When a close friend dies, it often forces you to consider your own death. The more you have in common with the friend, the more his death will make you wonder about your own. Sometimes you will naturally say to yourself, "It could just as easily have been me." Such a death has a way of reminding us how fragile life is, and it may cause you to reassess（重新评价） the direction of your own life.

Jack's story is a good example. A successful businessman making a lot of money, Jack didn't spend as much time with his family as he wanted. His job required him to work long hours. But three years ago one of his best friends, a man who worked in the same office, had a heart attack. He died while celebrating his daughter's eighteenth birthday in a restaurant. He was only fifty years old.

Not long after his friend's death, Jack started to have a chest pain. Finally he had a good physical check-up. He received a clean bill of health. But the chest pain continued. He kept thinking of the death of his friend. Jack thought about how much his friend missed in life and he saw how hard it was for his friend's family to manage after he passed away.

Jack realized that he didn't want to end up his life that way. He talked his feelings over with his wife and children, and decided to change his way of life. The family moved to a small town where he started a simple life. Now he is running a small art gallery（画廊）. He is relaxed, and says he has never been so happy in his life, and he has got no more chest pain.

63. Your close friend's death is __________________ to you.

A. a warning           B. common            C. a direction of life     D. an example

64. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means "________________".

A. The doctor didn't write a word on his bill

B. The doctor didn't want Jack to pay for the bill

C. The doctor didn't find anything wrong with him

D. The doctor didn't want to treat his pain

65. His friend's death made Jack ________________.

A. lose much interest in life

B. realize that he missed the friend very much

C. doubt his way of life

D. ill for some time

66. While living in the small town Jack ________________.

A. earns less money    B. gets more time  K^S*5U.C#O%

C. has a happier life    D. does all these mentioned above

完成句子（10分）

1. When will the dinner be ready? I’m s________.

2. Many a________ will be given to the winners in the following music ceremony.

3. It’s important to keep the b_________ of nature.

4. There is a ________ to how much time we can spend on this project. （限制）

5. Columbus Day is ________ ______ _______ the arrival of Columbus in the New World. （纪念）

6. During the war this village was s_________ by the enemy and more than 200 people were killed.

7. He went to America in the 1980s and _______ _______ there.（定居）

8. There is only a s_____ damage to your bike, so you can repair it easily by yourself.

9. The police arrived there just ____ ______（及时） to stop the violence.

10. It is good _______（礼貌）to give your seat to an old man on the bus.

11. ______ ________ _____（小心） the busy traffic.

12. We are deeply i_______ with his fluent spoken English.  

13. The global financial crisis ______ ______（解释）the college students’ not finding jobs.

—Putting on a happy face not only helps us make friends but also makes us feel better.

—______.

One evening, I was with my friend Auguste Dupin at his house in Paris when he had a visit _____ Georges Godinot, head of the Paris Police.

There are other matters which I don’t propose to ______ at the moment.

—Your boss looks rather a kind person.

—But in fact he is cold and hard on us. You ______ believe it!

The cousins are alike in age, but _____ they are as different as day and night.

_____ Longyan you see today is quite _____ different city from what it was twenty years ago.

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

A man who shows no honour should expect ______ from a gentleman.

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