C

Years ago ,when I started looking for my first job ,wise advised,“Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. ”How right they were!

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!”when others shout, “No, you can’t !”It took years and years for the early work of  Barara  McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel  Prize in medicine , to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age was. At 90,cellist Palblo Cassls would start his day by playing Bach.  A s the music flowed through his fingers his stooped shoulders would strengthen and joy would reappear in his eyes . As author and poet Samuei Ulman once wrote ,“ Years wrinkle the skin ,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or power . Patricia  Mellrath, retired director of the Missouri  Repertory  Theatre in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father ,a lawyer long ago told me , I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.”

If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth  Layton was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30 years ,and the quality of her led one critic to say,“I’m tempted to call Layton a genius.”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be ”.We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, which all our senses-including pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year –old ,the beauty of  a  rainbow.

66. What is the Chinese for “Enthusiasm”?

   A.热情                B. 色彩                                 C. 惰性                  D.金钱

67. Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

   A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times.

   B. If you don’t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.

   C. Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.

   D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor.

68. The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that____

   A. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm

   B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

   C. enthusiasm can keep people feel young

   D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy

69. How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

   A. Three              B. Two               C. Four                      D.  Five

70. The author mainly wants to say that _________

   A. enthusiasm people never get old                            

   B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

   C. enthusiasm is more important than experience

   D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame .

第二卷（共两节，共35分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题；满分10分）

Pierre Loisel was used to work in a government          1. ____________

office. One day he and his wife received a invitation        2. ____________

to a ball at the palace. Mathilde spent 400 francs to         3. ____________

a new dress but had no more money for jewellery.          4. ____________

She borrowed a beautiful necklace had a big stone          5. ____________

in the centre from Jeanne. The couple have a good          6. ____________

time at the palace. But after the ball, the necklace                   

was losing. They had to buy a new one for Jeanne.           7. ____________

In order to pay for the debts, the couple had to work          8. ____________

hard day or night. But only after Jeanne told her             9. ____________

the truth, did Mathilde know the necklace only worth        10. ____________

500 francs at most.

22. One learns a language by making mistakes and ______ them.

  A. correct    B. corrects    C. correcting    D. to correct

Franklin didn’t______ the inspiring speech by the famous leader, but he______ it.

A. know of, know                       B. know, knew of  

C. know, knew to                        D. know of, knew with

The earthquake _____ fear _____ his heart. 

  A. hit; in      B. beat; into    C. knocked; into   D. struck into

--- Don’t leave water        while you brush your teeth, honey.

    --- Ok, Mum.

       A．run   B．running    C．being run  D．to run

The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their manifest advantages. Furthermore, the advertising cost for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were made to find the cause of the consumers “seemingly unreasonable resistance to the product”. The reason given by most people was dislike for the taste. The producers suspected that there might be deeper reasons. However, this was confirmed by one of motivation research's classic studies, one often cited（引用）in the trade.

Mason Haire, professor of the University of California, constructed two shopping lists that were the same except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots, baking powder, bread, canned peaches and potatoes, with the bands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in the fifth place on both lists, read “1 Ib. Maxwell House coffee” on one list and “Nescafe instant coffee” on the other. One list was given to each person in a group of fifty women, and the other list to those in another group of the same size. The women were asked to study their lists and then to describe, as far as they could, the kind of woman（“personality and character”）who would draw up（制定）that shopping list. Nearly half of those who had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner. On the other hand, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had included regular coffee on her list, as lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was a poor planner. Eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife. No one in the other group drew such a conclusion about the house-wife who intended to buy regular coffee.

53. In this instance, the purpose of motivation research was to discover      .

why people drink coffee

B. why instant coffee was successful

C. why regular coffee was successful

D. the real reason why people would not buy instant coffee

54. This investigation indicates that       .

50 percent of housewives are lazy

B. housewives who use instant coffee are lazy

C. many women believe that wives who use instant coffee are lazy

D. wives who use regular coffee are good planners

55. On the results of this test, the producers probably revised their advertising to show a     .

lazy housewife using regular coffee

B. hard-working housewife using instant coffee

C. lazy housewife using instant coffee

D. man obviously enjoying the taste of instant coffee

56. It is implied but not stated that       .

A. Despite its advantages, most people dislike instant coffee because of its taste.

B. The advertising cost for instant coffee was greater than for regular coffee.

C. Very often we do not know the real reasons for doing things.

D. Taste is the principal factor in determining what we buy.

语音知识。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D中找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1.    blank      A. companion B. guarantee   C. link    D. quantity

2.    Pleasure  A. impressive  B. collision     C. anxious      D. precious

3.    seize       A. neighbour  B. weigh C. eight   D. receive

4.    permission      A question      B. conclusion  C. condition    D. suggestion

5.    architecture     A. apartment  B. particular.   C. towards      D. quarter

书面表达（满分35分）

今年暑假你和你的朋友对高二学生进行了一次家访和调查，学生的反馈情况见下表。请你以“What I want to speak out most?”为题，写一篇 100词左右的短文。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

What I want to speak out most?

As a Senior 2 student, I have many things in mind to speak out.

The most exciting thing for him was      he finally found two tinned fruits in     seemed to him to be a servant’s bedroom.

A. that; what                         B. what; what 

C. that; where                        D. what; where