完形填空（共12分，每小题1分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Dear Laura,

I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You don’t know whether it is true that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you   36  .

I wanted to do something very   37   for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He worked all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it   38   it looked almost new. I was so proud of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet(头盔)and a riding outfit(全套装备）.

I could   39   wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I couldn’t sleep the night before. Upon awakening, I went to the kitchen to   40   the coffee, tea, and morning dishes. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a   41  :” To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”

I was so surprised. It had been a long-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could   42   lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s   promise.

I stood there shocked(震惊的), crying a river, asking myself how my son could  43  this expensive gift.

Of course, the house awoke, and my son was very pleased with my reaction（反应）. Many kisses were exchanged, and I immediately wanted him to   44   my gift.

As he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not exactly what I was expecting. Then I   45   that he had sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.

Of course I was the proudest mother ever on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.

So I wanted you to know, that kind of love is   46   present and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!

I thought you’d love to   47   this story.

 Yours,

Hilary

1.A. hope           B. advice           C. spirit               D. courage

2.  A. strange              B. similar              C. special              D. private

3.  A. after            B. before           C. unless           D. until

4.A. perhaps            B. really           C. almost           D. hardly

5.  A. start                B. cook             C. set                  D. serve

6.  A. sign                 B. notice           C. word             D. note

7.A. give               B. take                 C. draw             D. teach

8.A. present            B. find                 C. afford           D. order

9.A. tear               B. open             C. check            D. receive

10.A. realized              B. remembered      C. imagined             D. supposed

11. A. only             B. still                C. ever                 D. even

12. A. send             B. publish              C. share            D. write

从方框中选出最佳选项补全下面的对话，其中有两项为多余选项。（5分） 
A: Hello, House of dumpling!
B: Hello!_______1________
A: Sure.
B: __________2___________.
A: Un-huh.
B: And sixteen dumplings.
A: What kind of dumplings would you like?
B:      3          .   
A: OK. Anything else?
B: Oh,yes, I’d like some soup.
A: OK. Then,       4        .
B: Tomato soup.
A: OK.         5        .
B: One large green tea and one small orange juice.
A:OK. What’s your address,please?
B:15 Peace Road.

Do you know who invented tea? It is said that the emperor Shen Nong  discovered   tea when he was boiling drinking water 21 an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby tree fell into the water and the leaves were in the water for   22 . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a   23   smell. Later he decided  24  the hot water with the leaves. It was quite delicious. And  25 , one of the worl’s favorite drinks was invented.

26 is the home of tea. And tea has more than 4,000 years history. 27  the three drinks—tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by  28  people in the world. Tea  29 China began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export (出口商品)  30  .

Tea leaves  31  mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, 32 the warm climate (气候)there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all   33   kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people   34   their tea culture(文化), including tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. We know tea is   35   a popular topic(主题) in dances, songs, poems and novels.

1.A. in               B. by                    C. over                  D. to

2. A. sometimes        B. some time         C. some times           D.some days

3.A. pleasant          B. pleased                C. bad                      D.terrible

4.A. not to taste            B. to taste                   C. tasting           D.taste

5.A. by the way     B. on the way              C. on its way            D. in this way

6. A. Japan                   B. China                     C. America               D.England 7.A. In                        B. For                        C. Of                       D. By

8.A. the number of                     B. a number of          

C. a large number of                                   D. the largest number of

9. A. to                   B. from                   C. in                        D. off

10.A. At that time  B. from now on           C. since then             D. since now

11. A. produce              B. are produced           C. make                   D. are made

12. A. becauuse of       B. because                  C. as                        D. for  

13.A. interesting           B. important        C. famous                 D. expensive

14.A. had developed      B. have developed       C. developed          D.are developing

15.A. too               B. as well                   C. either                D. also

Do you know who invented tea? It is said that the emperor Shen Nong  discovered   tea when he was boiling drinking water 21 an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby tree fell into the water and the leaves were in the water for  22 . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a  23   smell. Later he decided 24  the hot water with the leaves. It was quite delicious. And  25 , one of the worl’s favorite drinks was invented.
26 is the home of tea. And tea has more than 4,000 years history. 27  the three drinks—tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by  28  people in the world. Tea  29 China began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export (出口商品) 30  .
Tea leaves  31  mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, 32 the warm climate (气候)there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all  33   kinds of tea.
Over the past centuries, Chinese people  34   their tea culture(文化), including tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. We know tea is  35   a popular topic(主题) in dances, songs, poems and novels.