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36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Last year , I lost my best friend in high school . It seemed that everyone else’s life could just continue on in its  36  way, but mine couldn’t . I wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to face  37  and their gossip at school . I was forced to    38   my routine on Monday morning as usual. In the evening I returned home from school   39   completely defeated . All I wanted to do was  40  into bed and wallow（沉迷于）in my own self-pity. I pulled back the covers on my bed and   41  a pile of cards left by dad . Each card included a（n）  42  that is was to be opened on a    43   night that week.

I made it through that week  44  my father . Each card  45  to say just what I needed to hear.Tuesday’s card said , “The past is painful to think about and the   46  is impossible to imagine.Don’t try.Just take it one minute at a time.”On Wednesday my mood  47  when I read. “What you are feeling now is   48  and normal.It still feels very bad , but it is part of the healing  49  .”Friday’s card contained a poem he wrote.The last lines made me smile through my tears. “Whatever special  50  you face along life’s way,may you  51  that you will find the best in every day.”I was instructed to open the last card  52  the party I went to on Saturday night . In it he wisely reminded me to   53  . “The world isn’t so bad after a good laugh.The more you laugh.the more you heal.”Each card was signed , “Love , Dad.”

My world once collapsed but I   54  the difficult breakup eventually. It owed to my dad, who made his  55  known when he couldn’t be present

1.A.pleasant            B.strange           C.funny         D.normal

2.A.everyone            B.anyone            C.someone       D.nobody

3.A.work out            B.meet with     C.deal with     D.come across

4.A.making          B.feeling           C.regarding     D.considering

5.A.crawl           B. push             C.jump          D.draw

6.A.invented            B.discovered        C.created           D.wrote

7.A.instruction     B.explanation   C.presentation      D.information

8.A.regular         B.flexible          C.particular        D.legal

9.A.in favor of     B.regardless of C.in search of      D.because of

10.A.seemed         B. happened         C.occurred      D.intended

11.A.life               B.future            C.dream         D.result

12.A.fell               B.passed            C.flew          D.lifted

13.A.false          B.honest            C.natural           D.innocent

14.A.content            B.process           C.cure          D.progress

15.A.destruction        B.competition   C.challenges        D.permission

16.A.trust          B.guess         C.predict           D.succeed

17.A.before         B.since         C.after         D.till

18.A.cry                B.scream            C.sing          D.laugh

19.A.got through        B.looked through    C.broke through D.put throngh

20.A.schedule           B.concept       C.soul          D.confidence

 

John and Bobby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to the position of manager but John remained an ordinary employee. John could not take it any more, tendered his resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not know how to delegate and did not value hard-working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him.

The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said, “Thank you for your criticism, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your decision and take back your resignation.”

John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg. John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to inform the boss $1.2 per kg.

Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone selling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, “Boss, only one person selling watermelon. $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10kg, he has inventory (清单) of 340 melons. On the table 58 melons, bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality.”

John was very impressed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign but to learn from Bobby.

Chances exist in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, while another sees only tomorrow. Then the difference between a year and a day is 365 times!

1.Why did John decide to hand in his resignation to the boss?

A.  Because he couldn’t stand being an ordinary employee.

B.  Because Bobby would take John’s former position.

C.  Because the boss was not flattered by his hard work.

D.  Because Bobby instead of him was promoted.

2. What did the boss ask John to do?

A. To go to market and find out whether there is someone selling watermelons.

B. To make a complete marketing research on the various prices of watermelons.

C. To search for much information about the effective ways to sell watermelons.

D. To make a comparison on the prices of different types of watermelons.

3. What sort of following information about watermelons was NOT brought by Bobby?

A. The price.                       B. The quality.

C. The quantity.                    D. The weight.

4. From the difference of John and Bobby, we may infer that a more successful person is more _____.

A.  alert, sensitive and passionate

B.  observant, thoughtful and exploratory

C.  considerate, modest and satisfied

confident, noble and tolerant

 

 

第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分,满30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、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。

         Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles ,it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth .Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

         When James was a teenager, his father   31   him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the Great Depression. The   32  was to get James a job.

         He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   33   had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the  34  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   35  a thickened air ,and the workers,   36   the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles  37  the boss marched up and down the rows ,searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   38  . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t  39  at him , too.

         During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   40 if there was any work for his son. But   41   there was barely enough   42   for the adult labours ,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

         Thus, for James, it was a   43  . He hated the place. He made a   44   that he kept to the end of his like: he would never do any work that brought   45   to someone else ,and he would never allow himself to   46   money off the seat of others.

         “What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.

         “I don’t know,” he   47   say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   48   , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the   49  of blood.

         “What will you do?”

50  , my best professor I ever had became he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

31．A．sent   B．took   C．carried       D．admitted

32．A．situation    B．condition   C．idea   D．attitude

33．A．lights B．floors C．chances     D．walls

34．A．goods         B．workers     C．machines   D．vehicles

35．A．creating     B．sending      C．taking         D．disturbing

36．A．collecting   B．pulling        C．drawing     D．sewing

37．A．as       B．after  C．if         D．though

38．A．breathe      B．see     C． walk          D．hear

39．A．attack         B．scold  C．defeat        D．scream

40．A．doubting    B．questioning        C．asking         D．demanding

41．A．also    B．still     C．yet     D．even

42．A．time   B．work  C．office D．occupation

43．A．comforting         B．regretting C．blessing     D．forgiving

44．A．request      B．promise     C．plan   D．arrangement

45．A．harm B．injury C．damage     D．inconvenience

46．A．pay     B．save   C．make D．let

47．A．should        B．would         C．could D． might

48．A．police          B．lawyers      C．judges        D．government

49．A．sight  B．feel    C．sense          D．scenery

50．A．Generally   B．Luckily         C．Eventually     D．Basically

 

Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.

He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock（闹钟）. He tried to shave（刮脸）quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing（熨）, so he ironed it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter（表）. He showed him where the meter was, said good-bye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn’t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper.

In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi. When Harry’s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry’s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o’clock in the afternoon before the police were sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about four, his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job.

1.Harry had __________.

A．a lucky day

B．an unlucky day

C．a busy day

D．a good day

2.Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage.

a. The man who read the electricity meter came.

b. Harry ironed his shirt.

c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt.

d. There was a knock at the door.

e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it.

A．a, b, c, d, e

B．b, a, d, c, e

C．b, a, c, d, e

D．c, b, d, a, e

3.Why did Harry wear the shirt with blood on it?

A．The iron had burnt a hole in his clean shirt.

B．The only other needed ironing.

C．He had only one shirt.

D．He cut himself and got blood all over his shirt.

4.Harry was taken to the police station because __________.

A．his taxi stopped outside his office and a policeman happened to be there

B．there was blood on his shirt and he was in a taxi

C．a man killed a woman with a knife

D．the murderer（杀人犯）was seen to run a away in a taxi

5. His boss told him to go away and find another job because __________.

A．he had been kept by the police	B．there was blood on his shirt
C．he was late for work	D．he had killed a woman

 

I was in a terrible mood. Two of my friends had gone to the movies the night before and hadn’t invited me．I was in my room thinking of ways to make them sorry when my father came in. “Want to go for a ride，today，Beck? It’s a beautiful day.”

         “No ! Leave me alone!” Those were the last words I said to him that morning．

         My friends called and invited me to go to the mall with them a few hours later．I forgot to be mad at them and when I came home to find a note on the table. My mother put it where I would be sure to see it. “Dad has had an accident. Please meet us at Highland Park Hospital”．

    When I reached the hospital，my mother came out and told me my father’s injuries were extensive.“ Your lather told the driver to leave him alone and just call 911，thank God! If he had moved Daddy，there’s no telling what might have happened．A broken rib（肋骨）might have pierced（穿透）a lung….”

         My mother may have said more，but I didn’t hear．I didn’t hear anything except those terrible words：Leave me alone．My dad said them to save himself from being hurt more．How much had I hurt him when I hurled those words at him earlier in the day?

    It was several days later that he was finally able to have a conversation．I held his hand gently, afraid of hurting him．

         “Daddy… I am so sorry….”

“It’s okay，sweetheart．I'll be okay．”

         “No，”I said，“I mean about what I said to you that day．You know, that morning?”

         My father could no more tell a lie than he could fly．He looked at me and said．“Sweetheart, I don’t remember anything about that day，  not before，during or after the accident.I remember kissing you goodnight the night before，though．”He managed a weak smile．

    My English teacher once told me that words have immeasurable power．They can hurt or they can heal．And we all have the power to choose our words. I intend to do that very carefully from now on.

1.The author was in bad mood that morning because        .

    A．his father had a terrible accident

    B．he couldn’t drive to the mall with his friends

    C．his friends hadn’t invited him to the cinema

    D．his father didn’t allow him to go out with his friends

2.Why did the author say sorry to his father in the hospital?

         A．Because he didn’t go along with his father．

         B．Because he was rude to his father that morning．

         C．Because he failed to come earlier after the accident．

         D．Because he couldn’t look after his father in the hospital

3.The reason why the author’s father said he forgot everything about that day is that     .

         A．he had a poor memory             B．he didn’t wanted to comfort his son

         C．he just wanted to comfort his son    D．he lost his memory after the accident

4.What lesson did Beck learn from the matter?

         A．Don’t treat your parents badly．

         B．Don’t hurt others with rude words．

         C．Don’t move the injured in an accident．

         D．Don’t be angry with friends at small things