While eating lunch with my 4-year-old daughter this afternoon at a fast food restaurant, I noticed an old man walking to the table with a stick. The manager kindly carried the food for him. During the meal I    36   the man tell a woman it was his    37  . So I    38   what I heard to my daughter. She loves it when people have birthdays. I told her it was OK for her to wish him a happy birthday. He    39   was spending this special day alone.
At first she was    40   and decided against it. As I was    41   our plates into the dustbin she turned to him and quietly    42   him a Happy  Birthday. I  could  tell  he  was    43   by the way he looked at her. I    44   behind her and gave him my own wishes. He was grateful.
   45   we walked away he called my daughter back and    46   her a brand-new gold $1 coin. She thanked him. But that wasn't enough for him. He    47   his pocket and at that I kindly told him that wasn't    48  . He ignored me and    49   out an envelope with about a dozen of a different kind of gold coins. He continued to give her another one  and  tell  her  how    50   it was and that  one  day  it  would  be  worth    51  .  He  then    52   me in the eye and wished me a good day.
What a kind man. I'm sure my  daughter    53   his  day. On  such  a  special  day,    54   can I take away his glory and    55   his offering of thanks?
Happy Birthday!

All he wanted was some juice. As high school students sat in a cafeteria on that cloudy afternoon, he was   36__. We sat near yet away from him, fixing our hair and   37__ about the test period we hadn’t studied for. He was far away from our world, but was   38__ to be a part of it.

He stood at the drink machine on purpose, fumbling(摸索）in his fake（假的）leather wallet for some   39__. He   40__ a wrinkled dollar bill, and   41__ glanced back at his table where other students were sitting. With the help of a six-year-old, he tried to make the machine __42   his money. After a few unsuccessful   43  , the snicker（窃笑）and comment began. People were laughing. Some were even throwing things at him. He began to __44  , and his eyes misted with tears. I saw him turn to sit down,   45__. But for some reason, he decided to try again. He wasn’t leaving until he got a   46__.

With a determined expression, he continued to  47   thrust（插入）the dollar bill into the machine. Then something terrific happened. A popular senior girl   48   from her seat, and with a(an)   49   of genuine compassion(同情), went over to the boy. She explained why the machine had a hard time accepting dollars sometimes, then gave him some change and showed him   50   to place it. The boy gave her his dollar and chose a flavor of fruit juice. Then the two walked off in different __51__.

Although it was __52__ that they were from very different __53__, for one moment, they had shared a real understanding. As I walked away from my lunch table that day, I looked at the boy. I remembered thinking how he and the   54   were very much alike, they both weren’t accepted. But just   55   the dollar had found a place in a caring girl’s pocket, I was sure that boy would finally find his, too.

1. A. hungry            B. thirsty         C. anxious                        D. popular

2.A. worrying           B. arguing          C. taking           D. learning

3.A. expected           B. volunteered      C. forced          D. preferred

4.A. coin               B. card             C. check            D. change

5.A. took out            B. took up         C. took off         D. took away

6.A. nervously          B. proudly          C. carelessly                     D. angrily

7.A. test               B. mark             C. accept          D. prove

8.A. steps              B. bills            C. measures         D. attempts

9. A. tremble           B. shout            C. smile           D. embarrass

10.A. satisfied                             B. defeated         C. tired           D. bored

11.A. praise            B. comfort          C. drink           D. reward

12.A. excitedly         B. regularly       C. patiently       D. secretly

13.A. rose              B. struggled        C. jumped           D. fell

14.A. look              B. appearance      C. behavior         D. attitude

15.A. what       B. where                   C. why              D. when

16.A. feelings  B. manners                  C. directions       D. steps

17.A. clear     B. convenient               C. fortunate        D. doubtful

18.A. worlds            B. schools         C. villages          D. offices

19.A. juice      B. dollar                  C. girl             D. change

20.A. because          B. until           C. as           D. before

第三节 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21-40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A young student was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly    21    the students’ friend. As they went    22     , they saw lying in the path a pair of old    23    , which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a   24    close by. The student saying, “Let’s play the man a   25   : We will hide his shoes, and 26   ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his   27    when he cannot find them.”
“ My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never   28    ourselves at the   29    of the poor. But you are   30  , and may give yourself a much greater   31    the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and   32    how the discovery affects him.” The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes. The poor man soon finished his work, and came   33   the field to the path   34    he had left his coat and shoes. While   35    his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling   36  , he stopped down to feel    37    it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face. He now put the money into his pocket, but his  38    was doubled on finding the other coin. He fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent（热烈的）thanksgiving, in which he   39    his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread. The student stood there deeply   40   , and his eyes filled with tears.
21. A. held                   B. kept                         C. named                  D. called
22. A. along              B. on                           C. over                         D. back
23. A. socks           B. gloves                  C. shoes                   D. trousers
24. A. field                   B. factory                        C. company              D. shop
25. A. game              B. trick                        C. joke                         D. word
26. A. hide                   B. have                    C. let                           D. make
27. A. excitement      B. sorrow                        C. disappointment     D. anxiety
28. A. make              B. treat                     C. amuse                  D. laugh
29. A. price              B. expense                C. value                   D. pay
30. A. poor               B. kind                     C. honest                  D. rich
31. A. pleasure              B. money                        C. thought                    D. benefit
32. A. notice             B. watch                   C. realize                  D. find
33. A. about              B. across                  C. into                         D. by
34. A. where             B. that                          C. there                    D. which
35. A. wearing on      B. dressing up           C. putting on            D. pulling in
36. A. soft                    B. terrible                        C. strange                     D. hard
37. A. what               B. how                         C. whether                D. why
38. A. confidence      B. embarrassment          C. surprise                D. joy
39. A. mentioned       B. remembered         C. recommended       D. Reminded
40. A. amazed           B. defeated               C. puzzled                    D. affected                         

Born into a poor family，two of the Durers' children still had a dream for art，but they knew their father could not afford to send either of them to the academy(院校)．
After discussions，the two boys finally agreed to toss a coin．The loser would go to the nearby mines and support his brother while he attended the academy．Then，when the winner completed his studies，he would support the other brother，either with sales of his art work or，if necessary，by working in the mines．So they tossed a coin．Albrecht Durer won the toss and went to Nuremberg．Albert went to the dangerous mines and financed his brother，whose work at the academy was almost an immediate success，and by graduation，he was beginning to earn considerable fees for his works．
When the Durer family held a dinner to celebrate Albrecht's homecoming， Albrecht drank a toast to his brother，“Now，Albert，it is your turn to go to Nuremberg and follow your dream，and I will take care of you．”
Albert wiped the tears from his cheeks，glanced at the faces he loved，and said softly，“No，brother．It is too late for me．Look….look what four years in the mines have done to my hands! The bones in every finger have been broken at least once，and lately I have been suffering from arthritis(关节炎)so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast，much 1ess make lines on canvas(画布)with a pen or a brush．No，brother …for me it is too 1ate．”
Therefore，Albrecht took pains to draw his brother’s injured hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward．The entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and named it “The Praying Hands”．
【小题1】The passage is mainly about

     Collections were the inspiration(灵感) for a project at Thomas Tallis School, which formed part of the Imagine Children's Literature Festival last autumn. Each child (aged 12-13) beautified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it. The boxes were spread within the Royal Festival Hall's Ballroom. Some were left empty to encourage visitors to write their own stories.

    The subject chosen by Lauren was an imaginative one. "It's a sort of Cinderella (灰姑娘) story," she told me, inspired by a collection of letters from her cousin, In the story these become love letters, burned by a cruel stepmother. Lauren's best friend Charlotte is the stepmother. "I'm in Charlotte's story too," says Lauren, "and I get run over." Charlotte's tale was inspired by the girls' coin collection. "We've collected foreign coins for years – since our families went on holiday to Tenerife." she explains. "That was before the Euro, so we put pesetas in." Lauren continues: "I find a coin in the road, go to get it and get run over. I'm in hospital and then I die." Charlotte adds: "Or she might not die. I haven't decided yet."

     Millie Murray, who is a teen-novel author, thinks that setting the subject of collections was a useful inspiration to their creativity rather than a restriction(限制). "In the beginning I thought, 'Will the children be able to do it?"she says. "But it's been fruitful. Some have their own collection, some have parents who do, and some have written complete stories. It's made them think about something they wouldn't have otherwise, which can only be a good thing."

59. What were the children asked to do in the project?

      A. To meet friends at Thomas Tallis School. B. To write stories on the subject of collections.

      C. To encourage visitors to write their own stories.

      D. To have their friends for characters in the stories.             

60. The underlined word "pesetas" in Paragraph 2 is a kind of _____.

      A. story              B. collection            C. inspiration     D. foreign coin

61. From the stories by Lauren and Charlotte, we know that _____ .

      A. Charlotte hurt herself when getting a coin

      B. both of them developed their imagination

      C. both of them will die in each other's stories

      D. Lauren's cousin posted her some love letters             

62. Millie Murray thinks ________.

      A. collections could inspire writing creativity            

   B. it was good for parents to have collections

      C. inspirations were very useful in writing stories

      D. setting collection subjects restricted inspirations