完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

“Hey, Dad, are you going to come to my award ceremony tonight?” I  36  asked my father. “I have to work late tonight. I doubt whether I’ll be able to 37 it on time. I am just too busy right now,” he replied.

My mind could not  38  the idea that he would be too busy working late. He was also too busy to  39  my horse show, football games and the 15th birthday party. He always used the same  40 . Why had I even bothered to ask?  41 , there was always a slight hope that tonight would be  42  .

As my mother and I arrived at school, two friends  43  me. “Jill, meet my dad. Dad, this is my friend Jill.” I shook the hand of a tall man. Camera flashes lit up the room, and claps filled the  44  as students accepted their awards. My name was finally called,  45  three others. I followed my classmates to the  46 . When I reached out my hand to shake the  47  , a big smile lit up her face. The blinding flash from my mother’s camera  48  my eyes and I knew my dad wasn’t there. I walked back to my seat  49 .

Back at home, seeing my dad’s car in the garage, I told myself he would not be  50  . But the strong smell of alcohol(酒精)hit me as soon as I 51  inside, and I could feel my tears  52  . I followed the sound of his drunken words and saw him  53  on the couch(沙发).

54  did father lie to me? I threw my award on the floor, walked to my bedroom, and shut the door. Tears rolled down my face. I wondered if I would ever be more  55  than his whiskey bottle.

A. confidently    B. eagerly  C. proudly  D. fearfully

A. reach  B. keep C. take D. make

A. create B. support  C. appreciate   D. accept

A. watch  B. avoid    C. attend   D. speed

A. excuse B. reply    C. promise  D. trick

A. Besides    B. Thus C. Otherwise    D. However

A. active B. formal   C. different    D. serious

A. recognized B. greeted  C. encouraged   D. showed

A. air B. audience C. school   D. playground

A. apart from B. other than   C. except for   D. along with

A. stage   B. position C. office   D. exit

A. Jill’s B. teacher’s   C. mother’s    D. father’s

A. fixed  B. touched  C. hurt D. inserted

A. successfully   B. disappointedly   C. delightedly  D. hopefully

A. drunk   B. woken    C. forgiven D. hidden

A. stepped B. noticed  C. examined D. glanced

A. getting off    B. taking down  C. building up  D. turning around

A. leaning    B. lying    C. putting  D. carrying

A. How    B. Where    C. Why  D. Whether

A. perfect    B. comfortable  C. fortunate    D. important

A man was on the side of the road hitchhiking(搭便车)on a very dark night in the middle of a terrible rainstorm, with no cars on the road.The storm was so strong that the man could hardly see a few feet ahead of him.Suddenly, he saw a car come towards him and stop.The man, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door and only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the steering wheel(方向盘)!  

    The car started to move very slowly.The man looked at the road and saw a curve (拐弯处)coming his way.Terrified, he started to pray, begging for his life.He had not come out of shock when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly appeared through the window and moved the wheel.The man, paralyzed with fear, watched how the hand appeared every time the car was drawing near a curve.Finally, although terrified, the man managed to open the door and jump out of the spooky car.Without looking back, the man ran through the storm all the way to the nearest town.In a state of complete horror, the man walked into a nearby bar and asked for two glasses of Scotch whisky.

    Then, still shaking with fright, he started telling everybody in the bar about the horrible experience he just went through in the spooky car.Everyone in the bar listened in silence and became frightened, with hair standing on end, when they realized the man was telling the truth because he was crying and he was certainly not drunk!

    About half an hour later, two other young men walked into the same bar and one said to the other, “Hey, there’s a stupid man who jumped into the car while we were pushing it!”

When the car was first drawing near a curve, the man ________.

    A.felt very curious                B.was extremely frightened

    C.cried for help               D.remained as calm as possible

According to the passage, what made the man’s experience believable?

    A.His reasonable behavior.       B.His vivid description.

    C.His plain appearance.          D.His honest attitude.

We can infer from the passage that ________.

    A.it is unsafe for people to take a free ride

    B.the man was telling a lie to his listeners

    C.the car probably broke down on the way

    D.the two young men were familiar with the man

 

 

III. Reading Comprehension (35分)

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

 

There was a man who played the piano in a small bar. There were not too many ___46___, but because he was a good piano player, some people ___47___ came in every night just to hear him play. But one night, a patron (老顾客) told him he didn’t want to hear him play but to sing a song.

The man said, “I have never done that before in public. I think I’m ___48___ at playing the piano.” But the customer ___49___. He told the waiter, “I’m ___50___ listening to the piano day after day. I want to hear something new and I want that guy to sing.”

The waiter ___51___ across the room, “Hey, buddy! If you want to get ___52___, sing a song. The patrons are asking you to sing!”

So in order no bring some money home that night, the piano player who had never sung in public did so for the very first time. And ___53___ had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung before ___54___ that night by Nat King Cole, and it surprised all, including the ___55___ himself.

He had talent he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar, but ___56___ he had to sing, he went on to become one of the best-known entertainers in America.

You, too, have skills and ___57___. You may not feel as if your “talent” is particularly ___58___, but it may be better than you think! And with persistence, most skills can be ___59___. Besides, you may as well have no ability at all if you sit on whatever talent you possess. The ___60___ is not “What ability do I have that is useful?” It is rather “How will I use whatever ability I have?”

 

46.   A. waiters         B. players         C. singers         D. customers

47.   A. never            B. still       C. ever     D. only

48.   A. better  B. nicer    C. easier  D. sooner

49.   A. agreed          B. worried        C. insisted       D. charged

50.   A. familiar with         B. fond of C. used to        D. tired of

51.   A. complained B. shouted        C. explained     D. served

52.   A. changed       B. fired              C. paid      D. praised

53.   A. nobody         B. anybody       C. somebody    D. everybody

54.   A. since    B. after    C. until     D. when

55.   A. waiter B. singer  C. patron D. owner

56.   A. unless  B. although      C. because       D. if

57     A. advantages B. characters   C. abilities        D. principles

58.   A. different       B. surprising    C. famous         D. great

59.   A. improved     B. wasted         C. recognized          D. impressed

60     A. decision        B. difficulty       C. question       D. solution

 

The Worst Part

Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week she was going to a big golf game and I was all alone in the house. I was mad at Mom for divorcing Dad.

I kept looking at the telephone until I couldn’t stand it any longer. I picked up the receiver and dialed Dad’s number over in Bakersfield. I even remembered to dial I first because it was long distance. “You promised to phone me this week but you didn’t,” I said, feeling I had to talk to him.

“Take it easy, kid,” he said. “I just didn’t get around to it. I was going to call this evening. The week isn’t over yet.”

I thought about that.

“Something on your mind?” he asked.

“I hoped you would call, so I waited and waited.” Then I was sorry I said it.

“There was heavy snow in the morning,” he said, “I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time.”

I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun. I felt a little better, as long as we were talking. “How is Bandit?” I asked.

There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have happened to my dog.

“Well, kid—”, he began. “My name is Leigh!” I almost yelled. “I’m not just some kid you met on the street!”

Keep your shirt on, Leigh,” he said. “When I had to stop along with some other truckers to put on chains, I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back … I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn’t get an answer yet.” I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a boy’s voice say, “Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we’re going out to get the pizza?”

1.From the story we know that _______.

A. Leigh’s dad never had a rest on Sundays          B. Leigh was a deserted boy

C. Leigh’s dad lived in another city                D. Leigh’s mother often went to golf games

2.What happened to Bandit?

A. It was frozen to death.        B. It was let out of the cab and got lost

C. It was killed by a truck.        D. It ran off Highway 80 and into the mountain.

3.The underlined sentence “Keep your shirt on” probably means “_______”.

A. Listen to reason    B. Stop talking      C. Calm down    D. Keep warm

4.In Leigh’s eye, “the worst part” may be that ________.

A. his dad got remarried          B. his parents got divorced

C. his dad didn’t love him         D. his mom didn’t take him to pizza

 

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