第一节完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21---30各题所给的A、B、C和D项
中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a time when parents would buy an educational present for their
childrer. This Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree.21
that computers are the key to success, parents are also   22   that children be taughtto use them in school as early as possible. The   23   for school is that when itcomes to computers, parents don't always know best. Teachers found themselves
caught in the middle of the problem between parent   24 and wise educational
decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are   25hardware without sound educational planning. Educators do not even agree on howcomputers should be   26. Even those who believe that all children should   27computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remainsstrong largely because young children   28   so well to computers. However, notevery school can afford to go into computing, and that creates another problem: a29   between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for (倡导)computer instruction in poor school districts,30 there may be barely enoughmoney to pay the teacher.
21.  A. Believing     B. Wishing        C. Provided D. Supposed
22. A. planning      B. insisting        C. expecting      D. commanding
23.  A. decision      B. problem        C. benefit          D. reason
24.  A. attitude       B. measure        C. decision        D. pressure
25.  A. designing     B. making         C. purchasing      D. preparing
26.  A. used         B. bought         C. learned         D. wanted
27.  A. be open to     B. stick to         C. have access to    D. expose to
28.  A. adopt        B. adapt          C. devote          D. apply
29.  A. fight         B. disagreement    C. discussion       D.division
30.  A. even if       B. in case         C. where           D. though

第一节完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the 11______ had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t 12______, they would have to retake them in September. There were usually a few who 13______, but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was 14______ about her. She went to bed too 15_____. The night before the first exam, Barbara 16_____ that she have an early night and take a 17_____ pill（药丸）. She promised to wake her up in the morning.
As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her 18______ kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of 19______, she went to sleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination 20_______, but she couldn’t answer any of the questions. Everyone around her was writing pages and gages. Though she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write about . She kept looking at her 21_______. Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences, 22_______ and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started 23______. Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she 24______ up. She was still in bed and it had all been a 25_______ dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.
11. A. teachers      B. students      C. classmates     D. schools
12. A. prepare       B. miss          C. join           D. pass
13. A. succeeded     B. failed        C. ended          D. called
14. A. excited       B. frightened    C. worried        D. pleased
15. A. early         B. late          C. heavily        D. eagerly
16. A. insisted      B. hoped         C. ordered        D. wished
17. A. sleeping      B. resting       C. exciting       D. breathing
18.A. hand          B. eye           C. mind           D. body
19.A. her sister    B. her parents   C. the lessons    D. the medicine
20.A. result        B. marks         C. desk           D. paper
21.A. watch         B. textbook      C. sister         D. subject
22.A. gave up       B. put off       C. look around    D. think over
23.A. examining     B. leaving       C. copying        D. crying
24.A. raised        B. woke          C. stood          D. cheered
25.A. nice          B. wonderful     C. terrible       D. special

阅读下面的短文, 并根据短文后的要求答题。

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers told me, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”

How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

“Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.①.     It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” When others shout, “No, you can’t!”

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mclintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments.    ②    

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.

At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes.    ③  As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle(起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means “God within”. And what is God within is but a sense of love---proper love of self(self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.

④      If we can’t do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “ I am tempted to call Layton as a genius.”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”.

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses---finding pleasure in the backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the charming beauty of a rainbow.

第一节：根据短文内容, 从A、B、C、D、E中选出最合适放入短文空缺处的选项，并将序号及相应答案写在答题纸上。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. A. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

B. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.

C. It can certainly help you hang in there when the going gets tough.

D. Music, for Casals, was a hobby that made life a never ending adventure.

E. Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power.

根据短文所给的信息， 用一个完整的句子回答下列问题，并将序号及答案写在答题纸上。

⑤What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in paragraph 6?

第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）
第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A gadget which makes water out of air could become the greatest household invention since the microwave.
Using the same technology as a dehumidifier（除湿器），the Water Mill is able to create a ready supply of drinking water because it can always get it from an unlimited source—the air．
The company behind the machine says not only does it offer an alternative to bottled water in
developed countries, but it is a solution for the millions who face a daily water shortage．
The machine works by drawing in wet air through a filter（过滤器）and over a cooling instrument which changes it into water droplets．It can produce up to 1 2 liters a day．The Water Mill will also produce more water when storms pass over, as the amount of water which is contained in the air increases．In keeping with its eco-development, the machine uses the same amount of electricity as three lights.
Inventor Jonathan Ritchey said: “The demand for water is off the chart．So people are looking for freedom from water distribution systems that are shaky and unreliable.”
The machine, which is about 3 feet wide, is likely to cost ￡800 when it goes on sale here in the spring．Its maker, Canadian Firm Element Four, roughly calculates that a liter of water cost around 20p to produce.
Environmentalists state that half the world’s population will face water shortage because of climate change by 2080．One in five is said to lack access to safe drinking.
The Water Mill is not effective in areas where the amount of water contained in the air is below about 30 percent, but in Britain that won’t be much of a problem.
41．What does the underlined word “it” refer do?
A．Drinking water.              B．Invention.        C．Microwave.             D．Water Mill.
42．What do we learn about the machine?
A．It works in the same way as microwaves．
B．It is very expensive for families to afford.
C．It absorbs steam and turns it into water．     
D．It helps to make the water clean to drink.
43．What does the passage lead us to believe?
A．The cost of water will go up.  B．Bottled water will disappear sooner.
C．The machine is energy saving. D．The machine will be popular worldwide.
44．What’s the best title for the passage?
A．A New Way to Solve Water Problem.    B．A Machine to Make Water out of Air.
C．A Dehumidifier to Produce Water.     D．An Absolutely New Invention