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。

During my second year of college I had to look for another place to live in. One Sunday after church the pastor(牧师)   36   me to stay in his daughter’s room because she was studying abroad for one year.

To be honest, I really didn’t want to stay with the pastor’s family.   37   then he old me how much rent would be—a very   38__ figure that included one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about it and    39   to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to make   40   living arrangements, since the daughter was to   41   home. But they suggested I   42   a room with their son. By this time I seemed to have been adopted（收养）into their  43   -- her people became my people. I   44   accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be   45   to have a little sister. But when I later met her, I   46   that this idea of looking after her might be more interesting than I first   47   .

We finally fell in love, married, and have been   48   one another for many years. There have been times that life turned out to be   49   than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go   50 _  largely because we knew that somebody deeply cared.

It isn’t about marriage—it’s about   51 _  . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as   52 _ as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be   53   -- you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and   54   I will need you to look after me.”

Is there somebody you can   55  ? And is someone counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is someone to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

Would you like to be a king or queen? To have people waiting on you hand and foot? Many Americans experience this royal treatment every day. How? By being customers. The American idea of customer service is to make each customer the center of attention. Need proof? Just listen to the commercials. Most of them sound like the McDonald’s ad: “We do it all for you.” Actually, not all stores in America roll out the red carpet for their customers. But wherever you go, good customer service means making customers feel special.

People going shopping in America can expect to be treated with respect from the very beginning. Most places don’t have a “furniture street” or a “computer road” which allow you to compare prices easily. Instead, people often “let their fingers do the walking” through the store hot lines. From the first “hello”, customers receive a satisfying response to their questions. This initial contact can help them decide where to shop.

When customers get to the store, they are treated as honored guests. Customers don’t usually find store clerks sitting around watching TV or playing cards. Instead, the clerks greet them warmly and offer to help them find what they want. In most stores, the clear signs that label each department make shopping a breeze. Customers usually don’t have to ask how much items cost, since prices are clearly marked. And unless they’re at a flea market or a yard sale, they don’t bother trying to bargain.

When customers are ready to check out, they find the nearest and shortest checkout lane. But as Murphy’s Law would have it, whichever lane they get in, all the other lanes will move faster. Good stores open new checkout lanes when the lanes get too long. Some even offer express lanes for customers with 10 items or less. After they pay for their purchases, customers receive a smile and a warm “thank you” from the clerk. Many stores even allow customers to take their shopping carts out to the parking lot. That way, they don’t have to carry heavy bags out to the car.

1. By quoting (引用) the McDonald’s ad: “We do it all for you”, the author intends to_______.

A. suggest that customers believe what commercials say deeply

B. show readers the American idea on good customer service

C. express all the stores pay much attention to the customers

D. persuade readers to choose the stores with ads correctly

2. In the USA, what may you do at first if you want to do some shopping?

A. To visit a professional street with lots of similar stores.

B. To compare prices in many shops in the same street.

C. To make phone calls and get better shopping choices.

D. To receive other customers’ answers to the questions.

3. The Underlined words “a breeze” in Para.3 most probably means _________.

A. an easy job　　  B. a trouble　　    C. a funny thing　　    D. a boring task

4. Which of the followings shows American stores offer convenience to customers in this passage?

A. The store clerks don’t usually sit around watching TV or playing cards.

B. Some stores offer price bargain to the customers like a yard sale.

C. The clerks give customers a smile and a warm “thank you” after paying.

D. Some stores open new checkout lanes when the lanes are crowded.

第二节  完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意；然后从36—55各小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

You may go to karaoke or disco clubs with your friends during the summer holidays. But be careful. In these   36   places you may see people selling small, colorful pills. Make sure you don’t try them.

The seller   37   say they are safe and can help you enjoy yourself or   38   from sadness. They may even offer you a free    39  , and tell you that everybody is using   40   .

But you must be alert to the   41   that these drugs could destroy your life.

When you put them into your body, often  42   swallowing, breathing in or injecting, drugs find their way into your brain.

Drugs may either speed up  43    slow down your senses. Their effects are different depending on body size, shape, and chemistry.  44   it can make you feel good at first, a drug can do a lot of  45    to your body and brain.

One of the most popular drugs in nightclubs is the so-called head-shaking or ecstasy pill. The drug hits users with a fast high speed,   46  them feel powerful and full of   47  . Heart rate, breathing and blood pressure   48  risking damage to your nerve system(神经系统). Marijuana(大麻) is a   49   used illegal drug. It is called the gateway drug, because using it sometimes   50   harder drugs. It is mostly smoked in a cigarette.

There is  51    risk related to taking drugs that must be   52   . Sharing a needle to inject a drug puts a user at a very   53   risk of being affected with HIV.

Drugs may appear in many different   54   , some with cool names, but taking them could

  55   your health forever.

36．A．boring    B．exciting      C．noisy          D．surprising

37．A．may       B．must            C．should         D．can

38．A．keep      B．stay            C．escape         D．stop

39．A．drink     B．try             C．cigarette      D．taste

40．A．it       B．him            C．her            D．them

41．A．fact        B．problem        C．trouble        D．reality

42．A．with       B．for             C．by          D．in

43．A．and        B．so             C．but             D．or

44．A．Although B．Because      C．If              D．Despite

45．A．hurt       B．injury         C．damage         D．harm

46．A．driving   B．having        C．making         D．keeping

As a boy, Charles Robert Darwin collected anything that caught his interest: insects, coins and interesting stones. He was not very clever, but Darwin was good at doing the things that interested him.

    His father was a doctor, so Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. But Charles found the lectures boring. Then his father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest. While at Cambridge, Darwin’s interest in zoology and geography grew. Later he got a letter from Robert Fitzroy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship, the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended(推荐). That voyage was the start of Darwin’s great life.

    As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. After he was home, he set to work, getting his collection in order. His first great work The Zoology of the Beagle was well received, but he was slow to make public his ideas on the origin of life.

    Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, produced a paper together. Darwin’s great book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (《物种起源》) appeared. It attracted a storm. People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea! Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.

    Afterwards, he published another great work, The Descent of Man. His health grew worse, but he still worked. “When I have to give up observation, I shall die,” he said. He was still working on 17, April, 1882. He was dead two days later.

1.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Charles Darwin’s ideas  

B. Charles Darwin’s works 

C. Father of modern biology: Charles Darwin    

D. The greatest scientist: Charles Darwin

2.Darwin’s father sent him to Edinburgh to _____.

A. make him like natural history       

B. make him become a doctor 

C. let him change his hobbies         

D. have him give up his collection

3.According to the passage, Charles Darwin’s whole life was changed by _____.

A. his study at Cambridge University  

B. his collection of coins

C. the naturalists at Cambridge       

D. the voyage of the Beagle

4.The underlined part “they were descended from monkeys” probably means “_____”.

A. they gave monkeys life

B. they were different from monkeys

C. they were developed from monkeys    

D. they had to live with monkeys

— How do you find the new book by JK Rowling?

—__________. I guess she is out of her talent.

A. With the help of my mother.          B. By accident.

C. Very boring                          D. In the library.