阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55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。

Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he   36   God, “They tell me you are sending me to   37   tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so   38 

and helpless?”

God replied, “Among the many   39  , I chose one for you. She will be   40   for you and will take care of you.”

But the child wasn’t   41   he really wanted to go. “But tell me, here in Heaven, I don’t do

  42   but sing and smile, that’s  43   for me to be happy.” “Your angel will sing for you and will also   44   for you every day. And you will   45   your angel’s love and be happy.”

“And   46   am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me.” The child continued, “if I don’t know the   47   that men talk?”

God patted him on the head and said, “your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet

  48   you will ever hear, and with much   49   and care, your angel will teach you how to

  50  .”

“And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?”

“Your angel will place your   51   together and will teach you how to pray(祈祷).”

“I’ve heard that on earth there are bad men, who will   52   me?”

“Your angel will defend you even if it means   53   her life!”

And then God   54   the child on the shoulder and said, “Your angel’s name is not   55  

to remember. You will simply call her Mommy.”

A. asked      B. answered    C. taught     D. told

A. heaven    B. hell         C. earth       D. space

A. big       B. small      C. strong       D. stupid

A. nurses     B. doctors       C. teachers      D. angels

A. hiding     B. waiting      C. heading      D. voting

A. sure       B. urgent     C. conscious   D. impressive

A. anything  B. something  C. everything  D. nothing

A. much      B. little       C. few         D. enough

A. clear      B. dive        C. smile      D. react

A. damage  B. feel         C. govern           D. resign

A. when     B. why        C. how        D. whether

A.language B. meaning     C. topic       D. politics

A. poems   B. stories     C. arguments  D. words

A. strength B. patience     C. warning     D. thinking

A. sing       B. dance      C. speak      D. paint

A. hands    B. feet         C. arms       D. legs

A. replace  B. convert      C. educate      D. protect

A. burying B. risking      C. experiencingD. attacking

A. hit      B. ruined     C. touched      D. cleaned

A. hard      B. easy        C. strange       D. convenient

I didn’t want to be ______ with politics at all.

1. A.
   dealt
2. B.
   associated
3. C.
   involved
4. D.
   consulted

For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries —  where is the line between what I control and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. Partly, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents

and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. The second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. The third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is — politics, the taws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg — the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong for both wish to be considered an authority, and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to suppose that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?

A. Both can continue for generations.          B. Both are about where to draw the line.

C. Neither has any clear winner.                 D. Neither can be put to an end.

What does the underlined part in Para. Two mean?

A. The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.

B. The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.

C. The teens accuse their parents of misleading them.

D. The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.

Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ______.

A. give orders to the other                         B. know more than the other

C. gain respect from the other                           D. get the other to behave properly

What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A. Causes for the parent-teen conflicts.       B. Examples of the parent-teen war.

C. Solutions for the parent-teen problems.   D. Future of the parent-teen relationship.

Politics meant      __ to me for years, for I didn't care about it at all.

       A．something       B．nothing         C. everything           D．anything

If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English – William the Conqueror.

Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.

But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.

When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man’s ambition.

36. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _________.

A. Welsh and Scottish                 B. Nordic and Germanic

C. Celtic and Old English              D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic

37. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?

A. president, lawyer, beef              B. president, bread, water

C. bread, field, sheep                 D. folk, field, cow

38. Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?

A. Most advertisements in France appear in English.

B. They know little of the history of the English language.

C. Many French words are similar to English ones.

D. They know French better than German.

39. What is the subject discussed in the text?

A. The history of Great Britain.

B. The similarity between English and French.

C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.

D. The French influences on the English language.

40. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The Old English was originated from Germanic language.

B. William the Conqueror invaded England and conquered the whole country in 1066.

C. William the conqueror’s great ambition was to introduce French words into the English language.

D. According to the text, Shakespeare’ contribution to the development of the English language is less than that William the conqueror made.