___________ by parents does great harm to the kid’s mental health.

----How often do you visit your grandma in the village?

----I feel ashamed.______________.

The popular American film Avatar, set in 2154, ______ place on a planet called Pandora.

From Legal Today, a girl of four fell from an 8-story-building dead while she___at her house.

It was lack of effort, not of money, _____resulted in their failure.

I asked the gardener to _________all those bushes and plant flowers instead.

--Recent years have______rapid changes of my hometown.

--Yes, I could hardly recognize it when I arrived yesterday,

She got up, _______ herself in a hurry and then went downstairs for breakfast.

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36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

As the drought（干旱） continued to seem to be endless, a small community of mid-west farmers were wondering what to do next. The rain was important not only to keep their crops     36    , but to support the townspeople's way of     37    . Since the problem needed immediate    38    , the local church felt it was time to call a prayer meeting to ask for    39   .

In what seemed an unclear remembrance（纪念） of a Native American   40    , the people began to arrive. After they were all    41    , the pastor（牧师）on his arrival watched as the townspeople continued to arrive. He slowly    42     his way to the front to officially    43    the meeting.

Everyone was taking the opportunity to     44    with close friends. When the pastor     45     the front, his thoughts were on quieting those     46     and starting the meeting.

47    he began to ask for quiet, his eyes    48     through the crowd and he took     49     of an eleven year-old girl sitting in the front row.

Her face was shining     50     excitement and she     51     sat in her place. Next to her, was a bright red umbrella,    52     for use. The beauty and innocence（纯真） of the girl made the pastor smile as he     53     the faith she had. No one     54     at the meeting had brought a/an     55    .

They had all come to pray for rain, but she had come expecting God to answer with the needed rain.       

36.A. wealthy     B. healthy          C. powerful      D. necessary

37.A. work        B. entertainment     C. stay          D. life

38.A. attention          B. solution         C. fiction        D. conservation

39.A. rain          B. help           C. money             D. advice

41.A. covered     B. crowded        C. occupied      D. seated

42.A. found       B. struggled       C. felt           D. made

43.A. end              B. close          C. begin        D. hold

44.A. talk              B. tell            C. say           D. drink

45.A. arrived     B. reached         C. got           D. hurried

46.A. possible     B. patient              C. pure          D. present

47.A. As         B. Until          C. Though        D. Unless

48.A. got         B. went          C. looked             D. saw

49.A. hold         B. sight          C. notice        D. glance

50.A. for         B. with           C. by            D. at

51.A. quietly     B. calmly              C. anxiously     D. worriedly

52.A. eager        B. ready         C. curious         D. awful

53.A. recognized    B. promised       C. realized        D. allowed

54.A. even         B. else            C. still          D. also

55.A. apron       B. raincoat         C. record        D. umbrella

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

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 were you to tell me to do something that 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.”

56.The 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

57.From 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

58.The 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

59.What 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”.

60. .Which do you think can be the best title of the passage?

A. Special homework for adults.             B. Saying “I love you” is not mancho.

C. Disagreement between father and son .     D. It is easy for adults to express their love.