第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题l. 5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16-35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。

My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling  16 , but I always knew he was  17 . He never criticized us, but used  18  to bring out our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die. ” I  19  as a child I said something  20  about somebody, and my father said, “ 21  time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you. ” He explained that if I looked for the best  22  people, I would get the best  23 . From then on I’ve always tried to  24  the principle in my life and later in running my company.

Dad’s also always been very  25 . At 15, I started a magazine. It was  26  a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a  27 : stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

I decided to leave, and Dad tried to prevent me from my decision,  28  any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad  29  me to go into law. And I’ve  30  regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,  31  I didn’t pursue my  32 . You know what you want. Go fulfill it. ”

As  33  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national  34  for young people in the U. K. My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad  35  me.

16. A. biologist          B. manager           C. lawyer             D. gardener

17. A. strict              B. honest        C. special             D. learned

18. A. praise           B. courage     C. power       D. warmth

19. A. think             B. imagine            C. remember       D. guess

20. A. unnecessary       B. unkind       C. unimportant         D. unusual

21. A. Another                 B. Some         C. Any         D. Other

22. A. on                 B. in            C. at           D. about

23. A. in case                  B. by turns              C. by chance            D. in return

24. A. revise           B. set            C. review        D. follow

25. A. understanding      B. experienced      C. serious            D. demanding

26. A. taking up          B. making up         C. picking up          D. keeping up

27. A. suggestion         B. decision          C. notice              D. choice

28. A. and                B. as               C. even if            D. as if

29. A. helped                 B. allowed            C. persuaded             D. suggested

30. A. always                 B. never                C. seldom          D. almost

31. A. rather          B. but              C . for            D. therefore

32. A. promise                B. task            C. belief         D. dream

33. A. this                B. he           C. it          D. that

34. A. newspaper        B. magazine              C. program            D. project

35. A. controlled        B. comforted          C. reminded         D. Raised

C

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. He died in 2005 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. For sixty years, he created one dramatic work after another. Miller won many awards for his plays. Among them were a Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Prizes and Tony Awards. In 1984, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. honored him for his lifetime work in drama.

Arthur Miller grew up in New York. His father, Isidore Miller, made clothing and operated a store. But the father lost his money in the great economic depression in the 1930s. So Arthur worked at many jobs to earn money for college. Miller won an award for writing plays while at school.

Miller returned home to New York after completing his studies. In 1944, Arthur Miller’s first major play was performed on Broadway. It was called The Man Who Had All the Luck. However, the play did not bring him good luck. It had only four performances. But his second Broadway play, All My Sons, was a major success. It won several awards in 1947.

Miller ‘s great play, Death of a Salesman, opened on Broadway in 1949. He was thirty-three years old when he wrote it. The play tells the story of the failure of a salesman, Willy Loman. The action opens on the last day of Willy’s life. He has been dismissed from his jobs as a traveling salesman. He also recognizes that he has failed as a father. He kills himself before the play is over. Death of a Salesman had a big influence on the American public. Many people saw their own lives in Willy Loman, the victim of broken dreams. It has been translated into about thirty languages and performed around the world.

Arthur Miller once wrote that when he was young he imagined that with the possible exception of a doctor saving a life, “Writing a worthy play was the most important thing a human being could do.” Theater owners on Broadway agreed. On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theatres darkened for a minute in honor of him.

63. Miller began to show his talent in writing plays _______ .

A. in his teens                        B. when he was at school

C. after his marriage                   D. in New York

64. Which of the following is TRUE about Arthur Miller?

A. When he was young, Arthur Miller worked hard to be a doctor.         

B. The Man Who Had All the Luck brought Arthur Miller neither fame nor fortune.           

C. All My Sons was the first major work of Arthur Miller ever performed on Broadway.            D. The John F, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honored Arthur Miller for his great play, Death of a Salesman.

65. The play Death of a Salesman ________.

A. won several awards in 1947          B. made the public know Miller first    

C. is thought highly of                 D. made Miller rich  

66. Death of a Salesman’s success lies in that______.

   A. it has been translated into about thirty languages          

   B. it has been performed around the world

   C. although not all Americans are salesmen, most of them share Willy’s dream

   D. theater owners on Broadway respected Arthur Miller

第二节  短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误.对标题号的每一行做出判断:如无错误,在该行右边的横线上划(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:

此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意:原行没有错的不要改。   

If some one asks you how you can make you always           76.      

happy. Yu will perhaps find rather difficult to give him              77.      

a proper answer. Did you remember the old saying “No              78.      

human being can really happy who is not giving or trying      79.      

to give happiness to others”? If you will always think of         80.      

taking more from others and give them less, you won’t be      81.      

able to have happiness in your life even you are very rich.      82.      

Here’s an article for you. If each of you follow it, there             83.      

will be all end of many unhappy days of yours. S you should         84.      

learn to give up your own interests when necessarily to do so.    85.   

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