I truly learned what a best friend is in my first year in high school. Kate and I were good friends and we were inseparable. We spent every day together and always had a good    36  .

      Then basketball started and we were on the   37    team. After a few games,  38   , Kate got moved up to the Rose Cup full-time. I wouldn't admit it then, but actually I envied（嫉妒） her. Having  39   practice times, we started to see less of each other. Soon I started to hear that she was talking   40   my back.

      One night, I called Kate to tell her about my new    41   .To my   42   , the next day at school she told everyone I    43     her style because she had told me she wanted to get hers cut like this. At noon she handed me a letter and walked away    44      talking with me. I couldn't accept the   45  words on the paper. In great __46__ , I wrote right back to her.

      Over the next week, we exchange（交换） more   47    notes. I cried myself to sleep every night,   48      our friendship was over. One night my mom took me to Kate's home. Our moms looked at each other  49  . Kate's mom asked us questions but __50 _ of us responded(反应) .At last I let everything out. The huge burden in my mind was slowly lifted as we each talked about ___51____ we were feeling. It was all out. Suddenly Kate  52   from her seat, crossed the room and hugged me with tears. I will never forget that.

      It has been five months   53   we broke with each other. Last weekend we were out together again. It makes me happy that we are   54    to care about each other more. I now know that  55  I am asked about my friends, Kate will be at the top of the list.

1.  A. rest          B. time                C. example                D. party

2.  A. right            B. good                C. famous                  D. same

3. A. however       B. but          C. still                D. yet

4.  A. regular      B. free                C. different                 D. strange

5.  A. on            B. in               C. by                D. behind

6.A. haircut         B. clothes            C. necklace                  D. shoes

7.  A. joy          B. surprise         C. pleasure             D. sorrow

8. A. caught           B. gained             C. copied                 D. created

9.A. in spite of       B. instead of           C. except for               D. as well as

10. A. cruel       B. sad         C. disappointing        D. beautiful

11. A. anxiety           B. anger              C. surprise                  D. doubt

12.A. serious            B. dangerous            C. regretful                 D. hurtful

13. A. meaning          B. hoping             C. believing                 D. proving

14.A. happily           B. nervously        C. excitedly            D. surprisingly

15.A. neither               B. either           C. both                    D. none

16.A. what                B. how                C. which                  D. why

17. A. rose             B. raised           C. stood            D. got

18.A. if                   B. when                C. because                D. since

19.A. planning           B. pretending           C. learning                  D. arranging

20. A. whenever         B. whatever         C. however                D. whoever

完形填空：（共30分，每小题1.5分）

My 14-year-old son, John,  and I                       

 Spotted（挑出，察觉） the coat at the same time.  It was              

hanging at a （an）  36    clothing store. 

The coat had a black velvet collar（天鹅绒衣领）,  delightful

tailoring,  a Fifth Avenue label （标签） and a （an） 37    price of  $28.

We looked at   38   , saying nothing, 39   John’s eyes shone.  Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with   40  ,  but could    41   several hundred dollars new.

    John  42   the coat.  He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious,  studied 43  that soon changed into a smile.  The   44   was perfect.  John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile.  “How did the kids like your coat? ”  I asked.  “They love it. ” He said, carefully    45  it over the chair and smoothing it flat.

Over the next few weeks, the 46  came over John.  Quiet, reasoned discussion was 47  argument.  He became more thoughtful and eager to  48    .  “Good dinner,  Mum, ” he would say every evening.  One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner,  John said,  “You are right,  and I guess I will. ”

When I    49   this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know   50  caused the changes,  she said with laughter,  “It must be his coat! ” At the library,  we  51  to meet a friend who had not seen our children for a long time.  “  52  this be John? ” He asked,  looking up to John’s new height and coat,  and extending his hand,  one gentleman to another.

John and I both knew we should never 53  a person’s clothes for the real person within them.  But there is something to be said for   54   a standard of excellence for the world to see,  for practicing standard of excellence in thought,  speech and behavior,  and for   55 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

1.A. second-hand        B. expensive       C. big           D. cheap

2.A. reasonable         B. unbelievable     C. special        D. average

3.A. each other         B. one another      C. the other       D. others

4.A. therefore          B. however         C. but           D. thus

5.A. adults            B. people           C. parents        D. teenagers

6.A. spend            B. cost             C. pay           D. take

7.A. touched          B. buttoned          C. held          D. obtained

8.A. gesture           B. expression        C. attitude        D. feeling

9.A. color             B. price             C. fit           D. style

10.A. pressing         B. taking            C. hanging       D. folding

11.A. happiness                  B. satisfaction        C. change            D. generosity

12.A. because of             B. instead of         C. aware of               D. full of

13.A. please                    B. understand        C. complain             D. apologize

14.A. mentioned             B. wrote            C. reported               D. explained

15.A. when            B. how              C. what           D. that

16.A. happened         B. came             C. intended        D. decided

17.A. Should           B. Would            C. Must           D. Could

18.A. watch            B. judge             C. mistake         D. consider

19.A. doing            B. showing           C. speaking        D. wearing

20.A. comparing        B. connecting         C. combining       D. matching

"Every time we had dinner, I felt awkward when my Chinese mom__２１___asked me to eat more. My mom in American would__２２___push me like that.__２３___I couldn't tolerate it any more, so I asked why she did that. She told me it was because she loved me and really looked__２４___me as her own child and she worried about whether I felt hungry. From that point I understood that Chinese people had__２５___a poor life in the past.__２６___worries parents most is whether their children have enough food. Although their lives have dramatically improved, they are used to__２７___the old concerns. I still don't feel easy with constant___２８__to eat, but when my Chinese mom tries to persuade me__２９___more, I always thank her with a smile__３０___feeling angry."

    This story comes from Tyler, an American youngster who once lived in my neighbour’s home. His Chinese mom is Wang Huirong, a__３１___from Beijing Normal University.

  As economic__３２___between the US and China become more frequent, an increasing number of American teenagers have become interested in Chinese culture, which seems very new and__３３___ to them. Chinese has gradually become a(n) __３４___choice for American high school students studying a second language. Tyler's father has a trade relationship with China stretching back to the beginning of reform and opening-up, which gave Tyler the opportunity to have__３５___to China from a very young age.

    "Only__３６___and opening-up has allowed us to have a lovely American teenager come and visit us frequently. I couldn't even imagine that in the past. Before we actively sought to avoid __３７___relations. None of us could ever have imagined that one day we would live with foreigners __３８___we were from the same family." says Wang with deep feeling.

Tyler's Chinese has improved a lot. When he first arrived at Wang's home he often watched the retiree__３９___ she spoke, but couldn't respond. Wang often felt anxious and asked for my help with translating. But now Tyler has no problem__４０___with us in Chinese.

1.A. eagerly       B. repeatedly           C. friendly             D. warmly

2.A. also          B. never            C. often            D. not

3.A. However       B. But              C. Finally          D. Therefore

4.A. after         B. at               C. for              D. upon

5.A. led           B. leaded           C. live             D. made

6.A. It            B. What             C. That             D. Which

7.A. speaking      B. talking              C. voicing          D. saying

8.A. demands       B. orders           C. requests             D. commands

9.A. eat           B. eating           C. to eat               D. ate

10.A. other than        B. but than             C. instead              D. instead of

11.A. retiree           B. worker           C. professor            D. official

12.A. changes           B. exchanges        C. conflicts         D. improvements

13.A. different         B. difficult            C. challenging          D. exciting

14.A. hot               B. heat             C. cold             D. only

15.A. entrance          B. access           C. door             D. way

16.A. revolution        B. fighting             C. reform           D. motivation

17.A. foreigner         B. aboard           C. civil                D. overseas

18.A. like              B. as if                C. as               D. even if

19.A. as                B. while            C. since            D. for

20.A. chat              B. chatting             C. to chat              D. chatted

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was getting dark and snow was coming down. Joe was driving home. He’d been unemployed since the factory  36  . Most of his friends had left, but he stayed on.  37  , he was born here.
Suddenly he saw a lady standing on the side of the road and  38  . She was worried. No one had stopped to  39  for the last hour. Joe knew  40   she felt and said, “My name is Joe and I’m here to help you.” All she had was a flat tyre,  41  for an old lady, that was bad enough. Joe changed the  42  , but he got dirty and his hands hurt. She wanted to pay Joe and said any  43  would have been all right. Joe never thought twice about the money and there were many people who had  44  him a hand in the past. He had lived his life that way. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him  45  , the next time if she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance that he  46  .
Later the lady went in a  47  decorated restaurant to eat in a hurry. The cashier(出纳员) was like the telephone of an out-of-work actor----it didn’t  48  much. However, the waitress, who was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕的), brought a clean towel to her with a  49  smile. The old lady 50  Joe. After the waitress brought the change from a 100-dollar bill, she found the lady 51   and something written on a napkin, “ 52  once helped me out, the way I’m helping you.   53   you really want to pay him back, don’t let the chain of love  54  with you.”
That  55   the waitress gave her sleeping husband a soft kiss and whispered, “ Everything’s going to be all right, Joe.” 
36    A  opened     B  invited      C  refused     D  closed
37    A  In all     B  After all  C  For all      D  At all
38    A  pulled in   B  pulled out C  pulled up        D  pulled down
39    A  leave     B  stay      C  ask       D  help
40    A  how           B  what     C  when     D  that
41    A  however   B  but       C  and      D  so
42    A  car       B  seat      C  tyre      D  type
43    A  amount     B  money      C  time     D  change
44    A  got       B  won     C  given     D  awarded
45    A  off           B  out       C  down     D  back
46    A  asked          B  needed      C  gave     D  hoped
47    A  poorly     B  well     C  widely      D  narrowly
48    A  read     B  ring      C  cost      D  send
49    A  excited     B  satisfied    C  sweet     D  cold
50    A  thanked    B  thought     C  praised     D  remembered
51    A  gone     B  disappear  C  left       D  lost
52    A  Anyone    B  Everyone  C  Someone  D  Anybody
53    A  After     B  As        C  Though     D  If
54    A  keep     B  end      C  last       D  continue
55    A  day      B  night     C  morning   D  week

Doing community service work, I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless out in the streets. After that I went to a   36   shelter not far from the Bay Bridge.

I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to   37   . She wanted to help,    38   she made four or five dozen chocolate chip cookies for me to    39    and hand out to people. When getting to the homeless shelter I passed out the remaining meals. I had the containers with my   40   cookies in them and began to   41   , offering them to anyone near me.

I    42    an old gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a cookie?” He stopped and turned around, looked at me    43   in the eye and said, “What did you say? Did you call me sir?” I told him I had, and his eyes    44    a little bit and he said, “No one has    45    called me sir.” He was completely taken aback.

It struck me. 

I explained I had been raised that    46    color and social status, everyone deserved     47    . It made me    48    to think that just because he was homeless, no one    49   him the honor. It broke my   50   , and I couldn’t help   51   cry. I just didn’t understand    52   no one ever called him sir? I had never thought that anyone was below me because I wasn’t raised that way. Every    53   person deserves to be treated with dignity. Years later, I still carry that memory and the    54   it taught me. Sometimes, what we take for granted can    55   make a difference in someone’s life.

How have you made a difference to others? How have others made a difference to you?

36. A. useless                       B. careless             C. homeless                  D. hopeless

37. A. participate               B. involve          C. choose                D. go

38. A. however              B. but             C. yet                 D. so

39. A. bring               B. fetch            C. collect             D. take

40. A. classmate’s             B. schoolmate’s     C. sister’s                D. family’s

41. A. walk around       B. knock around      C. come around            D. stand around

42. A. went                  B. came           C. approached           D. met

43. A. right                   B. even             C. still                 D. just

44. A. watered             B. cried             C. tore                D. dropped

45. A. already              B. ever            C. still                D. yet

46. A. in spite              B. regardless of     C. concerned about      D. for fear of

47. A. happiness                   B. truth                 C. respect                         D. help

48. A. strong-minded            B. sad                 C. frightened           D. pleased

49. A. handed                 B. afforded          C. provided            D. supplied

50. A. eyes                          B. mind                 C. opinions                   D. heart

51. A. but                                B. and                   C. until                        D. or

52. A. what                B. when            C. whether              D. why

53. A. single                  B. poor           C. ordinary            D. normal

54. A. stories                       B. lessons              C. experiences            D. tears

55. A. equally                      B. hardly            C. really                       D. finally