31. ----Who are you waiting for?

   ---__________ the man wounded in the left leg.

　　A. The doctor will operate on 　　　　     B. The nurse to be looked after

C. The doctor to operate on 　　　　      D. His brother got

—Did you attend David’s wedding last night?

—No. I ________ before that.

A. wouldn’t have been invited    B. didn’t invite

C. wouldn’t invite              D. hadn’t been invited

I made a promise to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. Totally loving. No ifs, ands or buts.

The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical passage about husbands and their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change.

And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks great on you.” “Oh, Tom, you noticed”, she said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled. After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, “Evelyn’s been alone here with the kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the children flew their kites.

So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new promise to keep on remembering to choose love.?

There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression.

“What’s the matter?” I asked her.

“Tom,” she said in a voice filled with distress, “ I don’t?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…that checkup I had several weeks ago…our doctor…did he tell you something about me? Tom, you’ve been so good to me…am I dying?”

It took a moment for it all to be understood. Then I burst out laughing.

“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just starting to live.”

56. In the first paragraph, “No ifs, ands or buts” probably means ______.

A. Unintentionally                               B. Independently

C. Impressively                                  D. Unconditionally

57. From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage ______.

A. with his family                               B. with Evelyn

C. alone                                            D. with his children

58. During the two weeks on the beach, Tom showed more love to his wife because ______.

A. he was determined to be a good husband

B. he had made a lot of money in his Wall Street firm

C. she looked lovely in her new clothes

D. the doctor said his wife was seriously ill

59. The author says, “There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment.” What does “one thing” refer to?

A. He praised her sweater, which puzzled her.

B. She insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated.

C. He knew something about her illness but didn’t tell her.

D. He was so good to her that she thought she must be dying.

60. By saying “I’m just starting to live,” Tom means that ______.

A. he is just beginning to understand the real meaning of life

B. he is just beginning to enjoy life as a loving husband

C. he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change

D. he is beginning to feel regret for what he did to his wife before

(B)

    There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.

    That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.

   The 5 % mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.

    Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” they will say. “You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”

    This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.

    And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.

    Don’t guess! Look it up!

55. It is certain that the best way to learn new words is _____________.

     A. to learn them by oneself

     B. to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently

     C. to guess them from the context

     D. to get more separate meanings of each word

56. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.

     A. the 30,000 words           B. English teachers

     C. misunderstood words      D. frequently used words

57. Which of the following is most likely NOT true?

     A. Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.

     B. Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.

      C. How many words the writer got wrong are not known.

     D. All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.

58. It can be inferred that _________.

    A. when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart

    B. we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them

C. it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the

   context

D. only dictionaries can help us learn language well

第二节  补全对话（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

       根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A: Hello, Julie! Sorry, I'm late. The traffic was terrible.

B: That's OK! I just arrived. Be careful! The steps are wet.   61 

A: Thanks. Let's go in－it's raining.

B:   62  Is it a special holiday?

A: No, but it's a new restaurant, so the flowers are here to give congratulations to the owner and for good luck.

B: What do you mean when you say "good luck"? Do you mean good luck to make money or good luck for other things?

A:   63  Now please come over here.

B: Do you want me to sit down here? Oh, come and look at the fish.

A:   64 

B: How much is the Mandarin fish? It looks very fancy.

A:   65  I think it's about eighty yuan.

B: What does that mean? It looks as if you are pointing a gun at the waitress.

A: We use our fingers to show numbers. Don't you?

B: Yes, but not like that. We use our fingers for numbers one to nine, but nothing bigger. We wouldn't use our fingers to say "eighty".

It's a little expensive, but it's excellent  

B．It's for good business in the restaurant.

C．Don't slip.                                         

D．Oh, look at the beautiful decorations anti flowers.

E．Sony, I'd rather not.                                  

F．You are always too careless.

G．It is really beautiful.

7．There are signs______a new, different South is coming out of its dark past.

       A．that                        B．which                     C．when                      D．Where

________ from Milan Trenc’s novel, the film Night at the Museum brings to life a world  where dinosaurs wander the earth.

A. Adapted     B. Adapting           C. Having adapted  D. To be adapted

31．—My son is addicted to drugs．He isn’t hopeless，is he?

       —Yes，     he mends his ways and starts all over．

       A．if                           B．when                      C．even if                    D．Unless

34．________spending our vacation in the city，why not try hiking in the courtry?

A．Instead of    B．In favour of         C．In case of               D．In terms of

第二节    完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Alice, my friend’s daughter, goes to an expensive private school where she has a friend, Jane, who is on a full scholarship at this school. Jane has   36   economic resources—her father has been dead for years and her mother works   37   a maid. Although her mother works very hard, she can   38   support the family. Jane is very bright and gifted at   39   and that’s how she has got the scholarship, which included a(n)   40   for things like lunch, school uniform and music lessons.

Alice became friends with Jane and would   41   talk to her at lunch. She did it that way in order to avoid the other kids   42   her. 

On her birthday last month, she   43   her new friend to her birthday party, but Jane said she couldn’t come. Alice wanted her to be   44   so much that she   45   on her coming. Eventually, the girl said, “I don’t have any   46   clothes that I could wear at your birthday party.” After a brief pause, the girl remembered, “I have a   47   from my piano performance,” and asked, “Could I   48   a skirt from you?”

Alice was happy that her friend would be   49   to come and hurried home to ask her Mum   50   she could lend her friend one of her skirts. To her surprise, her Mum said, “No.” The daughter was very   51   and angrily said to her Mum, “  52   I could, I would give my friend all my clothes.” The Mother didn’t understand why her daughter should have had such an outburst as she’s normally very well   53  . 

Finally, Alice explained to her Mother her friend’s   54  .  Her Mother immediately changed her mind and said, “Yes.” She also encouraged her daughter not to feel like she should secretly be friends with Jane but to feel proud of her   55   with her. 

So the true friendship seeks to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.

36. A. personal                   B. extra                      C. limited                     D. adequate

37. A. for                           B. with                        C. like                       D. as 

38. A. hopefully                   B. obviously                 C. hardly               D. temporarily

39. A. music               B. drawing                   C. maths                       D. biology

40. A. bonus               B. allowance        C. donation                   D. pension

41. A. secretly                     B. happily                    C. quietly                     D. eagerly

42. A. pointing at        B. shouting at               C. laughing at        D. glaring at

43. A. took                         B. invited                     C. accompanied             D. sent

44. A. happy                        B. independent              C. confident       D. present

45. A. depended           B. insisted                    C. focused                    D. agreed

46. A. casual                        B. comfortable              C. nice                         D. tight

47. A. shirt                         B. jeans                        C. handbag                   D. necklace

48. A. get                           B. copy                       C. order               D. borrow

49. A. free                  B. able                      C. glad                       D. willing

50. A. how                         B. when                      C. why                        D. whether

51. A. stubborn            B. upset                      C. firm                      D. enthusiastic 

52. A. If                             B. When                     C. Unless                    D. Though

53. A. treated                      B. controlled               C. educated         D. behaved

54. A. cleverness         B. character         C. circumstances    D. competences

55. A. study                B. friendship        C. sympathy                D. performance