Everybody was touched ___________ words after they heard her moving story．

         A．beyond            B．without          C．of             D．in

I turned to the headmaster and he promised to do everything _ his power to help. me out.

   A．beyond        B．above         C．under       D．within

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
I hadn’t really planned on taking a trip this time of year, and yet I found myself packing rather hurriedly. I knew in   36   that this trip was going to be unpleasant.
I’m talking about my annual Guilt Trip. I got tickers to fly there on WISH – I – HAD’ airlines. I   37   my baggage all the way, which was weighted down with a thousand   38   of ‘what might have been’. No one greeted me at the ‘Regret City’ International Airport.
As I   39   into the Last Resort Hotel, I noticed to miss that great   41   occasion.
Many leading citizens went there. First, there was the ‘Should – Have - Done’ family.   42   came the ‘I – Wish’ family. Of course, the ‘Opportunities’ family, ‘Missed and Lost’, surely made an   43  . They each had a dad story to share. ‘It’s – Their - Fault’ treated us with stories about   44  things had failed in his life, and each story was applauded by ‘Don’t – Blame - Me’ and ‘I – Couldn’t – Help – It.’
To make a long   45   short, I became very depressed at the party   46  .
But as I though about all the stories of failures   47  from the past, it occurred to me that all of this trip and ‘pity party’ could have been cancelled by ME!
I truly realized that I didn’t have to be there to be   48  . One thing kept going through my mind – I can’t change yesterday, but I   49   have the power to make today a wonderful day. Knowing this, I left ‘Regret City’ immediately. Am I sorry for   50  I’ve made in the past? YES! But there is no physical way to undo them.
So, if you’re planning a trip to ‘Regret City’, please cancel all your reservations now.   51  , take a trip to a placed called ‘Starting Again’, which I like so much that I’ve made it my   52   residence. My neighbors, the ‘I – Forgive - Myselfs’ and the ‘New - Starts’ are so very helpful.
By the way, you don’t have to carry   53   heavy baggage, because the load is lifted from your shoulders   54   arrival. Surely you’ll find this great town – it’s in your own heart. Look me up if you’re ready for a (n)   55   changer in your life. I live on ‘I – CAN – DO – IT ’ Street.
36．A．person         B．time         C．advance       D．secret
37．A．grasped       B．held         C．lifted         D．dragged
38．A．inspirations      B．prescriptions    C．memories     D．souvenirs
39．A．checked       B．prepared      C．reserved       D．accessed
40．A．creating       B．hosting        C．introducing      D．participating
41．A．political       B．social              C．historical     D．cultural
42．A．There          B．Thus         C．Finally        D．Then
43．A．achievement     B．appearance       C．appointment     D．announcement
44．A．where          B．whether       C．how         D．which
45．A．story         B．event         C．comedy       D．tragedy
46．A．after all       B．in public      C．ever since     D．as usual
47．A．brought back    B．taken down      C．kept up        D．carried on
48．A．motivated     B．depressed     C．refreshed     D．impressed
49．A．could              B．might          C．did           D．do
50．A．attempts      B．preparations     C．mistakes      D．efforts
51．A．Instead        B．Nevertheless     C．Therefore     D．However
52．A．independent     B．mature         C．permanent     D．dynamic
53．A．away         B．through       C．out           D．around
54．A．beyond        B．upon         C．under              D．above
55．A．total         B．abrupt         C．punctual      D．severe

Scientists find that hard-working people live longer than average men and women. Career women are__1___ than housewives．Evidence shows that __2_  are in poorer health than the job-holders．A study shows that _3___ the unemployment rate increases by 1%，the death rate in-creases correspondingly by 2%．All this comes down to one point：Work is helpful to health．
Why is work good for health? It is because work ___4_   people busy,  _5__ loneliness and  solitude . Researches show that people feel unhappy，_6__ and lonely when they have nothing to do．Instead，the happiest are those who are  _7___．Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are happiest when they are working hard . Work serves as __8___  between man and reality．By work，people_9__  each other．By collective activity，they find friendship and warmth．This is helpful to health．The loss of work __10__  the loss of everything．It affects man spiritually and __11_   him liable to disease．
__12__  ，work gives one a sense of fulfillment and a sense of _13__  ．Work makes one feel his value and status in society．When __14__ finishes his writing or a doctor successfully __15__   a patient or a teacher sees his students __16_  ，they are happy ___17__ ．
From the above we can _18__  to the conclusion that the more you work, _19___ and healthier you will be．Let us work hard，study well and __20__  a happy and healthy life．

  A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension (理解), will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principle (原则) apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook—but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage (百分比) gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned (有关的) with.

  The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you night skim (浏览) through a newspaper at perhaps 650-700, while with difficult textbooks you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty.

  Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A., for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy’s War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension. Students in Minnesota claim (自称) that after twelve half-hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around five hundred words per minute.　　　　

1．According to the passage, the purpose of effective reading with higher speed is most likely to help you　　   .

A. only in your reading of physics textbook

B. improve your understanding of an economics textbook

C. not only in your language study but also in other subjects

D. choose the suitable material to read

2．Which of the following does not describe the types of reading materials mentioned in the second paragraph?

A. Those beyond (超越) one’s reading comprehension.

B. Those concerned with common knowledge.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 

C. Those without the demand for specialized knowledge.

D. Those with the length of about five hundred words

3．The average speed of untrained native speakers in the University of Minnesota is　　   .

A. about three hundred words per minute

B. about two hundred and forty-five words per minute

C. about sixty words per minute

D. about five hundred words per minute

4．According to the passage, how fast can you expect to read after you have attended twelve half-hour lessons in the University of Minnesota?

A. You can increase your reading speed by three times.

B. No real increase in reading speed can be achieved.

C. You can increase your reading speed by four times.

D. You can double your reading speed.

5．Where do you think the passage is taken from?

A. The introduction to a book on fast reading.

B. A local newspaper for young people.

C. A school newspaper run by students.

D. The introduction to an English textbook.