(    ) 31. The apples on the tree are too high _____

A. be reached    B. to reach them    C. to reach       D. to be reached

(    ) 32. You must try your best to do all the things _______________.

A. by the own   B. on the own    C. on your own       D.by your own

(    ) 33. Who_____ out the wet raincoat? Li Lei did.

A. hung   B. hanged    C. is hung     D. was hung

(    ) 34. ---Is your father a teacher?

---Well, he _______.

A. used to B. was used to C. used to be D. is used to be

(    ) 35. All we need ____enough money to carry on _____the work.

A. are, about   B. is, about C. are, with  D. is, with

三、完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分，计15分)

阅读下列短文，从文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in a new soldier school in Ashland and not sure if I could ____36____ it home for the holidays. On the afternoon of December 23 we were ____37_______ some of us would have three-day holidays. I was one of the _____38_____ soldiers.

It was Christmas Eve when I ____39_____, and a little snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see over her, into the corner of the living-room where the tree always _____40____. There were lights, all colors, shining in the _____41____ of the tree.

“Where did it come from?” I asked.

“I asked the gate boy to ______42___ it,” my mother said. “I don’t want one just for myself, but when _____43____… Oh! Such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon …”

The tree was almost as ____44_____ as the room, and the Tree Top Star was in its place. A few branches _____45____ about at the side, I thought, and there was a big bare branch showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with the pleasant _____46____ of Christmas.

“It’s not like the one you want to _____47____ ,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape, I think the gate boy didn’t know where to look for a _____48____ one.” “Don’t worry,” I told her. “It’s perfect.”

It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I ____49_____ for the first time: all Christmas ____50_____ are perfect.

(   )36. A. make      B. take        C. leave        D. keep

(   )37. A. invited     B. told        C. asked        D. ordered

(   )38. A. brave      B. busy       C. strong        D. lucky

(   )39. A. stayed     B. arrived      C. left          D. travelled

(   )40. A. grown     B. planted      C. stood        D. lain

(   )41. A. skin       B. green       C. branch       D. dark

(   )42. A. borrow    B. buy         C. cut          D. plant

(   )43. A. asked     B. called        C. invited      D. explained(解释)

(   )44. A. old       B. pretty        C. tall         D. strong

(   )45. A. moved     B. reached     C. showed      D. fell

(   )46. A. smell      B. taste        C. sound       D. look

(   )47. A. climb     B. show        C. find         D. lend

(   )48. A. shorter    B. cheaper      C. younger     D. better

(   )49. A. heard     B. remembered  C. understood   D. wondered

(   )50. A. gifts      B. wishes       C. trees        D. houses