---- Jimmy went to the Internet cafe recently．

----Yes, that might ____why he didn’t do well in the test．

A．bring about             B．make for        C．account for            D．go for

My husband is a born shopper(天生的购物者). He loves to look at things and to touch them. He likes to compare prices between the same items(产品) in different shops. He would never think of buying anything without looking around in several different shops. On the other hand, I’m not a shopper. I think shopping is boring and unpleasant. If I like something and I have enough money to take it, I buy it at once. I never look around for a good price or a better deal. Of course my husband and I never go shopping together. Doing shopping together would be too painful for both of us. When it comes to shopping, we go our different ways.

Sometimes I ask my son Jimmy to buy some food in the shop not far from our home. But he is always absent-minded. This was his story.

One day I said to him, “I hope you won’t forget what I have told you to buy.” “No,” said Jimmy, “I won’t forget. You want three oranges, six eggs and a pound of meat.”

He went running down the street to the shop. As he ran, he said to himself over and over again. “ Three oranges, six eggs and a pound of meat.”

In the beginning he remembered everything but he stopped several times. Once he saw two men fighting outside a clothes shop until a policeman stopped them. One of them was badly hurt. Then he stopped to give ten cents to a beggar. Then he met some of his friends and he played with them for a while. When he reached the shop, he had forgotten everything except six eggs.

As he walked home, his face became sadder and sadder. When he saw me he said, “ I’ m sorry, mum. I have forgotten to buy oranges and the meat, I only remembered to buy six eggs, but I’ve dropped three of them.”

1. The husband loves shopping because _______

A. he has much money

B. he likes the shops

C. he likes to compare the prices between the same items

D. he has nothing to do but shopping

2.The wife doesn’t like shopping because ______

A. she has no money

B. she has no time

C. she doesn’t love her husband

D. she feels it boring to go shopping

3.They never go shopping together because _______

A. their ways of shopping are quite different

B. they hate each other

C. they needn’t buy anything for the family

D. they don’t have time for it

4.Jimmy cannot do the shopping well because ______

A. he is young                  B. he is absent-minded

C. he often loses his money        D. he doesn’t like shopping

Dear Editor,
I have just returned home after studying for a year in Germany. But it seems that my parents don’t understand me now. They expect me to be the same person I was before I went abroad, but I’m not! Why can’t they let me be myself?
Jimmy
Hi, Jimmy,
As far as I know, people who have lived abroad often find that the adjustment （调整） to returning home is more difficult than their adjustment to living in a foreign culture. Why? We expect to have some problems when we go to a new place, speak a different language and learn the rules of a different culture ... But home? ... we know that place!
Your parents expect that the same person who boarded the airplane one year ago will be returning. Especially if they have never been abroad themselves, your parents probably won’t understand the changes that living abroad can cause in a person. On the other hand, you may have maintained (保持) an ideal mental image of your loved ones while abroad, an image that is broken into pieces when you return.
Remember you have been living a different lifestyle in your host country, and you have probably become very independent while staying there alone. Now that you’re home, you will be expected to conform （顺应） again to the lifestyle of your family. As a result, you may be upset about your parents’ involvement in your life.
Communication is the key to overcoming this problem. Tell your parents how you are feeling. Share with them information about cultural re-entry（重归）, and ask them to be patient. This does not mean that you have to forget your experience and give up everything you’ve learned! Learn to find a balance between the old and new, just as you did when first adjusting to your host country’s culture.
【小题1】What is Jimmy’s main purpose in writing the letter?

The man from the west stopped and drew back his arm. “You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he said in a quick and angry way, “Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to pug.”“It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tall man, “you’ve been under arrest for ten minutes. Silky Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and phones us she wants to have a word with you. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. Now before we go to the station, here’s a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It’s from Patrolman Wells.?”The man from the West opened the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he finished. The note was rather short. Bob: I was at the right place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man (便衣) to do the job.

The man from the West must have broken the law _____.

A. in Chicago    B. in New York    C. in his hometown    D. somewhere else

The man from the West recognized the tall man not to be the one he had been waiting for because the tall man ____.

A. had a different accent from his       B. had a different nose from his friend’s

C. was his another old friend           D. said "Chicago wants to talk with you.?"

The two men may have walked _____.

A. for ten minutes    B. arm in arm     C. face to face       D. both A and B

We can suppose Jim _____.

A. was afraid of the man from the West

B. got another man to help him when necessary

C. had an appointment with Bob 20 years ago

D. had something else to do and couldn’t come himself

第二节完形填空（20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

A Washed Day

In the faint light of the attic（阁楼）, an old man, bent down and made his way to a pile of boxes . Brushing aside a lot of  36  , he began to lift out one old 37  after another.

He  38  opened the long buried treasures and soon was 39  in a sea of memories.

Setting  40  one of the dusty albums, he pulled from the box what to be a  41  from his grown son's childhood. He  42  not recall ever having seen it before,  43  that his son had ever kept a journal. Opening the  44  pages, he glanced over a short reading, and his  45  curved in an unconscious smile.  46  his eyes brightened as he read the words. It was the voice of the little boy who had grown up far too fast in this  47  house, and whose voice had grown fainter and fainter over the  48 . The words of a  six-year-old  49  the old man back to a time  50  totally forgotten.

Reminded that he had kept a daily journal of his  51 activities over the years, he closed his son's journal. Opening a glass cabinet door, he reached in and  52  an old business journal. Then he sat down at his desk and  53  the two journals beside each other. As he opened his journal, the old man's eyes fell upon several words that  54 .  In his own neat handwriting were these words:

55 the whole day fishing with Jimmy. Didn't catch a thing. With a deep sigh and a shaking hand, he took Jimmy's journal and found the boy's entry for the same day: Went fishing with my dad. Best day of my life.

36.A. sweat       B. water         C. dust       D. rain

37.A. diary        B. album         C. book      D. dictionaries

38.A. carefully       B. carelessly      C. casually      D. anxiously

39.A. surprised      B. disappointed      C. interested   D. lost

40.A. aside        B. up             C. off         D. out

41.A. photograph   B. letter          C. journal          D. card

42.A. could       B. would         C. should     D. might

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

44.A. colored     B. yellowed       C. turned     D. touched

45.A. nose         B. eyes           C. ears       D. lips

46.A. Thus        B. Then          C. Even      D. However

47.A. very         B. just            C. poor      D. big

48.A. hours       B. weeks         C. months       D. years

49.A. forced      B. carried              C. left        D. made

50.A. seldom     B. hardly         C. almost     D. never

51.A. politics     B. business        C. science       D. holiday

52.A. pulled up      B. Pulled off      C. pulled out   D. pulled over

53.A. placed      B. threw         C. hid        D. read

54.A. picked out    B. stood out       C. worked out D. took out

55.A. Spend      B. Enjoyed        C. Spared         D. Wasted