Today, if you find something useful on the Internet, you can download and ________ it in your personal computer file ( 文档).

A. save   B. spare  C. share  D. turn

It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.

But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   7  .

As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11  :

She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy    17    one in the morning…

   It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!

   And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

1. A. admit                 B. adopt                    C. deny                    D. refuse

2. A. intended             B. liked                      C. tended                     D. hesitated

3. A. stress                B. spare                     C. strengthen                   D. spend

4. A. poor                  B. great                     C. faithless                   D. pretty

5. A. merely               B. usually                  C. never                       D. often

6. A. wished              B. hoped                 C. expected                  D. desired

7. A. supported           B. understood             C. approved                 D. disgusted

8. A. 1iving-room         B. kitchen                  C. bed loom                 D. study

9. A. including            B. containing             C. possessing                   D. pinning

10. A. handwriting      B. description             C. tone                        D. scratch

11. A. wrote               B. recorded                C. memorized               D. read

12. A. event               B. content             C. schedule                  D. circumstance

13. A. or                    B. for                        C. but                          D. so

14. A. At                    B. In                         C. On                          D. By

15. A. impressed        B. printed                      C. presented                 D. pressed

16. A. buy                 B. abandon                C. get                          D. swap

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

18. A. see                         B. hear                      C. realize                     D. tell

19. A. actual              B. true                       C. imaginary             D. visual

20. A. sad                  B. bitter                     C. happy                      D. exciting

Computers can help those who don’t 　　 a common language talking to each other.

A.share　　　　　B.spare　　　　　　C.require　　　　　　　D.care

A few years ago I was at an international conference with nearly 700 participants. One afternoon I_31  a very crowded talk by a famous author. The hall filled quickly and soon there were no  32   left , so many dozens of people were standing around the edges.

I saw a very elderly man, stooped(驼背的) slightly with age,   33   against the wall. I immediately got up, told those sitting beside me to   34   the place for him and made my way to him. When I offered my seat to him , he looked  35    and started to refuse , but I would have   36   of that. He asked me my name and thanked me deeply, and then made his  37   back into my row and sat comfortably. Many people who  38   our exchange turned to say what a kind thing I had done. I kept saying , “it’s nothing  39  . I m from Canada, it’s normal for us to help other people!” 

A few minutes later, the man sitting next to the elderly man  40   to leave the hall for another talk and the elderly man   41   to me to return and sit beside him.   42   I resisted, thinking someone else might need it more, but people sitting around him started to repeat my  43 , asking me to come and sit! So I returned and sat beside the gentleman for the  44  .

when the talk was over ,the man thanked me again and  45   asked if I knew who he was . I had no idea. He then looked quite delighted and  46  me a household name that I recognized immediately!

I was astonished to have been sitting next to him,  47  he was excited to think I had given up my seat for him  48   knowing who he was! Again I had to tell him where I come from , and it’s the  49   thing to do! I have felt more blessed to be a Canadian since that day, for seeing how easy it is to  50  someone and how rare it seemed to so many people.

31. A. missed            B. gave           C. expected         D. attended

32. A. seats              B. rooms         C. topics            D. rows

33. A. turning            B. walking        C. leaning           D. lying

34. A. move             B. spare          C. take              D. hold

35. A. glad              B. satisfied        C. disappointed       D. surprised

36. A. nothing           B. none           C. something         D. anything

37. A. living            B. fortune           C. direction           D. way

38. A. witnessed         B. confirmed         C. remembered        D. experienced

39. A. easy             B. popular            C. special            D. funny

40. A. agreed           B. refused             C. chose             D. forgot

41. A. sent             B. signaled            C. rolled             D. said

42. A. At last           B. At least             C. At most           D. At first

43. A. action            B. name              C. dream            D. address

44. A. game            B. discussion           C. course            D. talk  

45. A. quietly           B. loudly.              C. proudly           D. angrily  

46. A. shared            B. told                C. asked             D. answered  

47. A. as if              B. even if             C. so                D .but  

48. A. by               B. without              C. through           D. after

49. A. strange           B. secret               C. normal            D. hard  

50. A. help              B. accept              C. praise            D. trust   

III. 完形填空（共20小题；每小1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从33—52各题所给的四个选项 (A，B，C和D)，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his  33  time, he likes to get out in the country and take some  34  of animals.

For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his  35 . But his father didn’t take Bill along with him  36  he was fifteen.

He and Bill drove to the farm which  37  to his uncle in the afternoon. They  38  the night there, so that they could  39  out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm  40  the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember  41  he was. He turned over  42 and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he 43  that he was at the  44  and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got  45  quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the  46 . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It  47  good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk  48 , because they didn’t want to  49  up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle  50  hot coffee and took some sandwiches  51  Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera  52  and started out.

33. A. busy      B. spare          C. enough       D. limited

34. A. foods            B. drawings       C. paintings      D. pictures

35. A. trips             B. buses          C. holidays       D. mountains

36. A. after             B. when          C. until          D. unless

37. A. led              B. stuck          C. got           D. belonged

38. A. cost       B. spent          C. slept           D. took

39. A. start             B. begin          C. walk          D. step

40. A. telephone  B. machine       C. bell          D. clock

41. A. where     B. how          C. who          D. what

42. A. quickly    B. sleepily        C. quietly              D. suddenly

43. A. imagined         B. pronounced    C. forgot        D. remembered

44. A. mountain   B. town          C. farm         D. station

45. A. dressed      B. ordered        C. eaten          D. prepared

46. A. bathroom  B. kitchen        C. dining-room    D. sitting-room

47. A. seemed     B. felt           C. tasted          D. smelled

48. A. many      B. soundly       C. much               D. highly

49. A. wake      B. go            C. put           D. come

50. A. of         B. with          C. in            D. by

51. A. that       B. what          C. after          D. before

52. A. cover      B. supply        C. operator       D. equipment