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2013.3.1英 语 试 题 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） What do Chinese college graduates have in common with ants? The recent book Ant Tribes about the life of some young people who flock （群集） to Beijing after 1 university，describes the graduates，like ants，as smart but 2 as individuals，drawing strength from living together in communities. The book，which is based 3 two years of interviews with about 600 low-income college graduates in Beijing， 4 in mid-September，about a month ahead of an announcement by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that 74% of the 6.11 million new graduates from universities and colleges had been 5 by Sept．1. The book’s chief editor，Lian Sir，tells that piece of statistic says little about the real situation for many of these graduates．“I am always 6 how many of these employed college graduates are leading a happy life,” Lian said．“I hope this book could offer a window on these graduates，whose stories are __7 known.” The setting of the book is several so-called “settlement villages for college students” in the outskirts （市郊） of Beijing，where a large number of college graduates 8 ．Most of these graduates work for 9 or medium-sized businesses， 10 less than 2,000 Yuan a month．They live together because it’s 11 . The rent in these communities is only around 350 Yuan a month．Many of them travel several hours a day for short-term jobs or job interviews. Tangjialing，a small 12 20 kilometers from Tian’anmen Square，has around 3,000 13 villagers，but has become a home for more than 50,000 migrants （移民），most of whom 14 from universities or colleges all over the country．Lian describes the students’ 15 as five or six-storey buildings built by local farmers with 12 rooms on each floor and two or three people crammed （挤） together in each room of about 10 square meters．Up to 70 or 80 people share the same toilet and kitchen.
1. A．leaving B．entering C．visiting D．enjoying 2. A．necessary B．meaningless C．important D．strong 3．A．in B．on C．at D．for 4．A．came up B．came on C．came along D．came out 5．A．fired B．interviewed C．employed D．trained 6．A．wondering B．researching C．studying D．telling 7．A．well B. seldom C．always D．often 8．A．work B．go C．relax D．live 9．A．famous B．big C．small D．unknown 10．A．earning B．thinking C．shopping D．paying 11．A．expensive B．comfortable C．cheap D．convenient 12．A．city B．town C．community D．village 13．A．original B．young C．rich D．poor 14．A．come B．differ C．graduate D．suffer 15．A．lives B．dormitories C．buildings D．restaurants ★ 第二节 语法填空 （共10小题 ，每小题1.5分 ，满分15分） One of the many things we take for granted in the twentieth century is the speedy collection and delivery of letters to and from all parts of the world at astonishing cheap rates. A husband away 16 ___ a business trip can write to his wife two thousand miles away knowing that the letter will reach 17 ____ in a few days. His special air-letter may cost him less than 18 ___ loaf of bread or his own bus fare to work. This service, however, is a favor of comparatively recent origin. Until modern times the cost of sending letters privately was so great that the 19 ______ (arrive) of a letter was a considerable event and might even cost financial hardship to the receiver 20 __________ had to bear the charges. 21 ______ the Middle Ages on, there were indeed special messengers 22 ______ (carry) state correspondence, and other messengers employed to travel with news between the great monasteries or the great merchants’ houses, but for centuries there was no official post service by which private letters could 23 _______ (send). It was not until 1840 24 _____ the official organization known as the Penny Post 25 _______________ (establish) in Great Britain and gave ordinary people cheap and efficient postal deliveries.
Ⅱ. 阅读（共两节，满分50分） A Allyson Townsend isn't deaf, and she doesn't have any family members who have hearing problems. Yet she devotes her time to signing out popular songs like Taylor Swift's Back to December in American Sign Language(ASL) for her 15,350 viewers to enjoy on her You Tube channel, Ally ASL. The 22-year-old graduated from Baylor University in 2010 after majoring in deaf education, but she first gained an interest in ASL as a child when her deaf friend wasn't able to understand her love of music. “She asked me, ‘How do you know which words to sing at which point and how do you know how long to say the word?' and just asked me questions like that,” she said. So Townsend made a music video for her friend, an ASL version of Sixpence None the Richer’s Kiss Me. “She loved it. She asked me to do more.” she said. Four years ago, she started posting other songs online. Since then, she has covered a vast array of music, from “Baby It's Cold Outside” by Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone to “Tik Tok” by Kesha. Today, more than 15,000 people have watched her videos, and although her fans can't hear any music, they still respond to the posts. The comment board on her channel is full of thankful viewers. “Thank you so much for putting this up,” a comment reads. “Signing songs is like painting pictures with your hands. It's very visual, you can see it, and you're setting up a story board in the air.” Said Townsend. Townsend now is a second grade teacher in Mesquite, TX, and most of the children in her class are completely deaf. “When I see a child who has been exposed to music who has never had that exposure before it makes me feel great,” she said. “It makes me feel like I have been able to provide them with something they can have for the rest of t
