完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

The Florida sun baked my shoulders as I walked along the I-595 freeway near Fort Lauderdale, picking up rubbish. I paused to   31   the sweat off my forehead and look up at the cloudless blue sky. "  32  can't it rain?" I thought. That would   33   things down.

I thought about my   34  , who were probably sitting in an air-conditioned   35  right now. I'd had some problems in school,   36   my parents decided to let me   37   full-time with my dad. We both worked for my uncle, who had taken   38   of a maintenance（道路养护）company. It was up to us to keep the roads   39   of rubbish. The job was   40   and dirty, especially on hot days   41   this. I wondered why I ever agreed to do it.

We continued our   42   route along the I-595,   43   for the overpass bridge. Then I noticed an area where some   44   were broken on the ground. It wasn't like that before.

"Dad! Pull over! I want to   45   something out."

I jumped off the truck and rushed to the bridge. Something was telling me to   46  ...there wasn't much time.   47   .I saw a Toyota that   48   upside down in the tree. Maybe it was a stolen car that somebody   49   there, I thought. Then, just at that   50  , I noticed something moving. It was a bloody leg poking （伸出）out of the driver's side window!

"Help!" a lady moaned.

31．A．wipe B．cut    C．put    D．send

32．A．When       B．How  C．Why  D．Where

33．A．turn  B．keep  C．make D．cool

34．A．parents     B．school-times     C．friends      D．school yards

35．A．office       B．classroom C．restaurant  D．living room

36．A．but    B．or     C．for    D．so

37．A．work B．study C．stay   D．spend

38．A．business    B．possession C．position    D．place

39．A．away B．from C．far    D．clear

40．A．easy  B．lonely       C．smelly      D．noisy

41．A．for    B．like   C．after  D．as

42．A．regular     B．common   C．unusual     D．normal

43．A．reaching   B．going       C．looking     D．heading

44．A．cars   B．bottles      C．branches   D．glasses

45．A．check       B．help  C．take   D．bring

46．A．decide      B．hurry C．consider    D．stop

47．A．Above      B．Behind     C．Ahead      D．Below

48．A．hung B．trapped     C．caught      D．torn

49．A．stored       B．deserted    C．lost   D．hid

50．A．bridge      B．tree   C．moment    D．way

Most people are worried about the health of economy. But does the economy also affect your body health?

It does, but not always the ways you might expect. The data(数据) on how an economic downturn influences an individual’s health is mixed.

It’s clear that a long-term economic rise leads to improvements in a population’s overall health, in developing and developed societies alike.

But whether the short-term economic fall will damage your own health depends on your health habits when times are good. And economic studies suggest that people usually do not take care of themselves in good times—drinking too much, dining on fattier restaurant meals and skipping exercises.

“The value of time is higher during good economic times,” said Grant Miller, a professor of medicine at Stanford. “so people work more and do less of the things that are good for them, like cooking at home and exercising. ”

Similar patterns have been seen in some developing nations. Dr. Miller, who is studying the effects of fluctuating coffee prices on health in Colombia where coffee plays an important role in economy development, says that although falling prices are bad for the economy, they appear to improve the population’s overall health. When prices are low, laborers have time to enjoy their own life such as doing housework, exercising and taking care of their children, etc.

“When coffee prices suddenly rise, people work harder on their coffee fields and spend less time doing things around the home, including things that are good for their children,” he said.

Christopher J. Rohm, professor of economics at University of North Carolina. US shares similar ideas.

57. What would be the best title?

A. Does the economy affect your body health?

B. Does your life habit play an important role in economy development?

C. Economic rise leads to improvement in people’s health.

D. Coffee prices affect people’s health.

58. According to Grant Miller, it is implied that_______.

A. a long-term economic rise can damage your body health

B. a long-term economic fall can damage people’s body health

C. a short-term economic rise can improve people’s body health

D. a short-term economic fall can improve your body health

59. What does the underlined word “fluctuating” in the sixth paragraph mean?

A. lasting         B. changing        C. rising       D. falling\

60. Professor Christopher J. Rohm thinks that_________.

A. people work harder when it is in long-term good economy times

B. people work less when it is in short-term good economy times

C. people have more time to enjoy their own life in short-term bad economy times

D. people do less of the things around the home in long-term bad economy times

 —Thank you for helping me order the food.

—_________.

A. All right.               B. Never mind.

C. My pleasure             D. I’m glad you enjoy it.

. He sat at the desk ,________a novel.

A. read          B. to read             C. reading             D. reads

31. -----What do you suppose made her worried?

   -----_____________ a gold ring.

A. Because of losing        B. Losing        C. Lose       D. Lost

第二部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16--25各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡相应的16--25上将该项涂黑。

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky 16_____ the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird friend out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my 17______, Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue  treasure and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.

Kathy managed to forgive me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure （安慰）me that Perky would find a new  18 ______. But I was far too clever to 19______ that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own 20_______ growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the parents of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to 21______ the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and 22 ________ that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

"The best thing 23______ Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the way we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just floated down and landed on my finger."

When I was finally able to 24_______ , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all matched up. It seems our two families had been connected long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 25_______! Perky lived!"

16. A. what     B. how    C. which D. where

17. A. joy       B. horror      C. disappointment  D. satisfaction

18. A. parent   B. home  C. master D. life

19. A. imagine       B. suppose      C. doubt  D. believe

20. A. birds    B. happiness   C. worries      D. children

21. A. catch    B. find    C. buy     D. have

22. A. announced   B. said    C. told    D. hoped

23. A. in        B. about  C. of       D. on

24. A. think    B. speak  C. interrupt     D. explain

25. A. right     B. wrong C. silly    D. mad

The crowd is too noisy, but anyway I have to make myself ______ to them because the news is so important to them.

　　A.known 　　　　      B.understood 　    C.heard 　     D.known

_____ he thought he was helping us with the work , he was actually in the way.

　　A.Because 　　　       B.If 　　　　　　       C.Although 　　　      D.When

Although he knew little about the large amount of work done in the field, he succeeded_____ other more well-informed experiments failed.

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

---Remember the first time we____ , Ed ?

　 ---Of course, I do. You _____ a song on the stage.

       A.have met;sang　 B.met;sang     C.met;were singing D.have met;have sung