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。

I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be   36   Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d   37  ?” Just when I started to   38   that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women   39   at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll, I felt such a sense of   40   that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t   41  . Somebody had thought   42   of me to bring me a gift. 

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my   43     Christmas there special and memorable, I   44   remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of   45   for as many children as I could possibly reach.

So I   46   a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school suppliers,   47   with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were    48  . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I   49   them that they couldn’t open their presents   50   every child had come forward. Finally the   51   they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles   52   up the room. The   53   in the room was obvious, and   54     wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew   55   that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter. 

1. A. sending           B. receiving                C. making           D. exchanging

2. A. found             B. prepared             C. got              D. expected

3. A. doubt             B. hope                 C. suggest          D. accept

4. A. broke in          B. settled down         C. turned up            D. showed off

5. A. relief                B. loss                 C. achievement      D. justice

6. A. blamed            B. loved                    C. forgotten            D. affected

7. A. highly                B. little                   C. poorly               D. enough

8. A. present           B. first                    C. recent               D. previous

9. A. hardly                B. instantly                C. regularly            D. occasionally

10. A. strength         B. independence         C. importance           D. safety

11. A. kept up with     B. caught up with           C. came up with     D. put up with

12. A. none             B. few                  C. some             D. each

13.A. fine              B. special                  C. helpful              D. normal

14.A. reminded          B. guaranteed               C. convinced            D. promised

15. A. after                B. until                    C. when             D. since

16. A. chance           B. gift                 C. moment           D. reward

17. A. lit              B. took                 C. burned               D. cheered

18.A. atmosphere            B. sympathy             C. calmness         D. joy

19.A. it                    B. such                 C. something            D. everybody

20. A. by               B. till                 C. for              D. from

In my opinion, what he told us just now about the affair simply doesn’t make any___________

A. idea        B. meaning        C. sense       D. point

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。

My ears are recently full of praising words from my friends such as, “ Oh, Beckham is so handsome, so cool that I can’t help falling in love with him!” or “What perfect skills he has!” Yeah,—I ______ to some degree, though I sometimes do want to______ them how much they know about Beckham, apart from his______ and how much they know about football apart from______ goals. It seems funny that we are______ about things, with which we are unfamiliar or about which we are______, but we all, my friends as well as I, consider this one of life’s______.

We need these pleasures to______ our lives. But that doesn’t______ to craziness or nonsense. As an old saying goes: “ Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We______ not judge anything from its appearance. We should all know, it is one’s good______ and great contribution that make one a star and unforgettable. Therefore we’d better say______ about Beckham’s good looks.

    If we close our eyes, falling in deep______, we can find that the things that move us to be really happy or sad have a______ meaning. If we don’t go deeper and are just satisfied with______ things, sooner or later we will find that we have not really gained anything because our first______ has blinded and misled us, and we’ll remain ignorant______ we realize that and make some changes.

  It is believed that thinking and going deeper than before is______ of great progress. If one day we are willing to go deeper into everything, no matter how much it______ us, we will finally prove how much we have______ up, how much more sensible, mature , and intelligent we have become.

1.A. like                          B. agree                          C. hope                        D. think

2.A. ask                           B. tell                         C. teach                        D. doubt

3.A. skills                   B. fame                   C. teach                       D. appearance

4.A. kicking                        B. hitting                          C. scoring           D. controlling

5.A. thankful                          B. crazy                    C. curious          D. anxious

6.A. uncertain              B. unhappy                 C. displeased               D. careful

7.A. aims                       B. qualities                  C. pleasures                 D. truths

8.A. keep up                     B. brighten up                   C. find out                   D. brighten about

9.A. come                B. increase                   C. amount           D. rise

10.A.dared                       B. would                   C. could                       D. should

11.A.thinking                    B. character                 C. looks                         D. ability

12.A.more                        B. something            C. less                          D. nothing

13.A.love                      B. sleep                   C. sense                       D. thought

14.A.clear                         B. puzzling                    C. moving            D. valuable

15.A.material                   B. deep                     C. surface          D. pleasant

16.A.conclusion               B. experience                   C. lesson                      D. impression

17.A.since                         B. although                   C. unless                       D. before

18.A.sign                       B. cause                            C. value                       D. willingness

19.A.worries                    B. pains                     C. satisfies                   D. offers

20.A.given                        B. sent                           C. built                          D. grown

An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public  36  for knowledge about how the financial system   37  .

Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January,  38 UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at A-level were  39  up.

Professor John Beath, the president of the society, and a  40  lecturer at St Andrews University, said his first-year lectures—which are open to students from all departments—were   41  crowds of 400, rather than the  42  250.

“There are a large number of students who are not economics  43  who would like to learn something about it. One of the things I have done this year is to  44  my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t  45  done.” He added.

University applications  46  7% last year. But there were rises  47  average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump, with people’s renewed  48  in careers in the public sector, which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.

A  49  study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial  50   and almost half said their children had asked them what was  51 , although a minority of parents felt they did not understand it themselves well enough to explain.

Zack Hocking, the head of Child Trust Funds, said: “It’s possible that one good thing to arise from the  52  will be a generation that’s financially  53  and better equipped to  54  their money through times of economic  55  .”

1.A．concern   B．thirst C．sense          D．taste

2.A．works       B．performs     C．serves          D．affects

3.A．in terms of        B．according to        C．on account of      D．in spite of

4.A．yet B．once C．also     D．still

5.A．outstanding      B．inspiring      C．convincing          D．leading

6.A．catching   B．appealing    C．drawing       D．covering

7.A．usual        B．regular        C.  average          D．common

8.A．majors      B．interests      C．preferences        D．standards

9.A．attach       B．adapt  C．approach    D．relate

10.A．generally           B．frequently       C．traditionally       D．originally

11.A．raised    B．rose   C．fell      D．struck

12.A．by          B．in         C．over    D．above

13.A．effect     B．focus           C．interest       D．benefit

14.A．recent   B．late     C．present       D．unique

15.A．matters  B．affairs C.  events         D．issues

16.A．taking up        B．going on      C．calling up    D．keeping on

17.A．overturn         B．downturn           C．breakthrough      D．breakout

18.A．cleverer         B．smarter       C．brighter       D．wiser

19.A．strugglt  B．measure      C．manage       D．earn

20.A．stability  B．puzzle C．uncertainty D．recovery