第二节：完形填空（每小题1.5分，满分30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。

My dad has been driving a truck for almost his entire life. He’s usually  36   all the weekdays and comes home only at weekends. Sometimes he stays ___37__for two weeks at a time. __38_I don't get to see him as often as I wish, we remain very __39___.

    My dad is the type of person who doesn't let you __40__ up anything that you start. When I was eleven, my father bought me a piano. At first I was so __41__ about it that I would spend hours and hours learning how to play. Then it got _42_. I was so tired of it that I asked if I could stop. Much as I tried, he __43__me to go on. Now I have been playing for almost five years. I love it and I' m glad I __44__my dad's advice.

    My dad is _45__talented, for he has been playing the guitar for over 20 years. Under his influence, I also like 46    now. Sometimes my dad can be my biggest  47  . He makes me smile even when I lose in a talent show 48  . Sometimes he can be my biggest critic(批评家). He   49   ignore the small mistakes I make. He encourages me never to lose    50   , because he thinks that all my efforts will    51   one day.

    My dad is generous. Every Thursday night, he    52   to read to the children at a children’s club. When he reads, their   53   light up with curiosity about what will happen next. I feel   54   of having a person in my family who cares enough to volunteer to    55  .

I love Dad with all my heart. He’s a hero in my heart and the most wonderful person in the world.

36. A. on                   B. with                  C. out                   D. in

37. A. away                B. home          C. inside             D. alone

38. A. In case             B. Even though      C. If only                  D. As if

39. A. polite              B. kind                  C. different            D. close

40. A. give                   B. put                   C. take                  D. speed

41. A. nervous                  B. anxious             C. crazy                D. familiar

42. A. rough                 B. difficult            C. disappointing     D. boring

43. A. promised            B. persuaded          C. reminded           D. suggested

44. A. received              B. challenged      C. took                  D. listened

45. A. physically           B. typically         C. musically          D. exactly 

46. A. chatting                  B. dancing             C. writing              D. drawing

47. A. director                  B. supporter           C. scholar              D. sponsor

48. A. however             B. so                     C. and                   D. still

49. A. ever                   B. often           C. never                D. even

50. A. aim                    B. dream            C. strength             D. heart 

51. A. come true           B. take risks           C. pay off              D. let out

52. A. agrees                 B. likes                 C. intends              D. offers

53. A. bodies             B. arms                 C. hands             D. faces

54. A. jealous             B. optimistic          C. proud             D. happy

55. A. help                   B. read                  C. work                 D. drive

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第二节：完形填空（每小题1.5分，满分30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。

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly   41  . Take, for example, the neatly-dressed(穿戴整齐的) woman I   42  to see — or look at — on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter   43   the weather was like, she was   44   waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On   45   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime   46   out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.   47  , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I   48   all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how   49   I expected to see her each morning. You might say I   50   her.

“Did she have an accident? Something   51  ?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had   52  her. I began to realize that part of our   53   life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar   54  : the milkman you see at dawn, the women who   55   walks her dog along the street every  morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are   56   markers in our lives. They add weight to our   57   of place and belonging.

Think about it.   58  , while walking to work, we mark where we are by   59   a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though   60  , person?

41.A. disappears            B. appears             C. arrives                  D. comes

42.A. happened             B. wanted          C. used             D. tried

43.A. what             B. how             C. which            D. when

44.A. always              B. seldom           C. sometimes     D. often

45.A. sunny            B. rainy            C. cloudy        D. snowy

46.A. took                 B. brought          C. carried        D. turned

47.A. Clearly             B. Particularly      C. Luckily             D. Especially

48.A. believed                  B. expressed          C. remembered      D. wondered

49.A. long             B. often            C. soon                 D. much

50.A. respected         B. missed               C. praised           D. admired

51.A. better          B. worse           C. more                 D. less

52.A. forgotten             B. lost               C. known                  D. hurt

53.A. happy            B. enjoyable      C. usual         D. daily

54.A. friends          B. strangers        C. tourists          D. guests

55.A. regularly       B. actually       C. hardly          D. probably

56.A. common         B. pleasant              C. important     D. ordinary

57.A. choice               B. knowledge     C. decision       D. sense

58.A. Because           B. If                      C. Although        D. However

59.A. keeping              B. changing         C. passing            D. mentioning

60.A. unnamed             B. unforgettable     C. unbelievable      D. unreal

第二节：完形填空（每小题1.5分，满分30分 ）

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。

 When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for ￡200 so that he could travel to and from work more  36  than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but it got so old, and it was costing him _37  much in repairs, that he decided that he had better  38  it.

He asked among his friends to see if anyone was  39  to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so  40  of them had any desire to buy it.

Dave’s friend Sam saw that he was  41  when they met one evening, and said, “What’s  42  , Dave?” Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising(登广告) it in the paper? You may  43_ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam’s  44  was reasonable, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read: “For sale: small car,  45  very little gas, only two owners. Bargain at ￡50.”

For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no  46_，but then on the Saturday evening he had an enquiry (咨询). A man rang up and said he would like to  47  him about the car. “All right.” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o’clock the next morning would be  48_  or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I’ll  49  my wife. We want to go for a ride in it to  50  it.”

The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door,  51  to wait there for the people who had  52  his advertisement. Even Dave had to  53  that the car really looked like a wreck (残破的车). Then, soon after he had got the car as  54  as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave’s car and then said, “Have you reported this _55  to us yet, sir?”

36. A、directly        B、safely         C、properly          D、easily

37. A、so                 B、such           C、very                  D、too 

38. A、keep             B、repair        C、sell                   D、throw

39. A、willing          B、lucky         C、ashamed            D、generous

40. A、some             B、neither              C、none               D、most

41. A、delighted       B、sad                C、calm               D、astonished

42. A、on                B、up                 C、it                    D、that

43. A、learn        B、miss           C、get                    D、find

44. A、message        B、advice        C、request              D、description

45. A、uses              B、loses          C、has                    D、spends

46. A、doubt               B、help           C、trouble                   D、answer

47. A、tell               B、see                C、agree               D、call

48. A、exact             B、suitable         C、early               D、late

49. A、follow        B、meet          C、bring               D、introduce

50. A、recognize      B、get             C、admire                   D、test

51. A、happening     B、meaning        C、turning              D、failing

52. A、read              B、inserted         C、answered           D、placed

53. A、forget        B、show          C、disagree             D、admit

54. A、clean             B、large          C、fast                   D、light

55. A、bargain         B、sale               C、accident             D、result

 

第二节：完形填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die. But people now live longer than they 36 . Yet, all living things still show the  37 of aging, which will eventually 38 deaths.

Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity（成熟期）,the cells of the body and the 39 they form do not function as well as they 40 in childhood and teenage years. The body provides less 41 against disease and is more 42 to have accident.

A number of related causes may 43 to aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not 44 when they die . As a person ages, 45 of brain cells and muscle cells decreases. 46. body cells die and are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the 47 cells may not be as workable or as capable 48 growth as those of a young person.

Another 49 in aging may be changes within the cells 50.Some of the protein chemicals in cells are known to 51 with age and become less elastic（有弹性的）.This is why the skin of old people wrinkles（皱纹）and hangs 52 . This is also the reason why old people 53 in height. There may be other more important chemical changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, such as DNA an RNA, store and 54 information that the cells need. Aging may affect this 55 and change the information-carrying molecules so that they do not transmit the information as well.

36. A. would                       B. be used to             C. used to                  D. used

37. A. function          B. effect                     C. affect                     D. sign

38. A. lead in             B. give in           C. run into                  D. result in

39. A. hands                       B. feet                         C. heart              D. organs

40. A. made      B. took                    C. did         D. remembered

41. A. energy     B. protection         C. vigor       D. power

42. A. likely        B. probable            C. possible                 D. alike

43. A. attend       B. contribute         C. add        D. devote

44. A. replaced      B. reborn      C. recovered           D. surrendered

45. A. a number     B. the amount   C. the number           D. a great deal

46. A. The others          B. the other         C. Another            D. Other

47. A. old        B. left               C. new               D. other

48. A. to           B. for                C. of                      D. in

49. A. factor                   B. effect               C. reason           D. element

50. A. it                   B. them      C. themselves         D. that

51. A. become             B. turn        C. change             D. get

52. A. loose                   B. high               C. large       D. fat

53. A. increase                B. shrink                 C. lengthen              D. decrease

54. A. pass away    B. pass by      C. pass off     D. pass on  

55. A. improvement         B. procession           C. approach           D. process

 

第二节：完形填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die. But people now live longer than they 36 . Yet, all living things still show the  37 of aging, which will eventually 38 deaths.

Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity（成熟期）,the cells of the body and the 39 they form do not function as well as they 40 in childhood and teenage years. The body provides less 41 against disease and is more 42 to have accident.

A number of related causes may 43 to aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not 44 when they die . As a person ages, 45 of brain cells and muscle cells decreases. 46. body cells die and are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the 47 cells may not be as workable or as capable 48 growth as those of a young person.

Another 49 in aging may be changes within the cells 50.Some of the protein chemicals in cells are known to 51 with age and become less elastic（有弹性的）.This is why the skin of old people wrinkles（皱纹）and hangs 52 . This is also the reason why old people 53 in height. There may be other more important chemical changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, such as DNA an RNA, store and 54 information that the cells need. Aging may affect this 55 and change the information-carrying molecules so that they do not transmit the information as well.

36. A. would                 B. be used to          C. used to              D. used

37. A. function              B. effect                C. affect                D. sign

38. A. lead in         B. give in              C. run into             D. result in

39. A. hands                 B. feet                   C. heart            D. organs

40. A. made             B. took               C. did        D. remembered

41. A. energy            B. protection       C. vigor     D. power

42. A. likely             B. probable         C. possible             D. alike

43. A. attend       B. contribute       C. add      D. devote

44. A. replaced     B. reborn     C. recovered         D. surrendered

45. A. a number    B. the amount   C. the number         D. a great deal

46. A. The others        B. the other        C. Another          D. Other

47. A. old               B. left             C. new             D. other

48. A. to          B. for              C. of                 D. in

49. A. factor               B. effect             C. reason          D. element

50. A. it                B. them     C. themselves        D. that

51. A. become           B. turn       C. change           D. get

52. A. loose               B. high            C. large     D. fat

53. A. increase             B. shrink             C. lengthen           D. decrease

54. A. pass away    B. pass by      C. pass off     D. pass on  

55. A. improvement       B. procession        C. approach         D. process