I didn’t get it at first, but over the years I came to understand the   28  . Holding a grudge(怨恨)doesn’t   29   the person you’re angry with, but it changes you. It makes you heavier and gives you more weight to drag around.

After my father died in 1991, a (n)   30   came from a fellow I’d had a quarrel with years before to   31   his sympathy. He wrote: “I thought I’d tell you how sorry I am   32   the loss of your father. I know he   33   the world to you. I just wanted to let you know that you are in my thoughts. ”

Much moved, I wrote back. I thanked him for his   34  . And then, because he’d   35

our disagreement, I recalled Dad’s inspiring words. “I am my father’s daughter,” I wrote. “And like him, I do not bend my back with yesterday.”

21. A. lectures        B. suggestions    C. lessons            D. pictures

22. A. forgive        B. persuade     C. forget         D. excuse

23. A. vital            B. obvious      C. visual         D. vivid

24. A. sister’s        B. mine      C. father's         D. mother’s

25. A. in return       B. in turn      C. by return        D. by turn

26. A. relaxed       B. moved        C. interrupted      D. bothered

27. A. anger        B. disappointment    C. worry           D. yesterday

28. A. reason        B. word      C. philosophy        D. sentence

29. A. change        B. hurt         C. upset          D. disturb

30. A. news      B. letter            C. message        D. information

31. A. explain     B. express          C. produce         D. present

32. A. in         B. with               C. about             D. at

33. A. showed     B. represented         C. equaled            D. meant

34. A. kindness       B. sympathy        C. understanding       D. consideration

35. A. referred     B. mentioned        C. reminded        D. retold

第三部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节：阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—50各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

36. The writer is probably ______.

A. worker        B. a college teacher

C. manager of a company     D. a clerk

37. He learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.

A. from his friends       B. from one of his colleagues

C. over the radio       D. from the newspaper

38. He could go and buy the ticket ______.

A. any day before work hours     B. both before and after work hours

C. only during lunch time     D. on Saturday and Sunday

39. The word “relieved” in the last two sentences may best be replaced by “______”.

A. surprised   B. pleased   C. puzzled   D. sorry

40. The story is about ______.

A. a good concert

B. someone enjoying a good concert

C. someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends

D. someone’s disappointment at not being able to go to the concert

B

Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview.

Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means “get”) a job offer.

Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job.

Myth 2: Always please the interviewer

Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don’t be hostile—nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating(逢迎)and being hostile.

Myth 3: Try to control the interview

Nobody “controls” an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent(憎恨)it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview.

Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer

Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free—free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just hang loose. Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you’ll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent(冷漠的)is the worst impression you can make.

41.  To be your natural self in a job interview will__________.

A. make your interviewer angry   B. please your interviewer

C. leave an impression on the interviewer D. leave the interviewer indifferent to you

42.  For job seekers, efforts to control the interview are likely to __________.

A. affect the interviewer’s opinion of them

B. lead to the offer of a job

C. enable them to express themselves fully

D. help to create a favorable image of themselves

43. The most important thing to keep in mind when being interviewed for a job is to _________.

A. try to obtain the job     B. reject the job first

C. qualify yourself for the job    D. see if it is a job you want

44. The right attitude to a job interviewer is to be _________.

A. obedient   B. hostile   C. pleasing   D. agreeable

45. “hang loose” in last paragraph means to _________.

A. stay calm and relaxed     B. become weak and passive

C. take charge       D. sit back comfortably

C

In the age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6.

The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version(改写本)of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act.

Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That’s good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: the off-key singing; the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high; the terrible dancing; the hips jerking(摇摆)to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad. But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America. ”

Whatever it is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

So, what does Hung think of this?

“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean ”

Now, he says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour(魅力)or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn’t been easy.

46.What is the main idea of this passage?

A.Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.

B.Hung’s performance attracted the public eye.

C.How an unsuccessful person became famous.

D.Success sometimes does not require hard work.

47.Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________.

A.his shirt and pants  B.his off-key singing

C.his hips jerking  D.his excellent version

48.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to?

A.William Hung.  B.Hung’s bad act.

C.Hung’s website.  D.The public’s opinion.