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，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Kindness at fast-food restaurant

It was summer and I had gotten one of the few jobs a 14-year-old can find—working at Burger King，a fast－food restaurant．It  16  wasn’t a good job，but it meant money，  17  was something I needed.

One day，I was working behind the front counter，taking  18  .The customers were coming and going，and the woman who  19  didn’t seem any different from most others.

She ordered her meal and I told her the total.As she searched  20  her purse to find some change，the woman soon  21  that she was about a dollar short.“I’m  22  to say this,but I guess I won’t be able to make my purchase  23 ，”she said sadly

That’s when I had the idea of paying the difference for her. She refused at first，but after I 24  ,she agreed.She thanked me and moved to the end of the counter to  25  her order.I continued with my work and thought  26  more of it

About an hour later  27  had slowed down and I was waiting for my next customer.Then I glanced over towards the  28  and saw the same woman whom I’d helped with the money entering again．I  29  recognized her.

She walked straight up to me and said，“I want to thank you again for what you did.You see，I’m a diabetic(糖尿病患者),and  30  I need to eat something right away．That’s  31  I came in earlier．If you hadn’t helped me as you did，I  32  have fainted.Thank you．”

She handed me two dollars,  33   I’d given her.

34  the woman walk away,I realized that God had used me to help me.In the end,I was  35  not only with money but also with the satisfaction of knowing that I’d helped someone out of a tight spot.

16．A．firstly          B．roughly       C．certainly          D．strictly

17．A．which          B．what            C．that                 D．it

18．A．menus             B．orders              C．service             D．food

19．A．reached           B．moved             C．presented         D．approached

20．A．through       B．for                  C．about               D．across

21．A．recognized       B．realized           C．admitted          D．said

22．A．guilty              B．disappointed     C．embarrassed     D．regret

23．A．above all         B．first of all        C．in all               D．after all

24．A．insisted on    B．insisted            C．stuck to           D．stuck

25．A．pick up            B．pick out           C．carry out          D．bring out

26．A．none               B．anything          C．nothing            D．something

27．A．cnstomers        B．orders              C．pressure           D．business

28．A．entrance          B．restaurant         C．counter            D．window

29．A．suddenly          B．immediately     C．surely              D．completely

30．A．at a time          B．at time             C．sometime         D．sometimes

31．A．when               B．where              C．why                D．how

32．A．shall                B．may                C．might              D．need

33．A．twice that        B．twice what       C．that twice         D．what twice

34．A．Watching         B．Looking           C．Observing        D．Noticing

35．A．awarded          B．honored           C．returned           D．rewarded

 

I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?”? He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied ,“There is nothing wrong with it？” This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. “No, no. But you should try it,” he said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others. ”

       I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

       But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out of my chosen camera from cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers… and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.

      Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

1.The shop assistant insisted that the writer should________.

A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it.

B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others.

C. get more information about different companies.

D. trust him and stop asking questions.

2.What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)

A. He should get a 50% discount.

B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

C. The quality of the camera was not good.

D. The camera would soon fall in value.

3. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he________.

A. knew very little about it.

B. didn’t trust the shop assistant

C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best.

D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion__________.

A. people waste too much money on cameras

B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life

C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product

D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

 

I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives（观点）by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.

With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people’s writing can one discover what works, what doesn’t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.

Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction. As a law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter — the volume（量）of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.

1.What can be inferred about the author as a child?

A．He never watched TV.

B．He read what he had to.

C．He found reading unbelievable.

D．He considered reading part of his life.

2.The underlined word “voice” in the second paragraph most probably means _________.

A．the ability to speak

B．a way of writing

C．a sound quality

D．a world to write about

3.What effect does reading have on the author?

A．It opens up a wider world for him.

B．It helps him to realize his dream.

C．It makes his college life more interesting.

D．It increases his interest in worldwide travel.

4.Which of the following can be the best title of this text?

A．How do I read?

B．What do I read?

C．Why do I read?

D．When do I read?

 

第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题共35分)

第四部分写作 (共两节，满分35分)

第一节任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。

It's every student's dream to do well in the national college entrance examination and enter a good university. In the eyes of students and parents, a good university should have a high ranking, and the employment rate of its graduates should be high. But be careful! The employment rate they tell you might not always be true.

Recently, people created a Chinese phrase "bet jiuye", which has become popular on the Internet almost overnight across China. The word "bet" has a grammatical use in Chinese: it has a function similar to the passive voice in English. But now people often use it to express their doubts about something. Here, the phrase "bei jiuye" has the literal meaning of "to be hired", but people understand that it really means "to be hired without one's knowledge" or "be hired for jobs that may not exist at all".

The story of "bet jiuye" goes like this. Zhao Dongdong, a graduate of a university in Shanxi province, was surprised to find that he got a job from a company he never applied to, which he wasn't even sure was a real place. On his last day of graduation ceremonies, he was surprised to come across the employment contract.

"God! At that time, I had not landed a job yet, but they gave me an employment contract! I wondered who on earth signed the contract with the company. "When Zhao made a phone cull to the company to check it out, no one answered.

He was not the only one in his college who was "hired" for a job that did not exist. One of his classmates signed a contract with a company called Xi'an Beilin Industrial Corporation, which could not be found on the Interact either. In the end, it turned out that the college had faked the contract to make it seem like the employment rate for new graduates was higher than that. By doing this, the college could build up a "good" reputation that could help it attract new students.

"Bet jiuye" is just one of many hot "bet" words on the Internet. See some of them in "Bonus". The use of "bei" is a satirical (讽刺的) way for the public to express its helplessness and criticize abuses of power, some people say. People also use "bet" words to bring attention to social problems, hoping they will be noticed by authorities.

Standards of students' and parents' 76. _______	Having a high ranking
Having a high graduate employment 77. _______
78. ________ of the phrase "Bei jiuye"	To be hired 79. ________
To be hired with no knowledge or for 80 ________ jobs
81. ________ of the appearance of the phrase "Bei jiuye"	Seemingly to 82. ________ employment rate for new graduates
To form good 83. ________
84. ________ to the hot phrase " Bei jiuye" on the Internet	A way of expressing helplessness and 85. _________ power abuses A way of fixing attention to social problems and being noticed by authorities

 

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.

After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate(巨头) Aristotie Onassis Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing（追求）a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book ,The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传)，Moonwalk.

Jaequeliner may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.

1.We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline ______.

A. became fond of reading after working as an editor

B. was in charge of publishing 100 books

C. promoted her books through social relations

D. gained a lot from her career as an editor

2.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that ______.

A. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady

B. Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor

C. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady

D. Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years

B. Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually

C. Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited

D. Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known

4.The passage is mainly ______.

A. an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor.

B. a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences.

C. a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years.

D.an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing