完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分, 满分20分)

请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的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。

My first full time job after high school was selling vacation packages via telephone for a well-known company.  One day, the dialer ____36____ me to a man who answered the phone and ____37_____ a bit out of breath.  I started with my normal pitch（推销）, and _____38____ to hear the normal, "I don't want any," and be hung up on.  

Instead he spoke in a low, weak voice and told me how he wished he could take a ____39_____ like the one I was offering, but couldn't ____40_____ he was dying of emphysema (肺气肿).  He ____41_____ how he was on oxygen, and it took almost all his ____42_____ just to get to the phone to answer the call.  I ____43_____, and my heart fell into my stomach.  He asked me if I smoked, which I did, and then begged me to stop.  He told me smoking is ____44_____ was killing him, and how horrible it was.  He told me to ____45_____ every day with my loved ones, and tell them all the time how much I love them. At this ____46_____, I was in tears, and couldn't control myself, and he could tell. 

After a few moments, I decided to write down his name and ____47_____, and just send him a card telling him that I ____48_____ his advice and that I would pray for him and his family.  Shortly after, I received a nice letter back from Frank, along with a picture of him and his wife.  We continued to write back and forth over the next few months or so, and became very ____49_____ of each other.  He was old enough to be my grandfather, and in many ways, I felt ____50_____ he was. 

It was about a year later I received a letter from his wife, and when I started to read it, my eyes were filled with tears.  She told me how Frank's ____51_____ with the disease had finally come to an end, and he ____52_____ shortly before Christmas.  She wanted to thank me for the letters I had written to Frank, and then explained how Frank touched many lives over the years.  At his ____53_____, to show just that, they read the 1st letter I had written to Frank to show how he ____54_____ a 19 year old he had ____55_____ even met. 

I will never forget how much that meant to me.

36. A. took                 B. connected             C. accompanied                 D. led

37. A. felt                            B. looked                    C. sounded                          D. proved

38. A. expecting       B. wondering            C. considering                    D. worrying

39. A. break               B. rest                         C. change                                     D. vacation

40. A. because                   B. though                            C. while                                D. before

41. A. described       B. exposed                 C. explained                        D. expressed

42. A. power             B. energy                   C. strength                         D. force

43. A. apologized     B. excused                 C. pardoned                        D. forgave

44. A. that                 B. what                       C. which                               D. how

45. A. take                 B. cost                        C. pay                                   D. spend 

46. A. point                B. case                        C. way                                  D. situation

47. A. number           B. hobby                     C. address                           D. whish

48. A. agreed            B. appreciated                   C. followed                          D. approved

49. A. interested      B. content                  C. fond                                 D. curious

50. A. if only              B. even if                    C. only if                               D. as if

51. A. battle              B. strike                      C. defense                           D. working

52. A. gave away     B. turned away         C. took away                      D. passed away

53. A. birthday                   B. funeral                            C. ceremony                       D. performance

54. A. changed                   B. improved               C. affected                          D. promoted

55. A. always            B. seldom                   C. ever                                 D. never

 

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

Travel in most of Europe is easy. An agreement between the 15 European Union countries in 1995 means that citizens from most European countries can travel across borders without needing a visa.

Each of the 12 countries that has   36   its own currency (货币) to accept the euro has its own   37  . So how have these countries been able to   38  ? And how has each country prepared for the birth of this new currency? Firstly, many people in Europe,  39  in west Europe, speak English. The European Convention on Human Rights says that all people have a  40  to learn and use their traditional language.

But at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, the official language for all business is   41  . And every European country requires students to study English for many years at   42  . Other languages may be offered, too. But English is a   43   .

"If I meet someone, I try Spanish. Then I try   44  . And if it's not   45   , I say "Hello". That' s the signal, and we communicate no matter what country we come from." Said Maria Ortega, a ski instructor in the Pyrenees,   46   French and Spanish are mainly used.

Each country has its own   47   culture. Though the French may be famous for their 1,000 types of cheese and the Greeks are known to  48   olive oil on everything, most people in Europe like  49  strong coffee on their breakfast table. Another drink is held  50  throughout the continent. Europe's vineyards(葡萄园) may be famous, but the real drink of Europe is   51  . Europeans consume tons of it.

Football, of course, also helps to    52    all of Europe. Many fans are obsessed (着迷) with   53   and with international stars. David Beckham, of England' s Manchester United, is a hero to Europeans in the same   54   that Michael Jordan is to   55   .

36. A. given up                    B. ended up          C. agreed with                   D. started with

37. A. money                B. right                             C. border                          D. culture

38. A. meet                          B. unite                            C. travel                            D. accept

39. A. specially         B. generally             C. particularly                  D. normally

40. A. chance                 B. right                             C. wish                              D. place

41. A. French                  B. German                 C. English                     D. Spanish

42. A. school                  B. work                             C. home                            D. table

43. A. subject                 B. tool                         C. need                          D. must

44. A. English                 B. French                    C. German                  D. Greek

45. A. listening                    B. spoken                   C. working                   D. heard

46. A. as                          B. where                     C. since                             D. whose

47. A. food                           B. art                          C. drink                              D. life

48. A. add                             B. spread                    C. spend                            D. put

49. A. a kind of          B. a lot of                  C. a cup of                D. a taste of

50. A. in common       B. in general                C. in need                     D. in special

51. A. beer                           B. wine                             C. coffee                           D. soup

52. A. attract            B. tie                                C. play                          D. watch

53. A. opera                         B. bread                           C. music                            D. football

54. A. direction                   B. level                             C. way                          D. game

55. A. basketballers           B. British              C. athletes   D. Americans

 

短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

I went to see a film after supper.

On my way_______the cinema, I met an old English             1.__________

Woman, _________had lost her way.   I gave up the            2.___________

________（机会）to see the film, walked towards her and took    3.__________

her to her________(宾馆). While going there, I told her           4.__________

great changes had ________place in the past few years and        5.___________

she told me s________about Britain and her family. Though       6.__________

I _________(错过)the film, I felt very happy, for I not only        7.__________

helped the old lady _________ of trouble but also practised my     8.__________

s__________ English. If I hadn’t worked hard at English,          9.__________

I  w_______ have  been able to help her.                      10.__________

 

D

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could

make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to

be called Pip.

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first imagination regarding what they were like, were unreasonably from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s gave me a strange idea that he was a square, dark man , with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the words, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled（长雀斑的）and sickly.

Ours was wet country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on an unforgettable cold afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this place overgrown with nettles（荨麻）was the churchyard（墓地）;and that Philip Pirip, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children to the aforesaid, were also dead and buried. Suddenly I began to feel lonely and sad and afraid. I began to cry.

"Hold your noise!" cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!"

A fearful man, all in grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been shivered; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.

"Oh! Don't cut my throat, sir," I pleaded in terror. "Pray don't do it, sir."

"Tell us your name!" said the man.  "Quick!"

"Pip, sir."

"Once more," said the man, staring at me.  "Give it mouth!"

"Pip. Pip, sir."

“Show us where you live ,” said the man. “Point out the place!”

I pointed to where our village lay, among the alder-tree, a mile or more from the church. The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned mw upside down, and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a  piece of bread. When the church came to itself—for he was so sudden and strong that he made to go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple（尖塔）under my feet—when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling, while he ate the bread hungrily.

“You young dog,” said the man, licking his lips, “what fat cheeks you have got.”

I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.

“Darn me If I couldn’t eat them,” said the man, with a threatening shake of his head.

I carefully expressed my hope that he wouldn’t, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.

“Now look here!” said the man. “Where’s your father?”

“There sir!” said I .

He started, made a short run, and stopped and liked over his shoulder.

“There sir!” I explained. “That’s his grave.”

“Oh!” said he, coming back.

“And mother’s there too, sir. And my five little brothers.”

67．Who do you think Alexander is?

A．Pip’s friend.                    B．Pip’s father.

C．One of Pip’s little brothers.     D．The fearful man.

68．It can be learned from the passage that               .

A．Pip’s mother was freckled and ill.

B．Pip imagined what his parents liked through their photographs.

C．Pip’s parents and little brothers were killed by the man.

D．Pip was probably shorter or thinner than most children of his age.

69．What is the fearful man most likely to be?

A．An escaped prisoner.       B．A minister of the church.

C．A tower watcher.           D．Pip’s parents’ enemy.

70．Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A．It was the words on the tombstones that made mw know of my parents’ appearance.

B．The man was so hungry that he wanted to cut his throat and eat his fat cheeks.

C．Pip’s parents were buried together in the churchyard 20 miles from the village.

D．He called himself Pip just because he was too young to pronounce his long name clearly.

 

Imagine that the genome (基因组) is a book. The book consists of 23 chapters with thousands of stories made up of paragraphs, words and letters on different levels. There are one billion words in the book, which makes it longer than 5,000 volumes the size of this book, or as long as 800 Bibles. If I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day, it would take me a century. If I wrote out the human genome, one letter per millimeter, my text would be as long as the River Danube. This is an enormous document. A huge volume, a cook book of great length, and it all fits inside the extremely small nucleus (核) of a tiny cell that fits easily upon the head of a pin.

The idea of the genome as a book is not, strictly speaking, even a metaphor (比喻), It is true to a great extent. A book is a piece of digital information, written in one-directional form and defined by a code that translates a small alphabet of letters into a large dictionary of meanings through the order of their groupings. So is a genome. The only complication is that all English books read from left to right, while some parts of the genome read from left to right, and some from right to left, though never both at the same time.

While English books are written in words of different lengths using twenty-six letters. Genomes are written entirely in three-letter words, using only four letters, And instead of being written on flat pages, they are written on long chains of DNA molecules (分子), The genome is a very clever book, because in the right conditions it can both photocopy itself and read itself.

How do human genomes read according to the passage?

       A. Only from left to right.    B. Only from right to left.

       C. From both directions at the same time   D. From one direction at a time

We can learn from the passage that the human genome ______.

       A. is as long as the River Danube

       B. can be easily placed on the head of a pin

       C. is coded with and alphabet of four letters

       D. is smart enough to read and take photos of itself

It can be concluded that the passage is mainly written for ______.

       A. specialists in the field      B. general readers

       C. natural scientists        D. readers with academic background

The real purpose of the author’s comparison of the genome to a book is ______.

       A. to focus on the differences between the two

       B. to lay emphasis on the similarities between the two

       C. to simplify the concept of the human genome

       D. to give an exact description of the human genome