We had a really bad time about six months ago but now things are ____.

A．looking up         B．coming up         C．making up         D．turning up

When you’re an employee of a company, no matter the size, it’s common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move around—by creating a new position for yourself. I did this several years ago, though I wasn’t actively looking for a different job.
In 2007, I was hired at the Transamerica Life Insurance Company, as a customer service representative in the distributions services department. I processed requests for distributions from our annuity(养老金)policy holders around the country. Someone might have forgotten to sign a form, for example, or might have omitted security information. To solve the problem, I’d mail the person a letter.
The company had been through several combinations, so in our department alone we had a collection of about 140 templates(模板) for letters related to distributions. The longer I worked with the letters, the more I saw how they could be improved. Some had overlapping information and could be combined. Some had incorrect grammar or needed updating. I also noticed that industry terminology(专业术语) wasn’t standard across all the versions.
When I told my department supervisor about this in 2008, she agreed that the letters needed revamping. She said I should stop what I’d been doing and start the new work. In a relatively short time, I was able to make numerous improvements and reduce the number of letters to 70. It was an informal job change until a managers’ meeting several months later.
At that meeting, a vice president who was unaware of my new work mentioned that the division’s entire stock of 1,700 letters should be reviewed. My manager told her that she knew the perfect person for the job—me. The position was still considered temporary when I took on the extra tasks, but I was able to show that the work had value, and I was officially promoted and given a raise in November 2009.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is true?    

. Fortunately we had a map, without          we would have got lost.

Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Phoebe. That’s   36  the similaritiesended.

I was tall and she was small. I was one of the oldest in the class while she was the youngest. I was   37 and shy. She wasn’t. I couldn’t   38  her, considering her my enemy. But she wanted to be friends.

One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too   39  to say no. Actually no one has invited me over to play before. But this girl, who wore the latest fashion, wanted to see me.

She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister. When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies（芭比娃娃）- which was my next   40 . I would have thought she’d outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in cupboard laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That’s   41  we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older. We both had wild   42 .

We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from   43  so much. She showed me her outfits, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her   44  a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.

Phoebe had the whole neighborhood   45 . The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses and spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being   46 .

Phoebe, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the through teenage years and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your “worst enemy” can   47  to be your best friend.

1.                A．how           B．why            C．that  D．where

2.                A．beautiful        B．awkward        C．brave    D．clever

3.                A．like            B．hate           C．stand D．help

4.                A．shocked        B．worried         C．shamed   D．happy

5.                A．surprise        B．puzzle          C．issue D．question

6.                A．where         B．how           C．when D．why

7.                A．profile         B．imagination      C．image    D．thinking

8.                A．crying          B．shouting        C．smiling   D．doing

9.                A．for            B．from           C．of   D．as

10.               A．confused       B．charmed        C．addicted   D．annoyed

11.               A．short          B．high           C．funny D．tall

12.               A．turn out        B．look out        C．watch out  D．work out

第II卷（非选择题，共50分）
第三部分：写作（共两节，满分50分）
第一节．短文改错（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满发15分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每一行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Recently we had a heated discussion on whether people                       66. ___________
should keep pets at home in cities. Some students think it                        67. ___________
a good idea to keep pets, so lots of old people who live                              68. ___________
alone at home can get some comforts from pets. Besides,                         69. ___________
get along well with animals will make our life interesting.                       70. ___________
On the other hand, the other students against the idea.                      71. ___________
In our opinion, if too many people keep pets at home, it                          72. ___________
will do harm to environment. What’s worse, pets may                             73. ___________
make too much noise and even attack to people.                                     74. ___________
I like animals, so I don’t think it’s not bad to keep pets                              75. ___________
at home. But we must take some measures to prevent them
Polluting our environment.