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36--55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
Keeping a Diary in English
Our teacher asks us to keep a diary in English. I   36   doing so because I think keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways to   37   our English writing ability.
Compared with   38   forms of writing, it is shorter and   39   less time. It can help us to   40   the habit of thinking in English.  41   we persist in(坚持) this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English,   42   can use the important phrases and sentences we’ve   43   in or out of English classes to describe our   44  , and this way we can master and use freely   45   we’ve learned, which will do good  46  us in English learning. But   47   we certainly run up against many difficulties. In the first place, it often happens that we have   48   finding proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there   49   many idiomatic (惯用的) ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard   50   us to put them into English properly.
As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is that we   51   always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever   52   beats(难倒) us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then look it up in our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for   53  , if necessary.
In short, I believe that it is of   54   use to keep a diary in English for the development of our   55   skills.
36. A. imagine        B. can’t stand        C. enjoy         D. finish
37. A. get            B. gain          C. improve        D. prove
38. A. other          B. the other      C. another       D. others
39. A. spends         B. takes     C. pays                 D. spares
40. A. develop        B. make         C. give up                 D. pick
41. A. Before         B. After    C. If                     D. While
42. A. they           B. he             C. she                   D. we
43. A. learned        B. forgotten     C. thought               D. listened
44. A. eyes          B. books    C. texts                  D. feelings
45. A. that          B. which     C. what                  D. when
46. A. to            B. across          C. between             D. along
47. A. at a time      B. at one time           C. all the time             D. at times
48. A. trouble       B. difficulties       C. chance               D. choice
49. A. is            B. has         C. are                  D. have
50. A. of            B. for          C. at                     D. on
51. A. can           B. shall      C. may          D. should
52. A. nothing       B. something       C. somebody     D. anybody
53. A. money        B. dictionary      C. question               D. help
54. A. great          B. much   C. very          D. more
55. A. speaking        B. writing         C. listening       D. reading

You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing (令人沮丧的 )tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative (消极的 ) people can wash your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.
Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win other’s pity or respect.
When you communicate with positive people, your spirits stay happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger (匕首)of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to (附着)you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.
【小题1】The purpose of the first paragraph is to _______.

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The story I'm going to tell truly happened in my life.
The other day, I met a man outside the gym who  21  a movie star. He was handsome and smiling. His upper body was muscular and he  22  to be on top of the world.
"How are you?" I  23  with a smile. "I'm doing really well," he replied in a cheerful voice. His enthusiasm and big smile  24  the parking garage.   25  as he walked up, I  26  his long legs were thin and I saw he had a silver cane (手杖). "Why do you need that cane?" I couldn't  27 
thinking he had a minor injury. "I have MS," he answered in a  28  voice too, as his broad smile  29  left his face. Multiple Sclerosis is a very serious disease and often painful. I looked at him from my little red sports car and said, "You  30  it very well. You seem like a happy man  31
the MS. " Without losing a bit of his smile he replied, "I am a happy man," and then added, "I'd be even happier if I had that sports  32  . "
It was ironic (讽刺的). Just  33  we spoke, I'd been sitting in that little sports car, feeling sad about my painful shoulder over the last 11 months although ! was  34  after an operation. Here's a man with a  35  far tougher than mine, but his positive attitude made him feel no  36 
happiness. He went on with his enjoyment of life as usual, which moved me deeply.
It was also a wonderful reminder of that old  37  , "t cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. "   38  your problems, just keep in  39  that none of us goes through life  40  and like the man with MS, make the most of what you have. Count your blessings.
21．A．stared at                 B．talked about            C．agreed with             D．looked like
22．A．conducted               B．appeared                 C．performed               D．pretended
23．A．questioned              B．advised                   C．complained             D．greeted
24．A．lit up                      B．put up                    C．held up                   D．kept up
25．A．So                         B．And                       C．But                        D．Though
26．A．diagnosed               B．noticed                   C．examined                D．checked
27．A．want                      B．set                          C．wait                       D．help
28．A．cheerful                  B．sad                         C．low                        D．painful
29．A．sometimes                 B．regularly                 C．never                      D．always
30．A．need                       B．handle                    C．demand                  D．deal
31．A．in spite of               B．in return for            C．thanks to                 D．but for
32．A．training                  B．coach                            C．coat                        D．car
33．A．when                      B．until                       C．before                    D．since
34．A．recovering                     B．suffering                 C．repairing                 D．benefiting
35．A．direction                 B．location                  C．situation                 D．position
36．A．fewer                            B．less                        C．further                    D．more
37．A．story                      B．news                      C．saying                    D．lesson
38．A．Whatever                B．However                 C．Whichever              D．Whenever
39．A．head                       B．brain                      C．heart                      D．mind
40．A．completely              B．easily                            C．hardly                    D．lightly

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was coaching girls’ track in Iowa and there was a young discus（铁饼）thrower on the team with  36  potential（潜力）. Here goes her story.
At the end of our training   37  the district track meet, this discus thrower, Lucy, asked me if she   38  come to the school on Sunday for a little   39  training. I agreed. The year before, she had placed second at the district meet and   40  missed going to the state meet. She had won every discus event,   41  that district meet! And, her throws in the competitions had   42  been between 106’1” and 110’10”.
Something began to   43  me. Why couldn't Lucy   44  to get the discus to 111 feet? I wondered if it was more a psychological barrier（心理的障碍）  45  a physical one. I decided to try something   46 . I made up my mind to   47  to Lucy.
On Sunday, after her drills, I said, “Why don’t you throw five or six good ones for me to  48 ?” She began to throw again, but   49  were farther than what she had already thrown. But, I didn’t tell Lucy. As I was measuring the   50  one, I pulled out some more tape (量尺) and yelled out to her, “ Come to see this! This one is  51 ! ” It wasn’t. Lucy, thinking that this was a personal best, jumped wildly into the air in  52  .
The next afternoon, at the district meet, Lucy   53  with a personal best throw of 114’10”! Just 24 hours after I had lied to her. However, this time she had   54  thrown the discus four feet further than she had ever thrown it before.
Sometimes we   55  our own barriers in our mind. So learn to take control of your mind.
21．A. little          B. great           C. no              D. limited
22．A. after           B. during          C. since           D. before
23．A. could           B. must           C. should         D. would
24．A. helpful        B. extra          C. real           D. regular
25．A. luckily         B. completely     C. narrowly        D. probably
26．A. except         B. including      C. despite        D. with
27．A sometimes       B. always         C. never          D. seldom
28．A. frighten       B. please         C. shock          D. bother
29．A. seem           B. pretend        C. need           D. ask
30．A. apart from     B. rather than    C. because of      D. according to
31．A. impossible     B. familiar       C. new             D. easy
32．A. lie            B. turn           C. reply          D. call
33．A. look           B. measure        C. match          D. take
34．A. many           B. all            C. some           D. none 
35．A. worst          B. closest        C. first          D. final
36．A. higher         B. farther        C. bigger         D. longer
37．A. excitement     B. anxiety        C. puzzlement     D. anger
38．A. disappeared    B. lost           C. won            D. arrived
39．A. actually        B. hardly         C. nearly          D. only
40．A. break          B. remove         C. take           D. set

Think back to this time last year. What was on your mind?
Most likely, you were thinking about finals or the holidays, although in this city I’ve noticed that thinking about the holiday is a fancy way of saying how much stuff will I get.
Now reflect on your thoughts for this holiday season. Most people are still thinking about the holidays, but I say that with a grain of salt. Everybody with a functioning brain and the ability to communicate knows that this holioday season comes with a pretty large price tag: the debt of all the hardships, both domestic and foreign, that we’ve faced over the past 12months.
Let’s face it: some of us will get everything we want over the holidays. But there are others whose parents have lost their jobs or who have lost jobs themselves because of the current economic situation. As much as we try to ignore it, there is still economic unrest in the blue and gold suburb.
In this situation, we have three options. One: We ignore the situation, like we seem to do for every bad thing that happens around us, because by God, it’s the American Way! Two: We recognize that our economy is shot, feel bad about it and spend our time wishing for the good old days. Three: We recognize that our economy is shot, but instead of moping, reflect on every good thing that we have going for us. Now, which option sounds best to you?
I spent a week this summer working in and around New York City with the city’s homeless population. Or so I thought. Although a lot of the people I served were in fact homeless, a significant number of them had a job or a home or both. The truth of the importance of this situation is that they and thousands of others across the country can’t afford even the most basic things of life, even while working two jobs. Yet no one that I met complained about their hardships. Instead, they took whatever I happened to give them(which was, more often than enough, not enough) and were genuinely grateful for what they had.
Wrap your heads around that statement for a second. These people worked their butts off to stay alive with minimal results, yet were overjoyed by a flimsy(脆弱的) paper plate with donated green beans on it. Although I am ashamed to admit it( both as a girthy figure and an affluent citizen), I have taken for granted most of my meals, let alone green beans, and I know for a fact that I am not alone.
64. 【小题1】According to the passage when people think about holidays they care much for ____.