二. 完形填空

I will never forget one thing, mainly because I learned the meaning of kindness then.

    A few years ago, I went running on a 16  day. It was my favorite activity because the 17   were so clean when it rained. 18  , I saw an old man with  19  clothes picking cans out of a rubbish bin. When I ran past him, I didn’t know 20   I should give him my umbrella. As I was thinking, I was still  21   . But I finally decided to give him my umbrella, as I knew he needed the umbrella much more than I needed it,   22   I ran back, gave him the umbrella and said, “You  23   this more than I do.” To my  24  , he took it with a big smile on his face and repeated, “Thank you! Thank you! God bless you.” I hadn’t expected he would  25  it so much. I walked away feeling  26  . I turned back one last minute and  27  him still smiling. “It was just an umbrella,” I thought, not  28  that it was the  29  that made him happy. He might feel that he wasn’t  30  in the world.

    A few weeks later, when I was running on the same street on a bright sunny day, I  31  the same man who was in the same clothes sitting down resting. The only  32  was my umbrella right beside him, looking like he  33  it. It was very clean and neatly placed. At that moment, I realized it didn’t  34  that I couldn’t give him a house or a job. I only did what I was able to and it made a whole lot of  35  seem to go away.

16. A. snowy       B. sunny      C. cloudy        D. rainy

17. A. parks          B. paths        C. streets       D. gyms

18. A. Hopefully   B. Unfortunately   C. Surprisingly  D. Suddenly

19. A. nice             B. wet         C. funny      D. clean

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

21. A. smiling   B. looking           C. running         D. walking

22. A. for               B. when              C. since          D. so

23. A. care      B. need           C. enjoy         D. like

24. A. excitement  B. disappointment  C. joy             D. surprise

25. A. favor         B. love          C. appreciate   D. admire

26. A. high            B. good         C. scared     D. amused

27. A. saw             B. heard               C. imagined         D. sensed

28. A. expecting  B. watching          C. realizing   D. feeling

29. A. trust         B. confidence       C. respect         D. kindness

30. A. small        B. alone          C. bothered         D. useless

31. A. cared about B. called on     C. passed by         D.looked after

32. A. achievement B. sign           C. choice           D. difference

33. A. valued  B. remembered       C. honored     D. washed

34.A change       B. occur         C. hurt         D. matter

35.A.sadness      B. suffering       C. rudeness     D. feeling

                                     MEN VS. WOMEN

COMPARING NICKNAMES

　 If Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose.

　 If Mike, Charlie, Bob and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla (怪兽), Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

EATING OUT

When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.

　 When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY

　 A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants.

　 A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t want.

BATHROOMS

　 A man has six items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, comb, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

　 The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337... A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

ARGUMENTS

　 A woman has the last word in any argument.

　 Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

CATS

Women love cats.

　 Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.

FUTURE

　 A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

　 A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS

　 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

　 A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE

　 A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.

　A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does.

DRESSING UP

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.

　 A man will only dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL

　 Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.

　 Women somehow deteriorate (恶化) during the night.

OFFSPRING

　 Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.

　 A man is vaguely (含糊地) aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Any married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no sense in two people remembering the same thing.

1. This passage is_________________.

   A. a story           B. an advertisement         C. a report          D. a humor

2. The purpose of this passage is________________.

A. to inform the readers of some secrets between men and women

   B. to remind the readers of the big differences between men and women

   C. to amuse the readers using some interesting examples

   D. to show that men perform better than women in our daily life

3. When the girls get their bill, they take out the pocket calculators_________________.

   A. to make sure they won’t be cheated by the servant    B. so that they can share the bill equally among them

   C. because they want to know what time it is now        D. if they forget to bring their mobile phones

4. What does the underlined sentence mean?

   A. A man doesn’t know what to do before he gets married.

   B. A man is worried about his future job after he gets married.

   C. Anything unexpected will probably happen to a man after he gets married.

   D. It’s not easy for a man to find a good job as a woman thinks.

第四部分：任务型阅读（每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

注意：每空格1个单词。

At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the likelihood of death is least. Earlier we were infants and young children, and consequently more vulnerable; later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigour and resistance which, though not felt at first, will finally become so sudden and quick that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us. This decline in vigour with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favour of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer-- on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it, and there is a virtual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and strong we are.

Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the universe itself, must in the nature of things 'wear out'. Most animals we commonly observe do in fact age as we do if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound watch or the sun, do in fact run out of energy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics (whether the whole universe does so is a matter about which there may be disagreement or uncertainty at present). But these are not similar to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itself, it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction. We could, at one time, repair ourselves well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illnesses and accidents. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power; an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and into our grave. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.

On April 14th, residents of China's remote Yushu County, located on ______ Tibetan plateau, were awoken by ______ strong earthquake.

   A. the; the                      B. a; the                C. a; 不填                  D. the; a

 Your room is terribly dirty; you        get it cleaned in two hours, or Mum will be angry.

A. can                 B. might             C. shall               D. may

 Easter Island, which was almost uninhabited when it was discovered on Easter Day in 1722 by a Dutch captain, is covered with hundreds of giant statues, each _______ several tons.

  A. weighing           B. weighs          C. weighed          D. to weigh

Mike had to walk home ______ his bike stolen．

       A．with       B．as        C．for      D．since

—Paul seems upset today．

  —Yes，he wrote an application letter to Neusoft but waited__________for a reply .

  A．in vain    B．in order    C．in time   D．in return

Despite the fact that Lucy is a lovely girl, she _____ be extremely difficult to work with sometimes.

   A. must        B. should       C. would       D. can

Section B   

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.   Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. environment      B. necessarily  C. allowed      D. cheated      E. hardly

F. admitted     G. communication  H. necessary   I. joy      J. difficulty

    A relative of mine once asked me: “Why should a Chinese take time to learn a language that is not his own?” Obviously he has ___37___ in learning a foreign language. He is not the only one who is mentally against English learning. One reason, as I suspect, is the way English is taught. The emphasis on memorization is such that no ___38___ is left in the process, only endless irritation. What students are presented in the classroom is not the language in real-world ___39___. A Chinese student with extremely high scores for American standardized tests was ___40___ into one of the most famous universities. But his professors soon found out that he could ___41___ understand them in the classroom. Suspecting that he ___42___ in the tests, the school demanded he repeat them. Again, he passed with high scores. Not till then did they realize that the student had mastered the techniques for dealing with the tests, not ___43___ the skills of using the language.

　　Many people take TOFEL, IELTS, GRE, annual Band 4 and Band 6 exams not because they work in areas where English is a ___44___ tool, but because they have to do it for job promotion or enrolment in certain programmes.

　　Must English learning be such a pain in the neck?

　　Create a(n)___45____ where learning English is natural and painless. Don't make it compulsory for people whose work or major does not require it. China will not become more international by adding millions of people who can only say a simple "Hello."