阅读下面短文，从短文后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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.  36  the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I  37  the bird before I saw it.

“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.

“It’s coming from the  38  .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little  39  .”

I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s  40   I saw the sparrow. It was flying  41  just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly  42  to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but  43  and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head 44  the ceiling.

I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the  45  open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet  46   it could get outside, but that only seemed to  47  it more.

“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita  48  .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”

We went back into the house, where we  49  to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was  50  and our uninvited guest was gone.

I’ve  51  that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were  52  to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the  53  that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make  54  without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much  55  .

36.A. Still              B. Somehow          C. Instead              D. Perhaps

【答案】B

【解析】不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。

37.A. heard            B. caught               C. searched           D. observed

【答案】A

【解析】根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。

38.A. house           B. backyard           C. garage               D. basement

【答案】C

【解析】根据36题所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。

39.A. birds            B. guests               C. cats                  D. kids

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子

40.A. when            B. how                  C. why                  D. whether

【答案】A

【解析】when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”

41.A. quickly         B. anxiously           C. cautiously          D. slowly

【答案】B

【解析】anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。

42. A. deciding       B. hesitating           C. trying                D. choosing

【答案】C

【解析】try to get out努力要出去。

43. A. up               B. backward          C. forward            D. down

【答案】D

【解析】但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。

44. A. against         B. off                    C. along                D. into

【答案】A

【解析】bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板

45. A. free             B. small                 C. wide                 D. dark

【答案】B

【解析】门和天花板之间的空间很小。

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

【答案】D

【解析】so that 引导目的状语从句。

47. A. puzzle          B. confuse             C. frighten             D. disturb

【答案】C

【解析】但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人

48. A. suggested     B. explained           C. insisted             D. demanded

【答案】A

【解析】why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。

49. A. attempted     B. continued          C. refused             D. failed

【答案】B

【解析】continue to do sth继续干某事

50. A. fierce           B. empty               C. safe                  D. silent

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静

51.A. looked after   B. worried about    C. thought about    D. brought up

【答案】C

【解析】Ａ．照看　Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考  Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。

52. A. forced         B. determined         C. born                 D. urged

【答案】C

【解析】be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”

53. A. idea             B. possibility          C. challenge           D. problem

【答案】B

【解析】我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。

54. A. progress      B. peace                C. decisions           D. efforts

【答案】A

【解析】make progress取得进步

55. A. panic           B. pressure            C. loss                  D. trouble

【答案】D

【解析】save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。

From Guangxi

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The famous American gorilla(大猩猩) expert Diane Fossey had a completely new way to study gorillas — she pretended to be one of them. She copied their actions and way of life — eating plants and getting down on her hands and knees to walk the way a gorilla does. It was a new relationship.

Diane Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in the Mist. It was a long way from King Kong, which is about a gorilla as a monster (a frightening animal), and helped to show a new idea: the real monster is man, while the gorilla is to be admired.

Today there are thought to be around 48,000 lowland gorillas and maybe 400—450 mountain gorillas in the wild. From the Congo in West Africa, to Rwanda and Uganda further east, they are endangered by hunting and by the cutting down of their forest homes.

Some time ago, I found in my letterbox a little magazine from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It had two photos side by side. One was of a young gorilla. “This is a species of mammal(哺乳类动物),” said the words below it. “It is being destroyed by man. We must save it for our own good.” The other photo showed a human baby. The words also read, “This is a species of mammal,” but then went on: “It is the most destructive(破坏性的) on earth. We must retrain it for its own good.”

56.　 The text mainly talks about _____.

A. Diane Fossey　　　　　　 B. the gorillas in Rwanda

C. the protection of the gorillas　　 D. the film Gorillas in the Mist

57.　 We can learn from the text that _____.

A.　 Gorillas in the mist was based Fossey’s experiences

B.　 Lowland gorillas live longer than mountain gorillas

C. King Kong showed us that a gorilla is admirable

D. Diane Fossey was murdered by a gorilla

58.　 What message can we get from the two photos in the magazine?

A.　 Gorillas are man’s close friends.　

B.　 Both man and the gorilla need to be saved.

C.　 Young gorillas are as lovely as human babies.

D.　 Man should live peacefully with the gorilla.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　Queen Victoria was monarch (君王，帝王) of Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age.

　　Queen Victoria was a stern (严厉的，苛刻的)and serious woman. One reason she was so serious was that she had suffered a great loss. When she was twenty years old, she married a German prince named Albert. Victoria and Albert were deeply in love, and their marriage was extremely happy. In 1861, after they had been married for twenty-one years, Albert died, leaving Queen Victoria heartbroken. For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. It was customary in those days for a widow to dress in black for a short time after the death of her husband. But Queen Victoria dressed in black for forty years. And for forty years, as another sign of her grief, she wrote many letters on white paper edged in black.

　　Even before Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria was known as a very serious woman. She had a strong sense of duty and worked very hard at all her tasks. In her diary she wrote,“I love to be employed; I hate to be idle.”She never forgot that she was Britain's queen and always acted with great dignity(尊贵；尊严). Victoria had high ideals and moral standards that sometimes made her seem stuffy(古板的). She was also very sure of herself. She always thought that she was right, and she expected everyone to agree with her.

1．Which of the following statements about Queen Victoria is NOT true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．She had great confidence about herself.

B．She ruled Great Britain for sixty years.

C．She enjoyed her marriage to a German prince.

D．She became a serious woman after her beloved husband died.

2．Queen Victoria wrote her letters on white paper edged in black because _____.

[　　]

A．she was a very stern woman

B．black was her favorite color

C．that was one way to show her feelings of sadness

D．it was a custom among monarchs of Great Britain

3．All of the following characteristics EXCEPT _____ can be used to properly describe Queen Victoria?

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A．moral　　　　　　B．lonesome

C．workaholic　　　　D．compromising(妥协的)

4．The underlined word“mourned”in Paragraph 2 means _____.

[　　]

A．felt sad or sorrowful in a social situation

B．expressed publicly one's sadness because someone has died

C．checked regularly in order to find out what was happening

D．included in group of members, ages, measurements with particular fixed limits

阅读下列短文, 从所给的四个选项中, 选出最佳答案。

　　     Chiang Ray-ling, a tall, slim, soft-spoken 37-year-old doctor at the Friendship Hospital in Beijing, spent one year as a member of the　　 mobile(活动的) team in the country in Shanxi."After the Cultural　　 Revolution, it became clear that conditions in the country needed more　　 experienced medical care to serve the peasants", Chiang told us when we visited her hospital. Her team was part of the hospital's effort to　　 help in rural medical care. Chiang was in the country from May 1970　　 until July 1971 without once returning to Beijing to see her husband　　 and two children, aged eight and two. When I asked her the reason, she replied, "There was too much work to do." We asked how she found her　　 children when she came home, she said she'd found her children grown up mentally, physically and culturally. "My elder child was elected a　　 leader of his class and joined the Young Pioneers. When he was asked　　 where his mother was, he would answer, `My mother went to serve the peasants.' I think he was proud of me."

1. While in the country, Dr Chiang wasn't back to see her family for 　　___________.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   ［　　］ 　　
A. fourteen months　　
B. twelve months 　　
C. one year　　　　   
D. more than one year
2. While working in the country, Chiang didn't go back to see her     family because __________.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  ［　　］ 　　
A. she didn't love them 　　
B. she did love them 　　
C. she was busy with work 　　
D. her leader didn't allow her to
3. What did Dr Chiang think of her children?__________.　　［　　］ 　　
A. She loved them very much 　　
B. She hadn't borne them 　　
C. She considered them a hard nut in the family 　　
D. She thought that they had grown up
4. Which of the following is not true?　　　　　　　　　　 ［　　］ 　　
A. Chiang is now 37 years old. 　　
B. Chiang serves the people honestly. 　　
C. There were 4 people in her family. 　　
D. Chiang's elder child is a boy.
5. "A slim girl" means the girl is __________. 　　
A. thin　　  
B. beautiful 　　
C. not fat   
D. not short