第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

   阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。

After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措) with the   16   of earning a living,   17   the little children.

One   18   evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd (牧羊犬) on our   19  . This wonderful strong animal   20   to enter the house and make it his   21  . The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day,   22   we could inquire around the neighborhood for his   23. That night I slept   24   for the first time in many weeks.

The following morning we   25   to find German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were   26   to see German racing to the gas station after us.   27   was he going to be left behind.

On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’t appear, we were all   28  . The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed   29   Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more   30   of German. We stopped thinking about   31   he belonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered   32   his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.

Each week, between German’s visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his   33  . Then one Monday morning we   34   his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how   35  and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.

16. A. duties                       B. ways                                C. purposes                        D. focuses

17. A. caring for                 B. looking for                 C. waking up                 D. taking up

18. A. Friday                  B. Saturday                         C. Sunday                                D. Monday

19. A. gate                          B. street                              C. road                                 D. doorstep

20. A. regretted                B. forced                        C. intended                         D. encouraged

21. A. nest                          B. home                               C. kitchen                                D. destination

22. A. where                       B. when                               C. while                                D. as

23. A. advice                 B. gifts                                 C. owner                        D. situation

24. A. comfortably       B. smoothly                        C. meaningfully                  D. peacefully

25. A. tried                          B. managed                        C. succeeded         D. failed

26. A. happy                       B. glad                                  C. amazed                           D. pleased

27. A. No wonder         B. No way                            C. No doubt                        D. No use

28. A. wondered                B. lost                                   C. worried                           D. disappointed

29. A. before                      B. until                                 C. since                                D. once

30. A. aware                       B. sure                                 C. fond                                 D. anxious

31. A. who                           B. where                        C. whom                         D. which

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

33. A. friend                        B. company                         C. factory                                D. story

34. A. beat                          B. hit                                     C. wounded                        D. patted

35. A. excited                B. satisfied                    C. abandoned                     D. interrupted

     Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18,1817. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously(匿名地)

     But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local people and visitors. She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home. Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, keeping in its streets and public buildings the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels. Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced (增强)by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen's time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.

      The Centre has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society. After your visit to the Centre, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts. Jane Austen quizzes are offered to keep the children busy.

      You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen's Bath, which is a great way to find out more about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian City of Bath. The tour lasts about one and a half hours, The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and shopped.

51. Jane Austen paid two long visits to Bath ______.

   A. in her early twenties    B. in her early teens

   C. in her late twenties     D. in her late teens

52. What can we learn about Bath from the passage?

   A. Bath has greatly changed since Jane Austen's death.

   B. The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.

   C. Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen's time.

   D. No changes have taken place in Bath since Jane Austen's time.

53. Which of the following statements is wrong?

   A. Jane Austen published her books using a different name.

   B. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are mostly about Bath.

   C. Steventon was Jane Austen’s birthplace.

   D. Jane Austen Centre has been set up by the government

54. The author writes this passage in order to ______.

   A. attract readers to visit the city of Bath  

B. ask readers to buy Austen's books

   C. tell readers about lane Austen' s experience

   D. give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society

55. It takes you about one and a half hours ______.

   A. to get to the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street

   B. to buy Jane Austen related books, cards and gifts

   C. to find a guide to take you to the Centre

   D. to took around the city of Bath on foot

 As we know, the rose _____________ England.

A. represent           B. represents                 C. express              D. suggest

What's on TV?

6 : 00 ③ Let's Talk ! Guest: Animal expert Jim Porter

⑤ Cartoons

⑨News

7:00   ③ Cooking with Cathy

Tonight: Chicken with mushrooms

⑤ Movie "A Laugh a Minute"(1955)

James Rayburn

⑧ Spin for Dollars！

⑨ Farm Report

7 :30  ③ Double Trouble (comedy)

The twins disrupt the high school dance.

 ⑨ Wall Street Today: Stock Market Report

8:00   ③ NBA Basketball. Teams to be announced

⑧ Movie "At Day's End" (1981)

Michael Collier, Juie Romer

Drama set in World War Ⅱ

⑨ News Special

"Saving Our Waterways:Pollution in the Mississippi”

If you were a housewife, which program would probably interest you most?

      A. Let's Talk!                       B. Wall Street Today.

      C. Cooking with Cathy.               D. Farm Report.

If you'd like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to

     A. Channel 5 at 6: 00                 B. Channel 8 at 7 : 00

     C. Channel 3 at 7 : 30                D. Channel 3 at 8 : 00

Which is most probably the News Channel?

     A. 3.              B. 5.            C. 8.             D. 9.

For many years, scientists couldn't figure out how atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living things. Plants, fish, dinosaurs, and people are made of atoms and molecules, but they are put together in a more complicated way than the molecules in the primitive ocean. What's more, living things have energy and can reproduce, while the chemicals on the Earth 4 billion years ago were lifeless.

　　After years of study, scientists figured out that living things, including human bodies, are basically made of amino acids and nucleotide bases. These are molecules with millions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms. How could such complicated molecules have been formed in the primitive soup? Scientists were stumped.

　　Then, in 1953, two scientists named Harold Urey and Stanley L. Miller did a very simple experiment to find out what had happened on the Primitive Earth. They set up some tubes and bottles in a closed loop, and put in some of the same gases that were present in the atmosphere 4 billion years ago: water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen.

　　Then they shot an electric spark through the gases to simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth, circulated the gases through some water, sent them back for more sparks, and so on. After seven days, the water that the gases had been bubbling through had turned brown. Some new chemicals were dissolved in it. When Miller and Urey analyzed the liquid, they found that it contained amino acids-the very kind of molecules found in all living things.

46. When did scientists come to realize how the atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living thing?

　　A. 4 billion years ago.     B.1953.     C. After seven days.     D. Many years later.

47. Scientists figured out that human bodies are basically made of .

　　A. amino acids                         

B. molecules

C. hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms

D. water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen

48. Harold Urey and Stanley L.Miller did their experiment in order to .　

A. find out what had happened on the Earth 4 billion years ago

B. simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth

C. dissolve some new chemicals

D. analyze a liquid

49. At the end of the last paragraph, the underlined word "it" refers to.

A. a closed loop         B. an electric spark         C. water         D. the liquid

50. According to the writer, living things on the Earth include .

　 A. atoms and molecules                      B. chemicals　

C. plants, fish, dinosaurs and human beings      D. the primitive soup

第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分, 满分15分）

If you walked past the supermarket, you would find many foods that have been treated ____16______ (kill) any harmful germs that might have been in them. Milk is a good example. Raw milk --- that is, milk just as it comes from the cow --- may be _____17_____    (safe) to drink. But ____18______ the milk is heated and then cooled, the harmful germs are killed. The man ____19______discovered this way of treating milk was a Frenchman by the name of Louis Pasteur.

In the supermarket you would also find many frozen foods --- frozen fruits, vegetables, meat and fish. As techniques for ____20______ (freeze) food are being improved, more frozen foods are appearing on the market, and more people are buying them. Fruits and vegetables to be sold in the supermarket are often frozen the moment ____21______are picked. The       ____22_____(soon) fruits and vegetables are frozen, the better. _______23_____, machines are often taken into the fields where____24______food grows, so that little time is lost _____25_____picking and freezing.

The people from all over the world demand that reforms______.

  A.have been done   B.be done   C.are done  D.might be done.

Devon reorganized the kitchen last weekend,     was now clean.

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

— Have you read this book?

       — Yes. But that one is ________ worth reading.

A．best　      B．more　　　     C．much　　　　              D．better

It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin.

　　Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. He was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They expected to find out that he needed sleep of some kind. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

　　The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair(摇椅) and read some news papers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. Herpin offered the only probable explanation of his condition. He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born.

The point of this story is that _______.

　A. We needn't feel surprised to find someone who doesn't sleep

　B. one person was found who actually didn't need any sleep

C. everyone needs some rest to stay alive

　D. not sleeping may help one to live longer

After watching him closely, the doctors believed that Al Herpin _______.

　A. needed some kind of sleep   　B. slept while one was watching

　C. needed no sleep at all  　　　D. nearly slept in a rocking chair

One suggested explanation of Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.

　A. his old age  　　　

B. his not having a bed

　C. his magnificent physical condition

　D. his mother's injury while carrying him

The writer of the story obviously thinks that Al Herpin's sleeplessness ___.

　A. could be cured  　　　B. could be explained

　C. was healthful   　　　D. was uncommon