—Why don’t we choose that road to save time?   —The bridge to it __________.

A. has repaired        B. is repaired

C. is being repaired    D. will be repaired

We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests’ coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom.
The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.
Each of the guests liked Kelly more, the younger one, enjoying her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a unusual girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.
I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big “to do” over the younger one because she’s the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions.
But we seldom think of how it might affect（影响） the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being paid no attention. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying. I said, “What are you doing here, my dear?”
She turned to me with a sad expression and said,” Mommy, why don’t people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I’m not pretty? Why don’t they say nice things about me as much?”
I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging（拥抱） her to make her feel better.
Now whenever I visit a friend’s home. I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.
【小题1】The underlined expression “make a big ‘to do’ over” (paragraph 4) means_______.

One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to   36  her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy, am I  37  ?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you  38  , OK?”

Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.

“Who   39  that you are bad?” asked Mummy.

“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I   40   because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got   41  and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.

“You are   42  ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say   43  to him?”

“But he called me bad and   44  with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.

“Though you have done   45   bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are  46   a good person.”

Nancy showed a  47   look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.

“Our   48  is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.

  49   flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I  50  good, Mummy?” she asked.

“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not  51  the wrong that you do. You will have to call and   52  to Phillips. Do you understand me?”

“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy  53 . “I am going to   54  Phillips right away, and I am never going to   55  that I am always good.”

1.                A．calm           B．protect         C．trick D．praise

2.                A．shy            B．foolish          C．bad  D．strong

3.                A．get up          B．grow up         C．wash up D．turn up

4.                A．said            B．saw            C．heard    D．doubted

5.                A．cried          B．refused         C．admitted  D．allowed

6.                A．excited         B．comfortable     C．nervous D．angry

7.                A．wrong          B．brave          C．wise D．careful

8.                A．goodbye        B．sorry           C．thank you D．hello

9.                A．competed       B．lived           C．worked   D．argued

10.               A．everything      B．anything        C．something D．nothing

11.               A．always         B．sometimes      C．ever D．never

12.               A．worried        B．puzzled         C．confident  D．satisfied

13.               A．chance         B．choice         C．condition  D．nature

14.               A．Fear           B．Patience        C．Shock     D．Joy

15.               A．really          B．hardly          C．already    D．gradually

16.               A．account for      B．pay for         C．look forward to D．rely on

17.               A．devote         B．apologize       C．introduce D．turn

18.               A．coldly          B．sadly           C．gratefully  D．pitifully

19.               A．consult         B．change         C．teach     D．call

20.               A．agree          B．explain         C．forget     D．confirm

Norah has a cottage on a cliff above a big bay. In winter it could be very nasty because of strong winds and sea spray. In fact, when a gale was blowing, Norah and her husband got used to sleeping in a small room downstairs, because their bedroom upstairs, which faced the gales, had a very big window, and they were afraid that an extra violent gust might break it and blow pieces of broken glass over them.

Also, the salt spray from the sea put an end to many of the colorful plants Norah planted in the garden. She tried putting up a fence to protect them, but the wind just hit it, went up over the top and then down the other side, so in the end she filled the garden with trees and bushes that liked salt.

But most of the summer Norah enjoyed her cottage and garden very much. At weekends she could sit out-of-doors in the sun, looking at the beautiful view, with interesting ships and boats passing by, and she could very easily cycle down to the sea for a swim.

Now, Norah and her husband had plenty of friends and relations. In the summer most of them used to come to enjoy the beautiful place, and in the end it really became quite annoying for Norah and her husband. When they were at home, they found friends and relations arriving, expecting to be given unlimited drinks and meals, and to sit in the sun for hours, talking as if Norah and her husband had nothing else to do but entertain and listen to them.

This went on for several years. Norah did not wish to appear rude by refusing to let her friends and relations in, but on the other hand, she was getting tired every summer.

第二卷（非选择题 共50分）
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
There once were a goat and a donkey that lived on a farm. The donkey
worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the most food. Sometime                           66. ____________
the donkey was given much food than it could eat. This made the goat                67. ____________
so jealous that they began plotting (谋划) against the donkey.                         68. ____________
“Hey,” the goat said one day, “I thought you do too much work on              69. ____________
this farm. You carry such heavy thing from morning to night. Why don’t               70. ____________
you pretend to get sick but you can take a day off?” The donkey thought          71. ____________
it great idea. The next morning, the donkey lay in the stable (畜栏) on               72. ____________
its side with its eyes close. Then the farmer sent for a doctor, who said                73. ____________
it was needed a special medicine made from the heart of a goat. So the               74. ____________
farmer killed the goat and gave the donkey the medicine made from its heart.   75. ____________