When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to__36__ water to the runners, I remember being so __37__ to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I __38__ up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an __39 _. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. __40__ , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining(起决定性作用的)__ 41__ .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt __42__ because I was 15 years old, younger than him but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt __43_ for a second.
But then I __44__ something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had__45_ abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my _46_ was only to finish.
After a minute, it_47__ me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself at that moment. I turned my embarrassment into __48__ .
I __49__ that I would not give up running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare __50__ and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my __51 __.
In life we all have those moments when we __52__ ourselves with others. It’s only__53 .__ Don’t allow those moments to __54___ you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to __55__ anything you want in life.
A．bring out B．pass out C．take out D．pick out
A．excited B．worried C．concerned D．anxious
A．achievement B．encouragement C．interest D．experience
A．At times B．In time C．In all D．At all
A．victory B．decision C．moment D．conclusion
A．embarrassed B．annoyed C．moved D．thrilled
A．relaxed B．defeated C．puzzled D．inspired
A．realized B．lost C．noticed D．remembered
A．necessary B．evident C．common D．different
A．motto B．plan C．goal D．direction
A．worried B．hit C．reached D．hurt
A．attraction B．devotion C．expectation D．inspiration
A．hoped B．promised C．decided D．suggested
A．slightly B．hardly C．clearly D．properly
A．excitement B．accomplishment C．movement D．judgment
A．introduce B．relate C．present D．compare
A．important B．natural C．strange D．ridiculous
A．weaken B．wound C．amuse D．cheer
A．prevent B．deliver C．achieve D．abandon
基础训练篇（6）
I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old. (1)__________ her fellow teacher said that we (2)_____________(celebrate) her 39th birthday! We were all (3)____________ (surprise) and puzzled.
After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about (4)___________ (birth). If a woman is (5)________ 40, or even if she is 80, her birthday is always the 39th. If she is in her thirties, her birthday will be the 29th. And in her (6)____________, it’s the 19th. They usually have their “real” birthday when they are (7)__________ 20.
This shows that American women, (8)_________________ (special) elderly women, are very sensitive about their ages. But my teacher always says, “We want to be (9) ______________. ” so about the age of Western women, my advice is (10)_____________ if you don’t know it, don’t ask about it; if you really know it, don’t mention it.
第二部分：语言知识及运用（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，从各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项。
The guitar is one of the oldest instruments known to man. It 21 originated in the vicinity of (在……附近) China. There were guitars in ancient Egypt and Greece as well, but the 22 history of the guitar started in Spain in the 13th century. By 1500 the guitar was 23 in Italy, France, and Spain. A French document of that time 24 that many people were playing the guitar. Stradivarius, the famous king of violin makers, could not resist 25 a variety of guitars. Also, there was no lack of music written for the instrument. Haydn, Schubert, and others 26 guitar music. When Beethoven was asked to compose music for the guitar, he went into a rage(大怒) and 27 , but eventually even Beethoven could not ignore the 28 .Legend tells us he finally called the guitar a miniature orchestra. Indeed the guitar does 29 like a little orchestra! Perhaps that is why in rural areas around the world the guitar has been a source of 30 for millions to enjoy.
21. A. certainly B. mainly C. probably D. partly
22. A. written B. learned C. found D. spoken
23. A. acceptable B. popular C. familiar D. available
24. A. predicted B. warned C. denied D. recorded
25. A. destroying B. accusing C. creating D. following
26. A. enjoyed B. wrote C. accepted D. commented
27. A. refused B. accepted C. failed D. escaped
28. A. contribution B. challenge C. history D. suggestion
29. A. look B. feel C. taste D. sound
30. A. intelligence B. energy C. music D. spirit
第二节：语法结构（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式
填空，并将答案填在答题卷标号为31~40的相应位置上。
We must have water to live. _____31_____the water we use is clean and fresh, it will make us ill. The animals _____32_____ (live) in and around lakes and rivers must also have clean water. Our rivers and lakes supply most of our water. The clear, blue water found by the first American settlers has changed. Many of our water sources are now _____33_____. They are filled _____34_____ dirt and waste which cannot be cleaned out. In many places, waste is not safe for most uses.
Lake Erie was _____35_____ a beautiful lake. Now it has been called “a dying lake”. Waste from nearby homes and factories has been dumped into _____36_____. Fish can no longer live in much of its polluted water. George Washington once called the Potomac “_____37_____ finest river in the world”. Now its water is no longer blue. Instead, it is soupy green. Suds, from detergents used to wash clothes, often cover the water of our rivers.
Water cannot _____38_____(make) in a factory. Once water is polluted it is _____39_____ to make it clean and safe again. We must learn to take care of the water _____40_____ we now have.
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，共20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将其该项涂黑。
“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect 21 of Chinglish. Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal(照字面意思的) translation of the Chinese greeting with a ruined English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American 22 . I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not convince me 23 . So I did a search on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages 24 “long time no see”. This sentence has been 25 used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. 26 , if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.
Nobody knows the 27 of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully 28 a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用) Confucius(孔子). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world thanks to the popularity of these movies.
Some scholars compare America to a huge pot of stew(大熔炉). All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they 29 the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的) group in the United States, is also influenced some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be 30 in the mixed stew.
21. A. word B. sign C. example D. change
22. A. custom B. greeting C. habit D. proverb
23. A. almost B. in all C. at all D. after all
24. A. publishing B. printing C. containing D. expressing
25. A. seldom B. hardly C. widely D. deeply
26. A.Unfortunately B. Luckily C. Suddenly D. However
27. A. use B meaning C .expression D. origin
28. A. did B. published C. created D. discovered
29. A. improve B. change C. lower D. promote
30. A. mentioned B. used C. considered D. influenced
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为31—40的相应位置。
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City 31 a woman and a young boy sat down __32_ _ the next table. I couldn’t help __33_ _ (overhear) parts of their conversation. At one point 34 woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy, __35_ _ could not have been more than seven or eight years old, replied, “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed __36_ _ (late).”
This incident __37_ _ (stick) in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school. The evidence of a change in children __38_ _ (increase) steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults __39_ _ they used to. 40_ _ this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, why?