One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quiet   21   of the splendid artwork.

       A young   22   viewing the paintings ahead of me   23   nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s   24   for putting up with her   25   stream of words.   26   by their noise, I moved on.

       I met them several times as I moved   27   the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away   28  .

       I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a   29   when the couple approached the   30  . Before they left, the man   31   into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He   32   it into a long stick and then   33   his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.

       “He’s a   34   man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in   35   there is a new art show.”

       “But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”

       “Can’t see! You’re   36  . He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said. “His wife   37   each painting so he can see it in his head.”

       I learned something about patience,   38   and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without   39   and the courage of a husband who would not   40   blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, their arms intertwined.

A. touch      B. view   C. wander       D. scenery

A. lady B. man    C. couple D. clerk

A. yelled      B. shouted      C. screamed    D. chatted

A. attempt    B. independence     C. wisdom      D. patience

A. vivid       B. constant     C. casual D. vague

A. Adopted  B. Adapted     C. Conducted  D. Disturbed

A. through   B. to       C. towards      D. from  

A. anxiously B. urgently     C. quickly      D. worriedly

A. comment B. decision     C. purchase     D. profit

A. entrance B. exit     C. front   D. queue

A. plugged B. held    C. reached      D. bent

A. made     B. lengthened  C. brought      D. broadened

A. led B. found  C. forced D. tapped

A. brave     B. rough  C. smart  D. generous

A. wherever      B. whatever    C. whichever  D. whenever

A. right      B. silly    C. wrong D. unique

A. describes       B. draws  C. shows D. decorates

A. kindness       B. pride   C. enthusiasm D. courage

A. support  B. sight   C. expectation D. confidence

A. get B. hope   C. allow  D. cause

The Price of a Dream

I grew up poor, living with my wonderful mother. We had little money but plenty of love and attention.  I was   36   and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   37   a dream.

My dream was to be a sportsman.   38   I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field.  I was also   39  . My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me  40  to believe in myself. He   41  me the difference between having a dream and realizing the dream. One particular   42   with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.

It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended (推荐) me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—money for a new bike and new clothes, and the   43   of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   44   summer baseball to deal with the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. 

When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as   45   as I expected him to be.  “You have your whole life to work,” he said.  “Your playing days are limited. You can’t   46   to waste them.” I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the   47   that would explain   48   him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   49   in me.

“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked. “Three twenty-five an hour,” I replied.

“Well,” he asked, “is $3.25 an hour the   50   of a dream?”

That simple question made it   51   to me the difference between   52   something right now and following a dream. I   53   myself to sports that summer, and within the year I was   54   by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   55   a $20,000 contract. In 2000, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

1.A. happy              B. polite      C. shy          D. honest

2.A. lose               B. have        C. make         D. need

3.A. By the time        B. The time    C. At one time  D. At a time

4.A. right              B. popular     C. lucky        D. confident

5.A. how                B. why         C. when         D. whether

6.A. gave               B. taught      C. brought      D. asked

7.A. accident           B. matter      C. problem      D. experience

8.A. aim                B. idea        C. start        D. purpose

9.A. keep up            B. put up      C. give up      D. pick up

10.A. mad               B. happy       C. frightened   D. shameful

11.A. adopt             B. afford      C. affect       D. effect

12.A. answers           B. excuses     C. words        D. ways

13.A. for               B. to          C. on           D. in

14.A. sadness           B. regret      C. hopelessness D. disappointment

15.A. source            B. prize       C. price        D. allowance

16.A. direct            B. clear       C. clean        D. straight

17.A. wanting           B. changing    C. dreaming     D. choosing

18.A. provided          B. devoted     C. headed       D. imagined

19.A. worked            B. mentioned   C. fired        D. hired

20.A. paid              B. got         C. offered      D. signed

Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.

Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not ___11___ them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “But I don’t think anyone has the ___12___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___13___ sitting in their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___14___ out for one another. “We ___15___ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ___16___ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the ___17___. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ___18___, or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ___19___ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ___20___.”

1. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. rather

2. A. carefully       B. clearly       C. nervously   D. coldly

3. A familiar   B. unusual      C. expensive   D. interesting

4. A. curtained       B. open   C. old     D. broken

5. A. attends   B. belongs      C. goes    D. turns

6. A. meets     B. quarrels      C. sings   D. searches

7. A. where    B. why    C. when  D. how

8. A. politics   B. wealth C. health D. safety

9. A. keep      B. hold    C. let      D. protect

10. A. its B. his      C. their   D. your

11. A. round   B. on      C. about  D. to

12. A. right    B. chance       C. courage      D. mind

13. A. unlucky       B. unsafe C. disappointed     D. discouraged

14. A. set       B. let      C. hold    D. look

15. A. care     B. enter   C. watch  D. manage

16. A. group   B. set      C. number      D. crowd

17. A. judges  B. police C. firemen      D. doctors

18. A. work    B. burden       C. service       D. trouble

19. A. produce       B. find    C. get      D. help

20. A. anything      B. everything  C. harm   D. wrong

Bob and Annie had not known each other long before they became eager to get married:Bob because he wanted Annie and she because she could at least lead a life away from her1_____. When Mrs.Thompson 2_____ that they marry and live with her until they could get a 3 _____ of their own, Annie hesitated. Her idea of 4_____ had been something which 5 _____her a husband and an orderly, well-furnished home all at once. 6_____ she soon saw the 7_____  of this arrangement. She would, first of all, 8_____ from her present life into a house which was quiet and well run, not 9_____ her own; and she would be able to go on walking so that she and Bob could 10____ up all the more quickly for their own house. She would also get Bob, a good enough husband for any working-class 11_____:good-natured and 12_____ to be bent her way whenever it was 13 _____for her ends.

Things went well until her mother-in-law’s 14_____, when Annie had to give up her 15_____ and was at home all day. Her father-in-law became just a 16_____ figure in the house and 17____Bob became used to him, Annie began to find the old man’s constant 18_____in the house a source of growing annoyance(烦恼).

“He gets on my nerves, Bob,” she said. “And he hardly says a word all day.”

   “Well, I suppose he has a 19_____ to do as he likes,” Bob said mildly. “It’s his house not ours.” But to Annie, now looking after the house 20_____ it were her own, it was beginning to seem the other way about.

1.A.city           B. family         C. room          D. company

2.A.learned        B. thought        C. heard          D. suggested

3.A.stay           B. child          C. house          D. world

4.A.marriage       B. life           C. future           D. expectation

5.A.give           B. found         C. brought         D. searched

6.A.But            B. So           C. Instead          D. Besides

7.A.difficulty       B. advantage      C. trouble         D. result

8.A.leave          B. make          C. change         D. escape

9.A.of            B. on             C. like            D. for

10.A.earn          B. save           C. build           D. set

11.A.home        B. character        C. custom         D. girl

12.A.easy         B. ready           C. kind           D. lovely

13.A.necessary     B. right            C. important       D. helpful

14.A.illness        B. arrival          C. death           D. appearance

15.A.job           B. idea           C. decision          D. dream

16.A.active         B. funny          C. strange          D. silent

17.A.until          B. although        C. before           D. when

18.A.rest           B. work           C. presence         D. cough

19.A.right            B. way           C. wish           D. freedom

20.A.because         B. if             C. even though      D. as if

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。

We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago.I decided to   21    a car because we had sold the one we had in England before  22    home.Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was  23  .I had tried out a model like it before,but as I was not yet  24    driving in this city,my wife did not want me to collect it   25    so we went together to   26    it.We paid for the car and   27    the papers.They told us that there was   28    petrol(汽油) to take us to a garage,where we could fill up.The   29    garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there   30   .But when I turned into the main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing  31   me.I got out of   32    as fast as I could by backing into the garage  33    and the man behind   34    me.

“It’s such a problem to   35    to drive on the right side,isn’t it?”my wife said.“Yes,if only I had had a few lessons for   36   ,”I replied.“You had better go   37    on the way home,”my wife said.“You’d be sorry if you had   38    on the first day,wouldn’t you?”While we were talking,the man behind got out of his car and said in good English,“Would you mind telling me   39    you are thinking of leaving?   40    are you going to sit in your car all day?”

21.A.borrow                 B.drive                         C.buy                           D.choose

22.A.leaving                 B.making                            C.returning                   D.getting

23.A.right                    B.ready                        C.fixed                         D.sold

24.A.sure of                                                    B.satisfied with

C.interested in                                                  D.used to

25.A.on my own           B.right away                 C.in a hurry                  D.on the way

26.A.receive                 B.bring                        C.order                        D.fetch

27.A.accepted               B.wrote                        C.signed                       D.copied

28.A.little                     B.enough                      C.much                        D.no

29.A.best                      B.nearest                      C.quickest                    D.cleanest

30.A.lately                   B.directly                            C.safely                        D.slowly

31.A.after                     B.with                          C.around                      D.towards

32.A.their way                     B.the garage                 C.their sight                  D.the car

33.A.at last                   B.once more                 C.as usual                     D.as well

34.A.caught                  B.cheered                     C.shouted at                  D.chatted with

35.A.prepare                 B.continue                    C.choose                      D.remember

36.A.discussion             B.adventure                  C.experiment                D.practice

37.A.carefully               B.smoothly                   C.quickly                            D.differently

38.A.an error                                                   B.a problem

C.an accident                                                   D.a headache

39.A.when                    B.why                          C.how                          D.what

40.A.For                      B.Or                                   C.But                           D.So