完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）
阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Do you know how to study __1__ and make your study more effective (有效的)?　We all know that Chinese students usually study very hard for long　__2__, This is very good ,but it doesn’t__3__a lot ,for an effective student must have enough sleep ,enough food and enough rest and __4__. Every day you need to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some nice places. It’s good for your__5__.
When you return __6__your studies, your mind will be refreshed(清醒)and you’ll learn more__7__study better. Psychologists (心理学家)　__8__ that learning takes place this way. Here take English learning __9__ an example. First you make a lot of progress（进步）and you feel happy. __10__ your language study seems to stay the same. So you will think you’re learning nothing and you may give __11_. This can last for days or even weeks, yet you __12__ give up, and at some point your language study will again take another big __13__. You’ll see that you really have been learning all along. If you get enough sleep, food, rest and exercise, studying English can be very effective and __14_ . Don’t give up along the way. Learn __15__ ,you are sure to get a good result(结果).

完形填空（共12分，每小题1分）
通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选
择最佳选项。
Twelve-year-old Kitty O’Neil asked her coach, “Let me try.” She was already on the swim team, but this was different. One of the divers had not arrived, and Kitty needed much help. Her coach looked 36  at her. She had been practicing dives, but could she really stand up to the competition? Besides, 37  was completely deaf. Many people thought a person who was deaf wouldn’t be able to dive well. However, Kitty 38 , and she won first place at that swimming meet and went on to win the Junior Olympics in the area.
Kitty began diving with Dr. Sammy Lee, a famous coach and former Olympic diving champion. The teenager went to school in the morning and then spent most afternoons diving. It was 39  work, and Kitty often hit the water the wrong way. However, she was able to 40  practicing. While she was diving , Kitty won many gold medals, but she wanted 41 . Perhaps she learned something from her 42 . Kitty lost her hearing at the age of four months. Because she wanted Kitty to lead a normal life, Kitty’s mother went to college to 43  about teaching people who are deaf. Kitty’s mother finally started a school for those who are deaf.
Kitty’s life was 44  but normal, and as an athlete, Kitty was much bettter than others. When she gave up diving, she wanted danger and adventure. She raced cars, boats, and motorcycles. Many of these 45  usually require at least some hearing. For example many racers judge their speed by the sound of the engine. Kitty did it by  46 .
In 1972 she began to learn doing dangerous action for movies and television. Soon she became one of the   47  women in Hollywood. In 1976 Kitty O’Neil also became the fastest woman in the world in a rocket-powered car that went more than 512 miles per hour.

完形填空 (30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A

In today’s world, pollution has become a serious problem.  51.  we know, air pollution is harmful to our health. However, not all people know that noise    52  also a kind of pollution and is harmful to human health.

People who work and live in noisy conditions may become   53  . For example,  many of the workers who   54. newspapers and books become deaf. Quite a few people living near   55 also have hearing lose. Recently it was reported that many teenagers in America  56 hear better than the old do, because these young people always listen to  57 pop music.  Making a loud noise in public is also a kind of pollution, it not only  58  others but also does great harm to hearing. Cars and machines also produce 59 noise. It makes people feel uncomfortable and unpleasant.  60  , it can cause them to be sick or deaf.Nowadays many countries are trying to solve all sorts of environmental problems, including noise pollution.

阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容在在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每空一词。

How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators’ thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.

Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and response to our world because no one way can get it all.

Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings “talk” to each other. Through the language we expresses our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.

So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.

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