When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.
Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young ,black, and male-----a potential ____3____to them.
White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.
Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成见) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.
How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?
My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.
Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.”
The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black too. Why would we do something to you?”
Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.
But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.
A．almost B．mostly C．merely D．particularly
A．social B．local C．positive D．new
A．danger B．treasure C．gift D．neighbor
A．better B．close C．perfect D．superior
A．fear B．interest C．honor D．despair
A．run B．walk C．pass D．move
A．known B．developed C．raised D．located
A．honestly B．constantly C．hopefully D．freely
A．changed B．formed C．strengthened D．increased
A．kill B．rob C．damage D．steal
A．actions B．deeds C．signs D．words
A．writing B．printing C．telling D．saying
A．fearful B．doubtful C．pitiful D．impressive
A．strongly B．actively C．disappointedly D．casually
A．sincere B．mature C．welcome D．gentle
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.
A ___21___ came, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to ___22___ that shirt away, but gave it to her ___23___.” I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
I ___24___ the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her ___25___, “I will no longer work for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life’s ___26___ was something greater.
The next morning she ___27___ with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to ___28___ a university.
After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “You are ___29___, aren’t you? I think I have a ___30___ for you as a teacher’s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of___31___.” Mom accepted the opportunity very ___32___.
For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling ___33___. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal ___34___ in her classroom. The principal said, “We have watched how you ___35___ the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working ___36___ over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you ___37___ be the teacher of this class.”
My mom spent more than 20 years there. ___38___ her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the ___39___ comment made in the classroom that day when I was in my high school. Mom showed me how to handle ___40___ situations and never give up.
21. A. noise B. voice C. sound D. tune
22. A. get B. take C. carry D. throw
23. A. otherwise B. anyhow C. instead D. actually
24. A. settled B. pushed C. picked D. put
25. A. teacher B. employer C. director D. adviser
26. A. purpose B. encouragement C. process D. victory
27. A. went B. met C. worked D. stayed
28. A. visit B. continue C. attend D. prepare
29. A. serious B. fortunate C. careful D. responsible
30. A. career B. duty C. position D. part
31. A. learning B. judging C. obeying D. imagining
32. A. patiently B. eagerly C. successfully D. skillfully
33. A. upset B. frightened C. guilty D. ashamed
34. A. looked up B went up C. took up D. showed up
35. A. believe B. protect C. treat D. receive
36. A. spirit B. intention C. idea D. attempt
37. A. must B. would C. might D. should
38. A. At B. During C. On D. With
39. A. worthless B. thoughtless C. hopeless D. helpless
40. A. challenging B. different C. dangerous D. strange
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20）
A few years ago, I had a job that almost destroyed me. My 36_ was that I loved my job too much and couldn’t get 37 of it. Working for the company was happier than any other 38 . In the morning, I couldn’t 39 to get to the office. At night, I left it unwillingly（不愿意地）. Part of my mind 40__ at work even when I was at 41__ with my kids at night.
Not 42 , all other parts of my life shriveled (枯萎) . I nearly lost contact (交谈、联系) with my___43__ , seeing little of my wife or my two sons. I lost contact with my old friends. I even 44 __ to lose contact with myself. Then one evening, I 45 home to tell the boys I wouldn’t go back in time to say good night. I’d already missed five 46__ this week. Sam, the younger of the two, said that was 47 , but asked me to wake him up 48__ I got home. I explained that I’d be back so late that he would have gone to sleep 49_ , and it was probably better if I saw him the next morning. But he 50_ . I asked him why. He said he just wanted to know I was there, at home. To this day, I can’t 51 exactly what happened to me at that moment. Yet I suddenly knew I had to 52 my job.
After I said in public that I had given up my job, I received a number of 53 . Most people understood me, but a few people were 54__. They wrote to tell me that I shouldn’t think myself virtuous (有道德的). They think leaving an important job to spend 55__ time with my family was not virtuous..
36. A. happiness B. disease C. problem D. fight
37. A. enough B. all C. little D. part
38. A. joy B. invitation C. job D. trouble
39. A. hope B. wait C. stop D. help
40. A. remained B. held C. blocked D. stopped
41. A. lunch B. breakfast C. school D. home
42. A. surprisingly B. likely C. really D. usually
43. A. parents B. teachers C. family D. friends
44. A. proved B. wanted C. chose D. began
45. A. wrote B. phoned C. ran D. drove
46. A. bedtimes B. kisses C. nights D. calls
47. A. bad B. easy C. great D. OK
48. A. however B. whenever C. whatever D. wherever
49. A. as well B. on purpose C. in time D. long before
50. A. agreed B. insisted C. managed D. stopped
51. A. understand B. feel C. remind D. get
52. A. get B. leave C. keep D. take
53. A. papers B. notices C. letters D. reports
54. A. angry B. happy C. pleased D. excited
55. A. little B. more C. less D. important
卷II（共30分）
第四部分写作 (共三节，满分30分)
第一节短文填空（共10小题，每小题0.5分；满分5分）
阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式。
John liked chocolates very much, but his mother__76__ gave him any, because they were__77__ for his teeth, she thought. But John had a very nice grandfather. The old man loved his grandson very much, and sometimes he___78___ (bring) John chocolates when he came to visit him. Then his mother let him eat them, because she wanted to___79___ the old man happy.
One evening, a few days before John’s seventh birthday, he was saying his prayers(祷告)in his bedroom before he went to ___80___.“Please, God,” he shouted, “make__81__ give me a big box of chocolates for my birthday on Saturday.”
His mother was in the kitchen, but she heard the small boy__82__ and went into his bedroom quickly.
“Why are you shouting, John?” she asked her son. “God can hear you when you talk__83__.”
“I know,” answered the clever boy__84__ a smile, “but grandfather is in the __85__ room, and he can’t.”
第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I hired a carpenter to help me restore an old farmhouse. After he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a 16 tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw 17 and now his ancient pickup truck refused to 18 . While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. 19 arriving, he invited me in to meet his family.
As we walked toward the front door, he paused 20 at a small tree, touching tips of the 21 with his hands.
When opening the door, he 22 an amusing transformation. His brown face was covered with 23 and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
After leaving the 24 family, I passed the tree and my curiosity got the 25 of me. I asked him, who 26 me to the car, “Before we went in, 27 did you stop by the tree earlier”
“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied, “I know I can’t help having 28 on the job and in my life, but those troubles don’t 29 in the house with my wife and children. I know I can control one thing for 30 . I can hang them up on the tree every night 31 I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again before I 32 for work.”
“ 33 thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren’t nearly as 34 as I remember 35 up the night before.”
16．A．broken B．terrible C．flat D．fantastic
17．A．quit B．deleted C．declined D．reduced
18．A．ride B．increase C．perform D．start
19．A．Before B．On C．Immediately D．Directly
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20．A．shortly B．briefly C．quietly D．straight
21．A．trucks B．leaves C．branches D．shoots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16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
My earliest memory of dad is grabbing his hand while we walked together. As I 16 older, I remember my father and I listening to basketball games on the radio. I always fell asleep 17 the game was over. When I woke up in the morning the score sheet with the 18 score on it would be lying 19 me. I’ll always remember that.
On cold mornings my father would bring his bread truck by the house. I used to ride on the floor of that bread truck20 he delivered the bread to the stores. The 21 and the warmth from the bread made my mouth water and kept me warm. I’ll always remember that.
My father would 22 all my games. One night before an important game my father told me 23 that he wouldn’t be able to watch the game because he had to deliver the bread and it was a three-hour 24 from his route（路线）. The next day as the game time approached I thought about my dad. I happened to look across the field and 25 saw his bread truck pulling into the stadium. He managed to 26 the game. I’ll always remember that.
Years later I had become a teacher. I’ll never forget the voice on the phone early one morning telling me dad had just been 27 in a traffic accident. I could hear my heart 28 in my ears. I 29 the phone and went back to my bedroom. After that nothing really 30 to me. I still taught in school 31 I couldn’t focus on my teaching. One day I was on the playground
32 a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand. His hand held mine the same way I used to hold my father’s by the last two 33 . At that moment I found my 34 in life again. You see even though my father was gone, he left something with me. He left me his smile, compassion and touch. My purpose was to use those 35 as he did. From that day On I started. I’ll always remember that!
16．A．seemed B．grew C．turned D．changed
17．A．when B．although C．because D．before
18．A．fresh B．final C．official D．opposite
19．A．across from B．in place of C．next to D．ahead of
20．A．as B．so C．until D．unless
21．A．smell B．color C．taste D．shape
22．A．react B．confirm C．serve D．attend
23．A．exactly B．sadly C．slowly D．simply
24．A．drive B．walk C．length D．ride
25．A．immediately B．hopefully C．surprisingly D．unusually
26．A．make B．keep C．take D．win
27．A．killed B．injured C．trapped D．saved
28．A．strike B．knock C．beat D．hit
29．A．held up B．held back C．hung on D．hung up
30．A．cared B．mattered C．troubled D．meant
31．A．if B．once C．and D．but
32．A．while B．after C．when D．before
33．A．shoulders B．fingers C．arms D．legs
34．A．purpose B．pleasure C．position D．progress
35．A．lessons B．prizes C．gifts D．subjects