That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theatre. With opening night only a week ago, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.

As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers (抢劫犯). Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.

About a block from my apartment (公寓房间), I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck (垃圾车) pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “ Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? the door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eye. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.

It was nearly 3 A.M. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also had gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were wiling to help each other.

1.How did the write feel when she was walking home after work?

2.From the first paragraph, we learn that the write was busy  ______.

3.On her way home the writer _______.

4.In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?

5.From the text, we can infer that the writer _________.

 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

She always wore a flower in her hair．Mostly I thought it looked    16  ．A flower to work? But no one questioned the young woman why a flower _17   her to work each day．In fact, we probably would have been more curious if she had    18   without it．

She did so one day _19  she delivered a project to my office．“I _20  there is no flower in your hair today," I said  _21  ．"I'm so used to seeing you wear one  _22  it almost seems as if something is _23．” “Oh, yes," she replied quietly, in a rather sad voice．This was far from her _24_ bright personality．I knew l had questioned something _25   than a lost flower．

“Today is the anniversary of my mother's death．I__26  her so much that I'm very sad．When I was a little girl, my mother would often _27_ flowers in my hair．But when I was 15 she died of cancer．I've just always worn a flower in my hair since then and _28  made me feel as though she__29  with me．Today, however, I think she would like a   30  that I am becoming self-dependent, after ten years of her death．And it seems that it is the flower that has to__31   ．”

She met my eyes and then smiled sadly．“I needn't wear a flower to be _32   of her．It was just an outward sign of my treasured _33    they're still there even with the flower gone…Oh, here's the 34  I hope it meets with your agreement．" She  _35  me the neatly prepared document, signed with a hand-drawn flower below her name．

1.A．stupid                     B．childish             C．strange                      D．ugly

2.A．accompanied          B．brought            C．allowed           D．encouraged

3.A．shown up      B．gone up            C．jumped up       D．dressed up

4.A．before                    B．after         C．when                D．until

5.A．sense                      B．discover           C．doubt                D．notice

6.A．freely                     B．firmly       C．calmly               D．worriedly

7.A．as                   B．that          C．which                D．what

8.A．missing                   B．going        C．happening        D．changing

9.A．normal                   B．general             C．common           D．usual

10.A．prettier                B．better      C．bigger               D．earlier

11.A．appreciate           B．want         C．respect                      D．miss

12.A．put             B．sent          C．handed                      D．took

13.A. this                 B．it      C．at              D．one

14.A．stayed                  B．studied             C．worked                      D．slept

15.A．word                    B．sign          C．pattern                      D．model

16.A．melt                      B．die            C．go                      D．pass

17.A．informed             B．reminded         C．told                   D．remembered

18.A．impressions         B．memories         C．secrets                       D．wishes

19.A．story                     B．ending    C．project                       D．gift

20.A．lent                       B．sent          C．posted             D．handed

Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new  1  in high school.
2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛)for cheerleaders(啦啦队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be      3  for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4   read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5   as the list ended without her name. Feeling  6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 7  . She moved on to English and history, and was8   to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to  9  math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school    10  . Mrs. Biden wasn’t as 11   as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough 12   for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled 13  and left. “Why is high school so  14  ?” she sighed.
Later in 15  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  16  . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to 17   at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to  18 . High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the   20  fish you can be.”

C
Susan Sontag（1933—2004） was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s，publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review，she appeared as the symbol of American culture life，trying hard to follow every new development in literature，film and art. With great effort and serious judgment，Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
　　Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords（格言），but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name，she explained what was then a little—known set of difficult understandings，through which she could not have been more famous.“Notes on Camp”，she wrote，represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’ ”.
By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感觉论者），but by nature she was a moralist（伦理学者），and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s，it was the latter side of her that came forward. In “Illness as Metaphor”—published in 1978，after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被压抑的性格），a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact，re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America，her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California，won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless，all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.
“Sometimes,” she once said，“I feel that，in the end，all I am really defending…is the idea of seriousness，of true seriousness.”And in the end，she made us take it seriously too.
64．The underlined sentence in paragraph l means Sontag ____________.
A．was a symbol of American cultural life
B．developed world literature，film and art
C．published many essays about world culture
D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture
65．She first won her name through____________.
A．her story of a Polish actress
B．her book Illness as Metaphor
C．publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review
D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings
66．Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon____________.
A．a tireless，all-purpose cultural view
B．her lifelong watchword: seriousness
C．publishing books on morals
D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing
67．From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s，we can learn that _____.
A．she was more a moralist than a sensualist
B．she was more a sensualist than a moralist
C．she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness
D．she would like to re-examine old positions

Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the     in the school had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t    , they would have to retake(重考) them in September. There were usually a few who    , but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year,     just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was     about her. She went to bed too    . The night before the first exam, Barbara     that she have an early night and take a     pill. She promised to wake     up in the morning.

As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her     kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of    , she went to sleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination    , but she couldn’t answer any of the questions.     around her was writing pages and pages.     she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write    . She kept looking at her    . Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences,     and tried another one. With only half an hour left, she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started    . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she     up. She was still in bed and it had all been a     dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.

1.                A．teachers        B．students        C．classmates D．poets

2.                A．prepare        B．miss           C．gain D．pass

3.                A．succeeded      B．failed          C．ended    D．harvested

4.                A．but            B．so             C．and  D．because

5.                A．excited         B．frightened       C．worried  D．satisfied

6.                A．early           B．late            C．sadly D．eagerly

7.                A．insisted         B．admired        C．ordered  D．wished

8.                A．sleeping        B．starving         C．exciting   D．breathing

9.                A．him            B．her            C．them D．herself

10.               A．hand          B．eye            C．mind D．body

11.               A．her sister       B．her parents     C．the lessons D．the medicine

12.               A．result          B．marks          C．desk  D．paper

13.               A．The teacher     B．The students     C．No one    D．Everyone

14.               A．If             B．Though         C．So   D．How

15.               A．with           B．about          C．on   D．to

16.               A．watch          B．textbook        C．sister D．subject

17.               A．gave up        B．put off         C．look around    D．thought over

18.               A．examining      B．drowning       C．copying   D．crying

19.               A．raised          B．woke          C．turned    D．cheered

20.               A．nice           B．wonderful      C．terrible   D．special