About two years ago, I was at a stop sign when I heard whimpering (微弱的狗叫声) coming from inside a car parked on the street next to me. It was very and the dog was trying to get some of the cooler fresh air outside the car. Without thinking I my car and got out to help him.
The car was locked and there was no way to the dog. Thinking of the irresponsible owner I became . I didn’t know if I should the window and take the dog or try to contact (联系) the owner. Just then, I a police car on the opposite side of the street. I ran out and flagged it down.
When the police officer helped open the door, the dog both of us and ran quickly behind the house the car was parked in front of. We the dog to make sure he was OK. Then we saw the dog had run: The dog’s owner was in the middle of his garage.
Apparently the man had a condition that caused him to have a(n) . This one was particularly and required medical attention. After the incident I learned that had I not , both the dog and the man would likely have died. I was overcome with and my eyes swelled up. I realized how much of an effect you can have on other people’s lives by doing the thing. I was so quick to assuming the dog’s owner was neglecting (疏忽) his pet. And had the police officer not have been around I may have just left a(n) on the car after I took the dog.
I cannot what I would feel if I knew that man had died because of any number of things that may have went . It made me understand that things are not always as they .
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第二节完形填空(1)（每空一词，共12小题；每小题1分，满分12分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A girl complained（抱怨） to her father about her hard life. She wanted to 29 because she didn’t know how to overcome her problems. She felt tired of fighting and fighting. Once one
_30 had been solved, another came.
Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He poured water into three pans. After the water boiled, in the first pan he put some carrots, the second some eggs, and in the last some coffee. He waited without any 31 .
The girl closed her mouth and waited,32 by what her father was doing. After about twenty minutes, her father 33 the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. Then the coffee was poured into a cup.
Turning back to his daughter, he asked, “what do you 34 ?”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she answered.
Her father suggested she 35 the carrots. She did, and felt the carrots were 36 . Then he asked her to take the eggs and 37 them. After peeling（剥）them, she felt that the eggs were hard. Lastly, he asked her to smell the coffee. She asked impatiently , “What’s the meaning of this, father?” He explained that 38 had felt the same misfortune to be put into the boiling water， but had reacted（反应）39 . The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after a while in the boiling water. The easily broken eggs became hard after being cooked. Coffee was very unique --- it could change water.
“ 40 are you? ”asked her father. “When the difficulty knocks your door, what is your reaction? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”
29. A. catch up B. wear out C. give up D. run out
30. A. matter B. business C. question D. problem
31. A. breath B. praises C. words D. complaints
32. A. pleased B. frightened C. disappointed D. puzzled
33. A. turned off B. turned up C. turned down D. turned away
34. A. mean B. see C. suggest D. explain
35. A. touch B. eat C. observe D. keep
36. A. bad B. hard C. soft D. gentle
37. A. hit B. break C. beat D. destroy
38. A. nothing B. anything C. everything D. something
39. A. differently B. certainly C. happily D. equally
40. A. How B. Who C. When D. Where
完形填空 I ：阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。(共12个小题；每小题1分，满分12分)
A businessman was on a business trip to Tokyo. One day he went to 29 some gifts for his employees (雇员) back in his country. He 30a supermarket. A lady smiled and welcomed him. He was very touched, and felt good .Because he was not able to 31 the warmth of her smile, he was watching her as he was 32. She was giving the same 33 to all the people who walked into the supermarket.
The businessman started thinking if she hated doing the same thing. So he asked, “My dear lady, are you 34 of doing this job?” The lady smiled and said, “No, sir, I have 35here for the last 10 years and I love my job.
” The businessman was surprised and asked, “Why have you stayed here for ten years, and why do you like your job 36 much?” The lady said, “Because I am doing something good for my 37 .” The businessman found this interesting. He asked, “Why?” The lady said, “As most of our customers are 38 , they spend foreign currency here. So our country has a lot of money and becomes richer. People who are happy with our service will 39_____ more often and spend more money in our country.”
Surprised by her 40 , the businessman thanked her. After returning to his own country he worked hard to introduce the same attitude (态度) to his workers, and today his company is one of the best companies in the world.
29. A. buy B. order C. make D. pay
30. A. opened B. cleaned C. entered D. checked
31. A. require B. enjoy C. hide D. forget
32. A. traveling B. working C. singing D. shopping
33. A. feeling B. smile C. warmth D. watching
34. A. fond B. tired C. proud D. afraid
35. A. stood B. learned
C. worked D. lived
36. A. so B. very C. even D. enough
37. A. home B. country C. supermarket D. boss
38. A. millionaires B. managers C. strangers D. foreigners
39. A. praise B. visit C. talk D. save
40. A. action B. service C. attitude D. help
SECTION B 
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.
Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there were the end of year exams. All the students had been working 36 for some time. If they didn’t pass, t
hey would have to 37 the exams in September. There were usually a few who failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She had worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was 38about her. She was staying up too late. The night before the first exam, Barbala 39 that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She 40 
to wake her up in the morning.
As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried that she might oversleep. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the 41 , she fell asleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn’t answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn’t find 42 to write about. She kept looking at her watch. 43was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, 44 and tried another one. With only half an hour left, she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so 45that she started 46 . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still 47and it had all been a(n) terrible dream. A minute later, Barbala called her name.
36. A. lazilyB. hard C. legallyD. smoothly
37. A. give up B. pass C. quit D. retake
38. A. worried B. satisfied C. enjoyed D. afraid
39. A. argued B. insisted C. claimed D. thought
40. A. refused B. opposed C. promised D. hoped
41. A. herself B. her sister C. tiredness D. pill
42. A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything
43. A. Money B. Food C. TimeD. Water
44. A. looked up B. gave up C. put up D. made up
45. A. happy B. excited C. surprised D. upset
46. A. moving B. laughing C. crying D. singing
47. A. in bed B. in the hall C. in school D. in the classroom
第二节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1．5分，共30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
"How did you do it, Dad? How have you 36 to not take a drink for almost 20 years?" It took me almost 20 years to have the___ 37___to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first 38 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he 39 a situation that, in the past, would have 40 him drinking again. For a few years we were afraid to bring it up 41 the drinking would begin again.
"I had this little poem that I 42 recite to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's reply to my 18-year-old 43 question. "The words were an instant relief and constant 44 to me that things were never so 45 that I could not handle them," Dad said. And then he 46 the poem with me. The poem's simple, yet profound words immediately became part of my daily 47 as well.
About a month after this talk with my father, I 48 a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily affirmations （誓词）with one affirmation 49 for each day of the year.
It has been my experience that when you get 50 with days of the year on it, you automatically turn to the 51 that lists your own birthday.
I 52 opened the book to November 10 to 53 what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I did a double-take and tears of 54 and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the 55 same poem that had helped my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity （安详）Prayer:
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; and the Wisdom to know the difference.
36. A. prepared B. promised C. managedD. performed
37. A. courage B. opportunity C. inspiration D. reason
38. A. began B. avoided C. permitted D. quit
39. A. got away with B. got into C. got down to D. got through
40. A. forbade B. started C. attracted D. caused
41. A. for fear B. for sure C. so that D. otherwise
42. A. should B. might C. would D. had to
43. A. unanswered B.unasked C. unexpected D. unwelcome
44. A. prayer B. performer C. inspector D. reminder
45. A. rough B. severe C. tough D. urgent
46. A. created B. explained C. spared D. shared
47. A. schedule B. routine C. habitsD. customs
48. A. mistook B. posted C. accepted D. received
49. A. copied B. presented C. listed D. printed
50. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
51. A. date B. pageC. matters D. problems
52. A. doubtedly B. eventually C. patiently D. hurriedly
53. A. see B. recite C. repeat D. forecast
54. A. sadness B. loneliness C. disbelief D. belief
55. A. exact B. correct C. almost D. much
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Everything speeds up with people’s lives. People often eat fast food __36__ nice meals cooked by mother __37__. They go to the shop, where the meal is __38___ cooked. They can take __39__ from the shelf when they ___40___ their dollars and in ten minutes eat it and ___41__ their dinner. This is not good for __42___.
People move a great __43__ from city to city, ___44___ their jobs. Airplanes go ___45__ between cities. Every twenty-five seconds pla
nes are taking off from the airports. When people move __46__ the cities, they leave their friends ___47___, moving from place to place. They leave their old mother and father, their children, and leave their __48___. And people become without roots, without a place ___49__ they can really call “home”. This has very__50___ effects. One thing is that the old people often live so far from their children that, ___51__ they become old, there is nobody to __52___ them. Brothers and sisters move far away from each other. They telephone each other. But the families are very __53___. The society doesn’t have the __54___ ways any more, which kept people ___55___ together. And many people feel rather lonely today.
36. A. without B. together with C. instead of D. as
37. A. at school B. at home C. in the house D. in the kitchen
38. A. already B. still C. not D. just
39. A. them B. it C. everything D.
little
40. A. put B. get C. set D. pay
41. A. finish B. cook C. fetch D. bring
42. A. families B. children C. old people D. business
43. A. many B. much C. deal D. far
44. A. doing B. to do C. changing D. change
45. A. usually B. immediately C. constantly D. fast
46. A. from B. to C. in D. aro
un
47. A. behind B. away C. out D. off
48. A. friends B. parents C. teachers D. students
49. A. or B. and C. where D. that
50. A. bad B. surprising C. exciting D. great
51. A. if B. when C. since D. because
52. A. see B. look after C. hear from D. telephone
53. A. scattered B. different C. large D. separated
54. A. new B. old C. easy D. same
55. A. close B. near C. live D. friendly