第二节完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
A fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach and enjoying the warm sunshine with one end of his fishing pole (鱼竿) placed in the sand.
Then a 21 came walking down the beach to have a 22 from his work. He saw the fisherman and decided to 23 why this fisherman was not working 24 .
“If you want to catch lots of fish, you should be 25 rather than lying on the beach!”
The fisherman asked, looking 26 at the businessman and smiling, “And what will my reward be?”
“Well, you can get big 27 to catch more fish!” the man answered.
“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, 28 smiling.
The businessman replied, “Then you will 29 money and you can buy more nets and also a big boat 30 you can get a lot more fish!”
“And then what will my reward be?” the fisherman asked the 31 question with a smiling face again.
The businessman was beginning to get 32 .
“You can buy a bigger boat, and hire (雇) some people to fish for you! Then you will be a rich man,” he said in a higher 33 .
Once again the fisherman smiled at him and asked, “And then what will my reward be?”
The businessman was 34 of his question and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand? You can become so 35 that you will never have to work for your living again! You can 36 on this beach and enjoy the 37 .”
The fisherman didn’t 38 the question this time. 39 , he asked “What do you think I’m doing right now?”
Not knowing 40 to say, the businessman left.
21．A. teacher B. doctor C. farmer D. businessman
22．A. look B. rest C. walk D. meeting
23．A. look up B. hunt for C. find out D. watch out
24．A. little B. much C. hard D. early
25．A. learning B. working C. sleeping D. resting
26．A. down B. up C. away D. out
27．A. fields B. space C. nets D. houses
28．A. still B. even C. not D. only
29．A. accept B. receive C. make D. create
30．A. as if B. even though C. so that D. although
31．A. same B. difficult C. special D. different
32．A. frightened B. interested C. hungry D. angry
33．A. voice B. sound C. grade D. place
34．A. fond B. tired C. proud D. worried
35．A. famous B. rich C. happy D. lucky
36．A. sit B. stand C. lie D. run
37．A. sunshine B. moonlight C. cool wind D. sunrise
38．A. reply B. repeat C. consider D. report
39．A. However B. Instead C. So D. Besides
40．A. when B. where C. what D. which
阅读下面的短文，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。
Times were tough in our household.My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything for him.In addition to going to nursing school full-time,1 was working three part-time jobs to put food on the table for our family of five.
After a rather___ meal one night,I answered the ringing phone. With no ,a voice asked,’’Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.”Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our situation. It was up to us to decide whether we a voice on the telephone.
1 was desperate. With food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a ?When I uneasily got to a ranch home as ,I found there was no car in the garage. ,lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy （轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman me, not much different than our phone conversation!’’Look around. If you see what you want,_ yourself.”'He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same .This couldn't be real!
I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what we needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man.Be here next week. You’ll of the food by then “was his reply”.
Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for items and canned goods from local grocery stores and folks like us who had fallen on hard times.
I never knew what our weekly menus would be I had “shopped" in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.
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阅读后面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
“I will be a photographer. I'm going to bits of Australia back home with.” I told myself this before, yet I feel so____ on this plane that’s flying me thousands of miles away. I don’t want to put down my bag. I was so ______ _ yesterday, but today I feel like a child. I don’t belong on this plane ____ __ men sit with briefcases on their laps reading newspaper. They’re all ______ __.
I’ve never been out of the US, and now, all by myself, I’m traveling to Australia, a world I know _____ ___ about. A part of me ______ __ it as home. My heart is what’s pulling me there.
I remember little about my mother, but I remember that she had an Australian accent. She was ______ __ and wasn’t like my friends’ moms, who would take us to the mall. ______ ___, my mom would take us to New Jersey beaches, where we would _____ ___ the whole day taking walks along the shore, _______ _ it was October and the water was ____ __ our toes. My mom told me that in Australia, _____ __ was always spent on the beach with friends and family, and everyone ______ __ Santa hats with their bathing suits. It never got cold and bitter there; the sun was always bright and warm. My mom was _____ _ and I was so proud of her.
I don’t know how she met my father, but they met somehow years ago and they got ____ __ and moved into an apartment in New Jersey, where my dad grew up. Then I was born and we just a perfect ______ ___ of three who went out to dinner, watched movies in the dark and _______ __ each other.
I know things have been hard on my father ______ __ my mom died years ago. It’s hard for me, too, which is why I have to _____ ___ the wonderful place my mom grew up in and loved. My mom talked about Australia so much and now I have to see this place that ______ _ me to her.
This is an adventure. My adventure.
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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。
During all those summers as a kid when I worked at Indian Jan’s Taco Stand, I like working with an old Indian woman named Darlene. She would tell me about our heritage. It is important that my white skin doesn’t overpower my native , according to her.
I the importance of my heritage. It’s one of the things I’ve learned from Darlene. 39 I’m a half Native American, you would never guess it by looking at me. On the , I look like my mother—I have her light hair, German eyes, and pale skin. My father is the native one, and I grew up fully aware of the between his skin and mine. People in the small Nebraska town where I grew up often seemed of his dark skin and shiny black hair. He often wore it long and in ponytail（马尾辫）, something that men in our just didn’t do.
I grew up feeling like I didn’t belong to either of my-parents’ and that I couldn’t ever be anything in-between. When I was at home in Nebraska, people would say “Broken Rope? What kind of a name is that？” , in the summer, when we visited the reservation（美洲印第安人居住地）where my father grew up, I would always be the whitest person around, sticking like snow.
I Darlene all of these when I was thirteen. She stopped kneading（揉）the bread and kept for a minute, just looking at me. she leaned closely to my ear and said, “We are all one people.”
I looked at her, “It doesn’t matter what your skin color is,” she said. “It doesn’t matter who your parents are, or where you live, or what you . You matter because you .You’re the past. You’re the future. You both heritages inside you, and you keep them alive forever. That’s what’s . ”
A．preserved B．accepted C．shared D．proved
A．language B．blood C．ability D．charm
A．believe in B．take in C．burst in D．cut in
A．When B．If C．Since D．Although
A．outside B．screen C．way D．contrary
A．chaos B．balance C．connection D．difference
A．concerned B．tried C．frightened D．disappointed
A．hearts B．parts C．villages D．alleys
A．cases B．accents C．cultures D．dreams
A．hear B．change C．write D．give
A．Then B．Thus C．However D．Otherwise
A．around B．out C．together D．up
A．offered B．showed C．told D．reminded
A．calm B．awake C．quiet D．occupied
A．Wildly B．Luckily C．Typically D．Finally
A．confused B．amazed C．bored D．ashamed
A．miss B．like C．want D．have
A．care B．exist C．prepare D．insist
A．defend B．choose C．distinguish D．carry
A．innocent B．alternative C．important D．ambiguous
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at in people of all ages. For example, on Christmas morning, children are about playing with their new toys. But their interest soon off and by January those same toys can be found put in the basement. The world is full of stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone’s passing . When parents bring home a pet, their child bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a short time, , the burden of caring the animal is handed over to the . Adolescent enter high school with great excitement but soon looking forward to graduation. The same is of the young adults going to the college. And then, how many adults, who complain about the long drives to work, drove for hours at a time when they first obtained their drivers’ ? Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which never had time while working. But soon after , the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as as the jobs they left. And, like the child in January, they go searching for new.
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I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty，and I am one of the few people in the ______ who is willing to admit what he did．I ______ murder．I put a large insurance policy on my wife，who was three years older than I was，and then I fixed the brakes of the car her father had given us ______ a wedding present． It worked out ______ as I had planned， ______that I hadn’t planned on her stopping to pick up the neighbour woman and the woman’s son on the way down Castle Hill and into town．The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes，_____ speed．Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better when it hit the base of the Civil War statue in the town and burst into ______．
I ______ hadn’t planned on getting caught．My state has no death penalty，but I was tried for all three ______ and given three life sentences，to run one after the other．That fixed up any ______ of parole(假释)I might have，for a long，long time．The judge ______ what I had done‘an extremely evil crime’, and it was ,but it is also in the past now．
Have I ______ myself，you ask? I don’t know what that word means，at least as far as prisons and corrections go．I think it’s a politician’s word．It may have some other ______，and it may be that I will have a chance to find out，but that is the ______．．．
I was young，good—looking，and from the ______ side of town．I met a pretty，headstrong girl who lived in one of the fine old houses on Carbine Street．She got pregnant later．Her father was agreeable to the ______ if I would take a job in the company he owned and _____ my way up．I found out that what he really had in mind was keeping me in his house and under his thumb，like a disagreeable ______ that has not quite been housebroken and which may bite．Enough hate ____54__ piled up to cause me to do what I did．
______ a second chance I would not do it again，but I'm not sure that means I am transformed．
A．prison B．town C．city D．situation
A．attempted B．committed C．made D．admitted
A．for B．with C．over D．as
A．eventually B．roughly C．exactly D．especially
A．besides B．except C．beside D．despite
A．reducing B．building C．gathering D．rising
A．flames B．crying C．laughter D．ruins
A．even B．ever C．therefore D．also
A．murderers B．deaths C．persons D．crimes
A．chance B．choice C．case D．ability
A．assumed B．regarded C．ensured D．called
A．transformed B．skipped C．enjoyed D．resigned
A．responsibility B．aspect C．meaning D．occasion
A．case B．future C．problem D．dream
A．rich B．other C．poor D．wealthy
A．marriage B．relationship C．ownership D．engagement
A．wind B．come C．work D．walk
A．animal B．dog C．cat D．pet
A．occasionally B．eventually C．permanently D．cautiously
A．Given B．Considering C．Having D．Assuming