请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

第二部分：知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：单项选择(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

21.This experiment turned out to be ____ failure, but as we know, success often comes after _____ failure.

A. a; a          B. 不填;不填     C. a; 不填    D. 不填; a

22. I was scared ______ when I saw the tiger jumped out of the cage and ran to the little child.

A. to the death     B. to death   C. into the death      D. of death

23.I was about to go to bed _____ one of my old classmates made a call to me.

A. that  B. as    C. while      D. when

24. A new cinema _____ here. They hope to finish it next month.

A. will be built     B. is built          C. has been built   D .is being built

25.That was the first time I _______ there and I was impressed by the friendly people very much.

A. go   B. was going     C. have gone    D. had gone

26.We missed the bus. We're _______ to be late.

A. beneficial     B. elegant     C. bound   D. annoyed

27.She tried to _____ some money for her son every month.

A. set aside      B. set up     C. set off    D. set down

28.He hurried to the station only _______ that the train had left.

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

29. When they moved to Canada，the children_______ _the change very well.

A.adapted to    B.adopted to   C.used to     D.attempted to

30. Usually a child’s behavior is a________ of his family environment.

A.recognition　　B.reflection   C.return   D.record

31. The result of the football match was 2 to 2，________the satisfaction of both teams.

A. with   B. for     C. at    D. to

32. It rained heavily, __ severe flooding in the country.

A. causing          B. to cause      C. caused         D. having caused

33. There is no doubt that his knowledge of French was adequate _______ the job.

A. to       B. for     C. with     D. at

34.It was not until the boat was ________ that they stopped waving their hands.

A. out of sight B. out of place C. out of control D. out of date

35. Although _____ less than 50 kilos, she still talks about losing weight all the time.

A. weighing 　　　B. weighed 　　　C. weighs 　　　D. to weigh

第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

An evil man once went to a wise man asking for advice about starting a new life. The wise man asked him to give up at least one of his   36   habits. He gave up telling lies.

That night, when he went to the loyal palace to  37  something, he found in the palace another person ,who said he was a thief. He too  38  that he was a thief and both   39  the treasury (国库)and   40  between themselves the diamonds found there. The other person was none other than the king, he   41  to be a thief. While the diamonds were shared, the real thief   42 the king who was losing his entire stock, he asked his  43  to leave one diamond behind in the safe. And, it was done.

The next morning, when it was   44  that the treasury had been broken into, the Minister was sent by the king to assess the  45  .The Minister found the diamond，thinking that it had  46   the eyes of the thieves. He  47  hid it in his own pocket and reported at the court that all the diamonds were  48  !

The king had got from the real thief his address the previous night while they  49  with their separate bags. So he   50  him and when the thief stood in court before the king, he admitted that   51 but one of the diamonds were stolen by him and his  52  companion. The diamond was discovered in the pocket of the Minister and the king dismissed(免……的职) him for the   53 . The real thief was appointed Minister   54  , and he gave up his other bad habits too.

It is a perfect   55   of how one step in the right direction can lead to another.

36.A.bad           B.regular  C.social   D.unfortunate

37.A.return   B.steal   C.collect  D.exchange

38.A.learned   B.suggested     C.announced D.heard

39.A.set up         B.looked into C.rang up  D.broke into

40.A.hid    B.divided  C.rewarded  D.treated

41.A.pretended      B.expected  C.hoped  D.appeared

42.A.looked down upon B.agreed with C.felt pity for D.knocked into

43.A.conductor         B.neighbor  C.friend  D.companion

44.A.said    B.discovered  C. recorded     D.believed

45.A.loss        B.cost   C.price   D.number

46.A.attracted   B. kept         C.missed  D.filled

47.A. suddenly      B.carefully  C.firmly  D.quietly

48.A.sold    B.gone      C.damaged     D.packed

49.A.parted   B.practiced  C.worked  D.rested

50.A.waited for   B.called on   C.sent for   D.thought of

51.A. both       B.some   C.none   D.all

52.A.impatient   B.unknown  C.homeless  D.disabled

53.A.puzzle   B.mistake  C.lie      D.excuse

54.A.instead      B.indeed  C.too   D.though

55.A.match      B.experience  C.experiment D.example