II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意；然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The Voice of America began during World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international   21  , American officials believed they should   22   the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in German. “The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA   23   were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s   24   had to be changed, considering the Soviet Union became the enemy of America．They wanted to   25    Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was   26___  “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959．VOA knew that many listeners did not know enough English to completely understand its   27   English broadcast. So VOA   28___   a simpler kind of English, which uses about 1,500 words and is spoken slowly of course, it is special English.

In the opinion of most VOA listeners, the most important program is the news report. News from around the world   29   into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in major cities and also from other broadcasts like BBC．VOA writers and editors use these materials to   30   news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

21. A．business        B．culture             C．support              D．information

22.   A．reply          B．answer         C．join                  D．interrupt

23. A．stations         B．news                 C．announcers           D．officials

24. A．home            B．position               C．purpose             D．results

25. A．reach            B．satisfy       C．attack               D．support

26. A．known            B．reported       C．called             D．printed

27. A．normal           B．fast           C．good                 D．exact

28. A．invented         B．discovered       C．taught                D．stopped

29. A．flies               B．sends            C．delivers              D．pasts

30. A．broadcast        B．announce              C．translate             D．prepare

Homework is work, not play. In contrast to what some might hope, students 55 finish their homework exclaiming that they had great fun. Nor is homework an activity that students choose to undertake. It is 56 by a teacher for students to complete on the teacher’s schedule, with the teacher’s requirements in mind． So to have the fight 57 Will be of great help. Homework means business and the student should expect to work on it seriously. As in the work place, careless efforts and lack of self-discipline are likely to make the  58 impression.

Teachers assign homework for  59 purposes. In some cases, teachers seek to review and solidify material being covered in class; homework is also designed to 60 student learning beyond class lessons. As students mature, teachers often assign homework nightly in several subjects. Homework is also used to prepare students to handle new work, 61 in the ease of summer reading. Increasingly, school reforms call for homework to take the form of course projects, thus increasing its 62 to “real-life” job-related activity.

Like jobs, homework can be appealing when its resources are well managed. Resources 63 sources of information—textbooks, of course, and increasingly, the Internet—but they also include a quiet space to work, materials and equipment such as calculators, paper or a computer, and others who cohabit (共面存在) in the homework environment. The external (外部的) resources needed for homework can be viewed as a kind of 64 . office for the child with features like those needed in the workplace.

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Deep into the night, the bus pulled into a Howard Johnson’s restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life:perhaps he was sea captain; maybe he had run away from wife; he could be an old soldier going home. When they went to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself. After a long time, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in prison in New York for the last four years, and he was going home.
“Well, when I was in prison I wrote to my wife. I said, Martha, I understand if you can’t stay married to me. I said I was going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn’t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget all about me. I told her she didn’t have to write to me, and she didn’t. Not for the three and a half years.”
“Last week, when I was sure freedom was coming through, I wrote to her. I told her if she had a new young man, I would understand. But if she didn’t, if she would take me back, she should let me know. We used to live in this town, Brunswick, and there’s a great big oak tree just as you come into the town. I told her if she could take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and if she didn’t want me, forget me, no handkerchief and I’d keep going on through.”
Soon all the others were in it. When they were 20 miles from Brunswick, the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex?con’s mask. Then it was 10 miles, and five, and the bus became very quiet.
Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances. All except Vingo.
39.In the story, the yellow handkerchief probably means_______.
A.happiness     B.sadness         C.I hate you         D.I still love you
40.The bus became quiet when it came near the town because all the passengers_______.
A.got tired after a long journey        B.got too sad to say anything
C.were anxious to see the oak tree      D.were touched by the story
41.The underlined part “All except Vingo” probably implies_______.
A.he found no handkerchief on the oak tree
B.he feared that his wife was playing a joke
C.he felt he could not match his wife any longer, afraid to face her
D.he had complicated feelings at the moment:guilty, grateful as well as excited
42.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Going Home                       B.A Handkerchief and an Oak Tree
C.A Long Bus Journey                  D.A Story of an Oak Tree

完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    It was a cold winter morning. Half asleep at the train station, I stared into the distance, watching for the train to take me to my   1   in Boston. The world was quiet. The very few people on the street kept to themselves,   2   their steaming cups of coffee.

    Reaching into my pocket as the train was approaching, my numb hand   3   for the $20 bill to pay my fare. The pocket was empty! I searched through my bag and then I felt   4  .

    “What’s the matter?” A short, elderly man stood before me.

    “Oh, nothing…. Well, I lost my money.... I’m going to   5   my match class.”

    “Here, use this.” The man held a $20 bill. I looked up,   6  . People just didn’t do that anymore. Everyone worried about their own   7  , rarely stopping to think about others, especially teenage strangers.

    “Thank you, but no, I can’t.”

    “  8   it – go!” The man pushed me toward the train. I bought a round – trip ticket, and he refused the change I   9   to give him back. I did not know what to say – a million thoughts raced through my mind, yet I stood   10  .

    For the train ride I was silent. I began to see the world through changed   11  . That man made a difference with such a simple   12  .

    A week later I was at the train station again, with an extra $20   13   I saw the man. And there he was.

    “Excuse me, sir, I believe I owe you this.” I   14   the money into his hand.

    Failing to refuse, he said, “Just remember to do the same for someone in your shoes someday.” I smiled,   15  .

1．A．home              B．class               C．office           D．factory

2．A．serving           B．carrying         C．minding      D．making

3．A．looked                B．searched         C．reached      D．moved

4．A．hopeless          B．useless          C．relieved     D．dissatisfied

5．A．stop              B．skip             C．fail         D．miss

6．A．frightened            B．disturbed            C．surprised        D．concerned

7．A．problems          B．complaints       C．positions        D．challenges

8．A．Seize             B．Get              C．Catch            D．Take

9．A．offered           B．managed          C．happened     D．attempted

10．A．unconsciously        B．silently         C．seriously        D．uncomfortably

11．A．ways             B．windows          C.  eyes            D．hearts

12．A．task             B．act              C．example      D．performance

13．A．so that          B．even if          C．now that     D．in case

14．A．pressed          B．pushed           C．dropped      D．placed

15．A．finally          B．happily          C．content      D．excited

III, Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.  Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
The world was sharply separated into men and women, because that was the way we believed it should be.  We hold this firm belief and made efforts to keep this ___50___.  When a baby came to the world, he or she was expected to play different roles—boys were portrayed as noisy and naughty ones who people were more likely to ___51___ while girls were bound by strict social requirements to be lovely and ___52___.  People became the product of their sex.  Their social roles were determined when they were ___53___.  Males were the producers of cool reasoning and were capable of ___54___.  And being emotional was considered as the feature of females and their main activity location was ___55___.
___56___, with the development of civilization and women’s self-consciousness, more and more women have realized that such natural and physical differences between man and woman have no ___57___ with the differences between male and female excellence.  Women are now confident to ___58___ the concepts as “male leadership” and “male power”, which are only terms invented by men and serve in men’s ___59___.
Such remarkable change in people’s viewpoint may well explain the gradual ___60___ of single-sex schools.  The aim of education is to stimulate imagination, encourage free thinking and keep alive various interests.  But the single-sex school follows the same regulations and ___61___ a set of separate subjects for males or females.  In single-sex schools, instead of being offered a rich expansion of experience, students have access to ___62___ knowledge.  Such education harms individual freedom and kills the possibility for a young person to develop into a(n) ___63___ human.  Furthermore, such sexual distinction is also dangerous as it breaks up the sense of community by ___64___ people into two sex groups, which eventually damages the development of human civilization.
50.   A. regret     B. division            C. union          D. step
51.   A. spoil            B. control             C. teach          D. face
52.   A. active          B. humorous       C. famous            D. gentle
53. A. born              B. grown         C. praised            D. retired
54.   A. friendship       B. failure     C. leadership        D. relationship
55.   A. at home          B. at work place       C. in politics        D. in education
56.   A. In particular         B. Furthermore        C. In addition   D. However
57.   A. contact            B. attempt          C. connection  D. excuse
58.   A. reject          B. reflect     C. pardon             D. measure
59.   A. truth           B. sex              C. interest           D. belief
60.   A. extinction       B. prospect         C. foundation   D. definition
61.   A. sets up            B. brings down         C. sticks to          D. gives up
62.   A. objective         B. wrong         C. vivid            D. limited
63.   A. complete        B. simple     C. domestic         D. ordinary
64.   A. guiding            B. uniting     C. isolating          D. transporting