第二部分：英语知识及运用（共两节，满分35分)

第一节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

When I was walking down the street the other day, I happened to ___21______ a small brown leather purse lying on the sidewalk. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could ___22___ the owner's name. There was nothing inside it ____23______ some change and an old photo ―― a picture of a woman and a young girl of about twelve years, who looked like the woman's daughter. I put the photo back and ____24______ the purse to the police station, where I ___25_______ it to the desk sergeant. ____26______ I left, the sergeant took down my name and address ___27_______ the owner might want to write and thank me.

That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They ___28______ a young woman so that there would be four people at the table. Her face was familiar. I was ____29______ sure that we had not met before, but I could remember where I had seen her. In the course of conversation, however, the young woman happened to mention that she had lost her purse that afternoon. ___30______ I realized where I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo, although she was now much older.

21. A. watch                 B. notice             C. discover                   D. find out

22. A. find                    B. learn                        C. discover                   D. work out

23. A. besides        B. except               C. except for                 D. in addition to

24. A. took                   B. brought                    C. fetched                     D. sent

25. A. offered        B. passed               C. handed                     D. returned

26. A. Before         B. When                C. While               D. As

27. A. although             B. in case                     C. for fear                    D. so that

28. A. have also invited                              B. also had invited

C. also invited                                     D. had also invited

29. A. well                   B. much                       C. quite                        D. very

30. A. All at once B. At once                    C. Immediately             D. All suddenly

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第53至第57小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语，并将答案转写到答题卷上。每空不超过3个单词。

One day, in spring, four lawyers were riding their horses along a country road.

There had been a storm, and the ground was very soft. Water was dripping(滴) from the trees, and the grass was wet. As they were passing through a grove(树丛) of small trees, they heard a great fluttering(拍翅) over their heads and a weak chirping(唧唧声) in the grass.

“What is the matter here?” asked the first lawyer, whose name was Speed. “Oh, it’s only some birds!” said the second lawyer, whose name was Hardin. “The storm has blown two of the little ones out of the nest. They are too young to fly, and the mother bird must be very worried about them.”

“What a pity! They’ll die down there in the grass,” said the third lawyer.

“Oh, well! They’re noting but birds,” said Hardin. “Why should we bother?”

Then they rode on, talking and laughing as before. In a few minutes they forgot about the birds.

However, the fourth lawyer, whose name was Abraham Lincoln, stopped. He got down from his horse and very gently put the little ones in his big warm hands. They did not seem frightened, but chirped softly, as if they knew they were safe. Then he looked up to find the nest from which they had fallen. It was much higher than he could reach from the ground, so Lincoln climbed up the tree. He put the birds softly one by one into their warm little home.

Soon the other three lawyers stopped at a spring(泉) to give their horses water.

“Where’s Lincoln?” asked one.

All were surprised to find that Lincoln was not with them.

In a few minutes Lincoln joined them. His shoes were covered with mud.

“Hello, Abraham!” said Hardin. “Where have you been?”

“I stopped a minute to give those birds to their mother,” he answered.

Then all three of them laughed heartily

Then all three of them laughed heartily. They thought it so foolish that a strong man should take so much trouble just for some worthless little birds.

“Gentlemen,” said Lincoln, “I would not sleep well tonight if I had left those helpless little birds on their own in the wet grass.”

Abraham Lincoln afterwards became very famous as a lawyer and statesman. He was then elected president. Next to Washington, he is regarded as one of the greatest American presidents.

Online shopping started not so long ago. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. The first online bank opened in 1994. In 1995, Amazon started operating and is now one of the largest online shopping malls. Then in 1996, eBay started its online shopping site.

By sitting at home you can now buy anything from knives to cars. The worry you may have about traveling and parking can be avoided while you shop online. With online shopping, you need not worry about the weather. Online shops have no holidays, closing times or any other problems. You can shop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Some online shops also keep customers’ opinions about each product, so you can easily find out what other customers think about the product before buying it.

When you go for real-world shopping, you can actually touch and feel it, but in online shopping you can only see the pictures. Also if you are shopping online, you have to be careful with your credit cards.

The first step in online shopping is to search for what you want to buy. Once you find the required product, put it in a “shopping cart” and continue shopping. After you have got enough in your “shopping cart”, check out the product. You can add or take out the products in your shopping cart. The next step is to login(登录) using a username and a password. Enter the address where you want the product to be sent. Some sites even ask for your email, phone numbers, etc. Then wait for the confirmation(确认)of your order. You can also cancel the order if needed. Online shopping is a different experience and you can make shopping online easy when you get used to it.

51. When shopping online, you can _______.

A. buy anything wherever you go      B. park your cars where you want to   

C. touch anything you want to buy     D. know what others think of the product

52. The second paragraph mainly tells us ______.

A. the things people can buy in online shops

B. people can know different opinions of customers

C. people can do online shopping at their own homes

D. the advantages people can have through online shopping

53. From the text we can know that ______.

A. customers needn’t have a username to buy something online

B. customers must give their emails as well as their phone numbers

C. customers should be careful with their credit cards when shopping online

D. once customers put the products in their “shopping carts”, they can’t change them

54. If you want to buy a cup online, what is the right order of the following things you can do?

a. Enter the address

b. Search for a right cup

c. Wait for the confirmation of the order

d. Put the cup into your “shopping cart”

A. b-c-d-a    B. b-d-a-c    C. a-b-c-d    D. c-d-a-b