第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Billy was still a child when his parents left their hometown in search of a better life in the North. I had the pleasure of meeting him in his early years in a public school in New York. I had to
21   a class of English language learners for a   22  in world history and geography.
What this boy needed was to know how he could succeed. I could have   23  him the textbook and idly (无所事事地) sat down, and he would have read the entire book within a week and   24   for another. And so, as he sat before me   25  to learn, I knew that he would be a
26  .
Towards the end of the   27  that year, he came to me with tears in his eyes to tell me he would have to move to another district, where there were few   28   for English language learners. In addition, the district   29  that he take the state test in June,   30  he had only completed three-quarters of the first year of a two-year course! It was then that I told him what I had   31  the very first day I met him.
“You will be   32  wherever you go. They could   33   you like Napoleon to some faraway island, and you would   34  find your way to greatness.” He looked at me and   35  . Needless to say, he passed the test with high marks. He graduated with   36 , and was the only student that year   37  to Harvard University on a full scholarship (奖学金).
This boy was like a Picasso. He was born to   38 . But even a Picasso needs a   39  . The public school system (系统) gives every child a chance to   40  , only if every teacher realizes that to educate a child is to open a world of possibilities — that to educate a child is to change the world.
21. A. find                    B. organize            C. prepare             D. monitor
22. A. homework          B. test                  C. speech              D. competition
23. A. handed                  B. left                  C. borrowed          D. awarded
24. A. paid                   B. waited              C. asked                      D. struggled
25. A. curious               B. patient                     C. ready                D. eager
26. A. star                    B. historian           C. teacher             D. geographer
27. A. meeting                     B. activity             C. course              D. class
28. A. services              B. libraries            C. foreigners         D. friends
29. A. reminded           B. insisted             C. expected           D. Remarked
30. A. now that             B. as if                  C. in case                     D. even though
31. A. felt                            B. experienced              C. wanted              D. hoped
32. A. careful                B. brave                C. popular            D. successful
33. A. lead                   B. treat                 C. drive                 D. follow
34. A. even                   B. yet                    C. ever                  D. still
35. A. cried                  B. smiled              C. sighed              D. trembled
36. A. courage                     B. honors              C. praise                D. warmth
37. A. admitted             B. intended            C. offered                 D. charged
38. A. poverty              B. wealth              C. hardship           D. greatness
39. A. chance                      B. help                  C. support             D. comfort
40. A. choose                B. play                 C. achieve             D. Think

-I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Okla. ___31__ the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail I__32__out of old boards.
　　I got my first__33__job, at JM’s Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibilities(职责) were__34__tables and washing dishes,__35__sometimes I helped cook.
　　Every day after school I would__36__to JM’s and work until ten. Even on Saturdays I__37__from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to work and__38__my friends run off to swim or play. I didn’t necessarily like work, but I loved what working__39__me to have. Because of my__40__I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local Tastee Freez. This made me__41__.
　　Word that I was trustworthy and hard-working__42__around town. A local clothing store offered me credit (赊帐)__43__I was only in seventh grade. I immediately__44__a $68 sports coat and a $22 pair of shoes. I was__45__only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed the storekeeper $90! So I learned__46__the danger of easy credit. I paid it__47__as soon as I could.
My first job taught me self-control, responsibility and brought me a__48__of personal satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father,__49__worked three jobs, once told me, "If you__50__sacrifice(奉献) and responsibility, there are not many things in life you can’t have." How right he was.

第三节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、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。

There is an old man in the village that everybody___21___asks him for help whenever they come____22___problems．He is named the No 1___23___man in the world．

In the village，there is one young man who is also very___24___．So he is very unhappy___25_______ the old man could be more___26___than him．One day he___27___the old man with a bird in his hand．He asked the old man a___28___question: “ Is the bird in my hand dead or alive?”

The old man___29___at the bird and answered: “Whether the bird is dead or not___30___on you．If I say it is alive，you will___31___the bird to death．If I say it is dead, you will set it___32___．So when things are in your hands, you___33___your own fate．”

On most occasions, the__34___of whether success or failure___35___our hands．It is your________36___whether you want to succeed or not．__37___you cannot control certain events that___38___, you can choose how___39___want to react．Exercise your___40___of positive thinking．And then you will find you are getting more and more clever, and are able to solve problems much more easily．

21．A．never                  B．always                C．seldom                D．often

22．A．over                   B．with                    C．across                 D．to

23．A．wise                   B．stupid                 C．brave                  D．kind

24．A．intelligent           B．helpful                C．active                  D．promising

25．A．because               B．that                     C．though                D．when

26．A．foolish                B．popular               C．lovely                 D．promising

27．A．showed               B．provided             C．attracted              D．approached

28．A．simple                B．puzzling              C．silly                    D．familiar

29．A．turned                 B．called                  C．looked                D．glared

30．A．falls                    B．depends               C．trusts                  D．stands

31．A．kill                     B．shoot                  C．squeeze               D．frighten

32．A．up                      B．down                  C．about                  D．free

33．A．decide                 B．tell                     C．try                      D．win  

34．A．question              B．outcome              C．factor                  D．truth

35．A．puts up               B．goes away           C．lies in                 D．takes in

36．A．view                   B．opinion               C．idea                    D．choice

37．A．Since                  B．As                      C．Although             D．Whether

38．A．occur                  B．go                      C．present                D．have

39．A．others                 B．we                      C．you                     D．they

40．A．energy                B．power                 C．force                   D．strength

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A man was exploring caves by the seashore when he found a bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had  31  the balls and left them out in the dun to bake.
They didn’t look like much, but they   32  intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he walked along the beach, he   33  the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could. He thought little about it  34  he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open（裂开）on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!   35  , the man started breaking open the   36  balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars’   37  of jewels in the 20 or so leftover ones.
Then it   38  him. He’d been on the beach a long time, throwing maybe 50 or 60 of the balls, with their hidden treasure, into the   39  . Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he  40  have taken home tens of thousands but he had just thrown it away!
It’s like that   41  people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, but we  42  see the clay shell. It doesn’t look like much from the   43  . It isn’t always beautiful or shining, so we  44  it. we see that person as less important than someone more  45  or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we haven’t taken the time to find the treasure  46  inside that person.
There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person and ask God to show us that person the  47  He sees them, then the clay begins to  48  and the brilliant jewel begins to shine forth. May we not come to the  49  of our lives and find out that we’ve thrown away a   50  in friendships because the gems were hidden in balls of clay! May we see the people in our world as God sees them.
31．A．invented      B．rolled              C．handled       D．bounced
32．A．confused      B．encouraged      C．interested     D．relaxed
33．A．dipped         B．pushed         C．kicked         D．threw
34．A．until         B．when         C．since         D．though
35．A．Frightened       B．Determined      C．Excited        D．Disappointed
36．A．shining        B．floating       C．surviving     D．remaining
37．A．worth          B．value         C．cost          D．wealth
38．A．shocked       B．rejected       C．struck          D．delighted
39．A．caves          B．waves          C．seashore       D．storms
40．A．might          B．must         C．could         D．should
41．A．with         B．towards       C．about         D．between
42．A．hardly         B．actually       C．simply         D．luckily
43．A．distance       B．outside        C．weight         D．pattern
44．A．removed      B．suspected     C．ignored        D．reserved
45．A．beautiful      B．cautious       C．positive       D．grateful
46．A． lost         B．hidden         C．divided        D．mixed
47．A．moment       B．point         C．degree         D．way
48．A．come off     B．break away      C．take over     D．fall down
49．A．sight         B．best          C．middle         D．end
50．A．relation       B．position       C．fortune        D．memory

The most widespread fallacy（谬论）of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported people are free from colds until they come into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mails dropped from airplanes.

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches（战壕）, cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.

In the Second World War prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in a drafty（通风良好的）room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter？Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

31. The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.      

A. 4                B. 5                     C. 6                    D. 7

32. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The Eskimos suffer from colds from time to time.

B. Colds are not always caused by cold.

C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.

D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.

33. Arctic explorers may catch colds when they are _______.

A. working in the isolated arctic regions

B. writing reports in terribly cold weather

C. free from work in the isolated arctic regions

D. coming into touch again with the outside world

34. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit _______.

A. suffered a lot                                                  B. never caught colds

C. often caught colds                                    D. became very strong

35. The passage mainly discusses _______.

A. the experiments on the common cold        B. the fallacy about the common cold

C. the reason and the way people catch colds D. the continued spread of common colds