PART TWO  LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
SECTION A (15分)
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
21. People always hate betting on football.  ______ to our joy, however, our legal authority took action at length.
A．Ever       B．Little  C．Much    D．Even

 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

I grew up in a community called Estepona. I was 16 when one morning, Dad told me I could drive him into a __16___ village called Mijas, on condition that I took the car in to be ___17___ at a nearby garage. I readily accepted. I drove Dad into Mijas, and ___18___ to pick him up at 4 pm, then dropped off the car at the __19___. With several hours to spare, I went to a theater. ___20___, when the last movie finished, it was six. I was two hours late!

  I knew Dad would be angry if he ___21___ I'd been watching movies. So I decided not to tell him the truth. When I ___22___ there I apologized for being late, and told him I'd __23___ as quickly as I could, but that the car had needed some major repairs. I'll never forget the ___24___ he gave me. "I'm disappointed you ___25___ you have to lie to me, Jason. " Dad looked at me again. "When you didn't ___26___, I called the garage to ask if there were any ___27___, and they told me you hadn't yet picked up the car." I felt __28___ as I weakly told him the real reason. A ___29___ passed through Dad as he listened attentively. "I'm angry with ___30___. I realize I've failed as a father. I'm going to walk home now and think seriously about ___31___ I've gone wrong all these years." "But Dad, it's 18 miles!" My protests and apologies were ___32__. Dad walked home that day. I drove behind him, ___33___ him all the way, but he walked silently.

 Seeing Dad in so much ___34___ and emotional pain was my most painful experience. However, it was ___35___ the most successful lesson. I have never lied since.

16.  A. lonely                   B. small         C. distant            D. familiar           

17.  A. kept                    B. washed       C. watched        D. serviced           

18.  A. agreed              B. planned       C. determined      D. promised         

19.  A. village                    B. community    C. garage            D. theater          

20,  A. However                 B. Then           C. Therefore       D. Still               

21.  A. realized                   B. found out        C. thought            D. figured out         

22.  A. went                     B. ran             C. walked          D. hurried            

23.  A. started                 B. left             C. arrived           D. come             

24.  A. word                    B. face          C. look              D. appearance       

25   A. find                      B. decide           C. believe            D. feel               

26.  A. turn up                    B. drive out          C. go away          D. come out                    

27.  A. questions              B. problems        C. mistakes       D. faults             

28.  A. ashamed           B. frightened       C. nervous         D. surprised                    

29   A. nervousness         B. sadness        C. silence          D. thought           

30   A. you                       B. myself           C. me              D. yourself            

31   A. where               B. how                       C. why             D. when             

32   A. meaningless                B. useless          C. helpless          D. worthless          

33   A. asking           B. persuading          C. begging            D. following 

34   A. physical          B. practical      C. personal              D. natural                     

35   .A  indeed            B. always          C. also             D. almost  

We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store. 11  we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than  12  and making a sale.

One lesson stands out in my  13 . It was shortly before Christmas. I was in eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was  14  a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed （磨破）and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me — too poor to   15  to buy anything. He looked   16  the toy section, picked up this item and   17 , and carefully put them   18  in their place.

Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes   19  and the dimple（酒窝）in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas _20____ to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his   21  and look around. He did.

After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy   22 , walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”

“How much you got?” Dad asked.

The little boy held out his hand and  23  it. His hand was creased(起皱) with   24  lines of dirt from holding his  25  too tightly. In his hand  26  two dimes, a nickel and two pennies—27 cents. The price on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98.

“That’ll just  27  it,” Dad said as he   28  the sale. Dad’s reply still   29  in my ears. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a happy child with a   30 .

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。

I hired a carpenter to help me restore an old farmhouse. After he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a   16   tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw   17   and now his ancient pickup truck refused to   18  . While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence.   19  arriving, he invited me in to meet his family.

As we walked toward the front door, he paused  20   at a small tree, touching tips of the  21   with his hands.

When opening the door, he   22   an amusing transformation. His brown face was covered with   23   and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

After leaving the  24   family, I passed the tree and my curiosity got the   25   of me. I asked him, who   26   me to the car, “Before we went in,  27   did you stop by the tree earlier”

“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied, “I know I can’t help having  28   on the job and in my life, but those troubles don’t   29   in the house with my wife and children. I know I can control one thing for 30  . I can hang them up on the tree every night  31   I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again before I  32   for work.”

“ 33   thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren’t nearly as  34   as I remember  35   up the night before.”

16．A．broken     B．terrible     C．flat    D．fantastic

17．A．quit   B．deleted     C．declined    D．reduced

18．A．ride   B．increase    C．perform    D．start

19．A．Before      B．On    C．Immediately     D．Directly

20．A．shortly     B．briefly      C．quietly      D．straight

21．A．trucks       B．leaves       C．branches   D．shoots

22．A．went by    B．went over C．went off   D．went through

23．A．smiles      B．sorrow      C．confidence       D．doubts

24．A．happy       B．large C．complex   D．modern

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

26．A．drove       B．sent   C．instructed  D．walked

27．A．how  B．who  C．why  D．where

28．A．matters     B．troubles    C．questions  D．worries

29．A．belong      B．insert C．include     D．provide

30．A．instance    B．ages  C．purpose    D．sure

31．A．when B．since C．because     D．if

32．A．ask    B．come C．leave D．look

33．A．Frightful  B．Funny      C．Strange     D．Accessible

34．A．much       B．few   C．little  D．many

35．A．picking     B．holding     C．hanging    D．giving

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  1  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would  2  his taxi on the road. I  3  why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  4  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  5  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6  .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7  to be outside one evening two weeks  8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely  10  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  12  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  13  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）14.

We go to bed every night and  15  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  18  the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  19  we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  20 we are than what we do!

1.                A．window        B．garage          C．door D．yard

2.                A．park           B．stop           C．check    D．repair

3.                A．knew          B．understood      C．asked    D．wondered

4.                A．for            B．out of          C．without   D．from

5.                A．business        B．national         C．personal  D．public

6.                A．wasteful        B．useful          C．wonderful D．plentiful

7.                A．appeared       B．intended        C．expected D．happened

8.                A．later           B．more           C．ago  D．before

9.                A．broken         B．fine            C．shut D．open

10.               A．once          B．before         C．when D．until

11.               A．far            B．deep          C．long  D．little

12.               A．driver          B．engineer       C．father D．son

13.               A．called          B．made          C．elected   D．turned

14.               A．experience     B．earning         C．life   D．position

15.               A．stay up         B．wake up        C．stay home D．go home

16.               A．competition     B．performance    C．debate    D．party

17.               A．family          B．company       C．team D．whole

18.               A．build          B．climb          C．stand D．lay

19.               A．garden         B．garage         C．car   D．taxi

20.               A．who           B．what           C．which D．where