At the top of a three-storey brick house Sue and Johnsy had their studio. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia(肺炎), touched one here and there with its icy fingers. Johnsy was struck down, and she lay, hardly moving, on her bed looking through the window at the blank side of the next brick house.

One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway(走廊).

“She has one chance in ten,” he said, “And that chance is for her to want to live. She has made up her mind that she’s not going to get well. I will do all that I can. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession(队列), I subtract 50 percent from her chance to live.”

After the doctor had gone, Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she came into Johnsy’s room with her drawing board, whistling.

Johnsy lay hardly moving with her face toward the window. Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep.

She arranged her board and began a drawing. As Sue was sketching, she heard a low sound. She went quickly to the bedside.

Johnsy’s eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting backward.

“Twelve,” she said, and a little later “eleven”; and then “ten”, and “nine”; and then “eight” and “seven”, almost together.

Sue looked out the window. What was there to count? There was only the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old ivy vine(常春藤) climbed halfway up the brick wall. Its branches clung(紧紧缠着), almost bare, to the bricks.

“What is it, dear?” asked Sue.

“Six,” said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. “They’re falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. There goes another one. There are only five left now”.

 “Five what, dear? Tell me.”

 “Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls, I must go, too. Didn’t the doctor tell you?”

 “Oh, I never heard of such nonsense,” said Sue. “What have old ivy vine leaves to do with your getting well? Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were ten to one! Try to take some soup now.”

 “There goes another. No, I don’t want any soup. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I’ll go , too.”

 “Johnsy, dear,” said Sue, bending over her, “will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I’m done working? I need the light or I would draw the shade down.”

“Tell me as soon as you have finished,” said Johnsy, closing her eyes, “because I want to see the last one fall. I’m tired of waiting. I want to turn loose my hold on everything and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.”

1.By saying “Pneumonia touched one here and there” (in the first paragraph), the author means that _________.

A.some people were affected by the illnesses of others

B.pneumonia caused damage to the ivy vine

C.two people became ill

D.many people came down with the illness

2. How did Johnsy feel about the situation during the passage?

A. confident      B. hopeless        C. tired           D. curious

3.We can learn from the passage that _____________.

A.Sue came into the room whistling perhaps because she thought Johnsy might like the music.

B.Johnsy’s life was compared to the carriages in a funeral procession

C.Sue told a lie to Johnsy about the doctor’s words

D.Johnsy wanted to know about the falling ivy leaves to meet her own curiosity

4.The underlined word “subtract” in the third paragraph probably means “________”.

A. reduce      B. hope        C. add          D. doubt

5.The passage is probably taken out of ______________.

A. a newspaper    B. a novel

C. a medical report     D. a girl’s diary

(安徽省马鞍山市2009届高三第一次教学质量检测)I don’t think Rosemary will be upset about it ,but I’ll go to see her in case she           

    A.is                B.will be          C.does               D.has been

"Get out of the plane!" Justin shouted. Teddy and he dropped to the ground…

When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the meadow, flames of the fire were shooting more than five meters into the air．

Kathy couldn't believe what she was seeing．One glance told her they needed medical attention immediately．She questioned Victor, "Are you able to find someone nearby for help?"

"There are no farmers, nor villagers nearby," he replied．

"I'm a distance runner, and I'll go for help．" Looking at the seriously injured men, Kathy said to Victor, "It may take me several hours to get out．" She started out．

When she was 23, Kathy set a women's record in a Marathon of 42 kilometers．But now she was running the race of life. She had nearly 30 kilometers of hard wilderness to cover to get help．

Kathy had been running for two hours．This was far back into the wilderness．The country path was growing vague．She stopped to take a quick compass reading．Yes, she had run almost for more than 20 kilometers．Her heart fell, her muscle aching．And finally she saw her car in the distance．

She jumped into the car and sped away．She reached a holiday house and called the police．

During the wait, she walked around, relaxing her legs and drinking water. It took almost two hours for a police helicopter to reach her at the trail end．They needed her for one more task．

1.Who actually had the airplane accident?

A．Justin and Teddy                        B．Kathy and Victor

C．Justin himself                          D．Kathy herself

2.The underlined part "Now, she was running the race of life" means that ____．

A．Kathy would set up a new record

B．Kathy would run a race alone

C．Kathy was running for the lives of others

D．Kathy couldn't rely on Victor this time

3.Kathy stopped to have a look at her compass because ____．

A．she wasn't sure of her own memory

B．she had completely lost her way

C．the country path was getting vague

D．there was only the wilderness

4.What do you think Kathy's final task would be?

A．Giving the injured food and drinks．         B．Showing the police the crash site．

C．Going back to put out the big fire．          D．Taking the injured to the hospital．

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（??），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；

      2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

At a party, it is quite normal of someone to have a short conversation with you and then go

on to talking with other people! Don't think they dislike you and that they are impolite. It was

the custom at many parties in Britain, particularly there people are standing up rather than

sitting down. Here are ways of finishing conversation at a party. "Excuse me. I think I'll go and

get another drinking. See you later." "Oh. Excuse me. I've just seen Mary Jennings over here.

I've got to discuss a meeting we are having in Thursday. Would you excuse me and for a

moment?"

完形填空部分（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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses  36    Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were __37    there with no roof and no walls and all covered with __38   , her house was    39   quite all right.

     Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,    40    Anna took in one of the families that had lost   41    in the flood and she  42   her home with them until it was    43   for them to rebuild their houses.

    Anna's friends were   44    when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give   45   so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to   46   .  

"Well," Anna   47  her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I  48   lived found herself very poor, because her husband   49    in the war and she had a lot of children,   50    I have now. The day before Christams, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for   51    this year, so I’m going to   52    only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back   53    a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were    54    to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.   55    was that Christmas present.”

36．A．down below       B．just around         C．next to       D．above

37．A．rising B．appearing  C．falling         D．standing

38．A．water         B．trees C．dust   D．mud

39．A．just    B．already       C．yet     D．still

40．A．so       B．but     C．for      D．since

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

42．A．made B．found C．shared        D．built

43．A．possible     B．necessary  C．important  D．valuable

44．A．worried      B．disappointed      C．puzzled      D．impressed

45．A．them B．herself        C．them all     D．her

46．A．support      B．supply         C．grow  D．keep

47．A．explained to       B．asked for   C．talked with         D．spoke as

48．A．actually      B．then   C．before        D．later

49．A．had killed   B．might be killed   C．had been killed  D．killed

50．A．for      B．as       C．like     D．that

51．A．you     B．us       C．Christmas D．your birthday

52．A．get     B．send  C．buy     D．make

53．A．for      B．from  C．like     D．with

54．A．sad     B．happy         C．worried      D．sorry

55．A．It        B．She     C．Such   D．I