简答题（综合题） （本大题共4小题，每小题____分，共____分。）

第二节 (共5小题：每小题2分,满分10分)

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Color is fundamental in home design-something you’ll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces in one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in. Do you want a room that's full of life? Professional ? Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day?____, color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel

Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.____ ，they can get a little complex. But good news is that there’er really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

____，They‘re the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.

Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves.____They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.

The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether you're looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant.____.

A. While all of them are useful

B. Whatever you're looking for

C. If you're experimenting with a color

D. Small color choices are the ones we’re most familiar with

E. it's not really a good idea to use too many small color pieces

F. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first time

G. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways

第一节(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A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

During my second year at the city college,I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I ____ the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn’t want to ____ a few dollars? More than that, I’d always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t____ enough about free credits, news about our ____ was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which ____I would be learning from one of the game’s ____ I could hardly wait to ____ him.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this ____ was no game for him ; he meant business. In his introduction, he made it ____that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to____the class among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to ____ what we would learn in class to our future professions and____to our lives. I managed to get an A in that ____ and leaned life lessons that have served me well beyond the ____ .

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I' m still putting to use what he ____ me：“the absolute most important ____ that you learn when you play chess is how to make good____. On every single move you have to ____ a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and ____the best move from among all your options.” These words still ring true today in my ____ as a journalist.

41.A. put forward

B. jumped at

C. tried out

D. turned down

42.A. waste

B. earn

C. save

D. pay

43.A. excited

B. worried

C. moved

D. tired

44.A. title

B. competitor

C. textbook

D. instructor

45.A. urged

B. demanded

C. held

D. meant

46.A. fastest

B. easiest

C. best

D. rarest

47.A. interview

B. meet

C. challenge

D. beat

48.A. chance

B. qualification

C. honor

D. job

49.A. real

B. perfect

C. clear

D. possible

50.A. attend

B. pass

C. skip

D. observe

51.A. add

B. expose

C. apply

D. compare

52.A. eventually

B. naturally

C. directly

D. normally

53.A. game

B. presentation

C. course

D. experiment

54.A. criterion

B. classroom

C. department

D. situation

55.A. taught

B. wrote

C. questioned

D. promised

56.A. fact

B. step

C. manner

D. skill

57.A. grades

B. decisions

C. impressions

D. comments

58.A. analyze

B. describe

C. rebuild

D. control

59.A. announce

B. signal

C. block

D. evaluate

60.A. role

B. desire

C. concern

D. behavior