第二节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后面所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
23-year-old Ann is a traditional working class woman who is happily married to her husband Don and who has given birth to two lovely daughters Patsy and Penny. Ann   26   her work with her colleague Laurie because they can   27   to each other while cleaning the buildings their work requires them to. One   28  thing about Ann is that she listens to recordings of foreign languages—Spanish, French and even Chinese—   29   driving and even working. In Laurie’s eye, Ann is not normal, but Ann   30   that nobody is normal; everyone is different in   31   ways. Laurie’s specific problem is not an unusual one: the   32   between a strong appetite for food and an equally strong   33   to keep in shape by dieting. She envies Ann who   34  slim while seeming to eat as much as she likes.
In fact, Ann’s character is   35  . One morning,   36   after Don had taken the kids to school Ann   37  just as she was about to go to work. She was   38  by her divorced mother, who stays alongside her. She rushed her to   39  .
The doctor discovered that there are tumors(肿瘤) in both her ovaries(卵巢) .   40  can be done about the cancer. Ann   41 from the doctor that she has only two or three months to   42  .
Shaken   43  Ann was by this news, she decided not to tell her mom and husband, and to go on living as if nothing has happened.   44  in a cafe, Ann began to write down all the things she   45   to do before her death:
“1. Tell my daughters several times a day that I love them;
2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like;
3. Record Birthday Messages for the girls for every year until they are 18;
4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic;
5. Smoke and drink as much as I want;
6. Say just what I’m thinking;
7. Go and see Dad in jail.
…”
26. A. shares      B. spares           C. enjoys        D. completes
27. A. talk       B. work            C . affect        D. help
28. A. ordinary     B. strange         C. special        D. perfect
29. A. although     B. until           C. unless         D. while
30. A. insists       B. disagrees        C. imagines      D. hopes   
31. A. his          B. some          C. any           D. no
32. A. relation      B. struggle         C. difference     D. fight
33. A. desire       B. difficulty        C. design        D. delight
34. A. shocks      B. remains          C. realizes       D. becomes
35. A. abstract      B. attractive        C. abnormal      D. absolute
36. A. only         B. even           C. ever          D. just
37. A. blacked out   B. turned out       C. make out      D. came out
38. A. brought      B. discovered      C. taken          D. ordered
39. A. garage       B. college         C. school         D. hospital
40. A. Everything    B. Something      C. Anything      D. Nothing
41. A. informed     B. learned         C. took           D. told
42. A. leave        B. live           C. stay           D. die
43. A. since        B. because         C. as            D. for
44. A. Arriving     B. Getting          C. Finding       D. Sitting
45. A. instructs     B. supposes        C. intends        D. Imagines

阅读下面文章，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文
With the development of information industry, our personal information has become more easily exposed in public．As some celebrities are worried about their telephone number, ID number and home address being put on the Internet, ordinary people like us can't escape from the doom either．
A recent report from Xinhua reveals over twenty telephone-salespeople have been caught cheating customers by revealing their private information to local community of Beijing．
The report says the salespeople would call their potential customers trying to earn their trust by correctly revealing their personal information such as their name, telephone number, home address and even previous purchases．
They would then try to persuade the customer to buy a gold cellphone by mail．If the customer became suspicious, they would use another person's identity to prove their authenticity．
写作内容：
你在某英文报刊看到这则报导后，准备就我们学生该“ How can we keep our personal information off the Internet?”写一篇文章给该报编辑部，题目是“How can we keep our personal information off the Internet?”。
内容要点包括： 
1．以约30词简要概括新闻内容；                 
2．然后以约120词谈谈你的观点，内容包括：
（1）在信息时代,想让个人信息完全与世隔绝是不可能的,但可尽量减少;
（2）你为解决信息泄露所采取的一些措施:
A．到有安全保障的网站买东西;
B．只向能确保你个人信息安全的网站提供个人信息;
C．其它一些你认为有效的措施．
写作要求： 
1．可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3．文章开头己给出，不计入单词总数。
评分标准：概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

1.Man should be _____(仁慈的)，because man is different from animals.

2.Come and see me at your ______(方便).

3.The injured man is _____(预计)to recover in a month.

4.She helped me with my English without ______(犹豫)

5.Lack of skills _____(注定)him to live a poor life.

6.We talked as if we were old  _____(相识)

7.The young man ____(抢劫)her of her bag yesterday.

8.Can you think of the _____(可供选择的事物) we would use today?

9.The earthquake _____(中断) all the traffic in the area.

10._____ (假定)it rains tomorrow,what shall we do?

A well-known speaker started his speech by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “What is this piece of   1  and is it worth anything?”

Hands started going up. “It is a $20 bill, encashable(可兑现的) in international and national   2  .”replied one of the   3  who raised their hands.

The speaker continued, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He continued to crumple the 20 dollar bill using both his hands. He then               4  it and asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air.

“Well,” he said, “what if I do this?” He dropped it on the  5  and started to step on it. He picked up the crumpled and   6  bill and said, “Now, who still wants it?”  

7  went back into the air. “I think this bill is still   8  its value”, said a young man in an unsure  9 . “We can still use the bill to   10  goods worth 20 dollars,” said the other people.

“My friends, you have all learned a very   11  lesson in this exercise that we are just through with. You’ve   12  that I can crumple the $20 bill during the process as the effects can be seen clearly.   13 , no matter what I did to the piece of paper, you were   14  in your mind that my actions did not actually decrease its   15 . It was still worth $20.”

“Many times in our lives, we feel like as if we are   16 , crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are   17 ; but no matter what happened or what will happen, please   18 , you will never lose your value.” Values that you keep in your heart will always   19  you from a difficult situation.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or not, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.” “You are   20 — don’t ever forget it.”

1.                A．paper          B．advice          C．information    D．luck

2.                A．organizations    B．flights          C．markets  D．conferences

3.                A．family          B．teachers        C．speakers  D．audience

4.                A．hid            B．bought         C．carried   D．unfolded

5.                A．square         B．beach          C．ground   D．playground

6.                A．thin           B．dirty           C．new D．clear

7.                A．Hands          B．Books          C．Heads    D．Smoke

8.                A．losing          B．reducing        C．increasing     D．holding

9.                A．sound          B．voice           C．noise D．shout

10.               A．deliver         B．buy            C．sell   D．produce

11.               A．boring         B．difficult         C．valuable   D．painful

12.               A．heard          B．seen           C．forgotten  D．doubted

13.               A．However       B．Therefore       C．Besides   D．Otherwise

14.               A．sure           B．curious         C．proud D．sad

15.               A．price          B．growth         C．value D．size

16.               A．dropped        B．turned         C．looked    D．talked

17.               A．important       B．confident       C．selfish D．useless

18.               A．accept         B．argue          C．remember D．decide

19.               A．leave          B．search         C．save  D．beat

20.               A．especial        B．normal         C．ordinary   D．special

【小题1】Man should be _____(仁慈的)，because man is different from animals.
【小题2】Come and see me at your ______(方便).
【小题3】The injured man is _____(预计)to recover in a month.
【小题4】She helped me with my English without ______(犹豫)
【小题5】Lack of skills _____(注定)him to live a poor life.
【小题6】We talked as if we were old  _____(相识)
【小题7】The young man ____(抢劫)her of her bag yesterday.
【小题8】Can you think of the _____(可供选择的事物) we would use today?
【小题9】The earthquake _____(中断) all the traffic in the area.
【小题10】_____ (假定)it rains tomorrow,what shall we do?