第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从26-45各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中，选出最佳选项。

Alone in the wheel of light at the dining room table, surrounded by an otherwise darkened house, I sat in tears

Finally, I'd   26   in getting both kids to bed．A relatively new single   27   , I had to be both Mommy and Daddy to my two little children．

A   28   divorced man with full custody （管理） of his children, I was   29   to give them as normal and stable a home life as possible．I   30   a happy face for them.

I had risen slowly, gingerly （活跃）, trying to   31   making even the least sound which might start them up again．   32   more songs and more stories．I tiptoed out of their room,   33  the door partway,

and went downstairs.

And loneliness．I felt as though I were at the   34   of a great sea of loneliness．It all came together and I was at once lost,   35   ．Unexpected, convulsive （突然） sobs overtook me．I sat there,   36   sobbing．

Just then, a pair of little ,   37    went around my middle and a little face peered up at me．I looked down into my five-year-old son's   38   face．

I was    39   to be seen crying by my son．"I'm sorry, Ethan, I didn't know you were still awake．" I don't know why it is, but so many people   40   when they cry and I was no exception．"I didn't mean to cry．I'm sorry．I'm just a little   41   tonight．"

"It's okay．Daddy．It's okay to cry, you're just   42   ．"

I can't express how happy he made me, this little boy, who in the wisdom of innocence, gave me   43   to cry．He seemed to be saying that I didn't have to always be   44   ．that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my   45   ．

Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night, too, Thank you, my son．

26．A．succeeded       B．managed C．failed       D．insisted

27．A．mother    B．worker     C．parent      D．stepfather

28．A．hopelessly       B．recently    C．carelessly        D．shyly

29．A．forced      B．obliged    C．persuaded        D．determined

30．A．put on     B．took on     C．put down  D．took in

31．A．escape      B．stop C．avoid       D．imagine

32．A．speaking out    B．asking for       C．making up       D．insisting on

33．A．locked     B．fixed       C．opened     D．closed

34．A．bottom    B．surface     C．middle     D．side

35．A．covered    B．frightened C．drowned D．disturbed

36．A．loudly     B．eagerly     C．slightly    D．silently

37．A．arms        B．legs   C．hands       D．eyes

38．A ．tearful    B．sympathetic      C．lovely       D．anxious

39．A．surprised  B．embarrassed    C．moved      D．discouraged

40．A．explain    B．complain C．apologize  D．pretend

41．A．worried   B．uneasy      C．tired  D．sad

42．A．a person   B．a male      C．an employee    D．a green hand

43．A．reason      B．limit  C．permission      D．understanding

44．A．experienced     B．strong      C．skilled     D．able

45．A．opinions   B．thoughts   C．words       D．feelings

—How do you like working here?

       —_______To be honest，I miss my former colleagues．

       A．I like it here           B．Not so good

       C．More than satisfactory     D．very much

     first time I met him in his office, he shook me by        hand warmly and then introduce himself to me.

       A．The;不填  B．The; The   C．The; a       D．A；不填

His mother hardly seemed to notice as the boy      go of her hand．

       A．let         B．made    C．had       D．got

 Only by reading more books　　　　improve your reading skills.

A. you can        B. can you           C. do you            D. you do

Our teachers always tell us to look forward _______ road signs while walking on the streets.

seeing       B. to seeing      C. to see          D. see

       Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore.

　　Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don’t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction.

　　Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn’t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself “what sort of meaning would make sense here?”

　　The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying.

　　1）Work out the general meaning first

　　When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing on every word, particularly those they don’t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces（the individual words）, but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the “bottom-up” approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture（the “top-down” approach）, attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners.

　　2）Interactive reading

　　Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don’t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated.

　　3）From supported reading to independent reading

　　Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself.

53. According to the author, ________.

A. looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding

B. reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary

       C. the more you read, the less useful the dictionary will be

       D. the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading

54. Successful learners recommend ________.

A. trying to look first at the big picture       B. looking carefully at each of the small pieces

C. focusing on every word           D. “bottom-up” approach

55. The word “chore” in the first paragraph maybe means ________.

A. an important aspect          B. a difficult and tiring thing

C. an easy question        D. something special

56. You come across a new or doubtful word when you are reading, you can ________.

A. just miss it and let it be            B. keep looking at the surrounding words

C. look it up in the dictionary each time      D. make sense of it with the help of dictionary

第一节：语音知识（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

voyager  A islander  B standard  C anxious  D palace

broaden  A overcoat  B broadcast  C goat   D throat

govern  A noble     B global   C beyond  D money

nowadays  A salesman B spokesman C months D thirsty

strengthen  A grandmother B anxiety C unable D branc[来源：]h

We will appreciate____ if your parents can help us.

A. /     B. that    C. it     D. this

Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory for making boot polish. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time as junior clerk in a lawyer’s office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament, for London newspapers. His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his comic novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.

He was a great observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity of the bourgeoisie.

Many of his novels like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and so on drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago.

Dickens criticized capitalist society from the point of view of bourgeois humanism. He wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.

46. Dickens only received a little formal education because______.

A. he wanted to teach himself

B. he wanted to work and made a lot of money

C. he was too poor to afford any more formal education

D. he wanted some working experiences to be a novelist

47. According to Dickens, the society at his time in England was________.

A. just                         B. poor                 C. comfortable             D. unsatisfying

48. Which of the following novel made Dickens the most popular writer at his time in England?

A. Oliver Twist                                                B. The Pickwick Papers

C. A Tale of Two Cities                                  D. Great Expectations

49. According to the passage, which of the following about Dickens is true?

A. He didn’t go to school at all.

B. He only wrote about poor people and showed deep sympathy for them.

C. He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old.

D. He found some effective ways to improve the living conditions of the poor.

50. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A. Dickens had a miserable childhood

B. Dickens tried many different jobs before he became a professional writer

C. Dickens wrote many novels but only some of them are popular

D. Dickens criticized capitalist society and helped to improve the living conditions of the poor