第二节 完型填空（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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

For much of our life, my mother and I hated each other. I spent most of my childhood   36   with her – or trying to avoid her, as well as her bitterness, unhappiness and endless smoking. I learned how to defend myself with   37   designed to hurt her. In turn, she vowed I would have a    38   who would feel the way about me that I felt about her.

Many years later when my husband and I decided to have a child, I was   39   to have a girl. I couldn’t   40   the though of a daughter who might not love me – or who would want to   41   me. As soon as I became pregnant, I was convinced I was having a boy. In the delivery room, on my doctor putting my baby into my arms, I couldn’t wait to tell my mother I had a   42  , while “he” was a girl. At that moment, I couldn’t imagine wanting anyone but her.

   43  I couldn’t forget my mother’s teasing vow, even after she died and I saw her in a more   44   light. As my daughter got older, whenever we argued, I worried we were   45   the same awful path that my mother and I had gone down.

Last summer, my daughter   46   18, the same age when my mother threw me out of her apartment for   47  . However, I was with her, planning for her first year at college. When my husband and I dropped her off at her school in New York, I finally   48   to her my biggest fear that we would end up like me and my mother. “That will never happen.” she   49  me, kissing me goodbye. Six weeks later, my husband and I returned to the campus. I   50   myself arguing with my daughter about her messy room, not  using the library and her mistake of choosing the room near the bathroom. I couldn’t stop myself. And then   51   came: “You’re just like your mother,” my daughter screamed. “I hate you.” And then she   52  .

I finally heard the words I had always dreaded. But maybe that was because I   53   them. I had always worried the bond I shared with my daughter would   54  . later that evening, we picked my daughter up to a restaurant. We ate   55  . But when we separated, I hugged her. The next morning, she called telling she loved me. There wasn’t anything to be afraid of anymore. There was just a relationship we should work on with each other.

36．A．sharing         B．playing         C．communicating D．fighting

37．A．actions         B．activities       C．words            D．weapons

38．A．husband        B．friend           C．child          D．daughter

39．A．afraid           B．unlucky        C．uncertain       D．willing

40．A．have          B．bear          C．hold           D．afford

41．A．love          B．escape from     C．obey           D．keep from

42．A．daughter       B．son            C．baby           D．life

43．A．Furthermore    B．But           C．And           D．Or

44．A．bright           B．annoying      C．understanding   D．unfriendly

45．A．on             B．in              C．at               D．along

46．A． became        B．grew         C．went           D．turned

47．A．good         B．nothing         C．my good        D．all

48．A．presented      B．told           C．admitted        D．informed

49．A．promised      B．pardoned      C．referred         D．reflected

50．A．wanted         B．asked         C．forced           D．found

51．A．it              B．she            C．they           D．that

52．A．walked away    B．looked away     C．gave away      D．stormed away

53．A．deserved       B．demanded     C．equaled          D．appreciated

54．A．tear           B．break         C．crash          D．last

55．A．in vain         B．in general     C．in silence       D．in brief

       Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. “Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting creatures,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word “habit” carries a negative meaning.

So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation (创新). But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously developnew habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

       Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try, the more creative we become.

       But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they’re there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

       “The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide’, just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider’．” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”

       “All of us work through problems in ways of which we’re unaware,” she says. Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the ability to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, collaboratively (合作地) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that ability, preserving only those ways of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

       The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us use our innovative and collaborative ways of thought. “This breaks the major rule in the American belief system — that anyone can do anything,” explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will…and Ms. Markova’s business partner. “That’s a lie that we have preserved, and it fosters (促进，培养) commonness. Knowing what you’re good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.” This is where developing new habits comes in.

Brain researchers have discovered that      .

       A．the forming of new habits can be guided

       B．the development of habits can be predicted

       C．the regulation of old habits can be transformed

       D．the track of new habits can be created unconsciously

The underlined word “ruts” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to       .

       A．zones              B．connections      C．situations       D．tracks

Which of the following statements most probably agrees with Dawna Markova’s view?

       A．Decision makes no sense in choices.

       B．Curiosity makes creative minds active.

       C．Creative ideas are born of a relaxing mind.

       D．Formation of innovation comes from fantastic ideas.

The purpose of the author writing this article is to persuade us       .

       A．to give up our traditional habits deliberately

       B．to create and develop new habits consciously

       C．to resist the application of standardized testing

       D．to believe that old habits conflict with new habits

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

We'll never forget the day which my classmates and I paid a visit to a chemistry factory last week. It was a larger one with nearly 2,000 workers. It looked a garden and we could see colorful flowers, grasses and trees everywhere. We also visited some workshops and saw workers worked very hard. We talked with them and learned a lot. We understood them farther. On the way home we felt tiring. We all thought that we have a very good day. We really hoped that we could get more chances of leave the school and learn social experience.

Jane was asked a lot of questions, but she didn’t answer           of them.

A. other     B. any    C. none        D. some

 Practising Chinese kung fu can not onl________one’s strength, but also develop one’s character.

A. bring up    B. take up   C. build up    D. pull up

. The fire spread through the hotel very quickly but everyone ______ get out.

A. had to             高*考*资*源*网  B. would             C. could               D. was able to

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By the time he realizes he ________ into a trap, it’ll be too late for him to do anything about it.

A. walks               B. walked             C. had walked        D. has walked

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This is the best restaurant in our town. I’m afraid you can’t find _______ here.

A. a better one       B. the better one            C. the best one                     D. any best one

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Allow children the space to express their opinions ________ they are different from your own.

    A. until          B. even if          C. unless         D. before

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第三部分：阅读理解（共13小题；每小题2分，共26分）

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，将正确答案的选项字母标号写在答题纸上相对应的题号后。

   One day last winter we received our first huge snowfall. An hour later I decided to let my dog out. That was when I got the shock! My sidewalk was cleaned and my path too. I had no idea who did this good deed. I looked over to my neighbor's driveway where the husband stood,open-mouthed and surprised. His sidewalk was also cleared. I asked him who did it. He just shook his head and let me know that he had no idea.

   A week later we had another snowfall and I promised to pay attention this time just in case we had another visit from our snow angel. It was a good plan, but I got busy inside and forgot to keep a look out. Sure enough when I remembered to look out the snow had once again been cleared away.

  Now I became determined to find my guardian(保护人) of the snow. Some three weeks went by when the snow started to fall again. I went to get a book and sat at the window just as the snow tapered off and my reading was interrupted by the sound of a shovel(铲子). I got to my feet to look out and was so choked up that I just stood there. My snow angel was an eight-year-old boy who lived a few houses away from me.

   A month after the snows, I called him over and asked him if he knew of anybody who shoveled for me. He said, " I guess it was someone who likes you." So without taking credit for his good deed, he turned and left,

37. When the author saw her sidewalk was cleaned, she felt _________________.

   A. excited      B. surprised          C. discouraged           D. satisfied

38. The second time the author failed to check who cleaned the snow. because she___________.

      A. was busy cooking inside                       B. was not at home then

      C. was too busy to pay attention                D. stood too far to see anything         

39. From the boy's answer "I guess it was someone who likes you", we can infer that the boy_____.

   A. wanted to keep the truth a secret          B, might be a relative of the author's

   C. wanted to make a good impression        D. wanted to make friends with the author

40. What can we learn from the passage?

   A. It snowed every week where the author lived.

   B. The author intended to praise the boy.

   C. The author didn't like to clean snow,

   D. No one knew who helped clean the snow at last.