It __________ that the football match ________ put off because of the weather.

   A. suggested; would be                                 B. was suggested; be

   C. is suggested; shall be                                D. suggested; should be

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。答案涂在答题卡上。

Dad is a liar, definitely.

He never tells the truth about anything , or anything that he thinks is bad to me,   36   I emphasize that I don’t  37   hearing these things. He is the kindest man I have ever met, who never ＿38＿ others, as well as the ＿39＿ man, for he’s always hard on himself. Every time I ＿40＿ home from college and asked Dad how his ＿41＿ was getting on, he would always reply, “Oh, couldn’t be ＿42＿!” When I asked my mum the same question on the phone, ＿43＿, she honestly told me every ＿44＿ with Dad’s business. I didn’t blame Dad for his ＿45＿. I felt a deep sympathy for him.

Dad is a miser（吝啬鬼）, undoubtedly.

I hardly see Dad wear ＿46＿ clothes. In fact, his closet is half empty. Even in this half , two-thirds is occupied by Mum’s clothes and the other ＿47＿ belongs to him. I urged him to buy some new clothes, ＿48＿ he simply shook his head, “The old clothes are still good enough.” Were they? I saw ＿49＿ in them!

It ＿50＿ my heart up when I saw Dad cough terribly   51   his hand covering his mouth. When the pains became unbearable, he ＿52＿ took some pills.

So   53   surprised when the day came that Dad got sick. He was lying in bed, and all the family gathered around him. I knelt by his beside, tears filling my eyes.

Dear Dad, you’ve been ＿54＿ yourself too hard, which you should not have. I know I might as well ＿55＿ a river to flow backward as hope to talk you out of working so hard. But I still want to say, “Dad, take better care of yourself!”

36．A．as if    B．but for        C．even though       D．because of

37．A．mean B．mind  C．agree          D．admit

38．A．prefers       B．laughs        C．helps D．hurts

39．A．noblest       B．cruelest     C．best   D．oldest

40．A．phoned       B．drove C．went  D．stayed

41．A．health         B．business    C．experiment        D．treatment

42．A．better         B．harder        C．easier         D．healthier

43．A．meanwhile         B．anyway      C．however    D．therefore

44．A．change       B．incident      C．achievement      D．problem

45．A．belief B．carelessness      C．lies     D．excuses

46．A．old      B．new   C．beautiful    D．cheap

47．A．one-third   B．half    C．thing  D．closet

48．A．so       B．but     C．since  D．although

49．A．holes B．stains         C．hope  D．importance

50．A．woke up     B．warmed to         C．flew to        D．tore up

51．A．in        B．on       C．by       D．with

52．A．still   B．again C．simply         D．seldom

53．A．somebody B．anybody     C．everybody D．nobody

54．A．controlling B．pushing      C．blaming      D．enjoying

55．A．let      B．allow C．expect        D．cause

A person may have a false idea about himself that will stop him from doing good work..
He may have the belief that he is unable to do it. A child may think he is  36  because he doesn’t understand how to make  37  use of his mental gifts. Old people may have a false idea that they are unable to learn new things because of their  38 .
A person who believes that he is stupid will not make a real  39  because he feels that it would be useless. He won’t go at a job with confidence necessary for  40 . Besides, he won’t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so.  41 , he is likely to fail, and the failure will  42  his belief in his incompetence（无能）in turn.
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had  43  like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor 44  in math. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in math in order that they would not  45  too much of him. In this way, his teacher and parents  46  the idea. He  47  their false judgment of his ability, feeling that it was useless to  48 . Then, he was very poor at math,  49  as they expected.
But one day everything changed. He worked out a problem which  50  of the other students had been able to solve. He  51  in solving the problem which gave him confidence. Soon he became especially good at  52 .
Alder now  53  with interest, determination and purpose. He not only proved that he could learn math well, but luckily he learned it  54 , not too late. From his own experience, we can tell that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may  55  himself as well as others by his ability.

 Didn’t it ever ________to you that one day you wouldn’t be fired because of your carelessness?   A. dream       B. occur     C. expect     D. happen

　　Even plant can run a fever, especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease. But unlike human, plants can have their temperature taken from 3, 000 feet away - straight up. A decade ago, adopting the infrared （红外线）scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide （杀虫剂）spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don’t have pest （害虫）problems.

　　Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3, 000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color - coded map showing where plants were running“ fevers”. Farmers could then spot - spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

　　The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long - term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. “This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States, ” says George Oerther of Texas A & M. Ray Jackson , who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only ff Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

　56．Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are________.

　　A. sprayed with pesticides     B. facing an infrared scanner

　　C. in poor physical condition   D. exposed to excessive sun rays

　57．In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to________.

　　A. estimate the damage to the crops    B. measure the size of the affected area

　　C. draw a color -coded map          D. locate the problem area

　58．Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by________.

　　A. resorting to spot – spraying   B. consulting infrared scanning experts

　　C. transforming poisoned rain    D. detecting crop problems at an early stage

　59．The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties________.,

　　A. the lack of official support        B. its high cost

　　C. the lack of financial support      D. its failure to help increase production

　60．Infrared scanning technology may be brought back into operation because of________.

　　A. the desire of farmers to improve the quality of their produce

　　B. growing concern about the excessive use of pesticides on crops

　　C. the forceful promotion by the Department of Agriculture

　　D. full support from agricultural experts