It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work. I was tired and had a slight   36 .

I worked in a   37  doctor’s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run   38  than usual. It seemed I was going to be late   39  home and my husband, being the   40  person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe   41  I hurried, I could still make it home.

I was heading inside to   42  for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I heard them asking for   43  to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just   44  a few minutes ago.

The young man at the counter was trying to be   45  in explaining how to get there, with two other people making   46 . One of them was   47  trying to give them a whole different route back. It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to follow me to the   48 ?”

A look of   49  crossed the woman’s face.

“I’m going right by there,” I said, which wasn’t a(an)   50  since I had just made up my mind to do   51  that.

I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right   52  me. It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to   53 . I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.

Later, as I arrived home, my husband   54 , “So you aren’t ever late any more.”

I said, “Sometimes it’s   55  to be late.”

1.                A．break          B．fever           C．cold D．headache

2.                A．foreign         B．common        C．busy     D．noisy

3.                A．earlier         B．later           C．easier    D．simpler

4.                A．getting         B．cooking         C．calling    D．working

5.                A．tough          B．punctual        C．generous D．careful

6.                A．as             B．since           C．while D．if

7.                A．pay            B．change         C．wait D．search

8.                A．opinions        B．trouble         C．directions D．money

9.                A．reached        B．visited          C．called    D．left

10.               A．skilled         B．helpful         C．experienced   D．active

11.               A．comments      B．promises       C．jokes D．offers

12.               A．only           B．still            C．even D．ever

13.               A．station         B．office          C．hospital   D．hotel

14.               A．panic          B．relief          C．sadness   D．peace

15.               A．duty           B．fact            C．reason    D．lie

16.               A．partly          B．properly        C．exactly    D．perfectly

17.               A．across         B．before         C．beside    D．behind

18.               A．go up          B．die down       C．speed up  D．turn down

19.               A．teased         B．shouted        C．burst D．laughed

20.               A．possible        B．special         C．good D．safe

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky   36   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   37  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   38  , Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue   39  and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to   40  me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure（安慰）me that Perky would find a new   41  . But I was far too clever to   42  that such a thing was possible.
Forty years later, I watched my own   43  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   44  of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   45  of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称）to   46  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   47  Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   48  that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing   49  Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the   50  we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just   51  down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to   52  , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates, the locations and the pictures of the bird all   53  . It seems our two families had been 54   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were   55   ! Perky lived!"

【小题6】

A．parent B．home C．master D．life

It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.

I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!

Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.

Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb comes from an adjective not a noun. 

Now my children bought me a mobile phone, known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message for them on their phone. Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!

1.“I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means         .

A．it was a firm arrangement

B．he prefers a pencil to a pen

C．the arrangement should be written as a diary

D．it was an uncertain arrangement

2.A website address can be easily found if it has been______.

A．favorited          B．messaged         C．emailed           D．texted

3.Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet?

A．message          B．mobile            C．email             D．page

4.The best title for this passage is____.

A．Technology and Language.

B．Development of the English language

C．New Technology and New words

D．New Verbs from Nouns

短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。

增加：在缺此处加一个漏字∧符号，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线∕划掉。

修改：在错的词词下划横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意： 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者不计分。

January 9^th 2010                  Monday                           Fine

It snowed last night. This morning the road was covered with snow. There was still a lot of bikes coming and going busily.

Suddenly I saw a woman fell off her bike. The woman lay on the ground and couldn’t get up. I ran up to her and tried help her get up. She sat up but still couldn’t stand up because she right leg was broken. In that moment, a policeman came over. When he saw this he called the taxi. The taxi driver drove the lady to the near hospital. I went with her to the hospital. There I telephoned the woman’s husband and said him the whole story. Seen the lady was well looked after. I said goodbye to her. Before I left, the lady thanked for me again and again. I felt as if I had grown up.

短文改错

Dear Susan,

  I am very glad to hear you are coming to visit me the next Friday. Unfortunate, I won’t be able to meet you at the airport since I have classes in afternoon. You won’t find difficult to get to the city center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and will take you rightly to the Friendship Hotel. My class will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will take you together to a hot-pot restaurant for dinner and we’ll talk with our plan for the weekend over dinner. Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.

                                                                   Yours,

                                                                   Zhang Ming