1 . Never had a lovely sunflower been absent to my house on my birthday, since I turned 13. No cards or notes in it. Calls to the flower shop were always ________—it was a cash purchase.

I never stopped ________ who the mysterious giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful but too shy to disclose his or her ________.

My mother even ________ my imaginations. She’d ask me if there was someone who I had done a special favor and then might be showing ________ As a teenager, ________, I had more fun assuming that it might be a boy I had ________ secretly.

When I was 17, I failed ________ in a significant test. That night when the result came. I just ________ myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, my mother ________, “Don’t be discouraged! It’s not a big deal!” Yet, I remembered ________ out of the house at that time, yelling… “You just don’t understand!”

One month before my graduation from high school, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from pain to ________ so that I became completely uninterested in the upcoming ceremony. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would deny my ________ any of those things. Before my father died, we had shopped a party dress which made me feel like a(an) ________ Cinderella (灰姑娘). But it was the ________ size. Later I totally forgot about the dress.

My mother didn’t. The day before the dance, I found that ________, in the right size, ________ in the box to me gracefully and lovingly. She just ________ her child to feel loved and showed that there still existed magic and ________ even in the face of hardships.

Actually, my mother passed away one week after I got married. That year the adorable sunflower never ________.

1.

A．in charge

B．in private

C．in advance

D．in vain

2.

A．calculating

B．convincing

C．declaring

D．admiring

3.

A．address

B．presence

C．identity

D．proof

4.

A．objected to

B．contributed to

C．subscribed to

D．referred to

5.

A．appreciation

B．assistance

C．applause

D．account

6.

A．therefore

B．otherwise

C．though

D．moreover

7.

A．loved

B．warned

C．disliked

D．punished

8.

A．unavoidably

B．sincerely

C．particularly

D．unexpectedly

9.

A．forced

B．devoted

C．applied

D．allowed

10.

A．doubted

B．laughed

C．comforted

D．admitted

11.

A．pacing

B．moving

C．wandering

D．rushing

12.

A．tiredness

B．abandonment

C．treatment

D．annoyance

13.

A．accepting

B．skipping

C．grasping

D．interrupting

14.

A．ordinary

B．imaginative

C．awesome

D．original

15.

A．wrong

B．big

C．proper

D．measurable

16.

A．Cinderella

B．boy

C．dress

D．sunflower

17.

A．delivered

B．paid

C．awarded

D．thrown

18.

A．told

B．ordered

C．reminded

D．wanted

19.

A．attraction

B．beauty

C．potential

D．means

20.

A．faded

B．developed

C．bloomed

D．emerged

4 . 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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In schools all over the world boys and girls are learning foreign languages.______ knows his own language, but ______ is very useful, especially when we travel to other countries. ______   we go to France, we ought to be able to speak French, and in Germany people will ______ us to understand German.

How many languages are there in the world? There are about fifteen hundred, but many of them are not very ______. English is one of the most important languages______so many people use it, not only in England and the USA,______in other parts of the world. More than 200 million people speak it ______ their native language, and about another 200 million people use it as a foreign language. It is ______ to say how many people are learning it. Many millions of school boys and school girls are trying to do so.

English children study French,______ is also a very important language. An Englishman can_______ find someone in almost all parts of the world who is able to talk to him in either English or ______.

Which is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we all learnt our own language well when we were children. If we could learn another one in the same way, it would not seem so ______. Think of what a child ______. It listens to what people say, and it tries to imitate(模仿) what it hears. When it wants something, it ______ ask for it. It is ______ the language, talking in it, and thinking in it all the time. If people have to use the language they are learning all the time, they will master it quickly.

____ is also important to remember that we learn our own language by hearing people speak it, not by seeing ______ they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, ______ you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is ______ to learn all the new words first through the ear. You can read them, spell them, and write them later.

1.

A．No one

B．Someone

C．Everybody

D．Any one

2.

A．one

B．the one

C．the others

D．another one

3.

A．Unless

B．If

C．Though

D．However

4.

A．hope

B．insist

C．expect

D．help

5.

A．necessary

B．easy

C．important

D．official

6.

A．although

B．because

C．when

D．and

7.

A．but

B．or

C．and

D．nor

8.

A．as

B．like

C．for

D．with

9.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．different

D．interesting

10.

A．as

B．what

C．that

D．which

11.

A．hardly

B．sometimes

C．freely

D．easily

12.

A．German

B．Russian

C．French

D．Japanese

13.

A．useful

B．easy

C．hard

D．useless

14.

A．does

B．speaks

C．learns

D．likes

15.

A．ought to

B．is able to

C．decides

D．has to

16.

A．learning

B．studying

C．using

D．trying

17.

A．That

B．It

C．This

D．What

18.

A．how

B．what

C．why

D．as

19.

A．although

B．because

C．as soon as

D．among

20.

A．necessary

B．best

C．better

D．possible

5 . A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made his leg lame(跛的). He_____played with his classmates. When the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always ____his head without a word.
One ___ the boy’s father asked for some saplings(树苗)from the neighbor. He wanted the ____to plant a sapling(树苗) each person in front of the house. The father said, “Whose sapling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite ______” Seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees , however, the boy had an idea .He hoped that the tree he planted would _______ soon. So ,after watering it once or twice, he never ______it.
A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was ___ to find that it didn’t fade but grew some fresh leaves. ______the trees of his brothers and sisters , his tree was even greener. His father kept his _____,   bought the little boy his favorite gift and said that from the tree he planted, he would become an outstanding _____when he grew up.
Since then, the little boy slowly became_______. One night, he lay on the bed but could not sleep. Then he got up and came to the_______ To his surprise, his _____was splashing(喷洒)something onto his tree. _____, he understood---his father had been ______fertilizing(施肥)his small tree!
He returned to his room, ____ running down. _____passed. The little boy didn’t become a botanist(植物学家)，but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt. Love is the______nourishment(营养)of life________it is just a drop of clear water, it can still help the tree of life thrive(茁壮成长).1.

A．bravely

B．seldom

C．freely

D．always

2.

A．raised

B．nodded

C．lowered

D．knocked

3.

A．spring

B．moment

C．winter

D．week

4.

A．neighbors

B．friends

C．children

D．boys

5.

A．sapling

B．tree

C．gift

D．toy

6.

A．die

B．grow

C．break

D．survive

7.

A．led to

B．attended t

C．belonged to

D．objected to

8.

A．pleased

B．upset

C．worried

D．surprised

9.

A．Compared with

B．Similar to

C．Connected to

D．Popular with

10.

A．request

B．schedule

C．promise

D．secret

11.

A．president

B．botanist

C．artist

D．researcher

12.

A．smart

B．desperate

C．optimistic

D．practical

13.

A．field

B．courtyard

C．park

D．farm

14.

A．brother

B．sister

C．father

D．neighbor

15.

A．All of a sudden

B．For a moment

C．In time

D．From then on

16.

A．busily

B．quietly

C．cautiously

D．secretly

17.

A．water

B．tears

C．sweat

D．rain

18.

A．Hours

B．Months

C．Decades

D．Centuries

19.

A．last

B．only

C．least

D．best

20.

A．Even if

B．Now that

C．If only

D．What if