完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time  16   and alone. Many people   17   winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.
For many students reading means school; it means   18  . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re   19  . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most   20   thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   21   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no   22  for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings《指环王》，or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》.
All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that   23   young people.   24  , even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are   25   their school work: “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read   26   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the   27  . Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   28  . At the moment the thought   29   reading is work disappears and reading becomes   30  .
Reading anything is   31   but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   32   you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English   33  : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me  34   it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to   35   on a cold winter evening.
16. A. indoors                   B. indoor                            C. outdoors              D. outside
17. A. like                           B. prefer                                      C. hate                      D. love
18. A. job                            B. worry                                       C. try                          D. work
19. A. tested                     B. tested on                      C. examined             D. examined on
20. A. enjoyable            B. reasonable                             C. comfortable      D. considerable
21. A. want                        B. cause                                       C. make                     D. force
22. A. contest                   B. challenge                      C. competition        D. match
23. A. appeal to                B. respond to                             C. react to                D. reply to
24. A. Fortunately B. Luckily                            C. Unfortunately      D. Accidentally
25. A. free from                B. part of                            C. in place of            D. far from
26. A. not                           B. very                                C. those                    D. that
27. A. story                        B. subject                           C. instruction            D. theme
28. A. leave for                 B. care about                             C. flee from              D. live in
29. A. what                        B. that                                C. this                        D. which
30. A. a comfort               B. a failure                         C. a success             D. a pleasure
31. A. bad                          B. mean                              C. great                     D. grand
32. A. provide                   B. offer                               C. give                       D. award
33 A. custom                     B. language                       C. culture                  D. art
34. A. break                       B. spoil                                C. make                     D. develop
35. A. keep warm            B. stand still                      C. stay calm             D. stay cool

“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me 36   , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January   37   air．

Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really   38    thing to do．But then she took it a step   39   ．“Come on, Kolby”, she said, grabbing some treats（犒劳物） and   40   him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a   41   position．She  42   him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became   43   ．Over the last few days I have been with Kolby．Each time he comes in I bring him back to the   44  door and ask him to close．There have been   45   in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．

However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him to follow my hand signal again and again  46   he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the focus , the    47    will be completed, and, with the way things are   48   , completed quickly．

What a  49   treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the  50   I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．

A wish is just a wish until you decide to take  51  ．Once you   52  the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of  53  ．Once you want to accomplish a goal, and  54   that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just  55    doing it．

A．complain       B．scream      C．worry       D．scare

A．thin       B．fresh C．dirty  D．cold

A．interesting     B．funny       C．tough       D．possible

A．again     B．further      C．deeper      D．backward

A．pushing  B．catching    C．driving     D．positioning

A．stopped  B．fixed C．closed       D．checked

A．rewarded       B．provided   C．offered     D．thanked

A．moved   B．convinced C．concerned D．puzzled

A．open      B．closed       C．broken      D．perfect

A．pleasures       B．experiments     C．failures     D．pauses

A．in case   B．even if      C．as if  D．so that

A．interest  B．task   C．profit       D．harmony

A．changing       B．reacting    C．progressing      D．happening

A．wonderful     B．small C．different   D．simple

A．knowledge    B．skills C．lessons      D．experience

A．patience B．part   C．delight      D．action

A．hold on to B．pay attention to    C．come up with        D．live up to

A．date       B．touch C．reach       D．power

A．prove     B．decide      C．approve    D．realize

A．imagine B．start  C．keep  D．enjoy

sit down, Emma . You will only make yourself more tired,        on your feet.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time  16   and alone. Many people   17   winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.

For many students reading means school; it means   18  . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re   19  . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most   20   thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   21   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no   22  for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings《指环王》，or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》.

All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that   23   young people.   24  , even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are   25   their school work: “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read   26   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the   27  . Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   28  . At the moment the thought   29   reading is work disappears and reading becomes   30  .

Reading anything is   31   but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   32   you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English   33  : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me  34   it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to   35   on a cold winter evening.

16. A. indoors                   B. indoor                            C. outdoors              D. outside

17. A. like                           B. prefer                                      C. hate                      D. love

18. A. job                            B. worry                                       C. try                          D. work

19. A. tested                     B. tested on                      C. examined             D. examined on

20. A. enjoyable            B. reasonable                             C. comfortable      D. considerable

21. A. want                        B. cause                                       C. make                     D. force

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

23. A. appeal to                B. respond to                             C. react to                D. reply to

24. A. Fortunately B. Luckily                            C. Unfortunately      D. Accidentally

25. A. free from                B. part of                            C. in place of            D. far from

26. A. not                           B. very                                C. those                    D. that

27. A. story                        B. subject                           C. instruction            D. theme

28. A. leave for                 B. care about                             C. flee from              D. live in

29. A. what                        B. that                                C. this                        D. which

30. A. a comfort               B. a failure                         C. a success             D. a pleasure

31. A. bad                          B. mean                              C. great                     D. grand

32. A. provide                   B. offer                               C. give                       D. award

33 A. custom                     B. language                       C. culture                  D. art

34. A. break                       B. spoil                                C. make                     D. develop

35. A. keep warm            B. stand still                      C. stay calm             D. stay cool

【小题1】In what section of a newspaper will you probably read the advertisements?