完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
Alice, my friend’s daughter, goes to an expensive private school where she has a friend, Jane, who is on a full scholarship at this school. Jane has   36   economic resources—her father has been dead for years and her mother works   37   a maid（女佣）. Although her mother works very hard, she can   38   support the family. Jane is very bright and gifted at   39   and that’s how she has got the scholarship, which included a(n)   40   for things like lunch, school uniform and music lessons.
Alice became friends with Jane and would   41   talk to her at lunch. She did it that way in order to avoid the other kids   42   her. 
On her birthday last month, she   43   her new friend to her birthday party, but Jane said she couldn’t come. Alice wanted her to be   44   so much that she   45   on her coming. Eventually, the girl said, “I don’t have any   46   clothes that I could wear at your birthday party.” After a brief pause, the girl remembered, “I have a   47   from my piano performance,” and asked, “Could I   48   a skirt from you?”
Alice was happy that her friend would be   49   to come and hurried home to ask her Mum   50   she could lend her friend one of her skirts. To her surprise, her Mum said, “No.” The daughter was very   51   and angrily said to her Mum, “  52   I could, I would give my friend all my clothes.” The Mother didn’t understand why her daughter should have had such an outburst as she’s normally very well   53  . 
Finally, Alice explained to her Mother her friend’s   54  .  Her Mother immediately changed her mind and said, “Yes.” She also encouraged her daughter not to feel like she should secretly be friends with Jane but to feel proud of her   55   with her. 
So the true friendship seeks to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.
36. A. personal               B. extra                           C. limited                   D. adequate
37. A. for                                     B. with                                C. like                             D. as 
38. A. hopefully                           B. obviously                        C. hardly                              D. temporarily
39. A. music                      B. drawing                          C. maths                              D. biology
40. A. bonus                      B. allowance                     C. donation                         D. pension
41. A. secretly                            B. happily                            C. quietly                             D. eagerly
42. A. pointing at             B. shouting at                   C. laughing at                     D. glaring at
43. A. took                                  B. invited                             C. accompanied                 D. sent
44. A. happy                       B. independent                  C. confident            D. present
45. A. depended                        B. insisted                           C. focused                           D. agreed
46. A. casual                       B. comfortable                            C. nice                                  D. tight
47. A. shirt                                  B. jeans                                C. handbag                         D. necklace[
48. A. get                                  B. copy                             C. order                              D. borrow
49. A. free                       B. able                           C. glad                              D. willing
50. A. how                       B. when                            C. why                                 D. whether
51. A. stubborn              B. upset                            C. firm                            D. enthusiastic 
52. A. If                               B. When                           C. Unless                         D. Though
53. A. treated                            B. controlled                   C. educated                    D. behaved
54. A. cleverness           B. character                             C. circumstances             D. competences
55. A. study                B. friendship                      C. sympathy                    D. performance 

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
"Hey, Tahlia! How's the model?"
I had just taken a bite of my hot dog __21__ I heard a familiar voice yelling at me from across the crowded school yard. I saw a group of popular girls who were all __22__.
"What kind of __23_ are you going to do? An ad for a Frankenstein movie?" More laughter. My stomach twisted into a tight knot. How could they humiliate (羞辱) me like this, __24__ the entire school? As I walked into the cafeteria, I __25__ the dark scars on my right hand.
At 9 months old, I knocked over a tea pot and dumped boiling water allover my hands and stomach. My parents __26__ me to the hospital, but I had to have skin graft (移植) operation. I was in so much pain! But what __27__ me most were the cruel things people said about how I looked, __28__ that day at lunch.
The girls were being supermean to me because they'd heard I was considering doing some modeling. A close friend had suggested that I shouldn't let my scars limit me and that I might __29__ a good model.
But after that __30__ at school, I was sure I'd made a huge mistake. Upon arriving home, I covered the mirror with a blanket, fell on my bed and sobbed.
The next day, I __31__ myself to go to school. At lunch my best friend Jesse tried to encourage me: "You can't __32_ forever, Tahlia. So what if you have a few scars? Just go outside and show them that you're just as good as they are." Although I knew he was right, I couldn’t __33__ standing up for myself like that.
However, that night as I sat on the bed, my friend's words replayed in my mind. I'm __34__ hiding from myself, I thought. How stupid! Slowly, I stood up, walked over to the __35__, and tossed the blanket aside. There, in the mirror I saw a slim, dark-haired, blue-eyed girl, looking just fine, __36__ with a few scars.
The next day I wore a comfortable T-shirt to school. What's more, I had lunch outside the cafeteria, __37__ beside those mean girls. They were shocked that I should dare to walk into their territory. I felt __38_ too—free and happy.
Sometimes people still look at me strangely. They __39_ and stare, but I don't let it get to me. I have applied to several modeling companies, and at least one company is considering me for jobs. Maybe I'll never __40_ posing on the runway, but I do know one thing: I'm done.

【小题7】

A．hurt B．beat C．disappointed D．puzzled

Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.　　
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.　　  
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
【小题1】The best title for the passage would be______.

I felt gloomy (沮丧的) the other day. The weather had been dark and rainy, and I just didn’t feel so   1  .

    As I was sitting at my desk, I   2   it was the birthday of a dear long-time friend — a single, middle-aged woman who has devoted the past 30 years to nursing and loves her   3  .

Knowing that she doesn’t have family in town, I   4  to give her a call. Sure enough, she was on B-shift,    5    to work late into the evening, and wouldn’t have  6     of a birthday this year. As always,    7   , she sounded cheerful and was happy that I   8   .

    After I hung up, I couldn’t   9   the feeling that she would really appreciate a little attention on her special day.    10    feeling a little gloomy myself, I tried to put it out of my mind, but as the day passed I couldn’t shake the thought. I   11   gave in, and that evening set off to the hospital with a card, a cheese cake, and some balloons. My friend’s grateful smile and joyful surprise   12   me I’d done the right thing and were a generous   13   for the little effort it had taken.

    When I got home, I realized that not only had I cheered up a   14   friend on her birthday, but my own gloomy feelings had also disappeared. Making her day had   15    my own!

Isn’t that the way it is   16   we take the time and make the   17   to do something for someone else? It’s like the little saying, “Loving kindness is twice blessed; it blesses him who gives, and him who   18   .”

    Cheering up people on their birthdays isn’t the only thing we can do to make their day. Life constantly presents us with   19   to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make a difference to   20   . And the wonderful thing is that as we do, it changes things for the better for us too.

1. A. special           B. positive         C. nervous          D. proud

2. A. explained     B. complained           C. remembered       D. informed

3. A. family            B. training         C. work             D. school

4. A. decided       B. continued            C. agreed               D. refused

5. A. surprised     B. disappointed     C. bored                D. prepared

6. A. much          B. many             C. little               D. few

7. A. though            B. besides          C. therefore            D. otherwise

8. A. admitted      B. called               C. succeeded            D. apologized

9. A. experience        B. imagine          C. shake                D. understand

10. A. Almost           B. Even             C. Never                D. Still

11. A. luckily          B. finally              C. unhappily            D. hardly

12. A. convinced        B. advised          C. promised         D. reminded

13. A. response     B. contribution     C. reward               D. share

14. A. careless     B. lonely               C. weak             D. curious

15. A. troubled     B. taken                C. wasted               D. made

16. A. when         B. where                C. why              D. how

17. A. suggestion       B. friend               C. effort               D. call

18. A. tries            B. receives         C. expects          D. cares

19. A. opportunities    B. dreams           C. choices          D. regrets

20.A. someone       B. something            C. everyone         D. Everything

After a very busy afternoon，as I walked into my house，I heard the phone ringing. It was my friend Lydia，upset over an argument with her husband. My usual approach is to offer advice，but this time，exhausted from chores，I simply sat down in a chair and listened to my friend’s frustration  and sadness. Without the disturbance of judgment or the desire to comfort her，I stayed totally quiet while she talked. Eventually Lydia’s depression eased and we said our goodbyes. The next day she phoned to thank me. “I’m so grateful for the way you helped me through this，”she said.
At first I was surprised. After all，I had done nothing except be there for her. But after I had my own venting (发泄的)  experience with another friend later that evening，I realized that my focused silence had some value. In fact，most relationship experts agree that talk is cheap；it’s listening that’s rare and valuable It allows you not only to hear what the other person is saying，but also to have a clear understanding of her thoughts and feelings. And for the speaker，that level of understanding translates into concern and respect.
Unfortunately，listening isn’t as easy as it sounds. Thanks  to  schedules  filled  with  family and work，multitasking has become a barrier (障碍) to listening. My tiredness may have been the only thing stopping me from folding  laundry or checking my e­mail while Lydia talked that afternoon.
Another barrier to listening is our listening system：Most of us take in only about half of what’s being said during a conversation，according to the International Listening Association. Research shows that we speak at 125 to 150 words per minute，yet think at 500 words a minute. Therefore，because we think much more quickly than we  speak，it is easy for us to lose our concentration when  listening to speakers.
While it can be hard to focus at times，it’s a skill worth developing. With a little practice  (employing some techniques)，you can become a better listener.
【小题1】Why didn’t the author give any advice to Lydia that afternoon?