阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

Why did I come today? I wondered. My feet ached almost as much as my head. My Christmas    36   contained several people that claimed they needed nothing but I knew their feelings would be hurt  37 I bought them something, so gift buying was   38  but fun.

Hurriedly, I finished shopping and   39  the long checkout lines. In front of me were a boy of about five and a younger girl. She carried a beautiful pair of    40  slippers. When we finally   41   the checkout register, the girl   42  placed the shoes on the counter. She treated them as though they were a    43  .

“That will be $ 6.09,” the cashier said. The boy    44  his pockets. He finally came up with $ 3.12. “I guess we will have to put them back,” he bravely said. “We will come back some other time, maybe tomorrow.” With that statement, a soft  45  broke from the little girl. “But    46   would have loved these shoes,” she cried.

 “Well, we’ll go home and work some more. Don’t cry. We’ll surely   47  ,” he said. Quickly I handed $ 3.00 to the cashier. These children had waited in line for a long time. And,   48   , it was Christmas. Suddenly a pair of arms came around me and a small voice   49    said, “Thank you, lady.” “What did you  50  when you said Jesus would like the shoes?” I asked. The boy answered, “Our mommy is sick and going to   51  . Daddy said she might go before Christmas to be with Jesus.” The girl spoke, “My Sunday school teacher said the streets in heaven are shiny gold, just like these shoes. Won’t mommy be 52   walking on those streets in these shoes?”

My eyes  53  as I looked into her tear-stained face. “Yes,” I answered, “I am  54   she will.” Silently I thanked God for using these children to   55  me of the true spirit of giving I once was familiar with.

A. plan                      B. list                           C. goods                       D. purchases

A. unless                    B. because                   C. if                            D. since

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

A. waited                   B. joined                      C. attended                   D. gathered

A. cotton                   B. leather                     C. gold                         D. silver

A. approached                   B. got                          C. checked                    D. found

A. immediately          B. hesitantly                 C. shyly                       D. carefully

A. gift                              B. treasure                    C. life                          D. prize

A. opened                  B. touched                    C. reached                           D. searched

A. tear                         B. sob                          C. smile                       D. sigh

A. mommy               B. daddy                      C. we                           D. Jesus

A. leave                   B. come                       C. return                             D. arrive

A. above all              B. at last                       C. at least                     D. after all

A. gratefully             B. sweetly                           C. gracefully                        D. kindly

A. request                B. expect                      C. mean                       D. attempt

A. hospital               B. tomb                        C. heaven                            D. sky

A. equal                   B. comfortable              C. convenient                D. beautiful

A. pained                 B. wetted                      C. shut                         D. froze

A. sure                            B. afraid                       C. glad                         D. confident

A. inform                 B. warn                        C. cure                         D. remind

I asked the tailor to make a small _____ to my trousers because they were too long.

A. change        B. variation       C. revision       D. alteration

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从36－55各小题所给四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

After spending a weekend away with my adult son, I was so impressed by his   36  heart that I sent him this letter.

Dear son,

    I want to thank you for teaching me a very valuable lesson in life by the great example you   37  . When we were eating at that cafe in Boston and a person who had  38  his hamburger didn’t have enough money to pay for it, without  39  , you went over and  40  the extra $2 into his hand.

    When we were leaving, you  41  threw a five-cent coin onto the pavement and said  42 like, “Some kid will really enjoy  43  this.”

    Last week, a young man  44  me in the line at a petrol station didn’t have  45  money to pay for his petrol. I asked the money collector, “How much   46  is he?” She told me he had meant to put $15 of petrol in his car  47  he had been looking at the wrong gauge (计量表) and had put in 15  48  , which came to a little  49  $20. That is an easy mistake  50  both gauges run fast.

    Something made me think of you and  51  you did that night at the cafe in Boston. I handed the man $6. He was so  52  and said, “But why would you do this for me?” I just smiled as I thought of you.

   Thank you, son, for teaching me that “it’s  53  to give than to receive”. Now when I see a five-cent coin on the  54  and want to pick it up, I think of you and leave it there, just in case some kid will get a  55  out of finding it.

                                                        Love always, Mum.

1.A. humorous          B. optimistic               C. cold                D. generous

2. A. followed           B. gave                   C. set               D. took

3. A. ordered            B. booked                  C. offered          D. bought

4. A. hesitation          B. doubt                  C. permission          D. difficulty

5. A. spread             B. threw                 C. put               D. loaded

6.A. again              B. already                  C. only            D. also

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

8.A．finding                   B．accepting             C．looking for      D．pointing at

9. A．behind                   B．beyond                   C．ahead of            D．next to

10. A．much                   B．some             C．any                D．enough

11. A．far                      B．1ong                 C．short                 D．high

12.A．and                      B．but                        C．so                 D．while

13. A．1itres                    B．kilograms            C．pounds                D．kilometers

14. A．up                   B．over                 C．below               D．down

15. A．until                     B．as                    C．although           D．unless

16.A．what                    B．which                C．how             D．that

17. A．excited                 B．surprised              C．interested             D．encouraged

18.A．easier                  B．better                C．faster                D．worse

19. A．comer                  B．mud                          C．ground           D．carpet

20. A．kick                        B．fun                    C．fare              D．pick

On my birthday this year, I decided to do something very different. I had been   31  so much and I wanted to reach out to bring happiness to someone else. So, that   32 , I bought some flowers and went to a hospital. I had no   33  who I was going to present the flowers to, but I would find someone who needed   34  .

I asked the nurses in the hospital, who thought it   35  that I didn’t have anyone in particular to see.   36 , they gave me the room number of a(n)   37  lady, who needed some comfort.

I entered the room with the flowers. The elderly woman looked up, staring at me   38 . She was greatly moved when I told her about my   39  in being there. She was an amputee(被截肢者) and she explained to me that she was very worried   40  they were going to fit her with prosthetic leg(假肢). She knew that as she was getting used to the “  41 ”leg, she would be in  42  .

Later, in the following two hours, we  43  a lot and both felt very happy. I  44  until it was dark. I will always remember how   45  she was the moment she received the flowers from me—a   46  . She called me her angel and said she had no more   47  .

I   48  that story with my neighbor and she   49  that she was going to do the same thing on her birthday. And I hope that she will   50  others to be kind and do the same thing. You never know you might be considered someone’s angel one day.

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖车) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house – something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were surprised when Josh responded, "I just want a bed."
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds tog tether, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"
"A pillow," she replied.
"What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask.
"When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.
"Oh . . . that's soft," he said, hugging it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?"
We know exactly what he means.
56．The writer’s first volunteer project was         .
A．working on a poor trailer       B．helping a poor family
C．donating beds and bedding      D．dealing with a housing problem
57．On bearing Josh’s answer, the writer was shocked because         .
A．the family lived in a trailer     B．he expected to get some toys
C．he didn’t know what a bed was      D．the boys had no bed to sleep in
58．From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen      before.
A．a trailer    B．a truck      C．a pillow    D．a house
59．By saying “Do you have a pillow?”, the writer’s father means that        .
A．what they want to get may be unnecessary
B．they should not waste money on small things
C．they should do more volunteer work for the poor
D．what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow