For most of us, it is not too difficult to correct a mistake. We say we are sorry, promise to   1   differently, and go on with no regrets. This is not   2  , though, of some   3   figures whose actions failed. They probably spent their   14   feeling regret.

Napoleon, for example, wasn’t   5   being Emperor of France. He wanted to rule all Europe and, for a time, seemed to   6  . In the end, Napoleon “met his Waterloo”. He spent the rest of his life in exile (流放) on Alba. We can only   7   the regret he must have felt   8   on that small island.

At the end of World War II, the Emperor of Japan must have regretted the   9   of Pearl Harbor (珍珠港). It brought to an end the Emperor’s   10   as a God to his people. It is   11   he did not feel regret for his country’s actions when he learned of the   12   of the atomic (原子的) bomb. He had to feel regret when he had to announce his country’s   13   to his people.

In our   14   country, a President left his office. President Nixon was deeply involved in the Water Gate problem.   15   revealing (揭露) the action of his men, he tried to cover up the   16  . When it was revealed there were tapes   17   his involvement, he must have felt regret. If he had not tried to cover up the problem, he might never have had to leave office.

It has been   18   for me to correct my mistakes so far. None of my behavior has had   19   effects. I will probably do things I will regret, but not, I hope, anything that cannot be corrected or that has a serious consequence (后果) for   20  .

1. A. work                    B. think                        C. play                         D. behave

2. A. true                      B. so                            C. same                        D. right

3. A. powerful               B. particular                  C. historical                  D. excellent

4. A. times                    B. days                         C. periods                     D. ages

5. A. amazed                 B. satisfied                    C. appreciated               D. concerned

6. A. win                      B. succeed                    C. realize                      D. occur

7. A. imagine                 B. detect                       C. expect                      D. relate

8. A. left                       B. missing                    C. lost                          D. remaining

9. A. seizing                  B. taking                       C. bombing                   D. exploding

10. A. job                            B. position                    C. role                          D. post

11. A. understandable     B. unbelievable              C. unfortunately            D. unlikely

12. A. leaking                B. delivering                  C. throwing                  D. dropping

13. A. defeat                 B. attack                       C. loss                         D. fall

14. A. great                   B. own                         C. industrial                  D. hilly

15. A. Thanks to           B. Due to                      C. Instead of                 D. Except for

16. A. appearance          B. state                         C. condition                  D. situation

17. A. trying                 B. testing                      C. challenging               D. proving

18. A. wrong                B. exciting                    C. easy                         D. usually

19. A. desired                B. lasting                      C. same                        D. harmless

20. A. others                 B. myself                      C. friends                            D. people

完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）
There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons．She was worried  36  them, especially the younger one, Ben, 37  he was not doing well in school． Boys in his class 38  fun of him because he seemed so   39 ．
The mother  40  that she herself, would have to get her sons to do better in school．She  41   them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a  42  a week and do a report about it for her．
One day, in Ben’s  43 , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben  44  up his hand and the teacher let him  45 ．“Why did Ben raise his hand?” they wondered． He   46 said anything; what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only  47 the rock; he said a lot about it． He named other rocks in its group and even knew  48 the teacher had found it． The teacher and the students were  49 ． Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book   50 ．
Ben later went on to the   51 of his class．When he finished high school, he went to Yale University   52 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States．
After Ben had grown up, he   53  something about his mother that he did not know as a   54 ．She, herself, had never learned how to   55  ．

【小题4】

A．clever B．hard C．slow D．quick

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  1  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would  2  his taxi on the road. I  3  why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  4  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  5  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6  .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7  to be outside one evening two weeks  8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely  10  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  12  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  13  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）14.

We go to bed every night and  15  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  18  the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  19  we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  20 we are than what we do!

1.                A．window        B．garage          C．door D．yard

2.                A．park           B．stop           C．check    D．repair

3.                A．knew          B．understood      C．asked    D．wondered

4.                A．for            B．out of          C．without   D．from

5.                A．business        B．national         C．personal  D．public

6.                A．wasteful        B．useful          C．wonderful D．plentiful

7.                A．appeared       B．intended        C．expected D．happened

8.                A．later           B．more           C．ago  D．before

9.                A．broken         B．fine            C．shut D．open

10.               A．once          B．before         C．when D．until

11.               A．far            B．deep          C．long  D．little

12.               A．driver          B．engineer       C．father D．son

13.               A．called          B．made          C．elected   D．turned

14.               A．experience     B．earning         C．life   D．position

15.               A．stay up         B．wake up        C．stay home D．go home

16.               A．competition     B．performance    C．debate    D．party

17.               A．family          B．company       C．team D．whole

18.               A．build          B．climb          C．stand D．lay

19.               A．garden         B．garage         C．car   D．taxi

20.               A．who           B．what           C．which D．where

The back door of the ambulance(救护车) was suddenly shut and the driver ran to the front, jumped into his seat, and started the engine. Inside were the __36 __ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green, the mother holding their baby daughter Ally. The little girl had __37 __ food stuck in her throat and could hardly breathe.
The driver, Mr. white, __38 __ his siren (报警器) and flashing light, and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting against  __39 __. The cars ahead of him pulled out of the way as he drove through the __40 __. From the back of the __41 __the parents were shouting at him to __ 42__, since Ally had almost stopped __43 __. In front of him he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr. White knew that he had no time to __ 44__, so he drove straight past the traffic lights, looking __45 __his left and right as he did so.
Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows __46__, since the car was air-conditioned, and he was playing his radio. He did not __47 __the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight __48 __into the path of the ambulance.
Mr. White tried to stop his ambulance but it was too late. It hit the taxi. Everybody was shaken but no one was hurt. Mr. White looked to see __ 49__little Ally was. He was astonished to see relief instead of __50 __on the faces of the parents.
“Look!” cried Mrs. Green. “She is __51 __ again.”
“It must have been the ___52 __.” said her husband. “It __53 __ the food out of her throat.” The baby’s color was turning to __54 __ , and she was crying in a loud but healthy __55 __.
They were all joyful, and quite forgot about the accident, the taxi, and the lines of cars all around them.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处下加一个漏子符号（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误仅限1词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Joe was late to school this morning. He looked a little tiring when he met his maths teacher Miss Hunt. He apologized her for being late. Miss Hunt asked him if there was something wrong with him. The boy said he was OK, but he did not have much more sleep last night. He went to a football game and took some pictures. After they got home, he was busy developing them. He stayed till midnight. Miss Hunt told him to get more sleep in night. Joe promised don’t to do that again. Then he showed Miss Hunt with his pictures.