第二节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my   44   and went to college. My first novel (小说)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —   50   was a working--class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36. A. bright   B. useless       C. simple    D. hopeful

37. A. anything  B. something   C. everything    D. nothing

38. A. low    B. poor    C. good     D. useful

39 A. support    B. happiness   C. surprise    D. thing

40. A. admitted  B. decided     C. planned    D. told

41. A. me    B. them    C. her    D. it

42. A. wrong    B. right     C. stupid      D. faulty

43. A. see            B. know         C. understand    D. face

44. A. experiment      B. practice       C. writing       D. composition

45. A. came on        B. came in       C. came out     D. came back

46. A. day            B. night         C. month        D. year

47. A. graduation      B. pass          C. degree        D. success

48. A. giving in        B. giving back   C. giving out     D. giving up

49. A. while          B. if         C. when        D. or

50. A. there           B. here     C. it            D. that

51. A. left            B. attended       C. changed       D. graduated

52. A. tired           B. calm         C. nervous .      D. famous

53. A. And            B. But           C. However      D. Well

54. A. just            B. exactly         C. so           D. very

55. A. praised        B. said          C. answered     D. advised

第三部分  阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

A

Most painters discover a style(风格) of painting that suits them and stick to that, especially if people admire their pictures. But Picasso, the great Spanish painter, was like a man who had not yet found his own particular style of painting. He kept on struggling to find the perfect expression till his death in 1973.

Some of Picasso's paintings are rich, soft coloured and beautiful. Others are ugly and cruel and strange. But such paintings allow us to imagine things for ourselves. They force us to say to ourselves, “What does he see that makes him paint like that?” And we begin to look beneath(在…之下) the surface of the things we see.

Picasso painted thousands of pictures in different styles. Sometimes he painted the natural look of things. Sometimes he seemed to break them apart and throw the pieces in our faces. He showed us what the mind knows as well as what the eye sees. At the age of 90 he remained as curious about the world as he had been when he was young. That is why people have called him “the youngest painter in the world”.

56. In the passage the writer wants to tell us _________.

A. about some pictures which have different styles

B. about Picasso's style of painting

C. it is not easy for a painter to find his own style

D. that Picasso had not found his own particular style

57. The ugly, cruel and strange paintings by Picasso _________.

A. make us try to notice something latent(潜在的) in the things

B. allow us to ask questions about them

C. force us to question anything we see

D. cause us to think what Picasso saw was different from what we see

58. The sentence“sometimes he seemed to break them apart and throw the pieces in our faces” means _________.

A. sometimes he tore his pictures into pieces

B. he broke something he was painting and threw them away

C. sometimes he showed some broken pictures to others

D. things in some of his pictures seemed to be in disorder

59. Why have people called Picasso “the youngest painter in the world”?

A. Because he looked young when he was old.

B. Because he observed things with the eye and the mind.

C. Because he never stopped painting even when he was old.

D. Because he never gave up looking for something new.

60. What do you suppose the writer thinks of Picasso's paintings?

A. He doesn't understand some of them.

B. He thinks some of them are valuable, some are not.

C. He admires them, including the ugly ones.

D. He doesn't like some of them, but he admires the painter.

B

If we are asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we might have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and written in it account(陈述) of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.

It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account(叙述) of them. Sometimes men did keep record of the important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a great deal about the people who lived in China 4000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.

Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and those have been sung and acted and told for many generations(代), for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call “remembered history”. Some of it has now been written into history, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.

61.Which of the following ideas is not talked about in the passage above?

A.“Remembered history” is less reliable(可靠的) than written history.

B. Written records of the past play a most important part in our learning of the human history.

C. A written account of our daily activities (活动) helps us to answer some questions.

D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.

62.“Remembered history” refers to _________.

A. history based on a person's imagination(想象)

B. stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth

C. songs and dances about the most important events(事件)

D. both B and C

63.“Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when _________.

A. it is written down           B. there is no written account

C. it proves to be true          D. people are interested in it

64. It can be inferred (推断) from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors(祖先) had _________.

A. kept a written record of every past event

B. not burnt their written records in wars

C. told exact stories of the most important happenings

D. made more songs and dances

C

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66. We can learn from the advertisements that ________.

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B. it’s not easy for web design graduates to get a job.

C. female Beijingers would like to advertise in a newspaper.

D. all the laid-off workers have applied for a job in a newspaper.

67. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

A. A retired CEO would like to teach in China.

B. A bodybuilding instructor has to speak 4 foreign languages.

C. A Beijinger has rich experience in human resource management.

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