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，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to ___31___ a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to ___32___ the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the___33___ and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman ___34___ her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s __35____,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother __36____.”
“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an ___37___,and then asked,“could you drive ___38___ downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I ___39____ reached over and__40____ the meter(计价器)
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, __41____ the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop __42____had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a __43____ building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.
__44____, she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“___45___ do I owe you?”she asked.
“Nothing,”I said.
“You ___46___ make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other ___47_____.”I answered.
Almost without thinking. I __48____ and gave her a hug. She __49____ me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of __50____.”

He is a new comer. There is no one _____, so let’s go and help him, shall we?

A．who to turn to                          B．for him to turn

C．for whom to turn                        D．he can turn to

Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed.

When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the _6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.

One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.

To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend —a photograph of her  __10__   as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12_ some day. She didn’t want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.

The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.

1.                A．appearance     B．salary          C．future    D．apartment

2.                A．worried        B．regret          C．happy    D．sensitive

3.                A．futures         B．ways           C．goals D．courses

4.                A．excited         B．mad           C．puzzling  D．heartbroken

5.                A．confidence      B．position         C．independence D．freedom

6.                A．main           B．beautiful        C．hard D．heavy

7.                A．office          B．family          C．studio    D．company

8.                A．running        B．driving         C．walking   D．wandering

9.                A．recognized      B．noticed         C．understood    D．memorized

10.               A．glaring         B．talking         C．smiling    D．crying

11.               A．fortunately      B．recently        C．difficultly  D．actually

12.               A．come          B．make          C．succeed   D．suffer

13.               A．illness          B．heart          C．cranes    D．sadness

14.               A．husband        B．parents         C．friends    D．son

15.               A．heatedly        B．hardly          C．excitedly  D．sadly

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(共5分)

—Mary，we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we’ ll have a good time. _____

    —I’ d like to. ______

    —In our classroom. We are going to decorate it and turn it into a splendid ballroom.

    —_____ I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.

    —But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance. ____

    —I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear，though.

    —I heard you sing once. _____ I’ m sure you’ll be the star of our New Year party.

    —Oh，thank you.

A. Your voice was sweet and beautiful.         

B. Where are you going to have it？

C. Would you like to join us?              

D. Thank you for inviting me.

 E. Oh, it is great.

 F. Let’s go to the ball together.

G. Do sing us some English songs，please.

 —Beautiful day isn’t it? Let’s go out for a picnic.

—______.

A．Sounds great       B．That’s all right     C．Good luck         D．Have fun