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

Mary had her own special kind of joy, and she knew exactly how to spread it around. She lifted children from 　31　 into laughter, love, and belonging. Each time she found a new 　32　 for a child, she gave the family one of her little homemade paper roses. It had become a 　33　 for her, and the families didn't ever forget it.

One evening, Mary was 　34　 a meeting for adoptive parents. One of the 　35　 fathers stood up to introduce himself. But before he spoke, he reached into his coat pocket and held up a 　36　, red paper rose.

“Twenty years ago today, I felt alone and 　37　. I didn't know the talents inside me or what was possible for me.

Then Mary 　38　 two wonderful people into my life. They taught me what it was like to feel 　39　. They not only loved me 　40　. They opened a world of 　41　 that I didn't know existed. My new parents told me, ‘Reach for your dreams!’

I did, and today I'm 　42　 to be giving that chance to a child who 　43　 just like me. My mother gave me this little rose. By now, all of you 　44　 where she got it so long ago.

Mary sent me a new rose just yesterday. And my new rose 　45　 a new spring, a beautiful new 　46　 for my own little girl. It 　47　 me to show her what unconditional love is, and to teach her to reach for her own beautiful dreams.

Thank you, Mary, for the special little things like roses that 　48　 our lives together. And thank you for all you've done for me and so many families over the years!”

One brief even can send our spirits soaring or 　49　 us in quiet to ponder a new beginning.　50　 it is also the very small things, like Mary's roses, that tie together the meaningful things.

A. poverty                B. loneliness               C. misery                    D. suffering

A. home           B. place               C. school              D. life

A. glory            B. favor               C. habit               D. tradition

A. organizing        B. planning                 C. hosting              D. attending

A. new              B. grateful                  C. kind                D. active

A. broken          B. faded                    C. treasured            D. dried

A. tasteless         B. powerless                 C. priceless              D. worthless

A. directed         B. introduced               C. brought             D. accepted

A. loved           B. protected            C. cared              D. cheered

A. silently        B. continuously          C. unintentionally   D. unconditionally

A. necessities      B. possibilities                C. beauties             D. riches

A. eager          B. willing                     C. proud              D. lucky

A. started out      B. came up                   C. turned out           D. grew up

A. understand      B. guess                      C. tell               D. know  

A. replaces        B. symbolizes                C. equals            D. creates

A. chance         B. mystery               C. challenge            D. beginning

A. reminds            B. helps                        C. accompanies         D. drives

A. fix             B. close                 C. tie                   D. gather

A. cause            B. push                        C. put                            D. leave

A. Yet            B. Besides                    C. Otherwise           D. Therefore

II. 完成下列句子（每小题1.5分，共15分）

66. _________ _________(采取行动) before it’s too late, or we’ll lose the battle . ( action)

67. _____  _______  ______ ______(毫无疑问) the competition is fierce and challenging. (doubt).

68. ________  _____  ______（令我们吃惊的）, he was wearing false hair at the party. （surprise）

69. _____  ______  _____ _____（她的事业如此成功）that Mary was famous nationwide . （career, successful）

70. The book is said to _____ ________ _________（翻译） into several foreign languages. （translate）

71. He is _______ _________ _______（足够大） do the hard work. (old)

72. It took me two hours _______ _______ _______（完成） reading the novels. (finish)

73. Only by discovering what we do best _____  _________  ___________ (我们才能才能希望)  reach our goals and truly make a difference. (hope)

74. I’m looking forward to_____   _______  _________(收到你的来信). (hear)

75. I met Tom at the school gate this morning, so he _____ ______ ______（不可能去了）to America. (go)

 

 

完形填空  

 阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。

Mary had her own special kind of joy. and she knew exactly how to spread it around. She lifted children from  1 into laughter，love，and belonging.

 Each time she found a new  2  for a child，she gave the family one of her little homemade paper roses. It had become a  3  for her,and the families didn’t’ever forget it．

    One evening，Mary was 4  a meeting for adoptive parents．0ne of the  5  fathers stood up to introduce himself. But before he spoke,he reached into his coat pocket and held up a 6 ，red paper rose.

    “Twenty years ago today, I felt alone and  7 .I didn’t know the talents inside me or what was possible for me.

    Then Mary 8  two wonderful people into my life. They taught me what it was like to feel  9  .They not only loved me  10.They opened a world of  11 that I didn’t know existed．My new parents told me，‘Reach for your dreams!’

    I did, and today I’m  12 to be giving that chance to a child who  13  just like me. My mother gave me this little rose. By now，all of you  14  where she got it so long ago.

    Mary sent me a new rose just yesterday. And my new rose 15  a new spring，a beautiful new  1 6  for my own little girl. It  1 7  me to show her what unconditional love is，and to teach her to reach for her own beautiful dreams.

    Thank you, Mary，for the special little things like roses that  18  our lives together. And thank you for all you’ve done for me and so many families over the years!”

    One brief event can send our spirits soaring or  19  us in

 quiet to ponder a new beginning.  20   it is also the very small

 things，like Mary’s roses，that tie together the meaningful things.

   1．A．poverty    B．10neliness  C．misery D．suffering   

2．A．home    B．place   C．school D．1ife   

3．A．glory    B．favor  C．habit D．tradition   

4．A. organizing    B. planning  C. hosting  D. attending   

5．A．new    B．grateful  C．kind D．active   

6．A．broken    B．faded  C．treasured D．dried   

7．A．tasteless    B．powerless C．priceless D．worthless   

8．A．directed    B．introduced  C．brought D．accepted

9．A．10ved    B．protected  C．cared D．cheered   

1 0．A. silently B. continuously

C．unintentionally D．unconditionally   

1 1．A．necessities   B.possibilities  C. beauties D．riches   

1 2．A．eager    B．willing  C．proud    D．1ucky    

13．A．started out    B．came up C．turned out D．grew up   

1 4．A．understand    B．guess C．tell D．know   

1 5．A．replaces    B．symbolizes C．equals D．creates   

1 6．A．chance    B．mystery C．challenge D．beginning   

1 7．A．reminds    B．helps  C．accompanies D．drives   

18．A．fix    B．close  C．tie D．gather   

19．A．cause    B．push  C．put D．1cave   

20．A．Yet    B．Besides C．Otherwise D．Therefore   

语法填空（每题1分，共10分）

One day Mary was busy working in her office in London when she received an E-mail from her friend Joan .In Joan’s e-mail, she persuaded Mary 1.______( look) for a flat in London for her. As she had 2.____ (little) money at her command than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators, gas lines. It had to be in the 3._______ (east) part of London, with petrol and subway stations nearby. Though Mary found 4._____difficult to find such a flat, she still went from one block to another, looking for a flat 5._______would meet Joan’s requirements. Having tried too many times, Mary came up 6.______her boss and politely asked him 7.____advice. It was the first time that she 8.___________ (talk) with his boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached 9.____agreement. But to her surprise, when she e-mailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed 10._____ mind--- she was not returning to London.

 

 

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)

         阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact   16.           she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished  17.           a driving mistake.

Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without  18.          (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason  19.                     she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak        20             old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished  21.            he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she  22.              (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had  23               (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts   24.           your eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary  25.          (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.