I feel it is your husband who ______ for the spoiled child.

   A. is to blame                              B. is going to blame 

   C. is to be blamed                       D. should blame

It is Saturday afternoon. You and your friends are planning to go to the movies and then spend the night together. Just as you start to get ready, your dad reminds you it is your aunt's birthday and the whole family is going out to dinner to celebrate. How can this possibly end without a huge argument?
One of the greatest sources of tension(紧张情绪)between teenagers and their families is the struggle to balance personal desires with family expectations. As you are getting older, you are becoming more independent and more interested in being with your friends.
However, at the same time，your family is trying to figure out how to deal with these changes. While you once spent most of your free time with your family, you are now often absent from home. Parents may get their feelings hurt. Or they might feel that they are losing control of their family during this period. You might feel angry that so many family demands are placed on you.
There are a few things you can try to make it a little easier to ease(缓解)the tension.
* Make your plans in advance．Ask your parents if there is anything else planned at that time.
* When something with your friends interferes(干扰；冲突)with a family event, try to figure out if there is any way you can do both.
* Suggest something you would really like to do with your family. Sometimes parents feel better just knowing their teenager wants to spend time with them.
Some of the time you won’t be happy with the outcome(结果). You might either have to disappoint your parents or have to miss out being with your friends. However, if you show consideration(体谅)for the feelings of both your family and your friends, you can solve the problem in a tender way.
【小题1】The purpose of the first paragraph is to _________.

A．teenagers don’t like to take family demands

B．parents want to keep their family under control

C．parents feel unhappy that their children make so many friends

D．both parents and teenagers don’t pay attention to each other’s feeling much

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号里的英语单词完成句子。

1.I feel it is your husband _________________(该受责备) for the spoiled child. (blame)

2.The fact ____      __ (他没上过大学)made it difficult for him to get a job in that country. ( attend)

3.             (如果订阅)Chutian Metropolis Daily for over a half year ,you would have received a free limited-edition calendar last week . (subscribe)

4.Do you want to ______________ (把字典寄到) your house or wouldyou prefer to come to the shop? (deliver)

5.The flowers ______ (显得鲜艳) might be poisonous in the wild, so do be careful.  (appear)

6. ________ (不管那里有)a Disneyland, the tourism is sure to be increasing. (wherever)

7.My roommate , in the past two years, ________ (习惯) the hot summer weather in Wuhan and now he is coming to love the city.  ( accustomed )

8.So                (如此专注) reading a novel that he found time passed quickly in the summer vacation. ( absorb )

9.It took the court a long time ___________（相信）his innocence, which made him very annoyed.   (convince)

10.The police examined carefully ________________（所残留的） of the meal, hoping to find if there were any poisonous chemicals. ( remain, vi. )

完型填空（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各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
Back in the 15th century, in a tiny village in Germany, lived a family with eighteen children．Eighteen! In order  36  to keep food on the table, the father, a goldsmith by  37  , worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade．Despite their seemingly   38  condition, two of the eldest children had a dream．They both wanted to pursue their talent for art,  39  they knew well that their father would never be able to 40  either of them to study at the Academy．
After many long discussions at night in their  41  bed, the two boys finally worked out a pact．They would toss （掷） a coin．The   42   would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings,   43  his winning brother for the academy．Then, in four years, he would support the Other one．Then Albrecht Durer won the toss and  44 to Nuremberg．Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years,   45 his brother, whose work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation．By the time he graduated, he was beginning to   46 considerable fees for himself．
When the young artist  47  home and said to his brother, "And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your   48  . Now you can go to the Academy to pursue your dream, and I will  49  you．"
Albert rose and wiped the  50   from his cheeks．"No, brother．I cannot go to Nuremberg．It is too  51  for me．Look…look what four years in the mines have done to my 52  ! I cannot even hold a glass, much less make delicate lines on canvas   53  a pen or a brush．"
More than 450 years have  54 ．By now, among Albrecht Durer's hundreds of masterful portraits, "The Praying Hands" is one  55  creation that can catch the world's hearts．

Have you heard of the saying, “If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing well”? The proverb is a piece of advice to make effects towards perfection in whichever job one does. It could be a small task like folding up your clothes, or a major one like organizing a business meeting in your later life.
Perfection just needs paying attention to details. If it is your job to dust the furniture at home, dust it so that not a single spot of dirt shows from any direction. If your task is to make the beds, make them so that not a single crease（皱纹）shows on the bed-covers.
There are only two ways to do a job: either sloppily, or well. If you choose the latter, you need to realize that any job that qualifies as (取得…的资格)“your” work deserves your best. Perfection is an attitude that can be developed with just a little effect. It is a habit that is helpful to a person in later life. Let us prove with an example: you may be asked to turn in an essay on, for example, wildlife, for a school project. Instead of writing carelessly a few facts that you already know, you could make the project more effective by looking up a reference books, encyclopedias（百科全书）or websites for additional information. You could then go over the finished essay for slips（疏漏）and errors, and provide pictures where necessary. If you make it a habit to put in extra effort in your school homework, will it not help you to handle more difficult projects at the college or university level?
As Michelangelo, the famous 16th century sculptor and painter, once put it: Trifles（琐事）go to make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
【小题1】According to the passage, to achieve perfection is _______.