课文填空(共10空, 满分5分)

和其他危险相比较而言, 人类遭受鲨鱼攻击的几率其实是很小的.

The chance of being attacked by a shark are very small ______  _______ other danger.

1066年, 诺曼人征服了英国并控制了整个国家.

In 1066, the Normans conquered England and ______  _______  of the country.

汉语与很多西方语言不同之处在于汉语使用的基本单位汉字本身就有意义,可以独立成词.

The Chinese language _______  _______ many Western languages in that it uses characters which have meanings and can stand alone as words.

中国用丝绸交换酒、香料、羊毛和其他物品.

_______  ________ for silk, China received wine, spices, wool and other goods.

据报道吸烟和肺癌有关.

It’s _______  ________ smoking is related to lung cancer.

完型填空 (20小题，每小题1分，共20分)

When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the  26  side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to   27  in good health, or  28  about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to   29  damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text  30  the title. Therefore, the scissors would  31  before they start,  32  halfway done when I find out the  33  result.

Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your  34 . You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be  35  up. But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预料) — the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left  36 . Thus you are  37  in a difficult posi??tion and feel sad. How  38  that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life  39  greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

In fact that is what  40  is like: we are often  41  with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only  42  we get into another. The  43  may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I  44  remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual (不经意)  45  may not be a bad one.

26. A. front            B. same          C. either        D. opposite

27. A. get             B. keep           C. lead                D. bring

28. A. advice          B. news       C. a theory           D. a report

29. A. suffer         B. reduce         . prevent          D. cause

30. A. on            B. for            C. without             D. off

31. A. use             B. handle        C. prepare               D. stay

32. A. or            B. but     C. so                D. for

33. A. satisfying      B. regretful       C. surprising      D. impossible

34. A. courage         B. strength        C. attention      D. patience

35. A. given           B. held           C. made        D. picked

36. A. near            B. alone          C. about          D. behind

37. A. filled        B. attracted       C. caught        D. struck

38. A. dares        B. comes          C. deals         D. does

39. A. improves        B. changes        C. progresses      D. goes

40. A. study         B. society         C. nature        D. life

41. A. faced        B. supplied         C. connected       D. fixed

42. A. before        B. after           C. until         D. as

43. A. following     B. next            C. above        D. former

44. A. still          B. also            C. once       D. almost

45. A. treatment     B. action           C. choice        D. remark