完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

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的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Around the end of my stay in Yellowknife, I had a chance to ride in a dogsled (狗拉雪橇). I went to   36    a man who had   37    dogsled tournaments more than four times. In his house, there were lots of awards on the shelves. I had a girl take my picture in    38   of the awards.

     Finally, the time came to take a    39    in a dogsled. The instructor asked me time and time again if the clothes I was    40   were warm enough. Because it wasn’t so   41    outside, I thought I was wearing    42    .

     However, my thinking   43    right after the 12 dogs started to    44    the sled on the frozen lake. It was freezing! I don’t know how fast they were running, but I lost all    45    in my hands and feet. Sometimes the snow which the dogs    46    up hit me.

     After my ride in the dogsled, I went to see an igloo (圆顶建筑),which is a house    47    snow. There I had a    48    to hear the stories about Eskimos(爱斯基摩人).

     Of course, as a person from Japan, I couldn’t    49    what they were talking about.  50   , there was a(n)   51    beside me, so he translated everything the Eskimo was saying. Then the Eskimo kindly    52    me some of the tools that they used. I had    53    seen such strange things before.

     He talked about the    54    he needed to learn while traveling in the Arctic, such as how to make an igloo, how to make water from ice, and how to hunt using their inventions. I    55    that I didn’t take pictures of their tools because I didn’t have my camera at that time.

36. A. instruct         B. invite            C. take            D. visit

37. A. beaten            B. won                    C. received        D. defeated

38. A. front            B. need                 C. honor          D. celebration

39. A. drive            B. look                     C. ride             D. tour

40. A. buying         B. wearing            C. choosing      D. borrowing

41. A. cool             B. warm               C. cold             D. hot

42. A. enough        B. obviously          C. comfortably    D. fully

43. A. gathered        B. reminded           C. remained      D. changed

44. A. push           B. pull                C. drive           D. carry

45. A. blood                 B. temperature        C. feeling        D. movement

46. A. kicked           B. picked             C. turned          D. made

47. A. covered with    B. decorated with      C. made of       D. filled with

48. A. chance           B. time                C. moment        D. message

49. A. hear             B. understand           C. realize        D. admire

50. A. Therefore      B. Otherwise         C. However       D. Besides

51. A. villager        B. teacher              C. instructor          D. translator

52. A. lent             B. showed                C. sold              D. gave

53. A. ever             B. also                      C. usually            D. never

54. A. skills          B. materials           C. experiments    D. conditions

55. A. think          B. consider               C. regret           D. infer

    Luggage

    We ask you to keep a medium-sized suitcase per person, but a small holdall(手提箱) can also be taken onto the coach

    Seats

    Requests for particular seats can be made on most coach breaks(巴士旅游)when booking, but since seats are booked on a front come, first serve basic，early booking is advisable．When bookings are made with us，you will be offered the best seats that are available on the coach at that time．

    Travel Documents

    When you have paid your deposit(订金), we will send you all the necessary documents, so that you receive them in good time before the coach break leaving date Certain documents，for example，air or boat tickets, may have to be reserved保存 and your guide will then give them to you during the break．

    Special Diets

    If you require a special diet，you must inform us at the time of booking with a copy of the diet. This will be told to the hotels on your coach break. The hotels for certain coach breaks are tourist class and they may not have the equipment to deal with special diets. Any extra costs must be paid by yourself before leaving the hotel．

    Accommodation(住宿)

    On any coach break there are only a limited number of single rooms．When a single room is available，it may be subject to an extra charge and this will be shown on the brochure(小册子) page．

    Entertainment

    Some of our hotels arrange extra entertainment which could include music，dancing，films, etc. The nature and frequency (频率)of the entertainment presented is decided by the hotel and therefore not guaranteed and could be withdrawn (撤销)if there is a lack of demand or insufficient不足的 numbers in the hotel．

57. If you want to choose certain seats of the coach, you should         

    A. take little luggage                  B. avoid traveling in holidays

    C. book your seats web in advance       D. arrive early on the leaving date

58. What should you do if you need a special diet?

    A. Bring your own food with you．     B. Tell the organizer while booking．

    C. Inform the hotel when you arrive．   D. Pay extra money with the booking．

59. It may be necessary to pay extra for           ．

    A. single rooms       B. particular seats     C. entertainment   D. hand luggage

60. Where is the passage mostly taken from?

    A. A fashion magazine．            B. A business report．

    C. A legal document．              D. A travel brochure．

----I’d like to take a week’s holiday.

----______; we are too busy.

A. Don’t worry   B. Forget it               C. Don’t mention it     D. Pardon me

When I was a boy,  every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. In those days the sun seemed to shine always brightly   31   the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country,   32   ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were   33   in one’s pockets or good places where one could   34   ice creams. Each day seemed a lifetime.

Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good   35   is much the same as it was. I   36   like the sun and warm sand and the sound of waves beating the rocks. I no longer wish to   37   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   38  , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.

Sometimes I   39   what my ideal holiday will be like when I am old. All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about   40   who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves sick of too many ice creams.

31. A. and              B. yet                     C. but             D. or

32. A. exploring         B. examining        C. repairing      D. measuring

33. A. sweets           B. sand            C. ice-creams      D. money

34. A. make            B. sell               C. buy             D. offer

35. A. house           B. holiday          C. garden          D. tide

36. A. hardly           B. almost            C. still             D. perhaps

37. A. destroy           B. fix               C. use             D. build

38. A. But             B. However         C. Otherwise       D. Besides

39. A. wonder        B. feel                C. understand      D. believe

40. A. children         B. boys               C. girls            D. grown-ups

．—There is likely to be heavy rain tomorrow.

—_______, we’ll have to change the plan for the outgoing.

A．If so          B．If not                      C．Unless so           D．Unless not

. It’s not considerate (体贴人的)  ________ you to take __________ of the little boy.

A. for; advantage         B. of; advantage          C. for; use     D. of; use

— I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have been so rude to you.

　　— You________ your temper but that’s OK.

　　A. have lost　　　　　　　　　　　B. had lost

　　C. did lose　　　　　　　　　　　 D. were losing

I can’t ____ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.

A. draw out   B. look out      figure out    D. carry out

Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child .Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.

1. Before children start speaking________________.

A. they need equal amount of listening         

B. they need different amounts of listening

C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

D. they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions

2. Children who start speaking late ________________.

A. may have problems with their listening

B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

C. usually pay close attention to what they hear

D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly

3. A baby’s first noises are ________________.

A. an expression of his moods and feelings　　

B. an early form of language

C. a sign that he means to tell you something　　

D. an imitation of the speech of adults

4. The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered

as speech________________.

A. is important because words have different meanings for different people

B. is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

C. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

D. is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because children’s use of words is often meaningless

5 The speaker implies________________.

A. parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

D. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

III. 完形填空（Cloze）(共15小题，计15分)

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框内选择适当的单词或短语填空。方框内有多余的词或短语，每个词或短语限用一次。（答案写在答题纸上）