1 . Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding (婚礼) and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address (地址) Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share (分享) happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
1. The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans _______.

A．at the age of 13	B．before she got married
C．after they moved to new homes	D．before the writer’s family moved away

2. They didn’t often write to each other because they _______.

A．got married	B．had little time to do so
C．didn’t like writing letters	D．could see each other on special time

3. There was an empty place in the writer’s heart be­cause she _______.

A．was in trouble

B．didn’t know Linda’s address

C．received the card that she sent

D．didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happi­ness or sadness

4. They haven’t kept in touch _______.

A．for about 40 years	B．for about 27 years
C．since they got married	D．since the writer’s family moved away

2 . 完型填空（共20小题；                       
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，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。
     A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn’t know what she could do and wanted to _______. She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but _______ appeared.
     Her father, a cook, took her into the _______. He poured water into three pots and boiled it. After the water came to a boil, he put some_______ in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last. He waited for them for a few minutes _______ any words.
     The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and _______ by what her father was doing. After about 20 minutes, her father _______ the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he _______ the coffee into a cup. Turning back to his _______, he asked, “Sweetheart, what do you see?”
     “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she replied.
     Her father asked her to ________ the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were ________
______ he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were hard.
     Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.
     She asked, “What does this ________, Father?”
     He ________ that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate. They were all boiled in ________, but with a ________ result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The fragile eggs became ________ after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the water.

“________ one are you?” asked her father. “When calamity(不幸的事) ________ on your door, what will your ________ be? Are you carrots, eggs of coffee?”

1.

A．give in

B．give up

C．go on

D．carry on

2.

A．the other

B．the rest

C．another

D．the second

3.

A．kitchen

B．storeroom

C．backyard

D．bedroom

4.

A．potatoes

B．carrots

C．tomatoes

D．apples

5.

A．with

B．over

C．beyond

D．without

6.

A．confused

B．excited

C．surprised

D．relaxed

7.

A．turned on

B．turned down

C．turned off

D．turned out

8.

A．put

B．poured

C．flew

D．picked

9.

A．son

B．pot

C．kitchen

D．daughter

10.

A．touch

B．eat

C．smell

D．taste

11.

A．strong

B．heavy

C．light

D．soft

12.

A．Now that

B．Since then

C．After that

D．Once again

13.

A．mean

B．say

C．refer

D．think

14.

A．questioned

B．explained

C．required

D．suggested

15.

A．water

B．pot

C．stove

D．fire

16.

A．similar

B．same

C．different

D．wonderful

17.

A．hard

B．calm

C．delicious

D．broken

18.

A．What

B．Whichever

C．Whose

D．Which

19.

A．looks

B．touches

C．knocks

D．waits

20.

A．reaction

B．responsibility

C．answer

D．impression

3 .         In early autumn I applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University, but my mother fought strongly against it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up.

“You can’t say it’s not a great university, just because Papa went there.”

“That’s not it at all. And it is a top university.” She was still holding the pieces in her hand. “But we can’t afford to send you to college.”

“I wouldn’t dream of asking you for money. Do you want me to get a job to help support you and Papa? Things aren’t that bad, are they?”

“No,” she said. “I don’t expect you to help support us.”

Father borrowed money form his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop. His chief customers were his old college friends. To get new customers, my mother had to help. She picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people. Whether those people would turn into customers was another question. I knew that my Parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment could show returns. What’s more, they had not wanted enough to be rich and successful. Otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly.

I was torn between the desire to help them and change their lives, and the determination not to repeat their mistakes. I had a strong belief in my power to go what I wanted. After months of hard studying, I won a full college scholarship. My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother eventually gave in before my success.

1. The author was not allowed to go to Cornell University mainly because      .

A．his father graduated from the university	B．his mother did not thinks it a great university
C．his parents needed him to help support the family	D．his parents did not have enough money for him

2. The father started his small shop with the money from         .

A．a local league

B．his university

C．his relatives

D．his college friends

3. Why did the mother renew her membership in the league?

A．To help with her husband’s business	B．To raise money for her son
C．To meet her long-forgotten friends	D．To better manage her life

4. According to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn?

A．To get a well-paid job for himself	B．To improve relations with his mother
C．To go to his dream university	D．To carry on with his father’s business

4 . A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting (诱人的) apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, _______ a bar of chocolate if given the choice, _______, as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the _______ he felt and the more he wanted that apple.

He stood on tiptoe (脚尖), _______ as high as he could, but even as his tallest _______ he was unable to touch it. He began to _______ up and down, as high as he could, at the _______ of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of _______.

Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to _______ on. His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to ____________ the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking ____________, he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or, ____________ luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use.

He had tried everything he could think to do. ____________ seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk ____________. At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his ____________, and how he really wanted that apple. The more he ____________ like this, the more unhappy he became.

____________, the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted. He started to say to himself, “This isn’t ____________. I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s ____________ more I can do to get the apple — that is unchangeable — but we are supposed to be able to ____________ our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?”

1.

A．preferring

B．offering

C．receiving

D．allowing

2.

A．so

B．then

C．but

D．or

3.

A．sadder

B．angrier

C．hungrier

D．tastier

4.

A．expanding

B．stretching

C．swinging

D．pulling

5.

A．strength

B．length

C．range

D．height

6.

A．jump

B．look

C．walk

D．glance

7.

A．tip

B．stage

C．top

D．level

8.

A．hope

B．hand

C．sight

D．reach

9.

A．put

B．stand

C．get

D．hold

10.

A．break

B．shake

C．take

D．strike

11.

A．up

B．forward

C．down

D．around

12.

A．for

B．with

C．on

D．of

13.

A．After

B．Through

C．Without

D．Upon

14.

A．back

B．away

C．up

D．down

15.

A．wishes

B．beliefs

C．efforts

D．goals

16.

A．thought

B．imagined

C．tried

D．claimed

17.

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Moreover

D．Otherwise

18.

A．skillful

B．cheerful

C．harmful

D．helpful

19.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

20.

A．change

B．express

C．forget

D．describe

5 . (NEW YORK) A French tourist highly praised for rescuing a two-year-old girl in Manhattan said he didn’t think twice before diving into the freezing East River.

Tuesday’s Daily News said 29-year-old Julien Duret from France was the man who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday.

He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Seaport museum. He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dived in after him.

“I didn’t think at all,” Duret told the Daily News. “It happened very fast. I reacted very fast.”

Duret, an engineer on vacation, was walking with his girlfriend along the pier(码头) when he saw something falling into the water. He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river. Immediately, he took off his coat and jumped into the water.

When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said. Fortunately, when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes.

Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera. An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from onlookers. Duret caught a taxi with his girlfriend shortly after.

The rescue happened on the day before he left for France. Duret said he didn’t realize his story of heroism had greatly moved New York until he was leaving the city the next morning.

“I don’t really think I’m a hero,” said Duret. “Anyone would do the same thing.”

1. Why was Duret in New York?

A．To meet his girlfriend.	B．To spend his holiday.
C．To work as an engineer.	D．To visit the Andersons.

2. What did Duret do shortly after the ambulance came?

A．He was interviewed by a newspaper.

B．He went to the hospital in the ambulance.

C．He disappeared from the spot quickly.

D．He asked his girlfriend for his dry clothes.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Duret thought twice before he jumped into the cold water.

B．Duret dived into the water before the girl’s father.

C．The rescue happened on the day Duret left for France.

D．Duret didn’t think he was brave enough to be a hero.

4. What is probably the headline of this news report?

A．A Careless Father	B．A Poor Girl
C．Warm-hearted Onlookers	D．Brave Frenchman Found

6 . He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage（救援）workers that they called him “our baby. ” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave, carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child. ” He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.

Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees: no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They've taken care of him for 90 years. "

Adapted from People, November 25, 2002
1. The baby travelled on the Titanic with his___________.

A．mother

B．parents

C．aunt

D．relatives

2. What is probably the boy's last name?

A．Schleiferi

B．Eino.

C．Magda.

D．Panula.

3. Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on
Nov. 5__     .

A．1912

B．1954

C．2002

D．2004

4. This text is mainly about how______________.

A．the unknown baby's body was taken from the north Atlantic

B．the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia

C．people found out who the unknown baby was

D．people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years