根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A god has a horse. The horse was beautiful and also it had many good qualities.   【小题1】    It especially wanted to become the most beautiful horse in the world.
One day the horse said to the god, “You have given me beauty. You have given me other good qualities.【小题2】   But how I wish you could make me more beautiful! I would be extremely, extremely grateful if you could make me more beautiful.”
The god said, “I’m more than ready to make you more beautiful.  【小题3】  ” Then the horse said, “My neck is too short .If you can make neck a little longer, my upper body will be more beautiful. And if you can make my legs much longer and thinner, then I will look more beautiful in my lower body.”
Then immediately the god made a camel appear in place of the horse. The horse was so sad that it started to cry, “Oh, no, I do not want to become a camel.  【小题4】As a horse, everybody appreciated my good qualities. Nobody will appreciate me as a camel.”
The god said, “This is exactly  what you asked for. You have become a camel.
【小题5】   if you cry for a longer neck and legs, this is what will happen. Each thing in my creation has its own good qualities. The camel is not as beautiful as you are, but it carries heavy loads and has a great sense of duty.”

A.I’m so grateful to you.
B.Why not remain a horse?
C.I wish you to change me into a horse again.
D.Tell me in what way you want to be changed.
E.But it wanted to be more perfect in every way.
F.Never try to receive more than I have given you
G.I am glad to know that you feel good with yourself now

Here I must put in a few words about my experience here in China. If I have ___36__ with a Chinese host, he always presses(硬塞给)___37__ food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied the previous helping(份额). That often makes me ___38___awkward(尴尬). I have to eat the food even if I don’t ___39___ it, because it is ___40___ manners in the  West to _41__ one’s food on the plate. I have also ___42__ that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he  often ___43___ the offer of food or drink though he is in fact still hungry or  ___44___.  This might be good manners in China,  but it is

certainly__45___ in the West. In the United States,  it is___46___ to keep asking someone again and again or press something on him. Americans are very ___47___.  If they want something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “__48__” Here’s an example:  When an American is offered ___49_ by the host, and he doesn’t feel like beer, he will probably say, “No, thanks. I just don’t feel like it. I’ll  ___50___  some Pepsi-Cola (百事可乐)if you have it.” That is ___51__ an American will do. ___52___are taught that  “Honesty is the best policy”. But in some countries, courtesy(谦虚) might be more important than ___53___. So when I am here in China, I have to observe(遵循) the __54__ here. But when you go to ___55___, you had better “Do as the Romans do.”

1.

A.trouble

B.words

C.dinner

D.difficulty

 

2.

A.enough

B.much

C.more

D.little

 

3.

A.think

B.taste

C.feel

D.smell

 

4.

A.eat

B.like

C.drink

D.help

 

5.

A.important

B.rude

C.polite

D.bad

 

6.

A.take

B.leave

C.forget

D.pass

 

7.

A.minded

B.noticed

C.heard

D.informed

 

8.

A.accepts

B.refuses

C.nods

D.gives

 

9.

A.happy

B.angry

C.thirsty

D.full

 

10.

A.so

B.kind

C.not

D.right

 

11.

A.impolite

B.good

C.kind

D.sad

 

12.

A.direct

B.honest

C.short

D.kind

 

13.

A.I’m sorry

B.Yes, I want

C.No, thanks

D.Yes, please

 

14.

A.food

B.beer

C.coffee

D.tea

 

15.

A.bring

B.offer

C.take

D.like

 

16.

A.that

B.what

C.whether

D.how

 

17.

A.Englishmen

B.Frenchmen

C.Americans

D.Australians

 

18.

A.manners

B.honesty

C.request

D.order

 

19.

A.ways

B.habits

C.action

D.customs

 

20.

A.China

B.the United States

C.Rome

D.the United Nations

 

完形填空(共20小题;每小题l分,满分20分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的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.

Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a  36  of about eighty miles. It was late and I was in a hurry. However, if anyone asked me how fast I was  37  ,I’d say I was not over-speeding. Several times I got  38  behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road, and I was holding my fists tightly with  39  .

At one point along an open highway, I  40  a crossroad with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I  41  the light, it turned red and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to  42  , the only human being for at least a mile in any  43  .

I started  44  why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being  45  , because there was obviously no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no  46  in going through it.

Much later that night, after I  47  a group of my friends in Lewisburg and climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light  48  me, I think I stopped because it’s part of a contract(合同) we all have with each other. It’s not only the  49  , but it’s an arrangement we have, and we trust each other to  50  it: we don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I’m more likely to be  51  from doing something bad by the social convention that  52  it than by any law against it.

It’s amazing that we ever  53  each other to do the right thing, isn’t it? And we do, too, Trust is our  54  preference.

I was so  55  of myself for stopping for the red light that night.

1. A. flight        B. distance             C. road                 D. length

2.A. thinking       B. driving              C. complaining          D. running

3. A. stopped           B. changed         C. stuck                D. lost

4.A. horror             B. strength             C. understanding        D. impatience

5. A. ran off           B. came to              C. passed by            D. left behind

6.A. passed        B. watched              C. approached           D. found

7. A. stop              B. change               C. turn                 D. die

8.A. way            B. side                 C. city                 D. direction

9. A. wondering         B. suspecting           C. struggling           D. regretting

10.A. abused            B. fined                C. injured              D. killed

11. A. danger           B. sign                 C. time                 D. record

12. A. met with         B. got over             C. got rid of           D. called back

13. A. turned out to        B. came back to       C. referred to            D. occurred to

14. A. virtue           B. suggestion         C. law                D. order

15. A. honor            B. solve                C. break                D. judge

16.A. stopped           B. protected            C. rejected             D. frightened

17. A. speaks of       B. stands by             C. takes in             D. disapproves of

18. A. suspect          B. trust                C. teach                D. care

19.A. only           B. first              C. lucky                D. living

20. A. sorry            B. doubtful             C. sure                 D. proud

 

完形填空(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,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

Tired and hungry, two boys walked painfully and difficultly into a big city on October 16, on their feet that had just carried them 300 kilometers.

   For nine days they lived like old-fashioned travelers,   21    somewhere new to sleep every night as they walked from one place to another. The boys slept in tents and   22    a six-yuan daily plan. “I learned more in those nine days than I had in the last nine years,” said 17-year-old Li Zhao   23  . Li and 15-year-old Li Xuemeng  24   their journey on October 7, with three teachers from an Educational Motivation Research & Service Center. The purpose of the   25   was for the two troubled boys to develop a (an)   26    attitude to school and life.

   With two  27   and some instant noodles for the first day, the five  28   mainly along the Highway 107. On the way to the big city,  29    of them visited schools and interviewed   30    people from different walks of life. Both were asked to write about what they  31    during the walk.

  “ The two boys need to know about   32    life and learn to get rid of difficulties, so we   33   this program,” explained Du Junpeng.    34   they had tents, they didn’t just   35   anywhere at night. “We had to   36    on people’s kindness for shelter,” said Li Zhao, who admits he used to be self-centered and at first was    37   against the idea of the trip. But the challenge of getting rid of the   38   on the journey has changed him.

  “I’m more   39    than before. And now I also believe failure is the mother of  40   ,” he said.

21. A. finding                   B. hunting               C. searching                              D. inventing

22. A. lived on                  B. worked on          C. carried out                  D. went on

23. A. anxiously               B. luckily                  C. excitedly                      D. tiredly

24. A. developed             B. separated                    C. controlled                    D. started

25. A. study                      B. trip                       C. task                               D. job

26. A. passive                  B. popular               C. different                       D. active

27. A. tents                      B. lights                   C. drinks                            D. tools

28. A. ran                          B. drove                   C. walked                          D. marched

29. A. both                       B. none                    C. either                            D. some

30. A. famous                  B. brave                   C. different                       D. strange

31. A. covered                 B. learned               C. heard                            D. recognized

32. A. interesting                     B. real                      C. hard                                        D. meaningful

33. A. carried on             B. cared about       C. took over                     D. worked out

34. A. Although               B. If only                  C. As though                    D. Since

35. A. sleep                      B. adventure          C. move                             D. tour

36. A. get                          B. depend                C. take                               D. turn

37. A. hardly                    B. heavily                 C. strongly                        D. secretly

38. A. wrongs                  B. problems            C. difficulties                    D. fears

39. A. sociable                 B. particular                     C. common                       D. formal

40. A. success                 B. victory                 C. hope                              D. aim

 

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