第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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

I am not one who is frightened easily, but I must admit that one night I saw a firure that really struck terror into my heart.

I   36   it was a cold moon - lit night when I was walking home. It was the first night of my whole life that I had been outside   37   at such a late time. There were   38  few people on the road at night. Even during the day, the road was used by only some. On that night, it seemed even   39  . While I was walking, I could hear some   40   made by creatures that love the night world. I moved really fast towards home. It was   41   because I was hungry. More importantly, I was eager to get back home for warmth. All of a sudden, I   42   an old lady in a short distance away. Her   43   was covered with a white cloth. She was   44   to me, I think.

I was a bit   45  . I wanted to know   46   she was there at that time of the late night. I stopped walking for a while. As I   47   there, stories about ghosts (鬼) began to come to my mind one after   48  . I was soon   49   fear and started to run as fast as I could. When I reached home I could   50   speak.

The next day, however, I   51   that place again to make sure that the woman was not a ghost but indeed a real person. But I could find no footprints there   52   a banana plant. I realized then that it was the banana plant with its leaves moving in the gentle wind that   53   like a woman waving her hand. I had indeed made a fool of myself; but after the   54   night’s experience, this   55   was small relief to me.

36．A．realized       B．recognized       C．remembered     D．reminded

37．A．alone         B．asleep          C．awake          D．lonely

38．A．never              B．often         C．seldom        D．rarely

39．A．busier          B．noisier         C．quieter         D．wider

40．A．noises          B．quarrels       C．songs         D．voices

41．A．completely       B．mainly         C．obviously     D．partly

42．A．made sense of  B．caught sight of C．got ahead of     D．took hold of

43．A．waist         B．leg           C．head         D．hand

44．A．smiling        B．waiting        C．whispering       D．waving

45．A．mysterious       B．cautious       C．conscious     D．curious

46．A．why         B．when         C．what         D．how

47．A．lay           B．sat            C．stood         D．walked

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

49．A．addicted to       B．filled with     C．far from      D．short of

50．A．clearly         B．easily              C．hardly         D．loudly

51．A．traveled       B．visited         C．appreciated      D．went

52．A．over         B．without        C．than         D．except

53．A．felt          B．looked         C．smelt         D．sounded

54．A．previous      B．next         C．last           D．following

55．A．invention     B．achievement     C．contribution     D．discovery

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

Before dinner my wife wanted me to go to the store to get some soft drinks. It seemed that this would be a good time to let my teenage daughter Holly get a little driving. I drove her to the store and my car with her, and then I came back home with my son. He spoke of the car. I was a little proud, for it was the nicest car I had     owned.   , I said, “Guy, my heart is not     that car. I like it but it is just metal. It won’t last forever. Never set your heart on anything that is    .”

   It was at that moment     I heard a noise on our street. My son went out and then he shouted, “Dad! Holly damaged your car.”

    My heart    and my mind was flooded with conflicting thoughts. Was     hurt? Who else was involved? As I ran to the door, I heard a voice in my heart say: “ Here is a     to show Holly what you really love. She will never forget it.” Holly was not hurt    , but when I reached her, she was crying and saying over and over again, “Oh, Dad, I’m sorry. I know how much you love this car.” I held her in my arms.

    Later that week a friend asked what happened to my car. I told her the whole    . Then she said, “That happened to me when I was a girl. After I     my Dad’s car, my father,    , knocked me to the ground and began to kick me.” Over forty years later she still felt the    . It was a deep wound on her soul.

I have repaired my car, but there are     some scratches (划痕) on it. Every day they    me of the really priceless things in my life. Every day it reminds me of what really     in my life. One day, when Holly thinks back on her life, I want her to know that I love her a thousand times more than any piece of    .

A. practice         B. exercise             C. training                D. lesson

A. gave                     B. left                   C. kept                     D. got

A. admiringly            B. proudly             C. deeply                  D. curiously

A. just                      B. already              C. even                      D. ever

A. Therefore              B. However           C. Otherwise              D. Besides

A. set up                    B. set aside            C. set on                     D. set down

A. temporary             B. metal                C. nice                       D. contemporary

A. when                    B. as                     C. that                       D. until

A. struck                    B. sank                  C. beat                       D. ached

A. anyone         B. someone            C. my car                   D. my son

A. chance         B. time                  C. turn                       D. lesson

A. mentally             B. physically          C. lightly                   D. painfully

A. story                   B. truth                 C. explanation            D. process

A. borrowed            B. drove                       C. used                      D. ruined

A. nevertheless        B. moreover           C. or rather              D. on the contrary

A. guilt                   B. pain                  C. embarrassment       D. terror

A. still                    B. yet                    C. just                       D. only

A. remember           B. remind              C. warn                     D. inform

A. values                 B. happens             C. cares                     D. matters

A. property              B. equipment                C. treasure                 D. fortune

第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

The writing of Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain．His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university．

Shakespeare’s work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year- old version of English that is about as inviting as toothache．

Still, in British schools, it is necessary to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment（憎恨） or both．

This was my experience of the classics at school．But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart．Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me．I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them．

I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China．I have never regretted it．There is something in literature that people want, even if they don’t read books．You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point．These popular adaptations may help increase people’s interest in the classics．

Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare’s actual plays．If that is the case, then I welcome the trend．But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing．Shakespeare is a poet．His greatness is in his language．Reading someone else’s rewriting of his works is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin．Take on the original．It really is worth the effort．

1．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

     A．The language used in classics is no longer in use today．

     B．British students usually find compulsory reading dull．

         C．Only those studying literature read Shakespeare’s works．

         D．For British people, Shakespeare’s works are no longer classics．

2．According to the passage, the writer _____ ．

         A．has liked literary classics since an early age

         B．was forced to read the classics for a PhD

         C．turned to literature to seek answers in his teens

         D．thinks only people who read books like literature

3．The underlined phrase “a case in point” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_____”．

         A．a great hit                    B．a good example

         C．a movie adaptation                  D．a popular phenomenon

4．What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

         A．The fruit of a banana is more useful than its skin．

         B．The rewriting trend does more harm than good．

         C．Readers should try to read the original versions．

         D．Readers need to learn the language in the classics．

Last week, I bought an alarm system for about $ 450. It consisted of a control unit with three small units. I put the control unit in the sitting-room and fastened the other units by the front door, back door and living-room windows. The instructions told us to choose three numbers, so we chose 4, 9 and 1, the last three numbers of our telephone number.
Now I must explain how the alarm works:
l There is a power siren(警报器) in the control unit. It makes a very loud noise.
2 Each of the small units sends out beams or rays in different directions. If anything moves, it breaks a beam. This sends a signal to the control unit. The siren makes a noise which you can hear 50 meters away.
3. When we go to bed, I press the three buttons numbered 4, 9 and 1. Then we have 30 seconds to get out of the room before the alarm starts to work.
That night I slept soundly because I was sure that no burglar(夜贼) could get into our house. However, at about 2:10 a. m., I woke up and heard the siren. “There must be a burglar in the house,” Mary said. “What shall we do?”“I’ll go and see who’s there,” I said. “Stay here. Don’t make a noise.”I went downstairs quietly. When I reached the living-room, I switched on my torch and looked round the room. Then I turned the light on. I switched the siren off and searched the rooms downstairs. There was nothing wrong except that the back door was unlocked. I locked it, reset the alarm and went back to bed. About an hour later, the alarm started again. I jumped out of bed, fell over a chair in the dark and bumped into the bedroom door. Mary woke up and started hitting me with a torch. “Hey! Wait a minute!” I whispered. “It’s only me. I’m going downstairs to see what’s wrong.”I went down into the living-room and listened for a moment. The only sound I could hear was the siren. I turned on the light and then switched the siren off. As I did so, I glanced across at the curtains in front of the windows. I saw a house lizard (a kind of small animal) disappear behind the curtains.“Oh!” I said to myself. “That’s our burglar. ”When the lizard moved, it started the siren. I guessed that the alarm had been made in Europe, where there are no house lizards. Well. I won’t finish this story but if you want an alarm system free of charge, let me know. I’ll send you ours. We bought a dog this morning. It knows the difference between a lizard and a burglar.
【小题1】The writer bought an alarm system to ________.

Growing old is something that nobody can understand until they experience it for themselves．I may not be "old" but I am certainly beginning to  36   it? turned 18 just over a week ago．I am now an adult．
As a child you  37   adults—or "grown-ups" as I used to call them—to always be in control．to know what is right and wrong． 38   as a teenager, I thought that when I reached 18 I would be far more  39   in many aspects of life．But now that I am 18, 1 know that is not true．
It is clear to me now that you do not   40   learning when you are 18．Every day you learn
something  41   , no matter what your age．However, I do understand when you become an adultyou have to  42  more responsibility．
Whereas before I seldom had to clean the dishes, set the table or help out around the house, now I do all of those．I have already  43   myself the nickname "housekeeper"．
I can even drive now, which is pretty   44  , because of the frequency of accidents．But that's not to say that 18 is not   45  to be．Not only can I drink alcohol, but I can also  46 ．In fact, being 18 has made me really interested in politics because it now means that I can change things on  47  Day．More and more of my friends want to become politicians, and it is great to
think that they can change things for the better．