第二节 完形填空 (共20小题, 满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第36至第55小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项       

It was raining. I went into a cafe and asked for a coffee.   36 I was waiting for my drink, I realized there were other people in the place, but I sensed 37  . I saw their bodies, but I couldn’t feel their souls  38   their souls belonged to the  39  .

    I stood up and walked between the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man 40  in front of it. “I’m Steve,” he finally answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. “I can’t talk with you. I’m 41,”he said. He was chatting online and, 42, he was playing a computer game—a war game. I was   43.

   Why didn’t Steve want to talk with me? I tried 44  to speak to that computer geek(怪人),   45      not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction(反应). I was 46  . I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout, “   47!”

   I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the cafe were looking at me. I  48  , and saw nobody showed any interest.

    49  , I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more 50   having a relationship with the  51  , particularly Steve. I wouldn’t want to 52  the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines 53  with people.

   I was worried and sank in my thoughts. I didn’t even  54  that the coffee was bad,   55   Steve didn’t notice there was a person next to him.

36. A. Before              B.While           C. Although                     D. Since 

37. A. pain                   B. fear           C. sadness                     D. loneliness  

38. A. until                      B. when                    C. because                    D. unless

39. A. Net                       B. world                        C. home                D. Café

40. A. sleeping                  B. laughing                C. sitting                      D. learning

41. A. tired                  B. thirsty                      C.    busy                      D. sick

42. A. at the same time  B. just then                   C. first of all          D. by that time

43. A. delighted            B. surprised                  C. moved                     D. frightened

44. A. again                  B. once                        C. first                         D. even

45. A. but                         B. so                            C. if                             D. or

46. A. excited            B. respected                  C. unhappy    D afraid              .

47. A. Shut up                 B. Enjoy yourself            C. Help me out      D. Leave me alone

48. A. walked about          B. raised my head   C. raised my hand D. walked out     

49. A. From then on         B. Above all            C. In all                D. At that moment

50. A. interested in      B. tired of                   C. careful about            D. troubled by

51. A. computer            B. soul                       C. shop                        D. geek

52.A. tell                      B. plan                       C. design               D. imagine

53.A. other than            B. instead of               C. except for                 D. as well as

54. A. pretend               B. understand              C. insist                        D. realize

55. A. as if                   B. just as                    C. just after                  D. even though

Adrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired，he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.

    Later on, Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn’t take care of a special needs student. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work every day because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace （节奏）was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn’t always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school. 

    The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06--- being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.

    But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother.” “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results.” She often said.

1. How did Adrian communicate with other children in the special school?

A. By speaking.                 B. By using sign language

C. By reading lips               D. By making loud noises

2. Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school because___________.

A. they wanted him to live a normal life    

B. they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong

C. he wouldn’t mix with other disabled children

D. he wasn’t taken good care of in the special school

3. How did Adrian finally succeed in his study?

A. He did a lot of outdoor activities.        

B. He was pushed hard to study every day.

C. He attended private classes after school.   

D. He worked very hard both in and after class

4. Why is Adrian’s life described as an “Amazing Race”?

A. He did very well in his study                    

B. He succeeded in entering a regular school

C. He reached his goals in spite of his disability  

D. He took part in the World Yacht Race 05/06

第二卷（非选择题，共35分）

第四部分

第一节：短文填空

Thirty years ago, the sales staff at department stores tended to look up to   

people who had a university degree.___ in another 30 years, getting a         76._______

university degree could just be one of many ____(形式) of education.       77. _______

According to a r_____ released by the Ministry of Education at the end of     78. _______

2006, there will be 30 million s______ in China in 2010.That is 5 million           79. _______

more than in 2008.Job pressures will still exist, or become ____ worse as    80. _______

the number of students ______(增加)。University will not be the only way    81. _______

for people to develop. A degree  will not always p____ students for the real   82. _______

world, but mastering certain _____(技能) can put food on their plate. So      83. _______

Universities might a _____ students to postpone their studies for one or two  84. _______

years to enter ___(社会) and attain experience.                           85. _______

---Of the two houses we saw today, which do you prefer?

   ---I think ____ white one is prettier, but ____ brick one has ___ bigger yard, so I like it better.

   A. a, the, a       B. the, the, a      C. the, a, the     D. the, the, 不填          

. Everybody was touched ______words after they heard her moving story.

A. beyond             B. within        C. of                            D .in

. ---Why do you say that the doctor is in a _______?

   ---Because he doesn’t know whether to tell the patient the truth or not.

A. procedure   B. dilemma     C. barrier       D. interval

. The ______ house is his.

 A. new-built        B. newly-built        C. new-building            D. newly-building

Recently I gave my adult students homework. It was “go to someone you love and tell them you love them.” It has to be someone you have never said those words to before or at least haven’t shared those words with for a long time.

It sounds like very tough homework since most of the men were over 35 and were raised in the generation of men that were taught expressing emotions is not “macho(阳刚之气).” Showing feelings or crying was just not done. So this was very threatening homework for some.

At the beginning of our next class, I asked if someone wanted to share what happened when they told someone they loved them. I fully expected one of the women to volunteer, as was usually the case, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand, quite moved and a bit shaken.

As he unfolded out of his chair (all 1.85 meters of him), he began by saying, “Dennis, I was quite angry with you last week when you gave us this homework. Why did you ask us to do something personal?”

“But as I began driving home my conscience(良心)started telling me that I knew exactly who I needed to say ‘I love you’ to.”

“Five years ago, my father and I had a severe disagreement and really never settled it since then. We avoided seeing each other unless we absolutely had to at Christmas or other family gatherings. But even then, we hardly spoke to each other.”

“So last Tuesday by the time I got home I had convinced myself I was going to tell my father I loved him. It’s strange, but just making that decision seemed to lift a heavy load off my chest.”

1The homework is threatening for some students because _________.

A. they are middle-aged people     B. they are not macho enough

C. they were taught to hide their emotions   D. they didn’t know how to show feelings

2From the passage we know that _________ .

A. the adult students have classes in the day time only

B. not all the adult students in the writer’s class are male

C. the man refused to meet his father after their quarrel

D. the man quickly decided to say “I love you” to his father

3The underlined phrase “unfolded out of his chair” in Para 4 is closest in meaning to______.

A. stood on his chair straight B. sat quietly in the chair

C. bent himself over his chair       D. raised himself slowly from the chair

4What does the man imply by saying the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A. He felt it too strange to say “I love you” to his father.

B. He felt relaxed just thinking of saying “I love you” to his father.

C. He felt very relaxed after saying “I love you” to his father.

D. He had to lift a heavy load off his chest before saying “I love you”.

. I have ____ Tony to stay away from computer games before he becomes addicted to them.

   A. urged    B. suggested   C. made    D. kept

第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

BRITISH newspapers are among the oldest and most famous in the world. But recently big changes have   36   these traditional publications try to  37  the modern world. After 216 years, The Times has halved its   38   to become much smaller. In fact, the paper has  39  its size in half from a broadsheet to tabloid（小型报纸）.

   In Britain the newspaper market is  40  between the larger broadsheets and the smaller tabloids. These terms  41  the size of the papers' pages but there is also a clear  42  in content. Broadsheets such as The Times, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph are  43  papers. They  44  a broad range of political, economic and international issues. Their stories are also  45  long and use quite formal language.

   Tabloids have  46  more stories about less serious issues such as celebrities' love lives. Their stories are shorter and use more  47  language. Tabloids often have bigger pictures. Britain's  48  newspaper, the Sun, is a tabloid and has a naked page on page three every day.

   By  49  to the size of a tabloid, The Times is following in the  50  of a less famous broadsheet paper, the Independent. It changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase  51 . Although both papers have   52   to the smaller size, the content of the papers has  53  the same. They are both still serious papers.

   The two papers  54  that people find the smaller size easier to  55  when they travel to work on the bus or the train in the morning. The times says its new size is "compact", not tabloid.

36. A. found                    B. known                 C. seen                    D. proved

37. A. match                     B. suit                      C. change                 D. fit

38. A. length                       B. thickness              C. width                          D. size

39. A. printed                  B. cut                         C. added                       D. enlarged

40. A. divided                   B. separated                  C. arranged                 D. marked

41. A. turn into                  B. think about               C. refer to                    D. connect with

42. A. meaning                   B. difference              C. mark                        D. sign

43. A. useful                        B. easy                      C. serious                   D. long

44. A. sell                         B. include                    C. take                        D. cover 

45. A. certainly               B. reasonably                      C. probably                 D. necessarily

46. A. a few                        B. little                        C. far                           D. any

47. A. difficult                         B. simple                  C. easy                        D. good

48. A. best-selling                B. good-looking            C. slow-moving            D. ugly-looking

49. A. going                     B. getting                    C. coming                    D. changing

50. A. footsteps                        B. way                     C. direction                  D. method

51. A. slowly                     B. usually                    C. little                     D. greatly

52. A. halved                     B. made                    C. changed                  D. cut

53. A. become                    B. remained               C. left                    D. found

54. A. agree                      B. hope                     C. expect                  D. insist

55. A. handle                       B. look                         C. see                           D. buy