完形填空 I ：阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。(共12个小题；每小题1分，满分12分)

A businessman was on a business trip to Tokyo. One day he went to    29   some gifts for his employees (雇员) back in his country. He    30    a supermarket. A lady smiled and   welcomed him. He was very touched, and felt good .Because he was not able to    31    the warmth of her smile, he was watching her as he was    32   . She was giving the same    33    to all the people who walked into the supermarket.

The businessman started thinking if she hated doing the same thing. So he asked, “My dear lady, are you    34    of doing this job?” The lady smiled and said, “No, sir, I have    35    here for the last 10 years and I love my job.” The businessman was surprised and asked, “Why have you stayed here for ten years, and why do you like your job   36    much?” The lady said, “Because I am doing something good for my    37   .” The businessman found this interesting. He asked, “Why?” The lady said, “As most of our customers are    38   , they spend foreign currency here. So our country has a lot of money and becomes richer. People who are happy with our service will 39   _____ more often and spend more money in our country.”

Surprised by her    40   , the businessman thanked her. After returning to his own country he worked hard to introduce the same attitude (态度) to his workers, and today his company is one of the best companies in the world.

29. A. buy                                   B. order         C. make                           D. pay

30. A. opened                           B. cleaned       C. entered                        D. checked 

31. A. require                          B. enjoy         C. hide                                  D. forget  

32. A. traveling                          B. working       C. singing                                      D. shopping

33. A. feeling                          B. smile         C. warmth                           D. watching 

34. A. fond                                  B. tired           C. proud                                       D. afraid

35. A. stood                                 B. learned         C. worked                          D. lived 

36. A. so                                  B. very            C. even                                 D. enough

37. A. home                                B. country          C. supermarket               D. boss 

38. A. millionaires                 B. managers       C. strangers                 D. foreigners 

39. A. praise                                B. visit             C. talk                                 D. save 

40. A. action                                B. service          C. attitude                          D. help 

My eighth grade consisted of 28 classmates. We knew each other so well that most of us could distinguish each other's handwriting at a glance. Although we grew up together, we still had class outcasts．From second grade on, a small group started harassing （骚扰） two or three of the others．I was one of those two or three, though I didn't know why．In most cases when children get picked on, they aren't good at sports or they read too much or they wear the wrong clothes or they are of a different race．But in my class, we all read too much and didn't know how to play sports．We had also been brought up to carefully respect each other's race．This is what was so strange about my situation．Usually, people are made outcasts because they are in some way different from the larger group．But in my class, large differences did not exist．It was as if the outcasts were invented by the group out of a need for them．

The harassment came in the form of laughter when I talked, and rolled eyes when I turned around．If I was out on the playground and approached a group of people, they often fell silent．Sometimes, someone would not see me coming and I would catch the tail end of a joke at my expense．

There was another girl in our class who was perhaps even more rejected than I．She provided the group with a lot of material for jokes．One day one popular girl came up to me to show me something she said I wouldn't want to miss．We walked to a comer of the playground．Three or four girls there were reading aloud from a small book, which I was told was the girl's diary．

I sat down and, laughing till my sides hurt, heard my voice finally mixed with the others．Often being accepted by others is more satisfying than being accepted by oneself, even though the satisfaction does not last．Looking back, I wonder how I could have participated in making fun of this girl when I knew perfectly well how it felt．If I were in that situation today I would react differently, but I can't honestly be sure．

1.The author was made an outcast because ____．

A．she couldn't play sports as well as others

B．her classmates needed to find an outcast her

C．her classmates found her clothes funny

D．family belonged to a minority group

2.How was the author treated as an outcast?

A．She was refused to approach others．

B．No one responded to her talking．

C．She was often the target of teasing．

D．Her diary was often made public．

3.What did the author do to the girl mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．She showed great sympathy with the girl．

B．She found more materials about the girl for jokes．

C．She stopped the others from hurting the girl．

D．She joined others in making fun of the girl．

4.What does the passage intend to tell us?

A．Everyone is likely to become an outcast．

B．We shouldn't hit a person when he is down．

C．Everyone has a desire to be accepted by others．

D．One should pay somebody back in his own way．

I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye：Queen City Casket Company.“What is it？”I wondered.I __16__ it over.There，in faded ink，was a hand­scrawled __17__．Immediately my mind __18__ back many years ago.

I was nine years old，walking down the cold，wet streets of Springfield，with a bag of __19__ on my shoulder.On my __20__ that day，I came to that company finally，whose owner，Mr.Rader，had always taken me there to __21__ his workers whether they wanted any magazines.

__22__ off the rain like a wet dog，I entered Mr.Rader's office.After a quick glance he __23__ me over to the fireplace.Noticing the __24__ in the top of my __25__，he said，“Come with me！” pulling me into his truck.We __26__ before a shoe store.Inside，a salesman __27__ me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had __28__ seen.I felt about 10 feet tall when I got up __29__ them.“We'd like a pair of new socks too，” Mr.Rader said.

Back in his office，Mr.Rader took out a __30__，wrote something on it，and handed it to me.With tearful eyes，I read，“__31__ to others as you would have them do to you.”He said affectionately，“Jimmy，I want you to __32__ I love you.”

I said goodbye，and for the first time I __33__ a flicker of hope that somehow things would be all right.With people like Mr.Rader in the world，there was hope，__34__ and love，and that would always make a __35__．

16．A.read  B．thought  C．turned  D．passed

17．A.address  B．list

C．message  D．information

18．A.brought  B．approached

C．returned  D．traveled

19．A.magazines  B．newspapers

C．notes  D．books

20．A.returns  B．rounds  C．trips  D．arrivals

21．A.beg  B．demand  C．tell  D．ask

22．A.Letting  B．Giving  C．Turning  D．Shaking

23．A.followed  B．led

C．watched  D．carried

24．A.hole  B．mud  C．water  D．cover

25．A.coat  B．shoe  C．sock  D．bag

26．A.pulled up  B．took in

C．drove away  D．walked up

27．A.dressed  B．fitted  C．shared  D．comforted

28．A.never  B．already  C．ever  D．hardly

29．A.for  B．with  C．on  D．in

30．A.pen  B．paper  C．card  D．notebook

31．A.Do  B．Give  C．Show  D．Lend

32．A.say  B．know  C．consider  D．express

33．A.sensed  B．predicted  C．lost  D．admitted

34．A.sadness  B．challenge

C．kindness  D．intension

35．A.deal  B．fortune  C．choice  D．difference

Just before midnight, six University of Cincinnati students were watching TV in an on-campus apartment when three men burst through the door. While one of the intruders pointed a gun at the group, the other two scooped up $4,400 worth of laptops, cell phones, video games and cash. Once they had what they wanted, the trio fled into the night.

Furious, the students chased down and tackled one of the burglars -- the one with the gun. In the struggle, it went off, and a bullet grazed a student's leg. His friends piled on the gunman and held him until police showed up.

By the next day, the injured young man was back in his apartment, and the suspect was in jail, charged with burglary, felonious assault and receiving stolen property. But how did the men manage to storm into an on-campus residence that November night in the first place? Simple: Students told police the building's main doors hadn't latched properly for days.

As parents confront ballooning college costs and shrinking acceptance rates, they are finding themselves with an even bigger, more basic problem: Which campuses are safe? Colleges seem like idyllic and secure places, and for the most part, they are. But ivy-covered walls can't keep out every bad element. This country's 6,000 colleges and universities report some 40,000 burglaries, 3,700 forcible sex offenses, 7,000 aggravated assaults and 48 murders a year. Other hazards -- fires, binge-drinking, mental-health problems -- are also on the rise.

Of course, that's not what parents and students see on America's serene campuses. There's a false sense of security, says Harry Nolan, a safety consultant in New York City. "Students see guards patrolling at night or a video camera monitoring the dorm entrance and think, nothing bad can happen to me," he explains. "People don't know that safety controls are often very lax."

1.What did the students do after the burglars fled into the night?

A. They stood there in surprise.

B. They ran after the burglars at once.

C. They waited for the police.

D. They phoned their teacher.

2.What does the underlined word “latched” in the third paragraph probably mean?

A. watched                 B. fixed                                 C. locked                     D. kept

3.What worries parents most except ballooning college costs and shrinking acceptance rates?

A. Their children’s grades in the universities or colleges.

B. Their children’s safety in the universities or colleges.

C. Their children’s behavior in the universities or colleges.

D. Their children’s relationship with classmates in the universities or colleges.

4.Which is right according to the passage?

A. Their children’s grades in are high.

B. Their children’s safety in the universities or colleges will be mornitored well.

C. The universities or colleges don’t pay much attention to the children.

D. The universities or colleges are not key educational departments in the local area.

Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.
Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Toomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Lealie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.
Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient Forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.
Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.
【小题1】The underlined word “poetry” most probably means______.