Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe.I had been abroad a couple of times, 36 I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent.Moreover, my  37 of foreign languages was  38 to a little college French.
I  39 .How would I,unable to speak the language and totally  40 with local geography or transportation systems,  41 interviews and do research? It seemed  42 ,and with much regret I sat down to write a letter begging  43 .Halfway through,a thought ran through my mind:you can’t learn if you don’t  44 .So I accepted the assignment.
There were some bad news. But by the time I had  45 the trip I was an experienced 46 .And ever since,I have never hesitated to  47 for even the most remote places,without guides or even  48 bookings,confident that somehow I will  49 .
The point is that the new,the  50 ,is almost by definition scary.But each time you try 51 ,you learn,and as the learning piles up,the world  52 to you.
I’ve  53 to ski at 40,and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon.And I know I’ll go on doing such things.It’s not because I’m  54 or more daring than others. I’m not. But I’ll accept anxiety as another name for  55 and I believe I can accomplish wonders.

【小题1】
A.thoughB.andC.butD.since
【小题2】
A.knowledgeB.viewC.targetD.experience
【小题3】
A.forcedB.limitedC.reducedD.increased
【小题4】
A.leftB.doubtedC.pausedD.hesitated
【小题5】A. occupied     B. unfamiliar    C: mixed    D. popular
【小题6】
A.get upB.put upC.set upD.cheer up
【小题7】
A.impossibleB.possibleC.easyD.disturbing
【小题8】
A.awayB.downC.offD.for
【小题9】
A.askB.tryC.practiceD.accept
【小题10】
A.finishedB.startedC.reservedD.cancelled
【小题11】
A.travelerB.reporterC.writerD.thinker
【小题12】
A.takeB.headC.makeD.change
【小题13】
A.carefulB.freeC.professionalD.advanced
【小题14】
A.loseB.winC.manageD.remember
【小题15】
A.differentB.sameC.oldD.bad
【小题16】
A.nothingB.somethingC.anythingD.everything
【小题17】
A.sticksB.comesC.opensD.drinks
【小题18】
A.learnedB.hopedC.forgottenD.attempted
【小题19】
A.weakerB.braverC.worseD.luckier
【小题20】
A.troubleB.failureC.victoryD.challenge

Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe.I had been abroad a couple of times, 36 I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent.Moreover, my  37 of foreign languages was  38 to a little college French.
I  39 .How would I,unable to speak the language and totally  40 with local geography or transportation systems,  41 interviews and do research? It seemed  42 ,and with much regret I sat down to write a letter begging  43 .Halfway through,a thought ran through my mind:you can’t learn if you don’t  44 .So I accepted the assignment.
There were some bad news. But by the time I had  45 the trip I was an experienced 46 .And ever since,I have never hesitated to  47 for even the most remote places,without guides or even  48 bookings,confident that somehow I will  49 .
The point is that the new,the  50 ,is almost by definition scary.But each time you try  51 ,you learn,and as the learning piles up,the world  52 to you.
I’ve  53 to ski at 40,and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon.And I know I’ll go on doing such things.It’s not because I’m  54 or more daring than others. I’m not. But I’ll accept anxiety as another name for  55 and I believe I can accomplish wonders.

【小题1】
A.thoughB.andC.butD.since
【小题2】
A.knowledgeB.viewC.targetD.experience
【小题3】
A.forcedB.limitedC.reducedD.increased
【小题4】
A.leftB.doubtedC.pausedD.hesitated
【小题5】A. occupied     B. unfamiliar    C: mixed    D. popular
【小题6】
A.get upB.put upC.set upD.cheer up
【小题7】
A.impossibleB.possibleC.easyD.disturbing
【小题8】
A.awayB.downC.offD.for
【小题9】
A.askB.tryC.practiceD.accept
【小题10】
A.finishedB.startedC.reservedD.cancelled
【小题11】
A.travelerB.reporterC.writerD.thinker
【小题12】
A.takeB.headC.makeD.change
【小题13】
A.carefulB.freeC.professionalD.advanced
【小题14】
A.loseB.winC.manageD.remember
【小题15】
A.differentB.sameC.oldD.bad
【小题16】
A.nothingB.somethingC.anythingD.everything
【小题17】
A.sticksB.comesC.opensD.drinks
【小题18】
A.learnedB.hopedC.forgottenD.attempted
【小题19】
A.weakerB.braverC.worseD.luckier
【小题20】
A.troubleB.failureC.victoryD.challenge

完型填空 (共20小题,每小题1分,满分20分)
I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living room, my 12-year-old son looked __26__ at me and said, “I love you.” I didn’t know what to say. __27__ several seconds all I could do was to stand there and __28__ down at him. My first thought was that he must need __29__ with his homework or he was trying to __30__ me for some news. Finally I asked, “What was that all about?”
“Nothing.” He said, “My teacher said we should __31__ our parents that we love them and see what they say. It’s a(n) __32__.”
The next day I called his teacher to __33__ more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had __34__.
“Basically, most of the fathers had the __35__ reaction as you did.” The teacher said, “When I first __36__ we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.” “The __37__ is,” the teacher explained, “feeling loved is an important part of __38__. It’s something all human beings __39__. What I’m trying to tell the children is that it’s too __40__ that we don’t all express those feelings. A boy should be __41__ to tell his dad that he loves him.”
The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how __42__ it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.
When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for __43__ second. And just __44__ he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice, “Hey, I love you, too.”
I don’t know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time if my child says “I love you”, it would not take me a whole day to think of the right __45__.

【小题1】
A.downB.awayC.outD.up
【小题2】
A.AfterB.ForC.AtD.On
【小题3】
A.glanceB.glareC.stareD.watch
【小题4】
A.patienceB.timeC.helpD.paper
【小题5】
A.reportB.prepareC.answerD.apologize
【小题6】.
A.helpB.askC.tellD.make
【小题7】.
A.thingB.experimentC.wordD.sentence
【小题8】
A.search forB.searchC.find outD.find
【小题9】
A.saidB.reactedC.doneD.explained
【小题10】
A.sameB.differentC.usualD.ordinary
【小题11】
A.allowedB.agreedC.suggestedD.planned
【小题12】
A.pointB.ideaC.wayD.cause
【小题13】
A.bodyB.healthC.lifeD.study
【小题14】
A.haveB.knowC.takeD.require
【小题15】
A.badB.goodC.lateD.early
【小题16】
A.fitB.readyC.niceD.able
【小题17】
A.easyB.muchC.oftenD.difficult
【小题18】
A.a muchB.a fullC.an exactD.an extra
【小题19】
A.beforeB.afterC.becauseD.if
【小题20】 A. answer            B. key                 C. reason              D experiment

In the age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.
Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6.
The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act.
Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That’s good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: The off-key singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking (摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.
But, it was this very bad act that sold well.
Marc Juries, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.”
Whatever it is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno-music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.
So, what does Hung think of this?
“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.”
Now he says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn’t been easy.
【小题1】What is the main idea of this passage?

A.Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.
B.Hung’s performance attracted the public eye.
C.How an unsuccessful person became famous.
D.Success sometimes does not require hard work.
【小题2】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A.William Hung.B.Hung’s bad act.C.Hung’s website.D.The public’s opinion.
【小题3】Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?
a. The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.
b. The judges cut Hung off in mid-act in the singing contest.
c. Hung became popular among Americans.
d. Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.
e. Three websites put Hung’s funny performance on the Internet.
A.d, b, e, c, aB.a, c, d, b, eC.a, d, b, c, eD.d, b, a, e, c

The concept of solitude(独处) in the digital world is almost non?existent.In the world of digital technologye?mailsocial networking and online video gamesinformation is meant to be ___.Solitude can be hard to discover____it has been given up.In this respectnew technologies have___our culture.

The desire to be connected has brought solitude to a(n)____as we’ve known it.People have become so____in the world of networks and connections that one can often be contacted____they’d rather not be.Today we can talktexte?mailchat and blog(写博客)not only from our____but from our mobile phones as well.

Most developed nations have become ____on digital technology simply because they’ve grown accustomed to itand at this point not____it would make them an outsider.____many jobs and careers require people to be____.From this point of viewtechnology has changed the culture of work.Being reachable might feel like a___to those who may not want to be able to be contacted at all times.

I suppose the positive side is that solitude is still possible for anyone who____wants it.Computers can be shut____and mobile phones can be turned off.The ability to be “connected” and “on” has many____as well as disadvantages.Travelers have ended up____on mountainsand mobile phones have saved countless lives.They can also make people feel ____and forced to answer unwanted calls or____to unwanted texts.

Attitudes towards our connectedness as a society____across generations.Some find today’s technology a gift.Others consider it a curse.Regardless of anyone’s view on the subjectit’s hard to imagine what life would be like____daily advancements in technology.(2012·江苏)

1.A.updated? Breceived

Cshared? Dcollected

2.A.though? Buntil

Conce? Dbefore

3.A.respected? Bshaped

Cignored? Dpreserved

4.A.edge? Bstage

Cend? Dbalance

5.A.sensitive? Bintelligent

Cconsiderate? Dreachable

6.A.even if? Bonly if

Cas if? Dif only

7.A.media? Bcomputers

Cdatabases? Dmonitors

8.A.bent Bhard

Ckeen? Ddependent

9.A.finding? Busing

Cprotecting? Dchanging

10.A.Also? BInstead

COtherwise? DSomehow

11.A.connected? Btrained

Crecommended? Dinterested

12.A.pleasure? Bbenefit

Cburden? Ddisappointment

13.A.slightly? Bhardly

Cmerely? Dreally

14.A.out? Bdown

Cup? Din

15.A.aspects? Bweaknesses

Cadvantages? Dexceptions

16.A.hidden? Blost

Crelaxed? Ddeserted

17.A.trapped? Bexcited

Cconfused Damused

18.A.turn? Bsubmit

Cobject? Dreply

19.A.vary Barise

Cspread? Dexist

20.A.beyond? Bwithin

Cdespite? Dwithout

 

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