第二部分 阅读理解  (满分35分)

第一节　语篇阅读 (每小题2分)

阅读理解下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，指出能完成所给句子或回答所提问题的最佳答案。

Astronomy (天文学) is the oldest science known to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about heavens (天堂). But the six planets that he could see with his eyes alone limited man.

The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size, color, and brightness of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars move as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens.

Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Until there were telescopes (望远镜), man did not know much about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn (土星) had rings around it. His sight was so limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Pluto (冥王星), the last of the nine planets to be discovered was seen until 1930.

Before the spectroscopes (分光镜), man didn’t know what kind of gas was in the sun or other stars, without radio telescopes (射电望远镜), we did not know that radio noise came from far in space.

Today, astronomy is a growing science. We have learned more in the past fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

1Thousands of years ago, man watched ____ with his eyes.

A. the moon       B. the stars         C. the universe    D. all the planets

2 When the Greeks watched the stars, they could ____ .

A. know what the stars were made of     B. not see their places in the sky

C. help themselves study the heavens     D. watch the stars move as the seasons changed

3Until there were ____ , man knew very little about the moon.

A. telescopes      B. spectroscopes C. radio telescopes   D. spaceships

3People didn’t know about Pluto until ____ .

A. the 1700s      B. 2,000 years ago   C. 1930             D. thousands of years ago

5____ people began to do research on astronomy.

A. 50 years ago  B. 90 years ago  C. In the early 1700s      D. Over 2,000 years ago

Ⅱ. 语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节　完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30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。

Have you just been fired? Are you feeling like a failure? Don’t be sorry about that. Cheer yourself up and spread your wings. Perhaps another much better opportunity is awaiting you.  21 sometimes you don’t realize it, you’re asking to be fired.

    Dan Zawacki was a happy camper, selling computers for Honeywell. One holiday he was  22  creative gifts and then a good idea occurred to him — sending dinners, live lobsters (龙虾) — to his favorite customers. He  23   them himself with butter and put them in the trunk of his car between the computers and started delivering. It was a huge  24 .  As a result, one of his customers suggested they go into the lobster business together. Dan laughed. Still, this landlocked computer salesman  25  get the idea of lobsters out of his mind. Why not turn this into a hobby and make a few extra dollars? While on a job assignment in Chicago, he  26  a local radio station to give him a few plugs (插座) in 27  for some lobsters. Unfortunately, his boss heard his salesman selling lobsters, not computers. No surprisingly, Dan was let go. After returning the company’s car, he started to think maybe this was a  28.  Playing with his phone that night, Dan tried dialing 1-800-LIVE-LOB. The  29  was available, and Dan the Lobsterman was born. Today, 20 years later, Dan is still selling dinners, through his company, Lobster Gram.  And he couldn’t be happier.

    Many people who have been fired have found ways back to fulfilling careers. And they all learned that the pain and humiliation (羞辱) are temporary (暂时的). So do not be afraid to move 30   and try your wings. Gather your support system. Persevere! Firing doesn’t mean your life is over. It might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.

21    A. Because                B. When                C. Though                   D. If

22   A. searching for       B. making up        C. giving away            D. thinking up

23    A. packaged                B. sold                  C. tied                        D. placed

24    A. matter                    B. business            C. failure                      D. success

25    A. couldn’t         B. mustn’t            C. shouldn’t                    D. wouldn’t

26    A. permitted               B. hoped               C. persuaded            D. suggested

27   A. change               B. exchange          C. place               D. need

28   A. thing                B. sign                  C. pity                         D. pleasure

29   A. amount                 B. figure               C. note                         D. number

30    A. back                  B. aside                C. away                       D. on

第Ⅱ卷

第四部分：写作（共两节。满分35分）

第一节　短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横筑上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Some Americans judge success on the length                     76． ___________

of his vacations . The man who gets a month’s                                  77．  ___________

vacation each year consider himself more successful                         78．  ___________

than the man gets two weeks . Many people want                            79． ___________

to be teachers because it is teachers who can                                     80.  ___________

get three-month vacation every year . Some college                           81． ___________

teachers who teach the three classes consider                                    82． ___________

themselves less successful than that who teach                                  83． ___________

only one or two , or none in all . In short , the less                             84． ___________

work Americans do , the less successful they                                     85． ___________

consider themselves .