第二节完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第31至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket Company. Immediately my mind traveled back many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of   31       on my shoulder. Finally, I came to that Company, whose owner, Mr. Rader, had taken me there to   32   his workers whether they wanted any magazines.
Shaking off the rain, I entered Mr. Rader’s office. After a quick glance he led me over to the fire-place. Noticing the   33   in the top of my shoe, he said, “Come with me!” Then, he took me to a shoe store. Inside, a salesman   34   me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had ever seen. I felt about 10 feet tall when I got up in   35  . “We’d like a pair of   36   socks, too.” Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a   37  , wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With tearful eyes, I read, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” He said affectionately(深情地), “Jimmy, I want you to   38   I love you.”
I said good-bye, and for the first time I sensed that somehow things would be   39  . With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that would always make a  40  .
31. A. newspapers                B. magazines                C. books                       D. tools
32. A. tell                              B. say                          C. answer                    D. ask
33. A. dirt                           B. water                       C. hole                    D. mud
34. A. bought                         B. fitted                       C. sold                        D. comforted
35. A. it                         B. them                     C. one                         D. this
36. A. new                          B. old                          C. big                      D. small
37. A. pen                           B. paper                             C. card                        D. notebook
38. A. admit                    B. know                             C. consider                  D. express
39. A. mistaken                   B. right                       C. all right                   D. possible
40. A. rule                          B. cake                        C. thing                        D. difference

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第31至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Dear Mr. Takashhi,

I am writing to apologize for any misunderstandings that occurred when I showed you around Beijing the other day. I noticed that you were a bit   31  when I put the business card you gave me in my   32  without looking at it. And   33  did not know why you kept making an OK sign and why you   34  so many things. After reading a magazine article, I know that Japanese people give out their business cards   35  they greet others and they would like others to look at their cards carefully. So I should have read your   36  before I put it in my pocket. And I also know why you bought so many things   37 . Because gift-giving is expected in Japan and on a trip, you must bring back lots of   38 . As for the OK sign, I now know it is a request for small change.

I feel very sorry for not having known these   39  habits earlier. I hope you can forgive me for all these misunderstandings. I hope   40  our next meeting will be happier.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hualing

1. A. pleased       B. upset            C. excited          D. encouraged

2. A. hand          B. box              C. watch            D. pocket

3. A. I             B. you              C. we               D. nobody

4. A. made          B. saw              C. bought           D. eat

5. A. unless        B. before           C. after            D. when

6. A. faces         B. books            C. cards            D. clothes

7. A. there         B. here             C. home             D. everywhere

8. A. gifts         B. photos           C. pictures         D. sweets

9. A. strange       B. rare             C. unusual          D. cultural

10. A. which        B. that             C. when             D. where

Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after 31 thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head 32 his walking stick．McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a 33  person, he had been 34 to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often．

Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a 35 collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays 36 .

“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our37 ,” said Laurence．She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant 38  bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks．“We'd be 39 there happily reading our newspapers, when 40 so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd 41 with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the 42 of fish!”

And on Saturday evening it was just too 43. “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake．The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.” 44 , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet 45．Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast．“I couldn't 46 him．He was up there in a flash．It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”

Smith is not going to take things further with the police．He has also promised to change his 47 from now on．And what of James McKay? 48 he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”．“49 the most exciting birthday 50 !” said the cheerful old man．“The best since my adolescence I'd say!”         

1.                A．hitting          B．tapping         C．pushing   D．touching

2.                A．by             B．with           C．through  D．via

3.                A．quiet          B．sensitive        C．peaceful  D．stubborn

4.                A．accustomed     B．taken          C．driven    D．attracted

5.                A．seed           B．fish            C．plant D．newspaper

6.                A．himself         B．itself           C．herself   D．themselves

7.                A．bathroom       B．balcony         C．bedroom D．kitchen

8.                A．which          B．what           C．that  D．whether

9.                A．sitting          B．exercising       C．sleeping  D．eating

10.               A．regularly       B．unconsciously    C．precisely  D．suddenly

11.               A．swum          B．watered        C．showered  D．drowned

12.               A．taste           B．sense          C．feeling    D．smell

13.               A．little           B．soon           C．late  D．much

14.               A．Instead         B．Besides         C．Otherwise D．Consequently

15.               A．over           B．across          C．through   D．down

16.               A．stop           B．blame          C．ignore D．stand

17.               A．views          B．attitude        C．mind D．ways

18.               A．While          B．Since          C．Until  D．As

19.               A．Sincerely       B．Impossibly      C．Previously D．Definitely

20.               A．before         B．already         C．ever  D．since

Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to participate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to   21  how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I   22   that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making all sorts of new and   23  friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was   24  , nothing about my term in France was what I   25 .       
The moment I arrived in Paris, I was   26  by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting  27  I received some shocking news from my program coordinator（协调人）: there had been a death in my host parents’ extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to   28  out of one family’s house into another. The exchange coordinator told me I’d have a   29  this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation(诱惑) to   30 my native language, I asked not to be   31  with an English-speaking roommate. When I got to my new room, I   32  myself to my new roommate Paolo, a Brazilian（巴西人） the same age as I, whom I was surprised to find playing one of my favorite CDS! In just a few hours, we knew we’d be good friends for the rest of the   33  .      
I left France with many   34  , so when people asked me what my favorite part of the trip was, they are always   35  to hear me talk about my Brazilian friend Paolo and scores of weekdays in class, weeknights on the town, and weekends   36  France we enjoyed together. I love how people   37  seem so different, but end up being so   38  . The most valuable lesson I gained from studying in France wasn’t just to respect the friend people   39  to respect all people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away. I would recommend an exchange program to anyone who wants to experience foreign cultures and gain meaningful  40  .   

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents in Texas. And every few summers, we’d __16__ the caravan (旅游团队), a group of Airstream trailer owners who __17__ together around the U.S. and Canada．
I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked __18__ to these travels. On one particular __ 19__ ，I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the backseat. My grandfather was __20__ . And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the __21__.
At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates(估计) and do minor __22__．At any rate, I decided to do the math for my __23__. I estimated the number of  cigarettes per days, estimated the number of __24__ per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I’d come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head  into the __25__ of the car, tapped my grandmother __26__ the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, “At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your __27__!” Because the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some  number of minutes __28__ smoker’s life．
I expected to be applauded for my __29__ and arithmetic skills. That’s not what happened．__30__, my grandmother burst into __31__. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. My grandfather was a highly intelligent, __32__ man. He had never said a harsh word to me. He pulled __33__ onto the shoulder of the highway. He stopped and got out of the car, __34__ me, and after a bit of silence，he gently and __35__ said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”