On August 26,1999,New York City was struck by a terrible rainstorm.The rain caused the streets to 36 and the subway system almost came to a stop. Unfortunately,this happened during the morning rush hour.Many people who were going to work were 37 to go home.Some battled to 38 a taxi or to get on a bus.Still others faced the 39 bravely,walking miles to get to work. I 40 to be one of people on the way to work that morning.I went from subway line to subway line only to find that most 41 had stopped.After making my way 42 crowds of people,I finally found a subway line that was 43 .Unfortunately,there were so many people waiting to 44 the subway that I could not even get down the stairs to the 45 .So I took the train going in the opposite direction,and then switched back to the downtown train.Finally,after what seemed like forever,the train 46 my stop.Then I had to walk several blocks in the increasingly heavy rain.When I finally got to my office,I was 47 through,exhausted and 48 . My co-workers and I spent most of the day drying off.When it was 5∶00 pm,I was ready to go home.I was about to turn off my computer 49 I received an email from Garth,my Director: I would like to thank all of you who made the effort and 50 reported to work.It is always reassuring (令人欣慰),at times like these,when employees so clearly show their 51 to their jobs.Thank you.
Garth’s email was short,but I learned more from that 52 message than I ever did from a textbook.The email taught me that a few words of 53 can make a big difference.The rainstorm and the traffic 54 had made me tired and upset.But Garth’s words immediately 55 me and put a smile back on my face. 36.A.break
B.flood B.refused B.pay
C.sink
D.crash D.gathered D.search D.burden D.happened
37.A.forced 38.A.order
C.adjusted
C.call
39.A.climate 40.A.used
B.scenery
B.promised
C.storm
C.deserved
41.A.practice 42.A.to
B.routine
B.through
C.process
C.over
D.service
D.for
43.A.operating B.cycling C.turning D.rushing
44.A.check 45.A.street
B.carry B.ground B.crossed
C.find
D.board D.platform D.parked D.hurt D.puzzled D.after
C.floor C.reached
C.sick
46.A.paused 47.A.wet
B.weak
48.A.ashamed 49.A.while
B.discouraged
B.when B.casually
C.surprised
C.where
50.A.hardly 51.A.devotion 52.A.accurate 53.A.promise 54.A.troubles 55.A.corrected
C.absolutely C.connection
D.eventually D.reaction
D.humorous
B.donation B.urgent
C.brief C.advice C.rules
C.amazed
B.appreciation B.signals
D.guidance
D.signs
B.supported D.refreshed
答案 36.B 37.A 38.C 39.C 40.D 41.D 42.B 43.A 44.D 45.D 46.C 47.A 48.B 49.B 50.D 51.A 52.C 53.B 54.A 55.D
Passage 6
(08·天津)
Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new 16 in high school. 17 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 18 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 19 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 20 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 21 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 22 . She moved on to English and history, and was 23 to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 24 math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 25 . Mrs. Biden wasn’t as 26 as Jenna. ―I’m sorry, but we have enough 27 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.‖ Jenna smiled 28 and left. ―Why is high school so
29 ?‖ she sighed.
Later in 30 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 31 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to 32 at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to 33 . High school was just as her mom had said: ―You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 34 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 35 fish you can be.‖
16. A. processes 17. A. Therefore 18. A. difficult 19. A. editor 20. A. jumped 21. A. strange 22. A. struggling 23. A. ashamed 24. A. put up 25. A. committee 26. A. enthusiastic 27. A. speakers 28. A. widely 29. A. similar 30. A. physics 31. A. pleasure 32. A. fit in 33. A. swim 34. A. in return for 35. A. slimmest
答案 16.C 17.B 26.A 27.D 28.B B. decisions C. challenges
D. exercises
B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides B. easy C. boring D. interesting B. boss C. candidate D. judge B. sank C. stopped D. raced B. happy C. awful D. lonely B. improving C. working D. complaining B. disappointed C. shocked D. relieved B. prepare for C. worry about D. give up B. newspaper C. radio D. team B. artistic C. sympathetic D. realistic B. readers C. cheerleaders D. writers B. weakly C. excitedly D. brightly B. ordinary C. different D. familiar B. history C. English D. math B. hope C. trouble D. sorrow B. look out C. stay up D. get around B. try C. ask D. escape B. in case of C. in terms of D. instead of B. smallest
C. best D. gentlest
19.D 20.B 21.C 22.A 23.D 24.C 25.B 29.C 30.D 31.C 32.A 33.B 34.D 35.C
18.A Passage 7
(08·浙江)
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call 21 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did __22__the water. Any kind of __23__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __24__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __25__the water, moving through it, __26__it all around me. I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__. But my father always __36__and said easily, ―Oh, no, it’s __37__.‖ Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream... A poet once said, ―We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is __39__.‖ And I think it is not only what we ―look at once, in childhood‖ that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, looks at us. 21．A. desire
B. joy B. refuse B. bus B. Then
C. anger
D. worry D. love
22．A. avoid 23．A. boat 24．A. But 25．A. on 26．A. having
C. praise
C. train D. bike C. And C. by
D. Still D. in D. getting D. runner D. fears
B. off
B. leaving C. making B. rider B. faiths
C. walker C. rights
27．A. swimmer 28．A. hopes
29．A. spending 30．A. should 31．A. next 32．A. away from 33．A. put up
B. saving B. would B. only B. out of B. break down
C. wasting C. had to C. other C. by C. play with
D. ruining D. ought to D. last D. inside
D. work out D. before
D. lab equipment D. turned out D. funny
34．A. the moment 35. A. fishing net 36. A. stood up 37. A. fine
B. the first time C. while
B. office things C. wooden chair B. set out B. strange
C. showed up C. terrible
38. A. the student 39. A. memory 40. A. which
B. the assistant C. myself
B. wealth B. who
D. himself
C. experience D. practice
C. what
D. whose
答案 21.B 22.D 23.A 24.C 25.D 26.A 27.A 28.D 29.A 30.B 31.B 32.D 33.C 34.C 35.B 36.C 37.A 38.C 39.A 40.B
Passage 8
(08·重庆)
I was on a bus one March evening.The driver didn’t 36 to start the bus soon because it was not yet 37 .A middle-aged woman got on.Tired and sad,she told her story 38 ,not to anyone in particular.On her way to the station,half of her
39 was stolen.The other half was hidden under her blouse,so she 40 still had some left.A few minutes later,she stopped crying,but still looked 41 .
When all the seats were taken,the driver started the engine.The conductor began to collect fares(车费).When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes,he 42 that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home.On hearing this,she ordered the old man to 43 the bus.The old man was almost in tears as he 44 her to let him take the bus home.The driver took the conductor’s side and repeated the conductor’s 45 .
The woman was watching the incident. 46 the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,she interfered(干预).