Sneaker is a kind of shoe worn by many people all over the world. Some say that the word “sneaker” is another word for tennis shoe, 36 no one really knows where the word came from. 37 say it came from the old English verb “sneak”, which 38 moving silently and quickly. The only thing we are 39 is that when you put on a pair of sneakers, you 40 light-hearted, light-footed and ready to play.
Sneakers of some kind are used by 41 who play tennis, basketball, and other sports. New design has been made 42 for people who run slowly. But perhaps sneakers are 43 used by children in the United States. In fact American children of 44 ages would much rather play in sneakers than anything else, except perhaps 45 at all.
New York City once held a poetry contest (诗歌比赛) for children. The subject was only “sneaker”. Thousands of children sent in their 46 and praised the sneakers they love. One prize winner called 47 poem “The Sneaker and the World Peace”. “When everyone is wearing sneakers,” she said, “it will be impossible to 48 .”
American school children can be seen every day 49 sneakers of all colours. They put them on in the morning and take them off 50 . Sneakers are 51 washed. In fact the older and dirtier they are, the 52 loveable they are. When their sneakers wear out (穿破), children hate to throw them off. How do you explain the closeness between 53 ? Perhaps another young 54 in the New York Poetry Contest said it best. “A shoe is just a shoe,” he said. “But a sneaker is a 55 .”
A．however B．but C．or D．and
A．All B．Some C．People D．The others
A．appears B．remains C．means D．wants
A．excited about B．sure of C．surprised at D．pleased with
A．think B．feel C．consider D．suggest
A．men B．women C．those D．these
A．lovely B．specially C．lively D．cheaply
A．only B．greatly C．hardly D．finally
A．all B．some C．little D．old
A．some shoes B．no shoes C．no children D．some sneakers
A．photos B．compositions C．poems D．drawings
A．her B．his C．its D．their
A．explain B．guide C．hate D．love
A．dressing B．wearing C．putting on D．having
A．the next day B．at noon C．at bedtime D．in the evening
A．forever B．always C．seldom D．sometimes
A．much B．many C．most D．more
A．sneakers and other shoes B．boys and girls C．children and sneakers D．winners and sneakers
A．girl B．man C．woman D．winner
A．sneaker B．friend C．poem D．shoe
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
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。
Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To 1 this, we started inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it’s fun to share with others — a lesson I needed to 2 myself as well, as it 3.
One evening Danae had 4 a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children’s card game called Go Fish. That evening, after Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, “Mommy, I’d like to give these to Natalie tomorrow. They’re her favorites.”
She held up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to 5 that I didn’t want her to give them away because then our 6 wouldn’t be complete. “But I really want her to have them!” Danae 7 . I thought perhaps she didn’t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone 8 . So I tried again, saying, “Once you give the cards to her, you can’t 9 them back tomorrow.”
A look of 10 came over Danae’s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to 11. But then she smiled and said. “Well, that’s okay; I want her to have them anyway.”
What could I say to that? I sat 12 for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to ask her to share. Did it 13 that our Go Fish set would be 14 ? What mattered was that my daughter was learning the 15 of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to make her friends happy. Isn’t that what life is all about?
1．A．achieve B．apply C．receive D．get
2．A．design B．know C．create D．review
3．A．turned up B．turned away C．turned to D．turned out
4．A．begged B．encouraged C．invited D．found
5．A．explain B．suggest C．respond D．teach
6．A．thing B．card C．set D．toy
7．A．insisted B．recommended C．announced D．cried
8．A．surely B．suddenly C．forever D．indeed
9．A．ask for B．call for C．look for D．care of
10．A．surprise B．concern C．delight D．satisfaction
11．A．understand B．accept C．refuse D．doubt
12．A．sadly B．angrily C．quietly D．slowly
13．A．work B．mean C．remind D．matter
14．A．incomplete B．lost C．limited D．gone
15．A．content B．usefulness C．way D．joy
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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。
Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.
Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month."
But what he _____5_____ most was taking us o t or a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, called out over his shoulder, "You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the ____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door."
1. A. rich B. lovely C. close D. large
2. A. surprisingly B. nervously C. kindly D. proudly
3. A. dearest B. smallest C. latest D. youngest
4. A. ordering B. selling C. expecting D. improving
5. A. hated B. enjoyed C. cared D. hoped
6. A. crazily B. excitedly C. curiously D. directly
7. A. counting B. naming C. showing D. reaching
8. A. Immediately B. Carefully C. Angrily D. Easily
9. A. saw B. missed C. forgot D. left
10. A. truth B. story C. adventure D. accident
11. A. lecture B. house C. office D. activity
12. A. even if B. apart from C. so that D. except that
3. A. troublesome B. careless C. active D. quiet
14. A. found B. caught C. punished D. wounded
15. A. goes to B. belongs to C. works D. plays
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
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。
Entering the drama room I am immediately surrounded by the familiar sights, smells and sounds. Streaks(条纹，线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall ___1___ send shafts(杆状物) of light through the dusty air. I take a deep breath and the concrete and paint ___2___ tickle my nose. I ___3___ everything about this room.
Some of the best times of my life have been spent here. It’s ironic(讽刺的), but the ___4___ is the only place where I feel that I don’t have to __5 ___ to be someone I’m not. Like many teenagers, I almost ___6___ think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears. People only look at your acting ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the other ways people are usually ___7 ___.
When I’m on stage, everything else vanishes(消失). All the worries and __8 ___ of the outside world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, but it’s the excited and tingly kind, not the queasy(不稳定的) ___9 ___ of being different and alone.
I ___10___ love to work backstage and on lighting. I ___11___ you could find another girl who would work on a ladder ___12___ her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me unique and gives me a sense of ___13___ to know that I succeed in an area where few others — and virtually(事实上) no girls — do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it ___14___. Like others, I’m often insecure(不安的), not ___15___ who I am or where I’m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the confidence I get from theater.
1. A. doors B. windows C. roofs D. walls
2. A. smells B. tastes C. sounds D. looks
3. A. hate B. love C. miss D. forget
4. A. room B. office C. building D. stage
5. A. pretend B. expect C. want D. decide
6. A. hardly B. seriously C. constantly D. happily
7. A. thought of B. judged C. taken care of D. feeling
8. A. happiness B. anxieties C. chancesD. pressures
9. A. feeling B. idea C. hope D. fact
10. A. seldom B. almost C. relatively D. absolutely
11. A. hopeB. doubt C. think D. suspect
12. A. up for B. out at C. up to D. down to
13. A. pride B. duty C. humor D. sight
14. A. cruelly B. tensely C. friendly D. mildly
15. A. fond of B. afraid for C. sure ofD. interested in
第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
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。
Friendship has great power, and it can inspire the people in trouble as well as in easy circumstances.
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've 1 just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I 2 to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we 3 hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he 4 with drugs and was into other self-destructive[自毁] 5 . I was blown away! She told me how she had been 6 to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big 7 . I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and 8 by the experience. It had been so 9 , I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't. I put the 10 of friendship to the 11 test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she 12 me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 13 , and then she told me that she had 14 with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the 15 rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
1. A. divided B. shared C. experienced D. enjoyed
2. A. got B. traveled C. moved D. arrived
3. A. took B. spared C. offered D. spent
4. A. supplied B. experimented C. tried D. provided
5. A. action B. movements C. behavior D. activities
6. A. explaining B. speaking C. calling D. lying
7. A. trouble B. worry C. difficulty D. task
8. A. burned down B. turned down C. turned out D. worn out
9. A. discouraging B. encouraging C. exciting D. inspiring
10. A. strength B. force C. power D. energy
11. A. last B. final C. late D. recent
12. A. treated B. regarded C. honored D. valued
13. A. information B. dialogue C. conversation D. communication
14. A. broken out B. broken up C. broken away D. broken off
15. A. luckily B. correctly C. naturally D. truly
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。
When I was young, my grandmother used to tell me stories. I’d like to 36 with you one of my favorites.
Once, there was a young boy. He was very 37 because he couldn’t keep his friends. He asked his father 38 this was so. His father 39 replied, “Son, each time you say or do something that 40 one of your friends, hammer a piece of wood into the 41 .” The curious boy did 42 he was told and soon he made fence(篱笆) out of the wood.
“Father!” he cried, “I can’t get out! I am blocked by this fence!”
“Well, Son, each time you say something 43 to a friend, you can take one piece of wood out.”
The boy 44 this, too. On the first day he took out one piece of wood and on the second day he took out 45 two. On the third day he took out 46 more. Finally he had 47 all of the wood. “But Father!” he cried again, “Look at the 48 in the ground! They are big and dark! Oh, how ugly!”
“Son,” his father said, “this is why you aren’t able to 49 your friends. Remember: when you hurt someone’s feeling, no matter what you do to 50 for it, there will always be a scar(伤痕) in his 51 .”
From that day on, the boy was very 52 of his words and actions and he 53 hurt his friends’ feelings again.
I always keep this story close to my heart. It has 54 me lot. I am always careful not to hurt any of my friends because they are people that I wouldn’t want to 55 .
36. A. argue B. discuss C. share D. compare
37. A. happy B. upset C. friendly D. frightened
38. A. what B. how C. when D. why
39. A. just B. hardly C. also D. once
40. A. leaves B. pleases C. hurts D. amuses
41. A. wall B. ground C. field D. door
42. A. that B. which C. when D. as
43. A. surprising B. interesting C. nice D. bad
44. A. did B. made C. refused D. said
45. A. other B. another C. the other D. others
46. A. few B. some C. any D. no
47. A. removed B. repeated C. replanted D. recycled
48. A. sand B. dirt C. holes D. sticks
49. A. make B. meet C. keep D. stay
50. A. turn up B. take up C. bring up D. make up
51. A. heart B. face C. neck D. hand
52. A. afraid B. careful C. proudD. fond
53. A. always B. ever C. never D. already
54. A. found B. taughtC. lent D. saved
55. A. avoid B. admire C. respect D. lose