根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案填写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项为多余的选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

    Alice’s mother is very ill. She wishes to take a few days off from school so she goes to her teacher, Mr Green.

―Excuse me, Mr Green．I’d like to take a few days off．

―_______

―My mother’s ill．I have to take care of her．

―Oh dear! I’m sorry to hear that．_______

―No, thank you．My mother has caught a bad cold．She has a high fever and coughs day and night．The doctor says my mother has to be in hospital for a few days．I’d like to be with her．

―I understand．________

―I hope to be back next Wednesday．

―That’s all right．________

―Thank you , Mr Green．That’s very kind of you．I’ll write it immediately．

―_______I’ll certainly help you with them when you get back．

第二节: 完形填空（共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-30各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
It was 3:43. Thunder was crashing and the rain pouring. Suddenly my father_____16_____into my room.
“Adam! Adam! Get up! We’re flooding!” he shouted and shook me by the shoulders. That _______17______me up! I ran downstairs to the basement(地下室). It was like a swimming pool.
My mother and I immediately started to pick up things and ______18______them upstairs. I had no _______19_______ on, so my feet were absolutely freezing.
Things got worse every minute. Within the next hour, we had moved ______20______that we could to the first floor. The computer, big-screen television and heavy boxes______21_______with our most valuable things were taken to safety. However, our piano, sofa, washing machine and water heater were all still down there-----being______22______. There was nothing we could do.
That was the ______23________part. Knowing that your home is being destroyed is bad enough, but realizing that you can’t do anything to stop it feels even worse. Most people don’t really know how sickening the feeling of being totally helpless is.
Water had come in our front door. Rescue_______24_______ were floating in our streets. Mother told me to pack an overnight bag of clothes and valuables and get ready to leave.
When it was______25_______ safe to walk inside, all the people in the neighborhood ______26______ at the street corner. People became friends, and friends became like family. People comforted each other. We_______27_______later that the National Weather Service had _______28_______ the storm a flash flood.
I really have learned something from this flood. I have learned what destruction is. I’ve learned what ______29______ means. I know in the future, when I watch people’s lives _______30_______ by natural disasters, I can understand them. I will show great pity on them and I will do what I can to help them.
16. A. rushed    B. climbed     C. fell       D. looked
17. A. showed    B. phoned     C. dressed     D. woke
18. A. take       B. catch       C. help        D. make
19. A. hat        B. shoes      C. jacket      D. glasses
20. A. something  B. nothing     C. anything    D. everything
21. A. covered    B. crowded    C. filled       D. fixed
22. A. discovered  B. arranged    C. measured   D. destroyed
23. A. hardest     B. longest     C. earliest     D. smallest
24. A. ships       B. boats      C. cars       D. buses
25.A. usually      B. finally     C. exactly    D. certainly
26.A. restored     B. developed   C. gathered    D. recovered
27. A. learned     B. realized     C. thought     D. concluded
28. A. made      B. appointed  C. declared    D. elected
29. A. truth       B. safety     C. value      D. regret
30. A. shared      B. rescued    C. risked       D. affected

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案填写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项为多余的选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

    Alice’s mother is very ill. She wishes to take a few days off from school so she goes to her teacher, Mr Green.

―Excuse me, Mr Green．I’d like to take a few days off．

―___1.____

―My mother’s ill．I have to take care of her．

―Oh dear! I’m sorry to hear that．____2.___

―No, thank you．My mother has caught a bad cold．She has a high fever and coughs day and night．The doctor says my mother has to be in hospital for a few days．I’d like to be with her．

―I understand．___3._____

―I hope to be back next Wednesday．

―That’s all right．____4.____

―Thank you , Mr Green．That’s very kind of you．I’ll write it immediately．

―____5.___I’ll certainly help you with them when you get back．

完形填空(共10小题, 每小题2分，共20分)
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能正确填入相应空格的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
What kind of car will we be driving in 2020? Rather different from the___31___we know today, with the next 12 years bringing greater changes than the past 60. The people who will be___32___the models of tomorrow believe that___33___problems may well increase the speed of the car’s development. Today they are students on the___34___design course at London’s Royal College of Art.
Their imagination is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, 35___powered, environmentally friendly , and able to drive itself along___36___roads equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will___37___their fuel during long journeys from power companies built into the road, or store it in small quantities for travelling in the street.
This view of the future car is___38___on a much more super road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is to say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become___39___for cars to crash into one another. The___40___already exists for the car to become a true automobile in the future.
31. A. design           B. type                  C. colour                   D. size
32.A. studying         B. selling               C. buying                  D. designing
33. A. social            B. political              C. environmental        D. scientific
34. A. transport       B. industry             C. agriculture             D. spaceship
35. A. specially        B. chemically          C. automatically         D. electrically
36. A. modern         B. wide                   C. safe                      D. intelligent
37. A. take in          B. cut down             C. pick up                 D. gain over
38. A. based            B. built                  C. accepted               D. operated
39. A. possible          B. impossible           C. necessary            D. unnecessary
40. A. result             B. rule                   C. material                D. technology