As is known to us, the new minister will be ______ in office by the Queen.

A. recognized      B. understood              C. confirmed              D. permitted

 Nobody _________ with breaking the law. Do you think so?

  A. gets around       B. gets off             C. gets through         D. gets away

The children are having a good time, ______ with sand, others with toys．

       A．some of them playing        B．some of them are playing

       C．some of them             D．who playing

Mr Smith has bought a new house in the country, around_______some green trees.

A. which is     B. it is          C. which are          D. them are

You will ____ those books one day.

   A. be benefited    B. benefit    C. benefit from    D. be benefited by

---- Did you find the film interesting?

----________, I nearly fall asleep half way through it.

A. However           B. On the other hand     C. At the same time              D. On the contrary

-----Did your father come back early last night?

  -----Yes ,It was not yet eight o’clock _____he arrived home.

A. before   B. when   C. that   D. until

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，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. So, I really   36   whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy   37   to earn money to pay the high schooling for me. They don't act in the   38   ways that I read in books or I see on TV, and sending flowers to each other on Valentine's Day is even   39  .

    One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I asked her if there was   40   between them. She paused her work and raised her head with   41  . Then she bowed her head and   42  sewing the quilt. I was very   43   because I thought I had hurt her. But after a few minutes she said, “Look at this thread. Sometimes it   44  ,but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can   45   be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there, and makes the quilt   46  ”. I listened carefully but I couldn't understand her   47   the next spring..

    My mother suddenly got sick seriously and had to stay in the hospital for a one-month treatment. Every morning and dusk after she   48   from the hospital, my father   49   my mother walking slowly on the country road. There were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees, and the sun gently glistened them   50   the leaves. All of these   51   the most beautiful picture in the world.   52   their eyes, I know they love each other deeply. From this experience, I   53   that love was just a   54   in the quilt of our life. Love is   55  , making life strong and warm.

36. A. believe               B. hesitate             C. doubt                          D. ignore

37. A. keeping                  B. trying               C. willing                  D. learning

38. A. romantic             B. magic               C. formal                         D. special

39. A. unsuitable           B. impolite            C. uneasy                         D. impossible

40. A. difference           B. love                  C. similarity              D. fight

41. A. surprise                  B. anger                C. smile                    D. calm

42. A. finished                  B. forgot               C. continued              D. considered

43. A. excited               B. worried             C. shocked                 D. disappointed

44. A. exists                  B. works               C. breaks                   D. appears

45. A. easily                 B. hardly            C. simply                         D. usually

46. A. long-lasting         B. long-dated         C. long-suffering        D. long-winded

47. A. after                   B. before               C. until                     D. since

48. A. returned                  B. escaped             C. remained               D. heard

49. A. led                            B. let                    C. supported              D. helped

50. A. from                  B. through             C. across                   D. throughout

51. A. made up             B. made with         C. made into              D. made of

52. A. Seeing                B. Watching           C. Reading                D. Checking

53. A. expected             B. admitted            C. noticed                  D. realized

54. A. material                 B. design                 C. color                         D. thread

55. A. everywhere         B. inside                C. anywhere              D. outside

B

Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’．An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.

At school the children are taught to add up and subtract（减法） but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.

Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England．Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say．And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed．Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.

As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long．Over 75% of seven- to 11-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends．By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft（透支） as a way of extending their spending power．Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”

The UK has been in the worst financial recession（衰退）for generations．It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university．In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents．

61．The passage is mainly about _____________.

       A．how to manage school lessons

       B．how to deal with the financial crisis

       C．teaching young people about money

       D．teaching students how to study effectively

62．It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that __________.

       A．the author complains about the school education

       B．pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract

       C．students have been taught to manage their finances

       D．laws on financial education have been effectively carried out

63．The website and the consumer campaigner joined to _________.

       A．instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money

       B．promote the connection of schools and families

       C．ask the government to dismiss the parliament

       D．appeal for the curriculum of financial education

64．According to Pfeg, ___________.

       A．it is easy to keep good habits long

       B．teenagers spend their money as planned

       C．parents are willing to pay the debt for their kids

       D．it will be in trouble if the teenagers are left alone

65．A poll is mentioned to ___________.

       A．stress the necessity of the curriculum reform

       B．show the seriousness of the financial recession

       C．make the readers aware of burden of the parents

       D．illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal

D

Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.

Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.

When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.

The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.

It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!

The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”

71．Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

A. The cost of its package.                       B. The price of the product.

C. The colour of its package.                     D. The brand name of the product.

72．The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off” (in Para.3) means that the colours _________.

A. attracted the customers strongly    

B. caused the customers to lose interest

C. tricked the customers into shopping 

D. had weak effects on the customers

73．Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

A. The way to promote goods.

B. The discovery of a genius.

C. The team to produce a good product. 

D. The brand name used by successful producers.

74．According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?

A. Making soap is so easy that any fool in the world can make it.

B. Greens, yellows or silver are considered to be healthy colours.

C. 25 years ago, the founder of Pears soap was a pretty girl herself.

D. The size of a product can have an effect on the shoppers.

75．Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

A. Choice of Good Products                  B. Disadvantages of Products

C. Effect of Packaging on Shopping                D. Brand Names and Shopping Tricks