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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

         I was loading my truck to go to the flea market when a hook（钩子） on one of the bungees bent and broke back into my left eye．The ____36___ was like a hot sword had been struck through my head．I fell down on my hands and knees, and ___37___ I saw blood dripping onto the ground, I knew it was ___38___．

         They ___39___ me to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where there's a special eye center．The ____40___ there operated on me several times but couldn't save my eye．When they told me the news, I wanted to ___ 41___．

         Even after I got my prosthetic eye （义眼）, I couldn't ____42___ off the depression．To make matters worse, I lost my job as a transportation officer for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services because of ___43___ about my driving ability．But one morning, I woke up and the TV was ___44___, and there was a 16-year-old girl．She had been ___45___ burned on her face, hands, and legs and was learning to walk again．She ___46___ a big smile and seemed to look right at me and said, "You can't ever give up．" At that moment, I thought, this is just a （n） ___47___．Get over it．And I ____48___．

         It's been almost 12 years since my ____49___, and there isn't anything I can't do now that I used to do．Although I didn't get my ___50___ job back, I could do something else to ___51___ a happy life．

         I read a ___52___ once where a man was feeling bad because he had no ___53___, until he met a man who had no feet． No matter how destroying your problem is, ___54___ there's always someone somewhere who's worse off．____55___ having just one eye, I see things a lot more clearly now．

1.A．fight               B．pain              C．injury            D．wound

2.A．before               B．though         C．because          D．when

3.A．bad                 B．good        C．strange           D．lucky

4.A．forced             B．passed                 C．took         D．gave

5.A．doctors             B．workers      C．teachers       D．soldiers

6.A．rise                 B．stay             C．leave           D．die

7.A．set                  B．shake          C．turn           D．leave

8.A．possibilities          B．decisions     C．chances      D．concerns

9.A．off                B．up               C．on               D．down

10.A．badly              B．carefully       C．finally          D．hardly

11.A．developed         B．covered        C．enjoyed      D．wore

12.A．ear               B．eye             C．arm             D．nose

13.A．worked        B．stopped        C．did               D．helped

14.A．accident         B．experiment   C．argument              D．quarrel

15.A．new               B．hard             C．easy           D．former

16.A．build               B．lead              C．search       D．avoid

17.A．humor             B．joke            C．poem          D．story

18.A．clothes            B．jackets         C．shoes          D．trousers

19.A．remember        B．forget          C．promise      D．prove

20.A．Through          B．Despite      C．Without        D．Beyond

 

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is the species-typical behavior that sets humans completely   36   from all other animals. Language is a means of   37   , but it is much more than that. Many animals can   38   . The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flowers   39   other members of the hive (蜂群). But human language permits communication about anything,   40   things like unicorns (独角兽) that have never existed. The key   41   in the fact that different words can be   42   together in different ways, according to   43   to communicate different meanings.

Language is the most important learning we do. Nothing can   44   humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract   45  , whether about the university, the mind, love, dreams, or ordering a drink. It is an extremely complex   46   that we take for granted. Indeed, we are not aware of most   47   of our speech and understanding. Consider what happens when one person is speaking to   48   . The speaker has to translate thoughts into  49   language. Brain imaging studies suggest that the time from thoughts to the   50   of speech is extremely fast. Only 0.04 seconds! The listener must hear the sounds to   51    what the speaker means. He must use the sounds of speech to   52   the spoken words, understand the pattern of   53   of the words (sentences), and finally   54   the meaning. This takes somewhat longer, a minimum of about 0.5 seconds. But once started, it is of course a(n)    55   process.

1.A. apart                      B. off                               C. up                      D. down

2.A. advertisement   B. communication   C. discovery                  D. invention

3.A. transfer           B. move                         C. convey                    D. communicate

4.A. to                            B. from                             C. over                             D. on

5.A. only             B. almost                    C. even                    D. just

6.A. stays                      B. situates                    C. hides                             D. lies

7.A. stuck                     B. joined                           C. rung                             D. controlled

8.A. rules                     B. scales                       C. laws                      D. standards

9.A. combine         B. contain                      C. define                      D. declare

10.A. activities            B. thoughts                   C. effects                           D. chances

11.A. expectation    B. progress                C. process                  D. produce

12.A. aspects         B. abstracts               C. angles                     D. assumptions

13.A. anybody              B. another              C. other                           D. everybody

14.A. body                    B. gesture             C. written                     D. spoken

15.A. growing    B. fixing                     C. beginning              D. building

16.A. put out                 B. take down                  C. draw up                          D. figure out

17.A. identify      B. locate                    C. reveal                        D. discover

18.A. performance    B. organization      C. design                      D. show

19.A. regulate    B. justify                    C. release                           D. interpret

20.A. slow                     B. interesting                 C. continuous           D. serious

 

三、完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31~50各题所给的四个选项（A、B 、C 、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

I am a teacher. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I  31  asked my students how their weekend had been. A boy said that his weekend had not been so good. The boy then asked me       32  I always seemed to be so cheerful.

His question  33  me of something I’d read somewhere before, “Every morning when you  34  up, you have a  35  about how you want to face life that day.” I smiled and said to myself, “I choose to be cheerful.”

“Let me give you a(n)  36  ,” I said. “In addition to teaching here, I also teach in another college, 17 miles down the freeway from where I live. A few weeks ago, I  37   those 17 miles to the school. I only had to  38   another quarter mile to reach the school, but then my car  39 . I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn’t start. So I took my  40  and walked to school.”

“As soon as I got there, I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck(拖车)to meet me at my car  41  class. The headmaster asked me what had happened. ‘This is my  42  day,’ I replied cheerfully. ‘Your car is broken and today is your lucky day?’ she was  43  . ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I live 17 miles from here,’ I replied. ‘My car could have broken down  44   along the freeway, but it didn't.  45 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway and  46   walking distance from here. I’m still able to teach my class, and able to arrange for a tow truck to meet me.’ The headmaster’s eyes were  47   open and then she smiled.”

I  48  the faces in my class. Although it was the early hour, no one seemed to be  49 . My story had  50  them, or maybe it wasn’t the story at all.

31．A．anxiously  B．angrily     C．sadly D．cheerfully

32．A．why  B．how  C．that   D．whether

33．A．warned     B．told   C．reminded  D．thought

34．A．raise  B．keep  C．wash D．get

35．A．problem   B．choice      C．right  D．chance

36．A．example   B．answer      C．story D．explanation

37．A．walked     B．ran    C．drove       D．flew

38．A．stay   B．repair       C．run    D．cover

39．A．burst B．died  C．started      D．hit

40．A．friends     B．books       C．ways D．students

41．A．after        B．during      C．before      D．in

42．A．terrible     B．great C．lucky D．special

43．A．surprised  B．puzzled     C．shocked    D．amazed

44．A．somewhere      B．everywhere      C．nowhere   D．anywhere

45．A．Instead     B．Also  C．Then D．Therefore

46．A．at     B．within      C．beyond     D．off

47．A．hardly      B．almost      C．wide  D．quite

48．A．watched    B．saw   C．made D．scanned

49．A．awake      B．asleep       C．alone D．cheerful

50．A．controlled B．defeated    C．touched    D．educated

 

完形填空 (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36-55各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact   36  she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished   37  a driving offence (犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly   38  her record. A police car   39  her, and the policemen in it saw her   40  a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed   41  that she would be punished.

42  Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was   43  old to drive a car, and that the   44  why she had not stopped at the red   45  was most probably that her eyes had become weak   46  old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was  47 , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was   48  and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she   49  a needle（针） with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had   50  done this, she took the thread（n.线） out of the needle again and handed   51  the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your   52  . I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the   53  and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was   54  , and her record   55  unbroken.

1.	A．which B．when C．that D．this

 

2.	A．about B．on C．to D．for

 

3.	A．kept B．won C．missed D．lost

 

4.	A．watched B．after C．followed D．ran after

 

5.	A．pass B．go C．run D．rush

 

6.	A．sure B．indeed C．certain D．perhaps

 

7.	A．Before B．While C．Until D．When

 

8.	A．so B．very C．too D．quite

 

9.	A．cause B．reason C．matter D．trouble

 

10.	A．light B．lamp C．sign D．one

 

11.	A．with B．because C．for D．of

 

12.	A．speaking B．saying C．talking D．telling

 

13.	A．holding B．getting C．carrying D．bringing

 

14.	A．took B．brought C．picked D．chose

 

15.	A．almost B．hardly C．successfully D．successful

 

16.	A．both B．all C．neither D．either

 

17.	A．time B．turn C．chance D．job

 

18.	A．thread B．glasses C．needles D．needle

 

19.	A．dismissed B．passed C．settled D．studied

 

20.	A．was B．kept C．seemed D．remained

 

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

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

As a young reporter, Sparky asked Lu Haoting, a business reporter from China Daily, for help on interviewing．He found that interviewing people is not as    as just asking questions．To his    , journalists also need to do a lot of homework  23  an interview．

Lu shared her    of a recent interview with the president of Boeing China, David Wang, with Sparky．

There are two    of interviews, inclusive （群访） and exclusive （专访）．The inclusive interview is  in the form of a press conference．

In a（n） interview, only you and the interviewee talk    ．You need to   all your questions for both types of interviews    ．

"    you don't prepare, you will ask some silly questions and    your time," Lu said．

"I wanted to know Boeing's new strategy in the Chinese market．  I checked out over 20 reports from different newspapers about Boeing and its rival, Airbus," Lu said．She also found useful   about the two companies on their websites．

On many occasions, interviewees    journalists to provide a question list in advance of an interview．In order to    a proper objective story Lu also interviewed some    to get their comments on Boeing's performance in China．

  her interview with David Wang only lasted about half an hour, her    helped her to ask many good questions about Boeing's development in China．

"After a successful interview, you always find all that homework was really    it," Lu told Sparky．

A．interesting         B．simple           C．general          D．interactive

A．excitement      B．disappointment   C．surprise             D．delight

A．before          B．after                C．at               D．in

．A．idea               B．opinion          C．knowledge        D．experience

．A．stages             B．kinds            C．steps            D．ways

A．almost          B．nearly           C．mainly           D．hardly

A．inclusive           B．exclusive            C．formal           D．informal

A．side by side        B．in secret            C．at work          D．face to face

A．prepare             B．think            C．find                 D．ask

A．in case             B．in memory        C．in advance       D．in mind

A．Though          B．As               C．Since            D．If

A．waste           B．take                 C．cost                 D．lose

A．But                 B．So               C．Then             D．Now

A．comments        B．information      C．news             D．reports

A．insist          B．allow            C．require          D．agree

A．read                B．produce          C．make             D．form

A．experts             B．friends          C．businessmen      D．others

A．Then            B．Although             C．When             D．Until

A．homework        B．friends          C．attitude             D．search

A．realizing           B．behind           C．worth            D．helping