A car drew up outside the Swan Hotel and a young man got out.Pausing only for a moment to see that he had come to the right place，he went into the hotel and rang the bell on the counter of the bar.
Mrs.Crump，the landlady，who was busy in the kitchen at the time，hurried out，wiping her hands.The young man raised his hat.
“Excuse me，”he said.“I’m looking for my uncle，Mr.White.I believe he is staying here.”
“He was staying here.”Mrs.Crump corrected him.“But I’m afraid that he went back to London yesterday.”
“Oh，dear，”said the young man，looking disappointed.“I understood that he was going to stay here until the end of the month.At least that is what his servant told me when I rang up his house.”
“Quite right，”said Mrs，Cramp.“He planned to stay here the whole of July，as he always does. But yesterday he got a telegram to say that his relative was ill.So he caught the train back to London immediately.”
“I wish he had let me know, ”The young man said.“I wrote him a letter saying that I was coming.I’ve had all this trouble for nothing.Well，since he isn’t here，there’s no point in waiting.”
He thanked Mrs.Grump and went out.Mrs.Grump went to the window and watched him drive off.When his car was out of sight，she called out：“You can come out now, Mr.White. He’s gone.”
Mr.White came out of the kitchen，where he had been waiting.
“Many thanks，Mrs.Grump，”he said，laughing，“you did that very well.These nephews of mine never gave me any peace.That young man is the worst of them all.As you see，when he needs money, he even follows me into the country.Well，perhaps next time he won’t warn me by writing a letter!”

1. 1.

   This story is about a man         .

   1. A.
      who was very much loved by his nephews
   2. B.
      whose nephew went to visit him at the hotel
   3. C.
      who was not willing to meet his nephew
   4. D.
      whose nephew is always asking him for help
2. 2.

   When his nephew came to the hotel，Mr.White            .

   1. A.
      took the train back to London
   2. B.
      left to visit a sick relative
   3. C.
      went to pick up a telegram
   4. D.
      hid himself in the kitchen
3. 3.

   Mr. White didn’t like his nephews because         .

   1. A.
      they always follow him around
   2. B.
      they frequently disturb their relatives
   3. C.
      they won’t write to him often
   4. D.
      they usually visit him in hotels

完型填空（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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

My first job was in what they call the city center. The    36   was large, dark and old    37   the physics lecture room was on the second floor.   38    , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM” on the    39   . The students were sixteen or seventeen years old,    40   several years younger than me．   41   , some of them looked and acted    42     older than me sometimes．

      The room was directly    43   the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses．One day, I was    44   some work on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me．There was a man standing in the room with    45    an apple in his hand．He looked    46    ．

      “Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class．

      “I beg your pardon?” I said．Was this the school inspector（督学）?    47  threw this apple out of the window,” he said．“It    48   on my car．”

      “Who threw an apple out of the window?” I     49    to the class．There was no answer.

      “I   50  the fellow who threw this．” said the man．“I    51   outside for you．” And then he left, slamming the door．

         52    was silence and I continued with the lesson．At the end of every lesson, a bell rang, usually the class were all   53   before it finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty    54   ．

      This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one    55   . “That’s all for today,” I said．

      “You go first, sir．” said one of the boys．It made a nice change, being first out．

36．A．room          B．building           C．floor            D．city

37．A．and            B．as                  C．so              D．but

38．A．Happily        B．Luckily             C．Properly         D．Actually

39．A．floor          B．ground            C．door           D．window

40．A．over           B．only                C．up          D．almost

41．A．In fact        B．In the end           C．After all             D．As a result

42．A．more          B．less                 C．very           D．even

43．A．on            B．above              C．below           D．in

44．A．getting        B．making              C．taking          D．putting

45．A．hardly         B．almost              C．half            D．such

46．A．angry         B．kind               C．sorry           D．happy

47．A．Anyone      B．One                C．Who           D．Someone

48．A．hit          B．fell                C．landed          D．arrived

49．A．asked               B．said                C．talked          D．told

50．A．hate         B．find                C．get            D．want

51．A．will be waiting B．have waited         C．have been waiting    D．wait

52．A．It           B．There               C．This           D．That

53．A．walked        B．left                C．gone          D．ended

54．A．lesson       B．class               C．room          D．lecture

55．A．heard               B．finished             C．spoke         D．moved

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

The long-desired winter vacation arrived in the end. As soon as

the bell rang announcing that the class was over, e_____ student        1.________

couldn’t ____ to rush out of the classroom. Half an hour later,           2.________

my good friend Jack and I were on the way back home. ______          3._______

crowded was the train we took that we had to _____(站). Thinking       4.________

of the coming Spring Festival and the two______(周) stay with         5.________

parents, we both felt happy and excited. All of a s_____, I saw a         6.________

man stealing an old lady’s p_____ out of her bag. With the help          7.________

of Jack, I caught the pickpocket and f_____ him to give back the         8.________

purse to the lady. Then the pickpocket was taken ____ by the guard.      9.________

Praised by other passengers, we felt _____    of what we had done.     10.________

Norah had a cottage on a cliff（悬崖）above a big bay. In winter it could be very unpleasant because of strong winds and sea waves. In fact, when a gale was blowing, Norah and her husband got used to sleeping in a small room downstairs, because their bedroom upstairs, which faced the gales, had a very big window, and they were afraid that an extra violent wind might break it and blow pieces of broken glass over them.
Also, the salt wave from the sea put an end to many of the colorful plants Norah planted in her garden. She tried putting up a fence to protect them, but the wind just hit it, went up over the top and then down the other side, so in the end she filled the garden with trees and bushes that liked salt.
But most of the summer Norah enjoyed her cottage and garden very much. At weekends she could sit out-of-doors in the sun, looking at the beautiful view, with interesting ships and boats passing by, and she could very easily cycle down to the sea for a swim.
Now, Norah and her husband had plenty of friends and relations. In the summer lots of them used to come to enjoy the beautiful place, and in the end it really became quite annoying for the couple. When they were at home, they found friends and relations arriving, expecting to be given unlimited drinks and meals, and to sit in the sun for hours, talking as if Norah and her husband had nothing else to do but entertain and listen to them.
This went on for several years. Norah didn’t wish to appear rude by refusing to let her friends and relations in, but on the other hand, she was getting tired every summer.
Then one day Norah was complaining about this to her hairdresser while she was doing her hair. “You’re disturbed by too many uninvited guests, are you?” said the hairdresser. “Why don’t you try my way of escaping?”
“What’s that?” asked Norah.
“Well,” the hairdresser answered, “when the bell rings, I put on my coat and take my shopping bag. If it’s someone I don’t want to see, I say innocently, ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to go out.’ But…”
【小题1】The underlined word “gale” can be replaced by _____.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

I had been playing hockey（冰球）for about 10 years. I was always the one sitting at the end of the bench, and      got into a game. I went to all the      and showed up even when it was so      that your ‘breath froze’ and when the other players had decided to stay home. I felt I had      enough and thought of quitting.

 I finally decided to      the news to my mom that I was leaving the team. My mom may have looked like a tiny and quiet lady but on      my words, she said, “Remember, ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ Your mother didn’t raise    , so think about yourself in a      way and see yourself as a winner!” So I worked harder than ever at getting in better shape,      my shot accuracy and changing my      . 

Once in a match, we      our first game badly. What’s worse, one of our best players got hurt. I was sitting at my      place, at the end of the bench, when the coach came over and told me I was going    , I was nervous, excited and terrified all at the same time.

The opposing team was fast and I had to admit I was a little     .  But my mom’s words      out in my head like a church bell. Instead of being afraid, I was “pumped” and I very quickly found that all my      work was paying off.  I was as fast a skater as anyone else on the ice, and I seemed to get the      to score. The crowd went quiet.  All the time I spent on the ice when everyone had gone home had _____ me for this moment.

Won! I won!

   The lesson I learned from my mom’s      has stayed with me over the years. I hear them whenever I am faced with a challenge, or whenever I     myself.  

1.A. once  B. seldom C. usually  D. even

2.A. meeting         B. shows         C. matches        D. practices

3.A. cloudy        B. wet        C. cold       D. windy

4.A. suffered         B. explained          C. planned          D. escaped

5.A. write          B. tell         C. read      D. report

6.A. noticing         B. gathering    C. hearing D. analyzing

7.A. talkers        B. dreamers      C. attackers      D. losers

8.A. positive         B. familiar            C. brief        D. convenient

9.A. testing        B. improving      C. questioning   D. affecting

10.A. aim  B. taste      C. habit     D. attitude

11.A. lost          B. controlled     C. practiced       D. continued

12.A. usual        B. safe       C. secret   D. private

13.A. off   B. in  C. by D. up

14.A. annoyed        B. nervous    C. delighted       D. bitter

15.A. ran    B. gave          C. stood   D. rang

16.A. delicate        B. extra  C. creative         D. casual

17.A. chance         B. message    C. order       D. note

18.A. spared         B. requested  C. prepared       D. sent

19.A. actions         B. reasons      C. words   D. promises

20.A. judge        B. express          C. comfort         D. doubt