---- ________

---- Thank you. I certainly will.

第二节 完型填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第31至第40小题所给的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。.
I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one   31   was the most important.
It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence .I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be  32 
The speaker walked into the room But he didn’t start talking like a teacher. Instead, he held up a twenty yuan note!
“Who wants this?” he asked. Unsurprisingly,   33   of us in the class held up our hands. The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but   34   nothing. Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same question a third time. I didn’t   35   what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn’t know what to do. I wanted the note,   36   I put my hand up again. After a while, he   37    the note and started to laugh. ’You have all just told me how to become successful,” he said to us with the note in his hand.
“The note is worth twenty yuan. It is   38   worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter what happens to you, you still have your teeth.’ When I heard those words, I   39   I  was worth a lot. I may have done in an exam, but it doesn’t  40.   I can’t do well in the future. If I believe in myself, I will be successful!
31．A．classroom       B．subject            C．class     D．school
32．A．comfortable    B．successful         C．famous   D．rich
33．A．both         B．neither           C．all       D．none
34．A．said         B．bought             C．saw      D．wanted
35．A．remember    B．understand          C．notice    D．find
36．A．so            B．though          C．if      D．or
37．A  took out       B．threw away      C．picked up  D．put down
38．A．never         B．sometimes       C．hardly      D．always
39．A．realized     B．forgot           C．dreamed  D．decided
40．A．know       B．mean           C．think      D．complain

完形填空（共20 小题，每小题1 分, 满分20分）

Returning from a trip overseas, I sensed that something was wrong between Keith, one of my two sons, and me. So I asked him, “Keith, have I done anything that really  41  your feelings?”

Immediately, he said, “Yes, last Christmas you promised us a special  42 that I really wanted but you  43 gave it to me.”

The  44  was that I’d completely forgotten about it. I  45  , “Is there anything else I’ve done wrong, but I haven’t apologized  46  ?”

Again, his  47  was immediate, “Remember last Christmas when Mom said you had to go to the  48  because Kate, my little sister, was going to be born? You left us at home and  49    in a hurry. Remember?”

“Well, you left and forgot the suitcase.” I couldn’t believe he  50  all the details! “After you came back from the hospital you were  51 to see the suitcase had been opened and  52  had been thrown all over the place, and then you  53  me.”

“And you didn’t do it?” I asked.

“No, I didn’t. I was just searching for my gift.”

My heart sank. I felt  54 . I hugged Keith and asked him to  55  me. His honesty made me think of my other son, Kevin. Maybe I’d hurt his feelings, too. I went to ask him the  56    question. Kevin answered as immediately as his  57 , “Last Christmas you promised us a special toy, but you forget about it.”

58 Christmas had passed, I took my two sons to the store that day and bought them what I had promised. The  59  thing wasn’t the toy. The problem was that I’d made a promise too  60  and didn’t keep it as their mother.

In the fall of 1985. I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later , I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.

  My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college an the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.

  Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt(收养) and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3.  In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.

  You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.

  The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree！

I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.

1. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be_____________

A. a writer                B. a teacher

C. a judge                 D. a doctor

2.Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?

A. She wanted to study by herself.

B. She fell in love and got married.

C. She suffered from a serious illness.

D. She decided to look after her grandma. 

3.What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?

A. She was busy yet happy with her family life.

B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.

C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.

D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.

4.What doses the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. Failure is the mother of success.

B. Little by little, one goes far.

C. Every coin has two sides.

D. Well begun, half done.

5.Which of the following can best describe the author?

A. Caring and determine.      

B. Honest and responsible.

C. Ambitious and sensitive.

Innocent and single-minded.

When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father work outside in the winter without a coat. It could be minus 20 degrees centigrade and there’d be Dad, removing snow, or perhaps chopping some wood --- his coat thrown  aside--- wearing a shirt , a cap, and a pair of gloves.

“Aren’t you cold, Dad?” I’d ask. “No,” Dad would reply. “I’m not cold--- working too hard to be cold.”

Many times I wondered whether my father was an extremely tough man, or whether he was foolish.

One time when I was quite young, perhaps five or so, I went ice fishing with Dad. It was a bright, clear day—and bitterly cold.

After we’d been out on the ice for a little while, my feet started getting cold.

“Daddy, my feet are cold.” I said.

“Yeah, it’s cold out here today,” he replied.

“Tell you what,” he said. “Walk around. Make some circles in the snow. See how many different patterns you can make. That will get your feet warm.”

Now, I was just a little girl at the time but I remember thinking, “How in the world will walking around in the snow make my feet warm? Dad must be out of mind.

But he was my father, after all. I made circles in the snow. I made squares. Pretty soon I was having so much fun making patterns in the snow. I forgot about my feet being cold.

Now, all these years later, I know, too, from personal experience how my father was able to take his coat off and work outside in the winter wearing just a shirt, a cap and gloves. Because I do it, too. “Aren’t you cold?” my husband asked one winter day. “No,” I replied. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”

I hope my husband has decided I’m both tough and smart. But I guess quite a bit of the time he thinks I’m foolish.

Wherever Dad is in that great big farm in the sky—I’m sure he can’t help but smile whenever I take my coat off while I’m working outside in the winter.

1.When the author’s feet felt cold, her father advised her to              .

A．go home alone first                      B．keep walking in the snow

C．draw pictures in the snow                 D．light a fire on the ice

2.Hearing her father’s advice, the author thought her father              .

A．forgettable        B．warm-hearted      C．crazy             D．cruel

3.What might the author’s husband think of her?

A．Tough            B．Smart             C．Brave            D．Foolish

4.The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to              .

A．remember her tough and smart father

B．show how her father cared about her

C．describe memories of her childhood

D．explain why her father loved her so much