第二节：完型填空（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36--55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!

My wife called, “How long will you be with that   36  ? Will you come here and make your dear daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and rushed to the   37  . My daughter, Sindu, sat there,   38   welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.

　  I   39   the bowl. “Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful of this rice?”

　　Sindu wiped her tears. “Ok, Dad. I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls,   40   the whole lot of this. But …You should…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat this  41  rice, will you give me   42   I ask for?”

　　“Promise”. I   43   the pink soft hand of my daughter with mine. Now I became a bit   44   . “Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such   45   items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.”

　 Slowly and   46  , she finished eating the whole quantity. After that, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with   47  . “Dad, I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!” was her   48  .

On Monday morning, I  49   her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and   50  . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car, shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!' What struck me was the hairless head of that boy.

“Sir, your daughter Sindu is   51   indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “that boy is my son Harish. He is suffering from a disease. He lost all his   52  due to the side effects of the treatment. He   53    to come back to school fearing the unintentional but   54   teasing（取笑）of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I   55   imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son!”

36. A. bowl          B. newspaper                   C. daughter       D. food

37. A. scene             B. kitchen                 C. bedroom        D. study

38. A. surprise           B. anger                   C. tears               D. smiles

39. A. took away         B. picked up               C. put aside         D. put down

40. A. and              B. so                       C. or                    D. but

41. A. delicious        B. terrible                  C. entire              D. wonderful

42. A. whatever          B. wherever                 C. whichever         D. whenever

43. A. moved           B. hit                       C. covered           D. put

44. A. nervous           B. anxious                   C. excited                   D. confused

45. A. valuable               B. useful                    C. wonderful        D. expensive

46. A. happily           B. excitedly              C. painfully         D. quietly

47. A. expectation        B. confidence                C. worry            D. curiosity

48. A. message          B. demand                    C. note                  D. sign

49. A. sent           B. helped                     C. dropped          D. collected

50. A. shouted           B. smiled                     C. waved           D. nodded

51. A. beautiful        B. lovely                C. faithful       D. great

52. A. friends          B. hair                    C. hope               D. face

53. A. refused           B. wished                         C. intended           D. disliked   

54. A. kind                  B. cruel                      C. harmless          D. rough

55. A. hardly            B. ever                       C. never             D. nearly

D

LONDON—Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric(史前) site near Britain’s famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.

Researchers have named the site “Bluehenge” after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared, but the path of holes remains.

The new circle, unearthed over the summer by researchers from Sheffield University, represents an important find, researchers said Saturday. The site is about a mile away from Stonehenge.

Bluehenge, about 80 miles southwest of London, is believed to date back to about the time Stonehenge was built, about 5,000 years ago.

Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University said he believed the path and stonehenge itself were linked to rituals(仪式) of life and death.

Mike Parker suggested that the ancient funerary rituals began at a different circle site known as “Wood-henge”, which represented the world of the living. The bodies of the dead were then brought down the River Avon to Bluehenge, which represented death, and were finally carried along a ceremonial route known as the Avenue to Stonehenge.

Bournemouth University Professor Tim Darvill, an expert on Stonehenge, told Britain’s Dail Mail that Bluehenge “adds to the richness” of the ancient site’s story.

“This henge is very important because it forms part of the picture of ceremonial monuments in the area and puts Stonehenge into context,” Darvill was quoted(引述) as saying. “It’s no longer Stonehenge standing alone, but it has to be seen in context with the landscape.”

53．How many henges are mentioned in this passage?

A．Two  B．Three       C．Four  D．Five

54．Who believed the Stonehenge is related to ancient ritual of death?

A．Archaeologists from London        B．Welsh researchers

C．Mike Parker Pearson                    D．Professor Tim Darvill

55．What does the underlined sentence “It’s no longer Stonehenge standing alone, but it has to be seen in context with the landscape.” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Stonehenge has noting to do with Bluehenge

B．Woodhenge represented the world of living in ancient times.

C．Bluehenge represented death

D．Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Bluehenge should be studied together

56．From the passage we can learn that ______.

A．researchers have named the site “Bluehenge,” because they have found blue huge stones there

B．funerary rituals were carried out along the path starting from Woodhenge, River Avon to Bluehenge, finally Stonehenge.

C．Bluehenge is 1 mile away from London

D．Bluehenge dates back to 2000 BC

5．The little kid can help himself _____ his favorite toys.

A．to     B．in      C．for    D．On

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time  16   and alone. Many people   17   winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.

For many students reading means school; it means   18  . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re   19  . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most   20   thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   21   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no   22   for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings《指环王》，or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》.

All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that   23   young people.   24  , even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are   25   their school work: “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read   26   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the   27  . Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   28  . At the moment the thought   29   reading is work disappears and reading becomes   30  .

Reading anything is   31   but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   32   you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English   33  : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me  34   it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to   35   on a cold winter evening.

16. A. indoors                   B. indoor                            C. outdoors              D. outside

17. A. like                           B. prefer                                      C. hate                      D. love

18. A. job                            B. worry                                       C. try                          D. work

19. A. tested                     B. tested on                      C. examined             D. examined on

20. A. enjoyable             B. reasonable                             C. comfortable       D. considerable

21. A. want                        B. cause                                       C. make                     D. force

22. A. contest                   B. challenge                      C. competition        D. match

23. A. appeal to                B. respond to                             C. react to                D. reply to

24. A. Fortunately B. Luckily                            C. Unfortunately      D. Accidentally

25. A. free from                B. part of                            C. in place of            D. far from

26. A. not                           B. very                                C. those                    D. that

27. A. story                        B. subject                           C. instruction            D. theme

28. A. leave for                 B. care about                             C. flee from              D. live in

29. A. what                        B. that                                C. this                        D. which

30. A. a comfort               B. a failure                         C. a success             D. a pleasure

31. A. bad                          B. mean                              C. great                     D. grand

32. A. provide                   B. offer                               C. give                       D. award

33 A. custom                     B. language                       C. culture                  D. art

34. A. break                       B. spoil                                C. make                     D. develop

35. A. keep warm            B. stand still                      C. stay calm             D. stay cool

Although the weathermen’s forecasts for a month ahead are only little better than guesswork, they are now making long-term forecasts into the next century with growing confidence. The main trend in the world’s climate in the coming years will, scientists say, be a predictable result of man’s activities.

At the start of the industrial revolution nearly two centuries ago, man set off a big experiment in planetary engineering. Unaware of what he was doing, he spared no thought for the consequences. Today the possible outcome is alarmingly clear, but the experiment is unstoppable. Within the lifetime of many of us, the Earth may become warmer than it has been for a thousand years. By the middle of this century it may be warmer than it has been since the last Ice Age.

A warmer climate may seem welcome, but it could bring many dangers： damages to crops in the world’s main food-producing areas, famine(饥荒),  economic instability, civil unrest and even war.

In the much longer term, melting of the great ice-caps of Greenland and Antarctica could raise sea-levels throughout the world. The average sea-level has already risen a foot since the turn of the last century, and if the ice-caps disappear completely, it would rise by nearly 200 feet. Complete melting might take many centuries, but even a small increase in sea-level would threaten low-lying parts of the world such as the Netherlands.

44. Long-term weather forecasts beyond the year 2050 may seem strange because ____.

A. none of us will be alive then

B. weathermen can even forecast next month’s weather correctly

C. weathermen can forecast much better than they used to

D. no one can stop engineering experiments

45. Weathermen believe that our future climate will be the direct result of ____.

A. the big scientific experiment       B. clever long-term forecasts

C. the melting of the ice-caps          D. planets changing course

46. One of the results of a warmer world climate could be ____.

A. an increase in food production

B. greater co-operation between countries

C. the death of millions of people from starvation

D. a reduction in the amount of oil we use

47. Scientists are fairly sure that by the year 2050, _______.

A. the sea-level will have risen obviously

B. there will have been the Third World War

C. most countries will have been flooded

D. the polar ice-caps will have melted completely

完成句子 （共10小题，满分10分）

根据句意，在空格处填入适当的单词使句意完整，每空只能填一个词，请将该部分答案写在答题纸上。

86. 杂技演员走钢丝时, 观众都屏住了呼吸。

The audience ___________ its/their ____________as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.

87. 我期待暑假见到你。

I’m __________ ___________ to seeing you this summer vacation.   

88. 你会知道她是个信守诺言的女孩。

You’ ll find that she is a girl who always ___________ her ___________.

89. 他们很年轻的时候，就开始谋生了。

They began to___________ their ____________ when they were very young.

90.她说她八点在这等我，但现在九点了，她还没出现。

She told me she would meet me here at 8:00. But it is 9 o’clock now and she still hasn’t _____     ___    __ yet.

91. 考试作弊必予追究。

If you cheat in the exam, you'll never                       with it.

92. 这本词典不久就要出版。

The dictionary will be published _________ _________.

93. 经过长时间的讨价还价，我妻子终于把那件裙子的价钱砍了下来。

After bargaining for a long time, my wife succeeded in 　　　　　 ___________the price of the dress.

94．所有认识他的人都羡慕他取得诺贝尔化学奖。

All those who knew him          him             his winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

95．他们都是由那位老人养育成人的。

They were all                      by that old man.

默写。（共30个空格，每空格0.5分，满分15分）

I am going to tell you an ________ story. This afternoon a ________ ________ gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew who he was and where he came from.   ... When he was asked to pay the bill, the gentleman asked whether we would mind waiting just a few minutes... ________, we could not change the bank note as it was too large. So I gave this strange but very rich man a free dinner, ________ _________ ________ that he might come to my restaurant again.

What it was to become was ________ until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust ________ ________ ________ ________ ________. The earth became so ________ that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not. It ________ loudly with fire and rock.

“Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and _________ _________ _________ __________ make Vancouver one of the most popular cities to live in. Its population is __________ _________. …. It is so wet there that the trees are ________ tall, some ________ over 90 metres.”

The tunnel would be ________ if tall chimneys were built above sea level… If, at that time, the British ________ not ________ ________, it would ________ ________ ________.

   ________ breaks the law should be punished.

         A. No matter who                 B. Anyone

    C. A man who                    D. One

Peter was so angry at all ____ Mary was doing ___ he walked out.

A. what; as       B. what; that       C. that; which     D. that; that

---- Waiter!----_________

----What’s in the soup? Is it a fly?

A. What?         B. Yes, sir?       C. Pardon?           D. All right?