It was a warm evening and David Fajgenbaum，the 18yearold freshman had just finished his first football practice at Georgetown University. He ____ his parents，letting them know how well things were going. ____，in a soft voice，his father said，“Son，your mom has brain cancer.”
“I went from being happier than I'd ever been to total ____，”says David.Rushing home，he ____ he was dropping out of college to support his mother through her illness.But Anna Marie Fajgenbaum，just 52 years old，____ her son return to Georgetown.
David threw himself into his studies and grew increasingly ____，feeling he was the only person on campus with a ____ parent. One October evening when David was home visiting，Anna Marie woke up ____.She was anxious about David and his two sisters.
“Mom，I'm going to be ____，”David assured her.“And I'm going to help other kids cope with ____.”A smile spread ____ his mother's face. He ____ a support group called Ailing Mothers and Fathers—based on his mom's initials，AMF.
____ Anna Marie died later that month，David started hearing from friends who'd never even known his mom was ____. Some had gone through the same experience. He invited five students who'd lost ____ or friends to his apartment to talk. They ____ to meet every other week and ____ what they were going through. They participated in the Ironman 10K for cancer research，walked to battle ALS，and ran to ____ lung cancer.
Now the support group has 2000 ____ on 23 campuses.“This organization，” says David，“is about one thing：being there for one another. ____ I see those initials，AMF，I see my mom. I know she would like that.”
A．called B．visited C．amazed D．challenged
A．Firstly B．Finally C．Silently D．Generally
A．failure B．embarrassment C．shock D．awareness
A．demanded B．concluded C．promised D．announced
A．insisted B．suggested C．recommended D．preferred
A．annoyed B．confused C．isolated D．pressed
A．sick B．cruel C．strict D．single
A．laughing B．weeping C．lying D．walking
A．crazy B．upset C．curious D．okay
A．loneliness B．panic C．loss D．puzzle
A．across B．beyond C．in D．from
A．tried on B．decided on C．carried on D．acted on
A．Although B．Until C．Since D．When
A．serious B．anxious C．ill D．awful
A．fathers B．relatives C．mothers D．teachers
A．agreed B．chose C．refused D．struggled
A．debate B．share C．consult D．discover
A．predict B．survive C．defeat D．prevent
A．assistants B．candidates C．applicants D．participants
A．By the time B．Every time C．Next time D．The first time
第四节完形填空（共20题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、和D四个选中选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
On a cold winter morning, my mother and I were walking home from a pizza store. We were dressed warmly and equipped with the video we had been 26to watch. I was feeling a little 27 , as I was carrying our shopping bags of snacks and the video.
They were so heavy that I decided to 28some things. So I started to walk towards the garbage can when I noticed a poor man 29his bike out of the restaurant in front of us. He held a paper bag with his dirty hand. He 30over to another nearby garbage can and started 31 it.
I suddenly felt very 32. I knew this man would take all he could get, 33 I walked up to him and 34 the drink and some snacks over to him. The man, with lines on his face and wrinkles on his forehead, looked up in 35 and took what I gave him.
A huge smile 36 across his face and this 37 me to feel indescribable satisfaction. I felt like I couldn’t be 38 with myself, but then he said: “Wow, first someone gives me this sandwich, then this drink, and now some 39 food; this is my daughter’s 40 day!”
He thanked me happily and started off 41 his bike. I even heard him whistling a song as he rode away.
I now 42 what is meant by the saying “giving is getting”. Everyone in the world needs help, everyone can 43 help and everyone will be helped by showing 44.
The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind 45 I have the chance to do something nice.
26．A．drinking B．eating C．dying D．living
27．A．excited B．puzzled C．tired D．satisfied
28．A．pick out B．eat up C．put down D．throw away
29．A．running B．walking C．dragging D．pulling
30．A．headed B．rode C．ran D．fled
31．A．breaking into B．looking through C．staring at D．searching for
32．A．cold B．afraid C．guilty D．content
33．A．but B．because C．so D．if
34．A．turned B．thought C．took D．handed
35．A．surprise B．detail C．case D．return
36．A．disappeared B．paused C．existed D．spread
37．A．made B．forced C．caused D．gave
38．A．sadder B．angrier C．happier D．crazier
39．A．cheap B．tasty C．clean D．useful
40．A．lucky B．busy C．interesting D．quiet
41．A．by B．on C．in D．with
42．A．remember B．understandC．appreciate D．recognize
43．A．refuse B．receive C．offer D．find
44．A．kindness B．eagerness C．willingness D．braveness
45．A．every time B．last time C．atother times D．next time
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with word or phrases that best fits the context.
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gained 36___ to Harvard University. And her 37___story has inspired a movie, Homeless to Harvard: The Tony Morrison Story 38___ in late April.
Tony Morrison, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Tony grew up in the 39___of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Tony was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Tony was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss 40___ a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it. Tony went back to school. She 41___ herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she slept on the streets.
“What drove me to survive had 42___to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night. She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that came easily to others, such as a safe living environment, 43___ herself that “next to nothing could hold me 44___”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University.
But Tony decided to leave her top university for a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her 45___, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me 46___.” Tony wants moviegoers to go away with the idea that changing your 47___ is “as simple as making a decision”.
36. A. permission B. entry C. honor D. confidence
37. A. puzzled B. puzzling C. amazing D. amazed
38. A. published B. appeared C. sold D. shown
39. A. charge B. face C. middle D. shadow
40. A. lay in B. led to C. referred to D. stuck to
41. A. threw B. put C. devoted D. concentrated
42. A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything
43. A. to encourage B. to control C. to persuade D. to believe
44. A. up B. down C. off D. back
45. A. mother B. sister C. father D. brother
46. A. once in a while B. time and time again
C. at the same time D. all the time
47. A. life B. university C. way D. family
Section B (18 points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words and phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.
Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list ___36___ in our past that we felt ashamed of, regretted, or incomplete about and read our lists aloud.
This seemed like a very ___37___ process, but there’ s always some brave soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then ___38___ that we find ways to make an apology to people, or take some action to right any wrong doings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever ___39__ my communication.
Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story: “Making my ___40___, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff (郡长)__41__ of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a trick on him.
After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is a s.o.b.(畜生). The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious ___42__. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one ever found out.”
“Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name appears on my list. I didn’t even know if he was still ___43__. Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few ___44___, I heard, “Hello?” I said, “Sheriff Brown?” Paused. “Yes.” “Well, this is Jimmy Calkins.”
“And I want you to know that I did it？”Paused. “I knew it!” he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a lively discussion. His closing words were: “Jimmy, I always felt bad for you ___45___ your buddies got it off their chest, but you were carrying it around all these years. I want to thank you for calling me...for your sake.”
Jimmy inspired me to ___46___ all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It’s never too late to ___47___the past wrongdoings.
36. A. something B. anything C. somebody D. anybody
37. A. private B. secret C. interesting D. funny
38. A. expected B. suggested C. ordered D. demanded
39. A. improveB. continue C. realize D. keep
40. A. notes B. list C. plan D. stories
41 A. any B. most C. none D. all
42. A. view B. sign C. attention D. remark
43. A. angry B. happy C. doubtful D. alive
44. A. words B. rings C. repeats D. calls
45 A. in case B. so long as C. unless D. because
46. A. build up B. make up C. clear up D. give up
47. A. regret B. forgive C. right D. punish
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，从短文所给各题的四个选项（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。
Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming. Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest
son would 36him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 37 . But Henry proved a 38 . He hated farm work and did everything he could to 39 it. It was not that he was lazy. 40 from it! Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending a gate to sharpening tools, 41he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its dull tasks,42 upset him.
Henry was excited by the development in technology that could __43 farmers like his father from wasteful and 44 labor. But these developments, in Henry’s boyhood, had touched farming 45 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done. So Henry 46 his attention elsewhere. When he was twelve, he became 47in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom. In 1876, Henry suffered a serious 48 . His mother died in childbirth.49 was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he 50 to get away as soon as he could. Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit.51 this time steam engines had joined clocks
and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.A chance meeting with an old co-worker 52 a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. When he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to control his life. Henry learned53 a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand. Every piece of every part had to be made individually, checked and rechecked, and tested.54 the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop. Even so, it was two years 55 they succeeded in building a working car. Henry called it “Quadricycle.”(四轮驱动脚踏车)
36. 
A. learn B. find C. Work D. join
37. A. away B. down C. Over D. off38. A. success B. discouragement C. Surprise D. disappointment39. A. do B. avoid C. Work D. make
40. A. Apart B. Far C. Free D. Aside
41. A. and B. or C. Otherwise D. so
42. A. that B. which C. whatD. where
43. A. prevent B. free C. Take D. bring
44. A. boring B. exciting C. Funny D. inspiring
45. A. almost B. sometimes C. Hardly D. always46. A. drew B. caught C. turnedD. attracted47. A. worried B. interested C. Upset D. bored
48. A. disease B. blow C. Beat D. defeat
49. A. It B. There C. This D. That
50. A. decided B. avoided C. Stuck D. took
51. A. At B. After C. InD. By52. A.attended to B. related to C. turned to D. led to
53. A. how B. what C. whyD. where54. A. To reduce B.To bear C. To carry D. To place
55. A. when B. before C. After D. unless
三、完形填空：（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
One day a mother rat and her babies were out in an open field. They were playing and having a good time when ___21___ a hungry cat came on the scene! It hid ___22___ a big tree and then ___23___ forward through tall grass ___24___ it could almost hear them talk. ___25___ the mother rat and her babies knew ___26___ had happened, the cat ___27___ from its hiding-place and started to run ___28___ them.
The mother rat and her babies all ___29___ at once. They hurried towards ___30___ home, which was under a pile of large stones. ___31___ the baby rats were ___32___ scared that they could not run very ___33___. Closer and closer the cat came. In no time the cat could catch ___34___. What was to be done?
The mother rat stopped running, ___35___ round and faced the cat, ___36___, “Wow! Wow! Wow-wow!” just like ___37___ angry dog. The cat was so surprised and ___38___ that it ran away.
The mother rat turned to her babies, “Now you see ___39___ important it is to learn ___40___ second language!”
21. A. naturally B. suddenly C. nearly D. certainly
22. A. or B. between C. by D. behind
23. A. crawled B. jumped C. looked D. climbed
24. A. before B. when C. until D. while
25. A. Before B. After C. Unless D. Otherwise
26. A. where B. what C. which D. when
27. A. jumped B. started C. walked D. appeared
28. A. over B. through C. afterD. against
29. A. stood B. fled C. left D. cried
30. A. to B. for C. its D. their
31. A. Because B. But C. Therefore D. Although
32. A. as B. much C. so D. very
33. A. freely B. hardly C. soon D. quickly
34. A. ahead B. down C. that D. them
35. A. turnedB. walked C. jumped D. ran
36. A. saying B. speaking C. shouting D. telling
37. A. a B. an C. their D. that
38. A. pleased B. excited C. frightened D. worried
39. A. so B. why C. what D. how
40. A. our B. their C. a D. An