阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入短文中相应空白处的最佳答案。

“What’s the matter, mum?”

As soon as I enter the door, I find that my mother is 1    . It’s unusual –she usually 2    the door and welcomes me with a smile!

“She’s dying,” mum says sadly. I 3    what she says. The tulip（郁金香），mother’s 4     is dying. A month ago, we moved 5    our new house and mum bought a very beautiful tulip. Mum liked it very much. 6     she was free, she would sit 7    her armchair beside the tulip and enjoys its beautiful colour 8   inviting smell.

She treated it like a baby and looked after it 9   . She put the tulip by window and moved it from one place to 10     to give the tulip enough sunshine. The first thing she did when she 11   every morning was 12    the tulip, Mum also fertilized（施肥）it many times.

She hoped that with great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful and 13   . But the tulip was dying 14    too much sunshine, water and fertilizer. It’s true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love 15    be harmful. Love can sometimes kill what you love.

1.A.happy           B.unhappy       C.pleased       D.pleasure

2.A.coses           B.opens         C.keeps         D.takes

3.A.know            B.love          C.think         D.find

4.A.favourite       B.hate          C.unlike        D.like

5.A.into            B.around        C.across        D.with

6.A.Though          B.Because       C.After       D.Whereever

7.A.at              B.in            C.on           D.under

8.A.but             B.and           C.for          D.or

9.A.happily         B.brightly      C.carefully    D.usually

10.A.other          B.place         C.two places    D.another

11.A.got up         B.made the bed  C.played piano  D.washed her face

12.A.to take        B.to cut        C.to water      D.to pull

13.A.dry            B.strong        C.wet           D.old

14.A.because        B.for           C.since         D.because of

15.A.must           B.should        C.can           D.need

阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。

 home computer used by a group of young people.

We asked thirty young people between fourteen

and eighteen. We asked them how much  37 

they usually spent on their computers in a week,

but we were most interested in  38  they used their computers for.

The usual time spent on a computer in a week was about twelve hours, with  39 user about thirty-two hours, and the lowest user only five hours.

All the children said they usually used computers  40  . Fourteen children told us they did some word processing (文字处理)  41   . Only two of them said computers helped with their lessons, and eight people told us they kept addresses and phone numbers on their computers or used   42  as diaries. Only three people said they were learning to make computer programmes and nobody looked up databases(数据库). None of them used computers for any  43  use.

The results show that computer use is quite high among 14～18 year old. They also show quite clearly that computers  44  by most young people as little more than game machines. The only other great uses are for word-processing and  45  address lists. Though computers are common in the homes of young people, they have not yet become useful in everyday life.

36. A. shows               B. says                     C. writes                  D. gives

37. A. hours                 B. money              C. time               D. /

38. A. what                   B. why                  C. how                  D. whether

39. A. high                    B. higher                C. the higher             D. the highest

40. A. to read               B. reading              C. to play games    D.  playing games

41. A. at times               B. as usual             C. in the end           D. all the time

42. A. theirs                  B. them                  C. its                     D. it

43. A. another                B. other                 C. the other            D. others

44. A. are seen               B. have seen           C. will be seen          D. see

45. A. closing               B. opening              C. leaving              D. keeping

完形填空（10分）
阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。
Dear David,
Thank you very much  1  your letter. Beijing 2  beautiful! People in Beijing are friendly (友好的).  3  I like Beijing and I like China. Now I’m fine and I’m busy with my lessons. I have seven classes every day. There are  4  in the morning and three in the afternoon. I have nine  5  this term (学期). I like math, biology and history. My  6   subject is science, because it is very interesting. My English is very  7 , and I like it. But I 8  like Chinese, because it is too difficult  9  me, and I can’t learn it well. Do you play soccer? Can you  10  Chinese? I hope you can come to China one day.
Yours,
Jim

完形填空（10分）

阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。

Dear David,

Thank you very much  1  your letter. Beijing 2  beautiful! People in Beijing are friendly (友好的).  3  I like Beijing and I like China. Now I’m fine and I’m busy with my lessons. I have seven classes every day. There are  4  in the morning and three in the afternoon. I have nine  5  this term (学期). I like math, biology and history. My  6   subject is science, because it is very interesting. My English is very  7 , and I like it. But I 8  like Chinese, because it is too difficult  9  me, and I can’t learn it well. Do you play soccer? Can you  10  Chinese? I hope you can come to China one day.

Yours,

Jim

1.                A．to             B．of             C．for  D．with

2.                A．am            B．is              C．are  D．be

3.                A．Because        B．Or             C．But  D．So

4.                A．one           B．two            C．three D．four

5.                A．subjects        B．weeks          C．teachers  D．clubs

6.                A．good           B．favorite         C．like  D．more

7.                A．good           B．well            C．better    D．fine

8.                A．doesn’t       B．am            C．don’t   D．do

9.                A．for            B．at             C．about    D．with

10.               A．tell            B．talk            C．say   D．speak