从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1．While he was investigating(调查) ways to improve the telescope, Newton made ______ discovery which completely changed ______ man’s understanding of colour.
A．a；不填 B．a；the
C．不填；the D．the；a
2．—Guess what! I came across an old friend at the party last night.
— ______ I’m sure you had a wonderful time.
A．Sounds good! B．Very well.
C．How nice! D．All right.
3．Maybe you have been to many countries, but nowhere else ______ such a beautiful palace.
A．can you find B．you could find
C．you can find D．could you find
4．—How do you deal with the disagreement between the company and the customers?
—The key ______ the problem is to meet the demand ______ by the customers.
A．to solving; made B．to solve; making
C．to solve; make D．to solving; making
5．I couldn’t ______. The line was busy.
A．go by B．go around
C．get in D．get through
6．We’re been looking at houses but haven’t found ______ we like yet.
A．one B．ones
C．it D．them
7．The doctor strongly ______ the teenager not to eat too much in KFC, ______ wasn’t good for his health.
A．advised; that B．suggested; which
C．advised; which D．suggested; that
8．There are so many books for me to ______, so I can’t decide which one to ______.
A．choose; choose B．choose; be chosen
C．choose from; choose D．choose; choose from
9．In order to improve English, ______.
A．Jenny’s father bought her a lot of tapes
B．Jenny bought a lot of tapes for herself
C．a lot of tapes were bought by Jenny
D．a lot of tapes were bought by Jenny’s father
10．Your can’t imagine that a well-behaved gentleman ______ be so rude to a lady.
A．might B．need
C．should D．would
11．Nowadays more and more students are working directly on the Internet, ______ different types of courses are supplied.
A．that B．which
C．where D．whose
12．Our group went to the seaside. It was an hour’s journey ______.
A．more or less B．in one word
C．now and then D．sooner or later
13．What surprised me was not what he said but ______ he said it.
A．the way B．in the way that
C．in the way D．the way which
14．—I’ll tell Mary about her new job tomorrow.
—You ______ her last week.
A．ought to tell B．would have told
C．must tell D．should have told
15．She has set a new record, that is, the sales of her latest book ______ 50 million.
A．have reached B．has reached
C．are reaching D．had reached
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was studying theater at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and feeling anxious and uncertain about my future. Will I be able to support myself? I 16 . That summer, I decided to see if I could 17 it on my own.
Two girlfriends and I piled into a car and 18 to Aspen, Colo, where I found a job as a maid at a resort hotel. I don’t remember what I 19 , but it was so little that I lived on spaghetti(意大利面条), brown rice and Kool-Aid.
I was at the hotel by six o’clock every morning to 20 with continental breakfast. When breakfast was finished, I cleaned the room 21 it was served and then the conference rooms and lobby restrooms. I had never been in a men’s room before, and I was always terrified of someone 22 in while I was on my knees scrubbing the floors and toilets.
I came from an upper-middle-class background, and my parents’ friends always treated me 23 . But now that I was a helper, I found that many of the guests of the same background were not so nice. That was a 24 .
People were 25 to serve themselves at the continental breakfast; it was my 26 to walk around the room and refill coffee and juice. But some people wanted me to do 27 for them. I remember one man who kept 28 me to get his food and demanding things we did not 29 . He was also very critical. Even though I wanted to say, “Go and get it yourself.”I knew it was my job to be 30 and do in a nice way whatever I was told. So I’d take a deep 31 and somehow get what he wanted.
Still, I’ve never forgotten how it felt to be spoken to so 32 . Today, whenever I am in a cab of a restaurant, I always try to be as thoughtful as possible. Service-industry jobs are not easy, and they’re even 33 when people treat them like dirt.
My first job also helped me gain confidence. After that summer I realized that what I had been afraid of in acting was 34 . I now knew that it would be worse if I failed at it without really trying. I decided to give it all my 35 . If I failed, at least I would always know that I had done my best.
16．A．knew B．guessed C．wondered D．understood
17．A．make B．give C．work D．take
18．A．set B．left C．headed D．arrived
19．A．did B．found C．learned D．earned
20．A．cook B．deal C．help D．come
21．A．what B．that C．when D．where
22．A．walking B．looking C．going D．standing
23．A．badly B．well C．friendly D．hard
24．A．danger B．problem C．shock D．pleasure
25．A．thought B．supposed C．hoped D．believed
26．A．turn B．honor C．chance D．job
27．A．anything B．everything C．nothing D．something
28．A．ordering B．wanting C．begging D．persuading
29．A．give B．get C．serve D．like
30．A．busy B．ready C．fast D．quiet
31．A．walk B．note C．breath D．rest
32．A．rudely B．nicely C．nervously D．angrily
33．A．nicer B．harder C．ruder D．worse
34．A．failure B．success C．loss D．fortune
35．A．life B．patience C．thought D．energy
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
8:30 PM
Outlook
Outlook is back with a new series of reports to keep you update with all that’s new in the world of entertainment. Stories go all the way from the technical to the romantic, from stage to screen. There will be reports of the stars of the moment, the stars of the future and the stars of the past. The director with his new film, the designer with the latest fashion, and the musician with the popular song are parts of the new Outlook. The program is introduced by Fran Levine.
9:00 PM
Discovery
When a 10-year-old boy gets a first class degree in mathematics or an 8-year-old plays chess like a future grand master, they are considered as geniuses(天才). Where does the quality of genius come from? Is it all in the genes(基因) or can any child be turned into a genius? And if parents do have a child who might become a genius in the future, what should they do? In this 30-minute film, Barry John-son, the professor at School of Medicine, New York University will help you discover the answer.
10:00 PM
Science/ Health
Is it possible to beat high blood pressure without drugs? The answer is “yes”, according to the researchers at Johns Hopkins and three other medical centers. After a study of 800 persons with high blood pressure, they found that after 6 months, those devoted to weight loss-exercise and eating a low-salt, low-fat food—lost about 13 pounds and became fitter, Plus, 35% of them dropped into the “normal” category(范畴). This week, Dr. Alan Duckworth will tell you how these people reduce their blood pressure to a level similar to what’s achieved with Hypertension drugs.
36．The main purpose of writing these three texts is ______.
A．to invite people to see films
B．to invite people to topic discussions
C．to attract more students to attend lectures
D．to attract more people to watch TV programs
[答案]
37．From Outlook, you can get a great deal of information about ______.
A．story tellers B．famous stars
C．film companies D．music fans
[答案]
38．Who will be most probably interested in Discovery?
A．Parents who want to send their children to a school of medicine.
B．Children who are good at mathematics.
C．Parents who want their child to become another Albert Einstein.
D．Children who are interested in playing chess.
[答案]
39．In Science/ Health, “Johns Hopkins” is ______.
A．a famous university B．a medical center
C．a well-known doctor D．a drug company
[答案]
B
Different people eat different foods, especially for breakfast. A typical Japanese breakfast, for example, includes various kinds of seaweed and withered raw or cooked fish in different sauces. Most Chinese like to begin the day with a bowl of thin, rice soup or a similar dish called congee. In Scotland, the basic breakfast is porridge, which is made from a type of grain called oats. The oats are boiled with a little salt until they are soft, and most people also like to add milk or cream, and sugar. The Swiss invented a breakfast called muesli, which is a mixture of different grains and dried fruits. Nowadays muesli can be bought already mixed but many people like to buy the separate ingredients(成分) and mix their own muesli according to their tastes.
For most American families, manufactured and packaged breakfast cereals are becoming popular. Western supermarkets sell a wide variety of breakfast cereals. They often contain a lot of sugar and many of them have fun names and sometimes contain little toys, which makes them especially attractive to children.
Most of these cereals are made from a type of grain called corn which crushed and then cooked under pressure until it is light and crunchy(松脆的). It is usually eaten with milk, and most people also add fruit or sugar.
There are many companies making cereals, but the first of these and still the most famous is the Kellogg company which makes Kellogg’s Cornflakes. The history of this cereal is not widely known.
It was invented by J.G. Kellogg, an American, in about 1860. Kellogg belonged to a religious group called the Seventh Day Adventists who were vegetarians—people who don’t eat meat—and he wanted to make a breakfast food that would be healthy and not use animal products. However, it was his brother W.K. Kellogg who started the product as a business. At the time, Kellogg was working at a place called the Battle Creek Sanitarium and one of the patients, C．W．Post, realized money could be made from selling the new breakfast cereal. So he started his own business and for many years, Post’s “Toasties” were as famous as Kellogg’s Cornflakes.
40．The story is mainly about ______.
A．selling Cornflakes
B．different breakfast cereals
C．the history of breakfast
D．popular breakfasts around the world
[答案]
41．For breakfast, the Japanese usually eat ______.
A．cereals B．congee
C．meat and soup D．seaweed and fish
[答案]
42．Muesli ______.
A．was invented by the Swiss
B．cannot be bought from a store
C．is no longer popular in Switzerland
D．has to be separated before eaten
[答案]
43．Children like some breakfast cereals because ______.
A．there is a wide variety of them
B．they are made of boiled oats
C．they can be bought in supermarkets
D．they are sweet and come with little plastic toys
[答案]
C
Easter Island is one of the most famous islands in the world. It’s located in Polynesia, a group of islands about 3,700 kilometers off the South American coast. About 24 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide, Easter Island’s present population is about 2,000, and it now belongs to the Republic of Chile(智利).
It is famous for its huge stone statues, of which there are nearly a thousand. These statues are called moai and are carved from a soft rock called tuff(凝灰岩). They show the heads and shoulders of people believed to be early inhabitants(居民) of the island. Most of the statues are between three and twelve meters high, and some of them weigh more than 50 tons! It is believed most of the statues were carved between. A．D．1000—1600. About a century before the arrival of the first Europeans, however, there is evidence(证据) of some kind of conflict(冲突) among the inhabitants of the island, and carving stopped.
The first recorded visit by a Westerner to Easter Island was by the Dutch sailor Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday in 1722. This is where the name Easter Island comes from. The arrival of Westerners, however, did nothing to improve things because they brought new illnesses and took many of the islanders as slaver. In 1774 the British explorer Captain James Cook visited the island and recorded a great deal of information about the islanders and their statues. However, the first serious archaeological(考古) study was done by an American team, who arrived in 1886. The first detailed study of the quarry(采石场) from which the statues had been cut was made by an Englishwoman, Catherine Routledge, during the First World War.
Easter Island became really famous, however, in 1950 when Norwegian(挪威的) explorer Thor Heyerdahl published his best-selling book, Kon-Tiki. Heyerdahl had sailed from South America to Polynesia on a simple raft(筏) made from a light, soft wood called balsa(轻木). He argued in his book that the fact he could do this proved the people of Polynesia originally came from South America, not South-East Asia. Heyerdahl’s theory, however, is no longer accepted by most experts on Polynesian history.
44．The story is mainly about ______.
A．the early explorers
B．the history of Polynesia
C．the statues of Easter Island
D．the inhabitants of Easter Island
[答案]
45．Easter Island can be found ______.
A．in Chile
B．in America
C．in the Atlantic Ocean
D．off the coast of South America
[答案]
46．Easter Island is famous for its ______.
A．explorers B．statues
C．inhabitants D．archaeologists
[答案]
47．Most of the statues ______.
A．are carved out of wood
B．are between 3 and 12 meters high
C．weigh more than 50 tons
D．are carved two thousand years ago
[答案]
D
Eating enough fruits and vegetables is what most people associate with good health habits. But just as important to healthy living are frequent doses(剂量) of laughter and humor—both proven to have a direct effect on health.
According to Wendy Shepard, clinical nurse specialist at Hopkins Bayview in Community Psychiatry’s Creative Alternatives Program, laughter has definite physiological effects on the body. Laughing is like inside jogging(慢跑), she says. It cleans the respiratory(呼吸的) system, stimulates the digestive tract, increases heart rate and blood circulation(循环), lowers blood pressure, reduces muscle tension and increases the release of endorphins, the body’s natural pain-killers.
Unfortunately, many people don’t use humor enough when dealing with everyday life situations. Many wait for humor to happen to them instead of making it happen. “Humor is more than just laughing as a joke. It can become a way of life if you open yourself up to a new attitude,” says Shepard. “The greatest thing about play, creativity and laughter—all components(成分) of humor—is that you not only help yourself, you help others. Humor is contagious(易感染他人的)！”
Shepard suggests that everyone relax and lighten up. It can be as easy as focusing on fun things to pick up at a dollar store. Shepard often travels with a grab bag of things to help make people smile. Of course, making humor a part of your life 365 days a year doesn’t mean you have to carry a grab bag, put on a clown nose or tell jokes—although those things are fun in the right situation. Instead, look for ways to make the things you already do more fun, such as laughing with co-workers and smiling at people you don’t know.
Says Shepard, “Some people need help in the funny-bone department. That’s why it’s good to practice having fun.” Things you can do to practice include putting together humor collections, making joy lists and creating joy boxes. A joy box may include a collection of whatever makes you happy—letters from loved ones, a child’s drawing, a favorite cartoon, a fun toy, a humorous video—the possibilities are endless. Shepard says she loves to give joy boxes or gags(笑话或滑稽故事) with playful gifts. She says that these gifts lift the spirits of even the most serious of people.
“Keeping in mind that not all prescriptions(处方) involve drugs, there is a prescription you can give a loved one, friend or colleague,” says Shepard. “The healing power of laughter, play and humor is great. Besides, you can never overdose on it. It truly is the best medicine.”
48．The passage is mainly about ______.
A．good eating habits B．laughing matter
C．the sense of humor D．healing power of humor
[答案]
49．According to the third paragraph, many people ______.
A．cannot wait for humor to happen to them
B．wonder if humor can help them deal with daily problems
C．should make humor happen instead of just waiting for it to happen
D．should not expect too much of humor because it can only make you laugh
[答案]
50．If you want to make humor part of your life, you should ______.
A．take things easy
B．go to a dollar shop to buy something
C．go out with things to help people laugh
D．always smile at people you don’t know at all
[答案]
51．Shepard will put the following things EXCEPT ______ in her joy box.
A．her children’s paintings
B．VCDs of Mr. Bean
C．prescriptions her doctor gave her
D．everything that can make her laugh
[答案]
E
How Long Can People Live?
She took up skating at age 85, made her first movie appearance at age 114, and held a concert in the neighborhood on her 121st birthday.
When it comes to long life, Jeanne Calment is the world’s record-holder. She lived to the ripe old age of 122. So is 122 the upper limit to the human life span(寿命)？ If scientists come up with some sort of pill or diet that would slow aging, could we possibly make it to 150—or beyond?
Researchers don’t entirely agree on the answers. “Calment lived to 122, so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone alive today reaches 130 or 135,” says Jerry Shay at the University of Texas.
Steve Austad at the University of Texas agrees. “People can live much longer than we think,” he says. “Experts used to say that humans couldn’t live past 110. When Calment blew past that age, they raised the number to 120. So why can’t we go higher?”
The trouble with guessing how old people can live to be is that it’s all just guessing. “Anyone can make up a number,” says Rich Miller at the University of Michigan. “Usually the scientist who picks the highest number gets his name in Time magazine.”
Won’t new anti-aging techniques keep us alive for centuries? Any cure, says Miller, for aging would probably keep most of us kicking until about 120. Researchers are working on treatments that lengthen the life span of mice by 50 percent at most. So, if the average human life span is about 80 years, says Miller, “Adding another 50 percent would get you to 120.”
So what can we conclude from this little disagreement among the researchers? That life span is flexible(有弹性的), but there is a limit, says George Martin of the University of Washington. “We can get flies to live 50 percent longer,” he says. “But a fly’s never going to live 150 years.”“Of course, if you became a new species(物种), one that ages at a slower speed, that would be a different story,” he adds.
Does Martin really believe that humans could evolve(进化) their way to longer life?“It’s pretty cool to think about,” he says with a smile.
52．What does the story of Jeanne Calment prove to us?
A．People can live to 122.
B．Old people are creative.
C．Women are sporty at 85.
D．Women live longer than men.
[答案]
53．According to Steve Austad at the University of Texas, ______.
A．the average human life span could be 110
B．scientists cannot find ways to slow aging
C．few people can expect to live to over 150
D．researchers are not sure how long people can live
[答案]
54．Who would agree that a scientist will become famous if he makes the wildest guess at longevity(长寿)？
A．Jerry Shay. B．Steve Austad.
C．Rich Miller. D．George Martin.
[答案]
55．What can we infer from the last three paragraphs?
A．Most of us could be good at sports even at 120.
B．The average human life span cannot be doubled.
C．Scientists believe mice are aging at a slower speed than before.
D．New techniques could be used to change flies into a new species.
[答案]
