I. 语言知识及应用（共两节, 满分45分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给出的A、B、C和D项中， 出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 1 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d 2 ?” Just when I started to 3 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 4 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t 6 . Somebody had thought enough of me to bring me a gift. Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 7 Christmas there special and memorable, I 8 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 9 for as many children as I could possibly reach. So I 10 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 11 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were special. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 12 them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the 13 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 14 up the room. The 15 in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
1. A. sending B. receiving C. making D. exchanging 2. A. found B. prepared C. got D. expected 3. A. doubt B. hope C. suggest D. accept 4. A. broke in . B. settled down C. turned up D. showed off 5. A. relief B. loss C. achievement D. justice 6. A. blamed B. loved C. forgotten D. affected 7. A. present B. first C. recent D. previous 8. A. hardly B. instantly C. regularly D. occasionally 9. A. strength B. independence C. importance D. safety 10. A. kept up with B. caught up with C. came up with D. put up with 11. A. none B. few C. some D. each 12. A. reminded B. guaranteed C. convinced D. promised 13. A. chance B. gift C. moment D. reward 14. A. lit B. took C. burned D. cheered 15. A. atmosphere B. sympathy C. calmness D. joy
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为l6-25的相应位置上。 Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life. 16 these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop 17 (help) it grow”, is based on the following story. It is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help 18 rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about 19 day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected. One day, he came up with an idea 20 he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day. He was very tired 21 doing this for a whole day, 22 he felt very happy since the crop did “grow” 23 (high). His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither. This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their 24 (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often 25 (result) in the contrary to our intention.
II. 阅读 ( 共两节， 满分50分) 第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 满分40分） 阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school&nbs
