选择题部分（共80分）

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）

从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

1. — OK, I know what you mean. ________.

— Really? Can I order anything I want in this restaurant?

A. Take your time

B. Take it easy

C. It’s my treat

D. Don’t be worried



2. Nowadays, a growing number of people show great concern about ________ word “PM 2.5” repeatedly appearing in ________ media reports.

A. the; the

B. a; the

C. \; the

D. the; \



3. I walked out of the cinema, _____ I’d never come back to this hell of a place.

A. determining

B. decided

C. to determine

D. to decide



4. The weekend is ________ students needn’t go to school and can do whatever they like.

A. where

B. whether

C. why

D. when



5. For Linda, to be admitted to such a good university is the beginning of a new life, ________ she thought she would never see.

A. what

B. that

C. one

D. it



6. The prisoner managed to climb ________ the wall and disappeared in the darkness.

A. onto

B. over

C. through

D. around



7. —We chose exactly the same wallpaper.

—What a ________! We see eye to eye on it.

A. pity

B. shame

C. mess

D. coincidence



8. Owing to the recent bad weather, the project is several weeks behind ________.

A. adventure

B. passage

C. schedule

D. connection



9. He?insisted?that?he?____?not?ill,?but?the?doctor?insisted?that?he?_______?the?medicine.?

A. was; should take

B. is?; take

C. was?; takes

D. is?; took



10. The programme Where Are We Going, Dad?, ________ by Hunan Satellite TV, is becoming a hit nowadays.

A. producing

B. to produce



C. produced

D. having been produced



11. Over the past several months, the Summer Palace ________ people rushing to have a look at the giant Rubber Duck.

A. witnessed

B. is witnessing

C. has witnessed

D. had witnessed



12. If you spend less than you earn, ________ you won’t be in debt.

A. obviously

B. doubtfully

C. especially

D. urgently



13. A great shock was shown on the faces of survivors, many of ________ were unfamiliar with storms as fierce as Supertyphoon “Yolanda”.

A. who

B. whom

C. those

D. them



14. Since I won the big prize, my telephone hasn’t stopped ringing. People _____ to ask how I am going to spend the money.

A. phone

B. will phone

C. were phoning?????

D. are phoning



15. The Greens won’t go abroad for their holiday because they _______ money to buy a new car.

A. were saving

B. save

C. are saving

D. have saved



16. There is something wrong with his throat; ________, Alvin has to give up the singing competition.

A. as a result

B. as a matter of fact

C. on the whole

D. on the contrary



17. what are you going to do this afternoon? I am going to the cinema with some friends. The film____ quite early, so we ______ to the bookstore after that.

A. finished; are going

B. finished; go



C. finishes; are going

D. finishes; go



18. The exchange students adopt western culture, customs, and ________ clothing after a long stay in a foreign country.

A. rather

B. even

C. still

D. thus



19. Scientists think they have ______ in their attempt to find the causes of many major diseases.

A. broken off

B. broken out

C. broken down

D. broken through



20. — Let my secretary walk you to the door. I’ve got my hands full.

— ________.

A. It all depends

B. I’m on my way



C. It can happen to anyone

D. I will see myself out, please



第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

I was only eight or nine when my father called an important family meeting. Waiting patiently for dad to 21 his thoughts and begin speaking, I did not know that this moment would forever change the 22 of my family and the relationship I had with my father.

My father had left home as a teenager after his father remarried a woman he didn’t 23 . He finished high school under his aunts’ roof but never went to college, something he always

24 . Now that he was in his early forties and my sister and I were growing up, he said it was time for him to 25 follow his dreams.

My mother 26 him that we didn’t have a lot of money and that it would cause much

27 on us kids because dad wouldn’t have time for us. But he still hoped we would all support him and told us 28 we didn’t, he was doing it anyway.

After that meeting, life quickly began to 29 . My mother left work, feeling it important to be at home as a 30 for her children. As a kid, all I knew was that my dad was always busy.

31 I missed him much, I couldn’t have his company. Because of my father’s 32 , I took on more responsibility at home 33 the “man” of the house.

My father was 34 to his word. He finished college and then graduated from law school. He had 35 his dreams of becoming a lawyer and landed a good-paying, 36 job.

During those years, I saw my father’s accomplishment as a 37 act. We were never really close like a father and his son. Many years later, after my father had 38 and I myself also had a family to support, I began to 39 he was not only doing these things as personal goals, but also as a way to make a better life for his family. Only then did I begin to appreciate the

40 my father had given me — it’s never too late to dream.

21. A. assess

B. transform

C. collect

D. defend



22. A. course

B. administration

C. background

D. tradition



23. A. break away from

B. play tricks on

C. get along with

D. look up to



24. A. regretted

B. reviewed

C. rejected

D. recommended



25. A. gradually

B. simply

C. regularly

D. finally



26. A. confused

B. reminded

C. encouraged

D. persuaded



27. A. freedom

B. motivation

C. pressure

D. suffering



28. A. on condition that

B. as long as

C. even if

D. in case



29. A. change

B. improve

C. advance

D. recover



30. A. strength

B. switch

C. surprise

D. support



31. A. Unless

D. Once

C. While

D. If



32. A. attraction

B. absence

C. effect

D. effort



33. A. like

B. as

C. for

D. with



34. A. blind

B. equal

C. opposite

D. true



35. A. accomplished

B. forgotten

C. destroyed

D. broken



36. A. steady

B. complex

C. previous

D. tough



37. A. reasonable

B. rare

C. simple

D. selfish



38. A. fitted in

B. passed away

C. picked up

D. settled down



39. A. applaud

B. complain

C. realize

D. doubt



40. A. concern

B. gift

C. comfort

D. prize



第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A

Jeff, like me, is a writer, a speaker, and the head of a consulting company. As far as I can tell, he’s professional, well respected, capable, honest, and has a popular following. Someone we both know has asked us to cooperate on a project and there’s clearly a mutual benefit to our working together. It all sounds great except for one thing: I don’t like Jeff. I mentioned that to the person who wants us to work together. She told me, essentially, to get over it. “You don’t have to like him,” she said, “but you’d be smart to work with him.”

The typical advice you hear about working with people you don’t like is simply to just conduct whatever business you need to with them and move on. In other words, smile and bear it. But I have found that almost impossible to do. The people we don’t like drive us crazy and we waste a great amount of time complaining about them, or stressing about a conversation we need to have with them.

And that’s not the worst of it. The deeper problem is that if you don’t like someone, chances are they know it, which will cause them not to like you. And if you think working with someone you don’t like is hard, try working with someone who doesn’t like you.

It’s simple, really. According to research, the more people like you, the easier, more productive, and more profitable, your life will be; the people you don’t get along with will find ways to bother you — even if you smile and bear it.

So if smiling and bearing it is a losing strategy, what’s the alternative?

Consider, for a moment, the reason you don’t like someone. Maybe you think they have some character weakness or disagreeable quality that bothers you. Like my view of Jeff as self-serving, self-centered and self-satisfied.

Now — and here’s the hard part — think about whether you can discover that disagreeable quality in yourself. You really don’t like that part of yourself, right? You wish you could distance yourself from that side of you. Just like you wish you could distance yourself from that disliked person.

In other words, chances are, the reason you can’t stand that person in the first place, is that they focus you on what you can’t stand about yourself.

Suddenly, working with people you don’t like becomes a lot more interesting. Because getting to know them better, and accepting the parts of them you don’t like, is actually getting to know yourself better and accepting the parts of yourself you don’t like.

So the way to overcome your dislike of someone else? Overcome your dislike of yourself.

41. The author mentions Jeff in the first paragraph in order to _________.

A. offer his view

B. introduce a topic



C. describe a partner

D. complain about his job



42. It is implied in the third paragraph that it is _____ to work with someone who doesn’t like you.

A. a challenge

B. a disaster

C. a fortune

D. an honour



43. What does the author think is the real reason why we don’t like the person we work with?

A. We’re self-serving, self-centered and self-satisfied.



B. We can discover disagreeable qualities in the person.



C. We waste a great amount of time complaining about him.



D. We actually have the disagreeable qualities the person has.



44. It seems that the best way to work with someone you don’t like is to _________.

A. point out his shortcomings

B. smile, bear it and move on



C. accept what you think of him

D. tear yourself away from him



45. The passage is mainly about _________.

A. trying to deal with work conflicts



B. the difficulty of living with people you dislike



C. the disadvantages of working for the same company



D. reflecting on working with people you don’t appreciate