III．完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，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。

"I've been writing a book, John. Do you think anyone would be interested in   36   it?" said the old lady.

John took over the   37   from her shaking hand and   38   her in a chair. He remembered her rich   39   in the early days of the Old West. He looked through the papers. "It's good, Grandma." He said gently. Then realizing that she couldn't hear him, he shouted   40   her ears. “I think it's very good. I'll   41   it to a publisher."

Ten days later, he reported that the   42   had had time to read only a few pages. But he was so   43   that he had sent $100 for an option（版权）.   44   money would be given as an advance（先付）.

One morning, three months after her 100th birthday, Grandma didn't get up. The doctor told her that she couldn't   45   more than a few days.  She was   46   to go, but she first wanted her book to be in print. John promised that she   47   get the book very soon.

Grandma   48   on until the day the book came into her hands, with the title and her name on the cover. Though she couldn't see it, she could   49   it. She   50   felt her name with her fingers, tears in her eyes. Two hours later, she died   51  , still holding her book.

Her granddaughter took up the book and opened it. "Why, it's just blank（空白的）pages!" she cried in   52   John's face turned red. Then the girl understood. There never was a book. Grandma couldn't   53   the little bell when the typewriter came to the end of the line. She would keep on working, not knowing the whole sentences and sometimes the paragraphs were   54  . John did not tell her, for he couldn't take away her only   55  . It was John himself who had written the letters and sold his car to pay the advance.

36．A．buying           B．publishing        C．reading           D．lending

37．A．papers          B．newspaper      C．book           D．magazine

38．A．sat               B．put               C．placed            D．seated

39．A．lives             B．experiences      C．thoughts         D．family

40．A．onto             B．inside           C．into            D．on

41．A．throw              B．put               C．send              D．lift

42．A．publisher        B．officer          C．doctor          D．teacher

43．A．interested        B．angry          C．frustrated        D．gentle

44．A．Little            B．Much           C．Enough           D．More

45．A．die               B．stay              C．last              D．remain

46．A．worried           B．anxious            C．ready            D．eager

47．A．must            B．would          C．could           D．might

48．A．did               B．took             C．made              D．lived

49．A．read             B．smell            C．Hear              D．touch

50．A．proudly           B．quickly            C．carefully         D．slowly

51．A．angrily          B．peacefully      C．willing          D．quickly

52．A．anger                  B．joy               C．surprise           D．tears

53．A．see               B．smell            C．Hear               D．taste

54．A．missing           B．finished           C．completed          D．ended

55．A．hope            B．book            C．life              D．paper

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

       The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for  21  a roll of gold wrapping paper．Money was  22  and he became very angry when the child tried to decorate a   23  to put under the Christmas tree．

24  , the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy．”He felt  25  by his earlier over reaction, but his  26  flared again when he found the box was  27  ．He  28  at her, “don’t you know that when you give someone a  29  , there’s supposed to be  30  inside it ?” The little girl looked  31  at him with tears in her eyes and said, “Oh, Daddy, it is not empty．I blew kisses into the box．All for you, Daddy．”The father’s face became  32  ．He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her  33  ．

It is told that the man  34  that gold box by his bed for years and  35  he was discouraged, he would take out a(an)  36  kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there．

In a very real  37  ,each of us as humans have been given a gold container  38  with unconditional love and kisses from our children, friends, family and God．There is no  39  precious possession anyone could  40  ．

A．buying   B．lending     C．wasting     D．damaging

A．tight      B．enough     C．short D．cheap

A．box       B．doll   C．book D．vase

A．Instead   B．However   C．Therefore  D．Meanwhile

A．disappointedB．excited       C．uncomfortable  D．glad

A．joke       B．anger C．joy    D．wonder

A．empty    B．full   C．decorated  D．broken

A．looked   B．shouted     C．called       D．pulled

A．hand      B．flower      C．lesson       D．present

A．somethingB．everything    C．anything   D．nothing

A．down   B．up     C．away D．round

A．blue     B．yellow      C．green D．red

A．understandingB．forgiveness    C．encouragement D．agreement

A．kept     B．put   C．locked      D．had

A．whatever     B．however   C．wherever  D．whenever

A．practical      B．imaginary C．valuable    D．important

A．world   B．society      C．sense D．family

A．given   B．filled C．covered    D．made

A．more    B．less   C．any   D．much

A．win     B．hold  C．buy   D．share

"I've been writing a book, John. Do you think anyone would be interested in __1__ it?" said the old lady.

John took __2__ the papers from her shaking hand and seated her in a chair. He remembered her rich __3__ in the early days of the Old West. He looked through the papers, "It's good, Grandma," he said gently. Then realizing that she couldn't hear him, he shouted __4__ her ears. "I think it's very good. I'll __5__ it to a publisher."

Ten days later, he reported that the publisher had had time to read only a few__6__. But he was so impressed that he had sent $100 for an option(买版权).

__7__money would be given as an advance(预付款). Every month John __8__ $100 for her with a letter from the publisher telling about the progress of the book.

One morning, three months after her 100th birthday. Grandma didn't get up. The doctor told her that she couldn't__9__more than a few days. She was ready to go, but she first wanted her book to be in __10__. John promised that he would get it very soon.

Grandma __11__ on until the day the book came into her hands with the title and her name on the cover. Though she couldn't see it, she could __12__ it. She __13__ felt her name with her fingers, tears in her eyes. Two hours later, she died peacefully, __14__ holding her book.

Her granddaughter took up the book and opened it. "Why, it's just blank pages!" she cried in __15__.

John's face turned __16__. Then the girl understood. There __17__ was a book. Grandma couldn't hear the little bell when the typewriter came to the __18__ of the line. She would keep on working, not knowing the whole sentences and sometimes the paragraphs were __19__. John did not tell her, for he couldn't take away her only __20__. It was John himself who had written the letters and sold his car to pay the advance.

1. A. buying B. publishing C. reading D. lending

2. A. away B. over C. on D. off

3. A. sufferings B. experiences C. thoughts D. neighbors

4. A. between B. out of C. into D. up

5. A. throw B. put C. send D. lift

6. A. novels B. copies C. pages D. books

7. A. Some B. Much C. Enough D. More

8. A. brought B. borrowed C. spent D. stole

9. A. die B. read C. last D. write

10. A. time B. bookstore C. sale D. print

11. A. talked B. wrote C. gave D. held

12. A. read B. sell C. hear D. touch

13. A. proudly B. quickly C. careful D. slow

14. A. still B. yet C. always D. then

15. A. anger B. joy C. surprise D. tears

16. A. white B. red C. angry D. surprise

17. A. indeed B. certainly C. hardly D. never

18. A. middle B. last C. end D. beginning

19. A. missing B. finished C. completed D. ended

20. A. hope B. book C. life D. paper

Directly across the street was our house from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic.

One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. “Why, he’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,” I thought as I stared at the shriveled (皱缩的) body. But the shocking thing was his face-twisted from swelling，red and raw.

Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, “Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there’s no bus till morning.”

He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success, no one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face…, I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments …"
  I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. “No thank you，I have plenty.” And he held up a brown paper bag.

When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn’t take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was hopelessly disabled from a back injury.
  He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence began with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.
    At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch.

He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won’t put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.” He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind.” I told him he was welcome to come back again.
  In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden.
  Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.

When I received these little gifts, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning.

"Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away. You can lose roomers by accommodating such people!"

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear.

I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.

58. The first time I met the man, _____.

A. he had an eight-year-old son        B. he was looking for a place to stay overnight
C. he frightened my kid               D. he was in need of something to eat

59. The next-door neighbor refused the man because _____.

A. he had no spare room               B. the man didn't bring him gifts

C. he might lose roomers               D. the man was bad-tempered

60. Which of the following is NOT true about the man?

A. He developed skin cancer.         B. He didn't complain about his sufferings.
C. He fished to support a large family.  D. God helped him to get over his disease.

61. What attitude did the man have toward life?

A. Confident.       B. Grateful.        C. Regretful.     D. Passive.

62. What message is conveyed in the passage?

A. Give others a hand               B. Accept good and bad with gratitude
C. Be the architect of life                        D Never judge a book by its cover.    

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意, 然后从1～25各题所给的四个选项中, 选出一个最佳答案。

　Marco Polo was a boy of about seventeen. Once, his father and uncle 　1　to their family in Venice (威尼斯) after a long journey. They talked about strange and beautiful lands 　2　. They brought back gold and jewels.

　　3　, the Polo brothers asked him to take a trip with them to the East. So it was how Marco Polo's journey began. During three years of travelling 　4　China, he saw sights that were almost unbelievable to a boy from Italy. He met people who had strange 　5　. Some spoke languages that he did not even understand. At last they reached the Continent of Asia. This was in the year 1275. The emperor made a great feast (盛宴) 　6　the Polos and asked Marco to live in his court. Marco Polo learned to read, write and speak new languages.

　Once the emperor 　7　distant western and southern part of his empire. Marco Polo was given many soldiers and servants for his journey.

　Marco saw paper 　8　the Chinese. People in China 　9　how to print on paper; they had many books and even used paper money! They burned little black rocks for heat—later 　10　.