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第一节：完形填空

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time.The moment was exciting.Salome’s  1  filled the room and brought the theater to life.I was so   2   that I decided to write an article about her.

I   3   Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career.She  4   and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday.When I  5  , I was scared out of my mind.I   6   I was lying.I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday.I sat there  7  , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that   8   Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible.The    9   was almost unbearable.I struggled  for days   10   draft after draft.Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large  envelope and dropped it into a mail box.

It didn’t take long.My manuscript   11  .How stupid of me! I thought.How could I   12   in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   13   the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.Five years later, I was moving to California.While cleaning  my apartment, I  14  the unopened envelope.This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   15  .

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic.Yet we need some   16   materials.Please add those and return the article immediately.We would like to   17   your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to   18  .Fear of rejection cost me dearly.I lost at least five hundred dollars and a chance of having my article appear in a major magazine.More importantly, I lost years of enjoyable writing.Today, I have become a full – time writer. 19   my experience, I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   20  to doubt yourself.

01.A.joy             B.speech C.voice              D.smile

02.A.moved B.active  C.satisfied               D.proud

03.A.visited         B.emailed C.interviewed   D.phoned

04.A.refused      B.agreed C.hesitated          D.paused

05.A.hung up B.showed up C.turned up D.put up

06.A.replied            B.discovered           C.knew             D.explained

07.A.nervously      B.patiently              C.seriously          D.quietly

08.A.blaming         B.inviting             C.fooling           D.urging

09.A.hardship          B.pressure            C.comment             D.failure

10.A.by           B.with                  C.on                       D.in

11.A.returned   B.disappeared  C.spread                 D.improved

12.A.compare         B.struggle               C.compete             D.survive

13.A.face      B.deliver           C.ignore                D.receive

14.A.took out    B.picked up     C.found out D.came across

15.A.horror   B.anxiety           C.disbelief          D.trouble

16.A.subjective         B.private     C.relevant            D.reliable

17.A.broadcast        B.create                  C.assess              D.publish

18.A.recover       B.prepare C.escape                D.concentrate

19.A.Looking up to    B.Looking down upon

C.Looking back on        D.Looking into

20.A.afford  B. attempt                C.expect              D.pretend

第二节:阅读理解

A

A sick little gift is being kept alive thanks to her best friend--a dog who carries her oxygen tank on his back. Alida’s faithful dog companion Mr. Gibbs has been specially trained to shepherd the three-year-old, who breathes through a tube most of the time. He follows her closely as she plays in her family’s ten-acre land in Louisville, uses the slide or even rides her bike.

Alida was diagnosed(诊断)with neuroendocrine hyperplasia of infancy(NEHI)when she was just eight months old. Her rare condition has just eight hundred documented sufferers throughout the world, and causes diseased pieces of the lungs to filter(过滤)oxygen through extra layers(膜)of cells making it hard or almost impossible to breathe.

For Alida and her parents, it meant that even a walk in the park was very difficult because oxygen equipment was too heavy for the youngster to be able to carry herself. As parents they wanted to do something to help their daughter survive despite having a tube following her all the time. The couple found out about “service dogs” from a TV program and realized an animal trained to help the blind could be trained to help Alida. They finally found help in the shape of golden doodle—a retriever(寻回犬)crossed with a poodle-dog Mr. Gibbs. Now--thanks to trainer Ashleigh Kinsley—Alida and Mr. Gibbs love nothing more than playing and running around together with the dog acting as Alida’s life saver.

21. What is Mr. Gibbs?

A. A trained dog.  B. A policeman.   C. A doctor.  D. A firefighter.

22. When did the doctor know Alicia caught the disease?

A. At her birth.                   B. At the age of eight.

C. Before she was one year old.      D. When she was three years old.

23. The underlined part “the couple” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A. Alida’s classmates       B. Alida’s parents    C. Alida’s doctors      D. Alida’s pets

24. How did Alicia keep alive?

A. By training her dog.            B. By staying with her parents.

C. By playing with her fellows.     D. By breathing through a tube.

B

The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution . He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture.

Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum, which he founded in Philadelphia. The world’s first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum’s most popular display was the skeleton (骷髅) of a huge, extinct elephant, which Peale unearthed on a New York farm in 1801.

Three of Peale’s seventeen children were also famous artists. Paphaelle Peale  often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and portraits.

James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures (小画像). His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America.

25. The author mentions in Paragraph 1 that Washington tipped his hat to the figures in the painting to show that ________.

A. Charles Willson Peale’s painting was very lifelike

B. Washington respected Charles Willson Peale’s work

C. Washington was friendly with Raphaelle and Titian Peale

D. the painting of the two brothers was very large

26. The underlined word “unearthed” is closest in meaning to“ ______”.

A. showed   B. dug up    C. invented   D. looked ov er

27. Which of the following is NOT the child of Charles Willson Peale?

A. Titian Peale.    B. Rubens Peale.   C. Raphaelle Peale.  D. Sarah Miriam Peale.

28. The author’s attitude toward the Peales is in general _______.

A. puzzled   B. excited   C. admiring  D. disappointed