完型填空。（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，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.

Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to ___31___ a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to ___32___ the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.

I walked to the___33___ and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman ___34___ her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.

I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.

She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s __35____,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother __36____.”

“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an ___37___,and then asked,“could you drive ___38___ downtown?”

“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.

“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctot says I don’t have very long.”

I ___39____ reached over and__40____ the meter(计价器)

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, __41____ the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop __42____had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.

Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a __43____ building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.

__44____, she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”

We drove in silence to the address she had given me.

“___45___ do I owe you?”she asked.

“Nothing,”I said.

“You ___46___ make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other ___47_____.”I answered.

Almost without thinking. I __48____ and gave her a hug. She __49____ me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of __50____.”

A. call in        B. show around       C.pick up        D.bring back

A.discover       B.collect            C.send          D.offer

.A. window       B.room             C.taxi           D.door

A. in            B.of               C.about          D.on

A. nothing       B.worthless          C.unimportant    D.useless

A.treated        B.had               C.received       D.commanded

A.hand          B.hug              C.address        D.map

A. for           B.across            C.from          D.through

A. quickly        B.calmly           C.nervously      D.quietly

A. shut off        B.take out          C.put down       D.break down

A. including      B.concerning        C.containing      D.regarding

A. where         B.what             C.that            D.there

A. beautiful       B.normal           C.unusual         D.particular

A. At dawn       B.At night          C.At noon         D. At dusk

A. How many     B.Why             C.How much      D.Which

A.should         B.must             C.have to         D.would

A.people        B.travellers           C.customers       D.passengers

A.bent          B.rose               C. stood           D.turned

A.cared about    B.hold onto           C.gave in to        D.kept away from

A. pity          B.fun                C.joy             D.freedom

I’d like to buy a house—modern, comfortable and       , in a quiet neighborhood.

  A. in all         B. above all        C. after all        D. on average

You can’t see things clearly through a telescope unless it is correctly ________to your sight.                  

    A. Adjusted      B.  Examined      C.  Checked      D.  tested

I know “time is knowledge”, but I never seem to have enough of ____. So I am working hard to save them.

A. both       B. either    C. neither    D. none 

She spoke very confidently because she wanted to make a good _______ on her employer at the first time.

    A. influence    B. pressure C. impression   D. effect

I mean ________ aboard and nothing is going to stop me, though that means _______ my parents for a long time.

     A. going; leaving             B. going; to leave

C. to go; to leave             D. to go; leaving

--Could you please cut the price a little?

    --Er... _________ you buy more than ten.

    A. even if        B. so long as         C. in case           D. as soon as

语法填空（共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you get a ______( close) look you will notice one of them is blind.

   Instead of abandoning him, his owner has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in. And if you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell___( come) from ______ smaller horse. Attached to  ____ (it) halter is a small, copper-colored bell assisting the blind friend to follow him.

___you watch them, you'll find the horse with the bell always checking on the blind one, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to ____ the other one is, trusting he will not ________( lead ) astray. When the horse with the bell returns to the barn each evening, he will stop ______( frequent ) to look back, making sure that the _____ isn't too far behind to hear the bell.

   Life does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of our acquaintances; ____other times we are the guide horse, who helps others to find their way.

—Now, where is my key?

—     ! They are waiting for us at the school gate.

     A．Take it easy        B．Come on 

C．Take your time   D．Don’t worry

Jack took part in the speech contest and, ______ is more surprising, won the first place.

   A. that                B. what                 C. which           D. it