Once you _________ used to the  weather here, you ________ to live here.

A.get; will probably like       B. will get; will probably like

C. got; will probably like        D. had got; had probably liked

 _______ with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.

  A. Compare    B. When comparing   C. Comparing   D. When compared

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，掌握其大意，然后从21 – 40 各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

It was so cold that I couldn’t feel my legs. There was going to be a racing contest that night so I was 21  my horse, Skippy, up. I was simply running laps(跑道的圈) around the ring. The  22  cold air had been blowing past me, freezing my limbs, but every second I  23  it. You could hear the faint  24  of the people up at the clubhouse eating their dinner. My parents were also there, not knowing that my little sister had slowly wandered her way down to the ring. It was  25  because there was no moon or stars. Nobody else was in the ring at the time. I was really enjoying the  26  and I was able to  27  what Skippy was doing. As I took my last lap it  28  . Everything rapidly slowed down as I saw my little sister step  29   the ring. I saw true fear on her face because she knew she wouldn’t be  30  to move out of the way fast enough. She knew that she was going to get hit.

She tried to  31  but nothing came out of her fear-dried throat. When my horse got to her, he was still in a full out run.  32  , miraculously(奇迹般地), he slid so hard on his back feet that he  33 . It really made the  34  seem absolutely unreal. I thought that maybe I was  35 . I had  36  in my mind that I wasn’t seeing what was happening. I knew I had hit my sister. There was no way I could have  37  her. My horse was rising straight up and while he was in the air I couldn’t breathe. It’s like I forgot  38 . As all of this happened I watched my sister’s face transform (变形) through many different  39 : terror, confusion, curiosity, and then a sort of relief. Then she was laughing.

As I held my sister into my arms, Skippy stood right behind me knowing that I actually owed him my life  40  he saved my sister’s.

21.A. picking                B. warming                  C. catching                   D. setting

22.A. bitterly                B. hardly                      C. gently                      D. perfectly

23.A. challenged                  B. witnessed                 C. enjoyed                    D. hated

24.A. ceremony                   B. tradition                   C. victory                            D. laughter

25.A. windy                        B. bright                      C. dark                         D. cloudy

26.A. quiet                          B. quality                            C. impression                D. significance

27.A. rely on                    B. focus on                   C. insist on                   D. put on

28.A. let out                  B. held on                    C. participated in                D. took place

29.A. close to               B. out of                      C. into                         D. towards

30.A. able                  B. frightened            C. content                     D. proud

31.A. evaluate               B. worry                      C. scream                            D. escape

32.A. Accidentally         B. Normally                 C. Generally                 D. Somehow

33.A. sped up               B. rose up                         C. broke down                     D. wore out

34.A. moment               B. contest                            C. comment                  D. technique

35.A. advancing                   B. breathing                  C. concluding               D. dreaming

36.A. that                            B. none                        C. neither                            D. it

37.A. hit                      B. recognized                C. missed                            D. acknowledged

38.A. how                           B. what                        C. when                       D. why

39.A. actions                B. emotions                  C. attitudes                   D. thoughts

40.A. if                               B. because                    C. as if                         D. so that

 ---How is it that you are late for class again?

  ---_______.

A. By bus and then on foot                         B. Because I missed the bus

      C. It’s quite all right                                  D. It’s far from school

 If you have good eyesight, you will be able to see the church ___________ at the top of the mountain.

A. at distance                     B. from distance

C. in the distance                    D. from over the distance

It's said that going to bed early and getting up early ____a widely accepted good habit．

         A．are    B．is                   C．were      D．was

Life is difficult.

But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it.

      Most don’t fully see this truth. Instead, they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties stand for a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or upon their family, their class, or even their nation.

      What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is painful. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness, loneliness, regret, anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings , often as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems , life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

   Yet, it is in this whole of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure .When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said,“Those things that hurt, instruct(teach).” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

1. From the passage, it can be inferred that______.

A. not everybody has problems.

B. We become stronger by facing and solving problems in life.

C. life is difficult because our problems bring us pain.

D. people like to complain about their problems.

2. The writer uses just one short sentence in the first paragraph probably to _______.

A. save space                                            B. persuade readers

C. make readers laugh                                D. get readers’ attention

3. According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ______.

A. encourage them to learn                      B. make them suffer

C. help them to deal with pain                    D. help them to understand life is difficult

4. By“Those things that hurt, instruct(teach).” Benjamin Franklin

suggests that_____.

A.we don’t learn from experience

B.we don’t learn when we are in pain

C.pain teaches us important lessons

D.pain is unforgetable.

If you are _______ about Australian cities, just read the book by Dr. Johnson, which introduces them in detail.      

A. interested          B. anxious                    C. curious                    D. upset

Can you tell me ___?

A.whom does this dictionary belong to  B. whom this dictionary is belonged to

C.Whom this dictionary belongs to     D.Whom this dictionary is belonging to

      the new policy,we are now having a happy life.

A.Thanks to            B.Because           C.For        D.Thanks for