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。

根据所给中文完成句子（共30空，每空填一词0.5分，满分15分）

他还告诉我们赢得尊重的最佳途径就是专心学习并取得好成绩。

He also told us that the best way to earn respect was to _______  ________ to study and __________high grades.

我发现这里布置的家庭作业不像我以前在原来学校时那么繁重。

I found that the homework was not ______ _______ _______ _________ I used to get in my old school.

学习一结束他就开始游历中国。

________ ________his studies, he started travelling in China.

很多青少年感到孤独，好像没有人理解他们以及他们正在经历的变化。

Many teenagers feel lonely, _______ ________ no one understands them and the changes they are ________   __________.

男孩和女孩在这方面往往有所不同。

Boys and girls  _______ ________ __________ different in this regard.

球如此重地打在他身上以至于他差点儿落入水中。我转过头去看那些孩子们，但一个也看不见。

The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water .  I________ to look at the children, but there were not any_______ __________.

Jasper曾把几块“禁止停车”的牌子挂在大门外边，但没有任何效果。

Jasper has_______ _________ “No Parking” signs outside his gate, but these have not any_______.

这是我见过的最丑陋的头像之一。

It’s one of the ugliest faces I ______ _______ _________.

那小溪弯弯曲曲穿过田野，然后正好从他们的帐篷底下流过去。

The stream _______ its________ across the field and then flowed right under their tent.

我们喜爱他们就像我们喜欢漂亮的窗帘布一样.

We like them in _______ ________ ________ _________ we like pretty curtain materials.

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

1.I wonder                                            those sentences on the blackboard.(set)

我想知道你是否写下了黑板上的那些句子。

2.The girl,                             suffered a lot in that accident. (talk)

和我交谈的女孩，在那次事故中承受了太多痛苦。

3.He pretended to forget this as if                                                    . (happen)

他假装忘记了这件事，就好像什么都没有发生一样。

4.He is a stubborn person  who                                                              . (get)

他是个固执的人，很难相处。

5.We told a white lie to him __________                  _     __upset him.(order)

为了不让他难过，我们撒了个善意的谎言。

6.He had a lot of trouble                                                    his spare time. (use)

他不懂得充分利用他的闲暇时间。

7.Today the public________ food safety after the incident happened.(concern)

这个事件发生后，公众担忧食品安全。

8.She found it hard to trust her husband and insisted that he                  wherever he went.(tell)

她发现很难相信她的丈夫，坚持要求他无论到哪里都应该告诉她。

9.Never                                        , otherwise I would have recognized him .(see)

我从来没有看见过他，否则我就已经认出他来了。

10.As we all know,                                                                     naughty. (all)

我们都知道，不是所以的孩子都是调皮的。

根据所给中文完成句子（共30空，每空填一词0.5分，满分15分）

1.他还告诉我们赢得尊重的最佳途径就是专心学习并取得好成绩。

He also told us that the best way to earn respect was to _______  ________ to study and __________high grades.

2.我发现这里布置的家庭作业不像我以前在原来学校时那么繁重。

I found that the homework was not ______ _______ _______ _________ I used to get in my old school.

3.学习一结束他就开始游历中国。

________ ________his studies, he started travelling in China.

4.很多青少年感到孤独，好像没有人理解他们以及他们正在经历的变化。

Many teenagers feel lonely, _______ ________ no one understands them and the changes they are ________  __________.

5.男孩和女孩在这方面往往有所不同。

Boys and girls  _______ ________ __________ different in this regard.

6.球如此重地打在他身上以至于他差点儿落入水中。我转过头去看那些孩子们，但一个也看不见。

The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water .  I________ to look at the children, but there were not any_______ __________.

7.Jasper曾把几块“禁止停车”的牌子挂在大门外边，但没有任何效果。

Jasper has_______ _________ “No Parking” signs outside his gate, but these have not any_______.

8.这是我见过的最丑陋的头像之一。

It’s one of the ugliest faces I ______ _______ _________.

9.那小溪弯弯曲曲穿过田野，然后正好从他们的帐篷底下流过去。

The stream _______ its________ across the field and then flowed right under their tent.

10.我们喜爱他们就像我们喜欢漂亮的窗帘布一样.

We like them in _______ ________ ________ _________ we like pretty curtain materials.