The boy failed four times, but he said he would try ___________.

         A．a five time         B．a fifth time       C．the five time    D．the fifth time

33. I've promised to keep it secret so I Can’t really tell you anything——what you know already．

  A．for    B．about    C．of   D．beyond   

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　My 14-year-old son，John，and I spotted the coat at the same time. It was hanging at a（an） 31 clothing store. The coat had a black velvet collar，delightful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label（标签）and a（an） 32 price of $ 28.

　　We looked at 33 , saying nothing, 　34 John’s eyes shone. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with 35 , but could 36 several hundred dollars now.

　　John 37 the coat. He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious, studied 38 that soon changed into a smile. The 39 was perfect. John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile. “How did the kids like your coat？ ”I asked. “They love it.”He said, carefully 40 it over the chair and smoothing it flat.

　　Over the next few weeks，the 41 came over John. Quiet，reasoned discussion was 42 argument. He became more thoughtful and eager to 43 .“Good dinner，Mum，”he would say every evening. One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner，John said，“You are right，and I guess I will.”

　　When I 44 this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know 45 caused the changes，she said with laughter，“It must be his coat!”At the library，we 46 to meet a friend who had not seen our children for a long time.“ 47 this be John？”he asked，looking up to John’S new height assessing the cat of his coat，and extending his hand，one gentleman to another.

　　John and I both knew we should never 48 a person’s clothes for the real person within them. But there is something to be said for 49 a standard of excellence for the world to see，for practicing standard of excellence in thought，speech and behavior，and for 50 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

31．A．second-hand 　　　　B．expensive　　　　 C．big 　　　　　D．cheap

32．A．reasonable　　　　　B．unbelievable 　　 C．special 　　　D．average

33．A．each other　　　　　B．one another 　　　C．the other　　 D．others

34．A．therefore 　　　　　B．however 　　　　　C．but 　　　　　D．thus

35．A．adults 　　　　　　 B．people 　　　　　 C．parents 　　　D．teenagers

36．A．spend 　　　　　　　B．cost 　　　　　　 C．pay 　　　　　D．take

37．A．touched 　　　　　　B．buttoned 　　　　 C．held 　　　　 D．obtained

38．A．gesture 　　　　　　B．expression 　　　 C．attitude 　　 D．feeling

39．A．color 　　　　　　　B．price　　　　　　 C．fit　　　　　 D．style

40．A．pressing 　　　　　 B．taking　　　　　　C．hanging 　　　D．folding

41．A．happiness 　　　　　B．satisfaction　　　C．change 　　　 D．generosity

42．A．because of 　　　　 B．instead of 　　　 C．aware of 　　 D．full of

43．A．please 　　　　　　 B．understand 　　　 C．complain 　　 D．apologize

44．A．mentioned 　　　　　B．wrote 　　　　　　C．reported 　　 D．explained

45．A．when 　　　　　　　 B．how 　　　　　　　C．what 　　　　 D．that

46．A．happened 　　　　　 B．came　　　　　 　 C．intended　　　D．decided

47．A．Should 　　　　　　 B．Would 　　　　　　C．Must 　　　　 D．Could

48．A．watch 　　　　　　　B．judge 　　　　　　C．mistake 　　　D．consider

49．A．doing 　　　　　　　B．showing 　　　　　C．speaking 　　 D．wearing

50．A．comparing　　　　　 B．connecting 　　　 C．combining 　　D．matching

Failure is never a pleasure，but it Call have a    effect on your life once you learn to use it.

    A．positive               B．major                         C．concrete          D．sure

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题。每小题3分，共60分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

We thought we had it all---a beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way,

two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment---and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down for good.

We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren’t any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn’t felt in years.

That’s why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.

Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children and each other. That’s what’s important. That makes you a rich man.”

“ But what if we lose the house? They’ll hate me—you’ll hate me,” he replied.

I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye. “No matter where we live I will be happy –as long as I have you.” I smiled again. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said “I do”.

  I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn’t for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.

We are still struggling for out better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can’t buy and no one can take away from us.

36．The underlined sentence in the second paragraph means that________.

       A．they became closer as they struggled together

       B．they hoped to find jobs in the same company

       C．neither of them had the courage to ace difficulty

       D．they were trying to make their relationship closer

37．We can learn from the passage that________.

       A．they both found good jobs at last.

       B．both of them were worried about joblessness.

       C．her husband was to blame for the unemployment

       D．they didn’t love each other when they got married

38．Which of the following can best describe their present life?

       A．Bitter but easy. B．Comfortable and happy.

       C．Hard but warm.       D．Well-off and relaxing.

39．The best title of the passage might be________         .

       A．We Have It All            B．We Find It Again

       C．A Perfect Couple            D．A Hard Time

第三节   完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“How did you do it, Dad? How have you  21  not to take a drink for almost 20 years?” It took me almost 20 years to have the  22  to even ask my father this very  23  question.

When Dad first 24 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles  25  he got into a situation that, in the past, would have started him drinking again. For a few years we were   26 to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.

“I had this little 27 that I would recite to myself 28 four to five times a day” was Dad’s 29 to my 18 – year – old unasked question. “The 30 were an instant relief and constant reminder to me that things were never so 31 that I could not handle them,” Dad said. And then he 32 the poem with me. The poem’s simple, yet profound （深奥的） words  33  became part of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this talk with my father, I 34 a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of affirmations（断言）with one affirmation listed for each 35 of the year.

I 36 opened the book to the page of my birthday to see what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. 37 of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the 38 poem that had helped my 39 for all these years! It is called The Serenity Prayer.

God, give me the Serenity （平静）to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to 40 the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

21.  A. failed        B. succeeded        C. managed           D. tried

22.  A. courage       B. ability          C. wisdom            D. confidence

23.  A. interesting   B. personal         C. hard              D. unanswered

24.  A. started       B. enjoyed          C. minded            D. stopped

25.  A. every time    B. all time         C. next time         D. last time

26.  A. anxious       B. glad             C. afraid            D. eager

27.  A. book          B. passage          C. poem             D. list

28.  A. at least      B. at most          C. at first          D. at last

29.  A. comment       B. praise           C. contribution      D. reply

30.  A. words         B. phrases          C. letters           D. sentences

31.  A. strange       B. different        C. simple            D. tough

32.  A. shared        B. talked           C. read              D. impressed

33.  A. surprisingly  B. immediately      C. increasingly      D. regularly

34.  A. brought       B. bought           C. received          D. accepted

35.  A. hour          B. week             C. month             D. day

36.  A. easily        B. hurriedly        C. sadly             D. peacefully

37.  A. Tears         B. Smiles           C. Sweat             D. Satisfaction

38.  A. correct       B. impossible       C. original          D. exact

39.  A. mother        B. father           C. friend            D. classmate

40.  A. believe       B. benefit          C. change            D. do

--- What else do you want to know about the cell phone?

-- _______ it can be used as a digital camera. You know, I’m into photography.

A. That      B. What      C. Whether       D. How

Think of some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect us in many ways—emotionally, physically and mentally.

       But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera（歌剧）star Carol Vaness.

       At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way she breathes.

       “When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going underwater,” Carol explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs.”

       According to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like speaking, and it’s lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often surprised by how the vibrations strike their ears—like waves on a beach, ”Carol says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth—it vibrates in your chest，the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”

       Ever since she started piano lessons at the age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice-the highest singing voice for women.

       Carol decided to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions（情感）expressed by words and music come to life.

       Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe and she has song for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she started singing in the first palace.

       “Put your heart into your singing and enjoy it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings.”

According to the passage,  the Metropolitan Opera in New York City      .

       A．is a five-story building    B．can seat 4,000 people     

       C．has no microphone in it   D．can project the singer’s voice

What is the best title for this passage?

       A．Opera Singing and Pop Singing     B．The Way an Opera Star Sings 

       C．An Opera Star         D．Singing without a Microphone

Which statement is true?

       A．A pop singer’s lungs are usually stronger than those of an opera singer’s   

       B．Opera singing is more like speaking.     

       C．A pop singer takes in much more air than an opera singer when singing.

       D．An opera singer breathes differently from a pop singer when singing.

From the passage you can conclude all the following EXCEPT that      .

       A．Carol once learned to play the piano     

       B．Carol worked as a music teacher    

       C．Carol has been singing opera for 20 years or so    

       D．Carol is popular with Americans and Europeans

E

Welcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.

72. You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on _________.

A. Wednesday        B. Monday        C. Sunday        D. Friday

73. The person who teaches Computer Science is from___________.

A. Canada           B. Australia       C. New Zealand       D. America

74. You may learn something about a disease (疾病) called TB from __________.

A. Dr. West         B. Mr. Morison     C. Mrs. Green         D. Mr. Thomas

75. If you want to learn something about satellites (卫星), you can go to the class from______.

A. 8:30 to 11:30 on Sunday                    B. 19:00 to 21:00 on Monday

C. 19:30 to 21:00 on Wednesday                D. 18:30 to 21:00 on Friday

Though he is_______, he never feels_______. 

      A. lonely; alone     B. lonely; lonely    C. alone; lonely     D. alone; alone