第二节：语法填空

I have a friend who must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. He is forty years old, rather short and   11          (skin), and has a thin moustache and even thinner hair on his head. Since his vision is not perfect, he wears glasses:   12         are small, round and frameless.

He always walks sideways so  13    not to inconvenience anyone. Instead of saying “Excuse me”, he prefers to glide by one side.  14   the gap is so narrow that it will not allow him to pass, Luke waits patiently  15   the obstruction (障碍物) moves by itself. Stray dogs and cats panic him, and in order to avoid them, he constantly crosses from one side of the road to the   16     .

He speaks in   17     very thin, subtle voice, so inaudible that it is hard to tell if he is speaking at   18      . He has never interrupted anybody. On the other hand, he can never manage more than two words without   19       (interrupt). This does not seem to irritate him; in fact, he actually appears happy   20     (be) able to utter(发出) those two words.

What’s the matter with the radio? Why isn’t it _____?

A. broadcasting                       B. working

C. doing                             D. sounding

 “I’d like to buy an expensive camera.” “Well, we have several models ______.”

A. to pick up                          B. to pick

C. to choose                           D. to choose from

All plant cells are capable of taking up water. Even dead ones do to a certain degree. Absorption（吸收）of water by dead cell walls makes wood become larger. In common land plants, the living cells of roots take up most of the water. Land plants without roots do exist, however. Those greenish-yellow lichens（苔藓）you see on rocks in the high mountains have no roots. Half a billion years ago, when water plants started to enter the land, the first land plants did not have roots.

Even among the flowering plants, one finds rootless forms. These flowering plants are “the higher plants” because they evolved（进化）recently and are thus considered higher on the evolutionary scale（进化度）. In the Peruvian desert, there grows one of these rootless higher plants, a bromeliad. It is a relative of the pineapple. Even if this plant had roots, they would be of no use, because where the plant grows, it never rains. The plant gets its water only from the dew（露水）it collects at night, when its leaves cool off. Such rootless plants, of course, can be moved with ease, but they will only grow when they are placed out in the open. If they are placed too near a house, the radiation from the heat of the house prevents the leaves from cooling and so prevents dew from forming, and the plant dies. In the southern United States and in Puerto Rico, one sees bromeliads growing high above the streets on the insulation（绝缘物）of electric wires. These plants get their water from rain, and the only soil they ever come in contact with is the dust that may blow on their leaves.

1．Wood becomes larger because of    .

A．dead cell walls                                B．water entering dead cells

C．the growth of cells                           D．the death of cells

2．The “bromeliad” is a plant that   .

A．has useless roots                              B．is a pineapple

C．can grow anywhere                          D．takes up water through its leaves

3．The most suitable title for this passage is “    ”.

A．Absorption of water by plants               B．Rootless plants

C．Plants in the desert                               D．Higher plants

Introduction to Letters to Sam

Dear Reader,

     Please allow me to tell you something before you read this book. When my   36 , Sam, was born, my heart was filled with joy. I had been sitting in a wheelchair for 20 years before then, and I have been  37  ill many times. So I wondered if I would have the  38  to tell Sam what I had  39  .

     For years I have been hosting a program on the  40  and writing articles for a magazine.  Being  41 to move freely, I have learned to sit still and keep my heart  42 , exchanging thoughts with thousands of listeners and  43  . So when Sam was born, I  44  to tell him about school and friendship, romance and work, love and everything else. That’s how I started to write these  45 . I hope that Sam would  46  them sooner or later.

     However, that expectation  47  when Sam showed signs of autism (自闭症) at the age of two. He had actually stopped talking before the discovery of the signs. He  48  to communicate with others, even the family members. That was  49  for me but didn’t stop me writing on. I realized that I had even   50  now to tell him. I wanted him to  51  what it means to be “different” from others, and learn how to fight against the misfortune he’ll  52  as I myself, his grandfather, did. I just  53  if I could write all that I wanted to say in the rest of my life.

     Now,   54  the book has been published, I have been given the chance. Every chapter in the book is a letter to Sam: some about my life, and all about what it means to be a   55  .

                                                                  D aniel Gottlieb

36. A. son           B. nephew      C. brother       D. grandson

37. A. seriously      B. mentally     C. slightly      D. quietly

38. A. ability      B. time        C. courage      D. responsibility

39. A. written     B. suffered     C. observed    D. lost

40. A. radio        B. television   C. stage       D. bed

41. A. ready        B. unable     C. anxious      D. eager

42. A. warm       B. broken           C. closed     D. open

43. A. hosts        B. visitors       C. readers       D. reporters

44. A. began       B. stopped      C. forgot     D. decided

45. A. letters       B. emails     C. books      D. diaries

46. A. find          B. read        C. collect     D. keep

47. A. developed    B. disappeared       C. changed     D. arrived

48. A. tried         B. refused       C. regretted    D. hoped

49. A. exciting           B. acceptable  C. strange       D. heartbreaking

50. A. less          B. everything  C. more       D. nothing

51. A. understand   B. explain       C. believe       D. question

52. A. fear          B. face        C. know      D. cause

53. A. felt               B. guessed      C. saw         D. doubted

54. A. as          B. once       C. though           D. if

55. A. teacher     B. child       C. man        D. writer

第Ⅱ卷 （共35分）

第四部分  写作（共两节；满分35分）

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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：把多与的词用（／）划掉，在该行的右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行错一个词：在错词下划一（－），在该行的右边横线上写出改正后的词。

Dear Mr. Brown ,

I am writing to thank you with your kind help.           76_______

Before you came to teach us , I had not interest in        77_______

English .My pronunciation was terribly. I could              78_______

Only speak a few words. But one and half year later ,               79_______

I now think English fun to learn . I got a lot from your   80_______

encouraging words. I will always remember what you      81_______

said , “ If you try to , you can be No. 1 !” I hope you’ve         82_______

had pleasant journey home and will come to China        83_______

again sometimes in the future. I will write again          84_______

and send you the photos we take together .               85_______

                                               Yours sincerely ,

                                                     Li Min

 What the doctor really doubts is_____my mother will recover from the serious disease soon.

A. when          B. how        C. whether        D. why

．—Excuse me，Miss Smith．Could you tell me how to improve my spoken English?

—OK．The best way is to practice ________．

A．as soon as possible              B．as quickly as possible

C．as much as possible              D．as clear as possible

Not until then did I find it ________to do the job that way.

A. is easier　         B. easier           C. was more easily   D. more easily

Yesterday morning he got up earlier than________ , for it was not a（n）________day.

A. common; usual    B. usual; ordinary     C. usual; normal　D. common; ordinary