There is a fine line between a parent who is active and open-minded and one that doesn’t know when to let go (放手). As my daughter, Nicole, prepares to leave home for college, I’m discovering how hard it is to stay on the 36 side of this line. When I hold 37 the apron strings (围裙带) connecting us, Nicole, eager to 38 independence, tries to loosen my grasp. What results is a (an) 39 mother-daughter, push-me, pull-you kind of tango.
For the past two years, it’s gone like this:
My question: “Have you thought of taking an advanced placement class (高阶课程) so that you can earn college credit?”
Nicole’s 40 : “No, I’m not interested in that.” ………
Two months ago, she was 41 to a great university. However, I was still the mother having a 42 time letting go. The night before the introductory meeting of the university, I had read the course catalog carefully and 43 courses which I thought looked good. We met on the campus the next afternoon, and Nicole’s face 44 with excitement. “I have had my entire schedule figured out,” she said. “Already?” I was astonished, 45 she should have discussed it with me. I examined the schedule. Nicole hadn’t taken a (an) 46 one of the courses I had suggested. Every course she had chosen 47 suited her interests. Just then I saw a mature, capable young woman with a 48 mind and the ability to shape her future. She no longer needed her mother’s 49 every decision she made. I felt proud, though still a bit 50 .
I 51 the lessons carefully. Nicole has struggled to learn over the past 18 years: 52 , sympathy, and hard work. There have been a few holes along the way. 53 , she is well-equipped and eager to 54 the future. The next step, I recognized, was mine to take: giving my daughter and myself the 55 we both needed.
A．left B．right C．either D．each
A．onto B．up C．back D．out
A．keep B．refuse C．taste D．bear
A．embarrassing B．relaxing C．lively D．beautiful
A．comment B．word C．concept D．response
A．received B．invited C．treated D．accepted
A．good B．great C．hard D．easy
A．taken B．underlined C．offered D．emphasized
A．lit up B．built up C．turned up D．made up
A．imagining B．thinking C．hoping D．adding
A．only B．just C．even D．single
A．mostly B．hardly C．exactly D．slightly
A．sharp B．normal C．different D．typical
A．encouraging B．evaluating C．disagreeing D．agreeing
A．anxious B．excited C．sad D．tense
A．reviewed B．observed C．checked D．studied
A．ability B．honesty C．responsibility D．punctuality
A．Therefore B．Instead C．Still D．Besides
A．embrace B．discover C．determine D．lead
A．character B．strength C．relief D．independence
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21----40各题所给的4 个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A farewell party was going on. Sylvia Calver hated being the center of any pubic show where she didn’t know anyone. It made her 36 hot and she always felt she wanted to go away somewhere. But on an occasion like this when she knew 37 , there was no 38 to feel shy. 39she had made up her mind to 40 people’s attention for once in her life. Unlike others, Sylvia didn’t have any sad feelings herself at leaving Palmeira Court Hotel or saying goodbye to its 41 — she had left so many other 42 , and known too many people in her life to get upset by such things now.
Yet this 43 was a particular occasion, and she hadn’t had so many of those in her 44. She had put on her 45 black dress and her long earrings. She had wanted to enjoy being the center of 46 for one evening, but now they had 47 old Miss Hutton of all people to give the 48 speech, whom she disliked. Even so, she thought there was no sense in getting 49 about it, for it was the first rule her 50 had given her — avoid all anxiety, take things easy. So, surprising herself by enjoying her own well-rounded white arm as 51 showed through the sleeve of her 52 dress, she took a taste of her drink and then sat back comfortably with her cigarette. And her doctor’s orders worked! For 53 out slowly, she put Miss Hutton off the end of her 54 with a cloud of tobacco smoke, so that she smiled to herself at the old girl’s funny expression. She 55 herself quite well that night, even to her own surprise.
A．face B．show C．room D．dress
A．nothing B．nobody C．everything D．everybody
A．chance B．time C．reason D．use
A．So B．But C．For D．There
A．pay B．give C．enjoy D．offer
A．guests B．people C．places D．things
A．houses B．friends C．hotels D．parties
A．morning B．afternoon C．evening D．night
A．life B．work C．school D．home
A．large B．best C．most D．worst
A．service B．exhibition C．Group D．attention
A．ordered B．chosen C．wished D．helped
A．long B．great C．goodbye D．welcome
A．excited B．anxious C．puzzled D．pleased
A．teacher B．friend C．husband D．doctor
A．they B．he C．it D．she
A．black B．white C．red D．green
A．getting B．putting C．breathing D．speaking
A．action B．speech C．work D．performance
A．made B．enjoyed C．understood D．thought
第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～40各小题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Each age has its pleasure and its pains. The happiest person is the one who 21what each age gives him without 22any time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are 23duties. Life is always giving 24things to a child. He finds 25in playing in the rain or snow. His first 26to the seaside makes him wild. But a child has his 27. He is not so 28to do as he
wishes to. He is always told not to do this or that, or is even 29for what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.
When the young man starts to make his own living, he becomes free 30the discipline(纪律) of schools and parents, but at the same time he is forced to accept duties. He can no longer 31others to pay for his food, clothing and housing, but has to work if he wants to live 32. If he spends most of his time playing about in the 33he used as a child, he will go 34. And if he breaks the 35of society, he may go to prison. However, if he works hard, keeps out of 36, and has good health, he can have the greatest happiness of seeing himself make rapid 37in his job and of building up his position in society.
Old age has always been considered as the 38time of life. But the old can feel the happiness of having come through the 39of life safely and having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, 40the young to continue the fight.
21. A. shares B. enjoys C. chooses D. refuses
22. A. saving B. offering C. hoping D. wasting
23. A. little B. a few C. few D. a little
24. A. delicious B. new C. similar
D. meaningless
25. A. discipline B. duty C. pleasure D. pain
26. A. knowledge B. thought C. visit D. play
27. A. characters B. pains C. mistakes D. habits
28. A. willing B. glad C. careful D. free
29. A. regretted B. punished C. praised D. apologized
30. A. in B. with C. against D. from
31. A. hope B. expect C. promise D. forbid
32. A. freely B. safely C. gladly D. comfortably
33. A. rain B. sea C. way D. work
34. A. bad B. wrong C. good D. hungry
35. A. peace B. rule C. law D. plan
36. A. power B. trouble C. order D. control
37. A. chance B. progress C. condition D. score
38. A. better B. worse C. worst D. best
39. A. battle B. hunger C. peace D. joy
40. A. keeping B. leaving C. remaining D. permitting
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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Liberal education is becoming the task of teachers. It is 36 not only to teach and learn knowledge, but also develop a person' s character. Its 37 is to teach each student to think for himself and make 38 decisions. Now liberal education has a great effect on the world. Much work has been done to 39 a better way of teaching.
In a liberal 40 , students are encouraged to have their own thoughts and their own ideas 41 they have lessons which are often held in the form of 42 . They are properly guided to 43 the knowledge learned. Punishment 44 exists. Teachers and students are just like 45
The 46 is of course a perfect one if it can really be carried out. However, it47 exists in the imagination and will never be realized. We must admit that children should at least be 48 properly. Just close your 49 and think how many students will 50 the duties of a student if they are not pushed. What is the 51 of advice only if it is not supported by a reasonable 52 of control and punishment?
It is 53 for us to judge the success and failure of the kind of education now, but 54 the behavior of the children, which is actually the 55 of liberal education, we can see that something must be done to help these children.
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37. A. result三.完型填空(共20个小题,每题1.5分)
Almost every office has an office trouble-maker. My friend Jenny said there was a woman in her team whom everyone 36 . For months my friend had been thinking about what she could do to get37 to this person.38 she tried hard, she could come up with no good idea.
One Saturday morning, she woke up and had a 39 desire to bake a cake for
the trouble-maker. She had no idea 40. this thought had come to her or what cake
she could bake. The only thing that she had ever heard this woman say about what she
liked was 41 So that morning my friend 42 her day by baking a chocolate cake. After 43 the woman's address in the phone book, she took the cake to her 44 .
You can imagine the trouble-maker's __45 when she opened the door. "What
are you 46 here?" the woman asked.
"Well," my friend said, "it is kind of hard to 47 . I know you like chocolate
and I woke up this morning 48 to bake you a cake, so I did." She held the cake out
49
The woman smiled very slightly and 50her to go in. They spent the next
hour 
together at the kitchen table. They did not talk about the woman's 51or her
behavior toward team members. They simply 52 small talk and ate the cake.
On Monday morning the woman arrived at work as usual, but she was 53 to my friend. 54by my friend, the woman 55started becoming friendly to others.
The change took months, but it did happen.
36. A. feared B. disliked C, knew D. disagreed
37. A. ready B. tired C. close D. right
38. A. So B. As C. Since D. Although
39.A. clear B. funny C. sudden
D. bad
40. A. why B. when C. what D. where
41. A. milk B. vegetable C. fruit
D. chocolate
42. A. started B. spent C. planned D. reached
43. A. pointing out B. looking up C. looking in D. settling down
44. A. office B. houseC. team D. school
45. A. anger B. worry C. surprise D. relief
46. A. doing B. asking C. finding D. Trying
47. A. begin B. pretend C. admit D. explain
48. A. choosingB. wanting C. advising D. learning
49. A. proudly B. silently C. carefully D. gratefully
50. A. invited B. refused C. expected D. ordered
51. A. opinion B.hobby C. feeling D. attitude
52. A. gave B. enjoyed C. joined D. organized
53. A. rude B. selfless C. hopeful D. nice
54. A. Educated B. Protected C. Forced D. Encouraged
55. A. slowly B. easilyC. swiftly D. Quietly
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中，选出最佳选项。
Growing up, I had a scar on my face — a perfect arrow in the center of my cheek, pointing at my left eye. I 36 it when I was three, long before I knew that scars were a 37 thing, especially for a girl. I only knew that my scar brought me 38 and tenderness and candy. As I got older, I began to take 39in my scar, in part to stop people laughing at me, but mainly as a reaction to the thought that I should feel uncomfortable. It’s true. I was 40 the first couple of times someone pointed at my 41 and asked, “What’s that?” or called me “Scarface.” But the more I heard how 42 my scar was, the more I found myself liking it.
When I turned fifteen, my parents — 43 the advice of a doctor — decided it was time to 44 on what was now a thick, shiny red scar.
“But I don’t mind the scar, really,” I told my father as he 45 that I would have the operation during my summer vacation. And my friends, along with my boyfriend at the time, 46 as I did, that my scar was 47 and almost pretty in its own way. After so many years, it was a 48 of me. But my father said it was a deformity (畸形). I don’t know what 49 more that day: hearing my father call my scar a deformity, 50 realizing that it didn’t 51 to him how I felt about it.
I did have the operation that summer.
In my late twenties, I took a long look at my scar, something I hadn’t done in years. 52, it could be seen in the right light, but no one 53 m
e about it anymore. As I leaned uneasily toward the mirror, I felt a sudden 54.
There was something powerful about my scar and the proud person I 55 because of it. I have never been quite so strong since they cut it out.
36. A. gotB. remained C. kept D. drew
37. A. good B. badC. strange D. funny
38. A. trouble B. shameC. attention D. reward
39. A. pride B. place C. care D. blame
40. A. uncomfortable B. proud C. pleased 
D. disappointed
41. A. head B. cheek C. mouthD. nose
42. A. long B. unfortunate C. beautiful D. unbelievable
43. A. in B. for C. against D. on
44. A. operate B. talk C. remove D. center
45. A. suggested B. explained C. told D. ordered
46. A. feltB. acted C. did D. hoped
47. A. unlucky B. ugly C. unique D. necessary
48. A. partB. problem C. memory D. dream
49. A. interested B. encouraged C. hurtD. surprised
50. A. andB. or C.
soD. but
51. A. mindB. occur C. concern D. matter
52. A. StillB. Though C. ThusD. Also
53. A. cared B. asked C. questioned D. mentioned
54. A. happiness B. satisfaction C. sadness D. shock
55. A. respectedB. knew C. metD. became