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

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

   ［1］To most Chinese students, studying abroad could be hard work. There are lots of difficulties they should face every day—the language barrier, culture shock, gaps between Eastern and Western lifestyles, expensive tuition fees and endless research projects.

  　［2］To Song Yinan, a 19-year-old Shenzhen girl, however, studying abroad was an unforgettable experience. In her book, “Kiki’s London Diary”, she tells her stories in an optimistic way.

  　［3］Probably the biggest difficulty Chinese students will meet is ___________. For example, in a story written at the beginning of her first term in London, Song suffered some embarrassment during a welcome party, where she was introduced to some dizzy drinks. However, she found that she couldn’t read most of the English names of the drinks and drank only cola and fruit juice. She described how red her face was and also the impatience of some other students as they stared the poor girl.

   ［4］Song says in an interview that it is still a good experience for her anyway. Although it sounds like “losing face” to most Chinese students, she says it is normal when you study abroad and she is happy to share the story with others.

  　［5］During her stay in Britain, Song was like an explorer. She discovered happiness in London everyday. She found happiness in a computer on which she could search for information on Chinese websites, at a low-price grocery, and form making friends with Britain students.

  　［6］Song was a high school student then and had never traveled abroad alone before. This is why Song’s parents say in the book’s forward that they were a little bit worried about their daughter.

  　［7］However, throughout the book, readers can feel the optimism and persistence of this strong-willed girl. Her study and life experiences in London are to delight any Chinese studying abroad or who plans to do so.

1. What’s the main idea of the passage? (no more than 10 words)

2.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

It is certain that Song’s stories will give encouragement to those Chinese who are studying abroad or those who are going to.

3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words or phrases. (no more than 5 words)

4. What problems may you face if you go abroad according to the text? (no more than 12 words)

   ①____________________; ② ___________________;  ③ ____________________

5.Translate the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 into Chinese.

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to offend them because they have a talent for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘It’s unfair,’ they say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…’

The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods comes largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.

Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway rules while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of disasters.

We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not survive without this source of revenue(收益). The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

Another thing we mustn’t forget is the ‘small ads.’ which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a greatly useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘hatch, match and dispatch’ column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘agony’ column（读者来信专栏）. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is!

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为46～55的相应位置上。

Many people like to read the (46) _____ (late) newspaper. But (47) _____ is it produced so quickly?

The most important man may be the chief editor. He decides (48) _____ to do. Every morning the (49) _____ (journal) are sent to report the events. Sometimes they need a face-to-face interview with people (50) _____ do telephone interviews. Meanwhile, the picture editor (51) _____ (send) a photographer to take the pictures they need.

Later in the day, they pass the stories and the (52) _____ (develop) photos to the editor. (53)_____the chief editor will choose the most important news for the front page. (54)_____ editors read the stories, make some necessary changes and write headlines for them. Finally the newspaper is printed and (55) ______ (deliver) to different places.

阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and reread. It can set up a warm conversation ___ two people far apart (远离的); it can keep a ___   (friend) with very little effort.

I will give an example. A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along. We had been close as children _ had grown apart. Our meetings were not ___ (pleasure); our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels: and every effort to clear the air seemed to only ___ (deep) our misunderstanding. Then he moved to a small island in the Caribbean and we lost touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and __ people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to write. Rereading the letter, I __ (drive) by its humor（幽默）and clever expressions. These were all qualities for ___ I had once respected my older brother but thought he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends again.

___ might never have occurred to my brother to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no phones. For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to get back in touch. Because we live in ____ age of easy communication（通讯）, people often forget that they don’t always have to phone or email. They have a choice. And that is to write.