第二节   完形填空 （共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第30至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Dear Sarah,

You have every right to feel betrayed by your friend if she did tell your secrets to others, but it seems  31  that she did. You say that you are best  32 ; well, best friends talk about their  33  and try to  34  them. If she is a good friend, you should apologize for blaming her.

 35  you still have doubts, you should think about why you don’t believe her. Was it because you were ashamed of your mark  36  your behavior? Did you feel jealous of your friend’s  37 ? If so, the problem  38  with you, not her. Try not to sound too proud of  39  when discussing your marks in front of others.

However, if you feel that she is very  40  at keeping secrets and likes to embarrass you in public, you had better find a new friend.

31. A. important         B. unlikely                      C. necessary                D. unfair

32. A. students              B. players                       C. friends                       D. learners

33. A. problems             B. teachers                    C. questions                  D. studies

34. A. love                      B. solve                           C. find                            D. help

35. A. As                         B. While                          C. Because                    D. If

36. A. or                           B. and                             C. with                            D. along with

37. A. clothes                 B. family                         C. parents                      D. marks

38. A. goes                      B. fights                          C. deals                          D. lies

39. A. you                       B. yourself                       C. them                          D. themselves

40. A. good                     B. clever                         C. bad                               D. expert

I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Company. Among the topic we ___1___ in our classes is the ___2___ of quality employees.

What has ___3___ you to stay long enough to become a manager?” I asked.

After a while a new manager ___4___ the question and said slowly, “It was a baseball ___5___.”

Cynthia said that she ___6___ to take a Circle K clerk job as an interim(临时的) job ___7___ she looked for something else. On her second day behind the counter, she received a ___8___ from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She ___9___ that as a single woman, ___10___ was tight, and her first ___11___ would have to go for paying bills.

When Cynthia arrived for work the ___12___ morning, Patricia, the store manager, handed her a box. “I overheard you ___13___ to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is ___14___ to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie. I know you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t ___15___ good people like you as ___16___ as we would like to, ___17___ we do care, and I want you to know how ___18___ you are to us!”

The thoughtfulness, empathy(同情) and love of the store manager ___19___ that people remember more how much an employer ___20___ than how much he pays.

1. A. discuss   B. write   C. learn   D. find

2. A. managing       B. selling C. keeping      D. seeking

3. A. made      B. ordered      C. forced D. caused

4. A. made      B. took    C. raised  D. replied

5. A. pole B. glove   C. hole    D. match

6. A. ought     B. liked    C. had     D. used

7. A. when      B. because      C. while  D. though

8. A. letter      B. call     C. notic           D. announcement

9. A. turned out      B. pointed out C. explained         D. complained

10. A. work    B. food    C. money            D. clothing

11. A. bill B. check  C. day     D. visit

12. A. last       B. first    C. next    D. past

13. A. lying     B. talking C. crying             D. murmuring

14. A. good     B. easy    C. hard               D. necessary

15. A. thank    B. use     C. employ       D. pay

16. A. many    B. early   C. soon   D. much

17. A. nor       B. but      C. and     D. however

18. A. kind      B. terrible       C. much              D. important

19. A. shows  B. insists C. realizes       D. recognizes

20. A. needs    B. gets    C. likes    D. cares

第二节：完形填空（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，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks away. Life has   36   for millions of teenagers across the world who now make friends online.   37   you use chat rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are   38   of a virtual community (虚拟社区).

"I rarely talk with my parents or grandparents,   39   I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ," said Fox's Shadow, the online nickname (网名) used by a Senior 2 girl in China. "Eighty per cent of my classmates use QQ   40   school."

QQ is the biggest messaging   41   in China. A record shows 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October,   42   to Tencent, the company which developed QQ.

And Fox's Shadow might well have been one of them. "I log in (登陆) on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel  43  . I usually   44   about 10 hours chatting online every week," she said. "But I rarely talk with  45  , especially boys or men."

Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making   46   with strangers online. "You don't know   47   you're talking to. You should  48   be careful about who you trust online."

Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to  49   someone very well. Fox's Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a comic fan like   50   and they went to a comic show together.

However, not all teenagers have been so   51  . At the beginning of this year, a 17-year-old girl in Liaoning Province was killed after meeting a friend she had found on QQ. The criminals (罪犯) weren't   52   until last month.

A 16-year-old Beijing boy, known online as Bart Simon, dislikes QQ users. "I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking   53  ," he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. But he spends little time chatting as he sees it as a  54    of time and money. "If you are really   55   to it, sometimes you just can't concentrate (集中精神) in class," he said.

36.A. improved      B. become      C. changed     D. increased

37.A. Whether       B. If       C. When  D. Unless

38.A. member B. part    C. partner       D. number

39.A. but B. as       C. when  D still.

40.A. before   B. at       C. after   D. since

41.A. service  B. product      C. structure     D. organization

42.A. granting       B. depending  C. considering D. according

43.A. sleepy   B. tired   C. bored  D. busy

44.A. take      B. cost    C. pay     D. spend

45.A. friends  B. adults  C. males  D. strangers

46.A. relation B. touch  C. contact       D. friends

47.A. who      B. which C. whose D. these

48.A. often     B. usually       C. sometimes  D. always

49.A. know    B. recognize   C. tell     D. judge

50.A. herself   B  she    C. anybody else      D. everyone

51.A. good     B. fortunate    C. safely  D. healthy

52.A. kept      B. held    C. caught D. killed

53.A. uselessness    B. noise   C. nonsense    D. rubbish

54.A. short     B. lack    C. waste  D. little

55.A. kept      B. held    C. addicted     D. stuck

第二节：完形填空 (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, 然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I  16  the car by the roadside, across the street from where she worked, and  17  her.                  

As I looked outside the car window  18  my right, there was a small park  19  I saw a little boy around two years old,  20  freely on the grass as his mother watched him from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face  21  he had just been set free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up and without  22  run as fast as he could again, still with a smile on his face, as if  23  had happened.

However, with kids (especially at the early age)，when they fall down, they don’t perceive their falling down as a  24 , but instead, they treat it as a learning experience, as just another      25  . They feel compelled to try and try again  26  they succeed. The answer must be that they have not  27  “falling down” with the word “failure” yet. Thus they don’t know how to feel the state which  28  failure. What’s more, they probably think that it is perfectly Okay to fall down, and that it’s not  29  to do so. In other words, they give themselves  30  to make mistakes subconsciously. Thus they remain  31 .

While I was touched by the boy’s persistence, I was  32  touched by the manner in which he ran. With each  33 , he looked so confident and so natural. No  34  of fear, nervousness, or being discouraged — as if he didn’t  35  the world around him. His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. I learned a lot from that observation and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

16. A. packed                B. parked                     C. refueled                   D. cleaned

17. A. called for            B. looked for         C. waited for                D. searched for

18. A. to                       B. in                            C. at                                   D. for

19. A. where                B. which               C. what                        D. that

20. A. walking                     B. running             C. smiling                    D. playing

21. A. as if                   B. even if                     C. only if                            D. what if

22. A. doubt                 B. hesitation          C. mercy                      D. effect

23. A. something           B. nothing             C. everything                D. anything

24. A. catastrophe          B. difficulty           C. success                     D. failure

25. A. outcome             B. outline                     C. output                      D. outbreak

26. A. unless                 B. after                 C. until                        D. before

27. A. communicated     B. associated          C. accommodated          D. contrasted

28. A. acquires                 B. accumulates       C. accomplishes            D. accompanies

29. A. good                  B. interesting         C. right                        D. wrong

30. A. permission          B. admission          C. comprehension          D. impression

31. A. discouraged         B. encouraged        C. regretful                   D. happy

32. A. simply                B. extremely          C. equally                    D. especially

33. A. run                     B. success              C. attempt                    D. smile

34. A. scenes                 B. marks               C. signals                            D. signs

35. A. care about           B. look about         C. care for                    D. think about

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
There are more than forty universities in Britain—nearly twice as many as in 1960.  During the 1960s eight completely new ones more founded, and ten other new ones were created
__16__ converting old colleges of technology into universities.  In the same period the__17__of students more than doubled, from 70, 000 to __18__ than 200, 000.  By 1973 about 10% of men aged from eighteen __19__twenty one were in universities and about 5% of women. 
??All the universities are private institutions. Each has its __20__governing councils,  _21__some local businessmen and local politicians as__22__as a few academics（大学教师）.  The state began to give grants to them fifty years __23__, and by 1970 each university derived nearly all its __24__from state grants.  Students have to _25_ fees and living costs, but every student may receive from the local authority of the place __26_ he lives a personal grant which is enough to pay his full costs, including lodging and _27__unless his parents are __28__. Most __29__take jobs in the summer _30__about six weeks, but they do not normally do outside _31__during the academic year. The Department of Education takes __32__for the payments which cover the whole expenditure of the __33__, but it does not exercise direct control.  It can have important influence __34__new developments through its power to distribute funds, but it takes the advice of the University Grants Committee, a body which is mainly _35__ of academics. 
16.  A. with           B. by           C. at               D. into
17.  A. amount         B. quantity      C. lot              D. number
18.  A. more           B. much        C. less             D. fewer
19.  A. with           B. to          C. from             D. beyond
20.  A. self            B. kind         C. own             D. personal
21.  A. making        B. consisting ?  C. including          D. taking
22.  A. good          B. long          C. little       ??   D. well
23.  A. ago           B. before         C. after ??        D. ever
24.  A. suggestions    B. grades???   C. profits           D. funds
25.  A. make        B. pay           C. change ??      D. delay
26.  A. what         B. which         C. where ??        D. how
27.  A. living        B. drinking       C. food             D. shelter
28.  A. poor         B. generous       C. kindhearted          D. rich
29.  A. professor     B. students ???C. politicians           D. businessmen
30.  A. at           B. since          C. with                D. for
31.  A. travel        B. work ???   C. experiment          D. study
32.  A. responsibility  B. advice         C. duty ??          D. pleasure
33.  A. government   B. school ?       C. universities ?      D. committees
34.  A. at           B. to             C. on                 D. form
35.  A. consisted     B. composed ?    C. made               D. taken