阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other , including her“sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression that she's anything.
Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, that she doesn't push too hard on them, really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, and she moves around so fast that often don't realize she's blind.
I this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was excited about her finger-painting project.
“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle with us”.
To my great , my child had learned about color from a blind friend! Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never known how good finger paints felt Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind. It had just never in conversation. When I told my daughter that Michelle was blind, she was for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla . And I knew my child was because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her art work. Michelle had also heard Kayla's in her work.
We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my .”
Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
A．senses B．means C．methods D．ways
A．enjoyed B．found C．missed D．lost
A．instead B．except C．since D．but
A．who B．it C．she D．which
A．guests B．family C．children D．friends
A．realized B．heard C．recognized D．witnessed
A．sad B．satisfied C．excited D．enjoyed
A．especially B．not so C．a little D．not at all
A．paint B．draw C．create D．mix
A．stayed B．painted C．talked D．played
A．excitement B．surprise C．delight D．encouragement
A．attitude B．color C．picture D．paper
A．touched B．distinguished C．saw D．understood
A．after B．before C．until D．when
A．turned out B．come up C．referred to D．talked about
A．curious B．quiet C．puzzled D．worried
A．cried B．insisted C．complained D．informed
A．right B．wrong C．worried D．uncertain
A．shortcomings B．difficulties C．pride D．description
A．paper B．eyes C．hands D．pens
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，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A large cat arrived at a farm where many mice lived. None of them dared go outside for fear of being 36 by the cat.
The mice decided to hold a 37 to find a way of stopping themselves from being in 38 . One day, when the cat was out, mice of all ages 39 into the meeting room.
“Let’s build a big trap,” one mouse 40 . When this idea was 41 , another said, “What about poisoning(毒死) her?” But 42 knew where to buy the poison. One young mouse, whose mother had become the cat’s food, 43 said, “Let’s cut her teeth, so she can do no more harm.” But the meeting did not accept his 44 .
At last, one mouse, 45 than the rest, jumped onto a table. Waving a bell, he called for 46 , “Be quiet! We’ll tie this bell to the cat’s tail, so we’ll always know 47 she is! We’ll have 48 to escape, and the slower and weaker mice will hear her coming and be able to 49 !” Hearing the words, everyone got 50 and they congratulated him on his good idea.
“We’ll tie it so tightly that it will never 51 !”
“She’ll never be able to walk 52 again! Why, the other day, she suddenly appeared right in front of me! Just imagine…”
However, the wise mouse said, “We must 53 who is going to tie it on her tail.” There was not a sound in the room. Nobody was 54 enough to put the plan into action. The meeting ended without any decision being made.
It’s often very 55 to have bright ideas, but putting them into practice is a more difficult matter.
A．trained B．taught C．caught D．invited
A．party B．test C．game D．meeting
A．return B．danger C．fact D．need
A．rushed B．swam C．flew D．stepped
A．questioned B．explained C．suggested D．answered
A．supported B．discussed C．accepted D．refused
A．everybody B．nobody C．somebody D．anybody
A．angrily B．happily C．carefully D．slowly
A．present B．reason C．idea D．excuse
A．younger B．longer C．stronger D．wiser
A．pleasure B．silence C．help D．information
A．where B．what C．how D．who
A．experience B．power C．time D．space
A．shout B．watch C．stay D．hide
A．worried B．excited C．surprised D．tired
A．drop off B．turn up C．get up D．put off
A．gladly B．quickly C．quietly D．directly
A．believe B．learn C．imagine D．decide
A．honest B．brave C．rich D．old
A．easy B．difficult C．strange D．important
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55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。
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 36 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d 37 ?" Just when I started to 38 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 39 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 40 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t 41. Somebody had thought 42 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 43 Christmas there special and memorable, I 44 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 45 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 46 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 47 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were 48 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 49 them that they couldn’t open their presents 50 every child had come forward. Finally the 51 they had been waiting for came as I called out, "One, two, three. Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 52 up the room. The 53 in the room was obvious, and 54 wasn’’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew 55 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
A．sending B．receiving C．making D．exchanging
A．found B．prepared C．got D．expected
A．doubt B．hope C．suggest D．accep
A．broke in B．settled down C．turned up D．showed off
A．relief B．loss C．achievement D．justice
A．blamed B．loved C．forgotten D．affected
A．highly B．little C．poorly D．enough
A．present B．first C．recent D．previous
A．hardly B．instantly C．regularly D．occasionally
A．strength B．independence C．importance D．safety
A．kept up with B．caught up with C．came up with D．put up with
A．none B．few C．some D．each
A．fine B．special C．helpful D．normal
A．reminded B．guaranteed C．convinced D．promise
A．after B．until C．when D．since
A．chance B．gift C．moment D．reward
A．lit B．took C．burned D．cheered
A．atmosphere B．sympathy C．calmness D．joy
A．it B．such C．something D．everybody
A．by B．till C．for D．from
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
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。
Nowadays 41 children go to school 42 few of them have ever asked themselves 43 they go there. Some children think that they go to school just to learn their mother tongue, English and other foreign languages, history, science, 44 and a few other 45 . But why do they learn these things? Are these the only things they should learn at school?
Actually children go to school to 46 themselves for the time when they will be grown up and will have to 47 themselves. They learn their own language 48 they will be able to 49 with people in foreign countries, make friends with them and learn 50 about their culture and history. They learn mathematics in order to be able to measure the things around them and calculate sums. 51 helps them understand something about the world around them and history teaches them about the past and people. Nearly everything they study at school has some use 52 in their 53 , but there is one more 54 reason why children go to school.
It is more important to receive education than just learning 55 .We go to school 56 to learn how to learn. Learning is not just for school but for life. So even after we have left school, we have to continue to learn. A man who 57 knows how to learn will always be 58 because whenever he is faced with a completely new task or problem, he will teach himself how to deal with it in the best way. 59 , children do not go to school just to learn languages, mathematics, geography, etc. They go to school to 60 how to learn.
A．some B．most C．few D．all
A．but B．so C．and D．because
A．how B．when C．why D．that
A．cooking B．sowing C．playing D．geography
A．subjects B．skills C．languages D．games
A．make B．prepare C．teach D．study
A．teach B．support C．live D．work
A．and B．in order to C．so as to D．so that
A．communicate B．work C．talk D．study
A．everything B．anything C．something D．nothing
A．Foreign languages B．Mathematics C．History D．Geography
A．practical B．special C．different D．importance
A．work B．lives C．study D．communication
A．difficult B．unusual C．important D．kind
A．foreign languages B．science C．mathematics D．facts
A．above all B．at all C．in all D．for all
A．doesn’t B．never C．really D．may
A．unsuccessful B．calm C．successful D．useful
A．Although B．But C．However D．Therefore
A．begin B．work C．live D．learn
完型填空（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各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would 36 him for hours．He would 37 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 38 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move 39 into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 40 “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．
The bird had a very particular significance to me 41 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 42 was impossible．And most of the things that I 43 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．
When I was ten years old, something unexpected 44 my life suddenly．I found myself become an 45 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 46 position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 47 two cultures．
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what 48 people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very 49 with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a 50 , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more 51 when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．
As I 52 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 53 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I 54 that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 55 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．
A．keep B．watch C．follow D．search
A．jump B．dive C．circle D．wander
A．nest B．hill C．water D．road
A．quickly B．naturally C．freely D．quietly
A．means B．reads C．shows D．states
A．though B．because C．while D．until
A．communication B．imagination C．belief D．flight
A．dreamed B．worried C．knew D．argued
A．improved B．enriched C．changed D．ruined
A．educated B．adopted C．outgoing D．independent
A．weak B．comfortable C．terrible D．central
A．between B．against C．without D．beyond
A．most B．few C．their D．my
A．desperate B．bored C．uncomfortable D．disappointed
A．noise B．call C．decision D．choice
A．ashamed B．confused C．embarrassed D．frightened
A．tried B．came C．determined D．expected
A．evidence B．distinction C．profit D．sense
A．identified B．confirmed C．realized D．predicted
A．concepts B．regulations C．messages D．evaluations
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。
When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against becoming a brewer (造酒人). He’d 36 his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, 37 had his father and grandfather before him. He didn’t want me 38 near a vat (酿酒用的桶) of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good 39 , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that 40 me to study law and business at the same time.
In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d 41 done anything but go to school. So, at 24 I decided to drop out. 42 , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t 43 till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to 44 . I finished Harvard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I 45 , “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?” At that time, Americans spent good money on beer in 46 quality. Why not make good beer for 47 ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become 48 . When I told Dad, he was 49 , but in the end he 50 me. I called my beer Samuel Adams, 51 the brewer and patriot (爱国者) who helped to start the Boston Tea Party. 52 I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get the 53 out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager (淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined (注定) to be a brewer. My 54 to the young is simple: Life is very 55 , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.
A．cost B．spent C．taken D．paid
A．like B．as if C．so D．nor
A．anywhere、 B．anyway C．anyhow D．somewhere
A．habits B．teachers C．grades D．work
A．promised B．convinced C．advised D．allowed
A．never B．ever C．always D．hardly
A．Fortunately B．Obviously C．Possibly D．Surprisingly
A．assure B．decline C．deny D．wait
A．school B．Colorado C．my home D．my decision
A．thrilled B．stressed C．wondered D．sneezed
A．cheap B．expensive C．low D．high
A．Englishmen B．Europeans C．the world D．Americans
A．a lawyer B．a brewer C．an instructor D．an engineer
A．astonished B．satisfied C．interested D．anxious
A．hated B．supported C．raised D．left
A．for B．at C．in D．after
A．Therefore B．Otherwise C．Also D．Yet
A．price B．name C．company D．party
A．advice B．life C．job D．experience
A．hard B．busy C．short D．long