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。

You join Facebook and "friend" your old classmates. You might not ever talk about anything serious with them but they are there.

A classmate from twenty years ago was one of my Facebook friends. A few random comments he __1___ gave me the impression that something was __2___ so I tried to make him call me. He did call and I found out that he, his wife and eight children had just moved into a(n) __3___motel room. He had used the very last of their money to pay for a week's __4___ there. He had no job and they had lost their __5___.

I bought a few groceries and took them to the motel room. After the visit I __6__to do something a bit extreme. I messaged all of our mutual Facebook friends from our graduating class. What happened next was just __7___. Soon I was getting responses. Classmates, some of whom had __8___ been barely friendly started calling me for information or sending donations for the family.

Someone told me they knew someone else in a nearby town with a(n) __9___house. The home owners donated the house rent free, only asking them to __10__ the fees of water and electricity and mow (修剪) the lawn when it was needed. Soon this family had volunteers from our class delivering furniture, groceries, toys, even job __11___!

There are still many things we are __12___ for this family. They have yet to get a vehicle for work and he hasn't found a job, but everyone is __13___ smiles now. And, let me tell you, the hugs from his lovely children speak louder than any words ever could!

I became the __14___ between this family's needs and people who could help them. It still amazes me how wonderfully it all __15___, just because of me and my Facebook friends!

1. A. made B. took C. expressed D. wrote

2. A. awkward B. wrong C. horrible D. disgusting

3. A. expensive B. comfortable C. cheap D. worthless

4. A. sleep B. rest C. play D. stay

5. A. money B. food C. clothes D. home

6. A. agreed B. declared C. decided D. managed

7. A. unbelievable B. interesting C. funny D. ridiculous

8. A. previously B. occasionally C. frequently D. deliberately

9. A. big B. beautiful C. useless D. empty

10. A. cost B. spend C. buy D. pay

11. A. descriptions B. applications C. conditions D. newspapers

12. A. hoping B. asking C. looking D. answering

13. A. wearing B. having C. giving D. sending

14. A. relationship B. partner C. bridge D. witness

15. A. gave out B. picked out C. made out D. worked out

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，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival ___16___(mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.? Qu was a minister of the State of Chu ____17___(situate) in the present day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period (战国时期)．He was upright, loyal and highly respected.___18____, he was dismissed from office. ____19__ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were ____20___(able) to recover his body. The people of Chu ____21___mourned Qu's death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost ____22___year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile (爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised ____23____to wrap the rice and bind it ____24___throwing it into the river.

During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize (象征,表示) the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon boat races symbolize ____25___many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.

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

When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you're at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.

Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.

The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don't mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we' ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell - phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e - mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents." Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends," he says.

If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it's because it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987, there were only l million cell phones in use. Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.

26. From the first two paragraphs, we can know ________ .

A. cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes

B. cell phone addiction is good for building personal relationships

C. people are longing to have their own cell phones

D. cell phones are the same as cigarettes

27. Cell phone addiction has caused the following effects EXCEPT_________

A. a barrier to personal contact B. fewer friends

C. an escape from reality D. a serious illness

28. The underlined word "curb" in Paragraph 2 means________.

A. Ignore B. Control C. Develop D. Rescue

29. The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that__________.

A. women use cell phones more often than men

B. talking on the phone while driving is dangerous

C. cell phones do not necessarily bring people together

D. cell phones make one - on - one personal contact easy

30. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Cell phones are the New Cigarettes

B. Cell phones are harmful to the Society

C. The New Report about the Cell phone

D. The Disadvantages of the Cell phone

B

Like many men at some point, I dream about opening a bar. I plan to call it Work Out. It will cater to married women in need of a little fun. On Friday nights, they will be able to come here and enjoy themselves.

See, I have a gift for business. I am, as my wife Zsa Zsa likes to note, “A man with a million ideas, none of them very good.” Speaking of Zsa Zsa, she is fed up with this plain little life I’ve made for us——too many kids, too many chores, mind – numbing debt. The other day, she said she thought we needed a new family car. “Sure. How about an 87 Lincoln?” I said, and saw my dear Zsa Zsa age about 20 years, and become her mother right before my eyes.

Yes, money is our madness. Last year, we thought we had found a little cushion when I published a book about the life here in suburban America. It sold 12 copies——six of them to my mother. Four other copies went to various aunts and uncles, who used them for martini coasters (杯垫), then sold them at yard sales. The two remaining copies went to perfect strangers. (I think I owe you dinner, whoever you are. Call me, OK? We’ll arrange something.)

When the book didn’t take off, I wrote a TV show. Then I penned a short novel based on the earlier TV idea that didn’t sell. Currently, I am at work on a set of encyclopedias(百科全书). In a month, I plan to sell them door-to-door.

Such is the life of a writer, sending off the most personal thoughts possible to his hard drive. I am a writer, but also the breadwinner in my family. I’m at the keyboard at 6 almost every morning, hoping to tap out one idea——just one——that will take us up the hill, to the mountain, to the top.

31. According to the passage, the author is leading a/an______ life.

A. enjoyable B. wealthy C. hard D. comfortable

32. By saying “Sure. How about an 87 Lincoln?”, the author_______ .

A. promised it to his wife B. was showing off their fortune

C. thought his wife would like it D. was just joking

33. What was the result of the book the author mentioned in the 3rd paragraph?

A. It didn’t sell well at all B. He sold it door – to – door.

C. He made a lot of money from it. D. It was really a cushion for his family.

34. What does the underlined word “cushion” mean ?

A. Comfortable seat. B. Financial help.

C. Unexpected success. D. Best-selling book.

35. From the account above, which of the following statements is true?

A. He has a real gift for business.