阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       Yesterday I totally changed my views about life after a talk with one of my friends. He told me despite being  36  , he was happy and   37   that it was because of something he saw in India．

       A few years ago he was  38  feeling sad and was touring India．He said right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother 39 her child's right hand with a knife．The helpless  40  in the mother's eyes and the painful scream of the 41 four-year-old child still remained in his mind．

       The 42 mother made the child handicapped （disabled）  43  he could go out on the streets to beg．  44  by the scene, he dropped a small piece of bread he was eating．And almost at once, several children  45  around this small piece of bread covered with sand,   46 bits from one another．It was the 47  reaction of hunger．He then went to the nearest bakery and bought every single loaf of bread．  48   he gave out the bread to the children （mostly handicapped）, he  49   cheers and bows from these  50   children．For the first time in his life, he understood  51  people could give up their  52  for a loaf of bread．He came to   53   how fortunate he was to be able to have a sound body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to  54   about food that didn't taste good, and have the many things that these people in front of him   55   dreamed of having．Perhaps life wasn't bad at all．

A．in poor health       B．on a diet      C．in debt               D．out of work

A．explained          B．recalled     C．mentioned           D．insisted

A．certainly          B．really       C．seriously              D．absolutely

A．took off           B．carved from  C．scratched on          D．cut off

A．expression         B．despair      C．impression            D．anger

A．guilty            B．tiresome     C．innocent              D．numb

A．merciless          B．upset        C．desperate             D．crazy

A．unless             B．so that       C．in case               D．because

A．Puzzled           B．Attracted     C．Disgusted            D．Shocked

A．gathered          B．looked       C．sat                 D．turned

A．sharing            B．taking           C．offering            D．giving

A．mental             B．physical      C．natural              D．emotional

A．Since              B．Until          C．If                  D．As

A．received           B．accepted       C．heard               D．rejected

A．polite             B．unfortunate   C．energetic            D．greedy

A．whom             B．what           C．how                D．when

A．honor            B．identity      C．morals              D．dignity

A．acknowledge       B．realize         C．conclude            D．recognize

A．complain           B．comment       C．argue               D．decide

A．even              B．ever            C．never               D．hardly

It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10 th and 11 th centuries. As wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry (嫁妆) or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion (遗弃)，but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wife’s right to receive a tenth of all her husband’s property. The wife had the right to withhold consent, in all transactions the husband would make, And more than just a right: the documents showed that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case did the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife.

The wife shared in the management of her husband’s personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance(遗产，继承物)against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria, Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro’s personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, “for the sake of peace.” Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself, within the context of the family, a powerful economic position.

A decimum was      .

       A. the wife’s inheritance from her father    

       B. a gift of money to the new husband 

       C. a written contract            

       D. the wife’s right to receive one-tenth of her husband’s property

In the society described in the passage, the legal standing of the wife in marriage was      .

       A. higher than that of her husband       B. lower than that of her husband

       C. the same as that of her husband D. higher than that of a single woman

What compensation did Maria Vivas get for the field?

       A. Some of the land Miro had inherited.      B. A tenth of Miro’s land.

       C. Money for household expenses.       D. Money from Miro’s inheritance.

Which of the following is Not mentioned as an effect of the dowry system?

       A. The husband had to share the power of decision in marriage.

       B. The wife was protested from desertion.

       C. The wife gained a powerful economic position.

       D. The husband was given control over his wife’s property.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Mary，

I’ve received your e-mail. Don’t worried about me. I’m getting on well with my research work in the lab. But in my surprise, you say you will give up learn English. The reason is because you have not done well in it recently and you have lose interest. I’m afraid I can’t agree with you. I know it is not easy to learn English, and it is widely used in the world today and it will be important tool in the future. Beside, it is becoming more and more important in our daily life. I am sure that if you study hardly, you will succeed. I’m looking forward to hearing a good news from you !

Yours,

 Li Hua 

—Don’t you think Obama is _____ success?

   —Yes, I do. He is popular with _____ public in America.

A. / , a         B. a, a         C. the, a          D. a, the

As a young man , he’d rather have a room of his own, however small it is, than _______ a room with someone else．

       A．to share                     B．to have shared      

       C．share                       D．sharing

Liu Xiang won the gold medal of men’s 110m hurdles at the 16th Asian Games, _______ the title of the event with 13.09 seconds.

A. claimed      B. claiming         C. has claimed           D. to claim

Teachers recommend parents             their children under 12 to ride bicycles to school for safety．

       A．not allow       B．do not allow    C．mustn’t allow D．couldn’t allow

一Did the book give the information you needed?

一Yes. But        it, I had to read the entire book.

A. finding          B. found              C. to find         D. having found

I don’t often lose things and I’m always careful with money, so I was quite surprised when I reached for my wallet and it wasn’t there. At first, I thought it was possible that I could have left it at home. Then I remembered taking it out to pay the taxi, so I knew I had it with me just before I walked into the restaurant. I wondered if it was possible that it could have dropped out of my pocket while I was eating dinner. I turned and walked back to the table where I had been sitting. Unluckily, there were several people sitting at the table at that time, so I had the waiter go over to the table to see if my wallet was on the floor. While the waiter was looking for it, the head of the restaurant came up to me and asked me if anything was wrong. I told him what had happened. He asked me to report the missing wallet to the police. I told him I didn’t want to do so; I was in a hurry because I had to reach my waiting room before two o’clock, where some people were waiting to see me. I also told him that my biggest worry at the moment was how I was going to pay for the meal. He told me not to worry about that. He asked me to write down my name and address, and he said he would send me a bill (帐单).

When the writer couldn’t find his wallet, his first thought was that________

       A. it had been given to the taxi-driver        

       B. he had dropped it in the taxi

       C. he had lost his wallet again            

       D. it might be left at home 

The writer thought he must have the wallet with him because___________.

       A. he had paid the taxi-driver                        

       B. he had paid the bill of the meal

       C. the waiter had seen it on the table          

       D. the waiter was looking for it on the floor

Why do you think the writer turned and walked back to the table?

       A. He would phone the police about the missing of his wallet.

       B. He wondered if he had dropped his wallet while eating.

       C. The head of the restaurant wanted to know what was wrong.

       D. Several people were sitting at the table at that time.

The writer of the story is probably a _________.

A. doctor       B. cook     C. school teacher  D. newspaper reporter

句型训练：根据句子的意思 补全句子。（每空1分，满分10分）

In addition to the construction mentioned above, you have also learned the following phrases.

_______ ________ the construction mentioned above, you have also learned the following phrases.

How many countries does the UK consist of?

How many countries is the UK _________ _________ ________?

Do not make it public if I do not agree.

Do not make it public _________ I agree.

They refused to give in to the pressure.

They refused to _________ _______the pressure.

I realized the importance of my health only then.

Only then  _______ ________ realize the importance of my health.