself was the real key to __29 ．

One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly __30   an eraser at me．Unbelievably, the eraser hit me right on the hand and __31   my pencil flying．The whole class was __32  at first, then started laughing．This incident became famous in the school and,__33   it happened to me, the students wanted to get to __34   me．So that's the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target, and how I became just another __35  in school．

16．A．friends             B．schoolmates       C．teachers            D．neighbors

17．A．kindly       B．surprisingly       C．angrily            D．happily

18．A．to                 B．from            C．for               D．in

19．A．school       B．street            C．office             D．downtown

20．A．hardly       B．simply           C．never              D．only

21．A．taught       B．considered              C．welcomed          D．treated

22．A．kept         B．expected          C．showed             D．refused

23．A．anyone       B．anywhere         C．someone            D．wherever

24．A．question      B．chance           C．test               D．place

25．A．worry about  B．look about        C．work for           D．think for

26．A．necessary     B．important         C．right              D．known

27．A．How        B．Where           C．When             D．Why

28．A．back         B．set              C．put               D．give

29．A．respect        B．education          C．friendship         D．children

30．A．aimed        B．threw             C．passed            D．found

31．A．sent         B．left               C．made             D．sprang

32．A．excited       B．frightened         C．moved            D．shocked

33．A．so           B．then             C．because            D．whether

34．A．ask           B．know            C．praise             D．understand

35．A．kid           B．problem          C．friend            D．example

There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her    26  , she went to the wise man that is always    27   for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what    28   ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will    29   you with all I have if you can.”
Instead of sending her away or    30   with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥末) seed from a home that has never    31   sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in    32   of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment,    33   at the door, and said in a (n)    34   voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a (n)    35   that I want? It is very important to me.”
   36  , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of    37  . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to    38   all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor,   39   people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She    40   to comfort them till they    41  . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But    42   she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one    43   after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so    44   in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never    45   that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.

At present time, roller skating (滑旱冰) is easy and fun. But many years ago, it wasn’t easy at all. Before 1750, people never tried skating on wheels. That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin’s work was making instruments (工具). In his free time he liked to play the violin. Merlin was a man with many ideas and many dreams. People called him a dreamer.
One day Merlin received an invitation to go to an important party. He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin began to think. He wanted to find a way to make a wonderful entrance at the party. Merlin had an idea. He thought that he would attract much attention if he could skate into the room.
Merlin tried different ways to make himself roll (滚动). Finally, he decided to put two wheels under each shoe. These were the first roller skate shoes. Merlin was very proud of them. He dreamed of arriving at the party and skating into the room while playing the violin. He was sure that everyone would be very surprised.
On the night of the party Merlin rolled into the room, playing his violin. Everyone was really surprised to see him. There was just one problem. Merlin had no way to stop his roller skating. He rolled on, playing the violin. Then, with all eyes on him, Merlin hit into a huge mirror on the wall. The mirror broke into many pieces with a very loud noise.
Nobody forgot Merlin’s wonderful entrance after that.
【小题1】The first paragraph tells us that people began to skate on wheels from 1750 because (of ) _______.

During the Christmas break from college, a young man wanted to borrow his father’s car. He was going to a New Year’s Eve   21  to be held in Vermont. The father was   22  about the son hitting one of the roadblocks that people set up all over the place on New Year’s Eve. However, a(n)   23  reached was that the son would be allowed to use the car, but he would not drink at all.

So he drove to Vermont, got completely   24 , and attempted to drive home. On the way home he hit a roadblock. He was told to   25  the car and stand in a line of people that were being given the sobriety (not drunk)   26 . However, the policeman   27  him out. He was   1. standing off to the side while the others were   29  the police officer how well they could walk a   30  line, etc.

At 7:00 am the next morning, his father got up to answer the   31 . There were   32  policemen there. They asked him if he was the   33  of that red FIAT. He replied, “Yes, I am.” One of the policemen asked him if he was driving the car the evening before and he said that his son had been the driver.

When the young man   34  himself in front of the policemen, he knew he was in some sort of   35 . Upon questioning, he   36  that he was driving the car. But when asked if he had been   37 , he said, “NO!” When the policemen asked if they could see his car, he was unable to remember the   38 . He said that it was in the garage.

And when the four of them walked out to look at the car, instead of looking at the car he had driven the   39  before, they saw a   40  car parked there.