第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was 4 o’ clock in the morning when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just  31  in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a (n)  32  and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was  33 .

The doctor described the  34 , which caused the burns. Our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they  35  the charcoal(木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline(petrol). The flames  36  my son’s shirt tail(下摆) and shot from his waist to well over his head.

37 , one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped(抓住) my son, and  38  him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in  39  to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars(伤疤).

After he  40  from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery(整容) for 6 months  41  it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking(缩水) and wrinkling(起皱). So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch, very  42  scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not  43  it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I  44   this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to his  45  and returned to school with his head held high —— glad he was alive.

By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not  46 , so he made the  47  to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe  48  people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better.

But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same  49  standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value  50  yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

31、A. brought    B. given    C. turned    D. showed

32、A. doctor    B. hospital   C. aircraft   D. ambulance

33、A. serious   B. terrible   C. dangerous   D. important

34、A. event    B. process   C. reason    D. accident

35、 A. got    B. lit    C. burned    D. moved

36、A. took    B. held    C. caught    D. attracted

37、A. Fortunately   B. Surprisingly  C. Happily   D. Slowly

38、A. pushed   B. threw    C. dropped   D. rolled

39、 A. shape    B. place    C. fact    D. time

40、A. benefited   B. recovered   C. suffered   D. relaxed

41、 A. if    B. while    C. because   D. although

42、A. normal   B. violent    C. obvious   D. popular

43、A. mention   B. notice    C. laugh    D. hide

44、A. sent    B. kept    C. handed   D. passed

45、A. heart    B. life    C. practice   D. consideration

46、A. grow    B. matter    C. exist    D. appear

47、 A. mistake   B. effort    C. decision   D. request

48、A. invite     B. cause    C. allow    D. remind

49、A. false    B. strict    C. attractive   D. general

50、A. by    B. over    C. beyond   D. within

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题，每题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Here is a true story about a famous man who worked in the White House and a criminal. They once faced the same thing their mother gave them apples when they were young.

The criminal said one day, my mother brought some apples and asked my brother and me “Which do you want?” “The reddest and biggest one,” my little brother said. My mother stared at him and said to him angrily “You should learn to give the good things to others; you shouldn’t always think of yourself.” Seeing this, I suddenly changed my idea and then said to my mother “Mum, please give me the smaller one and give the bigger one to my little brother.” Hearing my words, my mother was very happy. She kissed me on my face and gave the reddest and biggest apple to me as a prize. From then on, I learned to tell lies, fight, steal and rob. In order to get what I wanted, I played hard. As a result, I was sent into prison.

The famous man from the White House said One day, my mother brought some apples. She said to my brother and me “You all want the reddest and biggest one, right? Well, let’s have a competition. Now I divide the grassland in front of the gate into two and I will give one to each of you and you must shear(修剪) it well. And I will give the reddest and biggest apple to him who does it the most quickly and best.”

After the competition, I won and I got the biggest apple. In our family, as long as you want to get the best things, you must take part in competition. I think it is fair. No matter what you want, you must pay lots of efforts.

51、The criminal got the reddest and biggest apple because      .

A. he told the truth that he wanted a smaller one

B. his mother loved him more than she loved the younger brother

C. elder brother should of course have the bigger one

D. he knew how to make his mother happy from her answer

52、We can conclude from the passage that      .

A. it’s important to make children aware that no matter what they want, they must pay work

B. it’s wrong to ask children to choose apples when they are not old enough

C. it’s wrong to ask children not to always think of themselves

D. it’s always necessary to have a competition when we give children apple

53、The writer tells the story by      .

A. organizing it in the order of time    B. making a comparison between two men

C. providing some scientific information D. describing it in the order of space

54、It is implied in the passage that      .

A. we should always try to win competitions which can bring us a lot

B. in order to get what we want, we should play hard

C. giving children apples will lead them to become criminals

D. a mother’s educational method has a great influence on a child’s growing

B

Wildcat also has been used as a name for money in the 1800s. At that time, some states permitted banks to make their own money. One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it. Some banks, however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper money they offered. So the money had little or no value. It was called a wildcat bill or a wildcat banknote. The banks who offered this money were called wildcat banks. A newspaper of the time said those were the days of wildcat money. It said a man might be rich in the morning and poor by night.

Wildcat then was also used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it. Dishonest developers would buy such property. Then they would sell it and leave town with the money. The buyers were left with worthless holes in the ground. Today, wildcat oil wells are in areas that are not known to have oil.

55、What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Wildcats and their stories.  B. Wildcats and their characters.

C. Varieties of animal species. D. Relationship between animals and humans.

56、The underlined words "a lynx, an ocelot or a bobcat" in Paragraph 1 may refer to "   ".

A. gasoline companies B. automobile manufacturers

C. brands of automobile                 D. names of wildcats

57、Which of the following would people like to have or trust according to the passage?

A. Wildcat congressmen.   B. Wildcat oil wells.

C. Wildcat banks.    D. Wildcat cars.

58、It can be inferred that during the days of wildcat money   .

A. people couldn't buy anything with the money

B. people complained and suffered a lot

C. the rich invested too much on oil wells

D. people didn't know how to save money

C

In a recent study, participants were asked to drink beer from either a straight-sided glass, or a curved “beer glass”. People took about almost twice as long to finish when drinking alcohol from the straight-sided glass, compared with the curved glass. There was no difference in drinking rates from the glasses when the drink was nonalcoholic.

People may drink their alcohol faster from curved glasses because it is more difficult to accurately judge the halfway point of these glasses, the researchers concluded. As a result, drinkers may be less able to measure how much they have consumed. “People often talk of ‘pacing themselves’ when drinking alcohol as a means of controlling levels of drunkenness, but I think the important point to take from our research is that the ability to pace effectively may be compromised when drinking from certain types of glasses ,”said study researcher Angela Attwood of the University of Bristol’s School of Experimental Psychology in the United Kingdom.

In another experiment, participants completed a computer task in which they were shown pictures of two glasses containing varying volumes of liquid, and asked to judge whether each glass was more, or less, than half-full. The researchers found people made greater errors in judging the halfway point of the curved glass.

“The participants who showed the greatest error in these judgments also tended to show the greatest changes in their drinking rates,” the researchers said. “The speed at which people drink alcohol influences their level of intoxication (迷醉), and the number of drinks they consume on an occasion. Therefore, slowing down is likely to have a positive impact for the individual, and also at a population level.”