most likely lose the sight of the plot as a whole. Therefore, you must know what colors are appropriate for your imagery, as overloading your painting with too many colors will make you lose your sense of the subject and of your readers as well. 56. The example of a Victorian style house in the third paragraph is mentioned to show us_______.
A. the locale of a story should match its architecture B. the locale of a story should be put in a specific time C. the locale and time are the first two elements of a story D. the locale and clothing help develop the plot of a story
57. What contributes a lot to the mood of a story according to the passage?
A. Time and locales C. Culture and senses
B. Atmosphere and geography
D. Culture and geography
58. What does the underlined part “subject” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Theme of a story C. Twist of a story
B. Ending of a story D. Plot of a story
59. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. What is essential for a story? C. What is the setting of a story?
D
When Kay Adams received her college degree, she took a job teaching grade school in
B. How to develop a story? D. How to appreciate a story?
her New Hampshire hometown. The first six months after Michael vanished she made weekly telephone calls to his mother asking about him. Mrs. Corleone was always friendly and always wound up saying, “You a very nice girl. You forget about Michael and find a nice husband.” Kay was not offended at her bluntness and understood that the mother spoke out of concern for her as a young girl in an impossible situation.
When her first school term ended, she decided to go to New York to buy some decent
clothes. She had lived like a spinster for almost two years, reading and teaching, refusing dates, refusing to go out at all, even though she had given up making calls to Long Beach.
Kay was a little embarrassed now. “This is Kay Adam, Mrs. Corleone,” she said. “Do you
remember me?”
“sure, sure, I remember you,” Mrs. Corleone said. “How come you didn’t call up any
more? Have you got married?”
“Oh, no,” Kay said. “I’ve been busy.” She was surprised at the mother obviously being
annoyed that she had stopped calling. “Have you heard anything from Michael? Is he all right?”
There was silence at the other end of the phone and then Mrs. Corleone’s voice came
strong. “Michael is a home. He hasn’t called you up? He hasn’t seen you?”
Kay felt her stomach go weak from shock and a humiliating desire to weep. Her voice
broke a little when she asked, “How long has he been home?”
Mrs. Corleone said, “Six months.”
“Oh, I see,” Kay said. And she did. She felt hot waves of shame and then anger. But she
kept her voice as cool as possible. “I see, thank you very much,” she said. “I’ m glad Michael is home again and all right. I just wanted to know. I won’t call you again.”
Mrs. Coleone’s voice came sharply over the phone. “You are a very nice girl but you
don’t have much brains.” She chuckled. “You come out to see me, not Michael. I want to talk to you.” The phone clicked. Mrs. Corleone had hung up.
Kay could have called back and said she wasn’t coming but she had to see Michael, to
talk to him, even if it was just polite talk. She jumped off the bed and started to get ready to see him.
When she arrived, Mrs. Corleone herself opened the door and greeted Kay with a warm
embrace that surprised her. Then she surveyed Kay with an appraising eye. “You are a beautiful girl,” she said flatly. She pulled Kay inside the door. “Michael comes home pretty soon,” she said. “You will surprise him.”
She saw him first through the kitchen window. A car pulled up in front of the house and
the two other men got out. Then Michael. He straightened up to talk with one of the other men. His left face was exposed to her view. It was cracked like the plastic face of a doll that a child has wildly kicked. In a curious way it did not hide his handsomeness in her eyes but moved her to tears.
She heard the door open and his footsteps in the hall turning into the kitchen and then he
was in the open space, seeing her and his mother. He seemed impassive, and then he smiled
ever so slightly, the broken half of his face halting the widening of his mouth. And Kay, who had wanted just to say “Hello, how are you?” in the coolest possible way, slipped out of her seat to run into his arms, and buried her face against his shoulder. He kissed her wet cheek and held her until she finished weeping. “I never meant to do that,” Kay said. “it’s just that nobody told me how badly they hurt you.”
60. By “You are a very nice girl. You forget about Michael and find a nice husband.” Mrs. Corleone________.
A. indicated that Michael no longer lived with her. B. showed her consideration for Kay in her own way C. expressed her being annoyed by Kay’s weekly calls D. reminded Kay that Michael didn’t love her anymore
61. Why did Kay finally decide to call Michael’s mother?
A. She felt very lonely in the hotel. B. She missed Mrs. Corleone very much. C. She was a complete stranger in New York. D. She recalled memories together with Michael.
62. When Mrs. Corleone told Kay that Michael had been home for six months, Kay felt _______.
A. angry and ashamed C. happy and relaxed
B. doubtful and worried
D. grateful and relieved
63. From the conversations between Kay and Mrs. Corleone, we can infer that Mrs. Corleone_____.
A. didn’t think highly of Kay B. understood and appreciated Kay C. knew everything about Michael
D. was very polite but was unwilling to help Kay
64. After seeing Michael, Kay might think that it was because _______ that Michael made no contract with her.
A. they lived apart
B. he lost interest in her
D. his mother didn’t allow her to call
C. his face got wounded
65. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows that______.
A. Kay was polite
B. Kay loved Michael deeply C. Kay felt sorry for Michael
D. Kay expressed sympathy for Michael
卷二
第四部分：单词拼写 （根据首字母和中文，填写相应单词，注意其正确形式。共10小题，每空1词，每题1分，满分10分）
1. A fantastic concert will be b_____ live on TV tonight. Are you going to watch it? 2. My cousin Annie loves to read varieties of poems a_____ every morning, and the beautiful voice attracts a lot of passers-by.
3. The job was really a s______ for me, and it wasn’t a little challenging.
4. The new policy may encourage a______ corruptions(腐败) in the field of education in our country.
5. I think you owe me a reasonable e______ for your being late 3 times a week. 6. What impressed me most in the exhibition was a______ (雕塑) of a human hand. 7. He just chose one from the five ______(精挑细选的) books and began to read while his wife was doing some shopping.
8. _____(交流，交换) ideas more frequently with your colleagues can obviously help improve working efficiency.
9. On his ______ (毕业) from university, he wants to the west to teach the children in the mountainous area.
10. Such as Albert Einstein, a simple man with great ______(成就).
第五部分：完成句子和句型转换（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分） 1. 那些支持台独的人是注定会失败的。
Those who support Taiwan to be ____ _____ china are to fail.
2. 不能充分利用空余时间，在考试中被老师评为不及格的同学需重修那门课。 Those students who do not make the ____ ____ their spare time and whom the teachers
______ may have to take the class again. 3. 他订阅了各式报刊以不断了解最新消息。
He has subscribed to varieties of newspapers to ______ himself ______ ______ the ______ news.
4. These articles were downloaded for nothing from website Chinadaily.com.cn.
5. The combination of these 2 chemicals is believed to cause the temporary-lift we experience after we eat chocolate.
____ ____ ____ the combination of these 2 chemicals causes the temporary-lift we experience after _______ chocolate.
第六部分 任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
It often seems that people have a hard time in speaking a seemingly familiar name. did
you ever have someone’s name on the tip of your tongue and yet you were not able to recall it? When this happened, what did you do? Next time this happens again, what should you do?
You should not try to recall it. Instead, just do something else for a couple of minutes and
then the name may come into your head. Why? The name is just there, since you have met this person and learned his name. it, waiting there, only has to be dug out. The initial(最初的) effort to recall prepares the mind for operation, but it is the subconscious(下意识的) activities that go to work to dig up a dim(模糊的) memory. Forcing yourself to recall almost never helps because it doesn’t loosen your memory; it only tightens it.
That’s why students find the preparatory method greatly helpful in examinations. They
read over the questions before trying to answer any of them. Then they answer first the ones of which they are most confident. At the same time, deeper mental activities in the subconscious mind are taking place; work is being done on the more difficult ones will usually begin to come into consciousness. It is often just a question of waiting for recall to come to the memory.
You see, forcing ourselves to think hard to recall something usually doesn’t help. Chances
are that the harder we think, the more difficulty we face in thinking of what we want to.
Offering our mind time to work is what we are expected to do.
Problem People 1.______ to recall what they are sure they know. They are 2.____ not to try to recall it Solution immediately. They can do something else for a while 3.____ of thinking hard about it. It takes time for the subconscious 4.______ activities to go to work to dig up a dim memory, in which case forcing oneself to recall can make the memory 5.____ Students find the preparatory method of great 6._____ in examinations. They, Example having read over the questions, first answer easy ones. 7.______, the subconscious activities are 8. ____ to deal with harder ones. People should offer their mind time to 9._______ work so that a dim memory can be 10._____ up.