. He couldn’t ______ the fact that the money was found in his house.

  A. answer for                   B. leave for           C. account for           D. care for

选编（十九）

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

 “Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

   7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

(   )1. A. work               B. stay        C. live             D. expect

(   )2. A. answer       B. speak      C. smile           D. laugh

(   )3. A. covering           B. moving      C. fighting          D. pressing

(   )4. A. minds        B. memories   C. thoughts         D. brains

(   )5. A. better        B. dark        C. younger            D. old

(   )6. A. cave                B. place       C. sight                  D. scene

(   )7. A. Discussing           B. Solving      C. Sharing                D. Suffering

(   )8. A. learn from           B. talk to     C. help              D. know

(   )9. A. needed         B. recognized  C. interested          D. encouraged

(   )10. A. normal       B. common     C. unusual           D. quick

(   )11. A. more          B. worse      C. fewer            D. less

(   )12. A. word          B. speech     C . sentence          D. language

(   )13. A. not                B. no          C. something         D. nothing

(   )14. A. fed                B. kept        C. lived            D. depended

(   )15. A. attention    B. control           C. treatment          D. management

(   )16. A. lost                B. needed           C. destroyed          D. left

(   )17. A. troublesome  B. unlucky    C. angry                 D. unpopular

(   )18. A. separated           B. went       C. reunited                D. returned

(   )19. A. pushed       B. tried       C. showed          D. measured

(   )20. A. nodding            B. greeting     C. meeting            D. acting

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的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。

      It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,    36    with a piece of bread. He’s not even    37   . Is he ill? No, but he does have a    38   . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down. When he    39    up this morning, Tony was feeling    40   . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend    41   . It would be a weekend like any other --- a great weekend. But that was    42    he turned on his computer and    43    he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony    44    goes online to email friends, read the    45    to keep up with what’s happening in the world and    46    a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend --- online!

Just as Tony is    47    how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the    48   . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t    49    the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no    50    but sighs (叹气).“Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum??  51   .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the    52   . We can meet and play chess face to face for a    53   . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony    54   , as he walks to the phone. There is   55    without the Internet after all.

A. cutting          B. playing          C. eating                   D. thinking

A. hungry           B. angry                C. tired                        D. sleepy

A. fear                B. problem            C. business                   D. thing

A. rose               B. rang                  C. looked                         D. woke

A. great                     B. disappointed      C. unhappy                   D. worried

A. also                B. above                C. ahead                       D. ago

A. after               B. before               C. until                        D. when

A. thought          B. guessed             C. decided                    D. found

A. usually           B. nearly               C. especially                 D. already

A. letters             B. news                 C. reports                            D. contents

A. guess             B. take                  C. play                    D. make

A. proving          B. wondering         C. realizing                   D. remembering

A. living-room    B. hall                 C. kitchen               D. study

A. talk about           B. care about     C. think about         D. look about

A. answer           B. progress         C. movement                D. choice

A requests           B. replies               C. tells                         D. suggests

A. edge               B. distance             C. corner                      D. end

A. chat               B. time                  C. lesson                      D. change

A. continues        B. smiles               C. reads                        D. watches

A. change          B. task               C. weekend                D. life

第三节：完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

In recent years many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive . Some experts say the 21 is to make jobs more varied . But do more varied jobs 22 greater productivity ?There is evidence to suggest that 23 variety certainly makes the worker’s life more enjoyable , it doesn’t   24 make him work harder . As far as increasing productivity is concerned , then , 25 is not an improtant factor .

Other experts feel that giving the worker 26 to do his job in his own way is important , and there is no doubt that this is ture . The 27  is that this kind of freedom can’t easily be given in the modern factory with its complicated machinery which must be used in a 28 way . Thus while freedom of choice may be important , there is usually very little that can be done to 44 it .

Another important 30 is how much each worker 31 to the product he is making . In most factories the worker 32 only one small part of the product . Some car factories are now 33 with having many small production lines rather than one large one , so that each worker contributes more to the production of the cars on his 34 . It would seem that not only is degree of worker contribution an important factor 35 it is one we can do something about .

To what 36 does more money lead to greater productivity ? The workers themselves certainly think this is 37 . But perhaps they want more money only because the work they do is so boring , 38 just lets them enjoy their spare time more . A 39 argument may explain demands for shorter working hours . Perhaps if we 40 making their jobs more interesting , they will neither want more money , nor will shorter working hours be so important to the .

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第21—40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon  41  into complaints about pressure in work and life.

While the guests were talking, the professor went to the  42  and prepared coffee. Then he   43  with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups — porcelain (瓷) , plastic, glass, crystal, some  44  looking, some expensive, some delicate (精致) — telling them to  45  themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee  46　 hand, the professor said, “If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up,  47  behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is  48  for you to choose the best for yourselves, that is the  49  of your problems and pressure. Be assured that the cup itself  50  no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. Though  51  all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, you  52  the best cups directly. And then you began  53  each other’s cups.”

The professor paused and then went on, “Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and  54  in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and  55  life and they do not change the  56  of life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we  57  to enjoy the coffee God has  58  for us. God brews the coffee, not the cup…Enjoy your coffee!

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just  59  the best use of everything.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the  60  to God.

41. A. stopped              B. looked            C. became           D. turned

42. A. kitchen              B. bedroom         C. study                D. living-room

43. A. went                  B. got                  C. returned           D. turned

44. A. plain                  B. clean              C. ugly                  D. fine

45. A. enjoy               B. help                      C. offer                D. devote

46. A. for                  B. by                   C. in                    D. with

47. A. falling                    B. leaving            C. hiding               D. keeping

48. A. natural                B. formal            C. necessary      D. important

49. A. answer                B. cause               C. result                D. reason

50. A. adapts                 B. puts              C. applies             D. adds

51. A. as             B. that              C. what                 D. which

52. A. cared for          B. called for     C. looked for       D. went for

53. A. facing                B. eyeing            C. smelling       D. tasting

54. A. condition            B. attitude           C. position        D. situation

55. A. contain              B. include           C. control                 D. experience

56. A. quality                      B. color         C. cost          D. style

57. A. manage         B. start                 C. hope            D. fail

58. A. shown              B. taken        C. sent           D. provided

59. A. keep            B. make                     C. take                 D. hold

60. A. complex         B. remains           C. rest              D. complaints