Fool’s Day falls on 1st of April. People _36_forget the significance （意义） of the day.

   In March 1980. I was   37   at Durham University with seven other Chinese students. I had   38   to go to another university after graduation and had   39          application (申请)  forms to several  40  . Every morning I arrived at the porter’s office (传达室) and waited my fate. But no 41   came.

On April 1st, as I was eating my   42  , Huang came in , with a toothbrush  43  in his hand. 44   fearing that he might forget the important news , he passed me the  45 . “Morning  , Wu,” he said , “I saw Mr. G this morning. He told me that a letter had arrived in his office for you from Manchester University, and asked you to go and get it  46  possible.” I jumped with   47 .

   I  even didn’t   48  my breakfast and rushed to Mr. G’s  office but  he wasn’t   49   .  I then went to the secretary’s room and    50    everything to her. She opened Mr. G’s room. I looked at everything. There didn’t seem to be a letter for me. “If he had asked you to pick it up from here,” said the secretary , “ he would have put it in  51 or simply left it to me.”

Greatly  52  , I walked out of the room and   53  the  secretary lock it. 54    the secretary’s eyes   55  . “Sorry,” she said. “It’s April Fool’s Day!”

1.A sometimes         B. never                   C. always            D. seldom

2.A. staying             B. working               C. visiting           D. studying

3.A. continued         B. planned               C. managed         D. remembered

4.A. returned           B. taken                   C. handed            D. sent

5.A. people             B. colleges                C. cities               D. offices

6.A. application      B. report                   C. reply               D. chance

7.A. dinner               B. lunch                  C. supper             D. breakfast

8.A. still                   B. even                   C. yet                   D. already

9.A. Because of       B .As if                   C. After                D. While

10.A. message           B. sign                     C. letter                D. notice

11.A. if                      B. as soon as           C. when                D. as fast as

12.A. the news          B. the letter             C. joy                   D. luck

13.A. take                  B. finish                  C. complete         D. have

14.A. anywhere         B. in                        C. at                     D. away

15.A. asked               B. told                     C. explained         D. answered

16.A. the office        B. his desk            C. the room      D. an obvious（明显的） place

17.A. disappoint       B. disappointed        C. disappointing  D. disappointment

18.A. watched          B. made                    C. saw                  D. let

19.A. Quickly           B. Strangely              C. Finally            D. Suddenly

20.A. closed             B. opened                  C. brightly           D. darkened

 

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone,

“Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

  At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah, who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

  I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth….?

  She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room--- if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go.”

  Then she turned to me. Kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

  After watching crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood(情绪) had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.

Why did the author shout at the telephone?

　　A. He was mad at the telephone.             B. He was angry with his agent.

　　C. He was anxious about his wife.            D. He was impatient with the secretary.

What did the author’s wife do after she heard his shouting?

　　A. She said nothing.       B. She shouted at him

　　C. She called the agent.    D. She threw the phone away.

What made the author laugh?

　　A. His own behavior.       B. His wife’s suggestion.

　　C. His changeable feelings.  D. His wife’s sweet kiss.

What dose the underlined word “antics” refer to ?

A. Smart words  B. Unusual actions     C. Surprising looks        D. Anxious feelings

Some years ago I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s  36  filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so  37  that I decided to write an article about her.

I   38  Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She  39  and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I   40  I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there  41  , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that  42   Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story was just impossible. The  43   was almost unbearable. I    44   for days with draft after draft（草稿）. Finally I put my article into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My article   45  . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I  46   in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   47   the refusal letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, while   48  my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   49  :

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is nice. Yet we need some   50   materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to  51   your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to   52  . Fear of refusal cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars. More importantly, I lost years of   53   writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this   54  , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   55  to doubt yourself. 

1. A. joy                   B. voice           C. speech           D. smile

2. A. proud             B. active               C. satisfied            D. moved    

3. A. visited           B. ordered              C. phoned               D. interviewed

4. A. agreed            B. refused              C. hesitated            D. paused

5. A. admitted              B. discovered          C. explained            D. knew

6. A. seriously             B. patiently       C. nervously       D. quietly

7. A. blaming           B. fooling          C. inviting         D. urging

8. A. hardship              B. failure              C. comment          D. pressure

9.A. struggled              B. painted              C. wore             D. kept

10. A. disappeared          B. returned             C. spread               D. improved

11.A. compare               B. board            C. survive          D. compete

12.A. ignore            B. deliver              C. face                 D. receive

13. A. decorating           B. repairing        C. cleaning             D. leaving

14. A. disbelief            B. anxiety          C. horror           D. panic

15. A. subjective           B. related              C. private              D. reliable

16.A. broadcast             B. create               C. publish              D. judge

17. A. recover          B. prepare              C. escape           D. concentrate

18. A. steady               B. endless              C. typical              D. enjoyable

19. A. experience           B. success              C. benefit              D. accident

20.A. attempt               B. afford           C. expect           D. pretend

 

 

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项

Dear Mom and Dad,

I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty(调皮的) and the school principal(校长) is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here.    1. 

The trouble started last night when I was smoking in bed. This is against the rules, of course. 2. 

As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.

     3.       

There was a curtain(窗帘) near the waste-paper basket which caught fire too. Soon the whole room was burning.

 4.  The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.

The principal said that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage.  5.  

The principal phoned the fire department.

She doesn’t want me to smoke here.

We are not allowed to smoke at all.

She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.

She does not want me in her school any longer.

Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire.

G. The fire spread to another room

 

该自我介绍中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ＾), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。

修改： 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。

    I’m eighteen years old and I live in small village in the Peak District , not far from Nottingham. I grow up in this village, so I know everyone here. That’s the problem---- the problem is there’s nothing to do , and nobody of my age to do it with ! At the moments I travel into Nottingham every day to the shop as I work. There’s a bus at 7:30 in the morning or the last bus back in the evening is at 5:30 . From September, therefore, I’m going to stay in Nottingham by my aunt and uncle when my cousin joins in the Navy . I can use his room . I’m really looking forward to living in Nottingham.