Water costs money．In some places water is hard  16  ．What  17 when a town has these problems？A small town in California found a happy   18 ．

　　Very 19 rain ever fell there．The town had no water  20  ．The water it used was  21  from a river 300 miles away．As more people   22  live in the town，   23   water was needed．Now water   24  to be brought in from 600 miles away．All these cost  25  money．

　　The town 26 a plan．It found 27   to clean its “dirty” water．Once the cleaned water was reused   28  many ways．Five  29  lakes were built．Here people could swim and fish and go   30   ．They  31  have picnics in their new parks．Farmers had more water  32  their crops．New factories can be built，now that they have the promise of  33  ．

　　In most places，water is used and thrown 34  ．The town that saved  35  water has saved the town！

二．完形填空：(20×1.5=30分)

A Blind Boy

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a __21__ which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few _22_  in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his _ 23___ and dropped them into the hat. He _24__ took the sign, turned it around and wrote some words. He __25__ the sign __26__ everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to __27_. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon the man who had __28__ the sign came to see __29_ things were. The boy __30__ his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said in a different way, __31_.” What he had written was: “Today is a(n) __32_  day and I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

__33__ both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so __34__ that they were not blind.

Should we be surprised that the second sign was more __35__ ?

Be thankful for what you have. __36_ life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to __37_. Face your past without regret. __38__ your present with confidence. Prepare for the __39_ without fear. Keep the faith and __40_ the fear.

21. A. cover           B. sign                         C. board                D. note

22. A. cashes          B. treasures                   C. pennies             D. coins

23. A. pocket         B. can                        C. backpack           D. case

24. A. still             B. then                       C. already              D. yet

25. A. put on         B. put out                         C. put off                  D. put back

26. A. in case         B. now that                 C. so that            D. as though

27. A. mix up        B. show up                 C. fill up            D. make up

28. A. changed              B. prepared                 C. supported          D. reached

29. A. what            B. why                      C. where            D. how

30. A. realized              B. recognized             C. felt                 D. discovered

31. A. though         B. but                          C. yet                  D. still

32. A. average        B. successful              C. harmonious       D. beautiful

33. A. After all              B. In the long term     C. Of course          D. Although

34. A. happy       B. disappointed             C. lucky               D. strange

35. A. effective      B. brave                       C. surprising         D. scientific

36. A. Once       B. If                                C. While            D. Because

37. A. smile       B. exist                     C. survive             D. prove

38. A. Look into     B. Search for             C. Deal with         D. Depend on

39. A. tomorrow    B. adventure              C. future            D. sunrise

40. A. accuse         B. charge                   C. skip                 D. drop

第一节完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分．满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21─30各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion for writing poetry. I gave up all my other __ 21     , such as playing computer games,   22      foreign coins and stamps, and spent all my spare time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible    23    soon got me into trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I would take out my note-book and start writing poems in class. Of course ,I did this very    24   , but it was not long before I got    25    . One day while l was busy writing a poem during a geogrophy lesson, I looked up to find the teacher standing over me, staring with anger because I was not    26   attention. He tore the poem up, with a    27     not to waste time in his lesson. All the same I was convinced that I had written a good poem, so that evening I wrote it out again from memory. Not long after, I read about a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up hope, I got a letter informing me I had won first    28   . Everyone at school was very impresed-except the geography teacher, who     29     me more carefully than ever. He was quite    30    that I was not going to write poetry in his lesson!

21. A. hobbies          B. likes                      C. interests             D. routines

22. A. arranging      B. collecting               C. gathering           D. keeping

23. A. chance          B. moment                 C. occasion          D. time

24. A. anxiously      B. attentively         C. cautiously           D. silently

25. A. hold                     B. exposed                 C. known                      D. caught

26. A. calling          B. devoting                C. attracting            D. paying

27. A. warning         B. notice               C. word               D. look

28. A. position         B. price                        C. reward              D. victory

29. A. guarded         B. inspected               C. observed            D. watched

30.A. determined        B. annoyed               C. fixed               D. assured

第三节．完形填空(共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从21--40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。     
Greg Mortenson is a mountaineer. In 1993, he   21   but failed to reach K2, one of the most forbidding of the Himalyayan  22  . He staggered(蹒跚) into a tiny village of Korphe in Pakistan, barely alive. The   23   villagers cared for him and fed him back to health. The __24   they showed to a stranger moved Mortenson, and filled him with a' desire to 25   it.
Looking around, he saw that the poor villagers had actually nothing. 26   , he could see the desire of the villagers to   27   their community. For example, they dreamed of 28   for their children. The children received schooling two days a week from a teacher they   29   with another village, because they couldn't   30   to hire one alone. Naturally, the village had no schoolhouse. Moretenson thought it was by building a school   31   he could best express his   32   for their kindness to him. He left,   33   he would return with necessary materials.
However, things didn't go  34   as he had expected. He was a nurse by profession, and wasn't  well   35    It was a struggle for him to raise the $10,000 or so needed to buy the building materials.    36   problems, including his then Cultural   37   of the area led to a series of frustrations. But with his efforts and cooperation of the villagers, he eventually overcame the __ 38  . He fulfilled his promise.
After that he wanted to return to America,build a career and start a family. However, it ba-came clear that a school for Korphe was just the start. There were so many other villagers in Pa-kistan that had the similar needs. The more   39   he became, the more he came to understand the area and the more he realized how important education was. The   40   was that, in the pe-riod of over a decade, 55 schools were built.
21. A. approached     B. paused           C. hesitated          D. attempted
22. A. peaks          B. levels            C. hills              D. slopes
23. A. cold           B. mean             C. kind              D. tiny
24. A. bravery        Ｂ. ability            C.poverty           D.generosity
25. A. receive        B. repay              C. respect         D. recycle
26. A. Besides        B. However         C. Therefore          D. Moreover
27. A. develop        B. visit              C. design            D. increase
28. A. career         B. development      C. education         D. health
29. A. traded          B. worked           C. communicated    D. shared
30. A. help            B. manage           C. decide            D. afford
31. A. that             B. which            C. what              D. if
32. A. sympathy        B. gratitude          C. attitude           D. anger
33. A. adding          B. promising         C. demanding        D. warning
34. A. smoothly        B. badly             C. closely            D. properly
35. A. dressed          B. received           C. respected          D. paid
36. A. Some             B. Others            C. Other             D. Another
37. A. interaction       B. ignorance         C. background       D. difference
38. A. difficulities       B. fears            C. temptations(诱惑)D, shortcomings
39. A. interested        B. rooted            C. involved          D. lost
40. A. result            B. idea              C. cause             D. report

The year I went away to college was a very difficult transition（过渡期）for me.   21   is probably true with many people．I got quite homesick and   22   thought about going home.   

Although the   23   time for many students is getting   24   from home, my mailbox was frequently   25   . One day when I went to the mailbox, there was a postcard   26   out at me．I sat down to read it,   27   a note from someone back home.  28   I became increasingly puzzled as   29   postcard were like this: It was a full news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby. I took the card back to my room and   30   about it.   

Several days later I   31   another postcard, this one   32   news about Maybelline, Mabel’s cousin. Soon after, another card arrived and then another,   33   full of news of different people. I began to   34   look forward to the next one, 35 to see what this author would come up with 36   . I was never  37   .   

Finally, the cards   38   coming, right about the time I had begun to feel   39   about college life. They had been such a happy distraction (调剂) that, I have 40 all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever I need a life.