--Are you satisfied with his reply?

  --Not at all. It couldn’t have been ______ .

   A. any worse    B. so bad        C. much better   D. the worst

 With their son ______, the old couple lived a hard life.

A. disappointing  B. disappointed  C. to be disappointed  D. being disappointed

Being an experienced teacher, he is good at ______ the mind of his students.

       A. seeing B. reading      C. realizing     D. recognizing

五．改错

Bob told me that he would like to be lawyer when he was at school. He had worked very hard at his lessons and tried to enter into a famous university, but something unhappily happened to his family, that made it necessary for him work for a living. As a young man, he had been a bus-driver, a dust-man or a salesman. But he spent his spare times studying and finally become a college teacher. “Young people,” he often said, “full of wishes and hopes after they step into society.”

 The general manager thought of______ problems before he made the final decision.

A. a good many    B. a great deal of   C. lots     D. a plenty

第三节 书面表达 （满分15分）

  电视机几乎已经进入每个家庭，它在人们的生活中起着重要的作用，但也有一些负面影响。请你根据下列提示用英语写一篇100词左右的短文说明电视的用途。

    电视给我们提供了一个栩栩如生的世界，通过电视我们可以观看奥林匹克足球赛，可以到纽约或伦敦观光，可以端着茶杯听音乐会，足不出户便知天下事。在日常生活中电视起着重要的教育作用，它可提供多种教育节目。

    不过，看电视太多会损害眼睛，影响工作和休息，减少孩子们的学习时间。

参考词汇：    栩栩如生的   vivid;     减少  cut down      观光  go sightseeing

             教育education    影响influence

Nowadays television has become a necessity in almost every family and it is playing an important role in our daily life.

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The meeting _____ late in the afternoon and we all went home.

   A. broke out          B. broke up            C. broke through  D. broke down

. We are invited to a party ________ in our club next Friday.

A. to be held      B. held         C. being held      D. holding

 We travelled together as far as Chicago, _____ we said goodbye to each other.

     A. which               B. when   C. why             D. where

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

     A woman in her sixties lived alone in her little cottage（村舍）with a pear tree at her door. She spent all her time taking care of the tree. But the children nearby drove her  16  by making fun of her. They would climb her tree and then run away with pears,  17   “Aunty Misery” at her.  One evening, a passer-by（过路者） asked to  18  for the night. Seeing that he had an 19  face, she let him in and gave him a nice  20  . The next morning the stranger, actually a sorcerer (巫师), thanked her by granting (允准) her  21  that anyone who climbed up her tree  22  not be able to come back down until she  23  it.                                                                                                                                                                                               When the children came back to steal her  24 , she had them stuck（粘）on the tree. They had to beg her long  25  she gave the tree permission to let  26  go. Aunty Misery was free from the  27  at last.                                                                                        One day another man   28  her door. This one did not look trustworthy（值得相信的）to her,   29   she asked who he was . “I am Death, I’ve come to take you   30   me.” said he.                                                   Thinking fast, Aunty Misery said, “Fine, but I’d like to  31  some pears from my dear tree to remember the  32  it brought to me in this life. But I am too  33  to climb high to get the best fruit. Will you be so   34   as to do it for me?” With a deep sigh (叹气), Mr. Death climbed up the tree 35 and was immediately stuck to it. No matter how much he warned or begged, Aunty Misery would not allow the tree to let Death go.              

16．A．hopeless       B．painful             C．dull              D．crazy 

17．A．calling        B．shouting            C．announcing D．whispering

18．A．stay            B．live               C．hide             D．lie

19．A．interesting       B．honest              C．anxious           D．angry

20．A．gift              B．kiss                C．treat            D．smile

21．A．suggestion     B．demand             C．permission          D．wish

22．A．could         B．should              C．might           D．must

23．A．permitted     B．promised          C．answered          D．declared

24．A．branch          B．food              C．tree              D．fruit

25．A．after                B．while          C．since                D．before

26．A．it                 B．them             C．him                 D．her

27．A．trick                B．question          C．trouble              D．difficulty

28．A．stepped into          B．left for          C．stopped at            D．walked around

29．A．so                  B．but              C．although           D．because

30．A．with               B．off              C．upon               D．for

31．A．choose             B．pick             C．shake             D．hit

32．A．honor              B．pleasure               C．hope              D．excitement

33．A．light               B．short          C．old                D．thin

34．A．proud              B．kind            C．fine               D．smart

35．A．disappointedly    B．cheerfully          C．unwillingly        D．eagerly