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
Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not   36  . I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much   37  than others.
I hated going to school and I hated   38   at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing   39  and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the   40  and seeing an ugly and hunchback(驼背).
My friends found me   41  because I didn’t let other get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life   42  Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school—a spot where no one would
43  me. That’s when I first heard your voice.
“Hi. Can I sit down?”
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.
“What are you looking at?” you asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No   44  .”
“I bet they’re playing games and make friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our   45  started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche(处境)—until it was sunset.
Then suddenly, you saw my   46  . She just stared.
My heart   47  . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would   48   me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know why your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be   50  . I begged in my heart for her to   51  , but you just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answered   52  .
She bent and whispered in my ears.
“Your back is bunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”
I was   53  . I looked into your eyes and her   54  touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to   55  myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind – hearted friend.
36．A．them B．it      C．mo    D．her
37．A．sadder      B．shorter      C．weaker     D．slower
38．A．looking    B．smiling     C．aiming      D．glaring
39．A．still   B．alone C．straight     D．together
40．A．street B．sun    C．corner      D．mirror
41．A．distant      B．stubborn   C．hopeless    D．unfortunate
42．A．after  B．before      C．since D．until
43．A．disturb     B．seek  C．interrupt   D．ignore
44．A．wonder     B．idea   C．sign   D．action
45．A．connection       B．competition      C．conversation     D．comprehension
46．A．face  B．back  C．eyes  D．shoulders
47．A．sank  B．beat   C．broke       D．ached
48．A．care for    B．rely on     C．look down upon      D．put up with
49．A．that   B．how  C．whether    D．why
50．A．accused    B．arrested    C．punished   D．sentenced
51．A．relax B．leave C．stop   D．pause
52．A．shyly B．weakly     C．proudly    D．firmly
53．A．astonished B．ashamed   C．annoyed    D．amused
54．A．wisdom    B．generosity C．honesty     D．kindness
55．A．control     B．like   C．comfort    D．enjoy

Everyone knows that the French are romantic, the Italian are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Or do they? Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?
At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (实业家) in the UK found that 70 percent felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public .
Britain is hostile to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy (嫉妒) . As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood”. Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green-eyed monster” and the UK is its home. Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. Some were given a little, others a great deal. Those given a little money were given the chance to destroy the large amounts of money given to others—but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.
This seems to prove the entrepreneurs were right to complain. But there is also conflicting evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently reported that the UK was now the world’s fourth largest economy .That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy , either .
“It’s not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a Professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It’s people using their success in a way that seems arrogant (傲慢) or unfair or which separates them from their roots .”
Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem. They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them. It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.
【小题1】What does the underlined “it” in the second paragraph refer to?

A．Jealousy is Britain’s national character

B．British entrepreneurs are not fairly treated

C．the scientists are Warwich University did a successful test

D．the British dislike the entrepreneurs because they do not behave properly

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，选出可以填入的空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about   36  in work and life.
Before offering his guests   37 , the professor went to the kitchen and   38  with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups -- porcelain（瓷）, plastic, glass, crystal, some   39  and cheap, some exquisite（精致的）and   40 -- telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you   41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups were   42  up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is   __43 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the   44  of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself   45  no quality to the coffee. In most cases   46  is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you   47  wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously   48  for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this:   49  is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to   50  life, and the type of cup we have does not define（规定）, nor change the   51  of life we live. Sometimes, by   52  only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has offered us.
God brews（酿造）the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
“The   53  people don’t have the best of everything: They just   54  the best of everything.”
Live simply. Love   55 . Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

【小题13】

A．looked B．searched C．applied D．went

【小题16】

A．quality B．quantity C．character D．value

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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，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。
Most people hate rock music.  36  I am not by nature an unpersonable or biased (有偏见的)person, two personal  37  of rock music during the past two weeks have  38  me that it has become a  39  for those of us with enough common sense to see its potential dangers to  40  . My first experience was the  41 that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music through headphones, he replied in an  42  loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his  43  . The second occurred when I went with him to a “  44  ” and saw for myself what these affairs are like.
45 I went to that concert, I had always taken the “live-and-let-live”  46  that rock music was simply not my taste but that other people had every  47  to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard made me believe that we are  48  something very powerful to take possession of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, brought about by the  49  level. But secondly, and far more  50  , I observed that after a time everyone was  51  by the noise. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless  52  who clapped and stamped and jumped around like  53  . I seriously believe that in time to come our  54 younger generation would thank us if we managed to put a  55  to it now.
36. A. If                       B. While               C. When                D. Even
37. A. happenings          B. hearings            C. experiences        D. affairs
38. A. persuaded           B. treated                     C. punished           D. encouraged
39. A. job                            B. problem            C. pleasure            D. duty
40. A. let them out        B. pick them up     C. find them out     D. point them out
41. A. satisfaction          B. realization         C. excitement         D. disappointment
42. A. unnaturally         B. unfairly             C. unfortunately     D. unexpectedly
43. A. hearing               B. mind                 C. voice                D. thought
44. A. lecture                B. party                 C. concert              D. ball
45. A. Since                  B. Until                 C. After                 D. As
46. A. attitude               B. decision            C. chance                 D. opinion
47. A. position                 B. reason               C. right                 D. time
48. A. inviting                 B. leading              C. allowing            D. preventing
49. A. dance                 B. music                C. sound                D. noise
50. A. safely                 B. obviously          C. naturally           D. dangerously
51. A. carried along          B. carried out         C. taken on        D. brought up
52. A. team                   B. crowd               C. group                D. people
53. A. artists                 B. dancers             C. monkeys           D. sportsmen
54. A. modern               B. former                     C. lovely               D. present
55. A. measure                 B. stop                  C. praise                D. start

I made a pledge (发誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. Totally loving .  No ifs, ands or buts.
The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting (引用) a Biblical (圣经的) passage about husbands being thoughtful（体贴的） of their wives. Then he went on to say," Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love." To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well , for  two weeks that would change.
And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said," That new yellow sweater looks great on you."
"Oh, Tom, you noticed," she said, surprised and pleased, maybe a little puzzled.
After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, "Evelyn's been alone here with the kids all the week and now she wants to stay with me. " We walked on the beach while the children flew their kites.
So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that's how the whole vacation passed, I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love. There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. Last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression.
“What’s the matter?” I asked her.
“ Tom ,” se said in a voice filled with distress, “ do you know something I don’t?”
"What do you mean?"
"Well...that checkup(体检) I had several weeks ago...our doctor...did he tell you something about me? Tom , you've been so good to me... am I dying?"
It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing.
"No, honey," I said, wrapping her in my arms. "You're not dying; I'm just staring to live."
71.  In the first paragraph, "No ifs, ands or buts" probably means___.
A. unnecessarily     B. unexpectedly    C.   impossibly    D. unconditionally
72. From the story we may infer that Tom went to the beach cottage___.
A. with his family    B. with Evelyn     C. alone           D. with his children
73. During the two weeks on the beach, Tom showed more love to his wife because___.
A. she looked lovely in her new clothes
B. he had made a lot of money in Wall Street
C. he was determined to be a good husband
D. she was seriously ill
74.  The underlined words "one thing" in the passage refer to the fact that___.
A. he praised her sweater, which puzzled her
B. she insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated
C. he knew something about her illness but didn't tell her
D. he was so good to her that she thought she must be dying
75.  By saying "I'm just starting to live", Tom means that___.
A. he is just beginning to understand the real meaning of life
B. he is just beginning to enjoy his life as a loving husband
C. he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change
D. he is beginning to feel regretful for what he did to his wife