完形填空（本大题共10分，每小题1分）

Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.

When he was 12 years old, his parents died. He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed at him. No one showed          to him.

His only friend was a dog named Tige. He gave his dog enough to eat and drink, but sometimes he was not          to it. He didn’t know that an unkind word sometimes could cut one’s heart like a knife.

One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. One of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped to          , she dropped other bags. He came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” She said kindly, smiling.

A special feeling came to him. It was the first time that he had heard such kind words. He watched her          she went far away, and then he whistled（低语）to his dog and went directly to the river         .

“Thanks, dear! You are a nice little boy!” He repeated what the woman said. Then in a low         he said to his dog, “You are a nice little dog.” Tige raised its ears as if it understood.

“Hmm! Even a dog likes it!” he said. “Well, Tige, I won’t say anything unkind to you       .” Tige waved its tail happily.

The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw         but a dirty boy. He washed his face carefully. Again he looked. He saw a          nice boy. He was amazed. From then on, he started a new life.

After telling this, the businessman said, “This is the very place in which that kind woman planted the first seed of kindness in my heart.” What a great          it has!

1.A. kindness                     B. interest                        C. illness                          D. worries

2.A. exciting                       B. interesting                     C. strange               D. friendly

3.A. find it                          B. pick it up                        C. look it up          D. give it up

4.A. until                         B. after                            C. since              D. because

5.A. far                            B. nearby                         C. near               D. nearly

6.A. sound                      B. noise              C. voice                       D. hear

7.A. too                           B. at all                             C. any long                      D. any more

8.A. anything                      B. nothing                       C. everything        D. something

9.A. clean                      B. dirty                          C. sad                  D. angry

10.A. present                      B. dream                              C. advice                               D. power

完形填空 阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以入空白处的最佳选项。(15分)
Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He said it was a strange visit. “I don’t understand, but I  16 your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a   17 from Suzhou. She looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider(蜘蛛) on the table so I killed it for her and she seemed very   18 . Do English people like spiders?”
“Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop   19 , so there was a ladder. Grandmother  20 me walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought a smart   21 for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to wonder   22 it was all right. Your grandmother came in and   23 !”
“Then I broke a small   24 in the bathroom. Your grandmother’s face went white. I felt very sorry. When I left I gave   25 grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She   26 it. I think she was happy I was going.”
I   27 to Lu, “My grandmother follows the old customs(习俗). You must not give someone an empty purse   28 they will have no money. You must not kill a “money spider” or the same will happen. It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder and to put new shoes on the table. A(n)  29 umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck, and 13 is   30 a very unlucky number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid. ”

—Would you mind if I call you Jim?        —______.

A. Yes, I do                      B. Of course not                     C. Sorry, I won’t

 I  will do an ____with Jim, a popular singer ,at the TV station tomorrow morning .

A. report   B. research   C. interview   D. description