I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.
As I _ _ my car, I saw one of my _ _ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _ _, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _ _ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _ _ I would be able to find my way back.
We _ _ about our work as I drove and _ _ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _ _ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _ _ me. But soon I _ _ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _ _.
I was _ _ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _ _. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _ _ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _ _. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _ _ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _ _, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _ _ rolled his window down.
I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _ _ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _ _ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.
A.discovered B.approached C.parked D.searched
A.patients B.classmates C.students D.workmates
A.yet B.still C.but D.besides
A.night B.morning C.afternoon D.noon
A.afraid B.happy C.confident D.sorry
A.worried B.cared C.talked D.explored
A.before B.if C.as D.though
A.Everything B.Nothing C.Anything D.Something
A.attract B.delight C.bother D.enjoy
A.escaped B.existed C.imagined D.realized
A.quiet B.calm C.silent D.brave
A.across B.over C.within D.beyond
A.wheel B.engine C.watch D.seat
A.drove B.deserted C.washed D.stopped
A.helpless B.excited C.satisfied D.delighted
A.shadow B.truck C.lady D.animal
A.faster B.nervously C.closer D.back
A.unlikely B.slowly C.carefully D.equally
A.came B.mistook C.recognized D.missed
A.pulled into B.drove away C.ran across D.fount out
Ⅱ 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,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—30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。
When I first started to read “Pride and Prejudice”, I thought the novel was going to be the same old 21 “love story”. However, after reading the first few pages I began to be 22 that it wasn’t that sort of story, instead it had an interesting insight (洞察力) on marriage, family and social status. I 23 that the time frame was somewhere back in the late 1800’s. This assumption was just a fact that I took for granted because there was no date 24 in any part of the novel. From what I got in the class 25 , this story is supposed to be a timeless piece that can be framed with any time period. This was one thing I would have never picked up by myself.
The 26 in the story each have their own unique roles, and if you didn’t really take the time to read it 27 the first time, chances are you will 28 a lot of information about them. This was what happened to me when I read the story and came to class the next day. Not until then did I 29 that I had not read it as clear as I had thought. This is also where the discussion helped me catch up on the character roles. Reading again the parts that I thought were important also helped me gain a better 30 of the story.
21. A. exciting B. interesting C. inspiring D. boring
22. A. aware B. afraid C. curious D. puzzled
23. A. recommended B. assumed C. calculated D. recognized
24. A. written B. published C. signed D. mentioned
25. A. meeting B. discussion C. performance D. activities
26. A. surroundings B. incidents C. heroes D. characters
27. A. quickly B. hardly C. carefully D. totally
28. A. miss B. lose C. acquire D. receive
29. A. claim B. declare C. realize D. assume
30. A. knowledge B. understanding C. view D. evaluation
Ⅱ 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,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—30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。
Being probably the most complex female character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ophelia deserves special attention because she is treated as a substitute for Stowe’s intended audience. Ophelia 21 what Mrs Stowe, the author, considered a widespread Northern problem: the white person who opposes slavery but feels 22 prejudice and hatred in the presence of a black slave. Ophelia hates slavery, but she considers it almost 23 for blacks, against whom she harbors a deep-seated prejudice. And she doesn’t want them to touch her. Stowe stresses that much of Ophelia’s prejudice 24 from unfamiliarity and ignorance rather than from actual 25 . Because Ophelia has seldom spent time along with 26 , she finds them uncomfortably alien (不相容) to her.
But Ophelia seems to be one of the only characters in the novel whose character 27 as the story progresses. Once St. Clare puts Topsy in her care, Ophelia is forced to be in 28 with a slave. At first she begins to teach Topsy 29 out of duty. But Stowe suggests that duty alone will not root out slavery and that those against slavery must act out of love. Eva’s death leads to Ophelia’s change, and she comes to love Topsy as an actual human being and not just a slave. She 30 her racial prejudice and offers herself as a model to Stowe’s Northern readers.
21. A. reflects B. supposes C. suspects D. provides
22. A. various B. arbitrary C. racial D. awful
23. A. impossible B. necessary C. unfair D. important
24. A. suffers B. differs C. releases D. results
25. A. practice B. performance C. experience D. application
26. A. slaves B. readers C. Stowe D. characters
27. A. increases B. disappears C. refreshes D. develops
28. A. trouble B. danger C. contact D. comparison
29. A. hardly B. merely C. specially D. properly
30. A. hides B. overcomes C. reserves D. prohibits
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21-35各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Every person needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should contain some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.
People need energy 21 . They eat different kinds of food which change into energy. The energy is 22 in calories(卡). Even when you 23, you are using energy – about 65 calories an hour. 24 you are at school, or walking home, your body is burning up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you 25 be using 400 calories an hour. On Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, 26 as much as 650 calories an hour.
The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is 27 in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than many other countries in the world. That is 28 lots of people in China have healthy white teeth.
People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat 29 fat and sugar and don’t take enough 30 . Because of this, they 31 weight very easily. Their diet contains a lot of 32 in the form of potato crisps, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate. They eat a lot of sugar which exist in cakes, soft drinks, 33 and so on. The result is that many of them become fat. 34 some have bad teeth. In some parts of Britain, one person in ten, 35 the age of thirty, has no teeth left.
21. A. to sleep B. to live C. to eat D .to walk
22. A. measuring B. taken C. measured D. measure
23. A. are asleep B. have a dream C. have a rest D. go to bed
24. A. While B. During C. As D. If
25. A. must B. should C. need D. might
26. A. surely B. ever C. perhaps D. seldom
27. A. rich B. poor C. good D. bad
28. A. how B. why C. what D. that
29. A. much too B. many too C. too many D. too much
30. A. activities B. food C. work D. exercise
31. A. put on B. gain on C. get on D. put up
32. A. sugar B.fat C. salt D. fiber
33. A. sweets B. vegetables C. meat D. potato
34. A. But B. Or C. And D. As
35. A. during B. for C. with D. by
Ⅱ 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,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21~30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 television first began to expand, very few of the people who had become famous as 21 announcers were able to be equally effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when they were trying to 22 themselves to the new medium were technical. When 23 on radio, for example, they had become 24 to seeing on behalf of the listener. This art of seeing for others 25 that be announcer has to be very good at talking. In the case of television, however the announcer sees 26 with the viewer. His duty, 27 , is completely different. He is there to make sure that the viewer does not 28 any point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to help him 29 the images on the television screen. 30 his radio colleague, he must know the value of silence and how to use it at those moments when the pictures speak for himself.
21. A.television B.advertisement C.radio D.newspaper
22. A.adopt B.adjust C.change D.shape
23. A.working B.listening C.appearing D.showing
24. A.practiced B.experienced C.determined D.used
25. A.guarantees B.means C.convinces D.warns
26. A.something B.Everything C.nothing D.anything
27. A.Moreover B.therefore C.furthermore D.nevertheless
28. A.miss B.ignore C.drop D.catch
29. A.reveal B.expose C.understand D.translate
30. A.Like B. Beside C.Unlike D.As
第二节:完型填空(共20 小题;每小题1分;满分20分)
She was a four-year-old girl with very fine golden hair when I first met her. She was carrying a bowl of soup. I was 29 at that time and 11 from the flu.
Her mom and I had been friends for years. 12 that friendship grew into care, from care into 13 and marriage. Marriage brought the three of us together as a 14 . At first I was afraid to be a “stepfather”. Therefore, I tried not to come 15 my future daughter and her 16 father. I acted in that way in order to be liked. However, 17 she was growing up, I found it increasingly hard to 18 with her.
Once her school required the parents to individually(个别的) write an open and 19 letter to our children. I wrote a letter about a little golden-haired girl who had 20 me a bowl of soup when I needed 21 .
A week later, all the parents 22 together with our children. The students were allowed to make a few statements. I was 23 to hear what my daughter would say.
Finally my daughter 24 make her way up to the microphone. She said something like others and then 25 , “At this very moment, I just want to say …I love you, Father.”
Immediately people around me started 26 at me. For a teenage girl to say 27 in front of so many people, “I love you,” took a great deal of courage.
Since then I have 28 to understand I didn’t need to have any 29 about being a stepfather. I can still 30 honest love with the same little girl I met so many years before - carrying a bowl full of what turned out to be kindness. I can also be friends with the girl - my dear daughter.
11. A. hurting B. attacking C. suffering D. experiencing
12. A. Immediately B. Finally C. Especially D. Generally
13. A. like B. pleasure C. excitement D. love
14. A. union B. group C. family D. whole
15. A. between B. among C. from D. for
16. A. natural B. following C. untrue D. old
17. A. after B. as C. with D. before
18. A. connect B. share C. communicate D. argue
19. A. honest B. formal C. powerful D. responsible
20. A. taken B. shown C. shared D. brought
21. A. cure B. care C. help D. friend
22. A. presented B. invited C. gathered D. asked
23. A. glad B. hopeful C. serious D. anxious
24. A. determinedly B. independently C. patiently D. unexpectedly
25. A. lasted B. declared C. continued D. responded
26. A. hugging B. smiling C. kissing D. celebrating
27. A. quietly B. openly C. brightly D. attractively
28. A. used B. stepped C. desired D. come
29. A. courage B. fear C. happiness D. idea
30. A. exchange B. send C. expect D. fall