We’ll all have a heart that is already accurately showing us how true things are.

Carmen’s mother Maria had just   1  a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant（移植）her life was in constant   2 .

Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very   3 : finding a donor heart that matched Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept   4  hospitals all over the country.

Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble walking from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a corner of the hospital,   __5 .

“Are you okay?” a man asked.

Carmen sobbed（哭泣）as she told the stranger her   6 . This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t   7  it through the night.   8 , an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to donate（捐献）something from herself.

After reviewing the data, doctors   9  Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to   10  the transplant.

That cold night, when Cheryl was   11  dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was   12  for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.

On New Year’s Eve, Carmen   13  Cheryl’s funeral（葬礼）with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”

One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria   14  with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was   15  in another loving mother’s chest.

1.                A．survived        B．suffered        C．died D．made

2.                A．change         B．danger         C．disorder  D．pain

3.                A．unlikely        B．big            C．slim  D．likely

4.                A．finding         B．interrupting     C．touring   D．phoning

5.                A．crying          B．sleeping        C．doubting  D．thinking

6.                A．idea           B．story           C．thought   D．accident

7.                A．put            B．support         C．make D．pass

8.                A．Hurriedly       B．Devotionally     C． Calmly   D．Suddenly

9.                A．informed       B．warned         C．congratulated  D．reminded

10.               A．give up         B．carry out       C．search after    D．put off

11.               A．noticed        B．predicted       C．declared  D．left

12.               A．singing         B．begging        C．decorating D．praying

13.               A．attended       B．joined          C．visited D．passed

14.               A．passed away     B．woke up        C．left behind D．dressed up

15.               A．active          B．necessary       C．alive  D．lively

Houston, Texas (June 8. 2002)–in 2004, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send two robots to separate places of Mars to seek out past or present signs of water. It is an exciting idea to send two robots driving over very different places of Mars at the same time, to be able to see what is on the other side of the hill.
Last month, NASA announced it was sending one robot to Mars, but after two weeks, it decided there was enough money for two. The robots will be sent up within two weeks of each other in May and June of 2003 from Kennedy Space Center. If all goes well, the two spacecraft will touch down on Mars, after a seven-and –a-half-month space flight, on January 2 and 20, 2004.
The robots, each weighing 150 kilograms, can cover 100 meters per day. They are designed to be able to examine the mineral content of the soil, and their special camera will take pictures of the lands and hills. Although they will be under control from the earth, the robots are able to move more freely compared to those sent up before them.
The actual landing points have not been determined yet, but the scientists say it will be in areas where they hope to find water.
49.According to the news report, scientists plan to send robots up to Mars to _____.
A.find out whether there is water on Mars   B.see if robots can find minerals there  
C.test how fast robots can drive there                 D.prove that robots can work on Mars
50.How long in between will the two robots be sent to Mars?
A.1 year       B. 7.5 months                  C. 2 months       D. 2 weeks
51. One of the important jobs for the robots on Mars is to _______.
A.study the soil                                     B. walk everywhere
C.test the new camera                                D. find a suitable landing point
52. We can infer from the last sentence that scientists ________.
A. have changed the landing points many times  B. hope to land the robots on the surface of water
C. are still working on the plan                      D. know where they can find water

单词拼写, 首字母已给出 （每小题1分，共10分）

1.We s________(遭受) huge losses in the earthquake.

2.I’m c_________(担心) that they may have got lost.

3.The boy refused to follow my a_______(建议) and did what he wanted to.

4.The worker i_______(忽视) his own danger and jumped into the river to save the boy.

5.The news quite u______(使心烦意乱) him.

6.Are you sure he is a n        (本地的) here not a visitor ?

7.Though I haven’t met him for many years, I could r_________(认出) him immediately when I saw him in the crowd.

8.His story is b       (以…为基础) on his own experience.

9.He didn’t stop in Hong Kong and flew s          (径直) to London.

10.The ship sailed and we set out on a long v           (航海).

短文改错（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，并在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。