When a close friend dies, it often forces you to consider your own death. The more you have in common with the friend, the more his death will make you wonder about your own. Sometimes you will naturally say to yourself, "It could just as easily have been me." Such a death has a way of reminding us how fragile life is, and it may cause you to reassess（重新评价） the direction of your own life.

    Jack's story is a good example. A successful businessman making a lot of money, Jack didn't spend as much time with his family as he wanted. His job required him to work long hours. But three years ago one of his best friends, a man who worked in the same office, had a heart attack. He died while celebrating his daughter's eighteenth birthday in a restaurant. He was only fifty years old.

    Not long after his friend's death, Jack started to have a chest pain. Finally he had a good physical check-up. He received a clean bill of health. But the chest pain continued. He kept thinking of the death of his friend. Jack thought about how much his friend missed in life and he saw how hard it was for his friend's family to manage after he passed away.

    Jack realized that he didn't want to end up his life that way. He talked his feelings over with his wife and children, and decided to change his way of life. The family moved to a small town where he started a simple life. Now he is running a small art gallery（画廊）. He is relaxed, and says he has never been so happy in his life, and he has got no more chest pain.

1. Your close friend's death is __________________ to you.

   A. a warning           B. common            C. a direction of life     D. an example

2. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means "________________".

   A. The doctor didn't write a word on his bill

   B. The doctor didn't want Jack to pay for the bill

   C. The doctor didn't find anything wrong with him

   D. The doctor didn't want to treat his pain

3． His friend's death made Jack ________________.

   A. lose much interest in life

   B. realize that he missed the friend very much

   C. doubt his way of life

    D. ill for some time

4. While living in the small town Jack ________________.

A. earns less money    B. gets more time 

    C. has a happier life    D. does all these mentioned above

第Ⅱ卷  非选择题

第五部分  写作（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确

On May 9th, 1906, an American Anne Jevis’s mother died.

Anne was in deep sorrow. In order to memorize her

 mother, she      forward a suggestion to              1            

fix a day as Mother’s Day. On May 7th, 1914,

 a law was passed, m      the  second Sunday          2                 

of  May “Mother’s Day”. Today        (百万) of       3              

  people        (庆祝) Mother’s Day in some way .      4            

They buy more than 150,000,000  Mother’s Day

Greeting cards.There are d        kinds of cards,          5            

most of        show pictures of flowers, hearts          6            

or other things to          a person’s love              7             

 for his or her mother. Jevis’s mother was fond o         8            

the  white carnation(康乃馨), so carnations are specially

c        for Mother’s Day. And it is one of the           9              

busiest days of the year for the whole flower         (产业)10            

 as there are too many flowers to be sent at the same time.     

. The clever boy made a hole in the wall, _______ he could see ______ was going on inside the house.

A. which; what              B. through which; what     

C. through that; what       D. what; that

As I was reading a recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldn’t help but think the 20-somethings sounded like a bunch of spoiled children who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their disappointment: my husband and I probably won’t be able to buy a house until we’re in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans(贷款). But why should it be any different? Being young persons in America, shouldn’t they take up all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?

Consider some of these views shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won’t be able to have children for at least a decade because they can’t afford to buy a house yet.

I read that, and I thought, what planet is she living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury(奢华), not a fertility requirement.

A 26-year-old in the story despairs(绝望) that he can’t afford to get a Ph.D. in literature. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years.

Yes, it’s sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks people’s expectations are slowly adjusting, but today’s 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyone’s wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments. “So you have people who have grown up in an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.

This recession(衰退) will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being grateful－for our one-bedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day－than on longing for some kind of luxury life.

1. What makes the author think the 20-somethings sound like a bunch of spoiled children?

A. They expect everything to be easy for them.

B. They complain that the economy is spoiling their life plans.

C. They are reluctant to face all of the challenges.

D. They are burdened by student loans.

2. The underlined word “fertility” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.

A. baby production        B. pleasant                    C. baby comfort            D. essential

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the 20-somthings with high expectation in Paragraph 5?

A. Intolerant.              B. Negative.               C. Unbelieving.                 D. Understanding.

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A. How Young People Afford to Continue Their Study

B. Why Young People Can’t Afford to Buy a House

C. When Young People’s High Hopes Create Despair

D. What the 20-somethings’ High Expectations Are    

第二节：书面表达：（满分25分）

从学校毕业，或上大学，或步入社会。毕业意味着前进、意味着选择。请以Graduation and Moving on为题，写一篇120词左右的短文，介绍你校毕业前的一些活动以及你的毕业感受。

提示：首句已给出，但不计入总词数。

Graduation is a time when we move on, from school to university, or out into the real

world．________________________________________________________________________

. When we arrived in the middle of the night, there was no food ______ as all the shops were shut. 

A. left   B. available  C. remaining   D. convenient

 She intended to be a doctor, but a serious eye infection forced her to ____ the idea.

       A. accept        B. abandon              C. adapt            D. absorb

—What’s the girl like ?

    —She was a brave girl . She fought bravely and her enemy had to _______  her at last .

 A．give up  B．give up to  C．give in D．give in to

_____ friend of my sister’s will come to see her tomorrow. I’m wondering what ___ man he is going to be like.

A. A…the    B. A…. a  C. The… a   D. The….the

11. —You realize that you were driving at 100 miles per hour , don’t you ?

    —No, officer , I          have been . This car can’t do more than 70

       A. needn’t            B. shouldn’t                  C. couldn’t                   D. might not