He is wearing sunglasses to __________ his eyes from the strong sunlight.

A. protect              B. prevent          C. save             D. help

Listen! His family must be quarrelling, _______?

A. mustn’t it          B. isn’t it           C. aren’t they      D. needn’t they

His proposal is _______ to all of us and you do not need to tell us more about it.

A．apparent   B．practical   C．reasonable D．abrupt

第三节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

【阅读】阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I had no _21_ about my ability to hold their attention and to _22_ on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “_23_ !” and the entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat _24_ about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness(尴尬)was over, I quickly _25_ my calmness and began what I thought was a fact – packed lecture, sure to gain their respect – perhaps 26 their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a (n) _27 of achievements.

My students _28  diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually _29_ by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. _30_ her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a _31_ subject. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework(哲学体系)of Western thought and laid the historical _32_for all the works we’ll study in class.” I complained. “How _33_ they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

It was a long term, and it _34_ became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as _35_ of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise _36_ questions and provide enough background so that students could _37_ their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide _38_ information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

_39  , I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a _40  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

21. A. worry       B. idea            C. doubt                  D. experience

22. A. impress     B. put             C. leave                    D. fix

23. A. Attention   B. Look out        C. At ease                  D. Stand up

24. A. puzzled     B. sure            C. curious                  D. worried

25. A.found             B. returned          C. regained       D. followed

26. A. more             B. even            C. yet            D. still

27. A. thought          B. sense           C. feeling        D. idea

28. A. wrote            B. borrowed        C. kept           D. read

29. A. replaced         B. taken            C. caught        D. moved

30. A. Naturally        B. Perhaps             C. Fortunately   D. Reasonably

31. A. different        B. same              C. similar       D. usual

32. A. happenings       B. characters       C. development   D. background

33. A. should           B. can                C. will          D. must

34. A. immediately       B. certainly         C. simply        D. gradually

35. A. that             B. what             C. those         D. ones

36. A. difficult        B. interesting        C. ordinary      D. unusual

37. A. draw             B. get              C. decide        D. give

38. A. strange          B. standard         C. exact         D. serious

39. A. Therefore       B. However           C. Besides       D. Though

40. A. normal             B. happy            C. good          D. better

In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unusual way. The author was Agatha Christie, one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world.

In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was sent to Hammersmith Hospital in London. She was then only semi-conscious (半清醒状态) and on the "Dangerously Ill" list. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were confused by the very unusual symptoms (症状). While they were discussing the baby's case, a nurse asked to speak to them.

"Excuse me," said Nurse Marsha Maitlan, "but I think the baby is suffering from thallium poisoning. (铊中毒)"

"What makes you think that?" Dr. Brown asked. "Thallium poisoning is extremely rare."

"A few days ago, I was reading a novel called A Pale Horse by Agatha Christie," Nurse Maitlan explained. "In the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. They're exactly the same as the baby's."

"You're very thoughtful and you may be right," another doctor said. "We'll carry out some tests and find out whether it's thallium or not."

Tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance used in making special glass. Once they knew the cause of the illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back to Qatar. Later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (杀虫剂) used in Qatar.

The one who first suggested the correct cause of the baby's illness was _____.

A. a doctor in Qatar               B. Nurse Maitlan

C. Dr. Brown                    D. Agatha Christie

The baby was sent to London because _____.

A. she was born there

B. the hospitals in Qatar were full at that time

C. she was the daughter of a doctor in London

D. the Qatar doctors were not sure whether they could cure her

As far as we can tell from the passage, Agatha Christie _____.

A. had never met this baby

B. had spent a long time studying the baby's case

C. visited the baby in the hospital at Hammersmith

D. gave Nurse Maitlan some advice on the phone

It seems likely from the passage that the baby's illness had something to do with _____.

A. a dangerous pair of glasses

B. the water in Qatar

C. a harmful substance used to kill insects

D. a dead writer

When the baby was sent to the hospital in London, her case was considered to be _____.

A. an urgent one               B. quite a simple one

C. a usual one                 D. the result of thallium poisoning

There must be a great many of people who didn’t                    56._____________

go to university, even if they want to, since they                  57._____________

couldn’t afford the time off  work; they had their family          58._____________

to support, or if they were women, they have to stay                59._____________

at home in order to look after their children.                      60._____________

As the opening of the Open University in January,               61._____________

1971, people in Britain are now able to take university             62._____________

degree despite these difficulty, for the courses                    63._____________

are specially designing so that you can study at home.              64._____________

In this way many people’s dreams have come into true.          65._____________   

________, a man of achievements, deep thoughts, but with simple habits.

A. Einstein was such   B. Such was Einstein  C. Einstein was so  D. So was Einstein

I read about this story in some book or other. Does it matter _______ it was?

A. where    B. what     C. how    D. which

My father is getting better day after day.

The party began shortly after Mr. Wood, who lived in the flat below, signed to himself as he heard excited voices and the noisy music. Luckily he had   1   some work home from the office,   2  he kept himself busy for a couple of hours, thus managing to pay no attention to the noise   3  . But by eleven o’clock he felt   4 and was ready to go to bed, though from his earlier  experience he knew it was   5   trying to get to sleep. He undressed and lay for a while on the bed, trying to read, but he   6   himself reading the same page over and over again. He then turned off the light and   7   his head in the pillow. But  8   he could not shut  9   the noise, finally, after  10  seemed hours, his  11  was gone.

He jumped out of bed,   12 some clothing, marched  13 up the stairs, and walked into his neighbor’s flat. The owner of the flat, who 14   him in his dressing gown, came  15  the room and, 16  Mr. Wood could say anything, cried, “My dear fellow, come and  17 . I know our parties  18  you. I meant to send you  19 .” Mr. Wood’s anger disappeared then and there. He said, “I’d better go and get  20 .” Minutes later, he returned, properly dressed, only to find that the party was nearly over.

A. taken           B. carried                 C. brought                 D. fetched

A. with which        B. from which                  C. where                  D. when

A. outside           B. overhead               C. downstairs             D. nearby

A. bad              B. tired                        C. sick                 D. hopeless

A. useless          B. necessary            C. possible                     D. helpful

A. had              B. found                 C. caught                D. felt

A. buried            B. rested                 C. shook                 D. turned

A. till then           B. worse still             C. strange enough        D. even so

A. away             B. off                         C. down                       D. up

A. it                  B. what                     C. that                       D. which

A. sleep               B. strength                C. patience                D. anger

A. pulled on                 B. dressed up                      C. selected                D. wore

A. sadly                     B. proudly                 C. quietly                         D. firmly

A. made fun of       B. stared at        C. was angry with        D. caught sight of

A. across                   B. around                 C. towards              D. by

A. as                      B. before                 C. though              D. until

A. meet as      B. sit here            C. join us                D. scold me

A. may trouble  B. would trouble        C. may bother             D. must bother

A. a notice    B. a message            C. an invitation          D. an apology

A. washed                   B. changed                     C. dressed                 D. prepared