第三节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

The main purpose of newspapers are to provide                 __________

news. If you examine newspapers closely, you find that           __________

there are all sort of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars,            __________

sports, books, etc. The news cover everything that happens            __________

to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are                __________

news items which are very interested.                             __________

A news report is usually very short, except for when it                __________

was very important, but it has a lot of information. It                 __________

is also writing in short paragraphs. The first paragraph                __________

is in the fact a summary of the news items. It gives all                _________

the necessary information, what, when, where, how, and why. The other paragraphs give

full details of the subject.

第三节　完形填空（每小题1分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Scientists find that hard-working people live longer than average men and women. Career women are  1  than housewives. Evidence (证据) shows that  2  are in poorer health than the job-holders. A study shows that whenever the unemployment (失业) rate increases by 1%，the death rate increases correspondingly (相应地) by 2%. All this comes down to one point: Work is helpful to heath.
Why is work good for health? It is because work keeps people busy, _3  loneliness and solitude (孤独). Researches show that people feel unhappy,  4  and lonely when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are  5 . Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are the happiest when they are working hard. Work serves as a  6  between man and reality (真实). By work, people come into contact with each other. By collective (集体的) activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss of work  7_ the loss of everything. It affects man spiritually (在精神上) and makes him liable to (易于)  8 .
9 , work gives one a sense of fulfillment (充实感) and a sense of  10 . Work makes one feel his value and status in society. When a  11  finishes his writing or a doctor successfully operates on a patient or a teacher sees his students grow, they are  12  beyond words (无法用语言表达).
From the above we can come to the conclusion  13  the more you work,  14  you will be. Let us work hard,  15  and live a happy and healthy life.
⒈ A. more healthier        B. healthier      C. weaker         D. worse
⒉ A. career women         B. the busy       C. the jobless   D. the hard-working
⒊ A. up with   B. off         C. in touch with        D. away from
⒋ A. interested       B. joyful    C. concerned   D. worried
⒌ A. busy         B. free      C. lazy      D. empty
⒍ A. river         B. gap       C. channel        D. bridge
⒎ A. means     B. stands C. equals D. matches
⒏ A. success   B. death   C. victory D. disease
⒐ A. Besides   B. Nevertheless       C. However      D. Yet
⒑ A. disappointment      B. achievement        C. regret  D. apology
⒒ A. worker    B. farmer C. writer  D. manager
⒓ A. moved     B. surprised     C. sad       D. happy
⒔ A. that         B. which   C. what    D. when
⒕ A. the lonelier and weaker B. lonelier and healthier
C. happier and healthier D. the happier and healthier
⒖ A. study well        B. studying well        C. study good  D. studying good

第三节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题给出的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was past 10:00 pm. I was busy with my schoolwork though I was   21 . Just then my little
brother Michael ran out of his room,   22  a pen in his right hand and a piece of paper in the other.
“Betty, can you help me with my   23  for school? It’s about the seven   24  of the world.” He said.
My eyes were so   25  on the computer screen that my brother had to pull my blouse just to get my   26 .
“Look, not right now! I’m very busy.” I said. “You’re always busy! You’re always like that!” he replied.
I felt a bit guilty（愧疚）   27  I thought about his words, but my work seemed more   28   to me than my brother’s. I sighed a few times and   29   with my own studies.
The next day, I arrived home late. Michael came into my room.
“I know you are   30 , but there’s something I want to show you”, he began. Without saying a word, I   31  the paper from him. I really didn’t   32  what he was saying. All I wanted was to   33  him and finally get to rest.
Suddenly, my eyes widened in   34 . There, he wrote:
The Seven Wonders of the World
1．Love   2．Friendship   3．Peace   4．Joy   5．Wisdom   6．Fun  7．Family
I   35  believe what my brother had written on the paper. I was completely   36 .
How could such an innocent（天真的）little child   37  such things in life?
The most valuable things in life are the ones that we   38  take for granted. These things don’t take the form of big houses or beautiful   39 . The most wonderful things in the world are immaterial（非物质的）   40  they can never be developed by human art, skill or effort.
21．A．tired     B．experienced         C．talented       D．satisfied
22．A．buying     B．holding        C．playing     D．biting
23．A．problem   B．mistake     C．trouble      D．homework
24．A．events   B．cities          C．wonders      D．mysteries
25．A．paid           B．attracted      C．applied        D．fixed
26．A．attention   B．care        C．love         D．concern
27．A．before      B．as           C．since           D．till
28．A．practical   B．useful          C．important     D．interesting
29．A．started      B．hated         C．forgot       D．continued
30．A．busy     B．bored        C．free         D．tiring
31．A．handed     B．took         C．got          D．accepted
32．A．record      B．worry       C．mind          D．share
33．A．get on well with      B．keep up with        C．make fun of       D．get rid of
34．A．surprise    B．sadness        C．happiness    D．disappointment
35．A．shouldn’t  B．needn’t       C．couldn’t       D．mustn’t
36．A．wounded B．lost          C．pleased         D．puzzled
37．A．understand       B．remember       C．study    D．finish
38．A．ever      B．often        C．seldom          D．never
39．A．voices      B．poems     C．cars            D．music
40．A．if        B．when      C．but             D．and

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

第三节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
　    When I was 6 years old, my parents got me a used __21____ for Christmas.
A year or so later, I badly wanted a Sting-Ray, a tricked-out bike that was __22__in the 1960s. So my father took my old bike, slapped a new coat of paint on it, and _23____ it with a banana seat, monkey handlebars and a sissy bar（保护杠）. ___24___didn't matter to me that some friends had new Sting-Rays straight from the Schwinn factory. Or even that my dad put the sissy bar on backward, _25____ exposed me to some teasing（嘲笑） before we _26____ it. I loved that bike.
　　So it was for my __27___. We weren't poor. But we always had modest Christmases. And I _28____ to do the same when I got married 27 years ago.
　　My wife, Clarissa, had different _29____. She, too, had some __30___Christmases growing up. She vividly remembers when she was 14 or 15 years old and her father lost his __31__in the construction industry. She overheard her __32___ talking about how _33___ they were.
　　So when her parents asked her what she wanted that year, she said, 'Nothing.' When her mother insisted she had to get ___34__, Clarissa asked for socks. 'I felt very good about myself afterward,' she recalls.
　　But as her family's finances _35_____, Christmas went back to being a __36__ bigger production. By the time I arrived on the scene, the __37__ family -- more than 20 people -- would gather at her grandmother's house in Mexicali, Mexico, on Christmas Eve. Around 10 p.m., Santa (my future brother-in-law in a costume) showed up with an enormous bag of _38____ and stepped into a roomful of children crying with __39____
　　'It was all about the children,' says Clarissa, who thought the experience was _40___ .And she has spent hundreds of dollars on presents every year to duplicate(重温 )it.
21．A．car             B．bike          C．book           D．coat
22．A．popular        B．common       C．ordinary        D．regular
23．A．add         B．equipped      C．placed         D．supplied
24．A．That           B．This          C．It           D．What
25．A．so            B．thus          C．Which         D．it
26．A．bought         B．placed         C．fixed          D．changed
27．A．childhood      B．life           C．children        D．youth
28．A．imagined      B．expected       C．suggested      D．supposed
29．A．ideas          B．life           C．childhood      D．Christmas
30．A．unforgettable   B．modest         C．happy         D．wonderful
31．A．life          B．job            C．interest        D．present
32．A．friends        B．mother        C．father         D．parents
33．A．broke         B．rich           C．wealthy        D．well-off
34．A．nothing        B．something     C．everything       D．anything
35．A．improved     B．caught         C．reduced       D．decreased
36．A．very          B．more          C．less           D．much
37．A．all         B．big            C．small         D．entire
38．A．bikes         B．food          C．presents        D．books
39．A．surprise       B．joy           C．fear           D．satisfaction
40．A．wasteful       B．valueless      C．priceless    D．useful