第二节完形填空(20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30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。

For a few years, I have been wearing a ring on my right hand. It’s not always the 36 ring, but it’s always a ring that has 37 on it so that when I look at it, I’m 38 or reminded of something important. I have made a 39 of buying rings like this whenever I see one in a store. Sometimes I give them away as 40 to someone like Jennie.

I first met Jennie in the 41 waiting room and we had talked several times. One night I sat down beside her and 42 how her son was doing because I knew that he was in very 43 condition. She told me that she didn’t know what to do any more because it seemed none of the 44 from the doctors was good. They weren’t at all sure her son was going to 45 the accident that had hurt him so badly. With 46 in her eyes she said, “They’re 47 my hope.”

I knew then that it was 48 just a coincidence that I was wearing the ring that I had on that day. As she 49 to talk, I 50 slipped the ring off my finger and placed it in Jennie’s hand. I told her to wear it to remember that God loved her and He would be with her 51 all of this. 52 Jennie looked down at the ring, she got excited and then held it tightly, 53 the word written on the ring was “HOPE”.

The last day I was at the hospital, I saw Jennie in the distance as I got on the lift. She 54 and held up the hand with the ring on it as she called out to me saying, “Look, I 55 have Hope!”

36.A.special B.expensive C.same D.valuable

37.A.words B.pictures C.names D.symbols

38.A.admired B.encouraged C.trusted D.puzzled

39.A.plan B.point C.list D.habit

40.A.gifts B.prizes C.awards D.thanks

41.A.railway B.school C.hospital D.airport

42.A.asked B.explained C.thought D.found

43.A.favorable B.normal C.serious D.excellent

44.A.advice B.news C.instructions D.comfort

45.A.defeat B.experience C.predict D.survive

46.A.apologies B.tears C.anger D.doubt

47.A.keeping up B.bringing down C.cutting off D.taking away

48.A.other than B.rather than C.more than D.les than

49.A.continued B.refused C.attempted D.started

50.A.cautiously B.quietly C.nervously D.shyly

51.A.over B.beyond C.through D.within

52.A.Until B.While C.Since D.When

53.A.for B.so C.yet D.and

54.A.shouted B.waved C.cheered D.hesitated

55.A.ever B.only C.still D.just

第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Just 25 years ago, the top three career hopes for young people in Britain were teacher, banker and doctor. Now, they want to be sports star, pop star and actor, according to survey by the Guardian newspaper.

Rachel, a character in the popular TV show Glee, may be said to speak for British teenagers. “Nowadays being nobody is worse than being poor.” He said.

Emma Brockes, a reporter with the Guardian, believes it is “the bad influence of celebrity(名人) culture” that is to blame. “When children wanted to be doctor, it wasn’t because they were really more interested in the functions of human organs than they are now; you go where the respect is.” She wrote.

It could explain why there has been such an increase in levels of anxiety and depression. Dr Carlo Stranger, of Tel Aviv University, studied the sense of self for his new book The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the 21st Century. He told the Daily Mail that young people now are “affected by the close connection to the global entertainment network, which has turned ranking and rating people according to wealth and celebrity into an obsession(痴迷).”

“As humans, we naturally measure ourselves to those around us, but now we live in a global village. We are comparing ourselves with the most ‘important’ people in the world and finding ourselves wanting,” he said. Today, even high achievers constantly fear that they are insignificant when they compare themselves to success stories in the media.

The way out? Simply stop measuring your achievement through a fantasy of wealth and celebrity. Dr Strenger said that it is a process called “active self-acceptance through a constant search for self-knowledge through life.”

“The fear of insignificance can only be overcome through strong individual and cultural identity over and above measurable achievement,” he said.

56.Nowadays, young people in Britain want to .

A.choose jobs based on interests B.become famous

C.be teacher, banker and doctor D.earn more money

57.According to Emma Brockes, what causes the increasing level of anxiety?

A.Choices of future careers. B.Access to the global network.

C.Bad influences of celebrities. D.Endless comparison with others.

58.Which of the following is true of Dr Carlo Strenger?

A.He is a newspaper reporter. B.He is the spokesman of teenagers.

C.He tells success stories on TV. D.He is against ranking people with wealth.

59.Dr Carlo Strenger suggests that young people should .

A.seek active self-acceptance B.stick to their own dreams

C.make great achievements D.search for the secret of wealth

60.The text is mainly written to .

A.talk about job choices B.analyse a social phenomenon

C.encourage celebrity culture D.introduce three famous people

B

Heavy downpours last month in Rhode Island led to widespread flooding, causing millions of dollars in property damage and leaving thousands homeless. The flood waters also poured vast amounts of raw sewage(未经净化的污水) into the rivers and streams that flow into Narragansett Bay.

It sounds like the makings of an environmental nightmare. But in fact it’s just the opposite. To scientists’ delight. The sewage-loaded floodwaters have caused a well-timed growth of phytoplankton. The microscopic creatures that form the foundation of marine(海洋的) food chains. With more food available for fish. Clams and other sea creatures. The bay’s fisheries industry is expected to benefit.

In decades past. Narragansett Bay typically experienced a late winter early spring algal(海藻) bloom that fed creatures up and down the water column. But in recent years, the waters of Narragansen Bay warmed greatly, meriting this seasonal event.

Mark Berman, an oceanographer with the Nationa. Marine Fishertes Service. Said the flood seemed to have sent the bay back in its normal state.

However, local, mutate and federal officials in Rhode Island leave been batting other algal blooms that, by contrast, are causing widespread harm to the Narragansett Bay ecosystem. During summer months, sewage and agricultural runnel flows into the bay. Causing large blooms. But inseam of becoming food for sea creatures, much of the phytoplankton is consumed by bacteria, which grow last in the warmer waters. The rapid bacteria growth leads to hypoxia decrease of oxygen in the water that can cause large fish tools. One such die-off occurred in 2003. when millions of oxygen-starved fish washed up on the belches of Narragansett Bay.

The flood’s positive impact will probably be a one-time event, Mr Berman said. Meanwhile efforts to curb the harmful summer honors continue; in 2003. for instance, Providence completed a $359 million sewage tonal under the city designated to reduce the polluted storm overflow into Narragansett Bay.

61.Scientists believe that the row sewage flowing into the bay will .

A.pollute the island’s environ mean B.cause lots of property damage

C.increase the fisheries production D.destroy the food chains in the bay

62.The potential benefit of fisherics industry rclics on the .

A.warm temperatures of the bay. B.growth of phytoplankton

C.large summer alga blooms D.consumption of oxygen by beaters

63.People struggle against the summer blooms because they will .

A.pollute the local natural environment B.increase the prcducmon of fishery industry

C.cause large fish kills of the bay indirectly D.provide too much food ior sea creatures

64.It can be inferred that .

A.money spent on the summer blooms has been wasted

B.the government is inverting to promote the local fisheries

C.research of accanology should he encouraged

D.she raw sewage impacts are currently con radiator

65.The underlined word “curb” in the last passage can be defined as “ ”.

A.control B.consume C.cause D.cure

C

Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves,after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.

A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks(音叉)to play music as they travel.

The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface.The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.

Depending on how far apart the grooves are,a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes,and designers are able to create a distinct tune.

Paten documents for the design describe it as notches(刻痕)“formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.

There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song.Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda.He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer(推土机)before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.

The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to ge the intended sound.

“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward,while driving around 12mph[20km/h]has a slow-motion effect,making you almost car-sick.”

66.According to the passage,melody roads use to create different notes.

A.cars B.grooves C.spaces between intervals D.bulldozers

67.We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on .

A.how far the grooves are B.how big the grooves are

C.the number of the grooves D.the speed of the car

68..The underlined word“optimal”in the passage might mean .

A.fastest B.possible C.best D.suitable

69..In order to hear the music well,you have to .

A.drive very fast B.drive slowly

C.open the windows wide D.keep the windows closed

70.What’s the best title of the passage?

A.A New Type of Music B.Melody Roads in Japan

C.A Musical Road Surface D.A New Invention in Japan

D

Duck-billed platypuses cannot be real, can they? The duck-billed platypuses of eastern Australia are small, shy animals.This small mammal is such a strange creature that when the first one arrived at the British Museum in London 1798, scientists thought that someone was playing a practical joke on them.

One cannot blame the scientists for having such a thought because it is definitely one of nature's strangest creatures alive.It looks like an animal which has been put together using various parts of different animals.It is a four-legged animal with a tail like a beaver's, webbed feet and a duck's bill.It has no outer ears.What is stranger still is the fact that it breastfeeds its young like all other mammals, yet lays eggs like fish, reptiles and birds.It grows to about 47 centimeters in length and weighs around 1.5 kilogrammes.

Male platypuses are poisonous.They have a pointy part on their hind ankles that connects to a poison bag in each leg.They mainly use these weapons in mating battles with other males.However, if threatened, they will use them to attack their enemies.

The platypus is native to Australia.There are thousands of them living in the wet lands, lakes and rivers of eastern Australia and parts of Tasmania.It feeds on underwater animals such as shrimps, worms, frogs, snails and small fish.When a platypus is underwater, it is almost deaf and blind.However, scientists have discovered that the animal can still find its food through a sense of smell and a sensitive sense of touch in the bill.The bill, in fact, has sensors which can detect the smallest electrical charge sent out by the movement of prey.This explains why the strange creature has the strangest habit of eating ordinary flashlight batteries.

71.Why did the scientists think they were being made fun of?

A.The animal they saw was too small and shy.

B.The animal had traveled all the way from Australia.

C.The animal looked too strange to be real.

D.The British Museum had been charged too much money.

72.Paragraph 2 mainly tells us about the platypus' ______.

A.strange features B.unique appearance

C.way of feeding its young D.usual size and weight

73.In what way is the male platypus' weapon dangerous to its enemies?

A.It's as sharp as a knife. B.It's on the powerful hind ankles.

C.It attacks at all times. D.It can send out poison.

74.The platypus partly relies on its ______ to find food under the water.

A.eyes B.ears C.nose D.legs

75.The platypus eats flashlight batteries because ______.

A.they send out electrical charge B.they taste delicious to it

C.they look like swimming frogs D.they provide energy for it