第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题
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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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 shopping in the supermarket when I heard the young voice.
"Mom, come here! There"s this lady here my ___31___!"
The mother rushed to her son; then she turned to me to ___32___.
I smiled and told her: "It"s okay." Then I talked to the boy, "Hi, I"m Darryl Kramer. How are you?"
He ___33___ me from head to toe, and asked: "Are you a little ___34___?
"Yes, I have a son," I answered.
"Why are you so little?" he asked.
"It"s the way I was ___35___," I said. "Some people are little. Some are tall. I"m just not going to grow any bigger." After I answered his other questions, I shook the boy"s hand, and left.
My life as a little person is filled with ___36___ like that. I enjoy talking to children and explaining why I look different from their parents.
It takes only one glance to see my ___37___. I stand 114 cm tall. I was born a dwarf（侏儒）. ___38___ this, I did all the things other kids did when I was growing up.
I didn"t ___39___ how short I was until I started school. Some kids picked on me, calling me names（辱骂我）. Then I knew. I began to ___40___ the first day of school each year. New students would always stare at me as I ___41___ to climb the school bus stairs.
But I learned to smile and ___42___ the fact that I was going to be ___43___ my whole life. I decided to make my uniqueness an advantage rather than a disadvantage. What I lacked in height, I ___44___ in personality.
I"m 47 now, and the stares have not ___45___ as I"ve grown older. People are ___46___ when they see me driving. I try to keep a good attitude. When people are ___47___, I remind myself: "Look what else I have -a great family, nice friends."
It"s the children"s questions that make my life ___48___. I enjoy answering their questions. My ___49___ is that, I will encourage them to accept their peers（同龄人）, whatever size and shape they come in, and treat them with ___50___.
31. A. weight B. size C. shape D. personality
32. A. scold B. explain C. apologize D. Respond
33. A. studied B. identified C. inspected D. Checked
34. A. lady B. mommy C. person D. kid
35. A. raised B. viewed C. treated D. born
36. A. stories B. pains C. stares D. Excuses
37. A. shortcomings B. strangeness C. uniqueness D. Shyness
38. A. Besides B. Despite C. Except D. Beyond
39. A. admit B. care C. realize D. fear
40. A. hate B. tolerate C. forget D. ignore
41. A. determined B. struggled C. managed D. learned
42. A. refuse B. enjoy C. accept D. consider
43. A. exposed B. pitied C. noticed D. Avoided
44. A. made up for B. ended up with C. kept track of D. made use of
45. A. increased B. decreased C. accumulated D. changed
46. A. scared B. satisfied C. amazed D. puzzled
47. A. rude B. curious C. regretful D. cruel
48. A. fantastic B. meaningful C. embarrassing D. special
49. A. promise B. intention C. hope D. advantage
50. A. respect B. frankness C. sympathy D. emotion |
答案
31-35: BCABD 36-40: ACBCA 41-45: BCCAB 46-50: CADCA |
解析
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Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can"t!" It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家）who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn"t let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach（巴赫）. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote, "Years wrinkle（使生皱纹）the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mallrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money."
If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her depression（抑郁）that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am persuaded to call Layton a genius."
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be." We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.
67. Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?
A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times.
B. If you don"t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.
C. Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.
D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor.
68. The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that ________.
A. music can arouse people"s enthusiasm
B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed
C. enthusiasm can make people feel young
D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy
69. How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
70. The author holds the view that ________.
A. enthusiastic people will never get old
B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life
C. enthusiasm is more important than experience
D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame |
A husband-and-wife team from California reached the Pacific Ocean after a 4,900- mile-cross
-country walk, becoming the first to backpack the American Discovery Trail in one continuous
walk.
Marcia and Ken powers, of Pleasanton, started the travel across 13 states, through 14 national parks and 16 national forests on Feb. 27 from Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Nearly eight months later, the excited couple walked through water into the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes, a day ahead of time.
“We are a little sad that a great adventure is over. It was a fantastic adventure. And now we go home and just do housework. It"s really sad.” Marcia, who said she"s in her 50s, and her 60-year-old husband traversed cities, desert, mountains and farmland before reaching the Pacifics alone with arms around each other" s backpacks.
They overcame deep snow in the East, a quicksand in Utah, close lightning strikes in the Mid- west and strong desert sandstorms in the West while averaging 22 miles a day and taking only four days off. But they enjoyed the French history of St. Louis" the beauty of the Colorado Rockies and the kindness of strangers they met along the way. They particularly remember two brothers ---- a
doctor and dentist-------who put them up in their homes, after terrible days, and a motorcyclist who gave them water after they failed to find any on Utah"s lonely Wah Wah Desert.
“Americans are truly warm-hearted and wonderful people.” Marcia Powers said. “We got to meet people that we would never meet in our daily living at home. We got to touch it with our feet and hands and smell all its scents and hear its wildlife. It" s an amazing country,” she added.
小题1:Which of the following about couple"s walk is TRUE?| A．The walk covered more than 13 states. | | B．The walk lasted about half a year. | | C．The walk didn"t meet any desert. | | D．The walk might end before October 27. |
小题2:The underlined word “traversed” in the third paragraph means “____________.”| A．enjoy | B．move across, through or over | | C．overcome | D．look at |
小题3: According to the text, we can infer that during the walk the couple __________.| A．were treated warm-heartedly by the local people | | B．never stopped to have a rest | | C．were ever caught in a heavy rain and became ill | | D．felt the quicksand in Utah was very interesting |
小题4:The couple went through many places except ____________.| A．big rivers | B．desert | C．hills | D．fields |
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II. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-35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。
You need to know when the events of a text take place. This will help you to see the __21__ of the text — the reason things happen in a certain order. Some texts 22 a period of many years, like Wuthering Heights. Others go through a __23__ period of time — many poems try to capture one moment in time. Narrators (讲述者) can be immediate eyewitness, or they may be __24 the past. Some texts present two views of events: an eyewitness version, and a second version, __25__ on the same events much later. This happens in Great Expectations, where the narrator, Pip, sometimes speaks and acts like a __26__, and sometimes like a mature adult. Look out for the __27__ that the events fit together, and how they are caused. This is called the plot—the story of the text. Action in a text is either__28__, or happens by chance. Take notes on how the action is described, eg. if the tone is angry or __29__ . Try to work out how the language of the passage is being used to create the tone, the characters and the descriptions. You should also ask why the text has been written in the way it has — your notes on who, what, when, where and how will help you to 30 your own conclusions.
21. A. structure B. content C. character D. substance
22. A. contain B. discover C. cover D. hold
23. A. hard B. difficult C. long D. short
24. A. looking forward to B. looking out for C. looking back on D. looking after
25. A. relaying B. including C. writing D. reflecting
26. A. boy B. child C. girl D. student
27. A. way B. time C. place D. action
28. A. accurate B. considerate C. desperate D. deliberate
29. A. wonderful B. joyful C. thankful D. painful
30. A. hit B. come C. draw D. find |
完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分, 满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My first full time job after high school was selling vacation packages via telephone for a well-known company. One day, the dialer ____36____ me to a man who answered the phone and ____37_____ a bit out of breath. I started with my normal pitch（推销）, and _____38____ to hear the normal, "I don"t want any," and be hung up on.
Instead he spoke in a low, weak voice and told me how he wished he could take a ____39_____ like the one I was offering, but couldn"t ____40_____ he was dying of emphysema (肺气肿). He ____41_____ how he was on oxygen, and it took almost all his ____42_____ just to get to the phone to answer the call. I ____43_____, and my heart fell into my stomach. He asked me if I smoked, which I did, and then begged me to stop. He told me smoking is ____44_____ was killing him, and how horrible it was. He told me to ____45_____ every day with my loved ones, and tell them all the time how much I love them. At this ____46_____, I was in tears, and couldn"t control myself, and he could tell.
After a few moments, I decided to write down his name and ____47_____, and just send him a card telling him that I ____48_____ his advice and that I would pray for him and his family. Shortly after, I received a nice letter back from Frank, along with a picture of him and his wife. We continued to write back and forth over the next few months or so, and became very ____49_____ of each other. He was old enough to be my grandfather, and in many ways, I felt ____50_____ he was.
It was about a year later I received a letter from his wife, and when I started to read it, my eyes were filled with tears. She told me how Frank"s ____51_____ with the disease had finally come to an end, and he ____52_____ shortly before Christmas. She wanted to thank me for the letters I had written to Frank, and then explained how Frank touched many lives over the years. At his ____53_____, to show just that, they read the 1st letter I had written to Frank to show how he ____54_____ a 19 year old he had ____55_____ even met.
I will never forget how much that meant to me.
36. A. took B. connected C. accompanied D. led
37. A. felt B. looked C. sounded D. proved
38. A. expecting B. wondering C. considering D. worrying
39. A. break B. rest C. change D. vacation
40. A. because B. though C. while D. before
41. A. described B. exposed C. explained D. expressed
42. A. power B. energy C. strength D. force
43. A. apologized B. excused C. pardoned D. forgave
44. A. that B. what C. which D. how
45. A. take B. cost C. pay D. spend
46. A. point B. case C. way D. situation
47. A. number B. hobby C. address D. whish
48. A. agreed B. appreciated C. followed D. approved
49. A. interested B. content C. fond D. curious
50. A. if only B. even if C. only if D. as if
51. A. battle B. strike C. defense D. working
52. A. gave away B. turned away C. took away D. passed away
53. A. birthday B. funeral C. ceremony D. performance
54. A. changed B. improved C. affected D. promoted
55. A. always B. seldom C. ever D. never |
第二节完形填空（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。
My 23-year-old son Dan stood in the doorway, ready to say goodbye to his home. In a couple of hours he was going to fly out to France. He was going to be away for at least a year to learn a foreign language and __36__ life in a foreign country.
It was a milestone in Dan’s life, a change from school days to 37 . When we were to say goodbye, I 38 closely at his face. I would like to provide him with good 39_ that would last longer than here and now.
But not a sound came over my lips. I 40 motionless and silent, looking 41__ my son’s green eyes.
I knew that this wasn’t the first time I 42 such an opportunity pass me by. When Daniel was a little boy, I followed him to the bus on his first day in preschool. I 43 the excitement in his hand that held mine when the bus came round the corner. He looked at me —just _ _44 he did now. And then he boarded the bus and 45 . The bus drove away. And I hadn’t 46 a word.
Some ten years later, a similar experience 47 . His mother and I drove him to the university where he was going to 48 . Dan was ill in bed when I wanted to say goodbye. __49 the words let me down. I only murmured something like “I hope you are 50 , Dan.” Then I turned around and left.
Now I stood in front of him and recalled all the 51 when I hadn’t make use of those opportunities. Why does it have to be so 52 to tell your son what you feel? My mouth was
53 , and I knew I would only say a few words.
“Dan,” I 54 stammered out（结结巴巴地说）, “if I had the choice myself, I would have
55 you.” That was all I could say. It was nothing, and yet it was everything.
36. A．experiment B．experience C．business D．knowledge
37. A．neighborhood B．childhood C．adulthood D．brotherhood
38. A．looked B．fixed C．glared D．stared
39. A．gift B．support C．skill D．advice
40. A．walked B．stood C．sat D．wondered
41. A．like B．for C．at D．into
42. A．made B．had C．let D．got
43. A．felt B．knew C．found D．realized
44. A．when B．as C．since D．once
45. A．enjoyed B．ran C．left D．disappeared
46. A．heard B．said C．gave D．left
47. A．took place B．took on C．turned out D．turned up
48. A．play B．visit C．study D．search
49. A．Luckily B．Once C．Again D．Therefore
50. A．stronger B．happier C．greater D．better
51. A．times B．places C．days D．ways
52. A．eager B．important C．difficult D．lovely
53. A．wet B．dry C．anxious D．painful
54. A．directly B．finally C．kindly D．nervously
55. A．loved B．praised C．supported D．chosen |
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