阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly . Take, for example, the neatly-dressed(穿戴整齐的) woman I to see — or look at — on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter  the weather was like, she was     waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime    out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.   , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how I expected to see her each morning. You might say I    her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had  her. I began to realize that part of our life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar : the milkman you see at dawn, the women who walks her dog along the street every  morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are    markers in our lives. They add weight to our of place and belonging.

Think about it. , while walking to work, we mark where we are by     a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though , person?

A. disappears              B. appears             C. arrives              D. comes

A. happened        B. wanted          C. used             D. tried

A. what           B. how             C. which        D. when

A. always                B. seldom           C. sometimes   D. often

A. sunny          B. rainy            C. cloudy      D. snowy

A. took            B. brought          C. carried      D. turned

A. Clearly           B. Particularly      C. Luckily             D. Especially

A. believed         B. expressed          C. remembered      D. wondered

A. long          B. often            C. soon                 D. much

A. respected   B. missed           C. praised           D. admired

A. better      B. worse           C. more                 D. less

A. forgotten             B. lost               C. known              D. hurt

A. happy        B. enjoyable    C. usual         D. daily

A. friends       B. strangers        C. tourists          D. guests

A. regularly   B. actually   C. hardly    D. probably

A. common     B. pleasant          C. important D. ordinary

A. choice       B. knowledge   C. decision     D. sense

A. Because           B. If                  C. Although        D. However

A. keeping              B. changing         C. passing     D. mentioning

A. unnamed              B. unforgettable     C. unbelievable      D. unreal

My favourite sport is football. I was a member of      76. ________

our school football team. We practise for three times   77. ________

every week and often watch football match on TV     78. ________

together. Play football not only makes us grow up     79. ________

tall and strong but also give us a sense of fair play     80. ________

and team spirit. We must keep in mind that we play    81. ________

for the team instead ourselves. Also, the sport teaches  82. ________

us the important of obedience. Each player must      83. ________

obey captain, who is the leader of the team.          84. ________

And they must not break the rules too often if we      85. ________

want to win the game.

James’s New Bicycle   ks5u

James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully __36__ the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90! __37__ on earth was he going to get the __38__ of the money?   ks5u

He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was __39__ to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no __40__ asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to __41__.   ks5u

There was only one way to get money, and that was to __42__ it. He would have to find a job. __43__ who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice, who usually had __44__ on most things.   ks5u

“Well, you can start right here,” said Mr. Clay. “My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing.”   ks5u

That was the __45__ of James’s odd-job（零工） business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was amazed by the __46__ of jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the __47__ of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the __48__ increased and he knew that he would soon have __49__ for the bicycle he longed for.   ks5u

The day __50__ came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He __51__ no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode __52__ home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard __53__ for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more __54__ he had bought it with his own money. He had __55__what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.   ks5u

●A 78-year-old grandmother whose education was cut short by the second world war celebrated an A-level with her 50-year-old daughter. Betty Allen and daughter Chris Branton of Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire, opened their results together on TV after completing the UK's only online English A-level course. Mrs Allen received a D and Ms Branton a C

●Actor Holly Grainger, 18, from East Didsbury, Manchester, achieved two As and two Bs. She is a regular face on television screens with roles in Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb and new legal drama New Street Law. She learned yesterday that she had landed a main part in a new school drama called Waterloo Road

●A teenage hockey star who hopes to play for England in the 2012 Olympic Games won three A-grades. Will Miles, 18, from Formby, Merseyside, who attends Merchant Taylors' school in Crosby, plans to study maths at Manchester University 

● Andrew Nowell, a student at Nottingham high school, got five grade As, including one of the top five marks in the country for his design and technology paper. He won the Young Engineers for Britain contest this year with an invention he produced for his Design and Technology A-Level - a "remote control and security interface system". He is off to Cambridge to study engineering .

● Jed McQueen Jones got A grades in chemistry, maths and physics, despite being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2003 and being hospital for three months. Jed, a pupil at Richard Huish College in Taunton, restarted A-levels in September 2004 and continued chemotherapy(化疗)into that Christmas. He is going to Exeter University on a science scholarship to study physics.

1. How did Betty Allen learn English and complete the course?

   A. On TV     B. On the Internet      C. By herself    D. Through her daughter

2. The underlined word “landed” in Paragraph Two means_______.

   A. moved down   B. arrive at   C. catch up     D. got successfully

3. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

   A. She and her daughter were invited to appear online to celebrate.

   B. Her daughter did worse than her in the English A-level course.

   C. They completed the English A-level course on the internet.

   D. Betty Allen’s education was stopped by the Second World War.

4. What really made Andrew Nowell prouder and more successful?

   A. getting five grade As.

   B. an invention.

   C. his study on engineering

   D. His job as an engineer

5. The best title of the passage is probably_________

   A. Super students and their achievements

   B. Super gifts account for great achievements

   C. Hard work results in success

   D. Star pupils and super students

 下面短文中共有10处语言错误，请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

      增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

      删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

      修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

      注意： 1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

             2．只允许修改10处，多者 （从第11处起） 不计分。

During the summer holidays this year, I thought I should do anything meaningful instead of staying at home, so I have got a job at a KFC fast food restaurant, worked there as a cleaner．I worked seven hours a day for three weeks．

The job was hard and bored and seemed endless, which made me so tired that I nearly gave it in half way, but I stuck to it with determinations．Every day I started off for work early in the morning and got home lately in the evening．Finally I finished the job before the new term begins．

Now, I understand that labor means．I think it is really successful experience．