完形填空。

     It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves   1   on the cool   2  . In such a season, I liked walking
alone in the leaves, listening to the sound of them.
     Autumn is a   3   season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me   4  . But one day, the sound of
a violin   5   into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it
was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was   6   in playing her violin.
     I had   7   seen her before. The music was so attractive that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn't realize
that I had been   8   there for so long but my   9   did not seem to disturb her.
     Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building  10  I went downstairs to
watch her performance. I was the only audience. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became  11 
 12  we didn't know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believed she also liked me.
     Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening devotedly, the sound suddenly stopped. To my  13  ,
the girl came over to me.
     "You must like violin," she said.
     "Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?" I asked.
     Suddenly, a  14  expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.
     "I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening
every day that  15  me." she said.
     "In fact, it was your playing  16  gave me a meaningful autumn." I answered. "Let us be friends."
     The girl smiled and I smiled.
     I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves
were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure of the girl. She is like a  17 ; so short, so bright, like
a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.
     There are many kinds of friends. Some are always  18  you, but don't understand you. Some say only a few
words to you, but are close to you. Many people will step in your life, but only  19  friends leave footprints.
     I shall always recall the autumn and the girl with the  20 . She will always bring back the friendship between
us. I know she will always be my best friend.

(     )1. A. shaking      
(     )2. A. wind          
(     )3. A. lively        
(     )4. A. up            
(     )5. A. flowed        
(     )6. A. lost          
(     )7. A. ever          
(     )8. A. waiting      
(     )9. A. existence    
(     )10. A. where      
(     )11. A. interesting 
(     )12. A. But        
(     )13. A. astonishment 
(     )14. A. happy      
(     )15. A. surprised  
(     )16. A. that        
(     )17. A. song        
(     )18. A. with        
(     )19. A. good        
(     )20. A. sound      
B. hanging  
B. snow      
B. lovely     
B. off      
B. grew      
B. active    
B. never      
B. stopping  
B. thought    
B. so        
B. moving    
B. However    
B. delight    
B. sad       
B. excited       
B. which      
B. dream    
B. for      
B. true      
B. song    
C. falling       
C. air           
C. harvest       
C. down         
C. entered       
C. busy         
C. often         
C. standing     
C. steps         
C. when         
C. encouraging   
C. Even         
C. pride         
C. strange       
C. encouraged    
C. it           
C. fire         
C. against     
C. new           
C. play       

D. floating       
D. rain           
D. lonely         
D. over           
D. ran           
D. interested     
D. usually         
D. hearing        
D. breath        
D. but       
D. exciting      
D. Though        
D. satisfaction              
D. surprised    
D. interested    
D. who           
D. wind            
D. to             
D. old        
D. violin        

阅读理解。
     My family lived in Baltimore. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door.
I opened it to see a truly terrible-looking man."Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I
stared at the stooped (弯腰屈背的) body.
      Yet his voice was pleasant as he said,"Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night.
I came here for a treatment this morning form the eastern shore, and there's no bus till morning." He told me
he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success. No one seemed to have a room."I guess it's my
face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…"
      I told him I would find him a bed. I went inside and finished getting supper. When I was ready, I asked the
old man if he would join me. "No, thank you. I have plenty." And he help up a brown paper bag.
     When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch (走廊) to talk with him for a few minutes. It didn't
take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he
fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who lost his legs in a car
accident.
     At bedtime, I put a bed in the children's room for him. When I got up in the morning,the bed linens (床单)
were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his
bus, haltingly (犹豫不决地), as if asking a great favor, he said,"Could I come back and stay the next time I
have a treatment? I can sleep fine in a chair." I told him he was welcome to come again.
1. The man came to Baltimore to ______.
A. visit his son.
B. see a doctor
C. find a job
D. hunt for a room
2. Nobody would take the man in because ______.
A. he was very poor
B. he was from the eastern shore
C. he was a man of strange appearance
D. there was no extra room
3. Which of the following is TRUE about the man?
A. He was one of the author's close friends.
B. He had trouble finding the author's home.
C. He wore an oversized coat.
D. He was a great father.
4. From this passage we know that the author is ______.
A. brave
B. kind
C. clever
D. rich
完型填空。
     In a class I teach adults, I recently did something "unpardonable (不可饶恕的)" I gave the class homework!
The   1   was to "go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them". It has to be someone
you have never said those words to before or at least haven't   2   those words with for a long time.
     Now that doesn't sound like a very   3   assignment until you realize that most of the men were over 35 and
were   4   in the generation of men that were taught that   5   emotion is not macho (阳刚的). Showing feelings
or crying was just not done. So this was a very   6   assignment for them. 
     At the beginning of our next class, I asked if someone wanted to share   7   happened when they told someone
the loved them I   8   expected one of the women to   9  , as was usually the ease, but on this evening one of the
men raised his hand first He appeared quite  10  and a bit shaken.
     As he  11  out of his chair (all 6feet and 2 inches of him), he began by saying, "Dennis, I was quite  12  with
you last week when you gave us this assignment. I didn't feel that I had anyone to say those words to and besides
who were you to tell me to do something  13  personal?"
     "But as I began driving home, my  14  started talking to me It was telling me that I knew  15  who I needed
to say I love you too."
     "You see, five years ago, my father and I had a severe  16  and really never solve it since that time. We  17  
seeing each other  18  we absolutely had to at Christmas or other family gatherings.  19  even then, we hardly
spoke to each other."
     "So last Tuesday by the time I got home, I had  20  myself was going to tell my father I love him."
(     )1.A. 1esson      
(     )2.A. shared      
(     )3.A. easy        
(     )4.A. carried     
(     )5.A. valuing     
(     )6.A. boring      
(     )7.A. what        
(     )8.A. freely      
(     )9.A. attempt     
(     )10.A. afraid     
(     )11.A. jumped     
(     )12.A. satisfied  
(     )13.A. that       
(     )14.A. hear       
(     )15.A. naturally  
(     )16.A. expedience       
(     )17.A. avoided    
(     )18.A. once       
(     )19.A. And        
(     )20.A. puzzled    
B. project         
B. explained   
B. serious        
B. raised        
B. maxing       
B. amazing       
B. that           
B. fully         
B. organize       
B. moved        
B. stepped         
B. pleased      
B. such         
B. senses          
B. possibly      
B. warning      
B. stopped             
B. since         
B. But            
B. enjoyed    
C. assignment         
C. reminded       
C. curious           
C. encouraged      
C. expressing        
C. interesting        
C. which            
C. slowly             
C. volunteer      
C. confused         
C. unfolded           
C. familiar        
C. much           
C. patience           
C. exactly         
C. tongue           
C started          
C. unless           
C. Thus                
C. controlled   
D. activity         
D. imagined        
D. difficult          
D. taught         
D. getting            
D. demanding         
D. as               
D. aimlessly          
D. manage          
D. delighted        
D. walked              
D. angry           
D. too             
D. honors            
D. curiously       
D. disagreement                
D. continued       
D. if               
D. Meanwhile             
D. persuaded  
阅读理解。

     Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude
and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold
basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied. "Things aren't always what they seem."   
     The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable (好客的) farmer
and his wife. After sharing the little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they
could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and
his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field. The younger
angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this happen? Why did you watch out for the
cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house," she accused, "The second family
had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help."
     "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.
     "When we stayed in the basement, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the
owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so that
 he wouldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife.
I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."

阅读理解。
     Sitting by her Pinocchio lamp, she smiled at me as her tiny hands' shadow danced on the bedroom wall.
"A rabbit!" she laughed with all the delight of a four-year old. Her blue eyes shone with pride as she showed
me the animated image she had created. "Daddy, will you show me how to make a tiger?" she asked. "Sure,"
I said, "and then we'll read a story and tell your angels goodnight."To my youngest daughter, that meant her
bedtime prayer.
     Today my daughter is seven, and I no longer get to read the story. She reads it to me, complete with
expressive accents for the story characters. To say I'm proud of our relationship would be an understatement.
We have shared days of joy as well as tragedy. Our time together has strengthened the relationship of love
and special "life stuff" that is all our own.
     I am richer for having planted the spirit of trust in this gentle little person; we have grown together spiritually,
learning much from each other. The special times we spend together, like nights by a Pinocchio lamp, create
memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives. So it is with all of our relationships. The trust factor
is vital for relationships to develop. Think of one of your fondest memories, and you will no doubt find a
remarkable relationship at its center-one with a spiritual quality that shines outward from the heart. Time
together, caring acts, and unconditional love build trust. I suggest that we each spend plenty of time with our
personal "Pinoechio lamps"-those special ways that we choose to strengthen our relationships.
     Relationships take time to develop and maintain. It is not always easy, but the results are priceless. "Nights
by a Pinoechio lamp", wherever those might be for you, will create enduring relationships of golden "life stuff",
spiritual gifts that no one can take away.
1. The underlined words in the second paragraph refer to all EXCEPT _____.
A. hands' shadow dancing on the wall
B. reading bed stories
C. sharing each other's tragedy
D. praying to the angels for goodnight
2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A. The author thinks the relationship with his daughter is so simple that he can't describe with plenty of words.
B. If you take time to attempt to build relationship, you will find it easy to get the satisfactory results.
C. Plant the spirit of trust into others and you will create valuable memories for each other.
D. It's not worth spending time developing relationship if you meet the failure at last.
3. Why does the author write the passage?
A. To recall his fondest memories.
B. To stress the importance of trust in building relationships.
C. To explain how to create valuable memories.
D. To tell the readers how to educate children.
4. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A. Life Stuff of Your Own
B. Nights by a Pinocchio Lamp
C. Unconditional gifts-Love
D. A spiritual quality shining outward from the heart
阅读理解。

     "Mom, can I bake some bread?"  We were 15; my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands
at creating some beautiful bread.
     "It's not worth the trouble,"  my mother said."It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery
bread
is delicious without all that effort."
     Begging was useless. Mom's"no" meant"No!"
     But several weeks later, opportunity knocked. My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately
invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
     We studied the recipe. That was easy. "Mix oil into flour then beat in four eggs, one at a time, with
remaining sugar and salt."
      We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
      "Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it."
      We took turns working like that. "Is the dough 'holding together'?"  we asked each other.
      I remembered my neighbor's instructions: "If it's too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water."
      We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very
much. "Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth,"  the recipe instructed.
     We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between
fingers. "Clean and oil bowl, and then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in a warm place for
one
hour."
     This was good news-we'd have a break. On the dirty kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful
bread. "See?" we would tell my mom. "Isn't it worth the work?" 
      Hanna and I couldn't help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing happened.
     "Maybe something will happen in the hot oven,"  I said.
     Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
     Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to
be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it
right.

3. Which of the following did the writer do without referring to the instructions?
A. Placed dough on floured surface.
B. Added eight cups of flour to eggs.
C. Returned dough to a cleaned bowl.
D. Placed the dough into the hot oven.
4. The passage mainly tells us _____.
A. the process of making bread
B. the conflict between mother and daughter
C. the first experience of making bread
D. the way of doing housework
阅读理解。
     In Britain, in a population of 60 million, there are 13 million grandparents, many of whom live alone a
long way from their grandchildren.The loneliness of these older people has become an issue that schools
are trying to teach children about.
     On a popular teacher's website, there is a classroom activity to help make children aware of the
implications of the different generations of the same family living far from each other. It's a story about Mrs.
Eiderdown, an elderly lady whose grandchildren have moved to Australia with their parents. She lives alone
and rarely sees her family.
    First of all, the children speculate about Mrs. Eiderdown's life. What does she have for breakfast? what
does she do all day?how does she feel about her life?
     One day, Mrs. Eiderdown decides that she wants a pet to keep her company and puts an advertisement
in a local shop window. Then she waits at home to see if anyone will answer her advertisement.
      A tall thin man rings her doorbell. he is holding a cardboard box. Mrs. Eiderdown chats with the man for
ten minutes before she realizes that she hasn't looked in-side the box to see what the pet is. She can hear a
his-sing sound. The children guess what is in the box (a snake). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the man but says
she doesn't think the snake is a good idea.
     The next time the doorbell rings, there's a lady on the doorstep, also carrying a cardboard box. In the
bottom of the box, Mrs. Eiderdown sees something black and hairy with eight legs. Again, the children say
what they think it is (a spider). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the lady for her kindness but says that a spider is not
the sort of pet she has in mind.
     At last, the little girl next door brings her a dog.Mrs. Eiderdown's life improves a lot because of the dog.
more importantly, of course, the little girl, whose own granny lives a long way away, starts to visit Mrs.
Eiderdown more often. This interactive classroom idea has led to a greater awareness among children about
the possible loneliness of older people who live quite near them.
1. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. children get to know about the trouble of the elderly
B. neighbors help select pets for Mrs. Eiderdown
C. society helps the lonely people in the UK
D. school send pets to the lonely elderly
2. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph mean?
A. they talk about how she feels about being old
B. they try to experience her loneliness
C. they try to imagine how she lives
D. they write about her life story
3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. the little girl often visits her own granny
B. the people who offer pets are lady's neighbors
C. the farther the elderly live, the lonelier they feel
D. the little girl begins to care more about Mrs. Eiderdown
完形填空。
     When I was 14, my family went on our first trip to the United States. My uncle moved there several years
ago to work in the    1   industry in California.
     Although we flew several times before. this trip seemed really    2    because I had never been to America
before. However, to our disappointment, the ride was    3   this time. People smoked and the air quality was
very poor.
     Moreover, it was    4   to see American money-it was very ugly and boring, all green and white, but what
it could    5  -freedom, Hollywood-was    6   . I didn't see any movie stars in fur coats    7   their lovely dogs,
either. I   8   , "Is this California? Where are the beaches, the sun and the blonde girls?"    9   a land of
dark-haired people, seeing blondes was   10   one of the extremely   11   parts of the trip. However, I was
rather disappointed.    12   , the weather was really foggy, the city looked kind of old and the traffic was
terrible.
    We droved north to Sonoma where my   13   had his house. The wine industry to a  14   can be both
extremely boring and endless exciting. It was great to see my cousins and they   15   that they would take
me out when the weather was nicer. We rode for miles and miles and played in the hills where no one could 
  16   us.
     By the time we   17   to see the city of San Francisco all my bad thoughts had been   18  . I was having
so much fun with my cousins that I wanted to move there.
     I saw neither blonde girls nor   19    on that trip, but I met a lot of nice People and   20   that wherever you
live it's always a nice place if you like the people there. I hope I can travel back to California soon.
(     )1. A. clothing     
(     )2. A. interesting  
(     )3. A. lovely    
(     )4. A. surprising  
(     )5. A. impress     
(     )6. A. frightening  
(     )7. A. walking     
(     )8. A. explained    
(     )9. A. Rounding up           
(     )10. A. impossibly  
(     )11. A. beneficial  
(     )12. A. After all   
(     )13. A. uncle    
(     )14. A. native      
(     )15. A. imagined   
(     )16. A. hate     
(     )17. A. spread out  
(     )18. A. turned down 
(     )19. A. beaches   
(     )20. A. appreciated 
B. wine            
B. fearful          
B. smooth          
B. helpful      
B. change           
B. moving        
B. marching        
B. complained         
B. Looking through   
B. surely         
B. wonderful       
B. As a result        
B. father       
B. child           
B. promised         
B. help            
B. held back         
B. given away       
B. cities         
B. identified   
C. service       
C. boring        
C. expensive   
C. disappointing  
C. realize      
C. exciting      
C. approaching    
C. wondered     
C. Resulting from         
C. seriously     
C. effective     
C. First of all     
C. brother     
C. cousin        
C. believed       
C. bother     
C. turned up        
C. washed away      
C. planes     
C. realized   
D. travel              
D. common                
D. terrible            
D. meaningful          
D. buy                   
D. depressing        
D. fighting                
D. announced        
D. Coming from         
D. fortunately         
D. ordinary             
D. Worse still         
D. friend              
D. worker              
D. appealed            
D. miss              
D. got around             
D. put forward           
D. hills               
D. imagined    
阅读理解。

     I have been employed by a charity organization for less than a year now and I have the privilege of
finding foster homes for abandoned children. It has always been my dream to work with adopted children
because I myself was an adopted child.
     I was born in California in September of 1976 and was adopted in Ohio in March of 1977. I have no
memory of being told that I was adopted, however, I have always known. I have been told that I was
wanted and I was special.
     Even though my parents provided me with lots of love, I was always annoyed by the questions about
my origin and my feeling of being unwanted. I constantly scanned every crowd I was in for another human
that looked like me or laughed like me.
     I began searching for my birthparents in 1999 and I imagined every possible scene of my birth family.
     I went to a local agency for support and five days later I met my birth mother. The story unfolded. She
flew me to Los Angeles the next day and I spent the weekend connecting with another person who looked
just like me. We have had a worthwhile relationship over the past years although she could not give me any
information about my birth father.
     In June of last year a member of my birth father's family contacted me. Now, he and I are just beginning
to get to know what it is like to be a birth child, Without the support of my parents who raised me I would
have never experienced the feeling of being truly wanted accepted. For that, I am forever grateful.

1. What's the author's attitude towards working with adopted children?
A. He feels it is worth a try.
B. He is eager to work with them.
C. He is strongly against it.
D. He thinks it is painful. .
2. How does the author feel about his birth family?

A. He feels that he can't forgive his birth parents.
B. He understands his birth parents.
C. He misses his birth parents very much.
D. He is afraid of being hurt by them again.

3. Why does the author writes this passage?
A. To complain about being abandoned by his birth parents.
B. To show how deep his desire to work with adopted children is.
C. To encourage other people to find their birth parents.
D. To show his love to his birth parents and his foster parents
阅读理解。
    Little Tom down the street calls our dog "the keep dog". Zip is a sheep dog. But when
Tom tries to say "sheep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always
bringing things home for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them. Zip's first present
was a shoe. It was made of green silk. We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a
moment Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded (点头) and held
my nose. "What do you think it is?" "It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone
tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry." I said.
"We should take it back." "We can't," said my sister. "I know we can't," I said."We don't
know where Zip found it." "Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep
dog!"
1. The writer and Mary didn't know _____.
[     ]
A. what Zip's first present was
B. how Zip carried its first present home
C. who owned Zip's first present
D. what Zip's first present was made of
2. Tom calls Zip "the keep dog" because _____.
[     ]
A. the dog likes keeping things
B. the dog likes playing with shoes
C. he doesn't know the dog's name
D. he can't pronounce the word"sheep" well
3. What made the shoe strange was _____.
[     ]
A. its color
B. its smell
C. its size
D. that it was a silk one
4. The word "keep" in the last sentence means "_____".
[     ]
A. keeping things for itself
B. bringing things for others to keep
C. not letting it run about
D. taking care of a small child.
5. We can know from the reading that the dog _____.
[     ]
A. likes to give presents to people
B. has been kept in at the writer's home
C. has brought some trouble
D. likes to be called "the keep dog"
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