Section B (18 marks)
Directions ： For each blank in the following passage there are. four words or phrases
marked A9 B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context
I am in my seventies now. Of all the people I remember with 36______ ,my grandfather stands out. I was fourteen and appearing in a school play. Two hours before it began, the actor to play the most important role, a homeless tramp(流
浪汉）,
called to say that he could not 37______ it. His decision shocked Mr Razin,the director,and the entire cast sat 38______ , At that moment,my grandfather walked in.
Mr Razin stared at him and got enthusiastic. “Sir, you can 39 ______our play!,Nothing could have been more 40______ . My grandfather was a banker, highly successful and respected. He was,as always ,perfectly dressed in a formal suit, and wearing a pair of leather dress shoes. My grandfather asked me, “Will you really have to cancel the play? ” I 41______ . My grandfather then said, \”
Mr Razin took my grandfather into the costume area. My grandfather was shocked when he was asked to take off his 42 ______ since no one had ever told him to do that. I suddenly realized that my grandfather had agreed to something that might make him. look 43______ , I remember that day as if it were yesterday. I can still see shiny dress shoes sitting on the floor. Then he was given his few 44______ and played his part perfectly.
Looking back, I didn’t realize what it meant for my grandfather to be 45______ into a tramp in front of many people who knew and respected him. His outer identity had been 46______ while the man himself was on the stage. He had done it for me. He always put family first. But the sacrifice he made would not become 47______ until I was older and knew something about life.
36. A. envy 37. A make 38. A. hopefully 39.A. act 40. A. humorous 41. A. nodded 42. A. suit 43. A. foolish stories 44. A.
45: A. directed 46. A. put out 47. A. apparent
B. appreciation B. take B. desperately B. show B. marvelous B. hesitated B. tie B. perfect B. words B. modelled B. left behind B. moving
C, pity C. reach C. angrily
D. ,admire D. catch D. patiently D. save D. adventurous D. ignored D. costume D. attractive D. lines D. equipped D. put on D. certain
C. help C. ridiculous
C. added
.C shoes
C. charming C. papers C. transformed C. left out C. pleasant
Section C (12 marks)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits thecontext.
Michael Jackson was born in August 1958, So was I. Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So 48_______ I. When Michael Jackson was six,he became a superstar, and was perhaps the world's most-beloved child. When I was six, my mother died. I never had a mother,but he never had a childhood. And 49._______you never get to have something, you become obsessed by it.
There is no doubt that Michael Jackson is one of the greatest talents in the world.
When he sang songs at the age of eight he could make you feel that he was 50_______experienced adult squeezing your heart with his words. When he moved he had the elegance of Fred Astaire and packed the punch of Muhammed Ali. 51_______music had an extra layer of inexplicable magic 52. _______ not only made you want to dance 53. _______actually made yon be anything you want to he. Because that is 54. _______ heroes do.
He performed in soccer stadium around the world, and sold hundreds of millions of records and dined 55. _______ prime minister and presidents. Girls and boys fell
in love with him. and everyone wanted to dance like him. He seemed other-worldly but he was a human being.
Part III Reading Comprehension (30 marks)
Directions ： Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A.B C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
A
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