Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.

      Behind our house is the start of a fascinating trail (小径). This trail is one of the old roads that wind through untold miles of forest. My   36  , Beans, and I walk the trail frequently. Normally, Beans sniffs alongside the trail to follow the smell of a deer track or   37   some cause known only to him.

      Beans is a white dog, quite handsome and very   38 . He not only understands what we tell him, but also often makes sounds as if he were trying to   39   back.

      One morning, we took a different route, which led us to an unfamiliar trail. I was sure this trail would eventually lead us to our familiar   40  . But, no. We seemed to be far off course. After two hours, I suddenly realized that Beans probably   41   the way home. So I urged, "Beans, take me home." He ran down a new trail. But it merely led to an intersection (岔道口) of trails.

      Soon it became   42   that we were getting nowhere. I began to picture the rest of the day in the   43   without food or drink. We had walked about ten miles. But Beans seemed totally   44 . The sniffing and exploring was going well for him.

     Finally, we   45  a crossroad near a highway. Lady Luck suggested I should turn left. We did and   46   reached a cottage beside a field. I knocked on the door and explained my situation to an old man. He laughed and then drove us home.

     Since our adventure, I  47  that Beans probably knew all along how to get home.

He was just having too much fan exploring new trails.

1.A. deer                     B. dog                          C. lady                          D. man

2.A. imagine                         B. consider                 C. explore                   D. present

3.A. smart                   B. sweet                      C. slow                         D. shy

4.A. turn                      B. kick                          C. jump                        D. speak

5.A. driveway             B. path                         C. crossroad               D. highway

6.A. knew                    B. saw                          C. showed                   D. made

7.A.mysterious           B. ridiculous               C. fascinating              D. apparent

8.A. house                            B. forest                      C. field                         D. cottage

9.A. unconcerned              B. unconscious C. undecided              D. uncomfortable

10.A. left for                        B. went off                  C. came to                   D. drove toward

11.A. punctually                  B. frequently              C. formally                  D. shortly

12.A. regretted                   B. remembered         C. concluded              D. confirmed

 

完形填空（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，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Tired and hungry, two boys walked painfully and difficultly into a big city on October 16, on their feet that had just carried them 300 kilometers.

   For nine days they lived like old-fashioned travelers,   21    somewhere new to sleep every night as they walked from one place to another. The boys slept in tents and   22    a six-yuan daily plan. “I learned more in those nine days than I had in the last nine years,” said 17-year-old Li Zhao   23  . Li and 15-year-old Li Xuemeng  24   their journey on October 7, with three teachers from an Educational Motivation Research & Service Center. The purpose of the   25   was for the two troubled boys to develop a (an)   26    attitude to school and life.

   With two  27   and some instant noodles for the first day, the five  28   mainly along the Highway 107. On the way to the big city,  29    of them visited schools and interviewed   30    people from different walks of life. Both were asked to write about what they  31    during the walk.

  “ The two boys need to know about   32    life and learn to get rid of difficulties, so we   33   this program,” explained Du Junpeng.    34   they had tents, they didn’t just   35   anywhere at night. “We had to   36    on people’s kindness for shelter,” said Li Zhao, who admits he used to be self-centered and at first was    37   against the idea of the trip. But the challenge of getting rid of the   38   on the journey has changed him.

  “I’m more   39    than before. And now I also believe failure is the mother of  40   ,” he said.

21. A. finding                   B. hunting               C. searching                              D. inventing

22. A. lived on                  B. worked on          C. carried out                  D. went on

23. A. anxiously               B. luckily                  C. excitedly                      D. tiredly

24. A. developed             B. separated                    C. controlled                    D. started

25. A. study                      B. trip                       C. task                               D. job

26. A. passive                  B. popular               C. different                       D. active

27. A. tents                      B. lights                   C. drinks                            D. tools

28. A. ran                          B. drove                   C. walked                          D. marched

29. A. both                       B. none                    C. either                            D. some

30. A. famous                  B. brave                   C. different                       D. strange

31. A. covered                 B. learned               C. heard                            D. recognized

32. A. interesting                     B. real                      C. hard                                        D. meaningful

33. A. carried on             B. cared about       C. took over                     D. worked out

34. A. Although               B. If only                  C. As though                    D. Since

35. A. sleep                      B. adventure          C. move                             D. tour

36. A. get                          B. depend                C. take                               D. turn

37. A. hardly                    B. heavily                 C. strongly                        D. secretly

38. A. wrongs                  B. problems            C. difficulties                    D. fears

39. A. sociable                 B. particular                     C. common                       D. formal

40. A. success                 B. victory                 C. hope                              D. aim

 

  Ed Jocelyn and Andy McEwen might have appeared to be a bit mad---the two set off on their own “Long March” through the remotest regions of China on October 16. The idea was to take a year to retrace one of the epic movements of modern military history.

   The two British men in their mid-30s were working as editors in Beijing when they decided to reexperience the tales of the original marches. “We hold these people in such respect,” McEwen says.

   They plan to keep diaries but will not share the contents during the trip. “When we get to the end we’ll put our heads together and try and come up with a book,” Jocelyn said.

   Their trip has had some auspicious beginning, they have already met two Long March veterans(老战士) in less than a month of travel.

   In this modern version, the pair are aided by high-tech equipment including a satellite phone, mini-computer, video camera and solar panels to recharge batteries. A mountain tent and portable stove will help them in the remoter stretches.

   They plan to average 35-40 kilometers a day, and rest about every third day. Ed admitted that their trip would be very tough.

   If they succeed, they will be the first foreigners to complete the entire Long March route since Otto Braun, the German military advisor who accompanied the Red Army on the Long March.

This text is mainly about           .

  A．high-tech equipment helpful to the Long March   

  B．first foreigners to walk the Long March

  C．British recall of the Long March spirit

  D．British editors’ adventure original in China       

The underlined word “auspicious” most probably means           .

   A．friendly        B．favourable      C．strange       D．surprising

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the two foreigners?

 A．They will use anything modern on the way.

 B．They will do some cooking by themselves.

 C．They’re planning to have a book published one year later.

 D．They will send off news about what happens day by day.

She looks forward every spring to _______ the flower-lined garden.

A. visit                         B. paying a visit        C. walk in D. walking in

       The famous American gorilla（大猩猩） expert Diane Fossey had a completely new way to study gorillas — she pretended to be one of them. She copied their actions and way of life — eating plants and getting down on her hands and knees to walk the way a gorilla does. It was a new relationship.

       Diane Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in the Mist. It was a long way from King Kong, which is about a gorilla as a monster （a frightening animal）, and helped to show a new idea: the real monster is man, while the gorilla is to be admired.

       Today there are thought to be around 48,000 lowland gorillas and maybe 400—450 mountain gorillas in the wild. From the Congo in West Africa, to Rwanda and Uganda further east, they are endangered by hunting and by the cutting down of their forest homes.

       Some time ago, I found in my letterbox a little magazine from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It had two photos side by side. One was of a young gorilla. “This is a species of mammal（哺乳类动物）,” said the words below it. “It is being destroyed by man. We must save it for our own good.” The other photo showed a human baby. The words also read, “This is a species of mammal,” but then went on: “It is the most destructive（破坏性的） on earth. We must retrain it for its own good.”

56．The text mainly talks about _____.

       A. Diane Fossey              B. the gorillas in Rwanda

       C. the protection of the gorillas     D. the film Gorillas in the Mist

57．We can learn from the text that _____.

       A. Gorillas in the mist was based Fossey’s experiences

       B. Lowland gorillas live longer than mountain gorillas

       C. King Kong showed us that a gorilla is admirable

       D. Diane Fossey was murdered by a gorilla

58． What message can we get from the two photos in the magazine?

       A. Gorillas are man’s close friends.  

       B. Both man and the gorilla need to be saved.

       C. Young gorillas are as lovely as human babies.

       D. Man should live peacefully with the gorilla.