Running in the morning fresh air _________our health and we _________it.

A. benefit to; benefit             B. benefits; benefit from   

C. benefits from; benefit          D. benefits, are benefited by

. The children found it hard to_______to their new school.   

   A. suit         B. fit         C. match      D. adapt

 The cousins are alike in age, but _____ they are as different as day and night.

A. anyhow                   B. besides                    C. otherwise                 D. moreover

We all know the truth _____ there is air, water and sunlight, there are living things.

A. that what       B. what that      C. where what      D. that where

 I urged that he _______ ahead with his plan the moment he told me that he would

   give up.

       A. go         B. goes       C. will go           D. must go

The weather turned out to be very good ,  _____  was more than we could expect .

 A．what  B．which  C．that  D．it

If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you ____ now..

 A. wouldn’t be smiling     B. couldn’t have smiled    C. won’t smile  D. didn’t smile

Something about his manner suggested that he      not interested in what we were doing .

       A. was                  B. were                C. be                    D. is

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，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was 14 when Mr. Ingram knocked on our farmhouse door in Sacred Heart. Okla. The old farmer   36  about a mile away and needed an assistant to help out grass. It was the first time I had been actually   37  for work.

Mr. Ingram was   38  with the job I did and ended up hiring me to dig potatoes. I even   39  when a   40  cow was being born.

One day he found an old truck that was   41  in the   42  ， sandy soil of the melon field. Was full of melons that someone had tried to steal before their truck got stuck.

Mr. Ingram explained that the truck's owner would be returning soon, and he wanted me to   43   the truck and lean(倚靠) against it. Soon a man from a nearby village, who had a terrible   44  for fighting and stealing,   45   with his two full – grown sons. They looked   46  .

While   47   Mr. Ingram said, “Well, I see you want to buy some   48  .”

There was a long silence   49   the man answered, “Yeah, I guess so. What are you getting for them?”

“Three dollars each,”   50  said immediately. “Well, I guess that would be   51   enough if you help me get my truck out of here,” the man bargained.

It   52  out to be our biggest sale of the summer, and an unpleasant, perhaps unfortunate incident had been   53  . After they left, Mr. Ingram smiled and said to me, “Son, if you don’t   54   your enemies, you’re going to run out of friends.” Mr. Ingram died a few years later, but I have never forgotten him or what he taught me   55   my first job.

36．A．covered    B．went  C．lived D．ran

37．A．charged    B．paid  C．inquired    D．blamed

38．A．strict B．disappointed     C．unsatisfied       D．content

39．A．assisted     B．disturbed  C．included   D．existed

40．A．father       B．mother     C．baby  D．brother

41．A．struck       B．dropped    C．fallen       D．stuck

42．A．soft   B．hard  C．smooth     D．tough

43．A．glare at     B．watch       C．spot   D．stare at

44．A．honor       B．custom     C．reputation D．habit

45．A．took down       B．showed up       C．set out      D．broke up

46．A．sad   B．angry       C．happy       D．pleased

47．A．hardly      B．anxiously  C．calmly      D．noisily

48．A．truck B．watermelons     C．tomatoes   D．grass

49．A．before      B．after  C．since D．unless

50．A．they  B．the sons    C．I      D．the farmed

51．A．expensive B．sure   C．friendly    D．fair

52．A．turned      B．came C．broke       D．stood

53．A．caused      B．postponed C．prevented  D．cancelled

54．A．hate  B．forgive     C．admire      D．abandon

55．A．under       B．below       C．off    D．on

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California．That could take several months.  

So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C．Lawmakers in Congress（国会） in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land．Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.

Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach（马车） would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.

Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.

The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.

The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by granted by anyone but God.”

1．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．Different ways of sending mail in the United States.

       B．The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.

       C．The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.

       D．The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.

2．The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________.

       A．mail was usually carried west on ships  

B．it was safer to travel to send mail by land

       C．it would take less time to send mail by land

D．stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail

3．As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________.

       A．could only stop once a day            

B．was modern with seats ,beds and cooking equipment

       C．was a closed wagon operated only by skillful drivers.

       D．had different horses or mules pulled all the way

4．What can we learn from the passage?

       A．John Buttterfield got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.

       B．John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.

       C．Passengers might be robbed by Indians when traveling through the West.

       D．Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.