阅读（共两节，15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

第一节：阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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This is a true story from Guyana. One day, a boy took a piece of paper from a box. He made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose. He couldn’t get it out. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later, the paper was still in the boy’s nose. His nose began to have a bad smell.

So his mother took the boy to a hospital. The doctor looked up at the child’s nose, but she couldn’t get the paper out. She said she had to cut the boy’s nose to get the paper out.

The boy’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. The next day she took the boy to her friend Sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called May. May wanted to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose.

“Yes, I can see it,” May said. “It will be out soon.”

As she spoke, she shook some black pepper on the child’s nose. The child gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim, for the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.

So the lucky boy didn’t have to go to the hospital to have his nose cut.

41. After the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose, ____.

A. he took it out                B. his mother took it out

C. he did nothing but cry         D. he tried to take it out but failed

42. The paper ball stayed in the boy’s nose for ____.

A. at most seven days             B. less than seven days

C. more than seven days           D. exactly seven days

43. According to the story, _____ was most worried about the boy’s accident.

A. the boy’s mother     B. Sidney       C. May       D. the doctor

44. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boy’s nose.

B. May succeeded in taking the paper out.

C. The boy’s mother found some black pepper to solve the problem.

D. The boy had to have his nose cut at last.

45. The boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because ____.

A. he needed to learn to swim

B. the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose.

C. the sea water would wash out the paper ball.

D. he needed a rest

二. 完形填空(30分)

I will never forget one thing, mainly because I learned the meaning of kindness then.

    A few years ago, I went running on a 16  day. It was my favorite activity because the 17   were so clean when it rained. 18  , I saw an old man with  19  clothes picking cans out of a rubbish bin. When I ran past him, I didn’t know 20   I should give him my umbrella. As I was thinking, I was still  21   . But I finally decided to give him my umbrella, as I knew he needed the umbrella much more than I needed it,   22   I ran back, gave him the umbrella and said, “You  23   this more than I do.” To my  24  , he took it with a big smile on his face and repeated, “Thank you! Thank you! God bless you.” I hadn’t expected he would  25  it so much. I walked away feeling  26  . I turned back one last minute and  27  him still smiling. “It was just an umbrella,” I thought, not  28  that it was the  29  that made him happy. He might feel that he wasn’t  30  in the world.

    A few weeks later, when I was running on the same street on a bright sunny day, I  31  the same man who was in the same clothes sitting down resting. The only  32  was my umbrella right beside him, looking like he  33  it. It was very clean and neatly placed. At that moment, I realized it didn’t  34  that I couldn’t give him a house or a job. I only did what I was able to and it made a whole lot of  35  seem to go away.

16. A. snowy         B. sunny        C. cloudy          D. rainy

17. A. parks            B. paths        C. streets       D. gyms

18. A. Hopefully   B. Unfortunately       C. Surprisingly  D. Suddenly

19. A. nice                 B. wet          C. funny      D. clean

20. A. whether           B. when                C. why            D. how

21. A. smiling     B. looking             C. running            D. walking

22. A. for          B. when                C. since           D. so

23. A. care        B. need            C. enjoy           D. like

24. A. excitement  B. disappointment  C. joy      D. surprise

25. A. favor           B. love            C. appreciate   D. admire

26. A. high                 B. good          C. scared     D. amused

27. A. saw                  B. heard                  C. imagined  D. sensed

28. A. expecting  B. watching             C. realizing     D. feeling

29. A. trust           B. confidence        C. respect          D. kindness

30. A. small          B. alone           C. bothered          D. useless

31. A. cared about B. called on     C. passed by   D.looked after

32. A. achievement B. sign             C. choice             D. difference

33. A. valued    B. remembered       C. honored      D. washed

34.A change       B. occur         C. hurt         D. matter

35.A.sadness      B. suffering       C. rudeness     D. feeling

It was Molly’s job to hand her father his brown paper lunch bag each morning before he headed off to work.

One morning, in addition to his usual lunch bag, Molly handed him a second paper bag. This one was worn and held together with staples (订书钉) 。

“Why two bags?” her father asked. “The other is something else,” Molly answered. “What’s in it?” “Just some stuff. Take it with you.”

Not wanting to discuss the matter, he put both bags into his briefcase, kissed Molly and rushed off. At midday he opened Molly’s bag and took out the contents: two hair ribbons(丝带), three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a tiny sea shell, a small doll, and 13 pennies… The busy father smiled, finished eating, and swept the desk clean into the wastebasket, Molly’s stuff included.

That evening, Molly ran up behind him as he read the paper. “Where’s my bag?” “What bag?” “The one I gave you this morning.” “I left it at the office. Why?” “I forgot to put this note in it,” she said. “And, besides, Daddy, the things in the sack are the things I really like — I thought you might like to play with them. You didn’t lose the bag, did you, Daddy?” “Oh, no,” he said, lying. “I just forgot to bring it home. I’ll bring it tomorrow.” While Molly hugged her father’s neck, he unfolded the note that read: “I love you, Daddy.” Molly had given him her treasures — all that a 7-year-old held dear.

Love in a paper bag, and he missed it — not only missed it, but had thrown it in the wastebasket. So back he went to the office. Just ahead of the night janitor(看门人), he picked up the wastebasket. He put the treasures inside and carried it home carefully. The bag didn’t look so good, but the stuff was all there and that’s what counted.

After dinner, he asked Molly to tell him about the stuff in the sack. It took a long time to tell. Everything had a story or a memory.

“Sometimes I think of all the great times in this sweet life,” he thought.

We should all remember that it’s not the destination that counts in life, but the journey. That journey with the people we love is all that really matters. It is such a simple truth but it is so easily forgotten.

1.Why did Molly give her father a second bag?

2. How did father deal with the bag after he opened it?

3.After father heard what his daughter said, he felt_____.

4.Which of the following is the most suitable title of the passage?

二. 完形填空(30分)
I will never forget one thing, mainly because I learned the meaning of kindness then.
A few years ago, I went running on a 16  day. It was my favorite activity because the 17   were so clean when it rained. 18  , I saw an old man with  19  clothes picking cans out of a rubbish bin. When I ran past him, I didn’t know 20   I should give him my umbrella. As I was thinking, I was still  21   . But I finally decided to give him my umbrella, as I knew he needed the umbrella much more than I needed it,   22   I ran back, gave him the umbrella and said, “You  23   this more than I do.” To my  24  , he took it with a big smile on his face and repeated, “Thank you! Thank you! God bless you.” I hadn’t expected he would  25  it so much. I walked away feeling  26  . I turned back one last minute and  27  him still smiling. “It was just an umbrella,” I thought, not  28  that it was the  29  that made him happy. He might feel that he wasn’t  30  in the world.
A few weeks later, when I was running on the same street on a bright sunny day, I  31  the same man who was in the same clothes sitting down resting. The only  32  was my umbrella right beside him, looking like he  33  it. It was very clean and neatly placed. At that moment, I realized it didn’t  34  that I couldn’t give him a house or a job. I only did what I was able to and it made a whole lot of  35  seem to go away.
16. A. snowy      B. sunny    C. cloudy       D. rainy
17. A. parks         B. paths      C. streets       D. gyms
18. A. Hopefully   B. Unfortunately   C. Surprisingly  D. Suddenly
19. A. nice           B. wet        C. funny     D. clean
20. A. whether        B. when             C. why         D. how
21. A. smiling   B. looking          C. running        D. walking
22. A. for            B. when             C. since         D. so
23. A. care      B. need          C. enjoy        D. like
24. A. excitement  B. disappointment  C. joy           D. surprise
25. A. favor        B. love         C. appreciate   D. admire
26. A. high            B. good         C. scared     D. amused
27. A. saw             B. heard              C. imagined        D. sensed
28. A. expecting  B. watching        C. realizing   D. feeling
29. A. trust        B. confidence      C. respect        D. kindness
30. A. small       B. alone         C. bothered        D. useless
31. A. cared about B. called on     C. passed by        D.looked after
32. A. achievement B. sign         C. choice          D. difference
33. A. valued  B. remembered      C. honored    D. washed
34.A change       B. occur         C. hurt         D. matter
35.A.sadness      B. suffering       C. rudeness     D. feeling

Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects．
One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly．He took it home．A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole．Then it seemed to stop making any progress．It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther．Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon．
The butterfly then appeared easily．
But it had a swollen body and small, fragile wings．The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would be smaller in time．Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling （慢慢爬行）around with a swollen body and fragile wings．
It never was able to fly．
What the man in his kindness and hurry did not understand was that the limited cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon．
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life．If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles and difficulties, it would disable us．We would not be as strong as what we could have been．And we could never fly．
【小题1】The butterfly could never fly because _______________．