第二节：完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living room, my 12-year-old son looked ___36__ at me and said, “I love you.” I didn’t know what to say.__37__several seconds all I could do was to stand there and __38__ down at him. My first thought was that he must need _39_ with his homework or he was trying _40__me for some news. Finally I asked ,“What was that all about ?”

“Nothing.” he said . “My teacher said we should __41___ our parents that we love them and see what they say. It’s a(n)___42__.”

The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had__43__.

“Basically, most of the fathers had the ___44___reaction as you did ,”the teacher said. “When I first __45___we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.” “The __46___ is,” the teacher explained. “feeling lover is an important part of __47___.It’s something all human beings_48__.What I’m trying to tell the children is that it’s too__49___that we don’t all express those feelings. A boy should be __50____to tell his dad that he loves him.”

The teacher, a middle-aged man ,understands how__51___it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.

When my son came to me that evening , I held on to him for ___52__second. And just___53___he pulled away , I said in my deepest , most manly voice , “Hey, I love you , too.”

I don’t know if saying that made either of us healthier , but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time if my child says “ I love you”, it would not take me a whole__54___to think of the right___55__.

36. A. down  B. away  C. out   D. up

37. A. After   B. For   C. At    D.On

38. A. glance   B. glare   C.stare   D. watch

39. A. patience  B. time  C. help  D. paper

40. A. report   B. prepare   C. answer   D. apologize

41. A. help     B. tell    C. ask     D. make

42. A. thing    B.experiment   C. word   D. sentence

43. A. said     B. reacted     C. done    D. explained

44. A. same    B. different     C. usual    D. ordinary

45. A. suggested   B. agreed     C. allowed    D. planned

46. A. point    B. idea    C. way    D. cause

47. A. body    B. health   C. life   D. study

48. A. have    B. know    C. take   D. require

49. A. bad     B. good     C. late   D. early

50. A . fit    B. ready    C. nice   D. able

51. A. easy     B. much    C. often   D. difficult

52. A. a more    B. a full    C. an exact    D. an extra

53. A. before    B. after    C. because    D. if

54. A. day      B. week     C. afternoon   D. night

55. A. answer    B. key    C. reason     D. experiment

What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes — the list goes on and on 

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade (升级) and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill, and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great crashes of the late 1990s, ebay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet 

Ebay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business.  The world is your market place. Of course for each item, eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.

We learn from the text that eBay provides people with _________.

A. a way of buying and selling goods 

B. a place to show their own photos

C. a website for them to upgrade

D. a chance to buy things at low prices 

Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university? 

A. For fun                              B. To make money 

C. For gathering the engineers              D. To fulfill a task of his company 

From “he has never looked back” in Paragraph 2 we learn that Peter _________.

A. did not feel lonely                     B. was always hopeful 

C. did not think about the past              D. became more and more successful 

How does eBay make money from its website? 

A. By bringing sellers together.             B. By charging for each sale 

C. By listing items online               D. By making e-photos.  

单词拼写

62. To be h____________, you have made some mistakes in your report.

63. Musicians like to play to p____________ in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves.

64. The photo r_____________ me of the days I spent on the far-away farm.

65. It is o____________ that a healthy diet does us a lot of good.

66. Festivals such as Obon and Halloween are held in m____________ of the dead.

67. You’d better a____________ to your mother for your rudeness.

68. At weekends, fast food restaurants like KFC are full of c____________.

69. Riding a bike helps develop a child’s sense of b____________.

— Manager, I’d like to take a week’s holiday.

— ________. We’re too busy nowadays, you know.

A. Don’t worry B. Forget it C. That’s all right  D. Pardon me

—Shall we go out for   ______  meal this evening?

    —Yes，that’s   _____   good idea．

 A．a：a    B．a；the    C．the；a  D．the；the

    To meet the challenge, the young people preferred          heavier work to do in their      spare time.

     A. to have given     B. to be giving            C. having give      D. to be given

Mark Twain, like you know, was famous in his days as the public speaker. He always liked to

play joke on his friends. One day, the one of his friends lost their wallet and asked him to buy a

 train ticket for him. “But I don’t have enough money to pay both your ticket and mine,” Mark

 Twain said. The friend didn’t know what to do. “Let’s do this, “ Mark Twain saying, “You can

 get off the train and when the conductor comes to check the ticket you can hide under my seat.”

 Later, however, when the conductor comes to check the ticket, Mark Twain gave him two

tickets-----one for him and the other for his friend.

It was___he said___disappointed me.?

A.what, that        B.that, that?        C.what, what        D.that, what

摘录信息 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

    阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第53至第57小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语，并将答案转写到答题卡上。

    注意：每空不超过3个单词。

Some beach creatures are wonderful -- like dolphins, but others are dangerous. Here are some examples of harmful beach creatures.

Puffer Fish

Puffer Fish, found in all Japanese seas, have very interesting features. They are very easy to catch but must not be eaten because their flesh and organs contain a poison. Anyone who does eat the flesh can become sick very quickly. They may even stop breathing.

The Blue Bottle

The Blue Bottle is found in most Caribbean waters. Blue Bottles float lightly on the surface of the water but their tentacles (触须) can be as long as 10 metres. Blue Bottles are much less dangerous than some other jellyfish but they can give a swimmer a bad sting (刺) if the swimmer accidentally touches them.

Stingrays

There are many different kinds of stingrays in Mauritius waters. They usually swim and feed on the bottom of the sea. Accidents can happen if people stand on them or try to pick them up. Stingrays have a sting on their tail. These stings have poison on them. If someone is stung the wound can easily become infected.

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62. His account of the accident was different from that of another w______.