Franz Schubert was a well-known musician in the world. But he lived a very hard life and often went hungry. One day, being very hungry, he went into a small restaurant in Vienna, hoping he might meet some friends there. He looked around and saw nobody he could borrow any money from. Then his eyes fell on a paper on one of the tables. In it was a little poem. He took the paper with the poem. After he composed a piece of music for the poem, he took his work to the owner of the restaurant. He only received a dish of beef and potato for it. thirty years after his death, this manuscript(手稿) by Schubert was sold for 40 00c francs. it was his famous berceuse(摇篮曲).

1.Schubert often

A．had his meal in restaurants

B．looked for his friends there

C．ate beef and potato there

D．had not enough food to eat

2. Schubert went into a restaurant because he thought

A．the owner might give him some food

B．he could eat the food without money

C．some friends of his might be there and lend him some money

D．he could write his famous berceuse there

3. From the passage we didn't know that____________.

A．where Schubert composed his famous berceuse

B．why Schubert composed his famous berceuse

C．whether it was hard for Schubert to make a living

D．who bought his famous berceuse for 40 000 francs

4. The best title for the passage should be_________.

A．the hard life of Schubert

B．Schubert and restaurant owner

C．Franz Schubert in a hotel

D．Franz Schubert and his berceuse

2.根据汉语提示或首字母提示写出正确的单词：（请把完整的单词写在答题卷上！！！）

1. The painter does not ____________  (试图) to paint object as we see them with our eyes.

2. John Snow wanted to face the ________________(挑战) and solve this problem. 

3.  List poems have a ____________(灵活的) line length and repeated phrases which give both a pattern and a rhythm to the poem.

4. You’ll find your colleagues very eager to ____________(帮助) you, so you may be able to concentrate on photography later if you’re interested.

5.  At first my new surroundings were difficult to ____________(忍受)。The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gasses had little oxygen left.

6.  Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that will give the reader a strong impression. Others try to c_______________ certain emotions. [来源:学§科§网]

7. John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the b________________ of ten people who had saved the life of another.

8. You can get burned by a v_______________ of the things :hot liquids, steam, fire , radiation, the sun electricity or  chemicals.

9. Y0u must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United kingdom e_________________ and worthwhile.

10. Art is influenced by the customs and f_______________ of a people.

 The teacher asked Mary _______ she could tell him the general idea of the poem.

   A. that if                             B. whether                   C. that                               D. how

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16－35各题所给的k^s5*uA.B.C.D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the 16 to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first 17 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a 18 that, in the past, would have started him 19 again. For a few years we were 20 to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.
"I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's 21 to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The words were a constant (经常的) 22 to me that things were 23 so hard that I could not deal with them," Dad said. Then he 24 the poem with me. The poem's 25, yet profound (深刻的) words immediately became 26 of my daily routine as well.
About a month after this 27 with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one 28 for each day of the year.
It has been my 29 that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own 30.
I 31 opened the book to November 10 to see 32 words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was 33 when I looked at the page, and then tears of disbelief and appreciation 34 down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had 35 my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静) Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
16. A. chance      B. courage    ability        D. right
17. A. gave up     B. took up      C. went on      D. carried on
18. A. way        B. habit        C. situation      D. house
19. A. reciting     B. asking       C. smoking      D. drinking
20. A. sure        B. uncertain     C. afraid        D. eager
21. A. reply       B. words        C. excuse       D. explanation
22. A. fear        B. imagination   C. thought       D. reminder
23. A. never       B. seldom       C. always       D. ever
24. A. discussed    B. shared       C. offered       D. talked
25. A. wonderful   B. long         C. simple        D. boring
26． A. all       B. that          C. any          D. part
27. A. talk        B. quarrel        C. trip          D. lesson
28. A. listed       B. included      C. read         D. said
29. A. method     B. experience     C. wealth       D. message
30. A. character    B. birthday       C. qualities     D. favorites
31. A. doubtfully   B. carefully      happily      D. hurriedly
32. A. where      B. whether       C. what        D. how
33. A. excited      B. astonished     C. disappointed  D. frightened
34. A. hung        B. pulled        C. rolled        D. pushed
35. A. troubled     B. disturbed      C. pleased       D. helped

One evening, a young man at a certain college who was known to be something of a poet read one of his poems to a small group of his friends in a room．The poem was greatly admired．But afterwards, one of them, who was called Crick, said, "I was very interested in Hand’s poem, but it was stolen from a book."

His words were reported to Hand, who was very angry and required an apology．"Well," said Crick, "I don’t often take back what I said, but this time I admit (承认) I was mistaken．When I got to my room, I looked in the book which I thought the poem was stolen from, and I saw it was still here!"

1.The poem Hand read one evening was written by        .

2.Hand’s friends admired the poem mainly because      .

3.From the story, we know that Crick        .

4.When Hand required an apology, Crick      .

5.According to the passage, we can infer that Hand      .