第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分,满30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、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。

         Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles ,it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth .Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

         When James was a teenager, his father   31   him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the Great Depression. The   32  was to get James a job.

         He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   33   had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the  34  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   35  a thickened air ,and the workers,   36   the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles  37  the boss marched up and down the rows ,searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   38  . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t  39  at him , too.

         During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   40 if there was any work for his son. But   41   there was barely enough   42   for the adult labours ,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

         Thus, for James, it was a   43  . He hated the place. He made a   44   that he kept to the end of his like: he would never do any work that brought   45   to someone else ,and he would never allow himself to   46   money off the seat of others.

         “What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.

         “I don’t know,” he   47   say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   48   , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the   49  of blood.

         “What will you do?”

50  , my best professor I ever had became he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

31．A．sent   B．took   C．carried       D．admitted

32．A．situation    B．condition   C．idea   D．attitude

33．A．lights B．floors C．chances     D．walls

34．A．goods         B．workers     C．machines   D．vehicles

35．A．creating     B．sending      C．taking         D．disturbing

36．A．collecting   B．pulling        C．drawing     D．sewing

37．A．as       B．after  C．if         D．though

38．A．breathe      B．see     C． walk          D．hear

39．A．attack         B．scold  C．defeat        D．scream

40．A．doubting    B．questioning        C．asking         D．demanding

41．A．also    B．still     C．yet     D．even

42．A．time   B．work  C．office D．occupation

43．A．comforting         B．regretting C．blessing     D．forgiving

44．A．request      B．promise     C．plan   D．arrangement

45．A．harm B．injury C．damage     D．inconvenience

46．A．pay     B．save   C．make D．let

47．A．should        B．would         C．could D． might

48．A．police          B．lawyers      C．judges        D．government

49．A．sight  B．feel    C．sense          D．scenery

50．A．Generally   B．Luckily         C．Eventually     D．Basically

Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father   36  him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The   37  was to get James a job.
James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   38  had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the   39  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   40  a thickened air, and the workers,   41  the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles   42  the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   43 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t   44  at him, too.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   45 if there was any work for his son. But   46  there was hardly enough   47  for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job.
Thus, for James, it was a   48 . He hated the place. He made a   49  that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought   50  to someone else, and he would never allow himself to   51  money off the seat of others.
“What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he   52  say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   53 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the   54  of blood.
“What will you do?”
  55 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

假设英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中

共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。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（∧）, 并在其下面写出该加的词。

?? 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10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I still remember my middle school life in Zhengzhou. I was then in school for student from Tibet. As we were all left home of an early age, we met lots of problems in our daily life. We had to do the washing, cleaning and shopping by us. However, we seldom felt lonely or helplessly. We enjoyed our happy life. At weekends, we will play basketball on the playground, swimming in the pool or go for a picnic in the park. We were living in a big family. We treat each other as brothers and sisters. It has been three years when we graduated, but those memories are as sweet as ever before.

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.
A wise teacher once told me that every teenager needs to experience a not-so-fun first job from working at a grocery store to the fast food industry.
Now I still remember my first day at a fast food restaurant three years ago. I wanted to save up money and buy my own car, so I applied everywhere I could that summer. The restaurant called me right away and I thought to myself, this is going to be easy. Within four hours of my first shift (.轮班)， I had angry customers who complained how slow I was. I watched in fear as a kid spilled his milk everywhere, and I heard the words that no 16-year-old boy or anyone for that matter wants to hear: "Mike, there's a problem in the men's bathroom and you might want gloves for this one." I realized right away that working at the restaurant was not going to be a picnic. The manager expected a clean environment and, particularly, fast service with a friendly smile.
Over three years later I still work at that restaurant whenever I go home during vacations. I love my co-workers there and all the customers know who I am. Every morning the same senior citizens come in and get their morning coffees. They chat with us workers and joke around. Our smiles have just as much to do with them making us a part of their everyday lives as the coffee does.
From my first job at the restaurant, I learned teamwork and devotion. I also learned staying positive no matter how rough things seem to get. I will forever carry the experience that I gained at the restaurant with me as I go forward in my life.
【小题1】Why did the author apply everywhere that summer? 
(No more than 12 words)     (2 marks)
【小题2】What did the manager particularly expect the workers to do?
(No more than 14 words)     (3 marks)
【小题3】Why does the author still work at the restaurant during vacations?
(No more than 13 words)      (2 marks)
【小题4】What did the author learn from his first job?
(No mom dm II words)            (3 marks)

For about three years now, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love and skill for writing poetry.

   Back in elementary school, I loved to write stories. I would write stories on post-it notes and anywhere I could. Yet when I had to write a limerick(五行打油诗) for an assignment, I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to rhyme words and have the words make sense. I eventually tossed the paper with the attempted limerick in the trash. I did not try my hand at poetry again until several years later.

   Many years later in my freshman year of high school, my English teacher gave my class a poetry project as an assignment. I still remember my limerick assignment and was afraid of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to analyze a poem and write a response to it. I chose to respond to Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own poem first. I became really excited when writing the poem.

   Two years later, I started writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To learn how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and contests. I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems published as high merit(优等) poems. I have continued to write poetry, and have even self-published three collections of poetry in both print and e-book formats, which can be found at my store on Lulu.

   Now, I love writing poetry, but I don’t hate writing short stories. I just find it more difficult and not my style of writing, even though I still write short stories occasionally.

1.When the author was a pupil, he ___________.

   A. liked writing stories

   B. was good at writing poetry

   C. could understand poetry well

   D. was often praised by his teacher

2.When given the poetry project in high school, the author was___________.

   A. excited        B. annoyed       C. confident       D. worried

3.The author took up writing poetry as a hobby when he____________.

   A. was in Grade Three in high school

   B. worked as a storekeeper

   C. was in Grade One in high school

   D. was at college

4.How did the author increase his confidence in writing poetry?

   A. He wrote a lot of poems and asked advice from his teacher.

   B. He published three collections of poetry by himself.

   C. He submitted his poems to magazines and contests.

   D. He gave up writing stories and only wrote poetry.