完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分)

      阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白出的最佳选项。

?After 42-year-old guy Tom had quitted his job, he began to make up his mind to become a freelance (self-employed) writer, no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not.He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a(n)  21  typewriter and settled down to work.

    After a year or so, however, Tom began to  22  himself.He found it was difficult to earn his living by  23  what he wrote.But Tom determined to put his dream to the test —  24  it meant living with uncertainty and fear of  25 .This is the shadowland of hope, and  26  with a dream must learn to live there.

    One day Tom got a call, “We need a(n)  27 , and we’re paying $6,000 a year.” $6,000 was  28  money in 1960.It would enable Tom to get a nice apartment, a used car and more. 29 , he could write on the side. 30  the dollars were dancing in Tom’s head, something  31  his senses.He had dreamed of being a  32  — full time.“Thanks, but no,” Tom said  33 .“I’m going to stick it out and write.”

    After Tom got off the phone, he  34  everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents.Tom put the cans and cents into a  35  bag, saying to himself, “There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far.”

  Finally his work was  36  in 1970.Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that  37  writers ever experience.The shadows had turned into limelight.

  Then one day, Tom  38  a box filled with things he had owned years before 39  was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents.Suddenly he  40 himself working in that cold storage room.It reminds Tom, and anyone with a dream, of the courage and persistence it takes to stay the course in the shadowland.

A.excellent   B.used C.expensive    D.priceless

A.regret  B.hate C.doubt    D.trust

A.selling B.buying   C.reading  D.appreciating

A.Now that    B.What if  C.As if    D.Even though

A.success B.failure  C.perspiration     D.loss

A.someone B.none C.nobody   D.anyone

A.boss    B.assistant    C.manager  D.writer

A.false   B.little   C.real D.high

A.However B.Still    C.Besides  D.Therefore

A.As  B.But  C.If   D.Because

A.hurt    B.destroyed    C.cleared    D.struck

A.driver  B.assistant    C.writer   D.dancer

A.hesitantly  B.firmly   C.slowly   D.hurriedly

A.pulled out  B.pulled apart C.pulled back  D.pulled down

A.cloth   B.metal    C.plastic  D.paper

A.written B.published    C.completed    D.punished

A.few B.great    C.famous   D.poor

A.sought  B.searched C.found    D.picked

A.Above   B.Below    C.Outside  D.Inside

A.called  B.pictured C.described    D.reminded

A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages.They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat reoms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives. 

     Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become Compulsive

behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessive behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites.

     They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is

affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades, and success at schools. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their soeial life.

      They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society,

      Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends Who they have never met in their life.Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real life friends they have known all their fife. lt is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world.

The passage is about               

A. the cause of weboholism       B. the advantage of weboholism

    C. the popularity of weboholism  D. the influence of weboholism

The underlined word"obsessive" in the second paragraph most probably means    

    A. attractive    B. addictive      C. professional     D. potential

We can learn from the passage that                .

      A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers

      B. teeangers can hardly balance real and virtual life

      C. people are addicted to games on the lnternet

      D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway

Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism?

    A. It contributes to the development of the web.

    B. The chat room language may change social culture.

    C. The problem will have a negative influence on our future.

    D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life.

The author's attitude towards weboholism is that of being         

    A. objective    B. positive         C. opposed        D. acceptable

For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.

    “I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope(听诊器)and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.

    One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.

    “He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he  was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”

    Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was “shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.

“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科医生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.

York was proud of the fact that ___________.

         A. a surgeon let him watch an operation.

         B. he could perform some duties of a doctor

         C. he had cheated doctors for so long

         D. people thought he could become a real doctor

York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________.

         A. watching other doctors work              B. talking to doctors and nurses

         C. getting some training and experience       D. observing doctors while he was a patient

Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?

         A. She had swallowed something and almost died.

         B. She had to have and emergency operation.

         C. She had been injured in a road accident.

         D. She had lost consciousness while driving.

The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _________.

         A. pretended to be a psychiatrist         B. tried to get away from prison

         C. was proud of what he had done       D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist

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