完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
The town I live in is about to put cameras at all traffic lights to catch people who run red lights. It 1 me of how many people I’ve seen who take the yellow light as a 2 to go faster. I also can’t understand why people don’t move when the traffic light has turned green. Above all, there are those 3 situations in which someone doesn’t even 4 that the light turns red, and just keeps going. That is why so many 5 happen! All these situations make me 6 the purpose of traffic lights.
7 ,it’s even more frightening to imagine letting people make their own decisions at 8 crossroads. Do the biggest cars get to go first? Who decides who goes next? So I guess I do like the idea of a system to 9 traffic. And I’ll do my best to 10 the traffic rules: to go, to be cautious, and to stop when I’m 11 to.
It occurs to me that my 12 have done much the same for me 13 teaching me how to live. They have given me many 14 lights: to get along well with others, to listen and talk to them, to help others, and to 15 with joy and purpose. They have also given me some red lights 16 my life goes astray(误入歧途): not to be greedy, to keep my temper, and to control my desires. And there 17 have been some yellow caution lights: to watch how much I drink, to keep control of my behavior, and to 18 school regularly and work hard.
If I obey these rules, my life will be as 19 as it can be. Just as I’m wise to pay attention to the traffic lights when I’m walking across the street, I’m wise to pay attention to the“ 20 signals”given to me by my parents.
A．suggests B．robs C．reminds D．warns
A．sight B．signal C．message D．switch
A．instant B．exciting C．dangerous D．cautious
A．notice B．sense C．remember D．feel
A．events B．problems C．situations D．accidents
A．think of B．wonder about C．care for D．worry about
A．Besides B．Anyway C．Instead D．However
A．noisy B．narrow C．crowded D．key
A．control B．direct C．improve D．serve
A．learn B．obey C．protect D．carry
A．supposed B．used C．addicted D．delighted
A．teachers B．friends C．leaders D．parents
A．in charge of B．in face of C．in terms of D．in danger of
A．safe B．green C．beneficial D．helpful
A．live B．share C．work D．communicate
A．unless B．when C．before D．till
A．still B．even C．only D．also
A．start B．attend C．leave D．miss
A．good B．colorful C．meaningful D．healthy
A．traffic B．light C．life D．confidence
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）（命题人：吉喆）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从41—60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dear Laura,
I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you .
I wanted to do something very for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it it looked almost new. I was so of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.
I could wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon awakening, I went to the kitchen to the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a :“To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”
I was so . It had been a long-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one” was my husband’s .
I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could this expensive gift.
Of course, the awoke, and my son was thrilled(激动的)with my reaction. Many kisses were , and I immediately wanted him to my gift.
As he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not what I was expecting. Then I 57 that he has sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.
Of course I was the proudest mother on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.
So I wanted you to know, that kind of love still and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!
I thought you’d love to this story.
Yours,
Hilary
P.S. The next day, my husband and I bought him a new “used” already shiny motorcycle.
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Everyone in business has been told that success is all about attracting and retaining (留住) customers. It sounds simple and achievable. But, , words of wisdom are soon forgotten. Once companies have attracted customers they often the second half of the story. In the excitement of beating off the competition, negotiating prices, securing orders, and delivering the product, managers tend to become carried away. They forget what they regard as the boring side of business— that the customer remains a customer.
to concentrate on retaining as well as attracting customers costs business huge amounts of money annually. It has been estimated that the average company loses between 10 and 30 per cent of its customers every years. In constantly changing , this is not surprising. What is surprising is the fact that few companies have any idea how many customers they have lost.
Only now are organizations beginning to wake up to those lost opportunities and calculate the implications. Cutting down the number of customers a company loses can make a big in its performance. Research in the US found that a five per cent decrease in the number of defecting (流失的) customers led to increases of between 25 and 85 per cent.
In the US, Domino’s Pizza estimates that a regular customer is worth more than $5,000 over ten years. A customer who receives a poor quality product or service on their first visit and never returns, is losing the company thousands of dollars in profits (more if you consider how many people they are likely to tell about their bad experience).
The logic behind cultivating customer is impossible to deny. “In practice most companies’ marketing effort is focused on getting customers, with little attention paid to them”, says Adrian Payne of Cornfield University’ School of Management. “Research suggests that there is a close relationship between retaining customers and making profits. customers tend to buy more, are predictable and usually cost less to service than new customers. Furthermore, they tend to be less price , and may provide free word-of-mouth advertising. Retaining customers also makes it for competitors to enter a market or increase their share of a market.
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I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors. Almost instantly I loved her. She had an unpleasant voice and a direct way of speaking, she was encouraging and inspiring. For some reason, she was impressed with my work and me.
Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my . She wanted to know how I thought we should things. At first I had no idea how to answer because I knew about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her . It was cause and effect: She believed I had opinions, so I began to them. She trusted me to complete things, so I completed them perfectly. She loved how I was, so I began to show up to paint more and more. She believed in me, so I began to believe in myself.
Mrs. Neidl's that year was, "Try it. We can always paint over it !"I began to take . I had been so afraid of failing but suddenly there was no failing-----only things to be upon. I learned to dip my brush into the paint and create something.
The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was in the program as "Student Art Assistant" because of the time and effort I'd put in. It was that year that I I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design.
Being on that stage-design team Mrs. Neidl changed me completely. Not only was I stronger and more competent than I had thought, but I also a strong interest and a world I hadn't known existed. She taught me not to what people think I should do: She taught me to take chances and not be . Mrs. Neidl was my comforter when I was upset. Her in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined .
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完形填空：共20题 每题2分 共40分
With his leg lame(瘸的)and his teeth uneven, the boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world. He played with his classmates, and when asked to answer questions, he always his head without a word.
One spring, his father brought home some saplings(树苗). of his children would plant a sapling and he promised, "Whoever his sapling best shall get a favorite gift." The boy certainly wanted to get the gift. seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, an idea him: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So after watering it once or twice, he never it. A few days later, he was to find it not only didn't die, but also grew some fresh . Compared with those of his brothers and sisters, his appeared greener. His father kept his , bought the little boy a gift and said he would surely become an outstanding when he grew up.
From then on, the little boy slowly became and confident. One night, he suddenly his biology teacher once said that plants grow at night. Why not go to see his tree? When he came to the courtyard, he found his father was working near his tree with a ladle(长柄勺). All of a sudden, he : his father had been secretly his small tree! He returned to his room, tears his eyes.
Decades passed. The little boy didn't become a botanist. he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt is the best nourishment (滋养品)of life. it is just a bucket of water, it can make the tree of life grow well.
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完形填空：共20题 每题2分 共40分
As I got up today, I smelt fresh coffee. I woke up to a cup of it with some biscuits on my bedside table. This reminded me of , the old school and college days, when mom used to wake me up by serving a cup of coffee. The taste is still so in my memories.
A thought hit me, "I was in bed, so who prepared this coffee for me? Is it a dream?"
I pinched(掐)myself, ouch... that hurt, which meant I was not I walked out of the room with the cup of coffee, my roommate. I asked him whether he prepared that for me, and the answer was YES.
I was relaxed somehow my heart wanted him to say NO, because I wanted to be in a that my mom prepared it for me. The whole reminded me of mom and I her at that moment.
On my way to my office, I was thinking about those days when mom used to cook my meal. I could not any single day when I slept without food. But now, I no longer the food mom cooked.This very thought tears to my eyes and I decided to call up mom. I reached the office and gave her a call.
The first thing she asked was, "Is everything all right?" I was . And I thought, "How the time has ."
When I was with her, I used to call her after every hour when I was out with my friends. In those days she asked me what was wrong, as she knew that it was my habit. My call at this point of the day to her meant that I was in .
Time has changed, she is still the same, and it is who have changed.
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