先阅读短文，然后从文中每小题的四个选项中选出一个可以填入短文中相应空白处的最佳答案。

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was useless and when I was 14, he said, “You’re never going to be    (1)  but a failure(失败者).

After five years of poor jobs, I fell    (2)  with a very nice girl. But her mother said to me, “You’ve    (3)  in everything you’ve ever done. You can’t give any happiness to my daughter!” It was the frustrating thing that could have changed me later. I decided to do something    (4)  about my life, because I wanted to show her that what people said about me was    (5) .

So I tried hard with my writing and went to college. My first book came out while I was at college. After college I    (6)  during the day in high schools and went to evening classes at college. Later, I gave up that job to write full time. At the same time, I was offered a part­-time job as a    (7)     at Leeds University. I began to feel    (8)  of myself –here was once a poor boy who’d left school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career(生涯)   (9)  when I discovered my own style.

Now I’m rich and    (10)  , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does that mean? I just wish all the people who have put me down had said: “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

Lisa has always been overweight. She wanted to lose weight, not just because she wanted to  16   more beautiful and he healthier, but also because it would make life easier. For example, it was   17  for Lisa to find ready-made clothes that would fit. She had to ask a tailor(裁缝)  18  clothes that were large enough. In school, she needed a special chair  19  was bigger and stronger than the other chairs. If she went for a walk, she got tired very quickly. She was also unhappy about the way people treated  20  sometimes. “People look at me and even make fun of me. That’s unfair! It’s true that I’m overweight, but I don’t think people   21  treat me differently because I’m big. I can’t enjoy  22  with my friends because I’m afraid of getting fatter.” Her friends and family never made fun of her. They tried to help her  23  . They wanted her to be happy and healthy. Sometimes when Lisa was feeling sad, she didn’t want to speak to  24  .

But now things   25  quite different. Last month her classmates were preparing for the School  26  Week. Someone advised Lisa to play the lead role of the proud Queen(女王) who was tall and fat. Lisa   27  and practiced a lot.

Soon after the play, Lisa became the star! She did  28  well that everybody remembered the proud Queen. They stood around her and said “  29  ” to her. She even won the School Best Actress Award for her wonderful performance.

Now Lisa doesn’t worry  30   being fat any more. She believes in the English saying “Every dog has its day.”

1.A. see            B. watch               C. notice           D. look

2.A. easy           B. difficult             C. wrong           D. right

3.A. making         B. makes              C. make            D. to make

4.A. who           B. what                C. which           D. whose

5.A. her            B. him                 C. me             D. you

6.A. can           B. may                C. should            D. must

7.A. having dinner   B. to have dinner        C. doing sports       D. to do sports

8.A. however       B. instead              C. though           D. either

9.A. nobody        B. someone            C. anyone           D. everyone

10.A. was           B. is                  C. were             D. are

11.A. Sports         B. Art                 C. Science          D. Environment

12.A. agreed         B. disagreed            C. refused           D. allowed

13.A. very           B. too                 C. such             D. so

14.A. Sorry          B. Good luck           Congratulations       D. Good-bye

15.A. with           B. about               C. in               D. for

、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）

There was a boy who was sent to a boarding school. He used to be the brightest student in his class. He was at the top in every competition.     1    . His grades started dropping. He hated being in a group. He was lonely all the time. He felt that no one loved him.

His parents began to worry. But even they did not know what was wrong.      2     .

They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him questions about his classes, teachers and sports. Then he asked, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?”

The boy said, “To check my grades?”

“No, no,” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t care about grades. ___3    . YOU ARE MY LIFE.”

Now the boy had everything he wanted.  4     . He meant the world to someone.

Thanks a lot, Dad. YOU ARE MY LIFE.

This is a talk by a London taxi driver.

     "I've been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis."

    "It's a nice job most of time. you meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles (???) outside London and I go to work at 5:30 in the afternoon."

    "I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning."

    "Some very strange things happened late at night .The other day I was taking a woman home from a party .She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the windows."

    "I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on . I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief(С?).

    Luckily the woman came downstairs. She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!"

1..The driver always worked at night because it was easier to _____.

A. drive      B. make money     C. climb in through the window    D. meet a lot of people

2.The woman climbed in through the window because _____.

    A. she wanted to have a sleep      B. her husband didn't open the door for her

    C. she didn't want to pay the driver  D. she couldn't find her key

3..The story happened _____.

A. early in the morning         B. late at night

C. 20 miles outside London    D. near the police station

4.Which of the following is wrong?

A. The driver worked until between 2 and 3 in the morning. 

B. The police made a mistake.

  C. The woman had no money to pay the driver.

  D. The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog.

5..The driver climbed in through the window to

  A. get money from the woman          B. return the dog to the woman

  C. see what was happening in the house   D. phone the police