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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

I still remember my first job in the city center. The        was large, dark and old        the physics lecture room was on the second floor.        , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM’ on the       . The students were sixteen or seventeen years old,        several years younger than me.       , some of them looked and acted       older than me sometimes.

The room was directly       the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses. One day, I was       some words on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me. There was a man standing in the room with       an apple in his hand. He looked      .

“Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class.

“I beg your pardon? What is the matter?” I said. “      threw this apple out of the window,” he said. “It       on my car.”

 “Who threw an apple out of the window?” I       to the class. There was no answer.

“I       the fellow who threw this.” said the man. “I will be       outside for you.” And then he left, closing the door behind him.

      was silence and I continued with the lesson. At the end of every lesson, usually the class were all       before the bell finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty     .  This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one      .  “That’s all for today,” I said. “You go first, sir,” said one of the boys. It made a nice change, I being out first.

1.A. room                 B. building                            C. floor                                  D. city

2.A. and                       B. as                             C. so                             D. but

3.A. Happily                B. Luckily                     C. Properly                           D. Actually

4.A. floor                     B. ground                    C. door                                  D. window

5.A. over                     B. only                                   C. up                                      D. almost

6.A. In fact                           B. In the end                        C. After all                            D. As a result

7.A. more                    B. less                                    C. very                                  D. even

8.A. on                        B. above                               C. below                               D. in

9.A. getting                 B. making                    C. taking                                D. putting

10.A. hardly                B. almost                               C. half                                    D. such

11.A. angry                B. kind                                   C. sorry                                 D. happy

12.A. Anyone             B. One                                   C. Who                                  D. Someone

13.A. hit                      B. defeated                          C. landed                              D. arrived

14.A. asked                 B. said                                   C. talked                               D. told

15.A. hate                            B. find                                   C. get                                    D. want

16.A. waiting             B. looking                    C. finding                             D. seeing

17.A. It                        B. There                                C. This                                   D. That

18.A. walked              B. left                                    C. gone                                 D. ended

19.A. lesson                B. class                                  C. room                                 D. lecture

20.A. heard               B. finished                            C. spoke                                D. moved

My bookshelves are full of dust — and with good reason. When it comes to cleaning that part of my home, I suffer from the most serious case of avoidance (回避反应症).
The thing is this: when I do set out to clean and re-organize my books, which seldom happens, I place myself into a really bad situation. No sooner do I take a title from the shelf, blow off the dust, and wipe down the cover than I find myself sitting on the floor with legs crossed and my back against the wall. Pretty soon books get piled up on my legs as I am reunited with old friends.
It is as if these books have voices, and each wants to say its piece. “Remember me? I was given to you when you went into the Navy, so that you would never lack for companionship,” one whispers. Another says, “I was your first book of poems, given to you before you learned to love poetry.” And a third, “I was the book that made history so attractive to you.”
Perhaps the greatest pleasure of re-organizing my books are the surprises — or better said, reunions — that occur. During my latest book-cleaning adventure, I found one that had fallen behind the shelf: “Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.” Not an unusual title, but the words written on the first page made it very special: “With Love from Mom and Dad, Christmas 1965.” What’s this? A book on the physics of lasers（激光）. It is filled with mathematical statements, and I had bought it at a library sale when I was 12, not long after the laser had been invented. I couldn’t understand a bit of it, but I did learn what “laser” meant.
What I end up with when I empty my bookshelves is a cross-section (横剖面) of my personal history. It’s like a road cut where one sees all the layers of rock going back through time to the beginning of the simplest life forms. The books I’ve read — and kept — are not just old friends. They are my résumé.
【小题1】What could be said about the author?

下面文章中有5个段落需要添加首句。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）选出适合各段落的首句，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Time can run out.

B. Tomorrow won’t be better.

C. Ideas need time to develop.

D. Your professor will be impatient.

E. You blow off your chances for help.

F. You are probably overestimating （高估）the pain.

Never Put off Tomorrow What You Can Do Today

Want to put off studying for the physics test? Or writing that thirty-five-page research paper on future uses of biotechnology? Sure you do? And who wouldn’t? But it’s still a silly idea to put off doing something until a future time. Here is why ....

1.__________. The task will be still the same. It won’t be any more fun and you still won’t want to do it. As the deadline gets closer and closer, the task seems to become larger and larger if you haven’t started the work. And the stress increases. Now not only do you have to write that paper, you have to do it under great pressure.

2._________ . Before you start, it seems that the task is unlikely to be accomplished. But you know what? You’re probably miscalculating. Get started -------- maybe on a small piece ------ And you will discover that you have more resources and know more about the subject than you thought. Result? You won’t experience nearly as much suffering as you expected to. Things are guaranteed ------ 100 percent ------- to get better.

3._____________ . If you leave your work before the night before it’s due, you give up the possibility of getting input from your professor. Professors regularly give advice ----- or at least a few useful tips ---- during office hours. Unfortunately though, they don’t usually hold office hours at midnight, so you will be out of luck when you discover the night before the midterm that you have no idea how to do the questions that will count for two-thirds of your grade.

4.________ . Ever wonder why the professor assigns the papers two weeks before it’s due? It’s because he or she expects you to be thinking about the issue, or doing the research, for two weeks. No, not every waking moment, but at least some of the time. After all, the professor could just as easily have given the assignment one week before it was due if he or she expected less thinking. When you throw together a paper or a report at the last minute, your ideas are half-baked. And your professor will know it.

5.________ . If you put things off at the last minute, you might find that you haven’t budgeted enough minutes to finish the necessary tasks. It’s the easiest thing in the world to miscalculate how long it will take to do all the work especially when new issues arise ------ like illness, family problems, computer breakdowns, trouble at work, and all the other things ------- as you are thinking through your paper argument or preparing yourself for the coming test. If you keep delaying, you don’t allow yourself time for those various life events that have an adverse(不利的) effect on your ability to complete your assignment. 

第三部分 阅读技能 （共两节，共16小题，满分26分）

第一节 阅读理解（共12小题；每小题1.5分，满分18分）

One morning I was woken by my mother’s angry voice. I opened my eyes and found it was seven forty , so jumped out of bed and rushed to a nearby bus stop without breakfast. Fortunately the bus started going as soon as I got on it. I was sure I could reach the school before the bell rang.

   However, the bus suddenly stopped. There was something wrong with it and we had to get off and wait for another one. I felt I couldn’t wait and the school was only fifteen minutes’ walk, so I ran to the school as fast as possible. Just at this moment, it began to rain hard. 

   I reached the classroom with all my clothes wet through. Mr. Smith, our physics teacher, had begun his class. I was always afraid of him. I hesitated (犹豫) for a moment, and then I opened the door.

“It’s you again, Jim,” Mr. Smith said angrily. “I’ve told you not to be late, but you...” Then he suddenly stopped when he noticed my wet clothes. He quickly took off his own jacket and asked me to put it on. “I don’t want you to catch a cold,” he said kindly. I went to my seat with Mr. Smith’s jacket on. It was a bit large for me but I felt very warm in it. I found, for the first time, Mr. Smith’s physics class so interesting and I changed my mind, there and then, about being afraid of him.

49. According to this passage, classes in Jim’s school probably began at _______.

   A. 9 am              B. 8 am            C. 7 am            D. 7:30 am

50. Why did Jim not open the door at first?

   A. He was afraid of facing Mr. Smith.         

B. He didn’t like to have the physics class.

   C. Mr. Smith didn’t let him go into the classroom.   

D. He didn’t want to interrupt others.

51. Jim found Mr. Smith’s physics lesson interesting that day because ________.

   A. he knew physics was very important         B. he wanted to go to a famous college

   C. he didn’t want to fall behind the others       D. he was moved by his physics teacher

52. We can infer from the passage that _______.

   A. Jim usually went to school by bike        B. it was the first time Jim had been late

   C. Jim was often late for school             D. Jim’s mother also got up late that morning

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题四个选项（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。

       My first job was in what they call the city center．The    36   was large, dark and old    37   the physics lecture room was on the second floor．  38    , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM” on the    39    ．The students were sixteen or seventeen years old,    40    several years younger than me．   41    , some of them looked and acted     42     older than me sometimes．

      The room was directly    43    the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses．One day, I was     44    some work on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me．There was a man standing in the room with     45    an apple in his hand．He looked     46     ．

      “Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class．

      “I beg your pardon?” I said．Was this the school inspector（督学）?     47    threw this apple out of the window,” he said．“It     48    on my car．”

      “Who threw an apple out of the window?” I     49    to the class．There was no answer．

      “I    50    the fellow who threw this．” said the man．“I     51    outside for you．” And then he left, slamming the door．

          52    was silence and I continued with the lesson．At the end of every lesson, a bell rang, usually the class were all    53   before it finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty     54    ．

      This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one     55    ．“That’s all for today,” I said．

      “You go first, sir．” said one of the boys．It made a nice change, being first out．

36．A．room          B．building             C．floor            D．city

37．A．and            B．as                  C．so              D．but

38．A．Happily        B．Luckily             C．Properly         D．Actually

39．A．floor          B．ground              C．door            D．window

40．A．over           B．only                C．up      D．almost

41．A．In fact        B．In the end           C．After all         D．As a result

42．A．more          B．less                 C．very            D．even

43．A．on            B．above              C．below           D．in

44．A．getting        B．making              C．taking          D．putting

45．A．hardly         B．almost              C．half            D．such

46．A．angry         B．kind                C．sorry           D．happy

47．A．Anyone      B．One                C．Who           D．Someone

48．A．hit          B．fell                C．landed          D．arrived

49．A．asked               B．said                C．talked          D．told

50．A．hate         B．find                C．get            D．want

51．A．will be waiting       B．have waited          C．have been waiting    D．wait

52．A．It           B．There               C．This           D．That

53．A．walked        B．left                C．gone          D．ended

54．A．lesson       B．class               C．room          D．lecture

55．A．heard               B．finished             C．spoke         D．moved