Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping paper on his birthday present．He was so    16 ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes．

All the guys on his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball   17  , Chuck Hart．    18   Hart was criticized for his poor sportsmanship（运动员风范） and infamous（臭名远扬的）   19 , he was a great player．In fact, Travis wasn't thinking about Hart' s behavior; he had only expected to see Hart' s  20  on the side of the box．The first indication that something was   21  came as he tore away the last piece of paper．Not Hart' s．The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was   22   for his amazing work in the community．

Travis's hands   23  ; his heart stopped．It wasn't that the Ryann shoes weren't nice, but what would his friends think ?

They were the wrong shoes and Travis would be   24  by the other players． When he looked up into his dad' s eyes, however, Travis knew  he  25  tell him． "'Thanks, Dad．I was really hoping for shoes," Travis said as he pulled the shoes out of the box．

Next morning his dad drove him to school．When they   26  in front of his destination, Travis slowly opened the car door．Just then, his dad stopped him．

"Hey, Travis, wait a minute, look"…" his dad said  27   "Travis, I know those aren' t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a（n）   28   The guy whose name is on those shoes," he said, pointing down at Travis’s feet, "is someone I   29   .Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in   30 ?"

"No," Travis said．

" Never．He' s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he' s a team player．You could have acted like a   31  when you didn't get the shoes you wanted, Travis,   32  you were polite and made the best of it．You have    33  , like the guy whose name is on these shoes．I' m hoping that someday, your name will be on the coolest pair of shoes I' 11 ever see．"

When Travis looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes   34   . His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful   35   .

1.                A．surprised       B．ashamed        C．excited   D．worried

2.                A．team           B．player          C．coach    D．game

3.                A．Unless         B．If              C．Because  D．Although

4.                A．skill            B．performance     C．behavior  D．action

5.                A．name          B．photo          C．sign  D．model

6.                A．strange         B．wrong          C．true D．funny

7.                A．known         B．encouraged     C．adopted  D．influenced

8.                A．fell            B．froze           C．shook    D．folded

9.                A．questioned      B．noticed         C．teased   D．attacked

10.               A．mustn't         B．needn't        C．wouldn't   D．couldn't

11.               A．pulled up       B．put up         C．took up   D．turned up

12.               A．peacefully      B．hesitantly       C．delightedly D．naturally

13.               A．choice         B．effort          C．comment  D．mistake

14.               A．believe         B．miss           C．admire    D．remember

15.               A．danger         B．anger          C．sorrow    D．trouble

16.               A．teammate       B．adult           C．kid   D．student

17.               A．so             B．and            C．but   D．or

18.               A．honor          B．courage        C．dream D．belief

19.               A．clearly         B．carefully        C．patiently   D．differently

20.               A．gift            B．look           C．hope D．lesson

Giving Back

Fair Way

The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong x>n one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "No one would have known," said Wobum's instruc??tor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: "The prize wasn't ours to take."

Coin Stars

"College students are lazy, but they also want to help," says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her " Change for Change" effort has collected $40,000 for charities 慈善机构）, which were decided upon by students.

Never Forgotten

A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took offi??cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89.

60. What did Greg Rota probably do in the end?

       A. Took photos of Doran.

       B. Had a meeting with Doran.

       C. Returned the prize to the organizer.

       D. Apologized to Wobum High School.

61. Greg Rota's decision shows that he was _______.

       A. honest               B. polite                C. careful               D. friendly

62. The underlined word "Change" in the second paragraph means _______.

       A. Idea            B. Decision      C. Cups                D. Coins

63. What did the school officials do after receiving the check from Mr. LeBermuth?

       A. They tried to find out why he gave them the money.

       B. They went to Belgium to pay their respects to him.

       C. They dug out the records that were buried underground.

       D. They decided to offer their students free room and board.

64. Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because _______.

       A. the school asked for it                

       B. he had no need for that much money

       C. the school had helped him in the past  

       D. he wanted to be remembered by the students

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。

         "A parcel arrived for you today," my father told me, as we were driving home from work．"It's quite big．" "Oh, really?" I wondered out loud．"Have you   36   anything? Maybe from Amazon or eBay or something…?" my father continued．"No, Dad．I'm  37  only one thing, but that should arrive in a（n）   38  ．"

         On Sunday, I will participate in a（n）   39   activity with some friends,' and．I had asked Bluebell if she could send me some of her homemade smile cards to  40   on the day．Since smile cards would have fit into an envelope,'! couldn't imagine what else could be in the  41  I became increasingly  42  as we continued to drive home．As soon as we arrived, I  43  to open the package．It had a neat, hand-written label （标签）on it．"There might be something easy to  44  inside," my father said, as he handed me some scissors．"Be careful when you open it．"

         The package was filled with all sorts of kindness   45  I First, some beautiful colorful posters with kindness ideas and   46   fell onto the floor．There were also loads of wrist bands （护腕）, which I will   47   at our kindness activity．   48   , there were three envelopes in the package——two of them had the most cleanly and neatly   49   smile cards, and the third had a wonderful card inside, which   50  , "Thank you very much for your kindness．．．loads of love, Bluebell．"

         "This is really   51 ," my father said．My mother and sister enjoyed the package as well．Bluebell put ．the biggest  52   on all of our faces! When I had asked her for some of her homemade smile cards to   53   some kindness during our activity, I never expected to 54   such a wonderful package filled with all sorts of kindness and inspiration!

         You have  55   made my day．Bluebell!

1.A．ordered        B．searched         C．desired                             D．paid

2.A．preferring      B．wanting          C．preventing  D．expecting

3.A．poster         B．parcel'           C．envelope    D．e-mail

4.A．sports         B．afterschool        C．kindness    D．business

5.A．make up       B．write down        C．hand in                             D．give out

6.A．package       B．card              C．letter       D．envelope

7.A．curious        B．surprised          C．hopeful     D．terrible

8.A．wanted        B．walked           C．rushed       D．stopped                       

9.A．lose          B．break             C．use          D．pick

10.A．talents       B．gifts              C．books        D．activities

11.A．articles      B．music                                           C．poets         D．poems

12.A．get rid of     B．make good use of    C．keep out of     D．take possession of

13.A．In conclusion B．In addition         C．In short        D．In fact

14.A．machinemade B．manmade          C．homemade     D．shopmade

15.A．told        ,B．spoke                                            C．wrote                 D．read

16.A．amazing     B．funny                                            C．crazy         D．accidental

17.A．card        B.  tear               C．spot          D．smile

18.A．raise        B．spread                                                C．collects       D．teach      

19.A．find                                       B．discover                           C．receive       D．accept

20.A．completely   B．partly              C．hardly        D．nearly

任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入1个最恰当的单词。(Reuters) - A U.N. climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen at talks from December 7-18 may fall short of a legally binding(有约束力的) agreement. If Copenhagen fails to live up to hopes of a strong agreement to slow global warming, what are the reasons and who risks blame? The following are some of the candidates:

● Decline in economy distracted(分散) focus from climate change after the world agreed in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to work out a new U.N. agreement by December 2009. Rich nations have put billions of dollars into green growth as part of recovery packages but, when unemployment at home is high, find it hard to promise extra money for developing countries. The slowdown in industrial output means a brief fix -- greenhouse gas emissions(排放) are likely to fall by as much as 3 percent this year.

● Many delegates at U.N. talks have given up hope that the United States, the number two emitter after China, will agree legislation(立法, 法律) to limit carbon emissions before Copenhagen. The US is the only industrialized nation outside the Kyoto Protocol(京都协议书) for cutting greenhouse emissions until 2012. Many countries welcomed President Barack Obama's promises of doing more to fight climate change when he took office in January but hoped for swifter action.

● Developing nations accuse the rich of repeatedly failing to keep promises of more aid. Few developed countries live up to a target agreed by the U.N. General Assembly in 1970 to give 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product in development aid. Other plans, such as the Agenda 21 environmental development plan agreed in 1992, have fallen short.

● Most rich nations are promising cuts in greenhouse gas emissions well short of the 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, which are needed to avoid the worst of climate change. Overall cuts promised by developed nations total between 11 and 15 percent. Best offers by countries including Japan, the European Union, Australia and Norway would reach the range.

● More than 90 percent of the growth in emissions between now and 2030 is set to come from developing nations -- with almost 50 percent from China alone, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said this week. "No country holds the fate of the earth more in its hands than China. Not one," he said. China and India say they are slowing the growth of emissions but raising living standards is more important. So burning more energy is unavoidable -- as industrialized nations have done for 200 years.

● 2008 was the 10th warmest year since records began in the mid-19th century. The warmest was 1998, when a strong El Nino event in the eastern Pacific disrupted(使混乱) weather worldwide. That has led some to argue that global warming is slowing even though the U.N.'s WMO(世界气象组织) says a long-term warming trend is unchanged.

● People have been slow in changing lifestyles to use less carbon. Simple choices like taking more public transport, using less heating or air conditioning, even changing light bulbs can help if millions of people act.

Who's to blame if U.N. climate deal falls short?

The teacher thought hobbies were very important for every child. She  36  all her pupils to have one, and sometimes  37  for their parents to come and see the work they had done as a result.

One Friday  38  the teacher told the class that those who had a hobby could have a  39  that afternoon to get the things they had made as parts of their hobbies ready for their  40  to see the following afternoon.

So in the afternoon, while those of the pupils who had nothing to  41  did their usual lessons, the lucky ones who had made something  42  to go home, on condition that they  43 before five o'clock to bring what they were going to show and to arrange it.

When the afternoon lesson began, the teacher was  44  to see Tommy was not there. He was the  45  boy in the class, and the teacher found it  46  to believe he had a hobby. However, at 4:45, Tommy arrived with a(n)  47  collection of butterflies in glass cases. After his  48  had admired them and helped him to arrange them on a table in the classroom, she was surprised to see Tommy  49  them up again and begin to leave.

"What are you doing, Tommy?" she asked. "Those things must  50  here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the parents are coming to see them."

"I know  51 ," answered Tommy, "and I will bring them back tomorrow; but my  52  doesn't want them to be out of our house at night in case they are  53 ."

"But what has it got to do with your brother?" asked the teacher. "Aren't the butterflies yours?"

"No," answered Tommy. "They belong to him."

"But Tommy, you are  54  to show your own hobby here, not somebody else's!" said the teacher.

"I know that," answered Tommy. "My hobby is  55  my brother collecting butterflies."

1.A. stopped        B. ordered          C. encouraged       D. agreed

2.A. arranged   B. asked            C. looked           D. waited

3.A. afternoon  B. evening          C. night            D. morning

4.A. test   B. lesson           C. competition      D. holiday

5.A. teachers   B. parents          C. friends          D. classmates

6.A. present        B. do               C. see              D. eat

7.A. had        B. used             C. were made        D. were allowed

8.A. turned out B. returned         C. left             D. finished

9.A. sad            B. happy            C. frightened       D. surprised

10.A. laziest   B. most curious     C. cleverest        D. youngest

11.A. difficult B. easy             C. reliable         D. disable

12.A. ugly      B. small            C. beautiful        D. obvious

13.A. classmates    B. brother          C. father           D. teacher

14.A. throw     B. pick             C. switch           D. use

15.A. remain    B. leave            C. observe          D. undertake

16.A. them      B. him              C. that             D. this

17.A. sister        B. friend           C. brother          D. mother

18.A. stolen        B. shown            C. completed        D. matched

19.A. fired     B. supposed         C. related          D. ignored

20.A. helping       B. concerning       C. watching         D. Seeking