单选题The fire was started when a passing motorist carelessly _____ a cigarette out of his car.

单选题Their insecurities too often _____ the managers of invaluable support, just when they needed it most.

单选题During the summer holiday season there are no _____ rooms in this seaside hotel.

单选题My pain _____ apparent the moment I walked into the room, for the first man I met asked sympathetically: “Are you feeling all right?”

单选题We will be losing money this year unless that new economic plan of yours _____ miracle.

单选题Richard Nixon has always been regarded _____ a man of great talent and strong will.

完形填空The social and technological development is fast nowadays. People might feel 【A1】______ hard to adapt themselves to the modem world. And they are more worried about the next generation, who seem to take【A2】______ the main responsibility of the future society, and worried more about the proper【A3】______ to raise children, who are believed to be able to help bring【A4】______ a better society.All the thinking and worries appear quite reasonable,【A5】______ they exaggerate the fact a little. The society consists of people of different age groups, people of all walks of life, all of【A6】______ as an integrative whole determines the destiny of society. 【A7】______ in China, many of the national leaders are around 60. Those who are not【A8】______ enough can always learn either from the elder or【A9】______ their personal working experiences. Few can be raised by the parents and taught by the teachers and then【A10】______ out to be the backbone of the society without real practical experiences.It is important for children to get socialized. A human baby picked up and 【A11】______ by a wolf in the wolves’ world cannot learn human tricks even when he is 【A12】______ by humans after a few years; he could not even learn to speak! That 【A13】______ the environmental influence on the kid. But the socialization of the children needs the whole society 【A14】______ its environment. If it is a benign environment, children are growing【A15】______, sound both psychologically and physically. If it is a miasmatic one, children cannot bring about a better society even when they grow up, under that ineluctable malicious influence.Vital 【A16】______ socialization is, in my opinion, the grown-ups do not need to find the【A17】______ better ways to raise their children in this 【A18】______, instead, they can simply do their jobs well, helping to make a better society through their own effort to influence the next generation, so 【A19】______ can enjoy and nurture on some positive atmosphere. And the【A20】______ of the society can be better and better.

完形填空One of the most important new methodologies is biomechanics, the study of the body in motion. A【A21】______ films an athlete in 【A22】______ and then digitizes her performance, 【A23】______ the motion of every joint and【A24】______ in three dimensions. By 【A25】______ Newton’s law to these motions, “we can say that this athlete’s run is not fast enough; that he is not using his arms【A26】______ enough during take-off,” says Dapena, who uses these methods to help high jumpers. To 【A27】______, however, biomechanics has made only a small 【A28】______ to athletic performance.Revolutionary ideas still come from the athletes themselves. For example, during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, a 【A92】______ unknown high jumper named Dick Fosbury won the gold by going over the bar 【A30】______, in complete contradiction of all the 【A31】______ high-jumping wisdom, a move instantly【A32】______ the Fosbury flop. Fosbury himself did not know what he was doing. That understanding took the【A33】______ analysis of biomechanics specialists, who put their minds to comprehending something that was too complex and unorthodox【A34】______ to have been invented through their own mathematical simulations. Fosbury also required another【A35】______ that lies behind many improvements in【A36】______ performance: an innovation in athletic equipment. In Fosbury’s【A37】______, it was the cushions that jumpers land on. Traditionally, high jumpers would land in pits【A38】______ with sawdust. But by Fosbury’s time, sawdust pits had been replaced by soft foam cushions, 【A39】______ for flopping. In the end, most people who examine human performance are humbled by the 【A40】______ of athletes and the powers of the human body.

完形填空It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning require little【A21】______, but the position in which she holds the baby【A22】______ her body when resting is rather【A23】______. Careful American studies have disclosed the fact that 80 percent of mothers【A24】______ their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If【A25】______ to explain the significance of this preference, most people reply that it is obviously the result of the【A26】______ of right-handedness in the population. 【A27】______ holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers【A28】______their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the 【A29】______. True, there is a slight difference between right- handed and left-handed females, but not【A30】______ to provide an adequate explanation. It 【A31】______ that 83 per cent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but then 【A32】______ do 78 percent of left-handed mothers.The only other【A33】______ comes from the fact that the heart is on the left side of the mother’s body. Could it be that the sound of her heartbeat is the vital factor? And in what way? Thinking along these【A34】______ it was argued that perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother, the 【A35】______ embryo becomes fixated【A36】______ the sound of the heartbeat. If this is so, then the re- discovery of this 【A37】______ sound after birth might have a calming【A38】______ on the infant, especially as it has just been【A39】______ into a strange and frighteningly new world outside. If this is so then the mother, either【A40】______ or by an unconscious series of trials and errors, would soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart, than on the right.

完形填空Take nothing for granted. If you have the slightest doubt about a spelling, looks it up. Get a small three-by-five dictionary. You will want it 【A1】______ for quick reference. Each 【A2】______ you use it, put a check in the margin next 【A3】______ the word. You can take spelling courses and learn rules, but this method is all you really need. Good spelling comes from careful proofreading and close attention to the 【A4】______ of each word.When you find the word, take a good look at it syllable and【A5】______ syllable. Is there a way to remember the spelling, any【A6】______ device you can use? Write it out slowly and carefully, noticing silent letters, double consonants and so【A7】______. 【A8】______ if you are pronouncing it properly. Is there a problem with the vowel or a consonant? Do you confuse words that sound a bit 【A9】______?Look carefully at the difference; examine the examples. Separate 【A10】______ and roots to see how they are formed. That will help you to【A11】______ using too few or too many letters. When you add a suffix, check to see if the final consonant of the root must be 【A12】______ or not.It【A13】______ down to seeing, hearing and writing the word carefully and accurately.Don’t expect 【A14】______. At first you will have to use your dictionary heavily, but if you do pay attention you will gradually form a habit of spelling most words you use correctly. Maintain a healthy 【A15】______. To double check, have someone proofread after you finish.

完形填空Education in Britain is primarily the responsibility of local educational authorities【A1】______ the central government lays【A2】______ guidelines and provides or withholds money. From the end of the Second World War until the 1960s education【A3】______ state control depended on the “11-plus” examination, 【A4】______ by all pupils between the ages of eleven and twelve. The most successful went to grammar schools or direct-grant schools, while【A5】______ went to secondary modem schools. Since the 1960s almost all local【A6】______ have introduced comprehensive schools, where all pupils attend the same school, 【A7】______ there is usually an attempt to separate them【A8】______ ability once they are there. Local authorities where the Labor party is usually in control tend by now to be almost 【A9】______ “comprehensive”; those where the Conservatives hold power have been more【A10】______ to the change. Throughout this period the public schools, which are private in all 【A11】______ name, have continued to exist,【A12】______ of the state system. Some became direct-grant school, accepting students 【A13】______ has passed the 11-plus examination and were paid for by local authorities, but this system came【A14】______ an end in many cases when a Labor-controlled local authority refused to go on paying the grants because of its 【A15】______ to comprehensive education. 【A16】______ political conviction, there remains, a public debate between the supporters of comprehensive schools and those who want to 【A17】______ or revive grammar schools. For one group the overriding consideration is equality and the need to【A18】______ privilege, 【A19】______ it means ruling out any form of parental choice; for the other, the belief that its own children have the best chance of belonging to the educational elite is sufficient reason for 【A20】______ it.

完形填空NASAastronautPeggyWhitsonisonthe【A1】______ofbecomingtheoldestwomantotravelinspace.Whitsonwillbe56【A2】______sherocketsofftheplanetThursday.She’llcelebrateher57th【A3】______inFebruaryontheInternationalSpaceStation.That’sa【A4】______cryfromJohnGlenn’sspaceshuttleflightat【A5】______77,andit’sa【A6】______yearsshyofthemalerunners-upovertheyears.Butit’senoughto【A7】______BarbaraMorgan’srecordastheworld’soldestspacewoman.MorganwasselectedforNASA’steacher-in-spaceprogramin1985【A8】______didn’tgetachancetoflyuntil2007,whenshewas55.ThiswillbethethirdspacestationmissionforWhitson,abiochemist,andhersecondstint【A9】______commander.She’lllaunchfromKazakhstan,inCentralAsia,【A10】______twoyoungermen,oneRussianandthe【A11】______French.IloveworkingatNASA,butthepartthathasbeenthe【A12】______satisfyingonaday-to-day【A13】______hasbeenworkingonboardthespacestation,”Whitson【A14】______reportersoverthesummer.“Itdoesn’t【A15】______ifI’mcleaningthefilters.IfeellikeI’mhelpingpersonallypush【A16】______exploration...that’s【A17】______Iwanttogoagain.”Whitsonalreadyhas【A18】______377daysinspaceandhasperformedmultiplespacewalks.Herupcomingsix-monthmissionshouldpushher【A19】______534daysinspace,theU.S.record【A20】______inSeptemberby53-year-oldastronautJeffreyWilliams.

完形填空New York is too big to be dominated by any group, by Wasps or Jews or blacks, or by Catholics of many origins — Irish, Italian, Hispanic. All have their little 【A21】______, all are sizable enough to be reckoned【A22】______ and tough in asserting their claims, but【A23】______ is powerful enough to subdue the others.【A24】______, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it【A25】______, regarding it as an unworkable 【A26】______ of the idealistic, the impractical, and the 【A27】______. But New Yorkers themselves are in training in how to live【A28】______ in a diversity of races — the necessary 【A29】______ into the future.The【A30】______ gives endless color to the city, so that walking in it is a 【A31】______ education in sights and smells. There is a wonderful【A32】______ of places to eat or shop, and though the most successful of【A33】______ places are likely to be touristy hybrid 【A34】______ , they too have genuine roots. Other American cities have ethnic【A35】______ jealously defended, but【A36】______, I think, such an admixture of groups, thrown together in such jarring 【A37】______. In the same way, avenues of high-rise luxury in New York are【A38】______ far from poverty and 【A39】______ streets. The sadness and fortitude of New York must be celebrated, 【A40】______ with its treasures of art and music. The combination is unstable; it produces friction, or an uneasy forbearance that sometimes becomes a real toleration.

完形填空Jane Goodall was born in London on April 3, 1934. On her second birthday, her father gave her a【A1】______ chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jubilee was named【A2】______ a baby chimp in the London Zoo, and seemed to foretell the【A3】______ Jane’s life would take. To this day, Jubilee sits in a chair in Jane’s London home. From an【A4】______ age. Jane was fascinated by animals and animal stories. By the age of 10, she was【A5】______ about going to Africa to live among the【A6】______ there. At the time, in the early 1940s, this was a radical【A7】______ because women did not go to Africa by themselves.As a young woman, Jane finished school in London,【A8】______ secretarial school, and then worked for a documentary filmmaker for a while. When a school friend invited her to【A9】______ Kenya, she worked as a waitress until she had 【A10】______ the fare to travel there by boat. She was 23 years old.【A11】______ in Kenya， she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist. He was impressed with【A12】______ thorough knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, and hired her to assist him and his wife on a fossil-hunting【A13】______ to Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Leakey soon realized that Jane was the【A14】______ person to complete a study he had been planning for some time. She expressed her【A15】______ in the idea of studying animals by living in the【A16】______ with them, rather than studying dead animals through paleontology.One of the first significant observations that Jane【A17】______ during the study was that chimpanzees make and use tools, 【A18】______ like humans do, to help them get food. It was previously thought that humans 【A19】______ used tools. Also thanks to Jane’s research, we now know that chimps eat meat as well as plants and fruits. In many ways, she has helped us to see how chimpanzees and humans are【A20】______. In doing so, she has made us more sympathetic toward these creatures, while helping us to better understand ourselves.

完形填空NEW DELHI, JANUARY 30, 1948—Mohandas K. Gandhi was 【A21】______ today by a Hindu extremist whose act plunged India into【A22】______ and fear.Rioting broke out immediately in Bombay.The seventy-eight-year-old leader whose people had christened him the Great Soul of India died at 3:45 P.M. (1:15 A M. EST) with his head cradled in the【A23】______ of his sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Mani.Just half an hour before, a Hindu fanatic, Ram Naturam, had pumped three bullets from a revolver【A24】______ Gandhi’s frail body, emaciated by years of fasting and asceticism.Gandhi was shot in the luxurious gardens of Birla House in the【A25】______ of one thousand of his followers, whom he was leading to the little summer pagoda where it was his habit【A26】______ make his evening devotions.Dressed as always in his homespun, sacklike dhoti, and【A27】______ heavily on a staff of stout wood, Gandhi was only a feet from the 【A28】______ when the shots were fired.Gandhi crumpled instantly, 【A29】______ his hand to his forehead in the Hindu gesture of【A30】______ to his assassin.Three bullets penetrated his body at close range, one in the upper right thigh, one in the abdomen, and 【A31】______ in the chest.The shots【A32】______ like a string of firecrackers and it was a moment【A33】______ Gandhi’s devotees realized what had happened. Then they 【A34】______ on the assassin savagely and would have torn him to bits had not police guards intervened with rifles and drawn bayonets.Over all India the word 【A35】______ like wildfire. Minutes after the flash was received in Bombay rioting broke out, with Hindu extremists 【A36】______ Moslems. A panic-stricken Moslem woman echoed the thoughts of thousands with a【A37】______: “God help us all!”In Delhi itself, in the quick-gathering 【A38】______ of the night, the news set the people on the march.They walked slowly【A39】______ the avenues and out of the squalid bazaars, converging on Birla House. There【A40】______ the thousands they stood weeping silently or moaning a wailing.

完形填空Earlier today, my colleague Derek Thompson argued that; it’s misleading to think of marriage【A1】______ a “luxury good”. Why? Because luxury goods are something the 【A2】______ buy and the poor can’t afford. But in the case of【A3】______ the trend is more complex. The vast majority of Americans tie the knot at some point in their lives, he argues. It’s just that those【A4】______ a college education are far, far more likely to get divorced. Marriage is for everyone; failed marriages are【A5】______ the poor.Bleak stuff. But it’s getting bleaker.Derek’s post is based 【A6】______ a long-term study of young Baby Boomers, who were at least 46【A7】______ old by 2010. But among younger Americans, marriage really is looking more and more【A8】______ something you’d have to buy at Tiffany’s. According to 2012 Census Bureau report, 【A9】______ shows the percentage of men who have never married by age and income, the less a guy earns nowadays, the【A10】______ likely they are to have ever gotten married.Well, that’s not l00 percent true. Among twenty-somethings there seems to be a rich bachelor【A11】______ going on (or an overworked young professional effect, if you prefer). Those making $75,000 or more are somewhat less likely to have been married than 【A12】______ making between $40,000 and $75,000.This particular set of Census data unfortunately tells us much less about 【A13】______ and marriage. The problem: Stay-at-home moms.The key to remember, though, is that many educated, high-earning women, the sorts who are likely to meet and【A14】______ educated and high-earning men, leave the workforce or go part time once they have children. So a publicist who once made over $70,000 a year might 【A15】______ earn $20,000 if she decided 【A16】______ work fewer hours while【A17】______ for her children at home.Here’s why this trend—not just the move towards divorce like Derek talked about, 【A18】______ the move from marriage entirely—is so gloomy. Getting married, and staying married, is 【A19】______ of the surest ways of securing a middle class life. By choosing 【A20】______ to wed in the first place, the poor are abandoning that chance at stability.

写作题Nowadays, people have different views about which is more important in getting a good job: outstanding performance in examinations or rich experiences in social activities.【】Write a composition of approximately 400 words on this issue to state your own opinion.【】 In the first part of your essay you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.【】Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.【】Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.

写作题Students have different views about what is the best place to work. Some students prefer to work in coastal areas, because they think coastal areas are more developed and thus may have more opportunities; while others prefer to work in the western part of China where their work and life can be more adventurous and more challenging.【】Write a composition of approximately 400 words on this issue to state your own opinion.【】 In the first part of your essay you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.【】Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.【】Write your composition on the Answer Sheets.

写作题Directions: Please write a composition of about 400 words stating your viewpoint on X-sports and support your idea.

写作题Directions: Some people see higher education simply as getting a degree certificate; most people view higher education as part of self-perfection. In your opinion, how important is higher education to one’s personal development?【】Write an essay of approximately 300 words on this issue to state your own opinions.