完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面各题，从 A、B、C、D四个选项选出最佳选项。

When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. __31_, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so __32__.

As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly __33_ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.

With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move __34_ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also __35__. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something __36__. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,” said the old lady. “I need __37_. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”

 “Airport? You __38_ are lost,” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers _39__ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and __40__ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the __41__ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no __42 you’ll get there in five minutes!”

“Thank you very much, dear,” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll __43__ in time.”

The __44_ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it __45__ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something __46_ happened. The car began changing. First, its color __47__from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, 48__ just above the ground. As the car __49_ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling __50__, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…

A However     B Besides       C Therefore         D Otherwise

A brave       B excited      C curious       D stubborn

A fell         B seemed       C proved        D  grew

A aside       B around        C forward       D  backward

A arrived      B  stopped          C  stayed         D  started

A gathered    B existed       C  dropped       D  moved

A help        B  gas          C  rest           D  water

A necessarily  B normally      C  basically       D  certainly

A if           B  until        C  unless         D  as

.A drive       B  walk         C  follow         D  march

A address      B signs         C  notices         D  guidance

A doubt       B room          C  time           D  way

A have it     B  get it           C  make it        D  finish it

A door        B  window       C  headlight       D  wheel

A passed      B  rushed           C  turned         D  continued

A strange     B  sensitive        C  imaginable     D  horrible

A developed   B  appeared         C  spread         D  faded来源：()

A rolling     B  floating         C  drawing        D  flashing

A pointed     B  returned         C  broke          D  rose

A tune        B  voice            C  sound          D  tone

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Yes, I’ll be ready at nine. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again.” Mrs. Robinson replaced the   36  and crossed the hall into the   37 . It had not been an easy telephone call for her to make. Her daughter had been very kind,   38 , and had immediately agreed to   39  her up, but Mrs. Robinson   40  to admit that she needed help. Since her   41  passed away ten years ago, she had prided herself upon her ___42 . She had   43  to live in their little house alone and had refused to go and live with her daughter.
But on this evening, she was standing at her living-room window,   44  out at the “SOLD” notice in the small front garden. Her feeling were   45 . Naturally she was             46  at the thought of leaving here, as it was full of so many   47 .
But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last   48  near the
sea, __49  in the little sea town where she was born. With the   50  from the sale of the house, she had bought a little flat there.
Her husband had always been very   51  this house. She hadn’t been   52__ here, but it didn’t mean as much to her as it had to him.   53  most of the people who lived in the street had   54  away, and it was this that had made her decide to sell it.
Next morning Mrs. Robinson   55  the house for the station in her daughter’s car.

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）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。
I live in Albuquerque and I used to give much money to the homeless around, feeling sorry for their misfortune. But later I became a single mom with no home, a huge   36  and hardly any income.   37 , I stopped giving and became very bitter.
Several years later, things started to   38 . I became   39  enough to have a home, and   40  a backyard, and I started to pull myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the   41 , “Will work for food.” I   42 . My daughter asked why I no longer helped the people in   43 . I replied, “Honey, they just use that money for   44  or other bad things.” She didn’t respond. But when I said that, it didn’t feel right.
Three days later, I was   45  to pick up my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner and something deep inside   46  me to help him. So I stopped my car, and he ran over with enthusiasm. He said, “God bless you, I only need 77 cents.” I   47  into my ashtray and   48   enough, there sat three quarters and two pennies.
Greatly shocked by this   49 , I gave him all the money in the ashtray. He   50  with joy and tears in his eyes, “You just made it   51  for me to see my mom for Christmas! The bus offering this great sale is   52  right away!” It was a moment I’ll never forget. I think that man won’t forget it either, but I was the one who got the best __53__ in life – giving. It also   54  me that nothing is a coincidence,   55  everything has meaning.

完形填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s ___35___, she said she would go. This ___36___ be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he felt ___37___of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕)that  ___38___nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to ___39___why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were ___40___by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬)and ___41___ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within ___42___of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked___43___, “How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was___44___afraid to go in because the fire was___45___, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked___46___ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She touched the burned side of her face. This scar will be___47___, but to this day, I have never ___48___what I did.
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great___49___of the sacrifice(牺牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

完形填空  (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)  
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
The study of the effects of music on the mind and brain has been a subject of interest for many. The   16  has concluded that music does have positive effects on the mind and brain.
Music is found to affect the   17   of learning and thinking. If work is   18   by quiet and comforting music, it helps the listener think, analyze and work faster in a more   19  manner. Music   20   a positive attitude in the listeners and provides them with motivation(动力;动机). Surveys have shown that music brings about remarkable improvements in the   21  skills of students. Listening to pleasant music, while doing a difficult task, can make   22  seem easier.
Music has a   23   effect on the interpersonal skills of an individual.  24  that we face in life are often the result of lack of confidence and lack of desire to learn. Students’ poor academic results are often a(n)   25  of their lack of motivation and their disinterest. Music lessons during school can help the students   26  their mental block. Music proves helpful in encouraging young children to venture new fields.
Music   27   plays a vital role in strengthening   28  . Certain tunes are known to activate all the parts of the listener’s body, thus   29  him/her in the performance of other creative tasks. Music is found to give students the capacity to trust   30  . Music stimulates the brain centers that deal with thinking, analyzing and planning, thus strengthening one’s organizational skills.
16. A. newspaper   B. book   C. research     D. time
17. A. joy         B. process       C. beginning   D. task
18. A. accompanied        B. created       C. done   D. composed
19. A. inefficient(低效的)         B. efficient      C. interesting          D. boring
20. A. reduces         B. combines    C. takes   D. develops
21. A. academic      B. physical       C. original        D. historic
22. A. music    B. learning      C. lessons        D. it
23. A. positive         B. negative     C. passive        D. harmful
24. A. Diseases       B. Successes   C. Failures       D. Difficulties
25. A. income          B. outcome     C. improvement      D. progress
26. A. live        B. love     C. hate    D. fight
27. A. never    B. still      C. ever    D. also
28. A. responsibility          B. creativity    C. duty    D. intelligence
29. A. benefiting     B. constructing       C. damaging   D. worrying
30. A. others B. teachers     C. themselves         D. texts