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For some time I’ve had a church member provide me with a rose to pin on my suit every Sunday. __1__ I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not__2__ much of it. It was a nice gesture that became__3__. One Sunday, however, what I considered__4__ became very special.
As I was leaving the Sunday service, a little boy__5__ and said, “Sir, what are you going to do with your flower?” “Do you__6__ this?” I said, pointing to the rose pinned to my coat.
He said, “Yes sir. I would like it if you are__7__ going to throw it away.” The little boy said, “Sir, I’m going to give it to my granny. My mother and father got_8__ last year. I was living with my mother, but I could not__9__, so she sent me to live with my grandmother. She has been so good to me that I want to give that pretty flower to her for__10__ me.”
When the little boy finished I could hardly__11__. My eyes filled with tears and I knew I had been touched in the__12__ of my soul. I reached up and__13__ my flower. With the flower in my hand, I looked at the boy and said, “Son, that is the__14__ thing I have ever heard, but you can’t have this flower because it’s not__15__. If you’ll look in front of the platform, you’ll see a big__16__ of flowers. Different families buy them for the__17__ each week. Please take those flowers to your granny because she__18__ the very best.”
If I hadn’t been__19__ enough already, he made one last statement and I will always treasure it. He said, “What a__20__ day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet.”
1. A. Because B. Although C. If D. Once
2. A. speak B. think C. remind D. care
3. A. rule B. practice C. custom D. routine
4. A. valuable B. useless C. ordinary D. normal
5. A. approached B. stopped C. interrupted D. followed
6. A. notice B. see C. like D. mean
7. A. always B. just C. ever D. already
8. A. divorced B. lost C. disturbed D. troubled
9. A. stand B. understand C. stay D. help
10. A. comforting B. adopting C. supporting D. loving
11. A. move B. speak C. breathe D. refuse
12. A. depths B. back C. bottom D. corner
13. A. uncovered B. unloaded C. unpinned D. unwrapped
14. A. sweetest B. nicest C. saddest D. strangest
15. A. real B. fresh C. expensive D. enough
16. A. pile B. bouquest C. collection D. chain
17. A. relatives B. old C. poor D. church
18. A. deserves B. proves C. sounds D. matches
19. A. challenged B. surprised C. touched D. taught
20. A. sunny B. special C. lucky D. wonderful

It was a bright Saturday morning in the late fall. I had stopped at a café to enjoy a cup of coffee and__1__ the morning newspaper. Suddenly, I__2__ a hand on the back of my jacket and heard someone say, “Hey Steve! How ya doin’?”
__3__ up, I saw a boy wearing a mechanic’s uniform worn by employees of the gasoline station next to the café. He looked__4__, but, at first, I was unable to__5__ where we had met.
He also held a cup of coffee, so I asked him to join me. Very soon, his__6__ and probably my coffee began to thaw(解冻) out my__7__.
Five years earlier, he had been traveling home late on a February night. A fierce__8___ had arrived that afternoon, and by midnight, the snowdrifts were getting__9___. He recalled__10__ a drift just down the road from my house.
He had walked to my house for__11__. I had taken my pickup and a tow-rope and__12__ his car out of the snowdrift and up to the highway where maintenance(维护) trucks had__13___ away the snow.
This has been a__14__ occurrence here during the winter. I cannot__15__ the times someone has also pulled my car from a snowdrift.
___16__, it was an unforgettable experience for him, and his memory of our unexpected meeting in a snowstorm__17__ my entire day.
Leo Buscaglia wrote, “Too often we underestimate(低估) the__18_ of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment(赞扬), or the smallest act of__19__, all of which have the potential to turn a__20__ around.”
1. A. preview B. scan C. order D. buy
2. A. noticed B. got C. caught D. felt
3. A. Looking B. Standing C. Rising D. Glaring
4. A. sensitive B. friendly C. familiar D. grateful
5. A. reflect B. determine C. regain D. recall
6. A. story B. experience C. appearance D. greetings
7. A. heart B. feeling C. memory D. wonder
8. A. sandstorm B. snowstorm C. hurricane D. rainfall
9. A. high B. slippery C. thin D. deep
10. A. blocking B. hitting C. knocking D. crashing
11. A. help B. advice C. emergency D. shelter
12. A. pulled B. dragged C. pushed D. dug
13. A. collected B. cleared C. threw D. melted
14. A. basic B. common C. forgettable D. practical
15. A. count B. keep C. master D. predict
16. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
17. A. covered B. influenced C. brightened D. filled
18. A. meaning B. relation C. value D. power
19. A. caring B. offering C. sharing D. forgiving
20. A. course B. fate C. truth D. life

第三节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项(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。
I have a love-hate relationship with 8 o’clock classes. I like to get 21 that early; most students don’t . They drag in late and look sleepy and 22 at that early hour.
One day I got really angry with it. I was 23 about the topic (history of Indians),but no one else seemed to be. I moved 24 the classroom. I told stories and tries 25 . I got theatrical(表演似的). It was useless. Students’blank looks didn’t seem to 26 . I was about to start a major topic when I 27 down at my watch. It was already past the scheduled end of class. So I just ended 28 .
Watching the students running out of the door, I 29 my books, notes and papers and stepped out into the hall. I was tired and a bit 30 . I had put everything I knew into that classroom 31 but it had seemed good for nothing. Then 32 I started across the hall, a student coming out of the back door of the classroom 33 me . It was Randy. I thought he wanted to ask 34 I didn’t have those test papers 35 or maybe he wanted 36 to hand in a late paper or …However , It was 37 of that. With his eyes sparking(闪亮). Randy said “This is the first time I’ve not 38 a college class to end. ”
The tiredness lifted. I had done 39 than I thought. I don't know if Randy will ever40 how much he did for me that day.
21. A. changed B. started C. caught D. asked
22. A. dull B. lazy C. dirty D. strange
23. A. sure B. curious C. excited D. worried
24. A. into B. from C. forward D. about
25. A. luck B. humor C. experiment D. success
26. A. change B. loose C. appear D. think
27. A. broke B. put C. took D. glanced
28. A. carelessly B. hurriedly C. suddenly D. naturally
29. A. got through B. took away C. picked up D. went over
30. A. anxious B. delight C. sick D. discouraged
31. A. lesson B. discussion C. performance D. content
32. A. as B. because C. if D. till
33. A. ran after B. shouted at C. got along with D.caught up with
34. A. when B. why C. whether D. who
35. A. taken B. passed C. graded D. checked
36. A. excuse B. information C. promise D. permission
37. A. none B. nothing C. all D. anything
38. A. attended B. asked C. wanted D. chosen
39. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
40. A. care B. understand C. think D. forget

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，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。
Education is not only the teaching and learning of 36 , but also the developing of a person's 37 .
Now liberal(开明) education has a great 38 on the world. Much work has been done to 39 better ways of teaching. Students are 40 to have their own thoughts and their own ideas when they have lessons which are often held in the form of group discussions. They are 41 guided to use the knowledge 42 . In liberal education punishment 43 exists. Teachers and students are just like 44 . The idea is of course a perfect one if it can really be carried out. However, it only 45 in the imagination and will never be 46 . We must admit that children should 47 be guided properly. Just close your eyes and think how many students 48 in every hundred 49 will carry out the duties of a student if they are not 50 ? What is the use of advice only if it is not supported by a 51 degree of control and punishment? It is 52 for us to judge the success and failure of this kind of education now, but from the bad behavior of children that is actually the 53 of 54 , we can see that something must be done to 55 these children.
36. A. schools B. knowledge C. books D. teachers
37. A. politeness B. habit C. interests D. character
38. A. effect B. interest C. power D. strength
39. A. master B. find C. make D. hold
40. A. ordered B. encouraged C. used D. driven
41. A. strictly B. wrongly C. properly D. carefully
42. A. seen B. noticed C. learned D. met
43. A. still B. no longer C. always D. forever
44. A. enemies B. quarrelers C. players D. friends
45. A. goes B. lives C. comes D. exists
46. A. realized B. supported C. understood D. produced
47. A. at last B. in the end C. ever D. in life
48. A. it is B. it seems C. there are D. are
49. A. which B. that C. he D. they
50. A. pulled B. pushed C. permitted D. protected
51. A. reasonable B. remarkable C. strict D. small
52. A. easy B. hard C. possible D. proper
53. A. effect B. result C. power D. end
54. A. liberal education B. group discussion C. education D. teaching
55. A. punish B. excuse C. help D. trust

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