二、完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Denny was a famous photographer. He traveled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.

“I’ll do anything to get a good photo,” he often said. “I’ll go anywhere at any time, even if it is   16  . ”

And he told the   17  . He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photograph it.

He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always   18  . “I’ll travel for my work, not for   19  ,” he told her. “You won’t enjoy yourself, and I won’t have   20   to look after you. Sometimes there’s not even anywhere to   21  , and I have to sleep outside. I often don’t have a good   22   or a bath for days. You won’t like it.”

“Denny, I am not a child,” his wife didn’t   23  . “I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas.”

Denny did not say anything, but he   24   about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa he said to his wife, “You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I have got to take photos of wild   25   there. It should be interesting and not too uncomfortable.”

His wife was very   26  , and at first she had a very enjoyable time. Then Denny went to   27   some lions to photo. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while he walked down the other.

Suddenly, Denny heard her   28  . He ran back and saw her running toward him. A huge lion was chasing her. Quickly Denny took his camera out of its case and   29   it at his wife and the lion. Then he shouted, “  30  , woman! I can’t get you both in the picture!”

(  ) 16.  A. dangerous  B. natural C. convenient D. close

(  ) 17.  A. lie B. reason C. news D. truth

(  ) 18.  A. allowed B. refused C. failed D. joked

(  ) 19.  A. wealth B. prize C. pleasure D. luck

(  ) 20.  A. money                                                                   B. time C. interest D. dreams

(  ) 21.  A. meet B. work C. shop D. stay

(  ) 22.  A. meal B. picnic C. room D. party

(  ) 23.  A. agree B. hear C. reply D. complain

(  ) 24.  A. worried B. forgot C. asked D. thought

(  ) 25.  A. land B. flowers C. animals D. people

(  ) 26.  A. confused B. excited C. surprised D. disappointed

(  ) 27.  A. find B. feed C. drive D. shoot

(  ) 28.  A. singing B. crying C. laughing D. cheering

(  ) 29.  A. threw B. fired C. showed D. pointed

(  ) 30.  A. Hurry up B. Look out C. Slow down D. Go ahead

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三、阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

July is a month of fun-filled activities for kids and teens as long as you know where to find them. When you want some fun  activities for July, consider these ideas happening in this month.

Secret of the Dragon

Time   Monday, July1, 2014, 10:30 a.m.

Cost   Adult:$7.40  Children(under15): half

Booking  Phone the booking office:34032578

Address  Brisbane Botanic Gardens

Note   Secret of the Dragon is a magical story about 2 children who are taken on a dragon ride to explore the universe. The Search for life: Are We Alone?

Time   Thursday, July4, 2014, 2:00 p.m.

Cost   Adult:$14.50

Children(under15):$8.70

Booking  Phone the booking office:34037689

Address  Brisbane Botanic Gardens

Note   Are we truly alone in space? Is there any life out there? These are the questions asked in this show.

Magic Class

Time     Friday, July12, 2014, 10:00 a.m.

Cost     Free

Booking  Please call 34038470 to book your

Place.

Address  Centenary Community hub, 171

Dandenong Rd

Note   Would you like to be a magician? Then join David, the magician, to learn about real magic with playing cards, coins, ring ropes and DIY projects and be able to become the life of the party. Science with Me: Making your own guitar

Time   Saturday, July20, 2014, 3:00 p.m.

Cost    Free

Booking  Please call 34031226 to book your

Place.

Address  10, Egginton Close

Note   Do you want to make a guitar with Katy and her mum? Science with  Me is going to be with you. Please remember to bring a piece of wood, a hammer, some rubber bands and some nails with you.

(  ) 31. Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to ________.

A. Magic Class

C. Secret of the Dragon   B. Science with Me

D. The Search for Life

(  ) 32. John and his 10-year-old son want to watch Secret of the Dragon. How much should they pay?

A. $7.40.     B. $11.10.     C. $14.80.     D. $23.20.

(  ) 33. What do the four activities have in common?

A. They are all free.

C. They are all weekend activities.    B. They happen in the same place.

D. They can all be booked on phone.

B

Like the post-90s generation in China, today’s teenagers in the UK have a problem with how they’re represented. Most of them feel unfairly represented by the media and their lives are negatively (负面地) influenced, says a recent survey.

The survey was carried out by the UK Demos, in which more than 1000 14-17-year-old teens from England and Northern Ireland took part.

The survey report shows that four-fifths of teens (81%) felt there was a false image of young people in the media and wider society. Most of them (85%) said that it is hurting both their self-esteem(自尊) and chance of getting a job.

By researching six UK newspapers over the past 10 years, Demos found that words most commonly connected with “teenagers” and “young people” were “binge-drinking”, “yobs” and “crime”.

“The young people out there are doing good things for the community, but there are always bad things on the news. But we’re not all like that, it’s only a few,” said Becky Brunskill, 18, member of Youth Parliament for Liverpool.

The survey also found that 80% of UK teenagers believed they cared more about social issues than the older generation. This was a view shared by their teachers, 66% of whom agreed in a separate Demos survey of 500 teachers.

The UK youth are also eager to make a difference. But rather than traditional politics, 87% of the teens believed social media was a good way to change society.

Jonathan Birdwell, author of the Demos report, said “They could be the most active citizens we have seen in a generation.”

(  ) 34. What problem are current UK teenagers troubled with according to Demos?

A. Their bad school image.

B. The media’s negative image of them.

C. Their false social relationships.

D. The difficulty of getting jobs.

(  ) 35. How many people think that the false image is hurting their self-esteem?

A. 800. B. 810. C. 850. D. 1000.

(  ) 36. We can guess the underlined words “binge-drinking” and “yobs” are about          .

A. something bad B. something good C. students D. adults

(  ) 37. What can we tell from the passage?

A. Few young British people are doing good things for the community.

B. British teenagers care more about their parents than social issues.

C. Young Britons are inactive in trying to prove themselves.

D. Young Britons believe social media is a good way to change society.

C

One windy spring day, I  noticed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful creations of different shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds flying and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them in control.

They shook and pulled, but the restraining (控制的) string and the cumbersome (笨重的) tail kept them in control, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled agains t the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They rose beautifully even when they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose(松散的). “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom(自由) simply put it in the control of an unkind wind. It fell down to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”, free to lie powerlessly in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to stop lifelessly against the first obstacle (障碍物).

How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity (逆境) and rules, rules to follow from which we can grow and get strength. Some of us break away from the rules so hard that we never reach the heights we might get to. We keep part of the rules and never raise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights, knowing that some of the rules that we may be angry about are in fact the strong force that helps us achieve.

(  ) 38. Why does the writer write the first paragraph?

A. Because it was the first time that he had seen young people flying kites.

B. Because he wants to share his feelings in nature with the readers.

C. Because he wants to tell the readers how to make beautiful kites.

D. Because he wants to use his life experience to make readers understand the article better.

(  ) 39. By writing t he  second and third paragraphs, the writer seems to let the readers know____.

A. anyone who wants no restraints is sure to be a sad end

B. what a pity it is that one kite flew down to the ground

C. man with freedom can’t be like that kite which fell down

D. the unkind wind is the cause of the falling kite

(  ) 40. From the passage, we can learn that the string of the kite represents           .

A. rules B. freedom C. success D. failure

(  ) 41. In the writer’s opinion, ____________.

A. without restrictions and rules we can make progress

B. kites are good examples to those who want to get freedom

C. restrictions are unnecessary for us human beings

D. we don’t need any freedom at all