第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分40)

完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分0分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When you are five years old, your mother is your everything. She is your   1  , friend, and nurse; the only person you rely on   2  with your hopes, dreams, and wishes. But for me, this was not the case.

My mother suffered from   3  problems that would keep her in bed for days, leaving me to care for her and look after myself. This situation   4  me to grow up much faster. While I knew my mother was sick, I felt deep down that we could   5  it and everything would be okay.   6  , in 1997 everything went terribly wrong, and my life changed forever.

Adoption is a   7  word to a five-year-old, but when I realized that my own mother had signed me over to   8  , I felt it was the worst betrayal(背叛). I suffered from shock, anger, and confusion as I attempted to adjust to my new family. No longer could I   9  anyone since the person I had loved more than all else had abandoned me. Hearing people tell me that she did it in my best interest, I felt even more   10  . I could not forgive her and always   11  how she could reject me like an old sofa.

However, the more I got older, the more I began to understand how   12  our situation had been. We had been   13  on boxes of noodles, and at one point we   14  lived in our car. I was once passed from drug-addicted cousins to mentally unstable neighbors as my mother   15  to try and save me from what our lives were becoming         16  each day passed.

Only recently have I begun to understand   17  my mother gave me to strangers.  18  she really did save me. She loved me more than anything, so she wanted me to have a   19  in life, one she could no longer offer me. I now know my life has been a special   20  only because she was selfless enough to give me up.

1. A. hostess   B. competitor   C. provider   D. candidate

2. A. mainly   B. completely   C. gradually   D. occasionally

3. A. moral   B. physical  C. social   D. legal

4. A. forced   B. inspired   C. allowed   D. convinced

5. A. stick to   B. escape from   C. decide on   D. get through

6. A. Otherwise   B. Meanwhile   C. However   D. Therefore

7. A. familiar   B. negative   C. simple   D. foreign

8. A. strangers   B. cousins   C. friends  D. neighbors

9. A. understand  B. support   C. trust  D. praise

10. A. worried   B. innocent   C. scared   D. bitter

11. A. imagined  B. wondered   C. remembered   D. questioned

12. A. ridiculous   B. urgent   C. desperate   D. complex

13. A. focusing   B. working  C. acting    D. surviving

14. A. also   B. even   C. still   D. yet

15. A. fought   B. learnt   C. hesitated  D. tended

16. A. till   B. before   C. as   D. once

17. A. how  B. why   C. that   D. what

18. A. In the long run   B. Time and again   C. For quite a while   D. All at once

19. A. challenge B. goal      C. reward    D. chance

20. A. gift    B. fact       C. test       D. deal

阅读下面材料，用不多于1个单词的正确形式填空

If you struggle against figures, maybe you were born that way, research has suggested. Being good at mathematics may be entirely pre-destined(注定的)—you either have it   1   you don’t.   And those who find   2   difficult to add up the number shouldn’t feel too hopeless—mathematical talent does not appear to be linked to all-round intelligence. Previous research has indicated that "number sense" is    3    (base) to humans. We use it to estimate such things as    4    number of seats in a cinema or crowd sizes.   U.S. psychologists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore made their finding after testing children too young to have been taught mathematics. During the study, 200 four-year-olds   5   (study) in terms of number senses, calculation skills and vocabulary. The verbal test was done for the reason   6   language and maths abilities are thought to be   7  (close) linked through general intelligence.   "Unlike   8   previous studies proved, this one shows that the link   9   number sense and maths ability is already present before the beginning of formal maths instruction. One of the most important questions is whether we can train a child’s number sense   10   (improve) his future maths ability."

第四部分 写作 (共两节 满分30)

短文改错(10分)

Yesterday my husband received a letter from a lady who had been her student in middle school. She wrote it so she wanted to thank him for the greatly influence he had on her life.

She wrote, “You were the teacher who helped me discovering my talent for maths. Before you taught us, I had never thought I will love it. To my surprise, you magically showed the beauty of maths for me. Gradually my interest in it was increased. Thanks to your teaching, I made continuous progresses in maths, and finally made my mind to study it as my major in university. Now I am an accountant of the big company. You played an important part. Thank you!”