She felt ______ about wearing the improper garment in the party.

A. embarrassing    B. embarrass    C. to embarrass    D. embarrassed

---What’s the matter with Christine?

---A letter from her parents in California_____an attack of home sickness.

A. took off    B. set off      C. gave off    D. sent off

She ______his number in the phone book to check that she had got it right.

A. looked up       B. looked after            C. picked out              D. picked up

There _____ be a shortage of water in Yunnan? I wonder. You know it is in the southwest of China where there used to be adequate rain .

    A could               B  must             C  can               D should

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably（不可避免地）brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses. “I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,” she said. “Never.” “When I set one of my books in Scotland,” she said, “I can recall my romantic（浪漫的）feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”

46. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

B. It should not be attractive to young readers.

C. It should be based on original ideas.

D. It should not include too much conversation.

47. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

A. Being poor in life experience.          B. Being short of writing skills.

C. The weakness of description.      D. The absence of a story.

48. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

A. She didn't expect to become a writer.

B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

C. She didn't have any particular ambitions.

D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

49. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

第二节：短文改错（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾（√），如果有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

  My birthday is coming. Father asked me how I would            76.         

want as my birthday present. I told him I need no present but       77.          

a party. Father said OK. When I recited the name of my seven      78.        

friends I planned to invite, he wondered why his guest list didn’t     79.         

include my new neighbor Tom. I told him I didn’t like to be with         80.        

a person whom I didn’t know well. And father insisted that I             81.        

seize the chance to make new friends. In my birthday, Tom         82.         

came besides my seven friends. Very quick we became good        83.         

friends. From this I realized give others a chance means giving      84.        

myself a chance. It was really unforgettable birthday.                 85.        

－Did you have a good sleep last night?

－Yes, never sleep ____．

A．badly     B．better         C．worse               D．best

. —Are you free after school?

—Sorry. I’ve planned to treat a friend of mine to dinner _______for his help.

   A. in charge                B. in honour              C. in return             D. in turn

第三节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store.  21  we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than  22  and making a sale.

One lesson stands out in my  23  . 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  24   a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me ---too poor to  25  to buy anything. He looked  26  the toy section, picked up this item and  27 , and carefully put them  28  in their place.

Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His blue eyes  29  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 30  to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his  31  and look around. He did.

After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy  32 , 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  33  it. His hand was creased(起皱) with  34  lines of dirt from holding his  35   too tightly. In his hand  36  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  37  it,” Dad said as he  38  the sale. Dad’s reply still  39  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  40  .

21. A. Because                     B. Since                C. As                    D. After

22. A. survival                     B. labor                 C. hardship            D. entertainment

23. A. way                    B. mind                 C. life                   D. time

24. A. putting on           B. dressing            C. having                  D. wearing

25. A. try                            B. attempt             C. afford             D. manage

26. A. for                            B. around                  C. up                    D. over

27. A. that                    B. one                   C. it                      D. this

28. A. up                      B. away                 C. back                 D. off

29. A. opened               B. smiled            C. shone             D. looked

30. A. tree                    B. card                  C. present              D. cake

31. A. effort                 B. word                 C. time                  D. courage

32. A. car                            B. gift                   C. plane                D. section

33. A. showed               B. opened                  C. gave                 D. turned

34. A. long                   B. straight             C. wet                   D. main

35. A. toy                            B. pocket            C. hand                 D. money

36. A. lay                            B. had                   C. held                  D. laid

37. A. work                  B. cover                C. need                 D. take

38. A. took                   B. returned           C. made               D. offered 

39. A. rings                  B. stays            C. remains             D. gets

40. A. bag              B. treasure         C. package         D. thing

第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 （E=AB, F=AC, G=AD）。选项中有两项为多余选项。

— Has Mr. West sold his house yet?

—  61 

— Has he moved to his new house yet?

—  62  

— When ? Tomorrow morning?

—  63  

— He’s a very nice person. We shall all miss him .

— When will the new people move into this house?

—  64 

— Will you see Mr. West today, Mrs. Brown?

—  65 

— Please give him my regards.

A. I think that they will move in the day after tomorrow

B. No, he didn’t want to leave, but his wife did.

C. Yes, I shall.

D. Yes, he has. He sold it last week.

 E. No, not yet . He still lives here. He’s going to move tomorrow.

F. Yes, I shall miss him .

G. Yes, he will move tomorrow.