单词拼写（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

76. Diana is a _________ (体贴的) boss who is always willing to listen.

77. The great flood ________ (淹没) many houses.

78. He was ________ (选举) chairman of the meeting.

79. She ________ (值得) a reward for her efforts.

80. She was still________ (烦恼) about the argument she had had with Mary.

81. At night they crossed the river and took p_______ of the village.

82. He was a_______ as chairman of the committee.

83. He is old but he is as i_______ as a baby.

84. Do you have much f_______ fishing by the river?

85. The speech l_______ an hour and as a result, I felt bored and tired.

My brother is really _____. He often works in his office far into the night.

A. open-minded   B. hard-working  C. self-confident  D. warm-hearted

25．Can you explain ____ most deserts are located near the west coast of the continents?

       A．why is it that            B．why it is that           

       C．how it is that            D．how is it that

Researchers _______ to develop vaccines and this will probably take several months to complete.

A. are working               B. worked                    C. will work              D. has worked

34．______ the danger, the man jumped into the flooding river, struggling towards the drowning boy．

       A．Regardless of           B．Instead of       

      C．But for                 D．Except for

Persons under18      not be employed in night work in the United States.

A. can        B. may          C. will           D. shall  

He told me how he had given me shelter and protection without which I ______of hunger.

A. would die              B. would have died   

C. had died                D. died

For environmental reasons，we             as well take these waste products and have them recycled.

    A．shou1d                          B．would                            C. might                     D．could

  完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Dear son,

The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.

If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I   36   teaching it to you. If, when I speak to you, I   37   the same things thousand and one times, do not   38   me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story   39   you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a   40  , neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I   41  , in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my   42   little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking(嘲弄) smile. I taught you   43   to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life…. When at some moment I lose the memory or the   44   of our conversation, let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous, as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you   45   to me.

If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well   46   I need to and when not. When my   47   legs do not allow me to walk, give me your   48  , the same way I did when you gave your first   49  . And when someday I say to you that I do not want to   50   any more ---- that I want to rest forever, do not get angry. Someday you will understand.

Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that,  51   my mistakes, I always wanted the   52   thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent(无可奈何) for seeing me   53   you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you   54   living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and   55  . I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.

I love you, Son.

Your father

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.” Theaterk#s^5*u 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