1 . 完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It’s a small gas station that has snacks, drinks, cigarettes, and candies. The young man behind the counter knows his _______ by name and what they usually want to buy. He treats children and adults with equal___________. He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is _______

One day, three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could, _______ not planning to pay for it. He hit the “panic button”, then went over the counter and _______ the front door. It was obvious they were homeless, and equally obvious that they weren’t going _______with the food. They___________ the food and simply crowded together in panic — knowing the police were___________ the way.

Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn’t have to steal if they were that _____________. “We have food in the back, expired (到期) but still ____________ to eat. If you need food, you ______________ have some.”

They were told to ______________ what they had dropped and put it back, and then asked to sort out the mess. They were doing just that ______________the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under control and the police were no longer ____________.

This wasn’t what they had______________. They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong they’d done. Shocked, they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up themselves.

Soon three ____________people walked out with all the ______________their arms could hold. They were ____________ that, if they needed to come back again, they were to ask and not just grab.

And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in. He would be the __________ person in the world to say he was a hero. But he gave three people something they were badly in need of — a______________ amount of self-respect and a little bit of hope.

1.

A．friends

B．neighbors

C．customers

D．passengers

2.

A．respect

B．pride

C．wisdom

D．patience

3.

A．slow

B．busy

C．heavy

D．crowded

4.

A．bravely

B．reasonably

C．hardly

D．obviously

5.

A．opened

B．locked

C．closed

D．broke

6.

A．nowhere

B．somewhere

C．anywhere

D．everywhere

7.

A．hid

B．lifted

C．swallowed

D．dropped

8.

A．in

B．on

C．off

D．by

9.

A．frightened

B．curious

C．angry

D．hungry

10.

A．safe

B．easy

C．sweet

D．able

11.

A．must

B．can

C．should

D．need

12.

A．bring up

B．hand out

C．pick up

D．hand in

13.

A．when

B．after

C．until

D．since

14.

A．popular

B．necessary

C．reliable

D．important

15.

A．wanted

B．planned

C．expected

D．admired

16.

A．dirtier

B．cleaner

C．cleverer

D．quicker

17.

A．money

B．cigarettes

C．drinks

D．food

18.

A．reminded

B．warned

C．ordered

D．persuaded

19.

A．first

B．last

C．best

D．worst

20.

A．large

B．fair

C．small

D．full

2 . About ten years ago, a young and very successful businessman named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his shiny, black, Jaguar XKE, which was only two months old.
He was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no child came out, but a brick sailed out and — WHUMP! — it hit the Jag’s shiny black side door! SCREECH...!!!! Immediately Josh stopped the car, jumped out, seized the kid and pushed him up against a parked car. He shouted at the kid, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what are you doing?!" Building up a head of steam, he went on. “That’s my new car. That brick you threw is gonna cost you a lot of money. Why did you throw it?"
"Please, mister, please....I’m sorry! I didn’t know what else to do!" begged the boy. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop!" Tears were streaming down the boy’s face as he pointed around the parked car. "It’s my brother, mister," he said. "He rolled of the curb (路沿) and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up. "Sobbing, the boy asked the businessman," Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.”
Moved beyond words, the young businessman tried hard to swallow (咽下) the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Straining, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapers and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK. He then watched the younger brother push him down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long walk back to the black, shining Jaguar XKE — a long and slow walk. Josh never did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the dent (凹痕) to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention. Feel for the bricks of life coming at you.
1. The boy threw a brick at the businessman’s car because ____________.

A．the businessman drove at a high speed	B．he envied the new car very much
C．he wanted to ask for some money	D．he wanted to get help from the driver

2. Which of the following is the right order of the story?
a. The younger brother threw a brick at Josh’s car. b. The elder brother fell out of his wheelchair.
c. The younger brother begged Josh for help.
d. Josh lifted the elder brother back into his wheelchair. e. Josh shouted at the younger brother.

A．b, a, e, c, d

B．a, c, d, b, e

C．b, a, c, e, d

D．a, c, b, e, d

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Josh would accept the money from the kids.	B．The two kids were Josh’s neighbors.
C．Josh was a kind-hearted man.	D．Josh’s new car broke down easily.

4. According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ____________.

A．trying to get ready for the trouble in your future life

B．driving fast in a neighborhood street is dangerous

C．trying to be more understanding seeing others in trouble

D．protecting oneself from being hurt

3 . Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long­handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.
He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire.

He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets—nothing that could buy even half an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea.

At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash. While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along it, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding－Dong－Dong”, “Ding－Dong－Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.

Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you？”

No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.

Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey？”

Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it’s you, Ben! I wasn’t noticing.”

“Say—I’m going swimming. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work—wouldn’t you? Of course you would.”

Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said, “What do you call work？”

“Why, isn’t that work？”

Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered carelessly.

“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”

“Oh come, now, you don’t mean to say that you like it？”

The brush continued to move.

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day？”

Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said, “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

Tom thought for a moment, and was about to agree, but he changed his mind.

“No—no—it won’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”

“No—is that so? Oh come, now—let me just try. Only just a little.”

“Ben, I’d like to, but if it isn’t done right, I’m afraid Aunt Polly… ”

“Oh, I’ll be careful. Now let me try. Say—I’ll give you the core of my apple.”

“Well, here—No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afraid …”

“I’ll give you all of it.”

Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought it for a dead rat—and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures.

And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company, and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.

He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.

1. How many characters are mentioned in this story?

A．4

B．5

C．6

D．7

2. Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because ________.

A．Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himself

B．Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple first

C．Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing

D．Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．Tom was interested in whitewashing the fence

B．Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others

C．Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him

D．Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of his work with the eye of an artist

4. What made Ben Rogers eagerly give up his apple and offer to brush the fence for Tom?

A．His warm heart and kindness to friends.

B．His curiosity about Tom’s brushing job.

C．Tom’s threat.

D．Aunt Polly’s idea.

5. Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage?

A．The Happy Whitewasher

B．Tom And His Fellows

C．Whitewashing A Fence

D．How To Make The Things Difficult To Get

4 . America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flow more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time.
Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

B．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

C．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

D．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

2. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.

A．offered a ride to his home

B．treated hospitably at his home

C．treated to dinner in a restaurant

D．warmly welcomed at the airport

3. A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A．Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships.

B．Friendships between Americans.

C．Friendships between Chinese.

D．Americans’ hospitality .

5 . Anyone who wants to buy a gun in California will have to wait for 2 weeks. Four people waited for 15 days to buy guns. Then they robbed a store and shot 3 people .
Congress(国会) is now trying to pass a law that will make everyone wait to buy a gun. Many people do not want this law. Others are glad it might happen. California is one of the longest waiting times for someone to buy a gun. A gun dealer said that this waiting time does not seems to do much good．He has   not seen crime(犯罪) go away because of it.
One good thing that has happened with the waiting time to buy a gun is a smaller number of suicide (自杀) . a lot of suicides are with a gun. In California, there are less suicides by gun than in other places. One reason to make people wait to buy a gun is to make sure the guns are not sold to criminals(罪犯). Last year, this check stopped 2,400 guns from being sold to criminals. This check does not stop anyone else from buying a gun.
Many criminals buy guns on the street and not in a store… some people think that a law like this will not do any good．But other people think that if only one person is stopped from getting a gun, then this law is worth it.
1. A long waiting time to buy in California has led to ___.

A．a good gun control	B．less suicides by gun
C．less shop robbery	D．a sharp fall of gun sales

2. If congress passed the law, ____.

A．no one could kill himself

B．there would be no gun deals

C．one would see more crimes go away

D．criminals couldn’t easily get guns in a store

3. From the passage we can infer that ___.

A．California is the only state to have a waiting time to buy guns

B．Congress will surely fail to pass the law to have a waiting time to buy guns

C．Different states can have some different laws in the United States

D．No laws can cover all the states in the United States of America

6 . I was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled (贴标签) everything. I always, looked for everything. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.
War broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, "Take your shoes away! Why under my bed!" Deafened, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.
The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up, she quickly crawled (爬) under her covers, sobbing.
Obviously, that was something she should not go through phone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy rose up in my heart.
Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, even on her side. I got so into my work that I even didn't noticed Kate had sat up.
She was watching, her tears dried and her expression one of disbelief. Then, she reached out her   hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me. "Thanks."
Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn't always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.
1. What made Kate angry one evening?

A．She couldn't find her books.

B．She heard the author shouting loud.

C．She got the news that her grandma was ill.

D．She saw the author's shoes beneath her bed.

2. The author tidied up the room most probably because __________.

A．she was scared by Kate's anger

B．she hated herself for being so messy

C．she wanted to show her care

D．she was asked by Kate to do so

3. What might be the best title for the story?

A．My Friend Kate	B．Hard Work Pays Off
C．How to Be Organized	D．Learning to Be Roommates

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Smith: Hi, Cathy, how did you find yesterday’s speech competition?
Cathy: Well, to be honest, it was quite     1    (disappoint).
S: You didn’t like the speeches?
C: Yes, I did．In fact, I     2    (enjoy) listening to most of the speeches．But I just couldn’t accept the result, you know.
S: Hmm, you mean the judges?
C: I mean, most of the listeners including me didn’t understand     3    the judges didn’t like Samantha．It was such a shock     4    they announced the winner was Jim．We all thought Samantha’s     5    (pronounce) was the best.
S: You’re     6    (probable) right．But don’t you think the speech itself is     7    (important)? As I see it, Jim’s speech was more meaningful．I was deeply moved by the story he told us.
C: That I know now.In my     8    ,we also learned something very important    9    Samantha’s speech.
S: That’s right．Samantha and Jim were indeed very close．I guess it was difficult for the judges.
C: Well, I wish I     10    (can) agree with you．But I do think Samantha was best.

8 . NEW YORK— The band Atomic Tom has scored an Internet hit with its self-created video to the song Take Me Out. In the video, the band members ride a New York City subway while performing entirely on iPhones, with applications linked with broadcasters(播送设备) for each instrument.
Singer Luck White says the production was a top-secret operation. “We didn’t tell anyone about this. It was completely top-secret from our family, from our friends, from management, from everybody. So the first time that people saw this video was last Friday when we put it on YouTube,”explained White.
It has been watched by more than 2 million on YouTube since debuting(首次露面) last week. “All I’ve wanted to do for the past few days is just stare at the YouTube page and keep refreshing(刷新) it to see how far it will go,” said Espiritu, the lead guitarist of the band.
“The Internet changed everything,” Espiritu said. “ It's kind of an exciting time because it forces everyone to   be creative and find new ways to get your name out there.”
The idea for the video came from Espiritu’s 24-year-old brother Benjamin, who’s hoping to go to film school. “I've seen a lot of these music applications, and they’re fascinating to me,” Benjamin Espiritu said, “I thought: What would happen if iPhones took over the world? If there could actually be a band that played straight through with iPhones, what would that look like?” So they shot(拍摄) the video —with iPhones also serving as video cameras. The band also tried Union Square but were stopped during playing because they didn't have a permit.
“___________________________.” Espiritu said, “We’ve seen the jump.” Their album has been in the top 10 albums on iTunes.
Will their fans start cheering for iPhone-only performances? “We’ve gotten the most exposure(曝光)and the most fans that we’ve ever gotten through this, so I wouldn’t be surprised if fans are going to want to see that.” Espritu said.
1. Who first saw the band’s video to the song Take Me Out?

A．Their friends	B．Their family
C．The people online	D．Their management.

2. What did Espiritu mean by saying “The YouTube views are translating into album sales”?

A．The YouTube views make the album sales increase.

B．The band has translated the video on the YouTube.

C．People need to pay for the video if they view it on the YouTube.

D．People who have viewed the video on the YouTube should buy an album.

3. What would be the best title for this text?

A．Atomic Tom’s iPhone Subway Performance

B．Take Me Out—Atomic Tom’s New Song

C．A Band’s Performance through YouTube

D．A Band’s iPhone Song Take Me Out Hits Big

9 .        Watching TV is a very popular pastime in the UK but what kind of programmes do British people like to watch? Well, the most-watched TV programmes every week are very popular dramas that are usually_______at least four times every week. They are dramas_______on one neighborhood that try to_______ordinary life in the UK—we_______these dramas ‘soap operas’ or ‘soaps’.

In the early days of TV, there were often dramas on during the_______ back in those days, it was_______for the husband to go out to work and for the wife to stay at home and_______the house and the children. Most of these daytime dramas were aimed at entertaining the_______who would traditionally be at home, probably doing the_______ companies selling washing powder would________their products at times________these dramas were on, and________those companies would________sponsor (赞助) the drama. As a result, the word “soap” appeared.

So what about the word opera? Well, that’s because these dramas are often an exaggeration (夸大) of real________. They are supposed to represent ordinary lives________to make them entertaining, lots of dramatic events________murders, divorces, affairs etc, happen probably much more________than they would in a normal neighbourhood.

Most soap operas these days are________in the evening. There are lots of different soaps on in the UK but there are three main________ones. ‘Coronation Street’ has been on since 1960. It is supposed to represent working class life. Then there’s “Eastenders’” which________in 1985 and “Emmerdale” in the north of England.

1.

A．on

B．in

C．at

D．off

2.

A．basing

B．being based

C．are based

D．based

3.

A．describe

B．explain

C．imagine

D．predict

4.

A．read

B．say

C．call

D．think

5.

A．day

B．noon

C．evening

D．night

6.

A．interesting

B．traditional

C．unusual

D．polite

7.

A．look for

B．look over

C．look out

D．look after

8.

A．husbands

B．elders

C．housewives

D．children

9.

A．washing

B．cooking

C．reading

D．shopping

10.

A．buy

B．sell

C．advertise

D．suggest

11.

A．until

B．when

C．before

D．after

12.

A．some time

B．some times

C．sometime

D．sometimes

13.

A．still

B．yet

C．so

D．even

14.

A．life

B．dream

C．place

D．word

15.

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．or

16.

A．for example

B．as

C．like

D．such

17.

A．carefully

B．quickly

C．suddenly

D．regularly

18.

A．shown

B．given

C．taken

D．made

19.

A．humorous

B．popular

C．sad

D．happy

20.

A．starts

B．had started

C．started

D．has started

10 . Choose Your One-Day-Tours!

Tour A - Bath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge -￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.

Tour B - Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary’s Church Tower and Anne Hathaway’s -￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England’s oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖顶）” from St Mary‘s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.

Tour C - Windsor Castle &Hampton Court: including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace -￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VILL’s favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!

Tour D –Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.

1. Which tour will you choose if you want to see England’s oldest university city?

A．Tour A	B．Tour B
C．Tour C	D．Tour D

2. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?

A．Windsor Castle & Hampton Court	B．Oxford & Stratford
C．Bath & Stonehenge	D．Cambridge

3. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?

A．It used to be the home of royal families	B．It used to be a well-known maze
C．It is the oldest palace in Britain	D．It is a world-famous castle