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I 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

After winning a game, athletes are often asked how they achieved that success. Most say their 1   is the result of hard practice.Usually athletes say how hard it is to win the big games.However, in my case,  2   the big games can be even harder.

For me, last year’s basketball    3     for my high school team was nothing short of an embarrassment(难堪).Although losing every game is certainly nothing to be  4     of, that season had a bigger effect on me than any other, and probably   5     than any season since.

As a team captain, I knew it might not be the  6    year, but I didn't ever expect we would lose every game.Since six of our top players had graduated, we were a young team who would    7    .It began earlier than expected, though, as two key members decided to quit after two weeks.At this point, dropping out probably passed through every player’s mind.Most people counted (认为)us a failure, but we never gave up on ourselves.Then it seemed that our own  8     had given up on us.Personally, I felt like it was no longer worth giving my all.I thought, if even the coach didn't believe in us, why should I? Then there came a time when it all began to feel hopeless.But just as my     9    began to fade, a teammate called a meeting.He said, " Nobody thinks we' re going to win, and we may not, but, as teammates and friends, we should give it our all every game."

It was that moment that   10    me how to be a leader.It hit me that I didn’t   11       the role.As a leader you can never quit on the team who looks up to you.It is one thing to be 12    as the captain and feel great.It is quite another to be a real captain and make sure everyone works to(依照……办事) their   13    all the time.

I   14   the fact that my team lost every game last year.It may not help me to become a better basketball player, but it already has made me a better leader, and   15      .

1.A.courage    B.decision   C.achievement    D.experience

2.A.losing     B.organizing C.watching       D.starting

3.A.tour       B.season     C.incident       D.game

4.A.fond       B.afraid     C.proud          D.ashamed

5.A.greater    B.longer     C.less           D.worse

6.A.happiest   B.easiest    C.hardest        D.saddest

7.A.fail       B.survive    C.fight          D.struggle

8.A.fans       B.coach      C.classmates     D.sponsor

9.A.hope       B.belief     C.enthusiasm     D.influence

10.A.showed    B.instructed C.taught         D.trained

11.A.act       B.perform    C.deserve        D.take

12.A.named     B.valued     C.admitted       D.considered

13.A.victory   B.future     C.honor          D.potential

14.A.ignore    B.treasure   C.accept         D.confirm

15.A.character B.captain    C.figure         D.person

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival    16  (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.

Qu was a minister of the State of Chu    17    (situate) in the present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period(战国时期). He was upright, loyal and highly esteemed for his wise counsel (决策)that brought peace and prosperity to the state.    18      ，he was dismissed from office.    19   (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials，Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were   20   (able) to recover his body.

The people of Chu    21    mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost — every year   22   the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile(爬行动物)in the river    23   (steal) the rice. The spirit(幽灵) then advised themto wrap the rice and bind it    24   throwing it into the river.

During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize the rice offerings(供品) to Qu. And the dragon-boat races symbolize    25    many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.

II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)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.

26. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Self- control is important for a man.

B. We should learn to be strong.

C. A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game.

D. The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves.

27. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. If you are mad, the gods will kill you.

B. If you lose your temper first, gods will kill you first.

C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.

D. If the gods want to kill you, they will make you mad first.

28. Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?

A. The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself.

B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.

C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.

D. Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret.

29. Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?

A. Being calm in arguing.    B. Checking your temper or anger by speaking low.

C. Keeping your mouth shut.   D. Trying to make the other angry first.

30. The passage is most likely to be found in ________?

A. A scientific journal.    B. A health magazine

C. A news report.           D. An encyclopedia

B

Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.

The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup(民意调查) Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.

Arthur Stone at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.

The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.