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。
A Japanese farmer bought a big foreign tractor to grow his corn and apples in northern Japan. The giant tractor __ _the waste land into fields at an amazing speed.___ __, he was troubled by the damage caused by raccoon dogs .Just when the sweet corn was ready to be____ __,it was ruined.
“I placed___ ___in several places around the fields,but ended up trapping a young raccoon dog. The mother stayed next to it,and didn’t_____ __when I approached. When I tried _____ ___ out to release the trap,the young raccoon dog bared its _____ ___and got really upset. It seems cruel,but I held its head down with my rubber boot _____ ____I released it from the trap. It didn’t run away,though. Right in front of ____ __, the mother started licking the young one’s ___ ____ leg. Seeing that, I felt committed an awful crime. “
“I_____ ____told them ‘Stop eating our corny But then I started leaving small piles of second rate corn around the ____ __of the fields. They’re not good enough to sell. The next morning when I went to the fields, they’d completely _____ __. But the raccoon dogs had caused ___ ___more damage at all. So at harvest time I decided to ____ ___using the traps and put out the corncobs without kernels .After that,__ ___ by the raccoon dogs stopped almost completely. So I figured that farmers suffer this sort of damage because they ___ _ _everything. After all,we,d turned what used to__ _ the raccoon dogs into fields. I worried that if I actually fed them,the raccoon dogs would even more __ _ ,but that didn’t happen.
I suppose you could say that my eyes were opened to the mysteries of nature. Anyway,I realized that nature didn’t work in the __ _ that most people thought.”
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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21-35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。
You need to know when the events of a text take place. This will help you to see the __21__ of the text — the reason things happen in a certain order. Some texts 22a period of many years, like Wuthering Heights. Others go through a __23__ period of time — many poems try to capture one moment in time. Narrators (讲述者) can be immediate eyewitness, or they may be __24 the past. Some texts present two views of events: an eyewitness version, and a second version, __25__ on the same events much later. This happens in Great Expectations, where the narrator, Pip, sometimes speaks and acts like a __26__, and sometimes like a mature adult. Look out for the __27__ that the events fit together, and how they are caused. This is called the plot—the story of the text. Action in a text is either__28__, or happens by chance. Take notes on how the action is described, eg. if the tone is angry or __29__ . Try to work out how the language of the passage is being used to create the tone, the characters and the descriptions. You should also ask why the text has been written in the way it has — your notes on who, what, when, where and how will help you to 30 your own conclusions.
21. A. structure B. content C. character D. substance
22. A. containB. discover C. cover D. hold
23. A. hard B. difficult C. long D. short
24. A. looking forward to B. looking out for C. looking back on D. looking after
25. A. relaying B. including C. writing D. reflecting
26. A. boy B. child C. girl D. student
27. A. way B. time C. place D. action
28. A. accurate B. considerate C. desperate D. deliberate
29. A. wonderful B. joyful C. thankful D. painful
30. A. hitB. come C. draw D. find
完形填空（共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15分）
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。
Nearly twenty years has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. And almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father 36him to a fur (毛皮)factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression(大萧条). The 37was to get James a job.
He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the walls had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 38were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 39the air thicker, and the workers, sewing the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 40the boss marched up and down the rows, shouting and forcing them to go faster. James could hardly 41. He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t 42at him, either.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 43 if there was any work for his son. But unfortunately, the answer was “no”, because at that time no one would__44___ it up once he takes a job.
However, for James, it was a blessing(福气) . He hated the place. He made a(an) 45that he would never do any work that brought 46to someone else, and that he would never allow himself to 47money from others who would lose their jobs for him.
“What will you do?” his mother , Eva , would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he would say. He ruled out（排除）law, because he didn’t like 48, and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the 49of blood.
50__, my best professor became a teacher, he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.
36．A．sent B．took C．carriedD．admitted
37．A．situation B．condition C． aim D．way
38．A．goods B．workers C．machines D．vehicles
39．A．making B．sending C．taking D．breaking
40．A．as B．after C．ifD．though
41．A．breathe B．see C．walk D．hear
42．A．attack B．laugh C．rush D．shout
43．A．doubting B．questioning C．asking D．begging
44．A．pick B． give C． comeD． turn
45．A．request B．promise C．plan D．arrangement
46．A．harm B．injury C．damage D．convenience
47．A．pay B．save C．earn D．let
48．A．police B．lawyers C．doctors D．government
49．A．sight B．feel C．sense D．scenery
50．A．Generally B．Possibly C．Eventually D．Basically
Ⅲ．完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
Tom is a worker in my factory and he is a little bit dirty．I have been taking 36of him for years and years, he always wears an old red hat and carries a 37bag．He usually spends his break time and his lunchtime by walking around to 38the unused tins around．
Once I saw him by his 39, with a lot of rubbish bags, which were full of aluminum（铝） tins．He threw them into the back of his car and then 40the car．Being very curious, I got into my car to 41him．He drove 42he reached the entrance to a wide, empty parking area, but did nothing more．
Today, I was 43one of the broken machines during lunchtime when this“tin man”came along with his bag．As usual, he 44the tins around the place．My 45, who was worried about how the 46caused by the machine would affect production, was standing there watching me．
When I finished my job, my manager asked the “tin man” about what he would 47the tin that he had collected．I had 48even though about asking this kind of question, 49I had always thought that this “tin man” would sell the 50to the recycling place
51,this “tin man” answered, “I will give them to my neighbor, 52has epilepsy（癫痫病） and is unable to work．” I was 53to hear this, and I asked him, “You 54you are collecting all those tins just to help your neighbor?”
“I know it doesn’t help very much,” he said, “ 55I try my best to help him．” It was the most beautiful moment in my life and made me feel very humble（卑鄙的）．
36．A．hold B．care C．charge D．notice
37．A．plastic B．rubbish C．paper D．metal
38．A．collect B．find C．hide D．spread
39．A．house B．store C．machine D．car
40．A．got out of B．broke up C．jumped into D．settled down
41．A．follow B．block C．inspect D．catch
42．A．since B．until C．when D．after
43．A．decorating B．performing C．repairing D．selecting
44．A．turned up B．put up C．set up D．picked up
45．A．manager B．workmate C．neighbor D．friend
46．A．power B．delay C．signal D．harm
47．A．do with B．deal with C．go with D．put up with
48．A．seldom B．always C．nearly D．never
49．A．unless B．because C．though D．if
50．A．machine B．cars C．tins D．bags
51．A．Certainly B．Briefly C．Surprisingly D．Fortunately
52．A．who B．whom C．which D．that
53．A．shocked B．interested C．satisfied D．concerned
54．A．announce B．mean C．say D．declare
55．A．instead B．however C．but D．and
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A young school teacher had a dream that an angel appeared to him and said, “You will be given a child who will grow up to become a world 36. How will you prepare her so that she will realize her intelligence, grow in confidence, develop both her confidence and sensitivity, be open-minded, yet 37in character? In short, what kind of education will you 38so that she can become one of the world's truly great leaders?”
The young teacher 39in a cold sweat. It had never occurred to him before ---any one of his present or future students could be the person 40in his dream. Was he preparing them to rise to any position which they may 41? He thought, “How might my 42 change if I knew that one of my students were this person?” He 43began to formulate (规划;想出)a plan in his mind.
This student would 44experience as well as instruction. She would need to know how to solve problems of various kinds. She would need to know the value of lifelong learning in order to keep a curious and 45mind.
His teaching46. Every young person who walked through his 47became, for him, a future world leader. He saw each one, not 48they were, but as they could be. He 49the best from his students, yet tempered（使缓和）it with pity. He taught each one as if the future of the 50depended on his instruction.
After many years, a woman he knew 51to a position of world fame. He realized that she must 52have been the girl described in his dream. Only she was not one of his 53, but rather his daughter. For of all the 54teachers in her life, her father was the best.
Where and how you will 55this child is a mystery. But believe that one child's future may depend upon the influence only you can provide, and something remarkable will happen.
36. A. leader B. destroyer C. rescuerD.protector
37. A. bad B. weak C. specialD. strong
38. A. afford B. provide C. receiveD. have
39. A. awaken B. feared C. awokeD. stood
40. A. described B. appeared C. imaginedD. lived
41. A. buy B. send C. makeD. desire
42. A. performance B. teaching C. actingD. learning
43. A. gradually B. gladly C. suddenlyD. finally
44. A. like B. have C. needD. mean
45. A. actual B. dependentC. absentD. active
46. A. worked B. changed C. developedD. finished
47. A. classroom B. office C. houseD. mind
48. A. like B. unlike C. likelyD. as
49. A. begged B. expected C. forcedD. learned
50. A. world B. school C. classD. family
51. A. appeared B. stood C. roseD. raised
52. A. completely B. nearly C. hardlyD. surely
53. A. children B. students C. friendsD.followers
54. A. male B. wise C. variousD. language
55. A. raise C. help C. loveD. meet
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，从短文后所给各题的第四个选项（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。
One student took a box of chicken to class，another carried on a cell phone 31and still another whistled loudly every time the32turned his back.
Reform school? No. College.
More and more, professors say, they are coming across 33students in their classrooms. Many of today’s young scholars (学者) arrive late, leave 34 , talk loud or take care of personal 35such as paying bills during class.
Why are the students behaving badly?
“Because they can,” said a student of University of North Texas. “A lot of the time, the professors let them get 36with it.”
Some educators say it is time to bring politeness back to their classrooms—and even 37
taking some of the blame for bad behavior. They say that rude students are by no means the majority but that one of them can ruin an entire 38.
People are 39when they learn that impolite behavior is becoming more and more common in 40education, says Dr Gerald Amanda, a counselor at City College of San Francisco. They 41some high school students to misbehave but think those who get to 42will behave more politely.
Dr Amanda believes that society in 43has become more tolerant (容忍的) of rude behavior and 44people in power, including professors, no longer 45standards for 46. That leads to a growing imprudence (轻率行为) 47some college students. “There’s a great 48of bad behavior in the world around them, and young people see it and 49disrespect,” said Dr Amanda, 50that sometimes students “have no idea that they are being rude.”
31．A. line B. conversation C. message D. picture
32．A. professor B. student C. president D. classmate
33．A. hardworking B. cheating C. rude D. selfish
34．A. late B. early C. noisily D. quietly
35．A. feeling B. interest C. computer D. business
36．A. away B. down C. along D. back
37．A. enjoy B. hate C. start D. avoid
38．A. school B. company C. society D. class
39．A. delighted B. surprised C. interested D. encouraged
40．A. better B. more C. higher D. younger
41．A. expect B. hope C. forbid D. wish
42．A. work B. college C. 1earning D. knowledge
43．A. all B. time C. charge D. general
44．A. why B. how C. whether D. that
45．A. change B. break C. set D. reach
46．A. teaching B. politeness C. thinking D. progress
47．A. about B. for C. behind D. among
48．A. deal B. number C. many D. sum
49．A. prepare B. grow C. develop D. improve
50．A. speaking B. adding C. warning D. wishing