第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

通读下面短文，了解其大意，然后从21—40各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

The funeral（葬礼）I attended yesterday was for an 87-year-old man. I’ve almost forgotten __21_  relationship he had with my family, but his story   22   made me sit down and think for a while

His wife   23   last July. After that he refused to eat. He would throw away food that was passed to him and you could hear him cry   24  at night. His son and daughter   25  to comfort him but his children’s   26  would always bring despair（绝望）to him. He would always   27  about his days while his wife was still with him. And every day, he did   28 , but just recalled the days he spent with his  29 . He couldn’t eat or sleep. His daughter described him, “You see no   30  in him, only sorrow and despair. His only   31 was to join his wife. He gave up all hope of living till he   32 .”

At the age of 87, a man can still   33   his wife to the extent of giving up his life. What a  34  story. It just set me thinking. I have seen some couples who quarrel every day and every   35 . I have seen some husbands who treat their wife   36 . I’ve heard of many couples who part(分手) because they are no   37   in love. And I’ve heard of so many“fall out of love” stories that at times I don’t   38   why such people fell in love at first. The old man’s story makes me wonder   39  , I, too, am able to find someone who loves me so deeply, I will   40   her everything. I mean, it’s lovely and romantic, isn’t it?

21. A. that                 B. what          C. which              D. whether      

22. A. simply         B. merely            C. really                  D. truly  

23. A. passed away  B. caught cold   C. got hurt         D. went abroad

24. A. hopefully    B. sadly               C. happily            D. excitedly     

25. A. managed         B. planned          C. tried                  D. intended

26. A. efforts     B. works            C. businesses          D. ways  

27. A. say                     B. talk                     C. tell             D. add           

28. A. everything   B. anything          C. something     D. nothing     

29. A. family         B. son                    C. daughter        D. wife        

30. A. pride            B. power            C. life                D. energy    

31. A. wish               B. plan                      C. suggestion          D. opinion     

32. A. succeeded    B. lost                     C. failed                D. died          

33. A. need               B. want                     C. help                  D. love

34. A. surprising       B. moving          C. boring           D. disappointing

35. A. time               B. hour                     C. night           D. moment    

36. A. well               B. kindly            C. calmly           D. badly

37. A. fewer             B. longer            C. less        D. better

38. A. understand  B. expect                C. doubt            D. regret       

39. A. because    B. so                  C. if                  D. since

40. A. give              B. make                     C. send             D. arrange

—Tom hadn’t worked hard and failed in the exam. But he said that was because the problems were too hard.
—That is “    .”

A fad diet is a diet that suddenly becomes popular, usually because it promises people that they will lose a lot of weight overnight. Although dieters may really show weight loss from a fad diet, they will almost certainly get back the weight if their usual eating habits (习惯) remain unchanged. Moreover, fad diets continuously call for special products of questionable value or for “health foods” that may cost twice as much as supermarket(超市) foods. Worse yet, certain fad diets don't include nutrients(营养)good for health. People have been known to become very ill as a result of following medically unhealthy diets.
The worse fact of fad diets, though, is that they keep people who are over-weight or sick from receiving the medical care that they truly need.
【小题1】The word “fad” in the first sentence means ______.

William James, the great psychologist (心理学家), said that most men are “old fogies (守旧者) at twenty-five”. He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have closed their minds to all new ideas; they have stopped to grow.

The minute a man stops to grow –no matter what his years –that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. Goethe passed away at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense (extremely large).”

And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?”

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, “I grew”, he is still young.

The minute he ceases (stops) to grow, the minute he says to himself, “I know all that I need to know,” –that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five; it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

According to William James, _______.

A. most people are not open to new ideas before 25.

B. few people continue to improve themselves after 25.

C. some people still try to make progress after 25.

D. all the people stop to make progress after 25.

The author mentions Goethe, Gladstone and Laplace to show that _____.

A. the great man stops to grow that minute he begins to be old.

B. the really great man never grows old.

C. the great man usually dies young.

D. the really great man never dies.

What do we know about Laplace?

A. He was a great writer.

B. He was not pleased with what he had learned.

C. He thought he was one of the greatest man.

D. He thought he was old when he was 25.

The author probably agrees with _______.

A. people should be pleased with what they have.

B. people should try to make a great difference.

C. people should cease to grow when they are 25.

D. people should not be satisfied with what they know.

第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节  阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项 (A，B，C，D) 中，选出最佳选项。

Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects...

One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged（露出） easily.

But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract（收缩） in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

 Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly.

56. What did the old man find when walking through the woods?

         A. A cocoon of a butterfly.                                    B. A butterfly.

         C. A spider.                                                               D. A pair of scissors.

57. What would have happened to the butterfly without the old man’s help?

         A. It would have died in the cocoon.                

         B. It would have become a true butterfly.

         C. It would have been strong enough to go farther.

         D. It would have stopped struggling through the cocoon.

58. The underlined word “cripple” in Paragraph 7 probably means ______.

         A. disable                            B. climb                      C. enable                    D. beat

59. What can we learn from this story?

         A. Man can never go against nature.

         B. It’s necessary to live with some difficulties.

         C. One cannot help others without thinking twice.

         D. Mankind should take good care of insects.