第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ house was full of suitcases, packages and packed-up boxes. The two of them were ___36___with pencils and paper, ____37____their luggage, when there was a ____38____ at the door. Mr. Jones went to ____39____ it and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady said that she lived in the house ____40____ theirs, and that she had come to ____41____ them to their new home.
The Jones invited her in, after ___42___ for the state of the house.
“Oh, ___43___,” she answered. “Do you know in some parts of this ____44___ neighbors are not all ___45___? There are some streets where people do not ___46___ their neighbors, ____ 47____ their next-door ones. ___ 48___ in this street everybody is friends with ____49___ else. We are one big, happy family. I’m ___50____ that you will be ___51___ here.”
The well-dressed lady got a ___52___ when she came to visit the house the ____53___ time, because she found a quite ____54____ man and woman in it. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had not had the ____55___ to tell her that they were not the new owners of the house, who were to move in the next day, but the old ones, who have lived beside her for two years without ever having visited her or even noticing her existence.
36. A. free         B. busy        C. satisfied    D. familiar
37. A. checking     B. examining    C. testing     D. enjoying
38. A. sound       B. ring         C. friend      D. message
A. answer      B. serve        C. see        D. guess
A. above       B. of          C. under       D. beside
A. welcome    B. lead         C. take        D. invite
A. explaining   B. apologizing   C. showing    D. asking
A. excuse me   B. here you are  C. never mind   D. thank you
A. house       B. street       C. town        D. time
A. busy        B. lonely      C. safe         D. friendly
A. know       B. understand   C. welcome     D. respect
A. merely      B. even        C. mostly      D. neither
A. And        B. But         C. Otherwise    D. While
A. anybody    B. nobody       C. somebody    D. none
A. uncertain   B. glad          C. sure         D. afraid
A. happy      B. lonely        C. popular     D. friendly
A. surprise    B. fright         C. pleasure      D. worry
A. first       B. exact         C. next        D. same
A. famous     B. different      C. young       D. old
A. time       B. chance        C. courage     D. interest

The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t __36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much __37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38___in the family, I went to college -----quite __39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to ___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43___ the job and go to Europe to study __44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to ___47_.
The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48___necessary, so I resigned from my __49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51___every minute of it. I was a _52__man and I was doing what I__53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, __54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have _55__all those that money can never buy.
Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.

It’s ____ wrong to speak like that in public.He has gone ____ too far.

  A.quite;rather       B.very;much     C.rather;very     D.very; rather

第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ house was full of suitcases, packages and packed-up boxes. The two of them were ___36___with pencils and paper, ____37____their luggage, when there was a ____38____ at the door. Mr. Jones went to ____39____ it and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady said that she lived in the house ____40____ theirs, and that she had come to ____41____ them to their new home.

The Jones invited her in, after ___42___ for the state of the house.

“Oh, ___43___,” she answered. “Do you know in some parts of this ____44___ neighbors are not all ___45___? There are some streets where people do not ___46___ their neighbors, ____ 47____ their next-door ones. ___ 48___ in this street everybody is friends with ____49___ else. We are one big, happy family. I’m ___50____ that you will be ___51___ here.”

The well-dressed lady got a ___52___ when she came to visit the house the ____53___ time, because she found a quite ____54____ man and woman in it. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had not had the ____55___ to tell her that they were not the new owners of the house, who were to move in the next day, but the old ones, who have lived beside her for two years without ever having visited her or even noticing her existence.

36. A. free         B. busy        C. satisfied    D. familiar

37. A. checking     B. examining    C. testing     D. enjoying

38. A. sound       B. ring         C. friend      D. message

A. answer      B. serve        C. see        D. guess

A. above       B. of          C. under       D. beside

A. welcome    B. lead         C. take        D. invite

A. explaining   B. apologizing   C. showing    D. asking

A. excuse me   B. here you are  C. never mind   D. thank you

A. house       B. street       C. town        D. time

A. busy        B. lonely      C. safe         D. friendly

A. know       B. understand   C. welcome     D. respect

A. merely      B. even        C. mostly      D. neither

A. And        B. But         C. Otherwise    D. While

A. anybody    B. nobody       C. somebody    D. none

A. uncertain   B. glad          C. sure         D. afraid

A. happy      B. lonely        C. popular     D. friendly

A. surprise    B. fright         C. pleasure      D. worry

A. first       B. exact         C. next        D. same

A. famous     B. different      C. young       D. old

A. time       B. chance        C. courage     D. interest

The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t __36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much __37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38___in the family, I went to college -----quite __39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to ___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43___ the job and go to Europe to study __44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to ___47_.

The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48___necessary, so I resigned from my __49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51___every minute of it. I was a _52__man and I was doing what I__53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, __54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have _55__all those that money can never buy.

Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.

1.                A．receive         B．accept          C．refuse    D．keep

2.                A．respected       B．hated          C．doubted  D．scolded

3.                A．excuse         B．chance         C．promise  D．example

4.                A．happily         B．sadly           C．hopelessly D．nervously

5.                A．interests        B．pities           C．experiments   D．problems

6.                A．this            B．that            C．it    D．one

7.                A．question        B．help           C．warn D．visit

8.                A．give up         B．give in          C．go on D．throw away

9.                A．computer       B．law            C．history   D．music

10.               A．after           B．in case         C．before    D．the moment

11.               A．firstly          B．finally          C．generally  D．lately

12.               A．go back        B．go home        C．go abroad  D．go down

13.               A．no longer       B．of course       C．in fact D．much too

14.               A．position        B．college         C．home D．friends

15.               A．Asia           B．Europe         C．Africa D．North America

16.               A．wasted         B．lost            C．forgot D．enjoyed

17.               A．native          B．free           C．wise  D．weak

18.               A．repeated       B．offered         C．loved D．signed

19.               A．so             B．and            C．but   D．for

20.               A．missed         B．gained         C．achieved  D．won