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第二节 完型填空（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，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

It was New Year's night. An aged man was standing at a window. He   36   his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were  37   like white lilies （百合花） on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he threw them on the earth, where a few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain destination—the   38  . He had already passed sixty of the   39   leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but error and regret. Now his health was poor, his mind   40  , his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of  41  .

The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the   42   moment when his father placed him at the   43   to the two roads-one leading to a peaceful, sunny place,

44  with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs;   45   leading to a deep, dark cave, which was endless,  46   poison flowed instead of water and where devils（恶魔） and poisonous snakes hissed and crawled.

He saw the lights fading away in the darkness, and these were the days of his   47   life; He saw a star fall from the sky and disappeared, and this was the  48   of himself. His    49   , which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, who entered on life together with him. But they had   50   to success and were now honored and happy on this New Year's night.

The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents' early love for him. They had taught him and   51   to God for his good. But he chose the   52

way. With shame and grief he   53   no longer look towards that heaven where his father lived. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and    54   a despairing effort, he   55   out a cry, "Come back, my early days! Come back!"

36. A. closed   B. lifted  C. opened       D. fixed

37. A. floating       B. flashing      C. hanging      D. shining

38. A. house   B. tomb   C. church       D. birthplace

39. A. dreams B. moments    C. incidents    D. stages

40. A. strange B. pale    C. blank  D. shallow

41. A. allowances   B. comforts    C. experiences D. memories

42. A. serious  B. awful  C. tough  D. desperate

43. A. end      B. entrance     C. origin D. base

44. A. mixed   B. occupied    C. satisfied     D. covered

45. A. other    B. the other    C. another      D. one more

46. A. which   B. that     C. whose D. where

47. A. accustomed  B. rewarded    C. wasted       D. pleased

48. A. symbol B. fate     C. future D. outcome

49. A. satisfaction   B. success       C. regret  D. happiness

50. A. lost their heart     B. devoted their attention  C. made their way     D. given their way

51. A. prayed  B. attached     C. adjusted     D. turned

52. A. ordinary      B. unfamiliar  C. wrong D. difficult

53. A. would   B. could  C. should D. dared

54. A. in  B. with    C. for      D. by

55. A. burst    B. gave   C. shouted      D. carried

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Chinese reports say the country’s vast pool of cheap labor is getting smaller, which could hurt an economy that heavily depends on labor-intensive manufacturing.

The academy’s research shows that China’s rural labor surplus, the source of migrant workers for the country’s factories, is about 50 million people—far less than the previously estimated 150 to 200 million.

Jonathan Unger, director of the Contemporary China Center at the Australian National University, says fewer rural residents are willing to leave their farms today. This is partly because there are more employment opportunities in rural areas, and because agricultural prices have gone up.

“And at the same time taxes in the countryside, fees in the countryside have gone down because of new sets of government policies,” he explained. “So people are not eagerly forced in the way they were five, six years ago to leave the farm in order to earn enough money for their families.”

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says another reason for the reduced labor pool is the country’s population policy, which allows city residents to have just one child, and farmers up to two if the first one is a girl.

A UN study predicts that China’s workforce will reach its top in 2015 and then gradually drop. Some of China’s major manufacturing areas, such as Guangdong Province, already face labor shortages.

Some economists think these shortages are, at least for now, a regional rather than a national problem. Sun Mingchun, an economist with investment bank Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong, points out that there are still millions of people in China who can not find work.

57. According to the academy’s research, China’ rural labor surplus today is about _______.

  A. 150 million      B. 50 million      C. 200 million      D. 175 million

58. The reason why many rural residents don’t leave their farms today is ________.

  A. the farmers are older than before.

  B. the farmers are lazier than before

  C. the farmers have much more money

  D. there are more employment opportunities and agricultural prices have gone up

59. Which of the following is TURE according to the passage?

  A. A study of UN estimates China’s workforce will come to the top in 2015.

  B. No a study shows millions of people can’t find work in China.

  C. The country’s population policy isn’t a reason for the reduced labor.

  D. Five years ago, few farmers left their homes to earn money for supporting their families.

60. According to some economists, the shortage of Chinese workforce __________.

  A. is a national problem                     B. is a regional problem

  C. is not a problem                         D. can be solved easily

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Mary has always been doing well in that company. Tomorrow she will go on a trip to Europe, ______________.

   A. all expenses paid                   B. all expenses paying

   C. paying all expenses                 D. paid all expenses

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 She wants to make friends with ________ shares her interest.

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Though having discussed it for long, they still haven’t reached an agreement__________they should pour more money into the project.

       A．that                        B．if                           C．whether                  D．what

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—Would you like to join us in the game?

       —________ , for I have something important to attend to.

       A．I will       B．I’d love to       C．I won’t    D．I’m afraid not

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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger pay-check….

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what , today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

59. It can be inferred from the passage that_____.

   A. the author is a success in personal life

   B. the author didn’t try her best to work well

   C. the author spent all her time caring for her children

   D. the author likes traveling very much

60. How did the author form her view of life?

   A. Through social experience.          B. By learning from her friends.

   C. Through an unfortunate experience    D. From her children and husband.

61. By the underlined sentence “ It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to_____.

   A. make a living rather than live a real life

   B. work rather than enjoy life

   C. waste a lot in life

   D. forget the most important lessons in life

62. What’s the author’s attitude towards work?

   A. Do it well to serve others.

   B. Earn enough money to make life better.

   C. Try your best to get higher position and pay.

   D. Don’t let it affect your real life.

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第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共55分）

第三部分  写作(共三节，满分55分)

第一节  单词拼写(共10题，每小题1分；满分10分)   

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，在答题卡上相应题号的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。

66.Children sat happily on__________(坐垫) on the hard floor.

67.The________between the two cities is 600 miles. (距离)

68．They are on a________across the Atlantic Ocean.（航海航行）

69.Many dead fish are seen _______(漂浮)on the river.

70.They travelled by ____________ (气球)over the ocean.

71.Jack took a deep __________________ (呼吸) and then dived into the water.

72. He’d like to live in the ________(城市商业区的) area.

73. He threw the paper onto the fire and it flew up the ___________ (烟囱).

74.Because there is no food, the people are _________(挨饿)

75.The _________(商人)of Arab are doing their things all of the world

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--------Are you waiting for a bus from Medical University?

---------- Yes. I arrived here at the bus stop ten minutes ago, but the bus _______.

A. hadn’t come     B. won’t come      C. didn’t come     D. hasn’t come

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.Rather than ______ at home , I prefer to go sightseeing in ___________.

    A.stay; so suuny a day    B.to stay; so a suuny day

    C.stay; how sunny a day  D.staying; such a sunny day