三、完型填空(共30分)
Jenna, a popular girl from Westood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new   36  in high school.
37  , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be  38   for her to be selected. Two hours later, the  39  read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart  40   as the list ended without her name. Feeling  41  , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was   42  . She moved on to English and history, and was  43  to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to  44  math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs Biden about being on the school  45  . Mrs Biden wasn’t as  46   as Jenna. “ I’m sorry, but we have enough  47   for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll take then.” Jenna smiled  48   and left. “Why is high school so     49    ?” she sighed.
Later in  50  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  51   . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to   52   at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to  53   . High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  54   a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the  55   fish you can be.”
36. A. processes         B. decisions          C. challenges          D. exercises
37. A. Therefore         B. However          C. Otherwise          D. Besides
38. A. difficult          B. easy              C. boring             D. interesting
39. A. editor           B. boss              C. candidate           D. judge
40. A. jumped           B. sank              C. stopped            D. raced
41. A. strange           B. happy             C. awful              D. lonely
42. A. struggling         B. improving        C. working            D. complaining
43. A. ashamed          B. disappointed        C. shocked           D. relieved
44. A. put up            B. prepare for         C. worry about         D. give up
45. A. committee        B. newspaper          C. radio              D. team
46. A. enthusiastic       B. artistic             C. sympathetic         D. realistic
47. A. speakers          B. readers             C. cheerleaders        D. writers
48. A. widely           B. weakly             C. excitedly          D. brightly
49. A. similar           B. ordinary            C. different            D. familiar
50. A. physics           B. history             C. English            D. math
51. A. pleasure          B. hope               C. trouble             D. sorrow
52. A. fit in             B. look out            C. stay up             D. get around
53. A. swim            B. try                 C. ask                D. escape
54. A. in return for       B. in case of            C. in terms of         D. instead of
55. A. slimmest         B. smallest              C. best              D. gentlest

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16-25各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Most children want to be pop stars or footballers when they grow up. But 11-year-old Amy Jones had the chance to ____16____ more about her ____17____ job—a medical biologist —when she won an essay writing competition for primary students.
Amy’s __18__ for the best essay on “What I want to be when I’m older” was a day at Oxford Medical Science Institute. Staff organised a special programme for the would-be __19__, introducing her to the projects being worked on by medical biologists at Oxford. The sessions included a look at the ___20___ of medical biologists in fighting cancer and ___21___ to become a medical biologist.
Amy said she was ___22___ to become a biologist after watching a television programme. In her essay she wrote: “The medical biologist plays a big part in many discoveries and it would be a challenging, exciting and ___23__ job.”
Dr. Kathryn Robson, the Institute director said: “ It’s ___24___that we encourage young people to study science and think about scientific research as a job. I hope Amy now has a better __25__of what it takes to become a medical biologist.”

【小题1】
A.carry outB.sort outC.find outD.look out
【小题2】
A.dreamB.father’sC.firstD.mother’s
【小题3】
A.ideaB.prizeC.wishD.topic
【小题4】
A.pop starB.journalist C.scientistD.writer
【小题5】
A.performance B.action C.operationD.role
【小题6】
A.whenB.whether C.howD.where
【小题7】
A.inspiredB.chosenC.madeD.forced
【小题8】
A.disappointingB.tiringC.surprisingD.rewarding
【小题9】
A.vitalB.simpleC.funnyD.unusual
【小题10】
A.decisionB.understandingC.desireD.taste

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