完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

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。

Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find   36  work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree.

To my   37   I was driving a school bus to   38   my family. I had been through five   39   with a company and one day they   40   to say I did not get the job. I went to the bus barn, feeling   41  .

Later that afternoon,   42   doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood I had an inner wave   43   from deep inside me and I thought “Why has my   44   become so hard?” “Give me a sign, I asked, a physical sign, not some inner   45   type of thing.”

Immediately after this internal（内心的） scream I   46   the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she   47   she handed me an earring saying I should keep it   48   somebody looked for it. The   49   was stamped metal, painted black and said “BE HAPPY”. Then it struck me. I had been putting all of my   50   into what was wrong with my life   51   than what was right! 

One night there was a phone call for me from the   52   at a large hospital. She asked me whether I   53   do a report for 200 hospital workers. I said   54   and got the job.

My day with the hospital workers   55   very well. I got a great welcome and many more days of work. To this day I KNOW that it was because I changed my attitude to gratitude.

A. satisfying      B. probable       particular       D. considerate

 A. joy                    B. luck               shame             D. surprise

 A. meet                  B. supply           C. provide               D. support

 A. meetings            B. interviews      conferences         D. reports

 A. came                 B. hoped            called                 D. expected

 A. excited               B. worried          disappointed              D. frightened

 A. though               B. while             unless                 D. until

 A. rise                    B. shout             raise                   D. cry

  A. work                 B. situation         life                 D. position

A. sound                B. voice             noise                  D. thought

A. pulled                B. carried                  brought                     D. held

A. took off             B. put off                  gave off             D. got off

A. as long as           B. now that         in case                D. as soon as

A. earring               B. watch             necklace             D. bag

A. money               B. ideas              energies              D. strength

A. rather                B. other              more                  D. less

A. nurse                 B. work              patient                D. manager

A. should               B. would            must                  D. ought

A. no                            B. hello              yes                     D. nothing

A. went                  B. looked                  seemed               D. appeared

 短文改错

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则改正：

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

After I finished the school this year，I began to        1. _______

    look for work. Now several month later， I still hadn't  2. _______

    found the job that I was interested. Last Sunday morning 3. _______

    I received a phone call from a man calling him Mr. Smith.4. _______

    He said to me on the phone， "I hear you do very         5. _______

    well in your studies. I may provide a job for you." I entered 6. _______

    his office with a beaten heart. How I hoped that I       7. _______

    will go through the job -hunting talk today and he would8. _______

    take me on as a lab assistant. But to my surprised，     9. _______

    what he said disappointing. He only needed a model.      10. ______

As many as one in five US teenagers have some degree of hearing loss, according to researchers. They say the problem is growing.

“Teenagers really don’t pay attention to how much noise they are exposed to(接触),” Josef Shargorodsky of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told Reuters. “Often people won’t notice it, but even very little hearing loss may influence language development,” said Shargorodsky, one of the researchers.

The study compared surveys from the early 1990s and the mid-2000s. Each included a few thousand teenagers. In the first survey, about 15 percent of teenagers had some degree of hearing loss. Some 15 years later, that number had risen by a third, to nearly 20 percent.

“This certainly is big news,” said Alison Grimes, an ear doctor. “Hearing loss is very common in old people,” Grimes said, but she added that it was worrying to see it happen in the younger age group.

In babies and young children, hearing problems are known to slow language development. The science is less clear for teenagers, but it is easy to imagine how being hard of hearing could influence learning, said Grimes.

The reasons for the rise are still unclear. When researchers asked teenagers about noise exposure – on the job, at school or from activities, for example – the teenagers didn’t report any change. But Shargorodsky said that might not be true. “We know from before that it is difficult to ask this age group about noise exposure – they underestimate it.” Few people would call it noise when they listen to music on their MP3 player, for example. “There is a difference between what we think is loud and what is harmful to the ear,” said Grimes.

Although it’s not clear that the MP3 players cause teenagers’ hearing loss, Grimes said it was still a good idea to turn down the sound and take short breaks from listening.

1.The writer advises teenagers __________.

2.The underlined sentence “they underestimate it” means __________.

3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

4.What is the best title for the passage?

He’s out there somewhere, an instant icon in the records of American conflict, the final big-game hunter. But a puzzle, too, his identity would be kept a secret for now, and maybe forever.
He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the world’s most notorious（臭名昭著的）terrorist, Bin Laden.
He’s likely between the ages of 26 and 33, says Marcinko, founder of the “SEALs Team 6” that many believe led the attack on Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He’ll be old enough to have had time to hurdle the extra training tests required to join the counter-terrorism unit, yet young enough to stand the body-punishing harshness of the job. The shooter’s a man, it’s safe to say, because there are no women in the SEALs. And there’s a good chance he’s white, though the SEALs have stepped up efforts to increase the number of minorities in their ranks, Marcinko and Smith say.
He was probably a high school or college athlete, Smith says, a physical specimen who combines strength, speed and wisdom. “They call themselves ‘tactical athletes,’” says Smith, who works with many future SEALs in his Heroes of Tomorrow training program in Severna Park. “It’s getting very scientific.”
Marcinko puts it in more conventional terms: “He’ll be ripped,” says the author of the best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.”“He’s got a lot of upper-body strength. Long arms. Thin waist. Flat stomach.”
On this point, Greitens departs a bit. “You can’t make a lot of physical assumptions,” says the author of “The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL.” There are SEALs who are 5 feet 4 and SEALs who are 6 feet 5, Greitens says. In his training group, he adds, there were college football boys who couldn’t hack it; those who survived were most often men in good shape, but they also had a willingness to show their concerns in favor of the mission.
The shooter’s probably not the crew-cut（平头）, neatly shaven ideal we’ve come to expect from American fighting forces. “He’s bearded, rough-looking, like a street naughty boy,” Marcinko supposes. “You don’t want to stick out.” Marcinko calls it “modified grooming standards.”
His hands will be calloused（长老茧）, Smith says, or just rough enough,” as Marcinko puts it. And “he’s got frag in him somewhere,” Marcinko says, using the battlefield shorthand for “fragments” of bullets or explosive devices. This will not have been the shooter’s first adventure. Marcinko estimates that he might have made a dozen or more deployments（部署）, tours when he was likely to have dealt with quite a number of dangerous situations, getting ready any time for explosive devices or bullets.
【小题1】Which of the following is most likely to be the title of the passage?

  English Teacher Needed

       We are one of the biggest English Teacher agencies in China, we transfer lots of foreign teachers/employees to universities or companies daily．We provide this service for teachers for free．

       What you need to do is log on our website www. language teaching. com.cn and register, we will put your resume（简历） on Chinese website except contact details．There are thousand potential clients who will view your information daily, once they choose you we will contact you．For any more details you also can send an email to admin@languageteaching.com.cn

                     Part Time English Tutor wanted

       We are looking for a part time English teacher, the teacher should come from U.S.A., Canada, UK, New Zealand or Australia．We would like to have 2 lessons a week, 2 hours each lesson．

Please send me your Resume with a photo if you are interested, email: admin@languageteaching.com.cn

Private English Tutor Wanted

       Senior Chinese manager is looking for a one-to-one English tutor for several hours per week．He would like to learn British pronunciation, so UK nationals will be preferred．Tutors should be fairly flexible to suit his busy schedule and be of professional appearance．Pay is to be discussed directly and will be very high for the right candidate．Teaching experience is not a must.

       If interested, please send an email with your background information, pay expectations and a recent picture to dhanyatk @hotmail.com.

       CALLING – Teacher/Librarian!

       We are a small Kindergarten to Grade 6 international school in Beijing．We need a teacher/ librarian．The teacher we are looking for will be a Chinese and English speaking librarian.

       Qualifications

       Be self-starters, active team players,

       Have a positive attitude and love to work with kids,

       Provide an exciting and innovative library program with students．

       If you meet the above qualifications, please send your CV and a current picture to principalinchina@yahoo.cn

The purpose of the advertisements is________．

       A. to start a business

       B. to employ English teachers

       C. to provide the latest jobs

       D. to help people find a suitable job

According to the first advertisement, we can learn that_______．

       A. English Teacher agency charges teacher for this service

       B. you must go online to offer your basic information first

       C. you may call to get more information about the job

       D. once you log on , you will get a job

In the third advertisement, the private English tutor should________

       A. be an English language expert from UK

       B. speak American English

       C. have rich teaching experience

       D. have enough time to give lessons at any time

If you didn’t pass the interview for Teacher/Librarian, the probable reason should be that ________．

       A. you like working with children

       B. you have a strong team spirit

       C. you lack teaching experience

       D. you can only speak English