完形填空(共20小題；每小題I. 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，选出可以填入空内处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Dunstan Cass left the cottage, Silas Marner was only a hundred meters away. He was walking home from the village, where he had 21 to buy what he needed 22 his next day’s work. His legs were tired, but he felt almost happy. He was looking forward to 23 ,when he would bring out his gold. Tonight he had an extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot meat, which was 24 for him. And it would 25 him nothing, because someone had given him a piece of meat as a present. He left it 26 over the fire. The door key was needed to hold it safe in place, but Cass was not at all 27 about leaving his gold in the cottage with the door 28 . He could not imagine that a thief would 29 his way through the mist, rain and darkness to the little cottage by the quarry (釆石场).
When he reached his cottage and opened the door, he did not notice 30 anything was different. He 31 his wet coat, and pushed the meat 32 the fire. 33 he was warm again, he began to think about his gold. It seemed a long time to wait until after super, when he usually brought out coins to look at. 34 he decided to bring out his gold immediately, while the meat was still cooking.
But when he 35 the floorboards near the loom (织布机)，and saw the 36 hole ,he did not understand 37 . His heart beat violently as his trembling hands felt all round the hole. There was 38 ！ He put his hands to his head and tried to think. Had he put his gold in a different place, and forgotten about it? He 39 every corner of this small cottage, until he could not pretend to himself any more. He had to accept the truth 一 his gold had been 40 ！
A．arrived B．been C．left D．gone
A．to B．in C．for D．with
A．holiday B．home C．supper-time D．meat
A．ordinary B．unusuall C．normal D．common
A．boiling B．cooking C．smoking D．making
A．interesting B．worried C．interested D．worrying
A．unlocked B．uncovered C．discovered D．locked
A．go B．lead C．find D．lose
A．whether B．that C．because D．as
A．turned off B．threw into C．threw off D．got off
A．away from B．farther on C．on to D．closer to
A．As soon as B．As well as C．As far as D．As long as
A．But B．As C．So D．For
A．took down B．took off C．took over D．took up
A．dark B．empty C．small D．deep
A．at last B．at once C．at most D．at least
A．everything B．something C．nothing D．anything
A．searched B．gathered C．researched D．found
A．Gone B．missing C．lost D．stolen
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Were you happy and a little worried at the time? I thought so. Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the ______ had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t ______, they would have to retake them in September. There were usually a few who ______, but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, ______ just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was ______about her. She went to bed too ______. The night before the first exam, Barbara ______ that she have an early night and take a ______ pill. She promised to wake _____ up in the morning.
She was not relaxed. As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her ______ kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of ______, she went to sleep. In no time（不久）at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination ______ , but she couldn’t answer any of the questions. ______ around her was writing pages and gages. ______she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write ______. She kept looking at her ______. Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences, _____ and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started ______. Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she ______ up. She was still in bed and it had all been a ______ dream. A minute later, Barbara called her name.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题中所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a ________ over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always ________ . Not knowing we were poor, my kids(孩子们) just thought I was ________ . I’ve always been glad about that.
It was Christmas time, and although there wasn’t ________ for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big ________ for the kids was the fun of Christmas ________ .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking ________ what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved $120 for ________ to share by all five of us.
The big ________ arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and ________ them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开). We had two hours to shop; then we would ________ back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, ________ my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually ________. She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies—fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything ________ we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, ________ to be angry again. This is what she told me:
“I was looking ________ thinking of what to buy, and I ________ to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees.’ One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she ________ for Christmas was a doll(玩具娃娃). So I took the card off the tree and ________ the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”
I never felt so ________ as I did that day.
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完形填空。阅读下面短文，从31-50各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My son, Sam, struggled through elementary school. But his sixth-grade teacher took the time to ____ Sam’s strengths and inspired him to be a better student.
On Valentine’s Day, my eleven-year-old son Sam ____ me to allow him to buy his teacher a big red heart filled with delectable(美味的) chocolates. We ____, and he bought her a small but respectably sized heart. On his small ____, $4.99 was a huge investment, and I was touched by his____.
Sam has not always loved teachers. Once he publicly admitted that he ____ school, and he was ____ with some class projects.
Last year, Sam’s most ____ achievement was having the longest “missing assignment” list in the entire fifth grade. He ____ all year to keep his head above the academic sea. Many nights Sam sank into tears of ____ while working his way through another pile of homework.
I must admit I was ____ when I first met Mrs. Hogan. She was a ____ teacher. She seemed so young and sweet and inexperienced. How was this new teacher going to ____ a boy who had learned to hate school?
As I observed this teacher’s ____ with my son at the end of each day, I realized that Sam’s inattentiveness and disorganization were not the ____ things that Mrs. Hogan noticed about him. She recognized Sam as a knowledgeable, capable student who loved to read. He, in return, rose to her expectations ____.
Sam began to do his homework without numerous ____ or a major search through his crowded backpack. He brought home less and less classwork. He ____ six A’s on his second-quarter report card.
I still don’t know how much of this ____is due to the magic of Mrs. Hogan. I do know that my son loves his sixth–grade teacher, and I think there is a magic in relationships that can ____ children when nothing else will.
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完形填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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 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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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
The purpose of a letter of application（应聘）is to help you to “sell” yourself. It should state_____ the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have _____. It should be simple, human, personal and brief without _____ out any necessary facts.
In writing a letter of application, keep in _____ that the things a possible employer is most _____to want to know about are your qualifications（素质）, your achievements and your aims. The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part. _____ the first few sentences fail to _____ the reader's attention, the rest of the letter may not be _____ at all. Try to key(重点说明) your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer, not ______ your own needs or desires. For example, instead of beginning with “I saw your _______in today's newspaper,” you might say “ I have made a careful _____ of your advertising during the past six months” or “I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives ______ your product and why they like it.”
Try to _____generalities（笼统）. Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now ______. College graduates looking for their first positions often ask “ What can I ______ in a letter? Employers want experience ――which, naturally, no _____ has.” The answer is that everything you have ever done is ______.
It is important to write a good strong closing remark for your letter._____ a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect. An excellent ______ is to enclose (内附) a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your letter. That makes it ______ for a possible employer to get in touch with you.
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