. The thief went into the house at midnight, only ______ by the policemen hiding there.

A. to catch                   B. catching          C. to be caught        D. caught

第二节：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, 然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I  16  the car by the roadside, across the street from where she worked, and  17  her.                  

As I looked outside the car window  18  my right, there was a small park  19  I saw a little boy around two years old,  20  freely on the grass as his mother watched him from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face  21  he had just been set free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up and without  22  run as fast as he could again, still with a smile on his face, as if  23  had happened.

However, with kids (especially at the early age)，when they fall down, they don’t perceive their falling down as a  24 , but instead, they treat it as a learning experience, as just another      25  . They feel compelled to try and try again  26  they succeed. The answer must be that they have not  27  “falling down” with the word “failure” yet. Thus they don’t know how to feel the state which  28  failure. What’s more, they probably think that it is perfectly Okay to fall down, and that it’s not  29  to do so. In other words, they give themselves  30  to make mistakes subconsciously. Thus they remain  31 .

While I was touched by the boy’s persistence, I was  32  touched by the manner in which he ran. With each  33 , he looked so confident and so natural. No  34  of fear, nervousness, or being discouraged — as if he didn’t  35  the world around him. His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. I learned a lot from that observation and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

16. A. packed                B. parked                     C. refueled                   D. cleaned

17. A. called for            B. looked for         C. waited for                D. searched for

18. A. to                       B. in                            C. at                                   D. for

19. A. where                B. which               C. what                        D. that

20. A. walking                     B. running             C. smiling                    D. playing

21. A. as if                   B. even if                     C. only if                            D. what if

22. A. doubt                 B. hesitation          C. mercy                      D. effect

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

24. A. catastrophe          B. difficulty           C. success                     D. failure

25. A. outcome             B. outline                     C. output                      D. outbreak

26. A. unless                 B. after                 C. until                        D. before

27. A. communicated     B. associated          C. accommodated          D. contrasted

28. A. acquires                  B. accumulates       C. accomplishes            D. accompanies

29. A. good                  B. interesting         C. right                        D. wrong

30. A. permission          B. admission          C. comprehension          D. impression

31. A. discouraged         B. encouraged        C. regretful                   D. happy

32. A. simply                B. extremely          C. equally                    D. especially

33. A. run                     B. success              C. attempt                    D. smile

34. A. scenes                 B. marks               C. signals                            D. signs

35. A. care about           B. look about         C. care for                    D. think about

Live Music－－Late Night Jazz

    Enjoy real American Jazz（爵士乐）from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player（号手）. He is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t want to get much sleep.

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：短文改错（满分10分）

 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ），并在下面写出该加的词。

 删除：把多余的词用斜线  （\）  划掉

 注意：1。每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

        2。只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Some students don't like talking with their parents as if their parents love them very much. Are you getting well with your parents? You and your parents will very happy if you can be friends. Here are some way to have a good talk with them. Find a good time to talk, like when you eating dinner, going out for a walk and watching TV. Tell them something you're interested, or ask them about their lives when they are young. They love to talk about their past！ Meet them face to face and listen to them careful.

 Be honesty, and your parents will trust you more.

The house caught___fire last night but no one knows who set ___fire to it.

  A. X；X    B.X;a   C, a; a   D, a; X

----How is your grandmother?  ----She____ for many years.

A. died    B. has died       C. has been died D. has been dead

Someone must have taken it away this morning, ____?

A. haven’t they      B. hasn’t he    C. don’t they  D. didn’t he

The meeting is not over, and you____ not leave.

A. will    B. shall          C. may           D. need

To his joy, the day he looked forward to____ at last?

A. coming             B. come         C. came          D. have come

I thought he was not____ of a professor the first time I heard him speaking to the children at the platform in the hall of our school.

A. something  B. anything            C. somebody   D. anybody