2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with     1     his box of cars and trucks, and a shiny, red plastic shovel. In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand, he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox.

    2    （determine）, the little boy shoved, pushed, and pried, but every time he thought he     3    （make）some progress, the rock tipped and then fell back into the sandbox.

The little boy continued. But his only reward was to have the rock roll back,     4    （injure） his chubby fingers.

Finally he burst     5     tears of frustration! All this time, the boy’s father watched from his living room window as the drama unfolded. At the moment the tears fell,     6     large shadow fell across the boy and the sandbox. It was the boy’s father.

Gently     7     firmly he said, “Son, why didn’t you use all the strength that you had     8    （avail）?”

Defeated, the boy sobbed back, “But I did, Daddy, I did! I used all the strength that I had!” “No, son,” corrected the father     9    （kind）. “You didn’t use all the strength you had. You didn’t ask me.”

With that the father reached down,     10    （pick）up the rock, and removed it from the sandbox.

3 . John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down. He called out nervously, “Mom, where’s Charlie?” He had just ______ he hadn’t seen his new puppy for over an hour.

John looked around the garden, behind the bushes, and under the picnic table. No dog! His mother heard ______ in his voice as he called her a second time. “Mom, I can’t find Charlie!”

She came outside ______ . Let’s look around the garden first. Don’t worry. I’m sure he’s close by.

Both son and mother were ______ now, but still no Charlie. Their calls were not completely wasted, though. Joe, the next-door neighbor, and his two daughters Tania and Julie, immediately agreed to help them ______ the lost dog.

But even with five people now searching the town’s streets, they had no luck. Charlie was still ______ .

Tania suggested they make posters with Charlie’s ______ .She had done this when her own cat was lost a year earlier, she told John, and the cat was found the next day.

John agreed. When they got home, he made a poster with a photo of Charlie, Then John heard a ______ and opened his bedroom door. It was Charlie. John was greeted with a big wet kiss. Charlie had been ______ in the bedroom this whole time, sleeping. John had never been so ______ in his life!

1.

A．decided

B．forgotten

C．understood

D．realized

2.

A．anger

B．hope

C．fear

D．warning

3.

A．actively

B．quickly

C．carelessly

D．annoyingly

4.

A．shouting

B．talking

C．fighting

D．thinking

5.

A．give up

B．look for

C．run after

D．take care of

6.

A．missing

B．asleep

C．silent

D．quiet

7.

A．address

B．character

C．name

D．picture

8.

A．mess

B．noise

C．voice

D．song

9.

A．shut

B．woke

C．tied

D．saved

10.

A．afraid

B．silly

C．happy

D．proud

4 . In 1995, members of the Sutton family were enjoying a relaxing visit and drinking beer with their good friend Billy Ray Taylor. Billy decided to go out and get a drink of water from the nearby well.

As he went there, he ran back to tell everyone that he’d seen some bright lights in the sky and that everyone should go to look at the impressive scene. All the members of the Suttons stepped outside the house.

Billy and Clan told the reporter, “It was a shining, three-and-a-half-foot-tall being with an oversized head, big and pointed ears, shining yellow eyes, and hands with talons(爪)at their ends. The figure was either made of or simply dressed in slivery metal with its hands raised.”

After seeing these figures coming out of the woods and showing the universal sign of attacking, the Suttons could not think of else, but tried to kill the creatures.

As they shot at the creatures which had no protection with their guns, they said that they had heard some sounds as if the aliens(外星人)were wearing some kind of metal coat. They said that the aliens turned round quickly and escaped into the darkness when shot at.

No one knows what exactly happened to them, but since the Sutton family was high in spirits, they might have seen another creature. As Ufologist Renaud Leclet stated, it could be a misidentification(误认)of a pair of owls（猫头鹰）which appear at night, flying silently, have yellow shining eyes and defend their nests.

How far the above explanation is true, we are still unsure.

1. Who probably first saw the creatures?

A．Sutton	B．Clan.
C．Billy.	D．Renaud.

2. The third paragraph is written to ________.

A．prove Billy saw the aliens	B．describe what Billy had seen
C．warn people to keep away from the aliens	D．tell readers the truth

3. Why did the Suttons shoot at the creatures?

A．The Suttons thought they were to be attacked.

B．The Suttons wanted to catch the creatures.

C．The creatures attacked them.

D．The creatures were in metal coats.

4. Which of the following is Renaud’s opinion?

A．The Suttons drank too much.	B．The aliens are like owls.
C．The Suttons maybe saw two owls.	D．Owls often build their nests at night.

5. The passage above is probably taken from a/an ________.

A．travel diary	B．history book
C．animal story	D．popular science book

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where did Mr. Jackson like to sit when he was flying？

A．Beside a window.

B．In the middle.

C．Next to the passage.

2. What was Mr. Jackson happy to find when he got on the plane？

A．That a notice was put in a window seat.

B．That many of the seats were not occupied.

C．That there was an empty seat he liked.

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

A．Mr. Jackson was the last passenger to board the plane.

B．Mr. Jackson was surprised to see a sign in the seat.

C．The plane Mr. Jackson took was heavily loaded with luggage.

4. What did Mr. Jackson find out in the end?

A．The soldier took the sign off the seat.

B．The solider took up the seat for his girlfriend.

C．The girl getting on the plane was his friend.