I graduated from a small public school in Michigan. One day，Mr. Ledy，our football coach，asked me to play football. I couldn’t help  36  ：me，play football? I was six feet tall and was not much __37__ a hundred pounds in weight. I thought that they might just need  38    fool to increase the number of the players. However，he was persistent(坚持的) and __39__I joined the football team. That           40  to be one of my best decisions as a kid.

Our worst game  __41__ was the one against Crystal Falls. They beat us 56 to 6. Yeah! That was a football not a basketball _42__. We played them again when we were seniors. They __43__ us again but the score was much more _44_，30 to 20.

Coach Ledy would not let that __45__ again. He encouraged us to beat them，to pay them back. And we did so in the last game we played before __46__. I had scored 6 points alone in the game. Coach Ledy praised me. It was a huge _47 for me.

Was I a football hero? Ha! Ha! No，I couldn’t __48__ it without our team. The thing I learned through football was __49__. We won as a team and we __50__ as a team.

I think Mr. Ledy would be __51__ of me if he knew that I had broken the athletic __52__ at the University of Michigan. I’m __53__to him as I would not have today’s honor without him. I’ll __54__life’s final war with pain to win the victory；I’ll seek the lights of glory wholeheartedly and I’ll __55__ working hard so as not to let him down.

21．A. shouting     B. screaming  C. laughing    D. applauding

22．A. up              B. over          C. more          D. out

23．A. another          B. other          C. some          D. any

24．A. immediately       B. secretly        C. personally D. finally

25．A. took out     B. turned out C. gave off       D. gave out

26．A. never      B. once     C. ever           D. again

27．A. game      B. team       C. story     D. score

28．A. won            B. met           C. beat     D. fought

29．A. accessible   B. comfortableC. sensitive     D. acceptable

30．A. happen              B. succeed        C. spread        D. develop

31．A. liberation    B. closing         C. graduation      D. school

32．A. honor      B. hope         C. success  D. surprise

33．A. take         B. manage        C. solve             D. explain

34．A. courage      B. devotion       C. teamwork      D. contribution

35．A. united     B. appeared       C. prepared D. lost

36．A. proud      B. fond          C. full      D. kind

37．A. time        B. record   C. date     D. ability

38．A. pleased       B. grateful        C. hopeful   D. loyal

39．A. fight          B. join           C. desire            D. enjoy

40．A. take on       B. put on   C. rely on    D. keep on

       One spring afternoon five years ago, Jimmy Liao was crying in the hall of Taipei’s Sherwood Hotel, Life seemed  36  . The people who laughed as they walked past were taking their   37 

for granted, just as he  38  himself. Now, however, he felt  39  —and he couldn’t even show his disappointment in his  40  .

       Seeking more personally satisfying  41  , he had just left a successful job as a commercial artist when it seemed that fate（命运）played a cruel  42  on him. It was at this time that he developed cancer and was  43  to work. But that moment in the hotel was a turning point for Jimmy. He began to  44  the fact that there is no such a thing as fate, only  45  . Since then, he has published several imaginative, illustrated（带插图的）books.

       According to Jimmy, you are  46  you choose to be. You can give up or you can work to be a happier person. Jimmy realized that, while the world  47  seems unfair, your choice can change your life.

       This idea can be   48  in Jimmy’s books, where his characters show the powerlessness they feel   49  making their choices. The message that goes with Jimmy’s drawings, however, is 50 .

Though the world may make us feel small, we must be  51  . Everything will be all right for us—as it is for the“small people”in Jimmy’s books—if we make choices that are   52  for us.

       In spite of his new  53  and wealth, Jimmy prefers working  54  at home with his wife and daughter. He spends his mornings drawing. To Jimmy, living a life as he chooses means much more than money and fame could  55  .

36．A．unhappy                 B．unusual                   C．unfair                     D．uneasy

37．A．health                     B．wealth                    C．happiness                D．illnesses

38．A．ought to                 B．had to                     C．needed to                D．used to

39．A．ashamed                 B．disappointed            C．helpless                  D．endless

40．A．crying                    B．painting                  C．imagination             D．consideration

41．A．home                            B．condition                C．situation                 D．work

42．A．game                      B．trick                       C．role                        D．part

43．A．unable                    B．impossible              C．unfit                       D．difficult

44．A．understand              B．face                        C．refuse                     D．recognize

45．A．failures                   B．efforts                    C．choices                   D．interests

46．A．that                        B．what                       C．which                     D．whoever

47．A．always                    B．seldom                   C．sometimes               D．usually

48．A．found                     B．drawn                     C．written                   D．accepted

49．A．after                       B．about                      C．with                       D．before

50．A．powerful                B．hopeful                   C．useful                     D．successful

51．A．great                      B．strong                     C．brave                      D．equal

52．A．scientific                B．basic                      C．right                       D．simple

53．A．product                  B．fame                      C．name                      D．job

54．A．rapidly                   B．separately               C．slowly                    D．quietly

55．A．offer                      B．gain                       C．gather                     D．earn

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a ___36___ who would rather die than ___37___ they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it ___38___ to numbers?
“I was ___39___ at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t ___40___ up to save my life. My little girl takes after____41___. Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.
But how many of us remember it being ___42___ at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the ___43___ we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we ___44___ without thinking as answers somehow ___45___ the questions?
On the face of it, today’s children can ___46___ be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson ___47___ to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may ___48__ find that your child surprises you by actually quite ___49__ it.
One of the __50___ is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a ___51___ in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a ___52__ for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on __53___ arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your___54___? And if they can, they do.
The whole approach is more___55___, the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.
36    A.    teacher    B.    parent     C.    pupil       D.    teenager
37    A.    understand      B.    admit      C.    observe   D.    pretend
38    A.    add  B.    relate      C.    comes     D.    reject
39    A.    good       B.    expert     C.    special     D.    rubbish
40    A.    add  B.    make       C.    look D.    pick
41    A.    stranger   B.    me   C.    herself     D.    somebody
42    A.    funny      B.    easy C.    attractive D.    remote
43    A.    worst      B.    prize       C.    best  D.    surprising
44    A.    missed     B.    lost  C.    found      D.    chose
45    A.    get   B.    foresee    C.    fit    D.    evaluate
46    A.    however  B.    frequently       C.    mostly     D.    hardly
47    A.    suggested B.    devoted   C.    intended  D.    adapted
48    A.    well B.    sometimes      C.    seldom    D.    extremely
49    A.    enjoying  B.    hating     C.    objecting D.    mastering
50    A.    consequences  B.    reasons    C.    findings   D.    incidents
51    A.    mistake   B.    program  C.    policy     D.    revolution
52    A.    preparation     B.    reputation       C.    requirement    D.    change
53    A.    difficult   B.    general    C.    mental     D.    basic
54    A.    class B.    head C.    textbook  D.    own
55    A.    logical     B.    unbelievable   C.    direct      D.    conservative

语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡括号为16—25的相应位置上。

BEIJING---World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China   16   (attract) top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

Oxford made its first   17   (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair,   18   opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider   19   Oxford can offer for   20   academic and professional careers.

"The students came well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance," said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make   21   two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.

The University of Cambridge   22   (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem-solvers.

  23   Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for   24   best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation   25   competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.

完形填空(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各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had    36    numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is    37    for me!"

    When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any    38    . Since then, his mother worked outside  39   he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.

    When he was fourteen, he dropped  40   and began his life of roving.

    When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who,   41   , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.

    When he was twenty, he    42   his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were   43   for him.

    When he was thirty-five, misfortune again   44   on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his   45  .

    When he was    46    , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he   47  dispute(争端)because he beat his competitors    48   the billboard hanging problems.

    When he was forty-seven, he   49  his second wife, which had    50    stricken his three children.

    When he was sixty-six, he made a living by   51   his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.

    When he was seventy-five, he felt  52  to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he   53   the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.

    When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.

    He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad  54   . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are   55  and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."

1.A. achieved           B. undergone                     C. tried                                 D. undertook

2. A. great                          B. important             C. valuable              D. enough

3. A. words            B. money                C. property             D. families

4.A. while               B. but                  C. when                 D. so

5. A. in                                 B. out                   C. down                 D. up

6. A. meanwhile         B. moreover             C. however               D. therefore

7.A. started                       B. took                   C. lost                   D. changed

8. A. fit                B. tough                C. unusual               D. adequate

9.A. fell                 B. hit                     C. put                   D. rested

10.A. life            B. major                  C. job                   D. education

11. A. forty          B. thirty-five              C. fifty-three             D. seventy

12.. A. went through    B. came into           C. came about           D. went against

13.A. contributing to    B. judging from             C. owing to               D. leading to

14.A. changed                 B. married               C. missed               D. divorced

15.A. deeply         B. highly                C. generally              D. thickly

16. A. learning         B. promoting             C. developing             D. teaching

17.A. powerless      B. depressed           C. disappointed           D. hopeless

18.. A. turned up               B. turned to             C. turned down           D. turned in

19.. A. difficulties      B. misfortune           C. life                   D. weather

20.. A. hard-working    B. brave              C. cautious              D. optimistic