--- _____.

A. It’s my pleasure    B. Not to mention it  C. Mind your own business  D. You’re welcome

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 few years ago, my younger brother and I went to Norfolk, Virginian by plane. 36 , before we took off, we heard the pilot’s voice throughout the plane, “sorry for the delay, ladies and gentlemen. We have no 37 on the plane. We have a generator (发电机) on the ground right now, and we are going to 38 the engines with it. Once we get them going, we will 39 in the air and head to Norfolk, and see what happens. ”

See what happens? We are going to get up in the air, and see what happens? At this point, one woman started crying. “Oh, no! We are going to 40 !” There were sighs of desperation and 41 spreading throughout the plane, and we hadn’t even 42 yet. Thirty minutes passed and we were still 43 there. Then the voice of the pilot came over again, “Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are   44, so are we. We only have one engine going right now, and it is working double time. ”

There was crying 45 we had walked into grave. But, the pilot told us our one engine was working double time, and his 46 was to get up in the air and see what happens! Then we did. We got up in the air and what happened? ---47 other than thrust (推力) and lift. We arrived in Norfolk and everyone 48 for still being alive.

Although I do sincerely like to have a plan 49 “see what happens”, it really isn’t such a bad life strategy. All too often, I would see people chasing their goals halt (停滞) 50 with inaction just because they don’t have 51 success. Actually, success will never be guaranteed. The 52_thing that you can do is just get up in the air, and see what hap¬pens.

If you are planning to learn a new skill, get up in the air, and see what happens! It might not be as 53 as you thought. You might be smarter than you thought. It could be 54 ! So don’t stay there trying nothing just because there is no 55 of guaran¬teed success.

36. A. Hopefully B. Excitedly C. Thankfully D. Unfortunately

37. A. power B. service C. water D. captain

38. A. shut B. start C. change D. fix

39. A. get up B. pack up C. light up D. speed up

40. A. wait B. delay C. crash D. suffer

41. A. rumor B. disease C. anxiety D. smoke

42. A. looked over B. taken off  C. got across D. gone out

43. A. boarding B. checking C. watching D. sitting

44. A. puzzled B. patient C. desperate D. embarrassed

45. A. even if B. only if C. what if D. as if

46. A. plan B. complaint C. promise D. comment

47. A. everything B. nothing C something. D. anything

48. A. escaped B. cheered C. sighed D. praised

49. A. better than B. other than C. less than D. more than

50. A. frozen B. annoyed C. concerned D. satisfied

51. A. realistic B, organized C. potential D. guaranteed

52. A. same B. common C. best D. last

53. A. interesting B. challenging C. surprising D. encouraging

54. A. sorrow B. pain C. fun D. trouble

55. A. meaning    B. reward   C. action     D. sign

第三部分　阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

“It’s So Good” in French, was one of Eartha Mae Kitt’s first hit songs. But her childhood wasn’t so good. She was born into a poor family in South Carolina in nineteen twenty-seven. When Eartha was eight, her mother remarried. Her stepfather did not like her so she was sent to New York City to live with an aunt, who helped pay for her piano and dance lessons.

Eartha Kitt worked in a factory as a young teenager. But she kept up her dance lessons. One day she tried out for a famous African-American dance company. Soon, Eartha was performing in shows around the world with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe.

In Paris, Eartha left the dance company to sing in a nightclub. Her voice was very attracting. She learned French quickly and gained French fans. Soon the film director Orson Welles discovered Eartha Kitt singing in Paris. Welles asked her to play a lead part in a play he was directing. The play made her find her acting talent for the first time.

After that Eartha Kitt returned to New York and appeared in the Broadway show with “Monotonous”, a song about a bored woman, and it became famous. She soon signed with a record company.

Then Eartha Kitt acted her first role in a film in nineteen fifty-seven in “Mark of the Hawk”. Kitt was very careful about choosing her roles in films. She refused parts that were not respectful to black people. In nineteen sixty-seven, Eartha Kitt got the part of Catwoman on the popular television series “Batman”. Fans loved the special way she said her “r”s to create a sound like a cat, which made her an unforgettable Catwoman.

She was strongly against the Vietnam War and in nineteen sixty-eight she became blacklisted (列入黑名单) in America. For about ten years, she could only find work in other countries. But that brought her a greater international achievement.

56. What did Eartha Kitt do when she first performed around the world?_____.

A. Sing   B. Dance    C. Direct    D. Act

57. Who helped Eartha Kitt find her acting talent? _____.

A. Her mother  B. Her aunt   C. Her stepfather  D. Orson Welles.

58. What is the order of the things that happened to Eartha Kitt? _____.

a. playing in her first film       b. winning some French fans

c. living with an aunt     d. playing a role in a play

e. singing “Monotonous”    f. receiving dance training

A. cfbdea   B. fcbdea    C. fcdeab    D. cfbaed

59. What made Eartha Kitt an unforgettable Catwoman in “Batman”? _____.

A. Her walking steps.     B. The looks on her face.

C. Her way of speaking “r”.    D. Her good singing skills.

60. What might be talked in the following paragraph? _____.

A. Eartha Kitt’s biggest hit songs.   B. Eartha Kitt’s families in America.

C. Eartha Kitt’s international success. D. Eartha Kitt’s hard life after being blacklisted.

B

The shocking disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has captured the attention of millions around the world as the search for the airplane and its passengers and crew continues. What happened to the flight’s 239 passengers and crew after the plane left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday? It is becoming an increasingly desperate question as the days pass.

But it’s hardly the first mystery of its kind. Here are some half-solved and unsolved airline mysteries that kept investigators clueless for years.

Air France Flight 447: An Airbus A330 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board. But it took a full five days for search and rescue teams to find the wreck(残骸)and another three years for investigators to report that ice crystals had caused the autopilot (自动驾驶仪) to disconnect. The bodies of 74 passengers remain unrecovered.

Amelia Earhart: Ace (王牌) pilot Amelia Earhart disappeared in her twin-engine monoplane Electra over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. No trace of her plane was ever found even after a multi-million dollar search effort, and Earhart was officially declared dead in 1939.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739: A U.S. military flight left Guam in 1962 with more 90 personnel headed for the Philippines, but it never arrived. The pilots never issued a distress call, and 1,300 people involved in the U.S. military search never found any trace of wreckage.

British South American Airways: It took more than 50 years to find any trace of the 11 people aboard a 1947 flight that disappeared in the Andes Mountains. A pair of Argentineans rock climbers discovered engine wreckage in the Andes in 1998, and an army expedition later found human remains as well.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A flight headed to Santiago, Chile carrying 45 passengers and crew crashed into the Andes Mountains in poor weather in 1972, killing twelve people. In the meantime, eight were killed in an avalanche (雪崩) that hit the plane’s wreckage where they were taking shelter, and the rest stayed alive by eating the flesh of the dead before they were finally found more than two months after disappearing out of the sky.

61. The underlined word “plunged” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. jumped   B. broke   C. flew   D. dived

62. What can we learn from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571? _____.

A. 12 people were lost until now.

B. 25 people were rescued instantly.

C. The rest who stayed alive killed 8 people.

D. 8 were killed by a fall of a large mass of snow down a mountainside.

63. From the passage, what could have led to British South American Airways crash? _____.

A. The bad weather.   B. Not mentioned.

C. The ice crystals.    D. The lightening.

64. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? _____.

A. Earhart was declared dead by the authorities two years later.

B. The bodies of Flight 447 had all been found after three years.

C. Two Argentineans rock climbers discovered the dead in the Andes.

D. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was regarded as the largest air crash.

65. The passage has been written to _____.

A. introduce the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

B. explain how to avoid airplane disappearances as a pilot

C. tell readers mysterious airplane disappearances in Aviation History

D. call on people to protect themselves