“Where’s the light?” My dad used to ask me that when I was little. It’s one of those questions that parents use to how smart their young children are. During my teenage years, my dad told me that he thought I was going to be foolish because I at him whenever he asked me where the was.
I consider myself to be a “Daddy’s girl”. Dad never me, but he did buy me nice things---dolls and shoes---for my birthday. I am now 28, and I live with my parents in Baguio, Philippines. my father is always very busy, we still time with each other. We go for a drive in the country. Most girls of my would rather go out with their friends than be with their family, but my family has always felt a bit .
Looking at my father now, I can see he is a(n) man. So many difficulties were in his life, but his dream of a better life kept him . At 14, he began working at his high school to himself.
During his life, my father has overcome a lot of difficulties and he always education. When we were , he would tell my brother and me to seek improvement in ourselves through .
Like a light, he shines with respect, but he sends out the brightest light for our family as a unit with love and faith as its . There are times when my dad makes jokes and asks me, using my childhood nickname, “Sasi, where’s the light?” I just smile, and point at him.
A．secret B．address C．way D．question
A．look for B．find out C．take in D．give away
A．jokingly B．sadly C．surprisingly D．calmly
A．shouted B．laughed C．pointed D．knocked
A．doll B．gift C．light D．family
A．spoiled B．taught C．cheated D．missed
A．never B．still C．suddenly D．finally
A．Because B．Unless C．When D．Though
A．waste B．divide C．gain D．spend
A．ever B．even C．later D．soon
A．age B．height C．style D．kind
A．happy B．puzzled C．different D．strange
A．strict B．broadminded C．independent D．easy-going
A．going B．coming C．smiling D．waiting
A．enjoy B．support C．behave D．control
A．worries B．provides C．receives D．values
A．young B．helpless C．proud D．busy
A．working B．speaking C．learning D．reading
A．showing B．keeping C．imagining D．starting
A．tool B．basis C．goal D．trick
III. Cloze (20 points)
I’d meant to go to Miros that day. I’d packed my bag and was ready. The motor-boat__36__ in on time. The sky was cloudy, but the wind wasn’t too strong for the two-hour __37__. I stood at my window, staring at the boat. Then I lost __38__ of her, an old light-house partly blocked my view of the harbour. A dozen passengers were __39__ their way there. I was about to join them---when a man’s face __40__ at the light-house window.
This was strange, because the light-house had been empty, unused and __41__ for thirty years. It was stranger still---because I’d seen that __42__ before. I couldn’t place it but it was, or had once been, familiar to me. I opened my window and __43__ across.
“I know we’ve met before, but I can’t remember where.”
I __44__ him to open his if he could and answer me. He did neither. The face behind the glass __45__ motionless. Seeing him more clearly now, I knew he was not looking at me. He seemed to be looking upwards, __46__ the clouds. How well I’d known that face, sometime, somewhere!
I __47__ again. “We met years ago. Was it in Athens in the 1950s? I used to live in Plaka.”
He didn’t reply nor give any __48__ that he’d heard. I went back further, to __49__ I was in the navy.” Perhaps we met at sea during the war,” and that thought at once __50__ him to mind. Commander Leftis! He was Commander Leftis of course! How could I have forgotten? I’d saved his life once. But surely he…
The motor-boat __51__ her bell. I turned my eyes. The wind had risen, but she was pulling. __52__. Laughing, I called, “Now I’ve missed her, and it’s your __53__, Commander!’
As the boat drew away, the face at the window faded. __54__ minute it was there, looking up. I could see the whites of the eyes. The __55__ it was gone.
Well, I didn’t rush to the light-house. I knew that Leftis was dead. He died at sea in 1963 or ’64. But there’s one other thing I ought to tell you: the motor-boat never reached Miros. It was lost in a storm, with all the passengers.
36．A．reached B．arrived C．went D．came
37．A．voyage B．crossing C．travel D．boating
38．A．sight B．way C．patience D．chances
39．A．searching B．finding C．making D．hurrying
40．A．placed B．existed C．occurred D．appeared
41．A．locked B．opened C．rebuilt D．chained
42．A．man B．face C．window D．light-house
43．A．jumped B．ran C．shouted D．screamed
44．A．expected B．hoped C．believed D．asked
45．A．became B．remained C．seemed D．grew
46．A．through B．after C．for D．at
47．A．persuaded B．repeated C．tried D．continued
48．A．suggestion B．answer C．sign D．action
49．A．when B．which C．where D．how
50．A．kept B．brought C．caused D．changed
51．A．beat B．rang C．turned on D．put on
52．A．up B．down C．in D．out
53．A．problem B．question C．duty D．fault
54．A．Each B．Every C．One D．Some
55．A．next B．rest C．other D．last
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）中选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes 36 the skies like beautiful birds dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them under 37 .
Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great 38 . They __39 and pulled, but the restraining string and the clumsy tail kept them in tow (拖着), facing upward and against the 40 . As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be 41 !” They flew beautifully even 42 they fought the restraint of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in getting 43 . “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly 44 the wind.”
Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the 45 of an unsympathetic wind. It flew up and down to the ground and 46 in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”, free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown 47 along the ground.
How much like 48 we sometimes are. The heaven gives us adversity (逆境) and restrictions, 49 to follow from which we can grow and50 strength. Some of us resist the rules so hard that we never fly to reach the heights we might have 51 . We keep part of the rules and never 52 high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, 53 that some of the restraints that we may be annoyed at are 54 the powerful force that helps us climb and 55 our goal.
36. A. surrounded B. covered C. emptied D. filled
37. A. construction B. discussion C. controlD. pressure
38. A. heights B. lengths C. widthsD. weights
39. A. crashedB. shookC. floatedD. landed
40. A. rainB. sun C. windD. storm
41. A. energetic B. lonelyC. safeD. free
42. A. beforeB. asC. sinceD. after
43. A. crazyB. upsetC. looseD. happy
44. A. withB. againstC. beneath D. over
45. A. edge B. expense C. mercy D. bottom
46. A. fledB. hid C. existedD. landed
47. A. deliberately B. helplessly C. actively D. hopefully
48. A. strings B. kites C. bushesD. weeds
49.A. rulesB. customsC. wishesD. instructions
50. A. convey B. consume C. lose D. gain
51. A. contained B. lowered C. indicated D. obtained
52. A. rise B. rank C. kickD. jump
53. A. hoping B. supposing C. recognizingD. dreaming
54. A. strictly B. actually C. hardly D. consequently
55. A. achieve B. score C. miss D. set
III. Cloze (15 points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word that best fits the context.
When I was younger, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry. The tears were signs of being __36__, which a man isn’t supposed to be.
But later, I discovered that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain in check and trying to hide the__37__.
My 18-year-old sister eloped(私奔) and with it, I saw how weak my father’s heart was. We were used to seeing him as a(n) __38__ father.
For three days he wouldn’t talk. He would just sit __39__ outside our house in the dark. On the fourth night, I sat beside him and __40__ him to tell me what he feels about everything.
It has been years since I have laid my hand on my father’s shoulder as we have drifted apart (疏远) farther and farther while I was __41__ up. That night though, I sensed my father trying to __42__ his pain and I wanted him to be able to let it out. We all have cried over what happened except him.
The simple touch and my words, “Dad, it’s not your __43__”, broke my father’s dam(水闸). In the darkness, he began to cry. I __44__ his shoulders shaking as he whispered, “__45__ did I go wrong? All I ever wanted was for my children to grow up right. Why couldn’t your sister wait?”
I understood then why he __46__ to be in the dark. __47__ being there, he hoped to spare his family of a father’s pain. His tears, __48__ we didn’t see them before that night, were there all the same.
I saw his __49__, that night when my father cried with my hand on his shoulder, and __50__ his pain.
36. A. weak B. poor C. sad D. honest
37. A. secrets B. tears C. opinions D. qualities
38. A. hard-working B. easy-going C. kind-hearted D. strong-willed
39. A. quietly B. impolitely C. gently D. carefully
40. A. reminded B. asked C. ordered D. suggested
41. A. bringing B. giving C. growing D. turning
42. A. forget B. reduce C. control D. bear
43. A. character B. daughter C. fault D. duty
44. A. noticed B. felt C. heard D. imagined
45. A. How B. What C. When D. Where
46. A. preferred B. managed C. stayed D. agreed
47. A. For B. On C. By D. Of
48. A. if B. because C. until D. though
49. A. condition B. pain C. courage D. trouble
50. A. understood B. remembered C. touched D. respected
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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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 end of senior year is a truly special and wonderful time for American students. It's 21
they will remember for the rest of their lives. My senior year, I can't believe it's 22 over. Now when I look back, it was 23 , but exciting, the ball, graduation, and then, of course, college.
I started my college 24 process months before Christmas. My parents told me it would be smart if I was arranged 25 interviews and tours. But I didn' t have a 26aim. I wanted to go to college, but I didn't want to deal with the stress.
As the days flew by, my applications 27 on my desk just as I had left them three months before. "You are 28 valuable time," my parents Complained. Sweeping away the gathered dust on the applications, I 29 them every Sunday until I finished.
Next came writing the essays. I had many ideas, but every school had different 30 . I changed them until I was pleased. Finally, everything was 31 .
Now I just had to wait. In March, I started receiving letters of rejection. I began to think that I had prepared myself for disappointment. I 32 a letter from Salem State College stating that they wanted to see my third quarter grades 33 they made their decision. Yes! At least someone wanted to 34 me. At the beginning of April, I received a letter from Keens State. I had been35 . Those opening words "We regret to inform you... " made me sit down and cry. I had lost all hope. Then I heard from Plymouth State. Not my first 36 , but ... I had been accepted. Maybe if I get my 37up, I can manage to another nicer school...
The college application process 38 me deeply. All my friends had dozens of schools to choose from. I guess my 39 were right. "High school grades are undoubtedly important to your future plans. " If I could do it all over again, I would 40 it more seriously.
21．A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing
22．A．completely B．finally C．nearly D．eventually
23．A．wonderful B．important C．different D．stressful
24．A．examination B．application C．graduation D．rejection
25．A．about B．on C．with D．for
26．A．true B．special C．clear D．serious
27．A．lay B．stood C．appeared D．gathered
28．A．spending B．wasting C．taking D．having
29．A．worked at B．worked on C．worked for D．worked out
30．A．requirements B．experiences C．processes D．statements
31．A．in order B．under control C．in place D．under way
32．A．typed B．kept C．had D．wrote
33．A．after B．before C．until D．while
34．A．consider B．think C．believe D．refuse
35．A．admitted B．accepted C．rejected D．fired
36．A．idea B．essay C．interview D．choice
37．A．letters B．grades C．hopesD．plans
38．A．hurt B．frightened C．damaged D．cheated
39．A．friends B．students C．teachers D．parents
40．A．make B．have C．take D．Get
完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man. He gained much 36 while traveling throughout the world. Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger and thumb on his right hand. He became so 37that he was afraid he would spend his life 38 and would no longer be able to use his life in a(n) 39way.
One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting 40 . He realized that he still had partial 41of his right hand and could write with 42 . Then, he had an idea. “Why not write to other people who need encouragement?”
He 43 where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters. He thought of people in 44. Many of them had hope of regaining their 45 . Others would keep feeling depressed and remain put away for the rest of their lives. He decided that he must try to 46them. So he wrote to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners. The prison minister replied that writing to the prisoners would be 47 . However, it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
48 with the intention, the man began sending 49 messages of God’s love, hope, strength, and encouragement. He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the 50. He poured his heart and soul into his words, 51 his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any 52 . Frequently, he felt discouraged, wondering if anyone 53read his letters. However, this was his 54 chance，so he determined to continue.
At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, “Please write on the best paper you can afford. Your letters are passed from cell (牢房) to cell until they almost fall to 55 !”
We all have unique experiences, abilities and talents. We can discover ways to reach others in need of encouragement and strength.
36. A. wealthB. faith C. experience D. confidence
37. A. depressed B. embarrassed C. ashamed D. thrilled
38. A. writing B. suffering C. weepingD. wandering
39. A. abnormal B. regular C. comfortable D. meaningful
40. A. presentsB. e-mails C. letters D. prizes
41. A. senseB. strength C. shapeD. function
42. A. affection B. caution C. difficulty D. confidence
43. A. estimated B. doubted C. assumed D. wondered
44. A. hospitals B. churches C. prisons D. charities
45. A. familiesB. letters C. freedom D. conscience
46. A. releaseB. reach C. defend D. know
47. A. acceptable B. reasonable C. prohibited D. considered
48. A. FacedB. Filled C. Satisfied D. Impressed
49. A. holyB. daily C. one-wayD. round-way
50. A. pointB. worst C. degreeD. limit
51. A. sharingB. learning C. gainingD. enriching
52. A. successB. reply C. help D. progress
53. A. curiously B. patiently C. carefully D. actually
54. A. onlyB. better C. extraD. lost
55. A. ruinB. pieces C. the ground D. the bottom