It's fine _____! What do you make of it? Picasso’s?

   A. job                     B. work                        C. book                        D. table

His cousin, who had just been _______ to Beijing University, was killed in a traffic accident.

   A. accepted             B. confessed                 C. recognized                D. admitted

Now more and more people prefer to have a _________ at home---a little dog, a cat or some other animals.

A. habit               B. hobby                  C. parrot                D. pet

Every child is _____ to it parents.

A. precious                        B. possible                  C. expensive               D. valuable

The general asked his men to push _____ so they might overtake the retreating (败退的) enemy troop.

   A. out                                   B. over                         C. on                           D. off

These books are ___ written for those who learn how to use computer. It's an ABC of computer learning.

   A. particularly                B. specially                   C. especially                 D. peculiarly

He_____ me 50 yuan and didn't return it to me until last night.

   A. owed                     B. lent                    C. paid                   D. borrowed

… you leave it at peace just as you found it. _______, animal will be disturbed.

A. However           B. Otherwise          C. Therefore          D. Then

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As darkness fell，hundreds of people in the Swiss village left their houses.  They were starting   36   at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with   37   beautiful and dangerous.

The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had  38  the top，using the southern route. But no one had ever dared to try a winter climbing up the 39 side. But now one man was daring to try the   40 route. He was Walter Bonatti，a great mountain climber from Italy.

For two days he had climbed. The village people had watched him   41 ．Now they were waiting to see his   42 ．If he planned to   43  the next day, he would light a green signal. A red light would mean that he was  44   .

A tiny green light   45   high on the mountain side. Bonatti was not giving up! The people   46  .

The next day he continued his way upward. He was so lonely and so  47  !But he would not give up. Again that night he lit the  48  light.

In the morning，Bonatti   49 ．He could not see the top，but he knew he was  50  there. Though the climb was painful，he moved up．

Bonatti had spent months  51   for the climb. Was the training enough? Did he have the strength and  5 2  to climb to the top？

He was finally at the top！News about his  53  was radioed to the world.

The trip  54  the southern route was easy. He was warmly welcomed in the village. He had done the “ 55  ”，and would be well remembered as a climber of all time.

36．A. back         B. forward                C. down          D. up

37．A. flowers          B. ice and snow   C. green trees             D. rocks

38．A. watched    B. passed          C. reached         D. climbed

39．A. western       B. eastern                C. southern      D. northern

40．A. difficult        B. different        C. same             D. easy

41．A. patiently     B. carefully        C. anxiously      D. eagerly

42．A. face        B. figure                   C. flag               D. signal

43．A. return  B. go on                  C. rest             D. stop

44．A. turning back      B. moving up    C. arriving         D. ill

45．A. rose             B. appeared             C. turned on           D. turned off

46．A. cheered      B. laughed                C. jumped            D. shouted

47．A. sleepy       B. excited         C. tired              D. happy

48．A. yellow      B. blue      C. green               D. red

49．A. woke up             B. turned up       C. got up              D. looked up

50．A. already          B. almost        C. no longer           D. surely

51．A. training        B. preparing     C. planning      D. asking

52．A. courage         B. skill            C. money            D. wish

53．A. victory            B. thing                   C. climb             D. courage

54．A. along     B. up         C. down         D. to

55．A. necessary    B. important    C. great          D. impossible

The First of May is a Bank Holiday—the first public holiday of the year in England. Most people consider it a special day, the beginning of summer, a day when the light lasts long into the evening, and when we can look for warm weather. We don't always get it. We feel disappointed, but not surprised if there are cold winds and frosts at night in May. Winter should be over. Most people know that in the past, when farming occupied almost everyone, the changing seasons were of great importance. In that older time there was every reason to celebrate May Day. Customs of those celebrations remain.?

Of these customs, the best known is the choosing of a May Queen and the dancing round Maypole. Even these customs are little more than memories now—but in the last century it was quite common in villages and small towns, and even in schools and colleges, for a pretty and popular girl to be chosen Queen of the May. It was a great honour to be chosen. For a day she wore a light and flowery dress, carried garlands（花环）, and was ceremonially crowned with flowers. She presided over a procession, as a rule with a number of attendants, and over the Maypole dancing and all kinds of entertainment. The Maypole was slender（苗条的w.w.^w.k.&s.5*u.c.#o） tree trunk, cut off its branches, with beautiful ribbons fastened to the top. The dancing was designed in such a way that the dancer's movements move the ribbons into a pattern. This, as you can imagine, required skill from the dancer, and was not achieved without practice.

It's the Celtic people who celebrated the First of May as a spring festival. Their celebration seems to have had little to do with taking pleasure in early, beautiful flowers and in warmer weather! They called it Beltane—the fire of the god Bel. They lit fires, in the expectation that their blaze would help the sun in its struggle to regain its strength. They drove their cattle between banks of flame in the expectation that the terrified beasts would be purified and protected from disease. A tree, which must have been blackened with smoke, stood in the middle of the fires, and is thought to have been the origin of the Maypole. Their priests（牧师 ） made sacrifices to the goods in the hope of good harvests and sufficient store of food for the winter. There was dancing certainly, but it was noisy and cheerful, since its purpose was not to weave a pattern of colored ribbons, but to drive out evil spirits from the earth and to arouse those kind spirits.?

57. The main purpose of the passage is to show ________.?

A. the reason why they celebrate May Day

B. the start and customs of May Day

C. the way they celebrate May Day

D. the choosing of a May Queen during May Day

58. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true??

A. In the old days they celebrated May Day for the changing of the seasons.?

B. In England summer begins at the first of May.?

C. The custom of the choosing of a May Queen still exists in the present May Day celebration.?D. The Celtic people celebrated the first of May as a spring festival.??

59. From the surrounding words and sentences we know that the word “presided” means ____.

A. 管理    B. 越过   C. 指挥   D. 主持?

60. The best title for this passage is ________.

A. The First of May      B. The Beginning of Summer

C. May Queen        D. The Holiday of the Year?