Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing   41 was something she picked up by herself. After her first   42  , teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM.   43 , writing stories was simply a   44 interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商).     45 , they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long   46 and paid Tracy a $50,000 in advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for   47  writer.”

  48 Tracy’s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes   49  readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could   50  the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”

“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have   51 when things come to me  52  .” Once, she was wondering how to complete a    53  set in ancient (古代的) China.   54 the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese  55 . It came without her having    56 it.

Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained   57  by her fame. She lives in the same   58  she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for   59 in her life----and it wasn’t just   60 .

21.C 前后照应逻辑推理 注意与后句的比较。作者不仅仅只是单一的写作了，作者的生活中有了更多的机会或空间来享受生活的多样化(variety)。网上下载，此题原

第一部分：英语知识运用（共四节，满分95分）

第一节：语音 共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. attend    A. blame   B announce    C. tablet         D. fax

2. province  A. fold     B. tolerate     C. postage       D. ecology

3. citizen    A .recycle  B. communism  C. clarify       D. constant

4. chart     A. school   B. characteristic   C. chemical   D chat

5. Britain    A. certain   B. train         C. contain     D. against

How to improve my life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, "This is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it."

   Of course not! You don't have to suffer needlessly. Your destiny depends on you, not on any other external factors.

   I know someone who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is? She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows.

   Huh! Is this what she calls "doing her best"? She believes she has tried her best and just accepts it in her heart that this is the life that God has intended for her to live; that her luck can only change if God wills it.  Of course God wants us to be happy and live our life to the fullest, but we have to do our share of exerting(运用) the effort to live the life of our dreams.

   Remember that you reap what you sow. You just don't sit around and wait for a million dollars to fall from the sky. You have to get off the couch, get your eyes off the TV screen, get your hands off the phone. Don’t expect your luck to change unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don't just regard it as a temporary setback; but use it as feedback. Learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It's not enough to think positively; you also have to act positively.

If someone's life is in the trouble, do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don't just stand (or sit ) there, do something to improve your life.

1.According to the woman mentioned in Para.3, her life ____________. 

   A. Doesn't need improving    B. couldn't be improved

   C. will be better some day     D. Will be worse in the future

2.What does the author think of the woman's life?

   A. positive   B. satisfying   C. colorful    D. passive

3.Which of the following statements is the author's opinion?

   A. Your temporary problem is not discouraging.

   B. Your luck can be changed by your efforts

   C. You can only achieve success when God wills it.

   D. You should treat yourself in the way you treat friends.

4.In Para.5, the author emphasized the importance of _____________.

   A. positive action  B. positive thinking  C. hope for the best  D. intention to succeed

5.The text is mainly written to advise you to ____________.

   A. understand yourself  B. improve your life  

   C. believe in yourself   D. change your normal way

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：单项填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将其涂黑。

21．— Anyone in mind for this position? What about Jack?

— He may be a good friend，but business is business．He is not______man for     job

A．a；a            B．the；the             C．a；the                   D．the：a

第二部分：语言知识及运用（满分25分）
第一节完形填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. They provide him with wood and other   __21__ ; they give him shade; they help to prevent drought(干旱)and  __22__.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire, but,__23__its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to__24__,the home country found itself faced by floods and starvation.
Even where a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for__25__to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with ; and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after new trees. So, unless the government has a good system of control, or can__26__the people, the forests will slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that the villagers’ sons and grandsons have__27__trees. The results are even more serious; for where there are trees, their roots break the soil up—allowing the rain to sink in—and also bind(结合)the soil, thus preventing its__28__washed away easily, but where there are no trees ,the rain falls on hard ground and carrying__29__with it the rich top soil, in which crops__30__so well. With all the topsoil gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.
21．A. uses                  B. products                   C. production                D. result
22．A. floods           B. soil                         C. air                           D .sunlight
23．A. with                 B. by                           C. on                           D. without
24．A. break        B. unite                        C. bits                          D. pieces
25．A. it                  B. them                        C. he                            D. they
26．A. ask                   B. educate                    C. want                        D. remove
27．A. a few            B. fewer                       C. a little                      D. little
28．A. been             B. being                       C. is                             D. was
29．A. away            B. off                           C. with                         D. by
30．A. come            B. grow                        C. get                           D. Turn