Life is hard at present. Hardly 　　 by　　  some price or other going up.

A. a day goes; with　　　　　　　　　    B. a day goes; without

C.    does any day go; with　　　　　　　 D. does any day go; without

The work is not very profitable _______ cash, but I am getting valuable experience from it.

A. in favor of 　                                           B. in terms of        

C. in charge of                                            D. in case of

He came up with a new ______ to the problem at yesterday’s meeting.

A. way                              B. method            C. means                     D. approach

John Denver has got international fame as a pop star, songwriter, actor and environmental activist ( 环境保护者). Songs like Take Me Home, Country Road, Rocky

 Mountain High and Annie's Song have become very popular. But less than thirty years ago, John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dream. Growing up in conservative (保守的) family, he was not believed to drop out of college and head to Los Angeles, where the music scene was flowering. Nor was he believed to succeed.

      In Take Me Home, John Denver talked about the story that shaped his life, with the story of the rich inner journey of a shy Midwestern boy. With honesty and cleverness, he wrote about his childhood, the feeling of moving to Los Angeles as the 60s came, his first lucky breaks, his first songwriting success with leaving on a Jet Plane and finally got a world fame.

      He also wrote about his relationship with his first and second wife, as well as his parents, his children, his partners through his life and his friends.

      Honest and rich in the book that only a natural-born storyteller could write so well, Take Me Home is very good from the beginning to the end. It's like spending a few days with a good friend.

This passage is probably about         .

    A. a book written by John Denver    B. the life and cause of John Denver

    C. how to write pop songs          D. what Los Angeles was like

Take Me Home is a name of        .

    A. a famous book                 B. a folk song in Los Angeles

    C. a wonderful movie              D. a pop song by John Denver

From this passage, we can conclude that        .

   A. John Denver's family didn't want him to leave college

   B. he often had trips when he was a shy boy

   C. he moved to Los Angeles with his parents

   D. his family believed he would succeed

John Denver wrote his songs about many things except        .

   A. his first success in songwriting

   B. his family members including his parents, his wives and his children

   C. the problems of environment

D. his life in los Angeles

第二节：课文背诵（20×0.5=10分）

Unit 3

By the way, did you know that this is because you become addicted in three different ways?

First, you can become (101)______ ______ ______ nicotine, which is one of the hundreds of chemicals in cigarettes. …… Secondly, you become addicted (102)______ ______. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to (103)______ ______ ________. Lastly, you can become mentally addicted.

Unit 4

However, the attitudes of scientists towards this rise are completely different. On the one hand, Dr Foster thinks that the trend which increases the temperature by 5 degrees would be (104) ______ ______. …….. (105)_____ _____ _____ _____,  there are those, like George Hambley, who (106)_______ _______ _______ this view and believe that we should not worry. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad (107)________ ________.

Unit 5

I have the greatest job in the world. I travel to unusual places and (108)________ ________ ________from all over the world. Sometimes ……, sometimes using (109)________ ________ and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never bored.

Today, I am just as enthusiastic about my job as the day I first started. Having studied volcanoes now for many years, I am still amazed at their beauty as well as their (110)_______ _______ _______ great damage.

__________ can you expect success.

   A. By working hard              B. Working hard    

C. Only with hard work           D. Through hard work

 He was barking ____ let him in.

   A. for someone to                                      B. in case of someone   

   C. so someone to                                        D. so that someone

B) 根据首字母或括号内的提示填写单词。（共10空格，每空格1分，满分10分）

91. He managed to get a loan to p________ a house.

92. Linda was o__________ with the work of redecorating her house.

93. The Students’ Union called on us to d__________ money to those children in trouble.

94. Parking in this street is the p___________ of the residents.

95. Do as you’re told, o___________ you’ll be in trouble.

96. She was such an excellent clerk that she was strongly r___________ for the new post.

97. In Britain the Queen reigns, but the country is __________ (治理) by the Prime Minister.

98. The novel c____________(吸引) the imagination of thousands of readers.

99. No one s________ (怀疑) that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen.

100. Do me a f_________ and turn the radio down while I’m on the phone, will you?

 I shall never forget those years _____ I lived on the farm with the farmers,

   ______ has a great effect on my life.

A. when; who           B. that; which        C. on which; that          D. when; which 

_____ all that has been said, the tourists have been picking leaves.

  A. In spite                        B. Despite             C. Even                        D. Even so