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第一卷(共115分)

I.单项填空从A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

21.  The fresh air on the____him____his headache

A cured;for        B. cured;of          C. cured;/         D. cured;from

22.Can you____what the writer has said?

A. make sense           B. make a sense of             C. make sense of           D. make of sense

23.I think it is his uncle who____for the car accident.

A. is going to blame         B. is to be blamed          C. is to blame         D. should blame

24. Unless____to her birthday,you don’t have to send her a present.

A.invited   B. inviting   C.being invited  D.having invited

25.What he said was ____.

A. great importance  B.very importantly  C.of great importance  D.of great important

26.____in thought,he sat still in the chair.

A. Losing  B. Having lost  C. Lost  D. To lose

27.It,s wonderful that the Chinese people____made so much progess these years.

A. must  B. can  C. should  D. may

28. He was so tired that he fell____asleep.

A. very  B. much  C. fast  D. quickly

29..Who provides these children____food and clothing?

A. with  B. for C. to  D. of

30. ____can you expect to get a pay rise.

A. with hard work  B. Although work hard   C. Only by working hard

D. Now that he works hard

31. ____the little boy.

A. Out rushed  B. Rushed out  C. Out was rushing  D. Out was rushed

32. A driver should____the road when____.

A. concentrate on;drive  B.concentrate in;driving

C concentrate to;drove   D. concentrate on;driving

33.----Will you go skating with me this weekend?

----It____.

A. all depending  B. all depends  C. is all depended  D. is all depending

34.Jack catghes a bad cold at____the same time each year, which is rather strange.

A. privately  B. roughly  C. constantly  D. instantly

35. Their performance was much better than____.

A. expecting  B. it expected  C. expected  D. is expected

Ⅱ.完形填空阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)

One day, in Philadelphia, three men walked into the Thirtieth Street Station. One of them went to the Information Centre to   36 the arrival time of trains. There he found out that the three o'clock train 37 New York was going to leave   38 late that day.

When an hour later they were told there was a 39, they suggested that they all go to a 40bar to wait. So off they went.

About an hour later they. 41 the station laughing and joking and relaxed. When they arrived at the right 42 , they saw that the train was 43 moving slowly out of the station.

All the three men 44 after the train shouting, "Wait! Wait! Come back! ". Two of them caught up with the 45  car, grasped the handle of its car platform,   46  themselves up, and got on the moving train.   47 this time, the third man had stopped running. As he 48 watched the train pull out of the station, he could 49 see his friends wave and hear them call.

At first he had a puzzled 50 on his face. Then after a short moment, he 51 round and slapped his knee as he laughed and laughed.

A man standing nearby, who had seen 52 all, turned to him and asked, "   53 is so funny, fellow? After all, your two friends made it and you didn't."

The man was still 54 so hard that he had tears in his eyes as he replied, "Well, these two fellows had meant to come to    55 me off! And now you see what has happened. Isn't it fun?"

(    )36. A. examine      B. find             C. check             D. tell

(    )37. A. in            B. to               C. from              D. through

(    )38. A. an hour       B. a quarter        C. half an hour        D. two hours

(    )39. A. mistake       B. accident         C. incident           D. delay

(    )40. A. popular       B. nearby           C. nice               D. cheap

(    )41. A. met at       B. went out of     C. returned to         D. came back

(    )42. A. centre        B. direction          C. way               D. track

(    )43. A. still          B. yet               C. already            D. soon

(    )44. A. ran          B. came              C. climbed           D. looked

(    )45. A. new         B. last                C. next              D. first

(    )46. A. pushed       B. rose               C. pulled             D. put

(    )47. A. At           B. By                C. Since             D. To

(    )48. A. surprisingly   B. carefully          C. hopelessly         D. eagerly

(    )49. A. not          B. still               C. hardly             D. also

(    )50. A. sight         B. problem           C. expression         D. case

(    )51. A. turned        B. ran               C. was               D. broke

(    )52. A. it            B. him              C. these              D. those

(    )53. A. How         B. What             C. Where             D. Why

(    )54. A. crying        B. moving           C. laughing           D. joking

(    )55. A. take          B. see               C. drive             D. send

Ⅲ.阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

(A)

I wonder about my Mom sometimes, and all the other black mothers who got up at 6 a. m. to go to the white man's house with sacks over their shoes because it was so wet and cold. I wonder how they made it. They worked very hard for the man. They made his breakfast and they swept his floors and they took care of his babies. They didn' t have too much time for the three of us.

I wonder about my Mom, who walked out of a white woman's clean house at midnight and came back to her own where the lights had been out for three months, and the pipes were frozen and the wind came in through the holes in the wail. She'd have to deal with the rats: leave some food out for them so they wouldn't bite the doors or the babies. Oh, they were just like part of the family!

I wonder how she felt telling those white kids she took care of to brush their teeth after they ate, to wash their hands after they finished bathing. She could never tell her own kids because there wasn't soap or water back home.

I wonder how my Mom felt when we came home from school with a list of vitamins and pills the school nurse said we had to have. Mom would cry all night, and then go out and spend most of the rent money for pills. A week later, the white man would come for his eighteen dollars' rent and Mom would beg him to wait until tomorrow. She had to lie to him that she had lost her wallet or the relief check was coming soon or the white people had some money for her. Tomorrow I'd be hiding in the closet because there was only supposed to be two kids in the flat, and I could hear the rent man shout at my Mom and call her a cheat. And when he finally went away, Mom put the sacks on her shoes and went off to the rich white man's house to dress the rich white kids so that their mother could take them to a special baby doctor.

(   )56. Mother got up at 6 a. m. every day, because

A. she had to cook breakfast for her children

B. she had to catch the first bus to the factory

C. she had to work in the white man' s house

D. she had to go to see a special baby doctor

(  )57. Mother never told us to brush our teeth or to wash our hands because

A. she thought we didn't need to

B. we didn't like washing hands

C. we had done everything very well

D. there was no soap or water in our home

(   )58. Why did the writer hide in a closet when the landowner came for rent?

A. The closet could only hold two kids.

B. Only two kids were allowed to live in the house.

C. They should pay more rent for two kids.

D. There was only one bedroom for the two kids.

(   )59. What does the writer mainly tell us?

A. Black people lead a miserable life.

B. Black people don't have enough rent money.

C. White people lead an expensive life.

D. White people have special baby doctors.

(  )60,Why did Mother have to lie to the white man?

A. Because mother hated the white man

B. Because mother had no money to pay the rent

C. Because black people like to do so

D. Because someone told mother to do so

(B)

Babies are not just passing idle time when they stare at the television--they are actually learning about the world, U. S. researchers said. Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television, based on the study, said Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tuffs University in Boston, who led the research. "Children as young as 12 months are making decisions based on the emotional reactions of adults around them," Mumme said in a statement. "It turns out they can also use emotional information they pick up from television." Mumme's team already knew that babies watch other children and adults for information about the world. A mother urging her baby to eat some "yummy" soup or a brother crying in fear when a dog approaches can influence a baby's reaction. Mumme's team tested babies to determine if television has the same influence, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as red letter holder, a blue ball, and a yellow lubber. Babies aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the same objects to play with. Ten-month-olds did not seem to be influenced by the videos, but the 1-year-olds were. When the actors acted naturally or positively to an object, the babies happily played with them. But if the actor had seemed afraid or disgusted, the babies would avoid the object.

(   )61. The underlined word "psychology" means the study of         .

A. human's society and its growth

B. human's hopes and dreams

C. human's mind and how it works

D. human's languages and cultures

(   )62. Which of the following is Mumme's conclusion?

A. Small babies should not be allowed to watch television programs.

B. Adults should let their babies do nothing but watch television.

C. TV programs provide small babies with all the information they need.

D. One-year-olds can be emotionally influenced by TV programs.

(   )63. Mumme reached his conclusion by         .

A. measuring the time babies spent in front of TV

B. making TV programs and advertisements for kids

C. showing actors how to react to blue balls

D. observing small babies' reactions to TV programs

(  )64. Which of the following is TRUE according to the researchers?

A. Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television.

B. Actors may try to behave themselves well in front of babies.

C. Babies may be allowed to choose what they see on TV.

D. Watching TV does harm to babies' eyes.

(  )65. When the actors acted naturally or positively to an object,here positively means

A.accurately  B.exacltly  C likely   D.actively