—I’d like to play football with you, but I have an important thing to attend to.

    —If you don’t go, _________.

    A. neither do I         B. so will I            C. nor will I       D. so do I

     Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson River must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a branch of the great Appalachian family, and can be seen to the west rising up to a noble height and towering over the surrounding country. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their beautiful shapes on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when it is cloudless, gray steam gathers around the top of the mountains which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will shine and light up like a crown of glory （华丽的皇冠）.

     At the foot of these mountains, a traveler may see light smoke going up from a village.

     In that village, and in one of the houses （which, to tell the exact truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten）, there lived many years ago, a simple, good-natured fellow by the name of Rip Van Winkle.

     Rip's great weakness was a natural dislike of all kinds of money-making labor. It could not be from lack of diligence （勤劳）, for he could sit all day on a wet rock and fish without saying a word, even though he was not encouraged by a single bite. He would carry a gun on his shoulder for hours, walking through woods and fields to shoot a few birds or squirrels. He would never refuse to help a neighbor, even in the roughest work. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to do such little jobs as their less helpful husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to everybody's business but his own.

      If left to himself, he would have whistled （ 吹口哨） life away in perfect satisfaction; but his wife was always mad at him for his idleness （懒散）. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was endlessly going, so that he was forced to escape to the outside of the house -- the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.

68. Which of the following best describes the Catskill Mountains?

     A. They are on the west of the Hudson River.

     B. They are very high and beautiful in this area.

     C. They can be seen from the Appalachian family.

     D. They gather beautiful clouds in blue and purple.

69. The hero of the story is probably_____________.

A. hard-working and likes all kinds of work

B. idle and hates all kinds of jobs

C. simple, idle but very dutiful

D. gentle, helpful but a little idle

70. The underlined words "henpecked husband" in the last paragraph probably means a man who____.

    A. likes hunting        B. is afraid of hens

    C. loves his wife        D. is afraid of his wife

71. What would be the best title for the text?

     A. Catskill Mountains.        B. A Mountain Village.

     C. Rip Van Winkle.          D. A Dutiful Husband.

第三节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1．5分；满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Jessie's Glove
I do alot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores．    21    the topics we discuss is the retention （保持）of quality employees -- a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale （薪水标准）in the service industry．During these discussions, I asked the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?" Some time back a new   22     took the question and   23     said, "It was a $19 baseball glove．"
Cynthia told the group that she    24    took a Circle K clerk job as an interim （过渡时期）position  25     she looked for something  26   ．On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie．He needed a baseball glove for Little League．She explained that   27   a single mother, money was very   28   , and her first check would   29   go for paying  30  ．Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check．．
When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that    31    as an office．Cynthia   32  if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before．She was concerned and confused．
Patricia handed her a box．"I overheard you talking to your son   33    ," she said, "and I know that it is hard to  34    things to kids．This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how    35    he is, even though you have to pay bills   36   you can buy gloves．You know we can't pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we    37   care, and I want you to know you are important to    38 ．"
The thoughtfulness, sympathy and    39  of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer  40    than how much the employer pays．An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove．

(安徽省马鞍山市2009届高三第一次教学质量检测)The coach asked his staff

 to           the large group of journalists who were waiting for him to anounce his training plans.

A. Belong to           B.contribute to      C.refer to          D．Attend to

     in writing a lecture speech on AIDS prevention , she has no time to attend to her sick mother .