第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措)  with the   41  of earning a living,   42   the little children.

One   43   evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd(牧羊犬)on our   44  . This wonderful strong animal   45  to enter the house and make it his   46  . The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day,   47   we could inquire around the neighborhood for his   48  . That night I slept   49   for the first time in many weeks.

The following morning we   50   to find German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were   51   to see German racing to the gas station after us.   52   was he going to be left behind.

On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’t appear, we were all   53 . The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed   54   Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more   55   of German. We stopped thinking about   56   he belonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered   57  his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.

Each week, between German’s visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his   58  . Then one Monday morning we   59   his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how   60  and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.

41. A. duties       B. ways         C. purposes   D. focuses

42. A. taking up      B. looking for  C. waking up      D. caring for

43. A. Saturday      B. Friday      C. Sunday   D. Monday

44. A. gate       B. street   C. doorstep   D. road

45. A. regretted      B. forced   C. intended      D. encouraged

46. A. nest          B. kitchen  C. home       D. destination

47. A. where       B. when   C. while       D. as

48. A. owner       B. gifts   C. advice       D. situation

49. A. nervously      B. smoothly  C. peacefully      D. meaningfully

50. A. tried       B. managed  C. succeeded          D. failed

51. A. happy       B. glad   C. amazed   D. pleased

52. A. No wonder      B. No use      C. No doubt   D. No way

53. A. disappointed      B. lost   C. invited       D. wondered

54. A. before       B. until   C. since       D. once

55. A. aware       B. sure   C. fond    D. anxious

56. A. where       B. who      C. whom          D. which

57. A. it        B. that   C. this    D. one

58. A. friend       B. company  C. factory       D. story

59. A. beat       B. hit   C. wounded   D. patted

60. A. excited       B. satisfied  C. abandoned      D. interrupted

第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

A

Earthquake in Central China Kills 14

BEIJING (AP)—A magnitude (级别) 5.7 earthquake shook part of central China on Saturday, killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 400, the official said.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the quake happened around 9:00 a.m. local time, with the epicentre(震中) in Ruichang, a city of 420,000 in Jiangxi province.Hundreds of homes collapsed(倒塌) and thousands were damaged, Xinhua said.

“The earthquake this morning was quite scary,” said a shopkeeper in Ruichang reached by telephone who would only give her surname—Zhou. Many people in Ruichang were staying outside for fear of aftershocks (余震). She said she felt a milder trembling of the earth around 1:00 p.m. Tents were set up outside a hospital treating some of the 377 injured.

The United States National Earthquake Information Centre reported the quake was magnitude 5.5.

61. Where can we most probably find such a passage?

A. In a science book.     B. In an advertisement.   C. In a magazine.      D. In a newspaper.

62. About how many people were killed and injured in the earthquake?

A. 14      B. 414        C. 400       D. 377

63. When did the earthquake happen?

A. 9:00 a.m. on Sunday.         B. 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.

C. 9:00 a. m. on Saturday.        D. 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.

64. Why did the people still stay outside after the earthquake?

A. They were afraid to be trapped in the buildings.

B. They wanted to stay with their friends outside.

C. They were waiting for help.

D. They were afraid of another quake. ks5u

B

James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His families moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There a schoolteacher asked the youth his name.

“J.C.” he replied. She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.

Owens ran his first race at the age of 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.

A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.[

The stage was set for Owens’ victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic (运动的) but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African—American winners.

“It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn’t go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”

Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone call from the President of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.

Owens’ Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.

“Sure, it bothered me,” he said later. But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.”

In time, however, his gold medals changed his life. “They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.”

65. Owens got his other name “Jesse” when____________.

A. his teacher took “J.C.” for “Jesse”       B. his teacher made fun of him

C. he went to Ohio State University        D. he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet

66. In the Big Ten meet, Owens_______________.

A. hurt himself in the back                B. succeeded in setting many records

C. tried every sports event but failed        D. had to give up some events

67. We can infer from the text that Owens was treated unfairly in the U.S. at that time because he_____________.

A. didn’t shake hands with Hitler          B. was the son of a poor farmer

C. was not of the right race               D. didn’t talk to the U.S President on the phone