The number of people invited    fifty, but a number of them     absent for different reasons.

A. were; was       B. was; was   C. was; were       D. were; were

China’s New Food Act provides for a food recall system     to producers have to stop production       their food isn’t up to standards.

       A．that; if      B．where; if   C．which; when    D．when; where

    第二节 完形填空(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，并在答题卡上将其涂黑

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession   36   in the way of being a good parent．

     I no longer consider myself the   37   of the universe．I show up．I listen．I try to laugh．I

am a good friend to my   38   ．I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约)   39    what they

say．I am a good friend to my friends，and they   40   me．Without them，there would be nothing to say to you today．

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today：Get a   41   ．A real life，not a desire of the next   42   ，the bigger paycheck，the larger house．

    Get a life in which you are not   43   ．Find people you love，and who love you．And remember that love is not   44   ，it is work．   45    the phone．Send an e-mail．Write a letter．And realize that life is the best thing and   46   yon have no business taking it for granted.

    It is so easy to    47   our lives，oar days，our hours，and our minutes．It is so easy to exist   48   to live．I learned to live many years ago．Something really，really   49   happened to me，something that changed my life in ways that，if I had my choice，it would never have been changed at all．And what I learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest   50   of all．

    I learned to love the   51   ，not the destination．I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it．completely and totally．And I tried to do that．in part，by telling others what I had learned．

   By telling them   52   ：Read in the backyard with the sun on your face．Learn to be happy-

And think of life as a deadly   53   ，because if you do   54   it ought to be lived，you will live it with joy and   55   ．

36．A．come            B．stand                   C．take                     D．block

37．A．body            B．star                     C．center                    D．planet

38．A．child            B．husband               C．mother                   D．friend

39．A．mean            B．express                C．concern                  D．convince

40．A．for               B．of                       C．with                    D．to

41．A．job               B．family                 C．life                      D．home

42．A．promotion    B．success                 C．baby                   D．accomplishment

43．A．busy             B．guilty                      C．immature             D．alone

44．A．game            B．fun                      C．enthusiasm           D．leisure

45．A．Pick up        B．Take up               C．Hold up               D．Get up

46．A．whether        B．what                    C．/                                   D．that

47．A．waste                  B．spend                      C．kill                       D．pass

48．A．in favour of    B．instead of             C．in spite of            D．in honoue of

49．A．nice             B．fierce                         C．bad                     D．great

50．A．decision        B．method                C．1ife                     D．lesson

51．A．trip              B．journey                C．tour                     D．travel

52．A．this              B that                        C．it                        D．follows

53．A．routine         B．acquaintance        C．illness                  D．enemy

54．A．as if             B．how                    C．as                        D．than

55．A．delight         B．sorrow                 C．anxiety                D．passion

    I graduated from the university with a degree of engineering．It is a good field but my heart was not in it．I wanted to be an actor or work in the entertainment industryliving a creative life．My choice of engineering was really a mistake but I realized too late．As soon as I graduated，I moved straight to Los Angeles—the home of the film and television industry!

    I tried to get a job in that field．I often worked as an extra in movies and TV shows—standing in the background while actors are in the foreground．This was fun for a while，but I wanted a real acting job，where I was speaking! Sadly，in Los Angeles，there is too much competition．Every race and age is represented：old，young，black，white，Asian，and Midwestern types like me．Being an extra couldst make enough money for me to live in Los Angeles．I had to do something else for money．

    After three years of trying，I gave up my dream of being an actor and started a different career．I then tried network marketing，but in the end，that failed．Seven years after graduating from college，I was still in debt，still searching for a satisfactory life．I decided to go back to engineering．

However，I was starting to get disappointed with my life．Why is life not like what I expected? I expected to have made a lot of money，gotten married，with a house and nice cars，kids，freedom，etc．Millions of people lead lives with their dreams on the shelf , existing but not really living. I wanted my life to be different，more satisfactory，more alive．I wanted a life filled with adventure，romance，friendships，Successes，and dreams realized．But America was not providing that for me．

…

    Struggling in the US?

    I decided to move to China．

53．What does the underlined sentence mean?

      A．A lot of people are living but they are not enjoying their life．

      B．A lot of people are living and their life is enjoyable．

    C．A lot of people realize their dreams but live a bad life．

    D．A lot of people don’t have dreams，nor do they want to live either．

54．What did the writer do before he finally decided to move to China?

    A．Marketing→engineering→extra．

    B．Extra→marketing→engineering．

    C．Engineering→extra→marketing．

    D．Extra→engineering→marketing．

55．What can we infer from the passage?

    A．Life is difficult in China．

    B．Life in the US is easy．

    C．There is always somewhere in the world where you can enjoy life．

    D．It is certain that more and more Americans will move to China．

56．How can we describe the writer’s attitude toward life?

      A．Impractical．              B．Passive．             C．Disappointed．              D．Positive．

The government has handed out all the         food and clothes to the victims．

      A．reflected              B．abandoned           C．donated                  D．rented

 If our car had not ________, we would have been here on time.

A. broken out        B. broken into               C. broken away            D. broken down

January 8th saw events taking place in the US city of Memphis to mark      would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday.

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

Julia _____ with a stranger when Jim went to the jacket he _____ in the restaurant．

A．had quarreled; left               B．had quarreled; had left

C．was quarreling; has left           D．was quarreling; had left

第四部分：书面表达（共三节，满分30分）

 课文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

According to the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric the Red was f  56   to leave Iceland because he had c  57   a murder, for which he got i  58   trouble. Eric reached Greenland and d  59   that people could live in the place where he l   60  . He returned to Iceland and told people to go back with him to Greenland. Eric set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, of which only 14 made it to Greenland.

 As you can see, I did e  61  . I will bring my story quickly to a c  62  . Some time after I left the boat, with my brother in it, it s  63   into the bottom of the whirlpool. Soon a  64  , the whirlpool became less v  65  . Then the sky was clear, the wind calmer and the moon was shining. I was tied to the barrel and the waves soon carried me to an area where the other fishermen were.

I don’t like the lecture yesterday. Most of what the speaker said was _____ the subject.

A. on                                                             B. off

C. of                                                              D. around