. The factory was built in a secret place, around _____ were high mountains.

A. where        B. it               C. that            D. which

.Dr Smith, together with his wife and two son, ______ arrive on the evening flight

A.are to         B.are going to          C.is to        D.will be

．----Did you get a ticket ?

----Yes, otherwise, I_____ the concert last night.

A. didn’t attend                 B. wouldn’t attend

C. hadn’t attended               D. couldn’t have attend

Thirteen, for me, was a challenging year. My parents divorced and I moved to a new town with my father, far from my old family and friends. I was terribly lonely and would cry myself to sleep each night. To ease my sadness, my father purchased an old horse for me at a local auction.(拍賣) I named him Cowboy.

Cowboy was without a doubt the ugliest horse in the world. But I didn’t care. I loved him beyond all reason. I joined a riding club and suffered rude comments and mean snickers about Cowboy’s looks. I never let on about how I felt, but deep inside, my heart was broken. The other members rode beautiful, registered horses.

When Cowboy and I entered the events where the horse is judged on appearance, we were quickly shown the gate. No amount of preparation and love would turn Cowboy into a beauty. My only chance to compete would be in the speed events. I chose the jumping race.?

One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. She always won the blue ribbons.  Needless to say, she didn’t feel threatened when I competed against her at the next show. She didn’t need to. I came in next to last.

The stinging memory of Becky’s smirks(得意的笑) made me determined to beat her. For the whole next month I woke up early every day and rode Cowboy five miles to the arena (賽馬場(chǎng)). We practiced running and jumping for hours in the hot sun and then I would walk Cowboy home totally exhausted. All of our hard work didn’t make me feel confident by the time the show came. I sat at the gate and sweated it out while I watched Becky and her horse charge through the course and finish in first place.

My turn finally came. I put on my hat, rubbed Cowboy’s neck and entered the arena. At the signal, we dashed toward the first fence, jumped it without trouble and raced on to the next one. Cowboy then flew over the second, third and fourth fences like a bird and I turned him toward the finish line. As we crossed the line the crowd was shocked into silence. Cowboy and I had beaten Becky and her fancy horse by two seconds!

I gained much more than a blue ribbon that day. At thirteen, I realized that no matter what the odds, I’d always come out a winner if I wanted something badly enough to work for it.

1. The underlined expression "shown the gate" (paragraph 3) most probably means ______.

A. told how to enter the arena

B. shown how to make the horse beautiful

C. removed from the competition early

D. told to enter the timed-speed events

2. When the final race finished, nobody cheered because________.

A. the audience didn’t like Cowboy      B. people envied the writer

C. the win was unexpected?        D. the writer bad run out of time

3. Why was the writer not confident of victory?

A. He was an inexperienced rider.

B. He had not practiced enough.

C. He believed he was unpopular with the crowd.

D. He thought his horse wasn’t as good as the others.

4. What did the writer learn from his experience?

A. Life can sometimes be unfair.

B. Anything is possible if one tries hard enough.

C. A positive attitude will bring success.

D. One should not make judgments based on appearance.

第四部分：書(shū)面表達(dá)（共3節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié)：根據(jù)句意和所給單詞的首字母（或漢語(yǔ)提示）填空。（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）

76. They would s_____ if food was difficult to find.

77.I’m sorry. Visitors are not p______ to take pictures here.

78. As a good student, we should c_____ our books with practice.

79. When the little girl was s_______ by the floods, it was a fighter that saved her.

80. The b____________ of Dr Sun Yet sen is in Zhongshan, not far away from Guangzhou.

81. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some m________ （測(cè)量）over 90 meters.

82. Children are always________（好奇的）about everything.

83. My vocabulary is so ________( 有限 ) that I can’t explain the word.

84. She has _________( 原諒 ) me for what I said to her yesterday.

85. Wood _________ ( 漂浮 ) on water, but a stone will sink.

.------Can I get you a cup of coffee?

   ------________________.

    A. With pleasure.                        B. That’s very nice of you.

    C. Thank you for the coffee.         D. You can, please.

 In order to avoid something unpleasant, everyone present should stick to the agreement___________.

A. traditionally  B. accidentally   C. consciously   D. personally

. Our schoolmaster tried his best to make our teaching methods _____ to the concerning parents at the press, who are eager to send their child to our school. 

A. get through  B. get across   C. get over D. get around

 Peter must be ill. It’s the only thing that can  _________ his strange behavior.

A. lie in    B. result from   C. account for  D. explain about

. I tried to call on you last week , but your dog simply ____ not let me come through the gate.

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