阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　Joan of Arc died trying to drive the English from her country. She gave _____1____ the safety of her life as a farm girl to follow an ideal. In modern times John Brown also followed _____2_____ ideal when he led his attack on Harper's Ferry. John Brown believed in God. When he was young, he ____3_____ taken a young run-away slave into his home. He hated _____4_____ and felt it was against God's will. During the battle over Kansas, Brown and his sons fought _____5_____. In 1859 he came to the East to fight ____6___ slavery. With him, in a farmhouse outside the town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, were twenty-one followers, five of them black men. Harper's Ferry lay ___7_____ the Shenandoah and the Potomac Rivers. It was on the border of Pennsylvania, a ____8_____ state. Brown felt that the ____9_____ he would easily free would easily go to the“free”land. Behind Harper's Ferry lay hilly country, where Brown and his men could hide out if the attack _____10_____.

　　As Brown and his men made their way forward, he told them,“Word will soon ____11____ throughout the countryside. Slaves will take up hatches, guns and knives. They _____12_____ join us. ”But Brown didn't succeed. His men ____13_____ take over（占领）the Rifle House and the Engine House. And Brown took a number of hostages（人质）as the ____14_____ spread. But word of the attack reached the Charles Town militia（民兵）, who. surrounded Brown the next day. The militia ____15____ fighting when Brown ____16____ a man with an offer of stopping fighting he was shot down. The next day Colonel Robert E. Lee and a group of US soldiers drew up before the Engine House. During the entire time of the attack, no slave had ____17___ Brown. Brown asked to be allowed to escape with his____18___. Lee____19___. Very soon it was allover. Most of Brown's men were _____20_____. Two soldiers were killed. Brown was badly wounded. Thirty-seven days later, he was hanged.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

My wife was shouting at Sindu again．I threw the paper away and rushed to the scene．Mydaughter Sindu looked  36__．Her eyes were wet with tears．In front of her was a bowl  37___with bitter melon．Sindu particularly hated bitter melon, but my wife believed  38__ in the “cooling effects" of bitter melon. I tried to  39__ Sindu to take a fewmouthfuls．She   40__ down a bit and wiped her tears．Then she said she would eat the  41__bowl of bitter melon on condition that I gave her whatever she asked for．I agreed．Slowly and  42__ , she finished the whole bowl．After that, Sindu came to me with her eyeswide with  43__. To our surprise, she wanted to have her head   44__. "Impossible!"shouted my wife．However, I knew that if I   45__ on my promise, Sindu would neverlearn to   46   her own．So I decided to keep my promise．

    On Monday morning, I  47__ her off at school．Just then，a boy shouted, "Sindu,wait for me!" What struck me was   48   hairless head．I was about to leave when a ladycame to me and said, "Sir, your   49__is great indeed!" I didn't  50__.She continued, “That boy is my son．He is   51__ from Leukemia （白血病）．He lost all his hair_  52__the side effects of the chemotherapy （化疗）?? He   53__ to come back to school because he was afraid that the kids at school would make fun of him．Sindu visited him last week andpromised to help him, but I   54__ imagined that she would sacrifice her lovely hair for thesake of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a（n）  55__ soul for a child．”

    I didn't know what to say．It was then that I knew what love really was．

   A．excited        B．frightened     C．moved           D．  disappointed

   A．provided     B．covered      C．filled       D． equipped

   A．firmly       B．angrily      C．heavily      D． happily

   A．permit       B．forbid       C．persuade D． order

   A．went     B．calmed       C．came     D． fought

   A．sweet        B．entire   C．bitter       D． little

   A．angrily      B．worriedly        C．painfully        D． sadly

   A．expectation      B．happiness        C．satisfaction D． pride

   A．nodded       B．cut      C．washed       D． shaved

   A．got off      B．went back        C．looked back  D． gave off

   A．honor        B．remind       C．share        D． take

   A．dropped      B．sent     C．took     D． picked

   A．its      B．her      C．his      D． my

   A．wife     B．daughter     C．view     D． life

A．insist      B．request      C．move     D． understand

   A．dying        B．escaping     C．suffering        D． recovering

   A．according to     B．instead of       C．thanks to        D． because of

   A．tended       B．promised     C．refused      D．determined

   A．nearly       B．never        C．ever     D． seldom

   A．abstract     B．simple       C．noble        D． horrible

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

My wife was shouting at Sindu again．I threw the paper away and rushed to the scene．Mydaughter Sindu looked  36__．Her eyes were wet with tears．In front of her was a bowl  37___with bitter melon．Sindu particularly hated bitter melon, but my wife believed  38__ in the “cooling effects" of bitter melon. I tried to  39__ Sindu to take a fewmouthfuls．She   40__ down a bit and wiped her tears．Then she said she would eat the  41__bowl of bitter melon on condition that I gave her whatever she asked for．I agreed．Slowly and  42__ , she finished the whole bowl．After that, Sindu came to me with her eyeswide with  43__. To our surprise, she wanted to have her head   44__. "Impossible!"shouted my wife．However, I knew that if I   45__ on my promise, Sindu would neverlearn to   46   her own．So I decided to keep my promise．

    On Monday morning, I  47__ her off at school．Just then，a boy shouted, "Sindu,wait for me!" What struck me was   48   hairless head．I was about to leave when a ladycame to me and said, "Sir, your   49__is great indeed!" I didn't  50__.She continued, “That boy is my son．He is   51__ from Leukemia （白血病）．He lost all his hair_  52__the side effects of the chemotherapy （化疗）?? He   53__ to come back to school because he was afraid that the kids at school would make fun of him．Sindu visited him last week andpromised to help him, but I   54__ imagined that she would sacrifice her lovely hair for thesake of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a（n）  55__ soul for a child．”

    I didn't know what to say．It was then that I knew what love really was．

   A．excited      B．frightened   C．moved        D． disappointed

   A．provided     B．covered      C．filled       D． equipped

   A．firmly       B．angrily      C．heavily      D． happily

   A．permit       B．forbid       C．persuade D． order

   A．went     B．calmed       C．came     D． fought

   A．sweet        B．entire   C．bitter       D． little

   A．angrily      B．worriedly        C．painfully        D． sadly

   A．expectation      B．happiness        C．satisfaction D． pride

A．nodded      B．cut      C．washed       D． shaved

   A．got off      B．went back        C．looked back  D． gave off

A．honor       B．remind       C．share        D． take

   A．dropped      B．sent     C．took     D． picked

   A．its      B．her      C．his      D． my

   A．wife     B．daughter     C．view     D． life

   A．insist       B．request      C．move     D． understand

   A．dying        B．escaping     C．suffering        D． recovering

   A．according to     B．instead of       C．thanks to        D． because of

   A．tended       B．promised     C．refused      D．determined

   A．nearly       B．never        C．ever     D． seldom

A．abstract        B．simple       C．noble        D． horrible

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

My wife was shouting at Sindu again．I threw the paper away and rushed to the scene．Mydaughter Sindu looked 36__．Her eyes were wet with tears．In front of her was a bowl 37___with bitter melon．Sindu particularly hated bitter melon, but my wife believed      38__ in the “cooling effects" of bitter melon. I tried to 39__ Sindu to take a fewmouthfuls．She   40__ down a bit and wiped her tears．Then she said she would eat the 41__bowl of bitter melon on condition that I gave her whatever she asked for．I agreed．Slowly and 42__ , she finished the whole bowl．After that, Sindu came to me with her eyeswide with 43__. To our surprise, she wanted to have her head   44__. "Impossible!"shouted my wife．However, I knew that if I   45__ on my promise, Sindu would neverlearn to  46  her own．So I decided to keep my promise．

On Monday morning, I 47__ her off at school．Just then，a boy shouted, "Sindu,wait for me!" What struck me was  48  hairless head．I was about to leave when a ladycame to me and said, "Sir, your   49__is great indeed!" I didn't 50__.She continued,“That boy is my son．He is   51__from Leukemia（白血病）．He lost all his hair_ 52__the side effects of the chemotherapy（化疗）? He   53__to come back to school because hewas afraid that the kids at school would make fun of him．Sindu visited him last week andpromised to help him, but I   54__imagined that she would sacrifice her lovely hair for thesake of my son! Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a（n） 55__ soul for achild．”

I didn't know what to say．It was then that I knew what love really was．

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