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阅读理解。     Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy
Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. "Yes, honey. Of course."
she said.
     "Can we write him a letter?"
     She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, "Yes."
     My heart jumped."How? Does the mailman go there?" I asked.
     "No, but I have an idea." Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it
was for.
     "Just wait, honey. You"ll see." Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured
out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom
was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still
alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.
     She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped (缠绕) the balloon string. We went outside
and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.
     "Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three."
     The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the
mass of clouds.
     Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No
matter what he suffered, he"d persevere, dart up, and finally transcend (超越) this cold world and his sick
body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray
and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon. 1. When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother ______.A. felt it hard to answer    
B. thought her a creative girl
C. believed it easy to do so   
D. found it easy to lie 2. When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she ______.A. jumped with joy             
B. became excited
C. started writing immediately         
D. was worried that it couldn"t be delivered 3. In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like? A. An incurable disease.          
B. An unforgettable memory.
C. The hard time her father had.           
D. The failures her father experienced. 4. What would be the best title for the passage? A. An unforgettable experience    
B. The strong red balloon
C. Fly to paradise                       
D. A great father
答案
1-4: ABCB
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完形填空。      When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to   1   
water to the runners. I remember being so   2   to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and
grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of
people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I   3   up for the race.
     That first 10,000m race was quite an   4  . I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked.   5  , I didn"t know
if I could finish. Then came a defining (决定性)   6  .
     At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt   7   because I was
50 years younger than he but I couldn"t even keep up with him. I felt   8   for a second.
     But then I   9   something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had  10  abilities, experience,
training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my  11  was only to finish.
     After a minute, it  12  me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself in
that moment. I turned my embarrassment into  13 .
     I  14  that I would not give up on running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn
how to train and prepare  15  and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running.
As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my  16 .
     In life we all have those moments where we  17  ourselves to others. It"s only  18 . Don"t allow those
moments to  19  you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and
training, you can improve your result to  20  anything you want in life.
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(     )1. A. bring out      
(     )2. A. excited        
(     )3. A. gave           
(     )4. A. achievement    
(     )5. A. At times       
(     )6. A. victory        
(     )7. A. embarrassed       
(     )8. A. relaxed        
(     )9. A. realized       
(     )10. A. special        
(     )11. A. motto          
(     )12. A. worried        
(     )13. A. attraction     
(     )14. A. hoped          
(     )15. A. slightly       
(     )16. A. excitement     
(     )17. A. introduce      
(     )18. A. important      
(     )19. A. weaken         
(     )20. A. reserve       

B. pass out         
B. worried         
B. made           
B. encouragement    
B. In time          
B. decision     
B. annoyed           
B. defeated          
B. lost            
B. evident        
B. plan            
B. hit             
B. devotion        
B. promised           
B. hardly      
B. accomplishment       
B. relate           
B. natural          
B. wound             
B. deliver      
C. take out           
C. concerned        
C. signed         
C. instruction      
C. In all           
C. moment           
C. moved             
C. puzzled              
C. noticed         
C. common           
C. goal               
C. reached      
C. inspiration      
C. decided            
C. clearly        
C. movement           
C. present         
C. strange          
C. amuse               
C. achieve    
D. pick out         
D. anxious              
D. dressed        
D. experience            
D. After all     
D. conclusion         
D. thrilled           
D. inspired              
D. remembered               
D. different             
D. direction         
D. hurt          
D. expectation         
D. suggested           
D. properly        
D. judgement          
D. compare          
D. ridiculous       
D. cheer               
D. abandon     
完形填空。
     A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house,   1   to waist-high
ruins, smelly and dirty.
     Before the trip, I"d had my car   2  . When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill,
she   3   my Louisiana license plate.
     "You from New Orleans?" she asked. I said I was. "No   4  ," she said, and firmly shook her head when I
reached for my wallet.
     The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing   5  .
     As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to   6   there and tried to find a rental house that we
could   7   while also paying off a mortgage (抵押贷款) on our   8   house. We looked at many places, but none
was   9  . We"d begun to accept that we"d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances  10 , when I got a
very  11  e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He"d read some pieces I"d written about our  12  for Slate,
the online magazine and wanted to give us ("no conditions attached") a new house  13  the lake from New
Orleans.
     It sounded too good to be  14 , but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional  15 , that we had no plans to
go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida  16  to rent his house to me while he went to England on his
one-year paid leave. The rent was rather  17 . I mentioned the poet"s offer to James Kemmedy, and the next day
he sent a check  18  our entire rent for eight months. 
     Throughout this painful experience, the  19  of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity.
It"s almost worth  20  your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a
chance.
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(     )1.A. destroyed   
(     )2.A. fixed       
(     )3.A. examined    
(     )4.A. problem     
(     )5.A. repeated    
(     )6.A. move        
(     )7.A. supply      
(     )8.A. spoiled     
(     )9.A. satisfied   
(     )10.A. for a while
(     )11.A. polite     
(     )12.A. marriage   
(     )13.A. across     
(     )14.A. correct    
(     )15.A. generosity 
(     )16.A. attempted  
(     )17.A. reasonable 
(     )18.A. hiding     
(     )19.A. quality    
(     )20.A. abandoning 
B. reduced    
B. stolen     
B. checked    
B. money      
B. happened   
B. go         
B. furnish    
B. repaired   
B. satisfactory
B. in a while 
B. direct     
B. life       
B. under      
B. true       
B. possession 
B. encouraged     
B. believable 
B. covering   
B. state      
B. throwing   
C. damaged       
C. broken        
C. watched       
C. charge        
C. came          
C. leave         
C. afford        
C. new           
C. approved      
C. all the while   
C. strange       
C. struggles     
C. in            
C. accurate      
C. trust
C. offered       
C. expensive     
C. consisting    
C. example       
C. losing        
D. made           
D. improved       
D. noticed        
D. parking        
D. appeared       
D. remove       
D. buy            
D. ruined         
D. agreed         
D. after a while  
D. disappointing         
D. family         
D. over           
D. exact          
D. politeness     
D. advised        
D. practical      
D. sharing        
D. kindness       
D. gaining      
阅读理解。

     A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain"s Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging
letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed
in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
     The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf. 
     She wrote, "The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at
Windsor Castle."
     Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall, wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather, the artist
Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned (正式委托) to copy Dutch masters" on display at Windsor
Castle and Buckingham Palace.
     Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art
works. She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings,
explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library.
     Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing, "Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if
they know anything more about your great, great grandfather. Royal Collection would love to know more about
him."
     Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen.
     Although Tom"s parents don"t think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair, they were
touched that she had taken time to contact them.
     Tom"s father said, "I don"t expect we"ll get another one, but I think it"s incredible they bothered replying at
all."

1. Windsor Castle is _____.
A. a playing ground
B. the queen"s home
C. a post office
D. a rose garden
2. "etchings" in Paragraph 5 means _____.
A. photos
B. cartoons
C. postcards
D. paintings
3. Tom"s parents _____.
A. feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them
B. try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it
C. don"t take the matter very seriously
D. don"t think this friendship will last long but somehow feel good
4. Which would be the best title for the text?
A. A Boy"s Good Luck
B. Tom"s Special Balloon
C. A Story at Windsor Castle
D. Four-year-old Boy Becomes the Queen"s Pen Pal
完形填空。
     In 2004, I was 22 years old and had just come back to Brazil after 14 months in England, holding my
Cambridge Proficiency certificate. After nervously   1   a short training course, I began to give classes to
my 12 students, all of them older than I was. I   2   hard to remain clam in class and   3   they wouldn"t
find out how unconfident I felt most of the time. I was quite   4  , actually, until the end of   5   and the
night of the final oral test.
     The test was going to start at 7 pm, and at 6:50, I  16  myself in the teachers bathroom to   17  all the
test questions again. I really wanted to learn the  18  by heart so no one would think I was an inexperienced
tester. The  19  is, I actually locked myself in the bathroom. I  20  couldn"t get out! The bell rang at 7 pm
and I could hear the noise in the halls  21  the students went to their rooms. I tried hard to  22  the bathroom
door, but failed.
     I heard the cleaning lady"s voice and asked for help as  23  as I could. However, she wasn"t exactly a
thoughtful person, and started  24 . "Diana"s locked in the bathroom!" Shame had fallen upon me!  25 , the
course director, the secretary and some teachers were outside the bathroom trying to get me out, and,  26 ,
my students gathered outside too, happily saying things like "Aren"t we  27 ! No test today!" All I could do
was  28 , and my entire  29  was waiting for me outside, naughty smiles on their faces."  30 ! Teacher."
They said, "We know you are human too!"
     They all passed their test. True to the Brazilian style, we all went out for a beer afterwards, and laughed
the whole thing off.
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(     )1. A.holding           
(     )2. A. performed        
(     )3. A. thought          
(     )4. A. successful       
(     )5. A.the class         
(     )6. A.tidied            
(     )7. A.rewrite           
(     )8. A.questions         
(     )9. A.situation         
(     )10. A.probably         
(     )11. A.as               
(     )12. A.knock            
(     )13. A.quietly          
(     )14. A.scolding         
(     )15. A.At first         
(     )16. A.to my amazement  
(     )17. A.lucky            
(     )18. A.watch            
(     )19. A.class            
(     )20. A.Sorry            
B. taking       
B. learned      
B. hoped        
B. fortunate    
B. the course   
B. washed       
B. answer       
B. instructions 
B. condition    
B. simply       
B. before       
B. kick         
B. hurriedly    
B. running      
B. Soon enough  
B. to my delight
B. comfortable  
B. smile        
B. staff        
B. Congratulation    
C. getting       
C. worked        
C. guessed       
C. happy         
C. the day       
C. locked        
C. go over       
C. answers       
C. trick         
C. sadly         
C. after         
C. open        
C. excitedly
C. laughing      
C. In the end    
C. to my surprise
C. anxious       
C. wait      
C. group         
C. Don"t be angry      
D. giving         
D. tried          
D. realized       
D. satisfied      
D. the year     
D. reminded       
D. put forward    
D. steps          
D. problem        
D. nearly       
D. until          
D. push           
D. crazily        
D. shouting       
D. Right now      
D. to my horror             
D. regretful      
D. worry          
D. school         
D. Don"t worry  
完形填空。
     One night last summer, my neighbor Debbie came over and knocked on my door. "I"m leaving for   1  , Jim,"
she said. "Would you mind dropping by my house a bit and   2   on my mother?"
     "Not a problem," I said.
     I"d lived next door to Debbie and her 84-year-old   3  , Nan, for about six months, and we"d become fast
friends. Debbie always worked at night. She   4   leaving her mom alone, so she asked if it was okay if she rigged
up (装配) one of those baby monitors and   5   me a receiver.
     I was   6   to help. After all, I"ve been blind since infancy and out of work for years. In fact, at 54, I"d come
to wonder if I had much   7   anymore.
     Like me, Nan was   8   -and was also hard of hearing. That evening Nan and I chatted for a bit   9  .
     "If you"re okay," I said, "I think I"ll go back." Before I  10 , I made sure the baby monitor was working.
     "Good night, Nan," I said. I  11  my cane and headed out of the door. "See you tomorrow," Nan called behind
me. I locked the door and  12  my way home.
     Several minutes  13 , I heard a sound. It was Nan on the  14 . "Jim! Jim!" I heard over the monitor. "The
house is  15 ! Help!"
     I went as  16  as I could to Debbie"s. I got to the front door. I could  17  a heavy, thick smoke. I put my hand
on the doorknob, and reached for my key and  18  the door. "Here, Jim. Help!" Her voice was weak.
     "Let"s get out of here!" I shouted. Grabbing her hand, I started to move on. I tapped with my cane  19  we
found the front door. We felt our way down the steps,  20  in the sweet, fresh summer air, and to the gate of her
yard. "Thank you, Lord. We"re all safe."
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(     )1. A.play           
(     )2. A.checking       
(     )3. A.father         
(     )4. A.thoughtabout   
(     )5. A.sold           
(     )6. A.sorry          
(     )7. A.value          
(     )8. A.deaf           
(     )9. A.long before    
(     )10. A.left          
(     )11. A.set up        
(     )12. A. moved        
(     )13. A.instead       
(     )14. A.neighbor      
(     )15. A.on fire       
(     )16. A. fast         
(     )17. A.see           
(     )18. A.unlocked      
(     )19. A.before        
(     )20. A.showing     

B. study          
B. taking         
B. mother         
B. worried about    
B. bought         
B. sorrowful      
B. price          
B. old            
B. before long    
B. stayed         
B. put up         
B. pushed         
B. later          
B. receiver       
B. in trouble     
B. slowly         
B. feel           
B. shut           
B. after          
B. noticing       
C. game       
C. putting    
C. sister     
C. cared for  
C. brought    
C. glad       
C. money      
C. wise       
C. once again         
C. talked     
C. picked up  
C. wound      
C. then       
C. worker     
C. in danger  
C. safely     
C. taste      
C. broke      
C. until      
C. losing     
D. work       
D. keeping    
D. brother    
D. looked for          
D. gave       
D. upset      
D. service    
D. blind      
D. as usual   
D. chatted    
D. took up    
D. found      
D. ago        
D. speaker    
D. on sale    
D. well       
D. smell      
D. knocked    
D. since      
D. breathing