When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.

Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young ,black, and male-----a potential ____3____to them.

White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.

Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成见) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.

How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?

My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.

Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.” 

The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black too. Why would we do something to you?”

Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.

But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.

1.A. almost     B. mostly     C. merely     D. particularly

2.A. social      B. local      C. positive    D. new

3.A. danger     B. treasure    C. gift        D. neighbor

4.A. better      B. close      C. perfect     D. superior

5.A. fear       B. interest     C. honor      D. despair

6.A. run        B. walk       C. pass       D. move

7.A. known     B. developed    C. raised     D. located

8.A. honestly   B. constantly    C. hopefully   D. freely

9.A. changed    B. formed      C. strengthened  D. increased

10.A. kill       B. rob         C. damage     D. steal

11.A. actions    B. deeds       C. signs       D. words

12.A. writing    B. printing     C. telling      D. saying

13.A. fearful     B. doubtful     C. pitiful      D. impressive

14.A. strongly     B. actively    C. disappointedly   D. casually

15.A. sincere      B. mature     C. welcome       D. gentle

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was   21   and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   22   a dream.

   My dream was   23  . By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and   24   anything that moved on the football field. I was also   25  : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me   26   to believe in myself. He   27   me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular   28   with Coach John changed my life forever.

   A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket－money for a new bike, new clothes and the   29   of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   30   up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.

   When I told John, he was   31   as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work, ”He said. “Your   32   days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them. ”I stood before him with my head   33  , trying to think of the   34   that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   35   in me.

   “How much are you going to make at this job, son? ”He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour, ”I replied.

   “Well, ”he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream? ”

   That simple question made   36   for me the difference between   37   something right now and having a   38  . I decided myself to play sports that summer and the next year I was   39   by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   40   a $20,000 contract（agreement）. In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

1. A. happy            B. polite                C. shy              D. honest

2. A. live             B. afford               C. make              D. need

3. A. athletics        B. music            C. business          D. money

4. A. kick             B. play             C. pass              D. hit

5.A. right             B. popular          C. lucky             D. confident

6. A. how              B. why              C. when              D. whether

7. A. gave             B. taught               C. brought           D. asked

8.A. accident          B. matter               C. problem           D. experience

9.A. keep              B. end              C. give              D. pick

10. A. mad             B. mournful         C. frightened            D. shameful

11. A. living              B. playing          C. working           D. learning

12. A. moving          B. nodding          C. shaking           D. hanging

13. A. answers         B. excuses          C. words             D. ways

14. A. sadness         B. regret               C. hopelessness      D. disappointment

15. A. direct              B. clear            C. straight          D. bare

16. A. wanting         B. changing         C. dreaming          D. enjoying

17. A. wish            B. goal             C. score             D. desire

18.A. fired            B. accompanied      C. avoided           D. hired

19. A. paid            B. got              C. offered           D. presented

 We could see that he was trying to ________his own responsibility for the delay, instead of accepting his fault.    
A. run over    B. smooth over     C. pass off     D. turn down

语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)

第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant(移植)her life was in constant   1     . 

Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that   2      Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept   3    hospitals all over the country.

Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble   4  from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a   5     of the hospital, crying.

“Are you okay?” a man asked.

Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t   6    it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to   7     something from herself. Could her   8  go to Carmen’s mother?

After reviewing the data, doctors   9     Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to   10     the transplant.

That cold night, when Cheryl was   11    dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was   12   for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.

On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s   13  with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”

One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria   14  with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was   15  in another loving mother’s chest.

1. A. change            B. danger              C. disorder                   D. pain

2. A. matched         B. replaced              C. controlled           D. cooperated

3. A. finding               B. phoning                   C. touring                     D. interrupting

4. A. rolling             B. running                    C. walking                   D. jumping

5. A. corner                B. bed                         C. man                        D. nurse

6. A. put                            B. support                    C. pass                         D. make 

7. A. save                   B. recycle                     C. donate                      D. separate

8. A. heart                  B. brain                        C. husband                   D. spirit

9. A. informed            B. warned                    C. congratulated           D. reminded

10. A. give up              B. carry out                 C. search after              D. put off

11. A. noticed               B. predicted                  C. found                      D. declared

12. A. praying        B. begging           C. decorating          D. singing

13. A. funeral          B. operation                  C. performance             D. anniversary

14. A. passed away        B. woke up                  C. left behind                D. dressed up

15. A. active          B. alive              C. necessary               D. changeable

That was the last time I saw my father before he _____.

A. pass on?? B. pass away?? C. pass off? D. pass down