第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每题1分，满分20分）
The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My __36__ began when I was just a kid．I __37__ becoming a doctor.
My mother was a domestic(佣人)．Through her work, she observed that __38__ people spent a lot more time reading than they __39__ watching television. She announced that my brother and I __40__ watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and __41__ her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a __42__. My mother was illiterate(文盲).
When I entered high school I was a(n) __43__, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to __44__ the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from __45__ her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I'll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy __46__ food and pay the bills. With everything __47__, you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very __48__ with that arrangement but once I got through allocating money, there was __49__ left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to __50__ our heads and any kind of food on the table, __51__ buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required wise preparation. I went back to my __52__ and became an A-student again, and eventually I __53__ my dream and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother's story—a woman with __54__ formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. There is no job __55__ than parenting. This I believe.
36．A．belief B．work C．education D．promise
37．A．majored in B．got used to C．dreamed of D．got tired of
38．A．lazy B．easy-going C．successful D．reliable
39．A．spent B．paid C．took D．did
40．A．could only B．could not C．must not D．should often
41．A．read to B．present to C．teach D．explain to
42．A．joke B．means C．tool D．trick
43．A．A-student B．B-student C．C-student D．D-student
44．A．get rid of B．hang out with C．break away from D．keep in touch with
45．A．making B．stopping C．working D．getting
46．A．your brother B．yourself C．your sister D．the family
47．A．left over B．paid off C．used up D．carried out
48．A．angry B．pleased C．disappointed D．bored
49．A．anything B．everything C．something D．nothing
50．A．put an idea into B．gave an impression on
C．keep a roof over D．have eyes in the back of
51．A．let alone B．let out C．let in D．leave alone
52．A．guys B．mother C．studies D．play
53．A．made B．fulfilled C．changed D．tried
54．A．little B．much C．few D．high
55．A．more interesting B．less important C．more important D．less interesting
第二部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16--25各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡相应的16--25上将该项涂黑。
In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky 16_____ the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird friend out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my 17______, Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue treasure and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to forgive me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure （安慰）me that Perky would find a new 18 ______. But I was far too clever to 19______ that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 20_______ growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the parents of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to 21______ the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and 22 ________ that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing 23______ Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the way we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just floated down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to 24_______ , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all matched up. It seems our two families had been connected long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 25_______! Perky lived!"
16. A. what B. how C. which D. where
17. A. joy B. horror C. disappointment D. satisfaction
18. A. parent B. home C. master D. life
19. A. imagine B. suppose C. doubt D. believe
20. A. birds B. happiness C. worries D. children
21. A. catch B. find C. buy D. have
22. A. announced B. said C. told D. hoped
23. A. in B. about C. of D. on
24. A. think B. speak C. interrupt D. explain
25. A. right B. wrong C. silly D. mad
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
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。
After graduation from college, I started to sell. Soon I discovered that the 36 expression I had been wearing since childhood meant sure 37．I knew it wasn’t going to be easy to 38 that expression on my face left by so many years of hardship. It 39 a complete change in my view on life. Here is the 40 I tried．
Each morning during a fifteen－minute bath, I 41 to cultivate（培养）a big, happy smile. I found out, 42 , that it couldn’t be a forced smile 43 just for the purpose of putting dollars in my 44 . It had to be an honest－to－goodness smile from down deep 45 ，an outward expression of happiness from within!
Let’s see 46 starting with a good fifteen－minute workout of the smile muscles 47 me during the day. Before entering an office I 48 think of the many things I had to be 49 for, work up a big smile and then enter. Seldom did it fail to get the same smile 50 from the person I met. I also found that it 51 people when passed them on the street to give them a 52 smile．
Give every living soul you meet the best smile you have 53 smiled in your life, and see how much better you 54 and look. It’s one of the best ways I know to 55 worrying，and start living. When I began doing this, I found I became more welcome everywhere.
36．A．happy B．worried C．curious D．surprised
37．A．success B．friendship C．failure D．wealth
38．A．wear B．show C．change D．see
39．A．made up B．brought in C．turned over D．called for
40．A．way B．example C．idea D．thought
41．A．determined B．hurried C．failed D．pretended
42．A．therefore B．however C．instead D．otherwise
43．A．introduced B．developed C．discovered D．left
44．A．opinion B．honor C．bill D．pocket
45．A．outside B．upward C．inside D．forward
46．A．when B．how C．whether D．why
47．A．helped B．upset C．satisfied D．disappointed
48．A．could B．might C．should D．would
49．A．ready B．eager C．thankful D．famous
50．A．in general B．in public C．in return D．in advance
51．A．greeted B．pleased C．puzzled D．welcomed
52．A．cheerful B．forced C．strange D．bitter
53．A．never B．just C．already D．ever
54．A．prove B．appear C．feel D．remain
55．A．keep B．stop C．hate D．protect
Education is endless, 3(compare) with schooling. It can take place anywhere. It includes both the standard learning that takes place in schools and 4_whole universe of learning out of class. Though the experience of schooling can be known in 5 (advanced), education quite often produces surprises. A chance talk with a 6 (foreign) may lead a person to discovering how little he knows of another country. People obtain education from babies on. Education, then, is a very broad and 7 (limit) term. It is lifelong experience that starts long before the start of school.
Schooling, 8the other hand, is a basic experience, 9style changes little from one way to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at the same time, take 10 (fix) seats, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams and so on. Schooling has usually been limited by the edges of the subjects being taught.
Even though very small amounts of each vitamin are enough for the needs of the body, the worry people have about vitamins has some reasons. And this has to do with their __1_--- the food they take in. A person eating a good variety of food get all the vitamins now __2___ (know) to be needed.
The problem is that there are many people who don’t ___3___ foods wisely. So the answer ___4___ this question is: No extra ___5___ are needed, ___6__ you eat proper foods. In fact, many of the vitamins cannot be ___7___（store） in the body, so when extra vitamins are taken in, the body simply gets rid of them. It is even ___8 ___ (harm) to put too much of certain vitamins into the body. This has been found to be ___9(truth) of vitamin A and D, when ___10 ___ amounts are taken in.
However, most children are 2 ( face ) with a completely different situation. Most parents fear that games will prevent children from increasing new knowledge and 3the children will fail in the future examinations. So, instead of 4 ( let ) the children 5find and learn naturally from their surroundings, they force their children to take part in various kinds of classes, learning English, playing 6piano or practising drawing, etc. What’s more, some parents put 7the children’s toys which are very useful in developing children’s imagination and practical abilities.
8is a piece of good advice to those parents: 9you want to expect your child to be able to accomplish something, you must first of all develop his ability to adapt to the new surroundings. That cram education can lead to nothing 10a failure in the children’s growth.