阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.  36  the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I  37  the bird before I saw it.

“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.

“It’s coming from the  38  .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little  39  .”

I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s  40   I saw the sparrow. It was flying  41  just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly  42  to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but  43  and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head 44  the ceiling.

I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the  45  open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet  46   it could get outside, but that only seemed to  47  it more.

“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita  48  .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”

We went back into the house, where we  49  to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was  50  and our uninvited guest was gone.

I’ve  51  that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were  52  to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the  53  that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make  54  without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much  55  .

36.A. Still              B. Somehow          C. Instead              D. Perhaps

【答案】B

【解析】不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。

37.A. heard            B. caught               C. searched           D. observed

【答案】A

【解析】根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。

38.A. house           B. backyard           C. garage               D. basement

【答案】C

【解析】根据36题所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。

39.A. birds            B. guests               C. cats                  D. kids

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子

40.A. when            B. how                  C. why                  D. whether

【答案】A

【解析】when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”

41.A. quickly         B. anxiously           C. cautiously          D. slowly

【答案】B

【解析】anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。

42. A. deciding       B. hesitating           C. trying                D. choosing

【答案】C

【解析】try to get out努力要出去。

43. A. up               B. backward          C. forward            D. down

【答案】D

【解析】但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。

44. A. against         B. off                    C. along                D. into

【答案】A

【解析】bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板

45. A. free             B. small                 C. wide                 D. dark

【答案】B

【解析】门和天花板之间的空间很小。

46. A. in case         B. even if               C. as though          D. so that

【答案】D

【解析】so that 引导目的状语从句。

47. A. puzzle          B. confuse             C. frighten             D. disturb

【答案】C

【解析】但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人

48. A. suggested     B. explained           C. insisted             D. demanded

【答案】A

【解析】why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。

49. A. attempted     B. continued          C. refused             D. failed

【答案】B

【解析】continue to do sth继续干某事

50. A. fierce           B. empty               C. safe                  D. silent

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静

51.A. looked after   B. worried about    C. thought about    D. brought up

【答案】C

【解析】Ａ．照看　Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考  Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。

52. A. forced         B. determined         C. born                 D. urged

【答案】C

【解析】be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”

53. A. idea             B. possibility          C. challenge           D. problem

【答案】B

【解析】我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。

54. A. progress      B. peace                C. decisions           D. efforts

【答案】A

【解析】make progress取得进步

55. A. panic           B. pressure            C. loss                  D. trouble

【答案】D

【解析】save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。

阅读下列各小题，根据该句的中文意思，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

71．While ______________ ,you were careless and it got loose and was hit by a car．(walk)

遛狗时，你不小心让狗跑了，狗被一辆车撞了。

72．It is the first time that ______________ a plan．(come)

这是她第一次提出一个计划。

73．It is Tom ______________ classical music．(fond)

正是汤姆喜欢经典音乐。

74．______________ just now,she has changed her mind．(because)

因为你刚才所说的，他改变了注意。

75．______________,the hiking is an unforgettable experience．(concern)

在我看来，那次远足是一次难忘的经历。

76．______________,I prefer to stay at home．(go)

比起外出，我更喜欢待在家里。

77．To our joy,Peter ______________ computer games last week．(persuade)

让我们高兴的是，上周彼得被说服不玩电脑游戏了。

78．The students asked _______________．（hold）

    学生们问会议将何时举行。

79．_______________ your spare time,and you’ll make much progress．(make)

充分利用你的业余时间，你会取得大的进步。

80．The boy ________________ in the English play is my brother．(play)

将在英语短剧中扮演一个重要角色的那个男孩是我哥哥。

每句只有一个错误。按下列情况改正: 该句多一个词，把多余的词用斜线( \ ) 划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉; 该句缺一个词，在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该句右边横线上写出该加的词;该句错一个词，在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意:不要改动原句的意思。

61. Each time when we celebrate a festival it changes a little.             61.___________

62. Oprah Winfrey makes possible to talk about great moments and difficulties in people’s lives in her television shows.                                            

62.___________

63. Mianyang lies to the northwest of Sichuan.                         63.___________

64. Dustin Hoffman is famous as his role acting as a woman.              64.___________

65. Dated back to the Qin Dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries.                             

 65.___________

每句只有一个错误。按下列情况改正: 该句多一个词，把多余的词用斜线( \ ) 划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉; 该句缺一个词，在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该句右边横线上写出该加的词;该句错一个词，在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:不要改动原句的意思。
61. Each time when we celebrate a festival it changes a little.             61.___________
62. Oprah Winfrey makes possible to talk about great moments and difficulties in people’s lives in her television shows.                                            
62.___________
63. Mianyang lies to the northwest of Sichuan.                        63.___________
64. Dustin Hoffman is famous as his role acting as a woman.             64.___________
65. Dated back to the Qin Dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries.                             
65.___________

单句改错（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

每句只有一个错误。按下列情况改正：该句多一个词，把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉；该句缺一个词，在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该句右边横线上写出该加的词；该句错一个词，在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：不要改动原句的意思。

1. Little Mary felt cold, so she stood closely to her mother.                                     

2. There are a huge number of workers are striking in the street for better working conditions.       

3. Please put the book to where it was, so that we can easily find it.                            

4. One of the world’s largest art galleries, the Louvre, located in Paris.                            

5. I would gladly pay twice as many for the book, because it is quite a useful one.