完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

   It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,   36   with a piece of bread. He’s not even   37 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a   38  . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down. When he  39  up this morning, Tony was feeling  40 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend  41 . It would be a weekend like any other --- a great weekend. But that was  42   he turned on his computer and  43  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony   44  goes online to email friends, read the  45   to keep up with what’s happening in the world and  46   a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend --- online!

Just as Tony is  47  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  48  . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t   49   the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no   50  but sighs (叹气). “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  51 .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the  52  . We can meet and play chess face to face for a  53 . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony   54  , as he walks to the phone. There is  55   without the Internet after all.

1.A. cutting            B. playing          C. eating           D. thinking

2.A. hungry         B. generous         C. equal                D. confident

3.A. lifestyle          B. problem          C. pressure             D. tradition

4.A. dialled        B. rang             C. stood            D. woke

5.A. great          B. peaceful                 C. urgent           D. unusual

6.A. around         B. above            C. ahead                D. away

7.A. after              B. before               C. until                D. when

8.A. thought       B. guessed              C. surprised        D. found

9.A. usually       B. nearly               C. especially           D. already

10.A. disasters         B. news             C. reports        D. documents

11.A. admire       B. explore              C. play             D. involve

12.A. suffering         B. wondering        C. realizing       D. supposing

13.A. living-room  B. hall             C. kitchen              D. study

14.A. talk about        B. care about           C. think about     D. look about

15.A. answer        B. progress             C. movement          D. choice

16.A. requests          B. cries            C. solves                D. suggests

17.A. edge          B. distance             C. corner                D. end

18.A. challenge         B. champion         C. ceremony         D. change

19.A. promotes          B. smiles               C. reacts           D. continues

20.A. study        B. task                 C. weekend           D. life

阅读下列新闻及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上作答。若答案是E，则涂AB；若答案是F，则涂CD。

A.FIFA agrees on heavy punishments to stamp out racism

ZURICH: Soccer’s world governing body FIFA agreed on Thursday to punish acts of racism with heavy punishments including taking away points and disqualification from competitions.

B.England face uphill task in the third test

MUMBAI: England will fight against all the probabilities to prevent a second straight series defeat when they face India in the third and final test starting on Saturday.

C.Disease-free chickens hit the market

GUANGZHOU: The first group of 200,000 live, quality-assured chickens, which wear colored plastic rings around their feet, hit Guangzhou’s markets on Friday, at a time when the threat of bird flu has kept chickens off many menus.

D.Football bosses deny Schweinsteiger betting report

BERLIN: German football chiefs on Thursday made a strong statement of the wrong saying that a newspaper says that Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger was the international footballer involved in a betting.

E.Zhangs to lead Chinese team at the world championships

Figure skaters Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, whose heroic silver was a high point of last month’s Turin Winter Olympics, are ready to make China into pairs more noticeable at the world championships next week in Calgary.

F.Ministry looks to prevent soil from ruin

The two square meters of land covered with black soil that were once the pride of farmer Lei Guangsheng are now a problem without an easy solution.

请阅读下面的信息，了解五位成员的兴趣。然后进行信息匹配。

1.Tony is very interested in agriculture, so he wants to know about something that is happening in the countryside.

2.Collins focuses his attention on people’s health, so he would like to know what has happened in this field.

3.Jesse likes sports very much. Next week the winter holidays will begin and he wants to see some great events happening in the following week.

4..Jack takes great interest in collecting sportsmen’s personal information, especially about their bad behavior.

5.Harry is a football fan. He often watches football games invented in old England. Now he needs to know some decision made by the organization.

Tony is coming with _____ boys.

　 A. little two other 　 B. two little other

　 C. two other little 　 D. little other two

I think my friend Tony is _______to win the tennis game next Monday.

I think my friend Tony is ______ to win the tennis game next Monday.

A．likely             B．possible           C．probable          D．maybe