(05·天津)

Having left the town, the girl stopped the car at the landing near the entrance of the bay (海湾)She stepped into the  16  and rowed out silently. The tide was rushing to the entrance and

   17   to the wild open sea. She had to row across the bay to reach 18  side. The waves struck against the side of the boat,  19  and uneven; it became  20  difficult to row. If she  21 for a moment, the tide would push the boat back towards the  22  .

She wasn' t even halfway,  23  she was already tired and her hands  24  from pulling on

the rough wooden oars (船桨). "I'm never going to  25  it”, she thought. She rested the oars on

her knees and 26  her head helplessly, then looked up as she  27  the boat shift(晃动) against the tide.

 The east wind , which had swung(旋转) around from the south-west,  28 her help and pushed the boat towards the mountains. It was going to be   29  . Her hands weren't so painful. Her chest didn’t feel as if it was about to burst   30  .

The lights of the town became   31  . one of the oars banged against the side of the boat and she   32   it with a start. Had she been asleep, or just   33  ? She looked over her shoulder. She was almost on the beach. The girl gave one last   34  on the oars to ground the boat, and then lay back against the seat. She listened to the waves   35  and knew she had come home. Far across the moonlit bay the lights were no more than a sparkling chain.

16. A. car                     B. boat                  C. ship                  D. mail

17. A. beside          B. before               C. behind               D. beyond

18.A. another         B. other                 C. either                D. the other

19. A. deep            B. calm                 C. gentle                D. rough

20. A. more           B. less                   C. as                     D. least

21. A. slept            B. continued          C. rested               D.rowed

22. A. home           B. mountains          C. south-west        D. entrance

23. A. if                 B. so                     C. but                   D. since

24. A. hurt             B. ruined               C. troubled            D. broke

25. A. get                     B. make                 C. keep                 D. take

26. A. mined          B. dropped             C. cocked                     D. raised

27. A. saw             B. made                 C. heard                D. felt

28. A. got to          B. came to             C. sent for             D. reached for

29. A. difficult        B. serious              C. all right             D. certain enough

30. A. any more     B. still more           C. no more            D. once more

31. A. brighter        B. bigger               C. closer               D. smaller

32. A. destroyed     B. threw                C. repaired             D. seized

33. A. dreaming      B. guessing            C. inventing           D. expecting

34. A. blow            B. hit                     C. pull                   D. strike

35. A. anxiously     B. happily              C. sadly                 D. carefully

 (05·天津A篇)

Everyone’s at it , even my neighbors. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadn't done an eBay deal. So, I decided to try my hand at online auction(网上拍卖).Buying for beginners: Sign up on www. ehay. co. uk. Most items ( e. g. tables, computers, and books) ready for auction will come with a picture and a short description; others may be marked with "Buy It Now" and have a fixed price. You can buy these right away.

     If the item is being auctioned, you offer the. highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids (出价') for you. The bid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you would like to bid again. Auctions last up to 10 days and when they finish you get an email telling you whether you have won the item.

How to pay: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before

placing a bid as you might not want to post a cheque or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takes the money away from your credit card (信用).

Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of the item. I

followed my friends' advice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10-day auction, starring on a Thursday. This way buyers had two weekends to bid.

The big things in life: It' s easy to post a small item, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this

has to be collected or sent by deliverymen. Cheek the ways of delivery before you bid.

36. What is the passage mainly about?

    A. How to make payment online.

    B. Ways of making delivery online

    C. Advantages of an online-auction system.

    D. How to use an online-auction system.

37. After bidding for an item, a buyer

    A. will get what he wants in ten days

    B. should make payment immediately

    C. has chances to make higher bids   '

    D. may check its picture and description

38. The easiest way of making payment mentioned in the passage is

    A. through an online payment system

    B. through a local banking system

    C. by sending the money to the seller

D. by paying the dallvex3rman directly

More Than I Had Dreamed Of
From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Student Union. I always ___1___my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader.
Years flew by, and soon I was able to take part in the elections（选举）, ___2___I would win. But the reality struck that I hadn’t had a chance. I wasn’t pretty. Girls across the school hardly knew me. I just did not have what it took to ___3___a school election. I was ___4___.
As I cried in my room that evening, I ___5___took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming. I decided that I would ___6___for elections again in my final year at school—and I would win. 
I recognized that my ___7___had a lot of advantages. What strengths did I have? I had good grades, and I was ___8___and helpful. And my biggest ___9___was the faith（信念）I had. I would not allow my ___10___appearance to hold me back from putting my best foot forward. That evening, I ___11___my election plans for the next year.
I realized that girls would have get to know me and recognize that I had the_12_to
speak for them. I love to making friends and I liked being helpful,__13_ decided that
perhaps I could use these qualities to work to my advantange.In order to learn how to
give an election__14_ ,I also took a course on successful public speaking.
The day after election,when the head teacher announced I won the second highest
number of votes,the students___15__.That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my success was__16__theirs.
Suddenly, I realized that I had ___17__much more than I had dreamed of. I had made many new friends and had helped people ___18___the way. I had won the ___19___and love of my schoolmates and they knew me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and ___20___their day.    

Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers，seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains，anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well，Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix，wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French，from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10．

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all，”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I asked．Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains，was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1． A．purpose                B．love                  C．answer                 D．even

2． A．joy                       B．thought              C．lesson                   D．shock

3． A．mountains             B．churches            C．faces                    D．girls

4． A．accept                  B．understand         C．bear                     D．tell

5． A．believed               B．knew                 C．wondered             D．realized

6． A．jobs                      B．words                C．adventures            D．deeds

7． A．where                   B．when                 C．which                   D．how

8． A．one                      B．reason               C．sign                      D．doubt

9． A．all                     B．two                   C．both                     D．double

10．A．family　              B．mountain            C．theatre                  D．holiday

11．A．ever                    B．even                  C．never                    D．almost

12．A．interests               B．life                    C．room                    D．car

13．A．wonder             B．way                   C．time                     D．problems

14．A．days                    B．honeymoon        C．childhood              D．rest of life

15．A．away                   B．as                      C．by                        D．from

16．A．show                   B．sight                  C．scene                   D．game

17．A．miss                    B．escape               C．break                    D．forget

18．A．position               B．face                   C．point                    D．line

19．A．programme          B．progress            C．fun                       D．invention

20．A．photographs         B．roles                  C．sports                   D．pains

The first event of my life to be printed into my memory occurred when I was three. My mother stands, working in the  41  and then glances at me with a  42  smile. Two feet down the table, I knock on a chair with a bowl and a spoon,  43  my own invisible (无形的) powder. We wear  44  dresses, mine the leftover  45   from hers, sky blue — mommy’s favorite color. I am her shadow.
However, by 14 I could not  46  my mother. All that I heard every day was NO. I wanted to dye my hair and she said no. I wanted to  47  late with my friends and she said no. I didn’t understand why she said no. She was trying to  48  me from aches and pains and mistakes  49  in her teens. Several years later, I finally understood her, but it was too late. She became ill. I cried and  50 , “Don’t take her, God, please! She is my mother, my mommy, ma, the woman who gave me life. All my years,  51  the hard times and the good, she has been there,  52  to me forever by an invisible umbilical cord (脐带) that lasts longer after birth.”But this cord, this love could do nothing to stop the cancer from  53 .
A few years later  54  I myself lay in the hospital bed, my newly born daughter was  55  in my arms. I cried and smiled and prayed. Please help me to  56  her into a wonderful girl. And looking down  57  her eyes, I could see the message they held, “Your  58  would be proud.”
I stand in the kitchen now, and these thoughts flashed through my mind. I glance at my young daughter. A  59  feeling rushes through my soul as I take in the familiar  60 .
I am my mother’s shadow.