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　　Joe Biggs was a butcher(肉商) in a village. He worked in it for many years while his father was there. Then when his father 1 the age of 65, he stopped working. Joe was alone in it, so he had to work 2 .

　　Joe worked five and a half days a week. His shop 3 at one o'clock on Thursday, and it was shut 4 of Sunday. Saturdays were the 5 day.

　　Most of Joe's 6 came to his shop from the nearest town. However sometimes he got up earlier 7 and drove into the city to choose meat. It was cheaper there.

　　Joe had a big refrigerator in his shop, but he tried not to buy too much meat 8 , and to sell it 9 he bought more.

　　One day a woman came into the shop at five minutes to one. “I'm 10 , I'm late,” she said, “ 11 some people have just phoned to say that they are going to 12 tonight, and I need some meet.” Joe only had 13 of good meat. He had sold 14 earlier in the day. He took the piece out and said, “This is 6.5 pounds.”

　　“That piece is too 15 ,”the woman said, “Haven't you got anything bigger?” Joe went into the room behind his shop, opened the refrigerator, 16 the piece of meat into it, took 17 out again and shut the door of the refrigerator 18 . Then he brought the piece back to the woman and said, “This piece is bigger and 19 . It's 8.75 pounds.”

　　“Good,” the woman said with a smile. “Give me 20 of them.”

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第二节 完形填空。（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。

Christmas was an exciting season for my six-year-old son. For weeks, he’d been memorizing   36  for the “Winter Ceremony” in his kindergarten class. I went to  37  their rehearsal(排演).

As I waited, students were led into the room. Each class,  38  by their teacher, sat cross-legged on the floor. Then, each group, one by one  39  to perform their song. I didn’t expect anything other than fun.

My son’s class rose to sing “Christmas Love”. Those in the front row on the center stage held up large  40 , one by one, to spell out the  41  of the song. When the class sang: “C is for Christmas,” a child would hold up the letter C, then another would hold up “H” for happy, and on and on,  42  each child was holding up a letter, presenting the  43  message, “Christmas Love”.

The performance was going  44 , until suddenly we noticed her, a small, quiet girl in the  45  row holding the letter “M” upside down-totally  46  that her letter “M” appeared as a “W”. The audience began to laugh at this little girl’s  47 . But she had no idea that they were laughing at her, so she stood tall,  48  holding her “W”.  49  many teachers tried to quiet the children, the  50  continued until the last letter was raised, and we all saw it together. A  51  came over the audience and eyes began to  52 . In that instant we understood the  53  why we were there, and even though it was such a busy holiday, there was a(n)  54  for celebrating Christmas. When the  55  letter was held high, the message read loud and clear: “ CHRIST WAS LOVE”. And I believe that this is why Christmas is so important.

36. A. songs                        B. message                         C. texts                                D. performance

37. A. direct                        B. celebrate                        C. design                             D. attend

38. A. led                             B. accompanied                 C. looked                             D. pulled

39. A. stood                        B. turned                             C. rose                                 D. came

40. A. letters                      B. words                              C. names                             D. boards

41. A. topic                         B. title                                  C. idea                                  D. theme

42. A. when                        B. after                                C. until                                 D. while

43. A. exact                        B. complete                        C. proper                             D. right

44. A. smoothly                 B. happily                            C. heatedly                         D. joyfully

45. A. back                          B. middle                             C. left                                   D. front

46. A. ignoring              B. unknown                         C. unaware                         D. recognizing

47. A. action                       B. play                                  C. mistake                           D. joke

48. A. highly                        B. proudly                            C. clearly                             D. bravely

49. A. Unless                      B. As                                     C. Although                         D. In spite of

50. A. performance          B. laughter                          C. audience                         D. message

51. A. fear                           B. worry                               C. pride                                D. silence

52. A. widen                       B. close                                C. rise                                   D. wink

53. A. cause                        B. reason                             C. way                                  D. place

54. A. purpose                   B. excuse                             C. reward                                     D. song

55. A. seventh                    B. middle                             C. last                                   D. full

第二节 完形填空。（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。

Christmas was an exciting season for my six-year-old son. For weeks, he’d been memorizing   36  for the “Winter Ceremony” in his kindergarten class. I went to  37  their rehearsal(排演).

As I waited, students were led into the room. Each class,  38  by their teacher, sat cross-legged on the floor. Then, each group, one by one  39  to perform their song. I didn’t expect anything other than fun.

My son’s class rose to sing “Christmas Love”. Those in the front row on the center stage held up large  40 , one by one, to spell out the  41  of the song. When the class sang: “C is for Christmas,” a child would hold up the letter C, then another would hold up “H” for happy, and on and on,  42  each child was holding up a letter, presenting the  43  message, “Christmas Love”.

The performance was going  44 , until suddenly we noticed her, a small, quiet girl in the  45  row holding the letter “M” upside down-totally  46  that her letter “M” appeared as a “W”. The audience began to laugh at this little girl’s  47 . But she had no idea that they were laughing at her, so she stood tall,  48  holding her “W”.  49  many teachers tried to quiet the children, the  50  continued until the last letter was raised, and we all saw it together. A  51  came over the audience and eyes began to  52 . In that instant we understood the  53  why we were there, and even though it was such a busy holiday, there was a(n)  54  for celebrating Christmas. When the  55  letter was held high, the message read loud and clear: “ CHRIST WAS LOVE”. And I believe that this is why Christmas is so important.

36. A. songs                  B. message                   C. texts                        D. performance

37. A. direct                 B. celebrate                  C. design                      D. attend

38. A. led                            B. accompanied             C. looked                            D. pulled

39. A. stood                  B. turned                      C. rose                         D. came

40. A. letters                 B. words                      C. names                      D. boards

41. A. topic                  B. title                         C. idea                         D. theme

42. A. when                  B. after                        C. until                        D. while

43. A. exact                  B. complete                  C. proper                      D. right

44. A. smoothly            B. happily                    C. heatedly                   D. joyfully

45. A. back                   B. middle                            C. left                          D. front

46. A. ignoring                 B. unknown                  C. unaware                   D. recognizing

47. A. action                 B. play                         C. mistake                    D. joke

48. A. highly                B. proudly                    C. clearly                            D. bravely

49. A. Unless                B. As                           C. Although                  D. In spite of

50. A. performance        B. laughter                   C. audience                   D. message

51. A. fear                    B. worry                      C. pride                        D. silence

52. A. widen                 B. close                        C. rise                          D. wink

53. A. cause                  B. reason                      C. way                         D. place

54. A. purpose                     B. excuse                      C. reward                            D. song

55. A. seventh               B. middle                            C. last                          D. full