Because I was ______ the new limit beforehand, I was stopped and fined for speeding.

  A. bored with     B. unaware of    C. uninterested in     D. tired from

Because I was ______ the new limit beforehand, I was stopped and fined for speeding.

  A. bored with     B. unaware of    C. uninterested in     D. tired from

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　　All kinds of people came in to have their shoes shined. Most folks were friendly. But this man was different.

　　“How much do you make a week, boy?”he asked me. I felt he was __1__ at me.

　　He kept giving a sharp __2__ around every now and then. All the time I kept __3__ where I'd seen his face. Suddenly I knew. I'd seen his __4__ in the post office many times. He was the big robber: __5__ by the police in three states!

　　“You know, ”he was saying,“it's imagination people __6__. You'll never get anywhere as a shoeshine boy.”

　　I kept brushing on his shoes as __7__ as I could. The sooner I finished, the better. He said,“When I was sixteen, I had __8__ $ 2 500 of my own.”

　　That reminded me of something. Was it $ 2 500 or $ 5 000 or $ 25 000? I wasn't __9__. I knew a big reward was __10__ for him.

　　But what could I do about it? __11__ him with a can of shoe polish（擦亮剂）? A man his __12__ could grind（压碎）me into the floor. If only someone would come in! He kept talking away（喋喋不休）.“Along with __13__, it takes courage. The courage to take a chance. Start something on a shoestring（鞋带）.”

　　Suddenly I saw Officer Dailey __14__ across the street. Then, real fast, I began tightening the man's shoestrings.

　　The policeman was at the window when I cried out,“Officer Dailey, __15__! This man's a robber.”

　　“__16__,”the man shouted angrily. He started to jump off the stand. But he didn't go the __17__ he planned. He fell flat on his face and knocked himself out cold.

　　“That was __18__ clever of you,”the officer said. “You'll get a reward of $ 7 500 for him.”

　　“Well, it really wasn't my __19__,”I said.“It was his. He told me that __20__ you had courage and imagination, you could start something big on a shoestring.”

(1)A.staring	B.glaring	C.laughing	D.pointing
(2)A.look	B.walk	C.word	D.tongue
(3)A.considering	B.remembering	C.caring	D.wondering
(4)A.notice	B.picture	C.mail	D.warning
(5)A.wanted	B.searched	C.caught	D.shown
(6)A.respect	B.treasure	C.lack	D.wish
(7)A.carefully	B.showly	C.well	D.fast
(8)A.made	B.stolen	C.borrowed	D.gathered
(9)A.curious	B.sure	C.interested	D.clear
(10)A.afforded	B.offered	C.suggested	D.received
(11)A.Injure	B.Warn	C.Hit	D.Avoid
(12)A.size	B.age	C.height	D.kind
(13)A.money	B.support	C.cleverness	D.imagination
(14)A.wandering	B.leaving	C.coming	D.speeding
(15)A.help	B.danger	C.stop	D.attention
(16)A.Mind you	B.Shut up	C.Hurry up	D.Hands up
(17)A.method	B.position	C.manner	D.way
(18)A.pretty	B.much	C.very much	D.too much
(19)A.business	B.idea	C.reward	D.praise
(20)A.unless	B.that	C.whether	D.if

----How do you find our company?

  ----A little worried. We _________ ground as a leader in the field of IT with the others speeding up development.

A .have lost           B. are losing                 C. lost            D. were losing

 

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，从短文后所给的四个选项（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。

Like most people , I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important   36  :giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you  37  money.

This is how I  38  with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store  39  to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the  40  .If an accident takes pace, the  41  of which I think the local police could use, I  42  him up and tell him about it, though I am mot in  43  here. One discovery I made about this world is to give  44  getting something back, though the  45  often comes in an unexpected form.

One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important  46  letter to my home, though it was  47  to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of  48  .More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was  49  .I was told at the window that there were  50  boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long  51  list. As I was about to  52  , the postmaster appeared in the  53  . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office  54  we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get  55  but complaints."

36. A. decision B. research      C. speech          D. discovery

37. A. earn       B. lack      C. spend  D. steal

38. A. experienced  B. connected   C. combined     D. agreed

39. A. happens         B. flashes          C. sticks   D. leads

40. A. postmaster   B. headmaster         C. storekeeper         D. policeman

41. A. story      B. damage        C. challenge     D. material

42. A. call          B. hold      C. break   D. pick

43. A. need       B. trouble         C. common       D. charge

44. A. within    B. without        C. for        D. before

45. A. process B. goal      C. return  D. concern

46. A. curious  B. immediate   C. special D. heavy

47. A. realized B. addressed   C. forgotten     D. brought

48. A. invitation        B. apology        C. instruction   D. appreciation

49. A. dealing  B. providing      C. operating     D. starting

50. A. enough  B. some   C. no         D. more

51. A. admitting       B. relating        C. examining    D. waiting

52. A. leave      B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct

53. A. window B. doorway       C. library  D. yard

54. A. in case   B. now that      C. even if         D. as if

55. A. anything         B. everything   C. nothing         D. something