阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21----40各题所给的4 个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A farewell party was going on. Sylvia Calver hated being the center of any pubic show where she didn’t know anyone. It made her  36  hot and she always felt she wanted to go away somewhere. But on an occasion like this when she knew  37 , there was no  38 to feel shy.  39she had made up her mind to  40  people’s attention for once in her life. Unlike others, Sylvia didn’t have any sad feelings herself at leaving Palmeira Court Hotel or saying goodbye to its 41  — she had left so many other  42 , and known too many people in her life to get upset by such things now.

Yet this  43 was a particular occasion, and she hadn’t had so many of those in her  44. She had put on her  45  black dress and her long earrings. She had wanted to enjoy being the center of  46 for one evening, but now they had  47  old Miss Hutton of all people to give the  48 speech, whom she disliked. Even so, she thought there was no sense in getting  49  about it, for it was the first rule her  50 had given her — avoid all anxiety, take things easy. So, surprising herself by enjoying her own well-rounded white arm as  51 showed through the sleeve of her  52  dress, she took a taste of her drink and then sat back comfortably with her cigarette. And her doctor’s orders worked! For 53  out slowly, she put Miss Hutton off the end of her  54  with a cloud of tobacco smoke, so that she smiled to herself at the old girl’s funny expression. She  55 herself quite well that night, even to her own surprise.

1.A.face       B.show         C.room          D.dress

2.A.nothing    B.nobody       C.everything    D.everybody

3.A.chance     B.time      C.reason             D.use

4.A.So         B.But        C.For                    D.There

5.A.pay                 B.give         C.enjoy          D.offer

6.A.guests           B.people    C.places                  D.things

7.A.houses      B.friends   C.hotels        D.parties

8.A.morning     B.afternoon C.evening       D.night

9.A.life            B.work          C.school           D.home

10.A.large           B.best           C.most            D.worst

11.A.service     B.exhibition  C.Group       D.attention

12.A.ordered      B.chosen       C.wished      D.helped

13.A.long    B.great          C.goodbye     D.welcome

14.A.excited       B.anxious      C.puzzled     D.pleased

15.A.teacher      B.friend      C.husband    D.doctor

16.A.they                      B.he                C.it                D.she

17.A.black      B.white            C.red            D.green

18.A.getting      B.putting    C.breathing   D.speaking

19.A.action       B.speech     C.work         D.performance

20.A.made        B.enjoyed    C.understood  D.thought

（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并将答案填写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A： Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year's Eve. I’m sure we'll have a good time. 【小题1】 _____
B： I'd like to.【小题2】_____
A： In our classroom. We are going to decorate it and turn it into a splendid ballroom.
B： 【小题3】_____ I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.
A： But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance. 【小题4】_____
B： I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.
A ： I heard you sang once.【小题5】 _____ I’m sure you'll be the star of our New Year party.
B： Oh, thank you.

根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项.

Without plants, people could not live. We eat plants. 1   And we need plants for another reason: we need them because they are beautiful.

2      Imagine no flowers with their sweet smell, their beautiful colors and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we’re not able to hear the leaves in the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

3     That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass or a garden.

Do you talk to your plants? 4     Peter Tompking and Christopher Bird wrote a book called The Secret Life Of Plants, telling of an experiment in which two seeds were planted in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. The other plant was given only hopeless ideas. 5    Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves. While the other one nearly stopped growing.

A．Plants get energy from the sun.

B．Do you give them love and attention?

C．After six months, the deserted plant faded away.

D．After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.

E. We take in oxygen that plants make.

F. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

G. Imagine a world with no plants.

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A priest(牧师) had a cat that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The priest persuaded, offered warm milk, et The kitty would not come down. The tree was not strong enough to climb, so the priest decided that if he tied a rope to his car and drove away so that the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitty. He did so, checking his progress in the car frequently, then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent enough for him to reach the kitty. But as he moved a little further forward, the rope broke.
The tree went “boing!” and the kitty at once sailed through the air —out of sight. The priest felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they’d seen his kitty. Nobody had seen a lost kitty.
So, he prayed, “God, I just give this kitty to your keeping,” and went on about his business.
Several days later he was at the grocery store, meeting one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. Now this woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, “Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?”
She replied, “You won’t believe this,” and told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, “Well, if God gives you a cat, you can keep it.” She told the priest, “I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. You won’t believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A cat suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws spread out, and landed right in front of her.” 
【小题1】The priest drove his car to bend the tree in order to ________. 
A. get his kitty down from the tree
B. persuade his kitty to come down
  offer the kitty some warm milk
D. see if the rope was strong enough
【小题2】The underlined sentence probably means that the priest _______.
A. was happy he didn’t have to care for the kitty
B. hoped his neighbors would look after his cat
  thought his kitty might be lost or killed
D. didn’t want to see his kitty any more
【小题3】 Why was the priest amazed when he saw the woman had bought much cat food?
A. Because he couldn’t imagine she had her own cat.
B. Because the woman was his church member.
  Because he thought she would live on cat food.
D. Because he knew clearly she didn’t like a cat.
【小题4】Which may be the best title of this passage?
A. A flying cat                           B. A lucky girl
  God sent her a cat                   D. An unlucky priest   

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21----40各题所给的4 个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A farewell party was going on. Sylvia Calver hated being the center of any pubic show where she didn’t know anyone. It made her  36  hot and she always felt she wanted to go away somewhere. But on an occasion like this when she knew  37 , there was no  38 to feel shy.  39she had made up her mind to  40  people’s attention for once in her life. Unlike others, Sylvia didn’t have any sad feelings herself at leaving Palmeira Court Hotel or saying goodbye to its 41  — she had left so many other  42 , and known too many people in her life to get upset by such things now.

Yet this  43 was a particular occasion, and she hadn’t had so many of those in her  44. She had put on her  45  black dress and her long earrings. She had wanted to enjoy being the center of  46 for one evening, but now they had  47  old Miss Hutton of all people to give the  48 speech, whom she disliked. Even so, she thought there was no sense in getting  49  about it, for it was the first rule her  50 had given her — avoid all anxiety, take things easy. So, surprising herself by enjoying her own well-rounded white arm as  51 showed through the sleeve of her  52  dress, she took a taste of her drink and then sat back comfortably with her cigarette. And her doctor’s orders worked! For 53  out slowly, she put Miss Hutton off the end of her  54  with a cloud of tobacco smoke, so that she smiled to herself at the old girl’s funny expression. She  55 herself quite well that night, even to her own surprise.

A.face       B.show       C.room          D.dress

A.nothing    B.nobody     C.everything    D.everybody

A.chance     B.time      C.reason          D.use

A.So         B.But      C.For               D.There

A.pay            B.give       C.enjoy        D.offer

A.guests         B.people   C.places        D.things

A.houses      B.friends   C.hotels        D.parties

A.morning     B.afternoon C.evening       D.night

A.life          B.work       C.school         D.home

A.large         B.best         C.most           D.worst

A.service     B.exhibition  C.Group       D.attention

A.ordered      B.chosen      C.wished      D.helped

A.long          B.great        C.goodbye     D.welcome

A.excited      B.anxious     C.puzzled     D.pleased

A.teacher      B.friend      C.husband    D.doctor

A.they                 B.he            C.it            D.she

A.black      B.white         C.red          D.green

A.getting      B.putting    C.breathing   D.speaking

A.action       B.speech     C.work        D.performance

A.made        B.enjoyed    C.understood  D.thought