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   I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And   36    assigned（指定）a seat by the teacher, I always   37  to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this   38  after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy  39   because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the  40   to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “  41  for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.

   Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the   42   of it! When I first started  43    the practice sessions（练习赛）, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much   44  what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get    45   and take a shot at the wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid.   46   , I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to   47   on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t    48  “just yet”. 

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the   49  and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive   50  in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the   51   — friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!

With my   52   self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from   “53” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself,   54   raising my hand— even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent   55  I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

1.A. as            B. until             C. though              D. unless

2.A. hoped         B. agreed           C. chose               D. meant

3.A. continued      B. changed          C. settled              D. started

4.. A. idea           B. plan             C. belief               D. saying

5.. A. right          B. chance           C. patience             D. ability

6. A. going          B. looking          C. cheering             D. applying

7.. A. point          B. half             C. rest                 D. basis

8. A. enjoying       B. preparing        C. attending             D. watching

9.. A. further         B. later            C. worse               D. less

10.. A. confused       B. motivated       C. embarrassed           D. committed

11.. A. Interestingly    B. Fortunately      C. Obviously            D. hopefully

12. A. try            B. act             C. focus                D. rely

13.A. want          B. do             C. support               D. know

14. A. rules          B. orders          C. steps                D. games

15.. A. roles          B. part           C. mind                D. value

16.. A. movement      B. operation       C. process              D. situation

17.. A. expressed      B. improved       C. preserved             D. recognized

18.A. dreaming       B. playing         C. relaxing           D. hiding

19.. A. to            B. for            C. with               D. by

20.A. lucky         B. happy          C. sure               D. satisfied

II. 单项选择

 —Hello, Jane. I come to say goodbye to you. I’ll start a new job in another company. —_______.

A. Oh, no problem   B. Oh, enjoy yourself C. Oh, all the best    D. Oh, have a happy day

第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

　  Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

1．What is mainly discussed in this passage?

     A．The use of sunglasses.                 B．The history of sunglasses.

     C．The sunglasses wearing.               D．Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.

2．Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?

     A．She was a movie star.               

       B．She wanted to follow a movie star.

       C．Wearing sunglasses was good for her eyes.

     D．It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

3．Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.

    A．they wore sunglasses

    B．they went out in the sun too much

    C．the lights on movie sets were too bright

    D．their scripts were written in very small writing

4．We may know from this passage that ______.

    A．Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star

    B．Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker

    C．Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986

    D．Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses

5．Now people wear sunglasses ______.

    A．just to protect their eyes

    B．for fashion and to protect their eyes

    C．because of bright lights

D．because movie stars wear them

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Until quite recently, I knew only three things about my father: I knew his name, David S. Johnson, Jr. I knew he was an only child, and I’d been told he was killed on April 12, 1945, somewhere in Germany.
I used to come to visit my Granny. “Daddy David and his two friends were out in the fields, making sure the way was safe for the others to follow,” she told me. “All of a sudden there was an explosion. All three of them were killed.” Granny was looking down, stroking one thin hand with the other. Then there were no words but silence.
I began my search and collection for information about my father as my 50th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death drew near. I was told that the explosion had blown him to bits and I had great difficulty collecting anything I could find about him bit by bit. Bits of information about his began falling into my hands, my mind and my heart. Longing to know my father kept me connected to him. It was time to transform my longing into knowledge.
Once upon a time he was alive, and my mother and father were deeply in love. They were married, and they had a child, my brother David. Then my father left for the war.
I was born in January 1945. On February 15 my father wrote me a letter of welcome. The letter is kept in my baby book, “Dear Susan, you have a very good family. Your dad is sort of a less able person. Your mother is the most wonderful person I’ve ever known. I’ve always marveled at my great good fortune to have her and been loved by her. If you follow her words and examples, you may expect to meet life in the best possible way, and your path will always be the right one. Your father, Dave.”
Black on white paper, the words are from my father. From them I grow into a person of loyalty and love. How I long for stories that will bring him to life!
1．The writer got to know her father’s story of death from         .
A．her father’s friends  B．someone in Germany
C．her grandmother             D．a little child
2．The author meet difficulty finding information about her father because          .
A．it was too  late for her to start the search    
B．the explosion left little about her father
C．she only found pieces of hands and legs
D．she didn’t have enough knowledge to do it
3．Which of the following statements is TURE?          .
A．Her parents had only one child       B．Her father died before her birth
C．Her father was a disabled man D．The writer never saw her father
4．We know from the last paragraph that the author         .
A．still hates her father for having left
B．is curious about her father’s death
C．shows much respect for her father
D．is sure that her father may survive