第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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。
Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks away. Life has 36 for millions of teenagers across the world who now make friends online. 37 you use chat rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are 38 of a virtual community (虚拟社区).
"I rarely talk with my parents or grandparents, 39 I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ," said Fox's Shadow, the online nickname (网名) used by a Senior 2 girl in China. "Eighty per cent of my classmates use QQ 40 school."
QQ is the biggest messaging 41 in China. A record shows 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October, 42 to Tencent, the company which developed QQ.
And Fox's Shadow might well have been one of them. "I log in (登陆) on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel 43 . I usually 44 about 10 hours chatting online every week," she said. "But I rarely talk with 45 , especially boys or men."
Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making 46 with strangers online. "You don't know 47 you're talking to. You should 48 be careful about who you trust online."
Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to 49 someone very well. Fox's Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a comic fan like 50 and they went to a comic show together.
However, not all teenagers have been so 51 . At the beginning of this year, a 17-year-old girl in Liaoning Province was killed after meeting a friend she had found on QQ. The criminals (罪犯) weren't 52 until last month.
A 16-year-old Beijing boy, known online as Bart Simon, dislikes QQ users. "I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking 53 ," he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. But he spends little time chatting as he sees it as a 54 of time and money. "If you are really 55 to it, sometimes you just can't concentrate (集中精神) in class," he said.
36.A. improved B. become C. changed D. increased
37.A. Whether B. If C. When D. Unless
38.A. member B. part C. partner D. number
39.A. but B. as C. when D still.
40.A. before B. at C. after D. since
41.A. service B. product C. structure D. organization
42.A. granting B. depending C. considering D. according
43.A. sleepy B. tired C. bored D. busy
44.A. take B. cost C. pay D. spend
45.A. friends B. adults C. males D. strangers
46.A. relation B. touch C. contact D. friends
47.A. who B. which C. whose D. these
48.A. often B. usually C. sometimes D. always
49.A. know B. recognize C. tell D. judge
50.A. herself B she C. anybody else D. everyone
51.A. good B. fortunate C. safely D. healthy
52.A. kept B. held C. caught D. killed
53.A. uselessness B. noise C. nonsense D. rubbish
54.A. short B. lack C. waste D. little
55.A. kept B. held C. addicted D. stuck
A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day ________ I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my ________ stopped. It was out of gas on a ________ road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone ________ could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile ________ I finally found a house near the ________. I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair ________. She said, “I’ve been ________ for you here for a long time. Come in. ________ is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t ________ what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You ________ tea,” said she.
I quickly ________ that my car was out of ________ , but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept ________ me Alfred and talking about how long it had been ________ she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was anxious to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I ________ .
_________, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my ________ , he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t ________ anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and ________ came back because of the war.”
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。
I’m Glad I got Sick
Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is that being sick is what ________ me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she ________ to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time “what a super wife she will ________ for someone.”
I took her out to eat for helping me ________ the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still ________ thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to ________ a new job in the Atlanta area, so Cathy helped me ________ boxes to get ready to leave. We ________ a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I________a few tears in Cathy’s eyes, so I asked what was ________ .
She said, “I don’t know if I can live ________ you, you are my best friend.” I said, “I know, I’ve been thinking the ________ thing.” That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our ________ times, as many others have had, but we are still best friends!
________ I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about________ …I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn that ________ , sharing and caring about others is all that really ________ in life, and that looks, money and other things are not important.
________the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on ________ weekend.
Cathy is the greatest thing that has ever ________ me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. Thank God I got sick 27 years ago!
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There is a Web site called the “World Database of Happiness”. It combines and ____ the results of hundreds of surveys from around the world that have been conducted on life ____. Most of the findings are predictable, but a few are ____.
The database(数据库) makes it ____ that there is not a strong connection between material wealth and general contentment. It is a cliche(陈词滥调) to say that money ____ buy happiness, but the old saying seems to be ____ by research. Many people still stick to the belief that gaining riches will be the answer to all their problems, yet they are probably ____.
Studies have been ____ on people who acquired sudden wealth, such as lottery winners. In most cases, after the initial joy had ____， people were not left with a sense of lasting happiness. In fact, they ____ to return to the way they felt before they became rich.____ contented people continue to be contented，____ those who were miserable in the past sink back into misery.
If material wealth does not bring happiness, then ____ does? Perhaps happiness has something to do with ____ you live. The authorities at the World Database of Happiness have surveyed levels of happiness in different ____. Apparently, people in America, Canada, and Singapore are very happy; people living in India and Russia, not surprisingly, are not happy.
Other surveys consistently point to the importance of relationships. Family relationships，____， seem to be the key to long－term contentment. The Web site suggests that ____ in love and having children are two of the situations that bring the greatest happiness.
Nowadays people look to ____ as an alternative source of satisfaction. People increasingly spend more time alone watching TV or surfing the Internet ____ spending time with family. Can technology truly make people happy? It is too difficult to tell, but one thing is sure: If the Web site's research is ____， time spent with your family is a better investment than time spent making money.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（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。
Nowadays a lot of people will like to have some adventurous experience. Some will try to go to the ________ sea to have a close look at the bottom of it ________ some others will like to arise into the sky ________ up till now to greet the so-called heavens. But you see, ________ all of them will have good memory after the adventures. Don’t you believe that? So enjoy the following story and then have a ________ thought the next time some one invites you to do some ________ .
George liked to have all kinds of ________. He had once bought a racing car and sometimes ________ to 200 kilometers an hour. He had also had a hand on ________ into the sea and boasted a lot in front of his friends. ________ to his description, he usually returned________and alive after many of the death-risking adventures.
When George was thirty-five, he bought a ________plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of________. George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George ________ to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought," I've travelled in big planes several times, but I've ________ been in a small one, so I'll go." Up they went, and George flew ________ for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ________ , and he said to his friend in a ________ voice, "Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane." George was very ________ and said, "Two trips?" "Yes, my first and my ________ ," answered Mark.
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完形填空,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。
I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You________ have your pick from my bicycle ________.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would ________ choose.
As Christmas ________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she ________ a Salvation Army（基督教慈善组织）volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, em, I’m out of change.” I said.
Throughout December, Emily continued to ________hard. Then one day, she made a ________announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very ________ .
________ by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute ________of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. ________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow（发光）.Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t ________the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later ________ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very ________ , sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re ________ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”
Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the ________ ? I like to think it was God’s way of ________ a little girl for a sacrifice ________ her years---- while giving her dad a lesson in the ________ .
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