Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.” How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家）who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach（巴赫）. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote, “Years wrinkle（使生皱纹）the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mallrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money.”

 If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her depression（抑郁）that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “I am persuaded to call Layton a genius.”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be.” We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses—finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.

Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times.

B. If you don’t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.

C. Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame

D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor

The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that ________.

A. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm

B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

C. enthusiasm can make people feel young

D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy

How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

A. Two.                   B. Three.                  C. Four.                D. Five.

The author holds the view that ________.

A. enthusiastic people will never get old

B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

C. enthusiasm is more important than experience

D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My  1.  began when I was just a kid. I  2. becoming a doctor. My mother was a worker. Through her work, she observed that  3. people spent a lot more time reading than they  4.  watching television. She announced that my brother and I

5.watch two to three TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and then 6. her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a  7.  . My mother was illiterate (文盲的).

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I  8.  the fashionable clothes. I wanted to  9. the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home after  10.  at one of her several jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing (擦洗) floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy 11.   food and pay the bills. With the money that is  12. , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very 13.  with that plan, but once I had finished paying for all of the important things, there was  14.  left. I realized that my mother was always dealing with money well to be able to  15.  a roof over our heads and to put food on the table. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. _16.__ required intellectual (智力的) preparation. I went back to my  17.  and became an A-student again. Finally, I  18. my dream and I became a doctor. My story is really my mother’s story — a woman with 19. formal education who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. Now I believe that there is no job more  20.  than parenting.

21.

. A. belief               B. work                  C. education         D. promise

22.

A. kept up with      B. got used to           C. dreamed of            D. got tired of 

23.

A. lazy               B. easy-going           C. successful           D. reliable

24.

A. cost            B. paid                       C. took            D. did

25.

A. could only         B. could not                   C. must not             D. should often

26.

A. read            B. give                 C. hold             D. explain

27.

 A.mystery          B. risk                    C. fool           D. trick

28.

A. wanted        B. attracted              C. recognised        D. accepted

29.

A. get rid of        B. hang out with         C. test on              D. keep in touch with

30.

A. serving           B. looking               C. working        D. getting

31.

A. your brother           B. yourself             C. me                      D. the family

32.

A. left over         B. paid off              C. used up        D. carried out

33.

 A. angry                 B. pleased              C. disappointed    D. bored

34.

A. anything       B. everything                  C. something        D. nothing

35.

A. buy                  B. operate               C. keep            D. send

36.

A. Success         B.Failure               C. Faith                 D. Comfort

37.

A. guys          B. mother                C. studies         D. clothes 

38.

 A. made               B. realised               C. changed        D. tried

39.

A. little          B. much                 C. some          D. high

40.

A. interesting       B. gentle                  C. important        D. bitter

In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who’d lived those years with us.In fact, we don’t have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones close to us—the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now！While your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world’s happiness.
Saying thanks not only brightens someone else’s world, but it also brightens yours. If you’re feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need.
Of course, there are times when you can’t express gratitude immediately. In that case don’t let embarrassment sink you into silence—speak up the first time you have the chance.
Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. He had been told that the Indians did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had exceptional generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks.
I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive and more caring?
Thankfulness sets in motion a chain of reaction that transforms people all around us—including ourselves, for no one ever misunderstands the melody of a grateful heart.
【小题1】In the first paragraph the writer mainly encourages us       .

PAUL’S brother bought him a new car as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve (前夜), Paul saw a boy walking around the new car, admiring it.
"Is this your car, Mister?" he asked.
Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was amazed. "You mean your brother just gave it to you? Boy, I wish...." Paul knew what he was going to wish for — a brother who would buy him a car. But the boy surprised Paul.
"I wish that I could be a brother like that," he said.
Astonished, Paul invited the boy to go for a ride in the new car.
After a short ride, the boy said, "Would you mind driving in front of my house?" Paul thought the boy wanted to show the car to his neighbors. But Paul was wrong again.
The boy ran up the steps of his house. Soon he came back carrying his crippled (残废的) little brother. He pointed to the car. "Look!" he said to the little boy. "His brother gave him that car for Christmas. Some day I’m gonna give you one just like it!"
Paul got out and lifted the little boy into his car. The older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them went on a wonderful holiday ride.
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned how good it felt to give.
53. Paul’s brother gave him ___ as a Christmas present.
A. a suit                             B. a car                       C. a bicycle           D. a card
54. When the boy saw the car, he wished that ____.
A. he could buy a car for himself                             B. he had a brother to buy him a car
C. he could buy a car for his brother                  D. he could have a ride in the car
55. When the boy asked Paul the drive the car in front his house, he wanted ___.
A. to show off to his neighbors                         B. his brother to see the car
C. Paul to drive him home                                D. to enjoy a ride in the car
56. The story mainly tells us ______.
A. practice makes perfect                                 B. it is important to make money
C. giving makes people feel good                       D. a friend in need is a friend indeed

Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest and widely loved silent movie stars. From “Easy Street” (1917) to “Modern Times” (1936), he made many of the funniest and most popular films of his time. He was best known for his character, the naive and lovable Little Tramp. The Little Tramp, a well meaning man in a raggedy suit with cane, always found himself wobbling into awkward situations and strangely wobbling away. More than any other figure, it is this kind-hearted character that we associate with the time before the talkies (sound films).

Born in London in 1889, Chaplin first visited America with a theater company in 1907. Appearing as “Billy” in the play “Sherlock Holmes”, the young Chaplin toured the country twice. On his second tour, he met Mack Sennett and was signed to Keystone Studios to act in films. In 1914 Chaplin made his first one-reeler, “Making a Living”. That same year he made thirty-four more short films, including “Caught in a Cabaret”, “Caught in the Rain”, “The Face on the Bar-Room Floor”, and “His Trysting Place”. These early silent shorts allowed very little time for anything but physical comedy, and Chaplin was a master at it.

Though Chaplin is of the silent movie era, we see his achievements carried through in the films of today. With the appearance of the feature-length talkies, the need for more subtle acting became apparent. To maintain the audience’s attention throughout a six-reel film, an actor needed to move beyond constant comedy. Chaplin had demanded this depth long before anyone else. His strictness and concern for the processes of acting and directing made his films great and led the way to a new, more sophisticated, cinema.

1.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A．“The little Tramp” was the only character that Charlie Chaplin acted.

B．Charlie Chaplin signed to Keystone Studios in 1906.

C．Charlie Chaplin made five short films in 1914.

D．Charlie Chaplin has a great effect on today’s sound film.

2.What is the right order according to the passage?

a. Charlie Chaplin made the film “ Easy Street”.

b. The film “Caught in the rain” was made.

c. Charlie Chaplin first visited America.

d. Charlie Chaplin met Mack Sennett.

e. “Modern Times” was made.

A. d, c, a, e, b         B d, c, b, a, e           C. c, d, b, a, e          D. c, d, a, b, e

3.Which word can best describe Charlie Chaplin according to the passage?

A．lovable           B．kind-hearted       C．strict             D．awkward

4.What do you think is the passage about?

A．Life of Chaplin                          B．Works of Chaplin

C．Characters of Chaplin                    D．An introduction of Chaplin