citizen

A．uncle            B．ocean            C．rescue            D．percent

       One day in September we were doing repair work on my parents’ old house to get it ready for my youngest daughter’s wedding. We had to  36  a great climbing plant that had grown  37  a roof beam（房梁），so that we could repair the roof and   38  the walls.

       When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a  39  of a blackbird that had made its home in the leaves. He then  40  something  41  among that mass of earth and straw of the nest. He broke the earth around it into pieces with his finger tips and, to his  42  ,saw glittering gold. It was a child’s bracelet（手镯）. He ran into the house to  43  me.

       “You won’t believe that the   44  blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we   45  to feed on,” he said,“but they also want their children to  46  in a cradle（摇摆）of gold!”

       When my daughter came over on the eve of the  47  ,we told her about this   48  occurrence.

       “Don’t you remember, Mother?” she said with a loud   49  .“When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I  50  a few days later while out playing in the yard? It was this one!”

       As the bracelet no longer  51  its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping.

       In December of the following year, the young couple’s baby son was baptized（受洗礼）.Among the   52  the newborn baby received, I placed his mother’s bracelet, now shining like  53  . I hope that if my grandson  54  loses it, one of the   55  that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby.

36．A．remove                   B．cover                      C．grow                      D．water

37．A．beyond                   B．over                       C．across                     D．through

38．A．build                      B．paint                      C．rescue                     D．print

39．A．nest                        B．baby                       C．body                      D．egg

40．A．moved                    B．got                         C．picked                    D．noticed

41．A．nice                       B．colorful                  C．shiny                      D．special

42．A．horror                    B．surprise                  C．delight                    D．disappointment

43．A．ask                         B．tell                         C．show                      D．give

44．A．working                 B．cheating                  C．dreaming                D．thieving

45．A．buy                        B．plant                      C．store                       D．collect

46．A．lie                          B．sing                        C．listen                      D．wait

47．A．party                      B．Christmas               C．birthday                  D．wedding

48．A．important               B．strange                   C．terrible                   D．funny

49．A．cry                         B．sigh                        C．laugh                      D．sound

50．A．hid                         B．threw                            C．lost                        D．broke

51．A．fitted                      B．satisfied                  C．matched                  D．interested

52．A．jewels                    B．toys                        C．clothes                    D．presents

53．A．attractive                B．new                        C．modern                   D．golden

54．A．almost                    B．just                        C．even                       D．ever

55．A．blackbirds               B．grandchildren          C．neighbors                D．mice

IQUIQUE, Chile (Reuters) — Rescue workers at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile had reason to sing this week. A small hole drilled into the earth became a passage to freedom for 33 trapped miners, who spent 69 days underground. “Never have people been trapped for so long so deeply,” says a doctor at NASA, the American space agency, which helped in the rescue.

But the chief medical officer for the miners said most are in good enough health to leave the hospital within a day or so. The first three recovered and went home Thursday night.

For much of the day the miners relaxed with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. The 32 Chileans and 1 Bolivian still wore special sunglasses to protect their eyes.

A partial mine collapse on 5th August trapped them more than half a kilometer underground. They had to stretch a two-day food supply. For two weeks no one knew if they were alive or dead. Later, they received supplies.

The first miner rescued on Wednesday was Florencio Avalos. The second was Mario Sepulveda, who talked about how the experience tested his faith. The last miner up was Luis Urzua, who was the shift leader when his crew became trapped.

Rescuers used a metal cage to pull the miners to safety in less than 24 hours — faster than expected. The rescue capsule was a half-meter wide and known as the Phoenix, an imaginary bird from ancient stories. It bursts into flames but is continually reborn and rises from the ashes.

Chile’s Navy built the capsule with advice from mining experts and NASA engineers. It worked like an elevator, traveling up and down on a cable through a shaft（竖井）drilled 622 meters into the rocks.

Millions of people around the world watched the rescue. More than one thousand journalists traveled to the mine in the Atacama Desert to report on the rescue. They joined family members of the miners and rescue crews housed in an area of tents known as Camp Hope.

What would be the best title for the passage?

   A. Rescued miners speak out

   B. Miners’ life deep underground

   C. A rebirth for 33 rescued miners in Chile

   D. Chilean president honors rescued miners

How many rescued miners are still in hospital?

   A. 3.                 B. 30.                     C. 33.             D. 69.

We can infer from the passage that ______.

   A. all the trapped miners are Chileans

   B. the Chileans rescued the miners alone

   C. the rescue caught the world’s attention

   D. the trapped miners lived easily underground

Which of the following is true of the Phoenix?

   A. It was a wooden cage like a capsule.

   B. It worked efficiently in the rescue.

   C. It was named after a real Chilean bird.

   D. It was built by NASA engineers.

The rescue is great for the reason that ______.

   A. 33 trapped miners were saved

   B. the American space agency took part

   C. Chilean President was on the rescuing spot

   D. it lasted so long and the miners were trapped so deep

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20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，选出最佳选项、并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The poachers-illegal hunters-had finally found a buyer for their stolen goods．A meeting was 3 6 ,and when the buyer asked to see the goods, they brought out a small duffel bag and un-zippedh．Inside was a 37  one-year-old baby gorilla．The poachers had likely killed the little female's parents and  3 8  her in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Africa．Then they took her across the border into Rwanda,  39  to sell her as a pet．
But the buyer didn't bring  40   ;he brought the police．The Rwandan authorities    41 the young gorilla to the nearby headquarters of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project．The vets（兽医）there realized that she had not been given 42 food or water, but they were much more worried about something else．"Baby gorillas simply don't  43  without their mother's constant body contact," says vet Chris Whittier．If they didn't quickly establish a  44  relationship with the baby gorilla, which her caretakers named Dunia, she  45  not survive．
Dunia needed contact, but she resisted  46  at first, shying away from people who reached  for her．Three caretakers worked in shifts, taking  47  holding her, carrying her around on their backs, and cradling her while she slept．48 she became stronger,a month after she was res-cued her  49   revealed the psychological stress she carried inside-much of her hair fell out． That was a delayed  50  to the combined traumatic experiences of losing her parents and being kept-with a poor diet-by the poachers．
After six months ofloving care that included around-the-clock attention,a good diet, and a  5 1    home at the project's headquarters, Dunia was looking and acting like a  52  ,happy young gorilla should． "Dunia is sort of a shy show-off," says Whittier． "Her  53  lsgrowing and she's becoming more independent, but when she is  54  ,the first thing she does is run back to her  55 ,just like she would to her mother．"
36．A．attended      B．held        C．arranged       D．delayed
37．A．energetic     B．terrified       C．dangerous      D．fierce
38．A．freed       B．followed       C．tricked          D．caught
39．A．intending     B．pretending          C．remembering    D．wondering
40．A．luck        B．benefit         C．profit               D．money
41．A．introduced          B．persuaded    C．presented      D．rushed
42．A,local          B．delicious      C．enough         D．fresh
43．A．complain     B．develop       C．survive        D．grow
44．A．social       B．physical       C．mental          D．special
45．A．would         B．should         C．might           D．must
46．A．eating          B．attention      C．rescue           D．love
47．A．turns       B．efforts         C．time          D．advice
48．A．If            B．As           C．Although      D．Because
49．A．health          B．mind       C．behavior       D．appearance
50．A．reaction       B．action          C．expression     D．description
51．A．comfortable  B．natural        C．private          D．ordinary
52．A．shy         B．healthy        C．strange         D．typical
53．A．satisfaction  B．confidence    C．interest         D．patience
54．A．touched       B．left          C．wamed         D．scared
55．A．home        B．forest        C．caretakers      D．comer

The 30-mile road that runs through the mountains of Willie Valley makes most drivers′ hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn’t expecting any trouble on the road last New Year’s Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear Mountains with nine-year-old daughter Mia, four-old son Baylor, and nine-year-old neighbor Kenya. Andersen had driven through the Valley hundreds of times over the years.

The weather was fine. But the higher they drove, the more slippery the road became. Rounding a sharp U-turn, Andersen saw a heavy truck off the road and immediately hit his brakes. In a minute, the car was going at 25 miles per hour down the mountain before falling down from a ten-foot dam into the extremely cold Logan River.

The crash had broken a few windows, and within seconds, the car was filled with water. “It was frightening that we were going fast into deep water,” remembers Andersen, a soft-spoken manager.

Having lost all sense of direction, Andersen began to search the freezing water for the kids. Mia had been right next to him in the front seat; now, in the blackness, he couldn’t find her. “I thought, if I don’t get out, maybe none of us are going to get out.” Andersen got out of his seat belt, swam through a broken window, and, deeply and quickly, breathed air at the surface. That’s when he saw a group of men, about ten in all, appear at the top of the dam. One after another, they rushed down into the water. Helping onto safety all the three children, they began to shout at the father, “Who else is in the car？”

Andersen says respectfully, “It was like the sight of angels.”

1. What might be the main cause of the car accident？

A. The bad weather.                        B. The high dam.

C. The sudden brake.                                D. The heavy truck.

2. Andersen didn’t expect any trouble on the road because _____.

A. he was familiar with the road

B. he was good at driving

C. his hands didn’t have sweat

D. the weather was fine

3. What can be learned from the last paragraph？

A. Andersen lost consciousness in the water.

B. Strangers helped Andersen out of the car.

C. Andersen liked Mia most among the children.

D. Strangers teamed together to save three children.

4.The underlined sentence is to express Andersen’s feeling of being _____.

A. tired                     B. excited                     C. doubtful                    D. thankful

5.Which of the following can be the best title of the text？

A. Stay calm when in trouble

B. Drive rounding a U-turn

C. Miracle rescue from a river

D. Mystery of the Bear Mountains