第一节 单项填空(共15小题：每小题1分，共15分)
从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. ______your compositions carefully and some spelling mistakes can be avoided.
A. Having checked B. Check C. Checked D. To check
22. John returned with two workers, with _______ help we finally got the car out of the mud.
A. whose B. their C. which D. that
23. ---Who’s the man talking to our teacher?
---A professor _____ a visit our school.
A. pays B. to pay C. paid D. paying
24. Henry goes to a free class every Sunday afternoon which ______ at 4 pm.
A. starts B. will start C. is to start D. started
25. He did what he could ______ her out of trouble.
A. help B. to help C. helped D. helping
26. ---Thank you for inviting us. Tell your wife that she gave us a perfect party.
---I ______. See you later.
A. must B. should C. will D. can
27. ---When choosing furniture, you focus on function while I think more about the design.
---That’s _____ we differ.
A. how B. what C. which D. where
28. I ______ toward the door to go outside when suddenly Jim opened it.
A. was walking B. walked C. had walked D. walk
29. ---When will the expert come and give the lecture on economic development?
---Not until our program_______.
A. is approving B. is to approve
C. has been approved D. will be approved
30. The train _____ at the present speed until it reaches Chicago at eleven o’clock tonight.
A. has gone B. will be going C. went D. goes
31. I’m sorry you’ve been waiting so long, but it’ll still be some time _____ Tom gets back.
A. when B. before C. after D. since
32. Our previous school building, ______like an “E”, was built in 1961.
A. being shaped B. to be shaped C. shaping D. shaped
33. _____entering the classroom, remember to take your seat and turn off your cell phone.
A. At B. From C. Upon D. As
34. Our parents always tell us to believe in _______ we do if we want to succeed.
A. why B. how C. what D. which
35. Had he studied harder, he ______ the final exams.
A. would pass B. could pass
C. had passed D. would have passed
第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，共30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题上将该项涂黑。
Run freely ——A lesson about Courage
One afternoon, many years ago，I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I___36____ the car by the roadside and waited for her.
As I looked ____37___ the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around one and a half to two years old, ___38____freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short___39____. The boy had a big smile on his face___40____ he had just been set free from a ___41___. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, and without____42___ or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again ,still with a ___43___ on his face, as if nothing had happened.
Kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, but ____44___, they treat it as a learning experience. They feel compelled to try and try again until they____45___.
Not only was I impressed by the boy’s courage, but I was ___46__ touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so___47____, so natural, without signs of fear, nervousness, or of being disappointed. His only __48___ was to run freely and to do it effectively as he could. He was just being a ___49___, just being himself. He was not looking for__50___ or worrying about whether ____51____ was watching. He wasn’t concerned about being judged. He didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him ___52___and that it would be ___53___ if he did fall. No, all that___54___ to him was to accomplish the task of activity at hand to the best of his ability, feeling the experience of running fully and freely.
I learned a lot from that observation and ___55___, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in life.
36. A. left B. started C. stopped D. drove
37. A. outside B. down C. toward D. over
38. A. playing B. smiling C. rolling D. running
39. A. sight B. length C. time D. distance
40. A. even if B. so long as C. as though D. now that
41. A. prison B. house C. park D. castle
42. A. attention B. hesitation C. question D. application
43. A. puzzle B. smile C. pleasure D. surprise
44. A. therefore B. instead C. still D. anyhow
45. A. stop B. win C. achieve D. succeed
46. A. luckily B. apparently C. actually D. equally
47. A. confident B. joyful C. quiet D. proud
48. A. worry B. talent C. concern D. conclusion
49. A. student B. child C. player D. winner
50. A. chance B. fortune C. approval D. trouble
51. A. someone B. no one C. everyone D. one
52. A. try B. run C. cry D. fall
53. A. embarrassing B. disappointing C. frightening D. exciting
54. A. happened B. cared C. mattered D. related
55. A. experiment B. experience C. expressing D. expectation
第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，40分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，共30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Father’s Garden
My father was always a good (酷爱的) gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled(翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller(耕作机) ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corn, and our favorite--- red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone’s garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
56. Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?
A. He wanted to be a garden-crazy like his father.
B. He loved being in the garden with his father.
C. The garden was full of his favorite food.
D. The garden was just freshly tilled.
57. When all the kids started their own families, the author’s father _____.
A. stopped his gardening.
B. turned to other hobbies.
C. devoted more to gardening.
D. focused on planting tomatoes.
58. What happened to the garden when the author’s father was seriously ill?
A. There was a great harvest.
B. The garden was almost deserted.
C. No plant grew in the garden at all.
D. The author’s son took charge of the garden.
59. Why did the author start his garden with tomatoes?
A. He wanted to honor his father.
B. His son liked the fields of tomatoes.
C. He only knew how to grow tomatoes.
D. He thought tomatoes were easy to manage.
B
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C. CRI helps its listeners to practice and improve foreign languages.
D. CRI helps its listeners broaden their knowledge with its rich contents.
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C. take care of D. keep in touch with
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