39．A．traveling 40．A．schedule 41．A．because 42．A．patience 43．A．cook
B．studying B．decision B．why
B．toleration B．drink
C．sightseeing C．project C．where C．agreement C．drive C．rides
B．now and then D．by any chance C．hardly C．designing C．feeling C．with C．frequently C．which C．reported C．nationality C．dreamed C．miss
D．settling D．appointment D．when
D．satisfaction D．work D．maps
44．A．wines B．meals 45．A．no matter what C．more or less 46．A．finally 47．A．making 48．A．accent 49．A．for 50．A．doubtfully 51．A．one 52．A．graduated 53．A．area 54．A．found 55．A．lose
B．even B．expecting B．expression B．to B．relatively B．it
B．applied B．community B．made B．think
D．only D．having D．thought D．of D．definitely D．what D．graded D．district D．heard D．touch
答案 36.A 37.B 38.C 39.B 40.A 41.B 42.A 43.C 44.C 45.A 46.B 47.D 48.A 49.A 50.D 51.B 52.A 53.C 54.B 55.C
Passage 13
(江西省南昌市2007届高三第三次模拟考试)
I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has 36 me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest 37 , my mother is telling me , “Don?t watch the 38 when you say, ?I?m sorry?. Hold your head up and look at the person in the 39 , so he?ll know you 40 it.”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) 41 apology: it must be direct. You must never 42 to be doing something else. You do not 43 a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 44 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your 45 . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat 46 , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad 47 . One of the important things we should do for an 48 , apology is a readiness to 49 the responsibility for our careless mistakes .We are used to making excuses ,which leaves no 50 for the other person to 51 us .Since most people are open-hearted ,the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling 52 about themselves .That ,after all ,is the 53 of every apology .It 54 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly a fault :answering for one?s 55 encourages others to take their share of the blame. 36．A．provided
B．mixed
C．compared
D．treated
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37．A．dreams 38．A．side 39．A．mind 40．A．imagine 41．A．useful 42．A．pretend 43．A．hold on 44．A．poorer 45．A．fault 46．A．cruelly 47．A．manners 48．A．active 49．A．raise 50．A．situation 51．A．advise 52．A．wiser 53．A．purpose 54．A．cares 55．A．facts
B．courses B．ground B．soul B．enjoy B．successful B．forget B．put away B．weaker B．reason B．freely B．excuses B．effective B．perform B．need B．forgive B．warmer B．method B．matters B．states
C．memories C．wall C．face C．mean C．equal C．refuse C．look through C．worse C．result C．roughly C．efforts C．extra C．admit C．sign C．warn C．better C．end C．depends C．rights
D．ideas D．bottom D．eye D．regret D．basic D．expect D．pick up D．lower D．duty D．foolishly D．roles D．easy D．bear D．room D．blame D．cleverer D．advantage D．remains D．actions
答案 36.A 37.C 38.B 39.D 40.C 41.B 42.A 43.C 44.D 45.A 46.C 47.A 48.B 49.D 50.D 51.B 52.C 53.A 54.B 55.D
Passage 14
(淄博市2007届高三第三次模拟考试)
After my brother's serious heart attack, he lay in a coma(昏迷) in the hospital. Tubes and wires 36 him up to machines that kept him alive. The only sound in his room was the 37
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whoosh(呼呼声) of the pump forcing air into his lungs. My sister--in--law stood by, 38 As a minister I had been with families in similar 39 . I had searched for the right 40 , a phrase of hope, trying to 41 them. But this was a new 42 During these difficult days, my sister-- in-- law and I were 43 between hope and resignation. We 44 every visitor. We were grateful for their stories of people who had 45 comas and return to 46 . We listened when they talked knowledgeably about the stages of grief. We knew they cared. But many visitors came 47 the door talking, and kept talking. Was that how I had dealt with my nervousness when I didn't know 48 to say?
Then a/n 49 friend came to visit. He stood with us around the bed, looking at my brother's body. There was a long silence. Suddenly 50 with emotion, he said, \There was another long pause. 51 , he hugged my sister--in--law and then turned to shake my hand. He held it a 52 longer than necessary and squeezed a little harder than 53 . As he looked at me, tears came to his eyes. And then he left. One week later, my brother died. Years 54 passed and I still remember that visitor. I do not recall his name, but I'll never forget how he shared our grief, quietly and 55 and without awkwardness. His few words spoke volumes.
36. A. added B. hooked C. put 37. A. rhythmical B. loud C. irregular D. harmonious 38. A. careful B. hopeful 39. A. conversations B. considerations
C. helpless C. locations
D. held
D. useless D. situations D. choices D. serve
D. settled D. evaluated
40. A. words B. places C. roles 41. A. convince B. teach C. comfort 42. A. challenge B. adventure C. experience D. opportunity 43. A. filled B. torn 44. A. appreciated B. expected
C. worn C. depended
45. A. suffered from B. shaken off C. come down with D. kept out 46. A. reality B. origin C. function D. normal
47. A. in B. across C. over D. through 48. A. why B. what 49. A. casual B. expected
C. how C. close
D. when D. familiar D. Finally D. period D. past
50. A. concentrated B. controlled C. overcome D. disappointed 51. A. However B. Therefore 52. A. second B. lot 53. A. before B. possible 54. A. had B. have 55. A. extraordinarily B. desperately
C. Besides C. great deal C. usual
C. are D. were C. nervously D. sincerely
答案 36.B 37.A 38.C 39.D 40.A 41.C 42.C 43.B 44.A 45.B 46.D 47.D 48.B 49.A 50.C 51.D 52.A 53.C 54.B 55.D
Passage 15
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(2007北京市朝阳区高三第二次统一考试)
My earliest memory of dad is grabbing his hand while we walked together. As I 36 older, I remember my father and I listening to basketball games on the radio. I always fell asleep 37 the game was over. When I woke up in the morning the score sheet with the 38 score on it would be lying 39 me. I’ll always remember that.
On cold mornings my father would bring his bread truck by the house. I used to ride on the floor of that bread truck 40 he delivered the bread to the stores. The 41 and the warmth from the bread made my mouth water and kept me warm. I’ll always remember that. My father would 42 all my games. One night before an important game my father told me 43 that he wouldn’t be able to watch the game because he had to deliver the bread and it was a three-hour 44 from his route（路线）. The next day as the game time approached I thought about my dad. I happened to look across the field and 45 saw his bread truck pulling into the stadium. He managed to 46 the game. I’ll always remember that.
Years later I had become a teacher. I’ll never forget the voice on the phone early one morning telling me dad had just been 47 in a traffic accident. I could hear my heart 48 in my ears. I 49 the phone and went back to my bedroom. After that nothing really 50 to me. I still taught in school 51 I couldn’t focus on my teaching. One day I was on the playground
52 a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand. His hand held mine the same way I used to hold my father’s by the last two 53 . At that moment I found my 54 in life again. You see even though my father was gone, he left something with me. He left me his smile, compassion and touch. My purpose was to use those 55 as he did. From that day On I started. I’ll always remember that! 36．A．seemed B．grew C．turned D．changed 37．A．when 38．A．fresh 39．A．across from 40．A．as 41．A．smell 42．A．react 43．A．exactly 44．A．drive
45．A．immediately 46．A．make 47．A．killed 48．A．strike 49．A．held up 50．A．cared 51．A．if 52．A．while 53．A．shoulders 54．A．purpose 55．A．lessons
B．although B．final B．in place of B．so B．color B．confirm B．sadly B．walk B．hopefully B．keep B．injured B．knock B．held back B．mattered B．once B．after B．fingers B．pleasure B．prizes
C．because C．official C．next to C．until C．taste C．serve C．slowly C．length
C．surprisingly C．take C．trapped C．beat C．hung on C．troubled C．and C．when C．arms C．position C．gifts
D．before D．opposite D．ahead of D．unless D．shape D．attend D．simply D．ride
D．unusually D．win D．saved D．hit D．hung up D．meant D．but D．before D．legs D．progress D．subjects
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答案 36.B 37.D 38.B 39.C 40.A 41.A 42.D 43.B 44.A 45.C 46.A 47.A 48.C 49.D 50.B 51.D 52.C 53.B 54.A 55.C
【09年9月更新】
Passage 16
（湖南省衡阳市八中2010届高三上学期第一次月考）
Just like your stomach, even your mind is hungry. But it 36 lets you know, because you keep it 37 thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many 38 not-so-worthy things. So it silently begins to focus on your needs and never let 39 grow. When mind loses its 40 to grow, creativity gets a full stop.
Hunger of the mind can be actually satisfied 41 plenty of reading. Now 42 reading and not watching TV? 43 reading has been the most educative tool 44 by us right from the childhood. Just like that, to 45 other aspects of our life, we have to take help of reading. You have countless books in this world which 46 answer all your questions. Once you read a book, not only do you 47 your eyes through the lines, but your mind decodes (译解) it and 48 it to you. The interesting part of the book is 49 in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new 50 . The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, 51 which you would have never thought in your wildest dreams! This is 52 but creativity. More the number of books you read, your mind will 53 like never before. Also this improves your speaking skills greatly and 54 your vocabulary largely. Within no 55 , you start speaking English or any language fluently with your friends or other people and you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
36. A. always B. never 37. A. easy B. noisy 38. A. a B. these 39. A. it B. itself 40. A. power B. force 41. A. with 42. A. why 43. A. That 44. A. produced 45. A. think 46. A. need 47. A. run 48. A. gives 49. A. found
B. for B. what B. Because B. bought B. develop B. should B. fix B. reads B. stored
C. not D. sometimes C. busy D. ready C. those D. such C. you D. yourself C. right D. freedom C. through C. how C. For C. used C. solve C. would C. place . C. offers C. shown
D. at D. when D. As
D. learned D. deal D. will D. plant D. explains D. covered
50. A. inventions B. discoveries 51. A. of B. in 52. A. everything 53. A. give up 54. A. adds to
B. nothing B. set up B. adds up
C. ideas D. dreams C. over D. at C. something D. anything C. sit up D. open up C. adds up to
D. adds in
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