(05·安徽)

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beat   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   ! wanted-to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my  44   and went to college. My first novel (小说)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University,  where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of  48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —  50   was a working-.class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university

My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52  , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36. A. bright                        B. useless              C. simple               D. hopeful

37. A. anything                     B. something          C. everything     D. nothing

38. A. low                           B. poor                  C. good                 D. useful

39 A. support                       B. happiness          C. surprise             D. thing

40. A. admitted                     B. decided             C. planned             D. told

41. A. me                                   B. them                 C. her                   D. it

42. A. wrong                       B. right                  C. stupid               D. faulty

43. A. see                                   B. know                C. understand        D. face

44. A. experiment                 B. practice             C. writing              D. composition

45. A. came on                     B. came in             C. came out           D. came back

46. A. day                            B. night                 C. month               D. year

47. A. graduation                  B. pass                  C. degree               D. success

48. A. giving in                     B. giving back        C. giving out          D. giving up

49. A. while                         B. if                      C. when                D. or

50. A. there                          B. here                  C. it                      D. that

51. A. left                                   B. attended            C. changed            D. graduated

52. A. tired                          B. calm                 C. nervous             D. famous

53. A. And                           B. But                   C. However           D. Well

54. A. just                            B. exactly              C. so                     D. very

55. A. praised                       B. said                   C. answered          D. advised

 (05·浙江)

It was raining. I went into a café and asked for a coffee.     21    I was waiting for my drink, I realized that there were other people in the place, but I sensed     22    . I saw their bodies, but I couldn't feel their souls     23    their souls belonged to the     24    .

I stood up and walked between the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man     25    in front of it. "I'm Steve", he finally answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. "I can't talk with you. I'm     26    ", he said. He was chatting online with somebody--probably someone he didn't know--and, at the same time, he was playing a computer game--a war game. I was surprised. He was chatting online and,     27    , he was playing a computer game—a war game. I was     28    .

Why didn't Steve want to talk with me? I tried     29     to speak to that computer geek (怪人),     30    not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction（反应）. I was     31    . I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout,          "    32    !"

I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the café were looking at me. I     ___33    , and saw nobody showed any interest.

    34    , I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more     35    having a relationship with the     ___36    , particularly Steve. I wouldn't want to     37     the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines     38    with people.

I was worried and I sank in my thoughts. I didn't even     39    that the coffee was bad,    ___40    Steve didn't notice there was a person next to him.

21．A．Before                 B．Since                  C．Although            D．While

22．A．pain                   B．loneliness            C．sadness              D．fear

23．A．because               B．when                  C．until                   D．unless

24．A．home                 B．world                 C．Net                     D．Cafe

25．A．sleeping              B．laughing              C．sitting                 D．learning

26．A．busy                  B．thirsty                C．tired                   D．sick

27．A．first of all           B．just then              C．at the same time D．by that time

28．A．surprised            B．delighted             C．moved                D．frightened

29．A．once                  B．again                  C．first                   D．even

30．A．but                     B．so                       C．if                       D．or

31．A．excited               B．respected             C．afraid                 D．unhappy

32．A．Shut up               B．Enjoy yourself     C．Leave me alone   D．Help me out

33．A．walked about      B．walked out          C．raised my hand    D．raised my head

34．A．From then on      B．At that moment   C．In all                  D．Above all

35．A．interested in        B．tired of               C．careful about       D．troubled by

36．A．computer            B．soul                    C．shop                   D．geek

37．A．tell                     B．plan                    C．imagine               D．design

38．A．other than           B．instead of            C．except for           D．as well as

39．A．pretend               B．understand           C．insist                  D．realize

40．A．as if                   B．just as                 C．just after             D．even though

 (05·安徽B篇)

When I was small and my grandmother died, I couldn’t understand why I had no tears. But that night when my dad tried to cheer me up, my laugh turned into crying.

.   So it came as no surprise to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing come from the same part of the brain. Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that so, too, does crying.

Whatever it takes for us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional (情感的) health, and crying seems to study found that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men report feeling better after crying.

Besides, tears attract help from other people. Researchers agree that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendly and they are more ready to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to understand our emotions better; sometimes we don't even know we' re very sad until we cry. We learn about our emotions through Crying, and then we can deal with them.

Just as crying can be healthy, not crying — holding back tears of anger, pain or suffering — can be bad for physical (身体的) health, Studies have shown that too much control of emotions can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illnesses. If you have a health problem, doctors will certainly not ask you to cry. But when you feel like crying, don't fight it. It's a natural  — and healthy — emotional response (反应).

60. Why didn't the author cry when her grandmother died?

A. Because her father did not --ant her to feel too sad.

B. Because she did not love her grandmother.

C. Because she was too shy to cry at that time.

D. Tie author doesn’t give the explanation.

61, It car. be inferred from the text that ______.

A. there are two ways to keep healthy

B. crying does more good to health than laughing

C. crying and laughing play the same roles

D. emotional health has a close relationship to physical health

62. According to the author, which of the following statements is true?

A. Crying is the best way to get help from others.

B. Fighting back tears may cause some health problems.

C. We will never know our deep feelings unless we cry.

D. We must cry if we want to reduce pressure.

63. What might be the most suitable title for the text?

A. Power of Tears                         B. How to Keep Healthy

C. Why We Cry                           D. A New Scientific Discovery

 (05·安徽E篇)

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager (十几岁的孩子) problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

He hasn't forgotten them. He' s just decided that he' s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

71. This text is most probably written by ______.

A. a specialist in teenager studies              B. a headmaster of a middle school

C. a parent with teenage children               D. a doctor for mental health problems

72. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A. the change from good to bad that ' s seen in a child

B. die way that parents often blame themselves

C. the opinion that a child has of his parents

D. the advice that parents want their children to follow

73. The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A. lazy           B. quiet              G. unusual           D. rude

74. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A. pay no attention to them                    B. are too busy to look after them

C. have come to hate them                     D. feel helpless to do much about them

75. What is the author' a opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B. Parents should pay still sore attention to the change.

C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。、
When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument with a boy named Tom in my class. I can’t remember what it was about,  21  I have never forgotten the  22  I learned that day.
I was  23  that I was right and he was wrong--and he was sure that I was wrong and he was right. The  24  decided to teach us a very important lesson. My English teacher, Ms Green  25  both of us up to the 26  of the class and  27  him on one side of her desk and me on  28 . In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could  29 see that it was black. She asked the boy what  30  the object was. “White,” he answered.
I couldn’t believe he said the object was white,  31  it was obviously black! Another  32  started between my classmate and me, this time about the  33  of the object.
The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed  34  and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I  35  answer, “White.” It was an object with two  36  colored sides, and from his side it was white.  37  from my side was it black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must  38  in the other person’s shoes and look at the  39  through their eyes in order to  40  understand their view.