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

Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents . The next day she drove her old car home along the road .    21     she found she got a flat tire. The 22-year-old student    22     to stop her car by the side of the road in the winter night and opened the trunk . No     23    tire .

At this time , a car    24     . Paul and Diane told Clay to    25     them to a service station near their     26    . They arrived to see that it had no suitable tires to    27     with her car . “Follow us home,” said Paul .

The couple called around to find a tire , no   28      . They decided to let her use their own car . “Here ,” Paul said , handing Clay a    29     of keys , “Take our car . We    30     be using it over the holiday .”

Clay was    31      . “But I’m going all the way to South Carolina , and I’ll be gone for two weeks ,” she     32     them .

“We know,” Paul said . “We’ll be     33     when you get back . Here’s our number if you need to     34     us .”

Unable to believe her eyes , Clay watched as the     35     put her luggage into their car and then    36      her off . Two weeks later she     37     to find her old car cleaned inside and out with three new tires and the radio      38    .

“Thank you so much ,” she said . “How much do I     39     you ?” “Oh, no,” Paul said , “we don’t want any money . It’s  our     40     .” Clay realized that while it might have been their pleasure , it was now her duty to pass on their “do unto others” spirit .

21．A．Suddenly        B．Finally     C．Immediately     D．Fortunately

22．A．afforded     B．wanted     C．allowed         D．managed

23．A．spare           B．free       C．full            D．empty

24．A．passed         B．stopped    C．paused          D．started

25．A．help                B．push        C．take          D．follow

26．A．garage         B．house       C．shop             D．hotel

27．A．agree           B．match      C．go             D．deal

28．A．way          B．message   C．success          D．luck

29．A．set            B．number    C．pair          D．chain

30．A．can’t           B．shouldn’t        C．mustn’t         D．won’t

31．A．satisfied       B．worried    C．astonished        D．disturbed

32．A．persuaded       B．advised    C．reminded             D．promised

33．A．happy          B．here      C．away            D．busy

34．A．get in touch with           B．keep in touch with

       C．be in touch with             D．put in touch with

35．A．repairmen       B．cleaners   C．friends          D．couple

36．A．sent         B．shook      C．watched        D．drove

37．A．shocked       B．happened        C．returned        D．came

38．A．loaded         B．fixed       C．tied           D．rebuilt

39．A．owe         B．lend     C．give          D．offer

40．A．wish            B．job       C．duty                 D．pleasure

.—Excuse me, is the shop open around the clock?

--- _________. Only from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

A. I’m afraid not      B.I’m not sure      C. Well, it depends    D. That’s right

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to bring about a rapid sale of goods at reasonable prices, so setting up a firm home market and making it possible to provide for export (出口) at good prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps greatly to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it causes an increased need for labour, and is therefore a nice way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television program would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or subway would cost more.

　　And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a promise of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Besides the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament(国会)govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare produce anything that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for the public has the good sense not to buy the poor goods more than once. If you see product frequently advertised, it is the proof I know that the product does what is promised for it, and that it has good value.

　　Advertising does more for the good of the public than any other force I can think of.

　　There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television person declared that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was telling us the real difference. Of course advertising tries to persuade.

　　If its message were nothing but information, that would be difficult to get more people to buy, for even the choice of the colour of a shirt is a bit persuasive (有说服力的)--advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television person wants.

By the first sentence of the passage the writer means that ___.

　 A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

　 B. everybody knows well that advertising is a waste of money

　 C. advertising costs more money than everything else

　 D. money on advertising is worth spending

In the passage, which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of advertising?

　 A. Getting greater fame.              B. Providing more jobs.

　 C. Raising living standards.           D. Reducing newspaper cost.

The writer thinks that the well-known TV person is _____.

　 A. quite right in passing his judgment on advertising

　 B. interested in nothing but the buyers' attention

　 C. correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information

　 D. obviously unfair in his views on advertising

In the writer's opinion, ________.

　 A. advertising can seldom bring material interest to man by providing information

　 B. advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over

　 C. there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer

　 D. the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement

 --- I wonder how long you ____ in Hawaii.

   --- Just for the weekend, then I had to attend a conference in Los Angeles.

   A. will stay    B. stayed     C. have stayed   D. were staying

 You can't imagine _____when they received these nice Christmas presents.?

A. how they were excited              B. how excited they were

C. how excited were they              D. they were how excited?

Did you see Xiao Li at the party? No, ___ by the time I arrived.

A. she had left    B. she has left    C. she was left    D. she must left

--Who is ___?--- ___ is me, jim.

A. it, It     B. it, He    C.she; She    D. It, it

第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    Ever since she was a baby, Heather, aged 5, has watched her parents regularly turn off lights

that aren’t needed and put the day’s newspapers cans, bottles, jars, and other recyclables into a big, yellow bin — that is, if they can't find a second life for the discarded items in their own home first. Plastic packaging, pieces of cardboard, scraps of colored paper, bits of yarn, and small pieces of broken toys are typically dropped into a basket that the whole family rummages through whenever they need supplies for an art project. Recently, after spying a bit of shiny paper on the floor, Heather picked it up and said, "This is pretty. I'll put it in the art basket." Already, like parents, like daughter.

Heather's effort to recycle a scrap of paper rather than throw it away is a tiny gesture with a big message. It shows that even young children can learn about conserving materials and resources, and by extension, protecting the planet, in age-appropriate ways. It also shows that your child is so tuned in to your ways that it is easy to become an environmental role model. But because children are more apt to want to care for something they have a personal stake in, it's as important to expose your child to the natural world as it is to teach her ways to protect it.

This doesn't require week-long camping trips into the wilderness — although those can be fun, enlightening experiences for the whole family. Children can explore, appreciate, and learn about nature literally in their own backyard, in a park, in a community garden, and on trips to the beach or mountains. There's more good news: Giving your child opportunities to connect with nature can also help her develop crucial literacy, language, math, science, social studies, art, problem-solving, and research skills.

41．The underlined word “discarded” (Paragraph 1) probably means “___________.”

       A．waste       B．important  C．small D．dirty

42．Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

       A．The family is quite poor.

       B．The family members don’t waste any money.

       C．The parents are proud of saving materials.

       D．The parents set an example to the daughter.

43．The text mainly suggests that children___________.

       A．love recycling things          B．are curious about things

       C．can learn to protect nature      D．should act the way as their parents

44．What’s the author’s suggestion about introducing a child to the natural world?

       A．Going on a camping trip.           B．Traveling to the wilderness.

       C．Learning from their parents.   D．Playing in such places as a park.

___________2010 Shanghai World Expo will launch ___________underground network of 700 kilometers of pipes to provide natural hearting and cooling.

       A．The; an     B．The; the    C．不填；the D．不填；an

The majority remained in ______ we now know as California to make a life.

       A. where               B. which        C. that                   D. what