My father and I were very close. I loved pleasing him, and he was always    21    of my success. If I    22    a spelling contest at school, he was on top of the   23   . Later in life whenever I got a promotion, I’d call my father    24    and he’d rush out to tell all his    25   . In 1970, when I was    26    as president of the Ford Motor Company, I don’t know    27    of us was more excited.

Like many native Italians, my parents were very open with their    28    and their love not only at home, but also in public. Most of my friends would    2 9    hug their fathers. But I hugged and kissed my dad at every    30   —nothing could have felt more    31   .

He was a(n)    32    man who was always trying new things. He was the first person in Allentown to buy a motorcycle.    33   , my father and his motorcycle didn’t    34   too well. He fell off it so often that he   35    it just a month after buying it. As a result, he never again    36    any vehicle with less than four wheels.

Because of that motorcycle, I wasn’t    37    to have a bicycle when I was growing up. Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I had to   38    one from a friend. However, my father let me drive a car as soon as I    39    sixteen.

       My father and I loved and   40    each other. We were close to each other all the time.

A. pleased                  B. content                     C. proud                       D. satisfied

A. won                     B. beat                         C. gained                      D. failed

A. mountain               B. world                      C. spirit                        D. earth

A. ever since                     B. just then                   C. on time                    D. right away

A. families                 B. relatives                   C. workers                    D. friends

A. honored                 B. appointed                 C. praised                     D. called

A. who                      B. what                        C. whom                      D. which

A. thoughts                B. views                       C. feelings                   D. ideas

A. never                    B. often                        C. frequently                D. occasionally

A. occasion                     B. time                         C. opportunity              D. choice

A. necessary             B. embarrassing            C. comfortable                     D. natural

A. interesting            B. strange                     C. curious                    D. open-minded

A. Unfortunately      B. Strangely                 C. Unbelievably            D. Surprisingly

A. get through          B. get along                 C. get off                            D. get over

A. put up with          B. got rid of          C. broke away from              D. did away with

A. sold                     B. trusted                            C. played                      D. believed

A. allowed               B. hoped                      C. suggested                 D. demanded

A. ride                     B. require                            C. borrow                    D. use

A. turned                 B. went                        C. changed                   D. grew

A. thought of            B. took care                  C. attended on               D. cared about

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.
"Everything happens for the best." My mother said whenever I faced disappointment, "If you 36   one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous   37 ."
Mother was right. After graduating from college I had decided to try for a job in   38  , then work my way up to   39  . I got   40  on the door of every station every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn't   41  hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks(边远地区) and find a   42  station that'll give you a chance." she said.
I thumbed(搭便车) home to Dixon, Illi.   43  there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local   44  to manage   45  sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high-school football, I  46  the post, but I wasn't hired.
My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best." Mom   47  me. I drove to Davenport, in Iowa. I   48  WOC Radio there. Peter Macarthur, the program director, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration(挫折感)   49  over. I asked aloud. "How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station ?" I was waiting for the   50   when I heard Macarthur calling. "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about   51  ?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast a(an)   52   game.
I remembered a game we had won. I did a 15-minute buildup to that play, and Peter told me I would   53  Saturday's game!
On my way home, I thought of my mother's words,   54  I have many times since, "If you … , one day something good will happen...."
I often wonder what my   55  might have been like if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

【小题1】
A.work hardB.are braveC.carry onD.are lucky
【小题2】
A.problemsB.difficultyC.disappointmentD.unemployment
【小题3】
A.sportsB.radioC.shopsD.clubs
【小题4】
A.sports announcerB.sports starC.shop managerD.film maker
【小题5】
A.turned awayB.turned downC.turned inD.turned off
【小题6】
A.like B.decideC.standD.risk
【小题7】
A.biggerB.smallC.localD.private
【小题8】
A.IfB.WhileC.UnlessD.Until
【小题9】
A.businessmanB.college studentC.athleteD.announcer
【小题10】
A.his B.herC.theirD.its
【小题11】
A.applied forB.acceptedC.consideredD.refused
【小题12】
A.blamedB.suggestedC.remindedD.persuade
【小题13】
A.listened toB.foundC.triedD.expected
【小题14】
A.becameB.turnedC.wentD.boiled
【小题15】
A.lift B.directorC.resultD.reply
【小题16】
A.radioB.directingC.footballD.broadcasting
【小题17】
A.live B.imaginaryC.excitingD.lively
【小题18】
A.join inB.missC.broadcastD.organize
【小题19】
A.asB.thenC.whenD.though
【小题20】
A.dreamB.aimC.lifeD.failure


第二节完型填空(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,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。
Mum keeps telling me “Turn the radio down!” or “Can’t you listen to anything else” or “I don’t know how you can  36  with all noises.” Even my friends at school don’t appreciate the  37  I love, and my best friend told me I am a ‘radio junkie.’
I thought about the music that  38  me each day. It represented a wide range of music  39  ——I certainly wasn’t narrow—minded. I don’t only listen to hard roc, but also to music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, and it isn’t really that  40  . Perhaps my mum and dad aren’t as square as I thought they were, if that’s the sort of music they  41  .
While music is the most important  42  I listen to my radio, it’s not the only one. my favorite station has many  43  presenters, from the wake—up show to the latest night ‘stop—outs’, and with all sorts of up —beat variations in between. My ‘must—listen—to’  44  is the top 40 countdown where I get to   45  all the latest and very best music selections.
Do I learn anything form the  46  I listen to? Of course I do! If you listen   47  to the lyrics of most songs, they have something to  48  about every aspect of life. People who are sad, mad, glad or bad, all  49  their feelings in the songs they sing or in the music they play. You see, I’m learning  50  other people cope with these feelings, and in some small way, it’s helping me too.
Competitions, talk—back programs and the dreaded ‘ads’, are all  51  of radio, but it’s the music that attracts me most. I’ve   52  learned to do all sorts of things while listening to the music on the radio. I can do my homework, play sport, have a shower, get dressed,   53  while listening to the radio!
I’d rather not be  54  radio junkie, but if that’s the word that describes my radio listening  55  most exactly, then I guess I’ll have to live with it. my music suits me and I suit my music.
36.A.talk          B.think     C.listen         D.deal
37.A.noise         B.radio     C.music          D.thing
38.A.surrounds     B.encouragesC.educates      D.touches
39.A.lovers          B.boxes       C.lessons         D.styles
40.A.new         B.bad      C.perfect         D.particular
41.A.repeated      B.played      C.enjoyed       D.wrote
42.A.reason         B.thing     C.excuse         D.subject
43.A.experienced     B.different   C.popular        D.excellent
44.A.performance    B.record      C.edition         D.favorite
45.A.collect         B.see       C.hear         D.buy
46.A. songs         B.concerts    C.bands          D.programs
47.A.exactly        B.carefully   C.immediately     D.constantly
48.A.worry          B.argue     C.care          D.say
49.A.express        B.understandC.share         D.describe
50.A.whether       B.that      C.how         D.why
51.A.topics          B.sorts     C.value         D.part
52.A.even         B.ever     C.already        D.just
53.A.those         B.all        C.ones         D.everything
54.A.regarded      B.elected      C.called          D.named
55.A.stations        B.hobbies     C.selections      D.habits


第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:阅读下列短文,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
A
My husband, Tom, is a born shopper. He loves to look at things and to touch them. He likes to compare prices between the same things in different stores. He would never think of buying anything without looking around in several stores. I, on the other hand, am not a shopper. I regard shopping as boring and unpleasant. If I like something and can afford it, I buy it immediately. I never take a time to look around for a good sale or a better deal (交易). Of course my husband and I never go shopping together. Doing shopping together would be too painful for both of us . When it comes to shopping, we go our separate ways.
Sometimes I ask my son Jimmy to buy some food in the shop not far from our home. But he is always absentminded. This was his story.
One day I said to him , “ I hope you won’t forget what I have told you to buy.” “No,” said Jimmy. “ I won’t forget . You want three oranges, six eggs and a pound of meet.”
He went running down the street to the shop. As he ran , he said to himself over and over again , “ Three oranges , six eggs and a pound of meat.”
In the beginning he remembered everything but he stopped several times. Once he saw two men fighting outside a clothes shop until a policeman stopped them. One of them was badly hurt. Then he stopped to give ten cents to a beggar. Then he met some of his friends and he played with them for a while. When he reached the shop, he had forgotten everything except six eggs.
As he walked home, his face became sadder and sadder. When he saw me he said, “ I’m sorry , mum . I have forgotten to buy oranges and the meat . I only remembered to buy six eggs , but I’ve dropped three of them.”
41. The husband loves shopping because _______.
A. he has much money           
B. he likes the shops
C. he likes to compare the prices between the same items
D. he has nothing to do but do shopping
42. The wife doesn’t like shopping because _______.
A. she has no money            B. she has no tome
C. she doesn’t love her husband   D. she feels it boring to go shopping
43. They never go shopping together because _________.
A. their ways of shopping are quite different   B. they hate each other
C. they needn’t buy anything for the family    D. they don’t have time for it
44. Jimmy didn’t buy what his mother wanted because _________.
A. the shop was closed that day   B. the policeman stopped him
C. he forgot some of them       D. he gave all the money to the beggar

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?

A.She had seven brothers.B.She felt herself a nobody.
C.She was too shy to go to school.D.She did not have any good teachers.
【小题2】The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.
A.work for a school magazineB.run away from her family
C.make a lot of friendsD.develop her writing style
【小题3】According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?
A.Her early years in college.B.Her training in the Workshop.
C.Her feeling of being different.D.Her childhood experience.
【小题4】What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A.It is quite popular among students.
B.It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C.It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish.
D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

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