【2011·浙江省第二次五校联考】

完形填空（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21～40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

This is no joke. Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, and Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24, are expecting just over 100 guests at a   21   at a church, where they will become husband and wife.

Their modern romance was a   22   made in cyberspace（网络空间）. She was   23   and bored one night last year, so she typed her name into the   24   social networking Website Facebook just to see if anyone   25   it: Hildebrandt, 24, in South Florida. At the time, Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, was the only one matched. So she sent him a   26  . She said, “Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool.” Kelly Carl Hildebrandt said, “I thought she was pretty   27  .”

For the next three months the two   28   e-mails.   29   he knew it, occasional phone calls turned into daily chats, sometimes   30   hours. He   31   her in Florida after a few months and fell head over heels.

“I thought it was fun,” he said of that first online meet. “I had no   32   that it would lead to this.”

Months after Kelly Hildebrandt sent her first e-mail, she found a diamond engagement   33    hidden in treasure box on a beach in December. “I totally think that it’s all God’s   34   ,” Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt said. “He planned it out just   35  .”

She's a student at a local community college. He works in financial   36  . They plan to make their home in South Florida.

There was also some uncertainty   37   how to phrase their wedding invitations, so they decided to include their   38   names. But   39   confusion likely won't carry on past the husband and wife, as Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt said there are no plans to pass along the name to their future   40  . “No,” she said. “We're definitely not going to name our kids Kelly.”

21. A. situation              B. occasion            C. ceremony          D. meeting

22. A. game                  B. match               C. contest                     D. competition

23. A. curious               B. serious              C. anxious             D. generous

24. A. ordinary              B. common            C. fashionable        D. popular

25. A. understood          B. made                 C. shared               D. recognized

26. A. word                  B. message            C. letter                 D. reminder

27. A. clever                 B. simple               C. attractive           D. easy

28. A. exchanged           B. changed            C. expected           D. received

29. A. After                   B. As                     C. While                D. Before

30. A. wasting               B. spending            C. lasting               D. taking

31. A. dropped                     B. visited               C. forgot               D. called

32. A. idea                    B. decision            C. chance                     D. hope

33. A. call                     B. lace                   C. phone               D. ring

34. A. preparation          B. reason            C. arrangement      D. work

35. A. great                   B. perfect                     C. excellent            D. smart

36. A. crisis                  B. conveniences     C. customs            D. services

37. A. about                  B. on                     C. in                            D. at

38. A. first                    B. last                   C. middle               D. family

39. A. some                  B. no                     C. any                   D. little

40. A. wife                   B. husband            C. parents              D. children

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I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a splendid, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

　　Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.

　　Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

　　I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir（回忆录）after memoir, they reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.

　　Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage, if he’s honest, and he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

　　Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they can. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.

　　Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating（解放性的）realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

45. We can learn from the passage that____________.

A. fun creates long-lasting satisfaction

B. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness

C. happiness is lasting whereas fun is short-lived

D. fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness

46. To the author, the role Hollywood stars will play is to _________.

A. write memoir after memoir about their happiness

B. tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with fun

C. teach people how to enjoy their lives

D. bring happiness to the public instead of going to parties

47. In the author’s opinion, marriage____________.

A. affords greater fun                                B. leads to raising children

C. indicates duty and devotion                        D. usually ends up in pain

48. Which of the following is the best example of “painful happiness”?

A. Winning lottery by accident. 　　              B. A bachelor resisting marriage.

C. Raising children. 　　                              D. Buying some fancy clothes.

49. If one gets the meaning of the true sense of happiness, he will____________.

A. stop playing games and joking with others

B. keep himself with his family

C. give a free hand to money

D. use his time to increase happiness

【2011·浙江省第二次五校联考】

Everyone gathered around and Paddy read out loud, slowly, his tone growing sadder and sadder. The little headline said: BOXER RECEIVES LIFF SENTENCE.

Frank Cleary, aged 26, professional boxer, was today found guilty of the murder of Albert Cumming, aged 32, laborer, last July. The jury (陪审团) reached its decision after only ten minutes, recommending the most severe punishment to the court. It was, said the judge, a simple case. Cumming and Cleary had quarreled violently at the Harbour Hotel on July 23rd and police saw Cleary kicking at the head of the unconscious Cumming. When arrested, Cleary was drunk but clear-thinking.

Cleary was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. Asked if he had anything to say, Cleary answered, “Just don't tell my mother.”

“It happened over three years ago,” Paddy said helplessly.  No one answered him or moved, for no one knew what to do. “Just don't tell my mother,” said Fee numbly. “And no one did! Oh, God! My poor, poor Frank!”

Paddy wiped the tears from his face and said.  “Fee, pack your things. We'll go to see him.”

She half-rose before sinking back, her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead. “I can't go,” she said without a hint of pain, yet making everyone feel that the pain was there. “It would kill him to see me. I know him so well—his pride, his ambition. Let him bear the shame alone, it's what he wants. We've got to help him keep his secret. What good will it do him to see us?”

Paddy was still weeping, not for Frank, but for the life which had gone from Fee's face, for the dying in her eyes. Frank had always brought bitterness and misfortune, always stood between Fee and himself. He was the cause of her withdrawal from his heart and the hearts of his children. Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away. But Paddy's love for her was as deep and impossible to wipe out as hers was for Frank.

So he said. “Well, Fee, we won't go. But we must make sure he is taken care of. How about if I write to Father Jones and ask him to look out for Frank?”

The eyes didn't liven, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks. “Yes, Paddy, do that. Only make sure he knows not to tell Frank we found out. Perhaps it would ease Frank to think for certain that we don't know.”

50. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Frank was found guilty of murder because he was a professional boxer.

B. The family didn't find out what happened to Frank until three years later.

C. The jury and the judge disagreed on whether Frank had committed murder.

D. Frank didn't want his family to find out what happened because Paddy disliked him.

51. Paddy cried because he thought ______________.

A. Frank did kill someone and deserved the punishment

B. Frank should have told Fee what had happened

C. what had happened to Frank was killing Fee

D. Frank had always been a man of bad moral character

52. “She half-rose before sinking back…” (in Paragraph 6) shows that______________.

A. Fee was so heart-broken that she could hardly stand up

B. Fee didn't want to upset Paddy by visiting Frank

C. Fee couldn't leave her family to go to see Frank

D. Fee struggled between wanting to see Frank and respecting his wish

53. Which of the following suggests that Fee was deeply shocked by what happened to Frank?

A. “Her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead.”

B. “Let him bear the shame alone, it’s what he wants.”

C. “Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away.”

D. “The eyes didn’t liven, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks.”

54. What is Fee's probable relationship with Frank and Paddy?

A. Son and brother.                               

B. Son and husband.

C. Brother and lover.                             

D. Lover and husband.

根据中文原文完成下列各英文译文。（每空限填一个词）

1.自1978年以来，我的家乡呈现出新的面貌。

Since 1978, my home town has ________ ________ a new look.

2.科学家正试图想出解决这个问题的方法。

The scientists are trying to ________ ________with a solution to the problem.

3.请挪一下，给这位老人让个地方。

Please move along and ________ ________for the old.

4.法律要求人人平等，不论种族、性别和出身。

The law requires equal treatment for all, ________ ________race,sex and origin.

5.她致力于教育事业，深受学生的尊敬和喜爱。

She ________ herself ______the cause of teaching and was loved and respected by her students.

Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the     in the school had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t    , they would have to retake(重考) them in September. There were usually a few who    , but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year,     just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was     about her. She went to bed too    . The night before the first exam, Barbara     that she have an early night and take a     pill. She promised to wake     up in the morning.

As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her     kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of    , she went to sleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination    , but she couldn’t answer any of the questions.     around her was writing pages and pages.     she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write    . She kept looking at her    . Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences,     and tried another one. With only half an hour left, she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started    . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she     up. She was still in bed and it had all been a     dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.

1.                A．teachers        B．students        C．classmates D．poets

2.                A．prepare        B．miss           C．gain D．pass

3.                A．succeeded      B．failed          C．ended    D．harvested

4.                A．but            B．so             C．and  D．because

5.                A．excited         B．frightened       C．worried  D．satisfied

6.                A．early           B．late            C．sadly D．eagerly

7.                A．insisted         B．admired        C．ordered  D．wished

8.                A．sleeping        B．starving         C．exciting   D．breathing

9.                A．him            B．her            C．them D．herself

10.               A．hand          B．eye            C．mind D．body

11.               A．her sister       B．her parents     C．the lessons D．the medicine

12.               A．result          B．marks          C．desk  D．paper

13.               A．The teacher     B．The students     C．No one    D．Everyone

14.               A．If             B．Though         C．So   D．How

15.               A．with           B．about          C．on   D．to

16.               A．watch          B．textbook        C．sister D．subject

17.               A．gave up        B．put off         C．look around    D．thought over

18.               A．examining      B．drowning       C．copying   D．crying

19.               A．raised          B．woke          C．turned    D．cheered

20.               A．nice           B．wonderful      C．terrible   D．special