第二節(jié)完形填空（20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

A Washed Day

In the faint light of the attic（閣樓）, an old man, bent down and made his way to a pile of boxes . Brushing aside a lot of  36  , he began to lift out one old 37  after another.

He  38  opened the long buried treasures and soon was 39  in a sea of memories.

Setting  40  one of the dusty albums, he pulled from the box what to be a  41  from his grown son's childhood. He  42  not recall ever having seen it before,  43  that his son had ever kept a journal. Opening the  44  pages, he glanced over a short reading, and his  45  curved in an unconscious smile.  46  his eyes brightened as he read the words. It was the voice of the little boy who had grown up far too fast in this  47  house, and whose voice had grown fainter and fainter over the  48 . The words of a  six-year-old  49  the old man back to a time  50  totally forgotten.

Reminded that he had kept a daily journal of his  51 activities over the years, he closed his son's journal. Opening a glass cabinet door, he reached in and  52  an old business journal. Then he sat down at his desk and  53  the two journals beside each other. As he opened his journal, the old man's eyes fell upon several words that  54 .  In his own neat handwriting were these words:

 55 the whole day fishing with Jimmy. Didn't catch a thing. With a deep sigh and a shaking hand, he took Jimmy's journal and found the boy's entry for the same day: Went fishing with my dad. Best day of my life.

36.A. sweat        B. water          C. dust        D. rain

37.A. diary         B. album         C. book       D. dictionaries

38.A. carefully       B. carelessly       C. casually      D. anxiously

39.A. surprised      B. disappointed      C. interested   D. lost

40.A. aside         B. up              C. off          D. out

41.A. photograph   B. letter           C. journal           D. card

42.A. could        B. would         C. should     D. might

43.A. and               B. so               C. but         D. or

44.A. colored      B. yellowed        C. turned     D. touched

45.A. nose          B. eyes            C. ears        D. lips

46.A. Thus         B. Then           C. Even       D. However

47.A. very          B. just             C. poor       D. big

48.A. hours        B. weeks         C. months       D. years

49.A. forced       B. carried               C. left         D. made

50.A. seldom      B. hardly         C. almost     D. never

51.A. politics      B. business         C. science       D. holiday

52.A. pulled up      B. Pulled off       C. pulled out   D. pulled over

53.A. placed       B. threw          C. hid         D. read

54.A. picked out    B. stood out        C. worked out D. took out

55.A. Spend       B. Enjoyed         C. Spared           D. Wasted

E

Michael Jackson，the “King of Pop”，died on June 25，2009．People all over the world were shocked at the news. He was considered as one of the most popular recording artists of all time. He had sold more than 750 million records worldwide and had received 13 Grammy Awards.

Jackson was born in America on August 29,1958. He displayed a talent for music and dance from an extremely young age. When he was 6, he and his four elder brothers—Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon—first performed together at a talent show. They got the first prize and went on to become a best-selling band , The Jackson Five.

Jackson made his first solo album（獨(dú)唱唱片） in 1972. In 1982, he released（發(fā)行） his best-selling album Thriller, which had seven top-10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100,including Billie Jean, Beat it and Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. The next year, he performed his signature dance move-the moonwalk while singing Billie Jean during an NBC special. 

Thriller remains the world's best-selling album of all time and four of his other solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979) Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and History (1995). 

Michael Jackson was an artist who influenced many hip hop, pop music and R&B artists across several generations.

58．What was Jackson famous for when he was young?

    A．Music and dance．    B．Pop song．    C．Handsome． D．Solo album．

59．When Jackson was     he began to perform on the stage．

    A．4    B．6    C．13    D．14

60．The names of solo albums which belong to Jackson are        ．

    A．Thriller；Beat It；The Jackson Five；Off the Wall    ’

    B．Thriller；Off the Wall；Bad；Dangerous

    C．Thriller；Hip Hop；History；Dangerous

    D．Thriller；Marion；Billie Jean；Off the Wall

第一節(jié)  語法和詞匯知識(共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分)

    從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。并將選項的字母標(biāo)號填入題前的答題表內(nèi)。

He hurried to the railway station，only______the train had left．

    A．to find    B．found    C．finds  D．finding

You look tired. _______ working indoors you should go out for a walk.

A. Instead of     B. In spite of    C. Ahead of     D. Because of

 ---- Water can dissolve almost anything and give nutrients to creatures.

---- Yes, and that’s one of its ______.

A. characters        B. properties        C. qualities         D. ability

My bicycle is nowhere to be found. Who ___ have been using it?

A. should                  B. must                       C. could                      D. might

I never blame failures－there are too many complicated situations in life, but I am_____

merciless(無慈悲心的) toward lack of effort.

       A. approximately   B. absolutely   C. hardly D. desperately

If you are looking for somewhere to rent, I think there's a(n) _______apartment in my building.

A. empty           B. vacant              C. hollow         D. bare

The door______．Better have it repaired．

       A．won’t shut       B．hasn’t been shut       C．won’t be shut   D．isn’t shut

SECTION B

Directions ； For each blank in the following passage there are four words of phrases marked with A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word that best fits the context.

This is a true story about something that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer - Care Executive (客服主管).The following complaint was received by General Motors. "??????It may sound crazy, but it's a fact that every time I buy a  36   ice cream, and come back from the store, my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts   37   fine, why?" The executive was    38    about the letter, but sent an engineer to check it out anyway.

The   39   made three visits to the store with the customer. The first time, he got chocolate ice cream. The car started. The second time, he ordered strawberry. The car started. The third time he got vanilla. The car failed to start. The engineer   40   to believe that the man's car was allergic (過敏的)to vanilla ice cream. He 41   his visits, and noted all sorts of data: the types of gas used and the time it took to drive back and forth.

Soon he came a clue: it took the man less   42   to buy vanilla than any other flavor (味道). Why? The answer was in the layout (布局)of the store. Vanilla, as the most   43   flavor, was in the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept further back, where it took longer to buy them.

Time was now the   44   not the vanilla ice cream！ The engineer quickly put forward an answer: “engine trouble." The extra time taken to get any other flavor   45   the engine to cool down longer. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot to start.

Even crazy 一 looking problems can be real. What really    46     is your attitude to the problem.

Don't just say something is "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort into    47    it out. If you look closer, you may discover that it's possible after all.

36.   A.    chocolate B. strawberry  C. vanilla       D. banana

37.   A.    just  B. only    C. still     D. ever

38.   A.    worried   B. crazy  C. doubtful     D. cheerful

39.   A.    customer B. engineer     C. executive    D. shopkeeper

40.   A.    pretended       B. decided      C. struggled    D. refused

41.   A.    stopped   B. continued   C. valued D. repeated

42.   A.    time B. effort  C. cost    D. speed

43.   A.    strange    B. familiar      C. terrible       D. popular

44.   A.    effect      B. reason C. problem     D. solution

45.   A.    prevented       B. encouraged C. let      D. allowed

46.   A.    matters    B. impresses   C. bothers -    D, concerns

47.   A.    looking   B. figuring     C, trying D. testing