A girl became a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, which meant visiting and taking care of a patient suffering from an incurable disease with days numbered.

The girl was assigned to look after an old man suffering from cancer whose children lived abroad. Their living conditions were not satisfactory while the old man had a lot of savings. She was expected to comfort him and keep up his spirits.

Every Saturday the girl came on time to keep him company, telling him stories. When he was having an intravenous drip (静脉滴注), she would help massage his arms. The doctor found the patient much improved mentally. The old man began to involve himself actively in the medical treatment and he seldom shouted at others.

But something that happened made the doctor uneasy and puzzled. Each time the girl left, the old man would give her some money. The doctor did nothing to interfere (干涉), unwilling to offend the old man. A month later the old man showed evident signs of decline after suffering coma (昏迷) a few times.

When rescued from the latest coma, the old man told the doctor his last wish, “I have deep sympathy for the girl. Will you be kind enough to help her finish her studies？”

But the doctor knew that her family was well­off and she had no difficulty pursuing her studies. Sometimes she even came to the hospital in her father’s car.

When the girl came at the weekend after the death of the old man, the doctor told her the bad news. She was very sad and burst into tears. Then she handed $ 500 to the doctor, saying, “The old man had all along thought I came to do the job because of poverty. He gave me money so that I could continue my schooling.” Now he got the answer to the puzzle. In the last period of his life, the old man found it a real pleasure to be able to help a girl badly in need.

1.If you’re a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, what kind of people do you have to attend to?

A. Patients with a lot of money.

B. Patients suffering from cancer.

C. Patients without many days left.

D. Patients living alone.

2.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The doctor told the old man the truth.

B. The old man’s children were wealthy.

C. The girl’s father encouraged her to accept the money.

D. The girl didn’t accompany the old man when he died.

3.What is the real reason resulting in the old man’s mental improvement?

A. The girl’s love and great care.

B. The pleasure of helping people in need.

C. The doctor’s medical treatment.

D. His children’s progress in life.

第二节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1．5分，共30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。   
"How did you do it, Dad? How have you  36  to not take a drink for almost 20 years?" It took me almost 20 years to have the___ 37___to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first   38    drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he 39   a situation that, in the past, would have   40   him drinking again. For a few years we were afraid to bring it up   41   the drinking would begin again.
"I had this little poem that I   42  recite to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's reply to my 18-year-old   43   question. "The words were an instant relief and constant 44   to me that things were never so   45   that I could not handle them," Dad said. And then he 46   the poem with me. The poem's simple, yet profound words immediately became part of my daily 47   as well.
About a month after this talk with my father, I   48   a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily affirmations （誓词）with one affirmation   49   for each day of the year.
It has been my experience that when you get   50   with days of the year on it, you automatically turn to the   51   that lists your own birthday.
I   52   opened the book to November 10 to   53   what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I did a double-take and tears of   54   and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the   55   same poem that had helped my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity （安详）Prayer:
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; and the Wisdom to know the difference.
36. A. prepared       B. promised       C. managed     D. performed
37. A. courage        B. opportunity     C. inspiration     D. reason
38. A. began         B. avoided        C. permitted      D. quit
39. A. got away with   B. got into        C. got down to    D. got through
40. A. forbade        B. started         C. attracted       D. caused
41. A. for fear        B. for sure        C. so that         D. otherwise
42. A. should         B. might         C. would         D. had to
43. A. unanswered     B.unasked        C. unexpected     D. unwelcome
44. A. prayer         B. performer      C. inspector       D. reminder
45. A. rough         B. severe          C. tough         D. urgent
46. A. created        B. explained       C. spared         D. shared
47. A. schedule       B. routine         C. habits        D. customs
48. A. mistook       B. posted          C. accepted       D. received
49. A. copied        B. presented        C. listed          D. printed
50. A. something     B. anything        C. everything      D. nothing
51. A. date          B. page           C. matters         D. problems
52. A. doubtedly      B. eventually       C. patiently        D. hurriedly
53. A. see           B. recite           C. repeat          D. forecast
54. A. sadness        B. loneliness       C. disbelief        D. belief
55. A. exact          B. correct         C. almost          D. much

单词拼写（每小题0.5分，满分5分）

87．After the accident with the sled, I s      to my knees knowing that somehow I had to put my tent up for shelter.

88．Drivers are supposed to f      their seat –belts while driving on the highway.

89．There were so much beautiful j      that it was hard to choose.

90．Everybody admires him for his fine s       of humour（幽默）.

91．Earth Day is a celebration of life and our planet. It r      us to care about the world and learn to respect life and nature.

92．It’s time for us to make a d      where we should go to have a picnic on Sunday.

93．In some countries, children will go on egg h       during Easter.

94．Many people today make choices about their eating habits b      on what they believe.

95．She said she never r      spending ten hard years paying off the debts.

96．In West Africa, people celebrate a new harvest with days of dancing and

o      fruit to their ancestors and gods.

My father is a smart man. He spent many years of his life listening to people’s arguments, first as assistant district lawyer and then as a judge. My dad knows rubbish rhetoric when he hears it.
One of his favorite phrases is: “If you don’t have anything smart to say, then don’t say it at all.” Yet, for all of his legal training and life experience, he can’t help but keep talking about the Mega Millions jackpot.
We all know the odds(几率)of winning the jackpot this evening with one ticket are extraordinarily low ... 1 in 175, 711, 536, to be exact. Still, people go out and buy hundreds of tickets with the hopes of becoming wealthier beyond their dreams. Why? There are two possible explanations for this “irrationality”(不理智).
One idea is that the way we calculate odds in our heads has nothing to do with mathematical odds in the traditional sense. We don’t go to the mathematical odds table and say, “Well, this would be a terrible investment. I think I’m better off putting my money in the bank!” Rather, it has everything with the ability to picture an event happening.
My father, for instance, watches the news every night and sees people winning the lottery(彩票). Therefore, he thinks the chance of him winning the lottery is much higher than they actually are.
The second thought is that the expected effect of playing cannot be represented merely by the odds. My father and, I’m sure, others get a thrill from the mere idea of winning. He loves imagining what it would be like to actually win and losing doesn’t really affect him. Sure, he’s disappointed, but it’s “better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” When you combine the utility of thinking you can win with the utility of actually winning (no matter how small the chance of that occurring), it’s worth it for many people to spend the one dollar on a ticket.
My analysis is that both factors are at play in taking a chance on the lottery. My father and others really do underestimate the odds of winning, but the thrill of participation is not denied by a realistic assessment of the odds. Still, I would probably put my finger on the scale for the first explanation.
All told, a review of the odds of other events happening confirms that there just aren’t many events that occur with less frequency than your winning the Mega Millions jackpot. Look at the graph below, you may understand some:

In many ways, it’s like the lottery, something that features often on television and about which people fantasize, but that rarely happens.
So, when you watch, along with my Pa, to see if your lucky number is drawn this evening, keep in mind three things: that your number almost certainly won’t come up; that you are still going to have fun; and that, finally, a lot of other things are more likely to happen—but getting eaten by a shark isn’t one of them.
【小题1】It can be learned from the article that ________.

One day a mime(哑剧演员)is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla(大猩猩)，has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance（出席人数） at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts．
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime—the job he likes but loses．
However, with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition(隔墙)，and dangles(悬挂)from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd．
At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction—Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime’s pay keeps going up.
　　Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified. He starts screaming，  “Help me!”，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut
up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”
【小题1】The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because______________·