A small plane crashed into a hillside five miles east of the city, ________ all four people on board.

President Obama held talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing, ________ economic recovery, climate change and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I am a team leader in an insurance company. We are going through a lot of changes right now, which is  36  much stress for all of us.

A few weeks ago I was having a day so  37  that I even doubted if I had the ability to do this challenging work, and was about ready to change to a less stressful job  38  . Something happened that day to change my way of  39  and I am so appreciative of this young lady. I want to let her know that the small act  40  .

On the top of my cubicle (工作隔间) I have a small collection of lighthouses (灯塔) to let people know where I am sitting  41  my team members have to find me for emergencies.

That day I came into the office and was about to get the day  42  when Crystal came over. l asked if she needed anything. She said, "I  43  you something. " I looked at her with a  44  look and said, "Well, thank you, but why  45  you buy me anything?" I had never spoke to this young lady   _46  . She said, "Every day I stand up and look across the  47  and see your lighthouses. Then I feel I am not alone and I encourage myself that there are always  48  things in life. I saw this on the way to work and thought  49  would like it. I wish it would have the same  50  as your Lighthouses do. " In her hand she had a small globe with a Lighthouse and a ship on it. I gave her a hug and  51  her. I don't think she knows how much that small act of  52   changed my day: 1 remained  53  the rest of the day.

For anyone that reads this, I hope you remember, no matter what the  54   is, you could change

someone's day,  55  even his views on life.

36. A. preventing              B. reducing            C. causing            D. suffering

37. A. funny              B. nice               C. bad              D. dull

38. A. everywhere          B. elsewhere            C. anywhere          D. nowhere

39. A. working             B. behaving          C. speaking            D. thinking

40. A. broke my heart       B. touched my heart   C. lost my heart       D. tore my heart

41. A. in case                B. so that              C. as if              D. even though

42. A. ended                  B. started             C. changed            D. avoided

43. A. borrowed          B. lent               C. sold               D. bought

44. A. delighted               B. puzzled            C. thankful            D. worried

45. A. might              B. dare                C. could                      D. would

46. A. before              B. then                    C. since              D. after

47. A. dorm              B. office             C. ship               D. tower

48. A. bright             B. challenging        C. bad               D. stressful

49. A. colleagues          B. leaders            C. you                D. I

50. A. opinion            B. cause              C. expectation         D. effect

51. A. praised             B. thanked             C. scolded             D. refund

62. A. justice               B. courage             C. kindness             D. tolerance

53. A. careful             B. encouraged         C. tired                       D. alone

54. A. present               B. work               C. gesture             D. intention

55. A. so                 B. for                 C. or                  D. nor

The reading skills of young male students may improve more when huts are tutored (辅导) by women, a Canadian study shows, contradicting some school policies to hire male teachers to improve boys' literacy.

Herb Katz, an education professor at the University of Alberta, took 175 boys in the third and fourth grades, identified as struggling readers, and paired them with a research assistant who worked on their reading skills for 30 minutes a week over 10 weeks.

On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were guided by a male research assistant, the study found.

Katz said the study, published in the US journal Sex Roles, may cause educational policy - makers in countries such as Australia and Britain to rethink policies that call for more male teachers to be hired to provide role models for boys whose reading skills fall behind their peers (同龄人). "It tells us that the way governments respond with policy is perhaps a little too quick and a little too simple," Katz said." Boys and girls enter kindergarten with similar reading skills, Katz said, but by the end of the third grade, boys have lower reading scores than girls. The reasons behind that difference are not entirely clear. "I don't know that reading skills fade so much as teachers may not recognize what boys are doing," he said. "We don't really know a lot about boys, even in those early years."

The boys involved in the study attended 12 schools in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most were from downtown neighborhoods. About a third were native Canadians and 55 percent came from ethnic minority groups.

60. What's the purpose of this passage?

A. To encourage boys to do more reading.             B. To persuade schools to hire female teachers.

C. To advise good ways for reading skills.              D. To provide some information about a study.

61. The underlined word "contradicting" in the first paragraph probably means"_________".

A. finding out       B. going against        C. standing by         D. bringing about

62. Which of the following is TRUE about the boys taking part in the study?

A. They have difficulty in reading.           B. They take no interest in reading.

C. They come from different Canadian cities.   D. They have no female teachers at school.

63. It can be known from the passage that _________.

A. women must be better al teaching than men

B. girls do more reading than boys

C. male teachers are preferred to help reading- troubled boys in Australia

D. governments will change their policy on hiring teachers

The H1NI flu outbreak has resulted in the first death outside Mexico today -- a 23-month-old child in Texas.

Three more cases were confirmed in the UK, adding to the two previously disclosed in Scotland.

A 12-year-old girl is among five people in the UK to have contracted HIN1 flu after visiting Mexico, Gordon Brown told the Commons during prime minister's questions.

Two adults -- one from Birmingham and one from London -- are undergoing treatment.

More than 150 people are suspected to have died of the virus in Mexico and the illness has spread around the globe, but news of the first death outside the country where it originated will increase fears that a pandemic (流行病) could develop.

The infant's death from H1NI flu in the US was confirmed by Dr Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He gave no other details about the child.

America has confirmed 65 cases of HIN1 flu, most of them mild, but Besser said more deaths were likely.

"HIN1 Flu is a very serious infection and each virus is unique so it' s hard to know what we' re going to be seeing, but given what we've seen in Mexico we have expected that we would see more severe infections and we would see deaths," he said.

It was unclear if the girl had contracted the illness in Mexico, or been infected in the US.

Confirmation that infected people in two countries are spreading the new disease to their families or contacts n a sustained way would meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) criteria (标准) for declaring a phase five alert on its scale of one to six. It raised the level from three to four on Monday as the virus moved to Europe.

The WHO spokesman Gregory Hard told reporters yesterday, "If we have a confirmation from the United States or Canada, we could move to phase five."

64. How many cases of HINI flu are there in the UK?

A. One.              B. Two.                   C Three              D. Five.

65. According to Dr Richard Besser, why is it hard to predict what things will be like?

A. Because more than 150 people have died of the virus in Mexico.

B. Because H1 N1 flu is a very serious infection and each virus is unique.

C. Because the infections are severe and there will be more deaths.

D. Because the WHO has raised the alert level from three to four.

66. What's the main idea of the news?

A. More cases of H1NI flu were confirmed in the UK.

B. It's hard to deal with the HINI flu.

C. H1NI flu caused death outside Mexico.

D. "The WHO will raise the alert level.

Canada's economic wealth is closely linked to _______ of the US, which buys three-quarters of its exports.

The Haiti earthquake at the beginning of 2010 is believed _______ more than 100,0130 people and makes millions homeless, ______ it perhaps the most destroying earthquake in history.

. Exercise is ________ as any other to lose unwanted weight.

Li Yang, the founder of Crazy English, says that he copies it down _______ he comes to a sentence.

-- Director Wang, a man is waiting to see you outside, _______ he come in?

-- In a moment. I' m busy right now.