2．--- What are you up to now?

   --- I’m preparing for the interview__________tomorrow. After all, it is my first attempt.

       A．will be held     B．to be held C．being held D．Held

25．I’m afraid I’m not ____ to help with the show, for I am fully occupied with my own project．

       A．dependable          B．convenient          C．available            D．accessible 

28．You can ask him again if you like，but it won’t make any __________he will still say no．

       A．point                      B．use                         C．result                      D．Difference

31. The farmers wondered if vegetables bring in______crops.

   A. as many as     B. as good as     C. as much as     D. as well as   

第三节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分)

    阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(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。

I watched as my little brother was cahught in the act. He sat in the corner of the living room, a   21   in one hand and my father’s hymnbook(赞美诗集) in the other. Hearing my father coming, my brother  22    it slightly. He sensed that he had done something   23  . I saw  he had  24    my father’s new book and scribbled（乱写）on the first page in pen. Now,  25    at my father fearfully, we  26    waited for his punishment.My father    27   his book, looked at it, and then sat down without saying a word． He was a clergyman and the holder of several degrees. For him, books were knowledge, and yet, he    28   his children.Instead of  29  my brother, he sat down,   30   the pen from my brother’s hand and wrote in the book himself, “John’s work. 1959. aged three.”

The years and the books came and went. Our family   31  what all families go through. We   32  knew our parents loved us and that one   33  was the book by the piano. From time to time we   34  open it, look at the scribbles, read my father’s expression of love and feel   35  .

Now I know that through this   36  act my father taught us how every   37  in life has a positive side-if we are   38  to look at it from another angle. But he also taught us about what really matters in life:   39  ,not objects; tolerance, not judgment; love, no anger. Love is at the very   40  of a family.

When thinking about these, I smile and whisper, “Thank you, Dad. ”

21．A．toy    B．knife C．pen   D．cup

22．A．tore   B．covered    C．wiped       D．threw

23．A．wrong      B．important  C．helpful     D．great

24．A．borrowed  B．stolen      C．opened     D．read

25．A．glancing   B．staring      C．coming     D．laughing

26．A．all     B．either       C．both  D．each

27．A．picked up B．made up   C．put up      D．wrapped up

28．A．admired    B．needed      C．hated D．loved

29．A．punished   B．trusting     C．helping     D．praising

30．A．moved      B．took  C．brought    D．robbed

31．A．spent B．experimented   C．suffered    D．experienced

32．A．seldom     B．always      C．never D．sometimes

33．A．proof       B．result C．effect       D．impression

34．A．might       B．should      C．would       D．could

35．A．excited     B．encouraged      C．surprised   D．frightened

36．A．rapid B．sudden      C．hard  D．simple

37．A．event B．porblem    C．trouble     D．accident

38．A．forbidden B．chosen      C．prepared   D．forced

39．A．money      B．people      C．bilief D．spirit

40．A．corner     B．mouth      C．bottom     D．Heart

假如你叫小华，下面是你收到的你祖父从美国的来信。请你根据来信的内容写一封回信。（要求：100词左右。）

September 15,2005

Dear Xiaohua,

       I had a letter from your mother a few days ago ,but she didn’t give me much news about you . She said you went on an ecology summer camp. When I heard that you had seen a snake ,I was worried .I hope someone killed it ! I was sorry to hear that you had hurt your knee. How did that happen? I hope it is better now.

       I know your birthday is coming soon ,so I am enclosing（附上）a check for you .Write soon and tell me what you decide to do with the money .I want you to spend it on something nice.

       With lots of love,

                                   Yours，

                                   Grandpa

Dear Grandpa,

                            Yours,

                            Xiaohua

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.?

A. The Decade of Internet Revolution

B. The Era of National Misfortune

C. The Era of Misplaced Anxiety

D. The Decade of Great Feats

E. The Decade of Youth Heroism in Distress

F. The Decade of Great Imbalances

The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end. It’s become a sort of habit to give a representative name to each decade, so, once again, an effort is under way to find a term to fit the years from 2000 to 2009.

80. __________

That shouldn’t be too hard a job for us here in China. First, no country has seen economic growth in the last decade like this. The economy quadrupled, with almost double-digit annual growth, and GDP went from No.6 to No.3. It’s now only slight below that of Japan, and many are saying that it will only be another year or two before we have the world’s second largest economy. In addition, in 2008, China was host to the Olympics, possibly the best organized and hosted Games over, and that impressed the world and boosted Chinese confidence.

81. _________

The economy developed at a breakneck pace, and personal wealth mushroomed--- for many, anyway. Salaries multiplied, stock market investment and real estate were a bubble, then burst, then became a bubble again. China now has one of the largest collections of millionaires and billionaires in the world, and has helped keep the world’s luxury products industry from going under. Meanwhile, the earnings gap has widened in an unprecedented way. Millions are still living near the poverty line and the urban poor has become an obvious problem.

82. _________

Yet, how could we think of the changes without including the Internet? If one thing can be credited with making the most changes in people’s lives, it should be the World Wide Web. We learned to use e-mail, chatrooms, and BBS at the beginning of the decade, and, after witnessing one dotcom burst, it’s time for the second Internet entrepreneurial wave. This time, however, it’s in the form of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Kaixin, as well as video-sites like Youtube and Tudou.

83. __________

Oh, and who could forget the many misfortunes, and the tragedies, that befell China in the last 10 years: mining accidents that killed dozens at a time, a public health crisis like SARS, or the disastrous Wenchuan earthquake that destroyed towns and thousands of family. We seem to have a disproportionate share of tragic things happening here. At the same time, the Chinese, especially  younger ones, have shown an amazing ability to recover from these disasters and be stronger and more unified. Millions of young volunteers poured into Sichuan to offer their help, as they did in other emergencies.

84. ___________

The West has a generally darker view of this past decade. One of The New York Times articles in mid-November said that, in thinking about a name from the American point of view, it seems difficult to find the right expression for so much upheaval, change, and worry: the Y2K millennium bug, which never caused much damage and chaos, the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which were never found; and so on. The United State launched two wars after 9/11, but never realized that the real threat to American interests lay in its own economy and finances until the sub-prime crisis, erupted in 2007.

Others find it an almost impossible job to name the decade, saying it will take many years to name the 2000s because it will take many years to figure out what we feel that we lost during that period.

As Hubble is above the Earth’s atmosphere, which disturbs starlight, Hubble’s images are much sharper than ________ of other Earth-based telescope.  

A. one                       B. ones                              C. that           D. those

She didn’t recognize the man who hit her because she could only ______a dark shape moving towards her.

A. make out          B. turn out        C. set out            D. bring out

—How much of the foreign expert’s speech have you understood?

    —Next to nothing. I wish I _______ harder at English.

A. worked                         B. had worked            C. would work            D. were working