(06·全国Ⅱ)

The year I went away to college was a very difficult transition（过渡期）for me.    21    is probably true with many people. I got quite homesick and    22    thought about going home.

Although the   23   time for many students is getting   24   from home, my mailbox was frequently   25  . One day when I went to the mailbox, there was a postcard   26   out at me. I sat down to read it,   27   a note from someone back home.   28   I became increasingly puzzled （困惑）as   29   postcards were like this; It was a full news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby. I took the card back to my room and   30   about it.

Several days later I   31   another postcard, this one   32   news about Maybelline, Mabel’s

cousin. Soon after, another card arrived and then another,   33   full of news of different people. I began to   34   look forward to the next one,   35   to see what this author would come up with  36  . I was never   37  .

    Finally, the cards   38   coming, right about the time I had begun to feel   39   about college life. They had been such a happy distraction（调剂）that I have   40   all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever I need a lift.

21．A．If                           B．So                           C．As                        D．What

22．A．often                      B．carefully                  C．seldom                 D．merely

23．A．hard                       B．last                          C．busiest                  D．happiest

24．A．visitors                   B．letters                      C．calls                     D．directions

25．A．empty                     B．full                          C．closed                  D．open

26．A．pouring                   B．reaching                   C．staring                  D．rolling

27．A．describing               B．considering              C．enjoying                D．expecting

28．A．But                         B．Thus                       C．Also                     D．Even

29．A．any                        B．no                           C．some                    D．such

30．A．joked                      B．talked                      C．forgot                   D．cared

31．A．mailed                    B．accepted                  C．wrote                   D．received

32．A．delivering                B．demanding               C．discovering           D．developing

33．A．one                        B．each                        C．either                    D．both

34．A．nearly                     B．possibly                   C．usually                  D．really

35．A．promising               B．surprised                  C．interested              D．pretending

36．A．below                     B．lately                       C．next                     D．behind

37．A．frightened               B．disappointed             C．excited                 D．pleased

38．A．continued                B．stopped                    C．started                  D．avoided

39．A．easy                       B．safe                         C．tired                     D．anxious

40．A．lost                        B．collected                  C．torn                      D．saved

    

 (06·全国ⅡB篇)

May: Happenings from the Past

May 5,1884

Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.

May 9,1754

Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon（漫画）, showing a snake cutsin pieces, with the words “ Join or Dic ” printed under the picture.

May 11,1934

The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl , the result of years of drought(干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May 19,1994

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.

May 24, 1844

Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What Hath God wrought,” over the experimental long—distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D,C, to Baltimore, Md.

45．We know from the text that Buchanan is                 .

       A．Isaac’s father                                      B．a winning horse

       C．a slave taking care of horses                 D．the first racing horse in Kentucky

46．What is the title of the first American political cartoon?

       A．Join or Die                                          B．Pennsylvania Gazette

       C．What Hath God Wrought                      D．Kentucky Dorby

47．In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?

       A．1934                                                  B．1960

       C．1964                                                  D．1994

48．Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?

       A．Washington, D.C.                                B．New York City.

       C．Kentucky                                            D．Pennsylvania