第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.
A ___21___ came, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to ___22___ that shirt away, but gave it to her ___23___.” I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
I ___24___ the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her ___25___, “I will no longer work for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life’s ___26___ was something greater.
The next morning she ___27___ with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to ___28___ a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “You are ___29___, aren’t you? I think I have a ___30___ for you as a teacher’s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of___31___.” Mom accepted the opportunity very ___32___.
For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling ___33___. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal ___34___ in her classroom. The principal said, “We have watched how you ___35___ the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working ___36___ over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you ___37___ be the teacher of this class.”
My mom spent more than 20 years there. ___38___ her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the ___39___ comment made in the classroom that day when I was in my high school. Mom showed me how to handle ___40___ situations and never give up.
21. A. noise    B. voice  C. sound  D. tune
22. A. get       B. take    C. carry   D. throw
23. A. otherwise     B. anyhow      C. instead       D. actually
24. A. settled  B. pushed       C. picked D. put
25. A. teacher B. employer    C. director      D. adviser
26. A. purpose       B. encouragement     C. process       D. victory
27. A. went     B. met     C. worked      D. stayed
28. A. visit     B. continue     C. attend D. prepare
29. A. serious  B. fortunate    C. careful       D. responsible
30. A. career   B. duty    C. position      D. part
31. A. learning       B. judging     C. obeying      D. imagining
32. A. patiently      B. eagerly       C. successfully       D. skillfully
33. A. upset    B. frightened  C. guilty  D. ashamed
34. A. looked up    B went up       C. took up      D. showed up
35. A. believe B. protect       C. treat    D. receive
36. A. spirit    B. intention    C. idea    D. attempt
37. A. must     B. would C. might  D. should
38. A. At B. During       C. On      D. With
39. A. worthless     B. thoughtless C. hopeless     D. helpless
40. A. challenging  B. different     C. dangerous   D. strange

用方框内单词的适当形式填空。（请将答案写在答题卷上相应番号后的横线上）。

1.There was no evidence that he was_________ in any criminal activity.

2.I think education shouldn’t be ________ only by examination results.

3.This corner would make a good ________ for a gas station.

4.You see Afghanistan not as a place of war and ________, but as a country where children still play and life carries on.

5.I still find it _________ to find myself surrounded by large numbers of horses.

6.All the employees plan to _________ because the employer is too unreasonable. .

7.________ for me, she accepted my apology and I promised her not to think anything stupid when we were not together.

8.Our English teacher has repeatedly _________ the importance of handwriting.

9.The government will provide temporary _________ for up to three thousand homeless people.

10.This seems to be the most ________ organization that represents the interests of Jews in America.

用方框内单词的适当形式填空。（请将答案写在答题卷上相应番号后的横线上）。

第三部分语法填空 (共2篇，20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为61~80的相应位置上。

( 1 )

My sister had dropped out of school and  61    very unwise decisions with her life. She chose to spend her time with people who were lost  62      she was. They all chose to ignore their   63         (responsible) and supported one another in a life which involved drinking and partying. 64           (sad), they were all losing time. They were young and had the potential to become   65         they wanted if they would only choose to respect themselves and believe in a better life.

My sister was lost but my father never gave up on her. She may not have even known it but his prayers and faith  66     her may have been the very thing she needed. I remember sitting at the family dinner table  67      everyone had gathered except my sister. Once again she had chosen to drink with friends instead of spending  68     evening with our family who loved her very much. We said she would not come. But my father said she would. We all rallied against him,         69    (bet) she would not show up and asked why he would say that. We       70     (convince) he was in denial. He simply said, “I will always bet on her, on all of you.”

( 2 )

Deciding what present you should give someone is never easy. Many things must be considered such as  71    the person is interested in and how old he is. We must also consider the reaction of the person  72    (receive) the gift. One of the   73  (bad) gift choices I ever made was for my high school English teacher, Ms Chen. Ms Chen  74   (teach) me English since Junior 1, and to show my  75  (appreciate) I decided to get her a present. I asked my classmates about her interests  36  I made my final decision. Then I went to the department store  77    I worked part-time and bought her  78    expensive gift box of Sichuan beef.  I was certain she would like it because I  79    (tell) by my classmates that she loved hot food. I left the box with a card on her desk, and I was sure she would like them.  80    was only after I

heard she became sick that I learned she couldn’t eat MSG（味精）!

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C.D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
The English are often considered as unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he didn't stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them: “Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the cab with the dog while she climbed up the window.” “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 up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woman came downstairs, she'd gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare(车资，车费).”?
56.In the writer’s opinion, London taxi drivers are _____________.
A. unfriendly      B. talkative           C. helpful        D. strange enough
57. From the passage we guess that the writer ______.
A. is the driver of the taxi                                B. often travels by taxi
C. is a foreigner visiting London                        D. lives in London
58. What does the underlined word “cabbie” mean in this passage?
A. Conductor.        B. Stranger.           C. Taxi driver.               D. Porter.
59. The man was waiting outside the woman's house because ______.
A. he began to like the woman and her dog at the first sight
B. the woman had not paid him
C. he wanted to know what would happen when the police came
D. he was trying to go on talking with her