第一节:完形填空 (共20小题,每小题.1.5分, 满分30分)

阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。

My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string ___ ___ players in our town. He could not ___ ___ music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.

Dad loved to play the mandolin for his ___ ___ for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, ___ ___ his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to grow into a man and have children of my own ____ ____I realized how much he had sacrificed.

I joined the United States Air _ _ in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home ___ ___ , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could ___ __ _your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his _ ___ in his ability to play so well for his family.

In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was _ _ in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand ______ _ by the machine. He didn't lose enough of the finger __ __ it would stop him picking up anything, but it did _ his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, When I came home and asked him to play, Dad would make ___ _ for why he couldn't play. For the family it didn't make any __70_ ___ that Dad couldn't play as well.

In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life _ ___ dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said "okay". He knew it would probably be the _ __ time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few _ __ . When I looked around, there was not a _ eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life, _ _____. As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!

1.A. equipment B. instrument C. musical D. musician

2.A. read B. see C. look at D. copy

3.A. audience B. employer C. family D. friends

4.A. employing B. devoting C. spending D. wasting

5.A. since B. when C. after D. before

6.A. Power B. Energy C. Force D. Strength

7.A. on duty B. on holiday C. on vacation D. on leave

8.A. feel B. touch C. contact D. keep

9.A. proud B. pride C. please D. praise

10.A. involved B. participated C. took part D. joined

11.A. cut in B. cut up C. cut off D. cut out

12.A. which B. that C. what D. where

13.A. destroy B. affect C. effect D. injure

14.A. uses B. preparations C. excuses D. impressions

15.A. difference B. sense C. comment D. decision

16.A. at B. on C. off D. in

17.A. first B. latest C. last D. longest

18.A. notes B. bills C. symbols D. signs

19.A. wet B. dry C. cried D. crying

20.A. sponsoring B. taking C. distributing D. giving

Susan Sontag(1933-2004)was one of the most outstanding figures in the world of literature·For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything,to read every book worth reading,and to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s,she published essays in important magazines like Partisan Review.She appeared as the symbol of American culture life,trying hard to follow every new development in literature,film and art. With great effort and serious judgment,Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong mottos,but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “ a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By belief she was a sensualist(感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist, In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a19thcentury Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

1.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A.was a symbol of American cultural life

B.developed world literature, film and art

C.published many essays about world culture

D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture

2.Sontag first won her name through ___________.

A.her story of a Polish actress

B.her book Illness as Metaphor

C.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

D. publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Sontag looked down upon the pop culture·

B.Sontag was a sensualist as well as a moralist.

C.Sontag blamed the victim of cancer for the disease.

D.Sontag thought content was more important than form.

4.What would be the best title of the text?

A.Susan Sontag,a Leading Figure in Culture

B. Susan Sontag,a Productive and Tireless Writer

C.Susan Sontag,an Examiner of the Old Concepts

D. Susan Sontag,a Writer Defending Seriousness

Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well their friends do.In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice.It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends.Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friend can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.The question of “choice” is an interesting one.Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who choose your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend your parent don’t like?

1.Many teenagers think their _______ know them better than their parents do.

A.friends

B.teachers

C.brothers and sisters

D.classmates

2.When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.

A.go to their friends

B.talk with their parents

C.talk with their friends on the phone

D.have a discussion with their family

3.Which of the following is DIFFERENT in meaning from the sentence “Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.”?

A.Some parents may want their children to stop to meet their good friends.

B.Some parents may even ask their children to stay away from their good friends.

C.Some parents may even not let their children meet their good friends.

D.Some parents may even not allow their children to meet their good friends.

4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A.Parents should like everything their children enjoy.

B.In all families, children can choose everything they like.

C.Parents should try their best to understand their children better.

D.Teenagers can only go to their friends for help.

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