阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   1a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever   2without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     3is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   4voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

    It  5years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 6on her experiments. Work was  7a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

    As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   8the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   9-- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

    Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   10money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   11the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.

    Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  12she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   13her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  14a genius." Elizabeth has  15her enthusiasm. _￥

We can't   16to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   17with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   18picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   19that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   20the wrinkles from our souls.

1.A. put                B. make         C. turn         D. get

2.A. expected       B. adopted      C. predicted        D. achieved

3.A. It             B. That         C. This         D. As

4.A. slight         B. outside      C. inner            D. low

5.A. spent          B. took         C. cost         D. paid

6.A. give off           B. give in          C. give out     D. give up

7.A. such           B. so           C. too          D. rather

8.A. links with     B. refers to        C. lies in          D. leads in

9.A. responsibility B. humor            C. trust            D. love

10.A. in case           B. regardless of    C. for fear of      D. in terms of

11.A. like          B. namely       C. as           D. likewise

12.A. after         B. since            C. before           D. until

13.A. pleased       B. shocked      C. worried      D. annoyed

14.A. nothing but       B. anything but C. everything but   D. something but

15.A. recalled          B. reflected        C. rediscovered D. remembered

16.A. pay           B. afford           C. affect           D. provide

17.A. thoroughly        B. absolutely       C. wholeheartedly   D. warm-heartedly

18.A. colored           B. white            C. green            D. red

19.A. money         B. title            C. power            D. life

20.A. pushes            B. softens      C. smoothes     D. folds

第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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

Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   36   a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever   37   without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     38   is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   39   voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

      It  40  years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 41  on her experiments. Work was  42  a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

      As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   43   the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   44   -- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

      Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   45   money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   46   the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.

      Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  47  she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   48  her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  49  a genius." Elizabeth has  50   her enthusiasm.

We can't   51   to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   52   with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   53   picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   54   that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   55   the wrinkles from our souls.

36. A. put                     B. make                C. turn                  D. get

37. A. expected             B. adopted             C. predicted           D. achieved

38. A. It                       B. That                  C. This                  D. As

39. A. slight                 B. outside              C. inner                 D. low

40. A. spent                  B. took                  C. cost                  D. paid

41. A. give off                     B. give in                  C. give out            D. give up

42. A. such                   B. so                     C. too                   D. rather

43. A. links with           B. refers to            C. lies in               D. leads in

44. A. responsibility      B. humor               C. trust                  D. love

45. A. in case                B. regardless of      C. for fear of         D. in terms of

46. A. like                    B. namely              C. as                     D. likewise

47. A. after                   B. since                 C. before               D. until

48. A. pleased              B. shocked             C. worried             D. annoyed

49. A. nothing but         B. anything but      C. everything but   D. something but

50. A. recalled                     B. reflected            C. rediscovered      D. remembered

51. A. pay                    B. afford               C. affect                D. provide

52. A. thoroughly          B. absolutely          C. wholeheartedly  D. warm-heartedly

53. A. colored               B. white                C. green                D. red

54. A. money                B. title                  C. power               D. life

55. A. pushes                B. softens              C. smoothes           D. folds

第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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_{K_S_5_U}

Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   36   a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever   37   without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     38   is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   39   voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

      It  40  years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 41  on her experiments. Work was  42  a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

      As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   43   the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   44   -- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

      Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   45   money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   46   the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.

      Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  47  she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   48  her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  49  a genius." Elizabeth has  50   her enthusiasm. _{￥高#考#资%源*网}

We can't   51   to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   52   with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   53   picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   54   that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   55   the wrinkles from our souls.

36. A. put                            B. make                C. turn                  D. get

37. A. expected             B. adopted             C. predicted           D. achieved

38. A. It                       B. That                  C. This                  D. As

39. A. slight                  B. outside              C. inner                 D. low

40. A. spent                  B. took                  C. cost                  D. paid

41. A. give off                     B. give in                  C. give out            D. give up

42. A. such                   B. so                     C. too                   D. rather

43. A. links with           B. refers to            C. lies in               D. leads in

44. A. responsibility      B. humor               C. trust                  D. love

45. A. in case                B. regardless of      C. for fear of         D. in terms of

46. A. like                    B. namely              C. as                     D. likewise

47. A. after                   B. since                 C. before               D. until

48. A. pleased              B. shocked             C. worried             D. annoyed

49. A. nothing but         B. anything but      C. everything but   D. something but

50. A. recalled                     B. reflected            C. rediscovered      D. remembered

51. A. pay                    B. afford               C. affect                D. provide

52. A. thoroughly          B. absolutely          C. wholeheartedly  D. warm-heartedly

53. A. colored               B. white                C. green                D. red

54. A. money                B. title                  C. power               D. life

55. A. pushes                B. softens              C. smoothes           D. folds

My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room. I was born and raised in America, and this was Miami, where I live, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet.

　 “Please wait in here, Ms. Abujaber,” the immigration officer said. My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied me. He was getting used to this. The same thing had happened recently in Canada when I’d flown to Montreal to speak at a book event. That time they held me for 45 minutes. Today we were returning from a literary festival in Jamaica, and I was shocked that I was being sent “in back” once again.

　　The officer behind the counter called me up and said, “Miss, your name looks like the name of someone who’s on our wanted list. We’re going to have to check you out with Washington.”

　　“How long will it take?”

　　“Hard to say…a few minutes,” he said, “We’ll call you when we’re ready for you.” After an hour, Washington still hadn’t decided anything about me.

“Isn’t this computerized?” I asked at the counter, “Can’t you just look me up?”

“Just a few more minutes,” they assured me.

　　After an hour and a half, I pulled my cell phone out to call the friends I was supposed to meet that evening. An officer rushed over. “No phones!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling a terrorist cell and giving them information.”

　　“I’m just a university professor,” I said. My voice came out in a squeak.

　　“Of course you are. And we take people like you out of here in leg irons every day.”

　　I put my phone away.

　　My husband and I were getting hungry and tired. Whole families had been brought into the waiting room, and the place was packed with excitable children, exhausted parents, and even a flight attendant.

　　I wanted to scream, to jump on a chair and shout: “I’m an American citizen; a novelist; I probably teach English literature to your children.”

After two hours in detention (扣押), I was approached by one of the officers. “You’re free to go,” he said. No explanation or apologies. For a moment, neither of us moved. We were still in shock. Then we leaped to our feet.

　　“Oh, one more thing,” he handed me a tattered photocopy with an address on it, “If you aren’t happy with your treatment, you can write to this agency.”

　　“Will they respond?” I asked.

　　“I don’t know—I don’t know of anyone who’s ever written to them before.” Then he added,” By the way, this will probably keep happening each time you travel internationally.”

　　“What can I do to keep it from happening again?”

　　He smiled the empty smile we’d seen all day, “Absolutely nothing.”

　　After telling several friends about our ordeal, probably the most frequent advice I’ve heard in response is to change my name. Twenty years ago, my own graduate school writing professor advised me to write under a pen name so that publishers wouldn’t stick me in what he called “the ethnic ghetto”—a separate, secondary shelf in the bookstore. But a name is an integral part of anyone’s personal and professional identity—just like the town you’re born in and the place where you’re raised.

　　Like my father, I’ll keep the name, but my airport experience has given me a whole new perspective on what diversity and tolerance are supposed to mean. I had no idea that being an American would ever be this hard.

1.The author was held at the airport because ______.

A. she and her husband returned from Jamaica

B. her name was similar to a terrorist’s

C. she had been held in Montreal

D. she had spoken at a book event

2.She was not allowed to call her friends because ______.

A. her identity hadn’t been confirmed yet

B. she had been held for only one hour and a half

C. there were other families in the waiting room

D. she couldn’t use her own cell phone

3.We learn from the passage that the author would ______ to prevent similar experience from happening again.

A. write to the agency?????????? B. change her name??

C. avoid traveling abroad??????? D. do nothing

4.Her experiences indicate that there still exists ______ in the US.

A. hatred???????????????????? B. discrimination?????

C. tolerance?????????????????? D. diversity

5.The author sounds ______ in the last paragraph.

A. impatient?? B. bitter???????? C. worried??????????? D. ironic (具有讽刺意味的)

Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I received a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 am and only one room gave off light. Many   would just shout once or twice and then drive away. But I thought this passenger might need my . So I walked to the door and  “Just a minute,” answered a weak, elderly   After a long time, the door opened. A small old womanbefore me, carrying a small suitcase. I took her suitcase and we walked slowly to the car. She kept thanking me for my kindness.

 When we got in the car, she gave me a (n)   and then asked to drive through the city center. But it wasn’t the  way. “Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to Westhill Old People’s Home. The doctor says I don’t have much time   .

We drove through the city center. She   me the building where she once worked. We drove past the church where she got married. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a building or at a corner and   ．sit looking at the darkness, saying nothing. When the sun began to   , we drove in silence to the old people’s home. When we arrived, almost   a second thought, I gave her a big hug (拥抱). “You gave an old woman a little moment of   . Thank you!” she said tearfully.

  I was totally lost in thought for the rest of the day. I can’t imagine what would happen if I  to do what I did? We always think that there are no great moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may consider a  one.

A. drivers B. workers C. guests D. passengers

A. advice B. help C. suggestion D. attention

A. stopped B. breathed C. worked D. knocked

A. sound B. noise C. voice D. shout

A. turned up B. set up C. got up D. put up

A. order B. address C. idea D. reason

A. busiest B. longest C. narrowest D. shortest

A. left B. saved C. lost D. spared

A. gave B. passed C. showed D. made

A. could B. would C. should D. must

A. move B. set C. rise D. burn

A. after B. with C. except D. without

A. patience B. courage C. joy D. sadness

A. refused B. offered C. planned D. regretted

A. difficult B. small C. strange D. interesting