The telephone _______ three times in the last hour, and each time it ________ for my father.

A. had rang; was    B. has rung; was C. rang; has been       D. has been ringing; is

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。

“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me   36   , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January   37   air．

Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really   38    thing to do．But then she took it a step   39   ．“Come on Kolby”, she said, grabbing(抓住) some treats and   40   him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a   41   position．She   42   him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became   43   ．Over the last few days I have been consistent（一致的） with Kolby．Each time he comes in I  44   him back to the open door patiently and ask him to close．There have been   45   in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．

However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him follow my hand signal again and again  46   he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the   47   , the task will be completed, and, with the way things are progressing,   48   quickly．

What a  49   treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the  50   I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．

A wish is just a wish until you decide to take  51   ．Once you   52  the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of  53  ．Once you decide to accomplish a goal, and  54   that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just  55    doing it．

A．complain     B．scream      C．worry       D．scare

A．thin       B．fresh C．dirty  D．cold

A．last B．funny       C．hard  D．possible

A．again     B．further      C．deeper      D．backward

A．pushing  B．tying C．seating      D．positioning

A．stopped       B．fixed C．closed       D．locked

A．rewarded       B．provided   C．offered     D．thanked

A．persuaded      B．convinced C．inspired    D．puzzled

A．bring     B．pull   C．drag  D．call

A．pleasures       B．experiments     C．failures     D．pauses

A．in case B．even if      C．as if  D．so that

A．interest B．focus C．progress    D．harmony

A．determined  B．taught       C．bought      D．completed

. A．wonderful   B．small C．different   D．simple

A．knowledge   B．skills C．lessons      D．experience

A．patience B．part   C．delight      D．action

A．hold on to   B．pay attention to       C．come up with   D．get used to

A．date     B．touch C．reach D．power

A．prove   B．decide      C．conclude   D．realize

A．imagine.      B．start  C．keep  D．enjoy

第二部分 阅读理解(共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分)

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When students think of learning a foreign language, the first thought is of books, exercises, and audio cassettes．Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring．Therefore, it is time for us to spice things up a bit.

Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high．It’s a perfect study material．You have it with you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time．You don’t need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes.

Let’s take a look at how to add your cellphone to your study tools.

Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study．Go to the menu, find settings, locate language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.

Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary．This enables you to master simple words and phrases with little effort．For example, each time you open up your cellphone you’ll see “messages”, “games” and “calls made”．These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.

When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons．You’ll be surprised at all the vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items．Some things you’ll recognize immediately and others you can guess just by where you find them.

It can keep your learning fresh and interesting．And that’s important because boredom is a big problem with language learners．You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.

1．The underlined part “spice things up” in the first paragraph means “______”.

     A．make things interesting         B．make things realistic

         C．make things helpful             D．make things obvious

2．Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a cellphone as a study material?

     A．We can study with it at any moment.

         B．It keeps our learning interest high.

         C．We can use it to practice freely.

         D．It offers the chance to practice learning.

3．By playing with a cellphone, you can ______.

     A．learn the words in the menu

         B．remember the messages sent by others

         C．improve the techniques of playing games

         D．become familiar with different kinds of languages

4．Why did the author write the passage?

     A．To stress the importance of language learning.

         B．To introduce the latest ways of language learning.

         C．To inform how to keep your learning fresh.

         D．To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.

 One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm. At 16, I liked 36 better than driving our truck, 37 this time I was not happy. My father had told me I’d have to ask for credit(赊账) at the store.

Sixteen is a 38 age, when a young man wants respect, not charity. It was 1976, and the ugly 39 of racial discrimination was 40 a fact of life. I’d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while the store owner 41 whether they were “good for it.” I knew black youths just like me who were 42 like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.

My family was 43 . We paid our debts. But before harvest, cash was short. Would the store owner 44 us ?

At Davis’s store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer. I nodded 45 I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my 46 to the casks desk, I said 47 , “I need to put this on credit.”

The farmer gave me and amused, distrustful 48 . But Buck’s face didn’t change. “Sure,” he said 49 . “Your daddy is 50 good for it.” He  51 to the other man. “This here is one of James William’s sons.”

The farmer nodded in a neighborly 52 . I was filled with pride. James William’s son. Those three words had opened a door to an adult’s respect and trust.

That day I discovered that the good name my parents had  53  brought our whole family the respect of our neighbors. Everyone knew what to 54 from a Williams: a decent person who kept his word and respected himself 55 much to do wrong.

If you want to get the most out of the study of a language, you must also read for pleasure: novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the important thing is to get on with the reading; to try to grasp（理解） what the writer is going to tell you in the book as a whole. This is impossible if you stop and think over the meaning of every single word which happens to be unfamiliar. You can not enjoy a story if you stop half a dozen times on every page in order to look up words in the dictionary. You may even prevent yourself from understanding the story as a whole by doing this.

When you are reading books of this kind, therefore, you will usually have to depend mainly on the context (上下文) to help you. If you meet an unfamiliar word, do not let it take too much of your attention from the main idea of the story. In all probability you will meet the same word again a few pages later on in a slightly different context, and each time you see it that your understanding of it will become more exact.

1.The phrase “to get on with reading” in the first passage has the same meaning as “_________”.

2.When you meet new words in reading such kinds of books, you’d better _________.

3.From the passage the best way to read novels, plays and travel books is         .

4..What is the passage’s main idea?