完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Returning from a trip overseas, I sensed that something was wrong between Keith, one of my two sons, and me. So I asked him, “Keith, have I done anything that really _  1__ your feeling?”

Immediately, he said, “Yes. Last Christmas you promised us a special    2    that I really wanted but you never gave it to me.”

    The    3   was that I’d completely forgotten about it. I   4     , “Is there anything else I’ve done wrong, but didn’t apologized for?”

Again, his   5    was immediate, “Remember last Christmas when Mom said you had to go to the     6   because Stephen was going to be born? You left us at home and   7    in a hurry. Remember?” 

“Well, you left and forgot the suitcase.” I couldn’t believe he    8     all the details! “After you came back from the hospital you were    9    . When you got home, the suitcase had been opened and everything had been thrown all over the place and you 10   me.”

“And you didn’t do it?” I asked.

“No, I didn’t . I was just searching for my gift.”

My heart sank. I felt   11    . I hugged Keith and asked him to   12     me. His Honesty made me think of our other son, Kevin. Maybe I’d hurt his feelings, too. I went to ask him the same question. Kevin’s answer was as immediate as his   13    , “Last Christmas you promised us a special toy, but you forgot about it.”

Though Christmas had passed, I took my two sons to the store that day and bought them what I had promised. The   14    thing wasn’t the toy. The problem was I’d made a promise too   15     and didn’t keep it as their father.

 1．A．showed         B．hurt           C．attended        D．expressed  

 2．A．candy          B．book           C．picture         D．toy  

 3．A．challenge     B．message       C．idea          D．fact  

 4．A．complained    B．apologized                       C．continued      D．explained 

 5．A．suggestion     B．answer         C．memory         D．blame

 6．A．hospital        B．church        C．school        D．garden

 7．A．settled down                     B．went on        C．set off       D．got up

 8．A．knew           B．imagined      C．discovered     D．remembered

 9．A．angry          B．worried        C．happy          D．satisfied

10．A．praised        B．punished      C．helped         D．educated

11．A．terrible      B．hopeless       C．inspired       D．encouraged

12．A．support       B．criticize                        C．suspect        D．forgive

13．A．mother         B．brother       C．sister         D．father

14．A．strange        B．interesting   C．important     D．difficult

15．A．lightly        B．rudely         C．equally        D．truly

I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with

the easy carelessness of  youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me

years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I

was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

"Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?"

"I try to."

"Well, don't," he exclaimed. "When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches.    Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge（投入）in without delay.

The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in sentence “        ”.

A．The forests in the north of the province stretch for hundreds of miles.

B．Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.

C．My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

D．During his senior year his earnings far enough to buy an old car.

Which of the following statements is true?

A．The writer didn’t completely take the teacher’s words to heart at first.

B．Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer's life since he became a student.

C．The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

D．Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

We can infer that the writer             . 

A．has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B．is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

C．has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D．can find sufficient time for mental preparations beforehand, so he's devoted to work   instantly

What is the best title of this passage?

A．Concentrate on Your Work            B．A Little at a Time

C．How I Became a Writer              D．Good Advice Is Most Valuable

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
An unforgettable experience
It was a cold winter day. I rushed down the busy road towards the bus stop. Taxis passed me one after another   36  I didn’t have enough money to get one. My wallet was in my pocket but  37  I had was a five-yuan note. Taking a bus would  38  three, so I would be left with only   39   to buy something to eat. I was very hungry as I had only eaten one meal all day. Waiting at the bus stop, I  40 eagerly for a store   41 I could buy food. Then I heard an old woman’s voice  42 
behind me, “Steamed corn(蒸玉米)！Steamed corn！One yuan each!” Her voice was breaking and  43 deep despair. Staring at the old woman, I felt pity. She was  44  ,just like a beggar. But she was much older than the other beggars in the street. Her face was  45 and her eyes were full of tears. Her large withered(干枯的) fingers kept a tight hold on her basket of steamed corns. What had happened to her? Why was a woman  46  selling corns on such a cold evening? I felt sad. I had to do something. I took the five-yuan note from my wallet and handed it to her. She had said each steamed corn cost one yuan, so I could buy  47 . But if I did that, I would have nothing 48 to pay for the ticket. I wouldn’t be able to get home. Finally, I decided to give the woman two yuan for one steamed corn,   49 my pity for her. To my surprise, she refused to accept the  50 one yuan, saying she wanted to work for her money. She was already  51 to me because I was the only person to buy steamed corns from her all day.
I was   52 moved. She was so old and weak but chose to sell snacks   53  beg. From that moment, I had  54 for her, and didn’t feel pity any more. The corn was sweet and delicious. But  55 made me happier was that I helped a respectable old woman as much as I could.

As a child,I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost;these fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.

Maybe it was the strange__36  things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that__37   me so much.There was never total__38   ,but a streetlight or passing car lights__39   clothes hung over a chair take on the__40  of a wild animal.Out of the corner of my__41 ,I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no__42  .A tiny sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight.My__43  would run wild,and my heart would beat fast.I would__44  very still so that the“enemy”would not discover me.

   Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, __45  on the way home from school.Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home—that was no__46  .After school, __47  ,when all the buses were__48   up along the street,I was afraid that I'd get on the wrong one and be taken to some__49   neighbourhood.On school or family trips to a park or a museum,I wouldn't__50   the leaders out of my sight.

Perhaps one of the worst fears__51   all I had as a child was that of not being liked or__52  by others.Being popular was so important to me__53   ，and the fear of not being liked was a__54  one.

   One of the processes(过程) of growing up is being able to __55 and overcome our fears.Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

36. A. way         B. time           C. place         D. reason

37. A. wounded     B. destroyed      C. surprised     D. frightened

38. A. quietness   B. darkness       C. emptiness     D. loneliness

39. A. got         B. forced         C. made          D. caused

40. A. spirit      B. height         C. body          D. shape

41. A. eye         B. window         C. mouth         D. door

42. A. breath      B. wind           C. air           D. sound

43. A. belief      B. feeling        C. imagination   D. doubt

44. A. lay         B. hide           C. rest          D. lie

45. A. especially  B. simply         C. probably      D. directly

46. A. discussion  B. problem        C. joke          D. matter

47. A. though      B. yet            C. although      D. still

48. A. called      B. backed         C. lined         D. packed

49. A. old         B. crowded        C. poor          D. unfamiliar

50. A. leave       B. let            C. order         D. send

51. A. above       B. in             C. of            D. at

52. A. protected   B. guided         C. believed      D. accepted

53. A. then        B. there          C. once          D. anyway

54. A. strict      B. powerful       C. heavy         D. right

55. A. realize     B. remember       C. recognize     D. recover

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题l.5分，满分30分)
It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks were  36  and the worst thing was that I didn't even  37  . I watched TV every night, the only way to  38  time.
But one day my morn changed my world  39  . She  40  the TV. She had noticed, something in the offices she cleaned  41  . So she came back, saying "You're going to read 2 books every week.  42 , write me a report."
I complained about how   43  it was. And we didn't have any books in the house   44  mom's Bible. But morn responded  45  ," I will drive you to the library."
So soon we were in her old Ford  46  our way to the public library. I wandered hesitantly among the children's books. I loved animals, so when I found some on them, I immediately  47  in them. For the first time in my life I was attracted by   48  world. No TV program had ever taken me so  49  from the surroundings as did the visit to the library. I began to  50  , visiting there. I moved from animals to plants,
and then to rocks. Between the  51  of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go  52  in them. Moreover, I started to fall in love with  53  . Teachers noticed that too.
Now I am a doctor. Sometimes I still  54  believe my life's journey from a failing student to a doctor. But I know  55  the journey began--- the day when mom turned off TV and drove me to the library.
36. A. cool     B. poor                 C. normal                     D. outstanding
37. A. fail       B. quit          C. work          D. care
38. A. spend   B. lose                  C. kill           D. spare
39. A. for the moment   B. for a while        C. for so long     D. for ever
40. A. turned on     B. turned off          C. turned up      D. turned down
41. A. books   B. dirts          C. papers               D. TVs
42. A. However      B. Thus                 C. Besides             D. So
43. A. reasonable    B. sad                   C. pleasant             D. unfair
44. A. rather than   B. more than          C. less than       D. other than
45. A. excitedly      B. worriedly          C. calmly                     D. angrily
46. A. by B. on                    C. in            D. from
47. A, got across    B. got lost             C. got stuck           D. got along
48. A. another B. any                   C. other                 D. some
49. A. near to  B. close together    C. far away            D. inside out
50. A. live up to     B. go along with    C. look forward to  D. get away with
51. A. covers  B. pages                C. contents       D. copies
52. A. nowhere      B. somewhere        C. anywhere          D. where
53. A. library  B. study                C. literature           D. reading
54. A. won't    B. shan't                C. can't          D. needn't
55. A. how     B. why                  C. when                D. where