完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 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 ?” Just when I started to that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t . Somebody had thought 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 Christmas there special and memorable, I remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 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, with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I them that they couldn’t open their presents every child had come forward. Finally the 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(绽放笑容) and their bright smiles up the room. The in the room was obvious, and wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
A．receiving B．sending C．making D．exchanging
A．found B．expected C．prepared D．got
A．doubt B．accept C．suggest D．hope
A．turned up B．settled down C．broke in D．showed off
A．loss B．relief C．sadness D．duty
A．laughed B．forgotten C．loved D．affected
A．highly B．little C．enough D．poorly
A．present B．last C．recent D．first
A．hardly B．regularly C．immediately D．frequently
A．importance B．independence C．strength D．safety
A．kept up with B．caught up with C．put up with D．came up with
A．none B．each C．some D．few
A．special B．fine C．helpful D．normal
A．guided B．reminded C．educated D．promised
A．after B．when C．until D．since
A．chance B．moment C．gift D．reward
A．burned B．took C．lit D．cheered
A．terror B．joy C．calmness D．value
A．something B．such C．it D．everybody
A．from B．till C．for D．by
阅读下面短文，从短文后面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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dawson was an old grouch (脾气坏的人), which everyone in town knew. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious , even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his gun.
One Friday, 12-year-old Jane and her friend Amy were on the way to Amy’s house, but as they got close Jane saw Dawson sitting on his front porch (前廊) and they cross over to the other side of the street. She was of the old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.
Amy said not to worry, Mr. Dawson wouldn’t hurt anyone. , Jane was growing more nervous with each step to the man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown (皱眉), but when he saw Amy, a broad changed his entire face as he said, “Hello, Miss Amy. You’ve got a little friend with you today.”
Amy smiled back and told him Jane was staying overnight and that they were going to play games. Dawson said that sounded fun, and them each a fresh apple off his tree. They gladly accepted. Dawson had the best apples in town.
When they got Dawson’s earshot (听力范围), Jane asked, “Everyone says he’s the meanest man in town. he was so nice to us?”
Amy explained that at first he wasn’t friendly and she was afraid of him, but she he was wearing an invisible (看不见的) smile, so she always smiled at him. It took a while, but one day he -smiled back at her.
After some more time, he started smiling real smiles and then started to her. Just a “hello” at first, then more, and now always plus an apple.
“An invisible smile?” Jane.
“Yes. My grandma said if I pretended he was smiling an invisible smile at me and I smiled back, sooner or later he would really smile. Grandma says are contagious (传染的).”
We’re always trying to accomplish so much, getting groceries, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn… It’s so easy to get in everyday life that we forget how it can be to bring cheer to ourselves and others. Giving a smile away so little effort and time. Let’s make sure that we are not the one that have to pretend is wearing an invisible smile.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I lost my elderly mother a few weeks ago. Actually, my mother had fallen over during the night and had not been able to ________again. She had woken up the neighbors by banging on the wall. The ________ called an ambulance, which took her ________ to the hospital.
My mother has ________ thought that hospitals are a real horror. She believes that doctors and hospitals give you ________ diseases. My father went to hospital a year ago, and after a few weeks, he ________ . The fact that he was also in the final ________ of lung cancer was certainly related, but by my mother's logic, my father's death was ________ with the hospital.
When a neighbor ________ me up and told me that my mother had been taken off in an ambulance, the first thing I did was similar, which was to ring Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The paramedics(护理人员) had told my neighbor that my mother would ________ be taken there,________I was told that no one by that name had been ________ , so they gave me the numbers of two other West Midland hospitals. Both of them also ________ that they were holding my mother. I rang the ________ and asked them to find her, but the nice officer said he could only do that if she had been reported as a(n) ________ person.
It took six calls to ________ my mother. She had been in Queen Elizabeth Hospital all along, but because their computer system hadn't been updated overnight, there was no record of her ________ . My mother had spent more than a ________ in the hospital when it turned out there was nothing 59 with her. I managed to get her out within 10 days, but only by agreeing that in the future, she would live downstairs. In return, the hospital said they would ____ for a social worker to visit the house three or four rimes a day.
Luckily, my mother is safe. Thank all the people who have given their help to us.
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后面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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Being a physician who flies much often, a lot of my time is spent on planes listening for that fearful “Is there a doctor on board?” announcement. I’ve been ________only once --- for a woman who had merely fainted(昏厥). But the ________ made me quite curious about how________this kind of thing happens. I wondered what I would do if ________ with a real mid-air medical emergency --- without access ________ a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. So ________ the New England Journal of Medicine last week________a study about in-flight medical events, I read it with ________.
The study estimated that there are a(n) ________of thirty in-flight medical emergencies on U.S. flights every day. Most of them are not ________; fainting and dizziness are the most frequent complaints. ________13% of them --- roughly four a day --- are serious enough to ________ a pilot to change course. The most common of the serious emergencies ________ heart trouble, strokes, and difficult breathing.
Let’s face it: plane rides are ________. For starters, cabin pressures at high altitudes are set at roughly ________they would be if you lived at 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level. Most people can tolerate these pressures pretty ________, but passengers with heart disease ________experience chest pains as a result of the reduced amount of oxygen flowing through their blood. ________ common in-flight problem is deep venous thrombosis(静脉血栓) --- the so-called economy class syndrome. ________ happens, don’t panic. Things are getting better on the in-flight-emergency front. Thanks to more recent laws, flights with at ________one attendant are starting to install(安装) emergency medical equipment to treat heart attacks.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My grandmother was diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease（老年痴呆症）when I was 10 . At that point in my life , I was ________ as all kids are , so I didn’t think twice about it . I had no idea how it would ________ affect my life , as well as my family .
As I grew up , I ________ my grammy changing . She ________ forget where she set her book , or she couldn’t find her purse . ________ , I didn’t think it was serious . Yet one incident ________ was my wake-up call .
About three years ago , my father and I went to visit my ________ after a tornado went through our town . I went inside , gave my grammy a hug and took my ________ seat on the couch by her side . Suddenly , she ________ me , hesitated for a moment and with ________ eyes that stared right past me , asked , “ Now you’re graduating this year , aren’t you ? ” I was a freshman , so I was ________ by why she was asking me about ________ . Grammy used to well recall the birthdate of every one of her grandchildren . I assured her that I still had a few years ________ graduation and moved the conversation along ________ .
As soon as I got into the car , I started to ________ , realizing how her disease had ________ , transforming my grammy into someone I could hardly ________ . We used to picture my grandmother as the only ________ of the whole family . ________ , The role has switched . Now she is the one who ________ our help . From now on , I will try to cherish the good days and to get through the bad days as best as I can . She will always be my grammy .
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The first couple of weeks in my writing classes are always a bit unsettling.I’m unfamiliar________ the students, most of them trying to________ themselves to their new environment. When Jennifer ________ me with a question on the second day, I was________ for the chance toconnect at least one name with a face.
Her writing wasn’t perfect, ________ her effort was. She worked hard and pushed herself to achieve. She was excited to ________, which made me enjoy teaching her. I didn’t ________ then how much she would also teach me.
One Friday afternoon, Jennifer________ after class. She wasn’t clarifying anassignment or asking a question about a paper I’d returned. ________, she said quietly:“I didn’t attend classes yesterday. I was at the health center the whole day.”I gave her a sideways look, ________.“It was just a virus.I’m fine now,” she ________ me. Then she was gone.
Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be________ a few classes. She had been hospitalized with meningitis(脑膜炎). I________ him again a few days later, and again after that.Her condition grew worse. We made trips to the hospital room. I was ________ terrified when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who,only ten days earlier, had displayed life and ________ in my classroom.
A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to ________ .“I’ll be back,” she insisted. “I have no ________ ,”I told her, fighting back tears. I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: “School________everything to Jenny.”
Then five weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Jenny in her seat, smiling. I caught my breath as her rail-thin body approached my desk,and she ________all of her missed assignments, completed with thought and excellence. The ________ of her will to overcome shone out of her pale, weak, eighteen-year-old face.
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