二、语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10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，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16－25的相应位置上。
On Oct. 6th, 2011, a piece of breaking news hit the world: Steve Jobs, the founder of the Apple Company, 16.________ (pass) away after years of battle against pancreatic cancer. I as well as many people 17.______ (be) sad at the news. We saw him make miracles again and again, and we hoped that he would always give us a surprise. We enjoy using an iPod to listen to music and we like to play games with 18.______ iPad. We love to communicate with our friends by iPhone. 19.______ seemed that Jobs always understood what we really wanted. So he could devote himself 20.______ his career by creating the amazing products constantly. But now he quietly left, leaving us a great pity.
U.S. President Barack Obama called Jobs a visionary 21. ________(lead) and one of the greatest U.S. innovators. He said in a statement, "Steve was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and 22.________ (talent) enough to do it."
Steve Jobs’ family said in a statement, “Steve died 23.________ (peace) today surrounded by his family. We are grateful 24.______ the support and kindness of those 25.______ share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.”
三、 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，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡对应题目的标号上将该项涂黑。
When I was about 13, I suddenly developed a strong feeling of love for writing poems(诗歌). I 26__ all my other hobbies, such as 27 stamps, and spent all my spare time reading and writing poems. This habit of writing poems on every possible time soon got into 28 at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I would 29 out my notebook and start writing poems in class. Of course I did this very 30 , but it was not long before I got 31 . One day while I was 32 writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up to find the teacher standing over me, and getting angry because I was not 33 attention. He tore the poem up, with a warning not to waste time in class. All the same I was 34 that I had written a good poem, so that evening I wrote it out again from 35 . Not long after, I read about a 36 competition and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up 37 , I got a letter informing me I had won first 38 . Everyone at school was very 39 except the geography teacher, who watched me more carefully than ever . He 40 that I should not write poems in his class.
26. A. gave in B. gave up C. gave out D. gave off
27. A. gathering B. collecting C. keeping D. picking
28. A. study B. trouble C. love D. care
29. A. take B. made C. pick D. look
30. A. carefully B. quickly C. unsuccessfully D. happily
31. A. used B. controlled C. tired D. caught
32. A. busy B. free C. hurried D. proud
33. A. calling B. having C. paying D. drawing
34. A. sorry B. certain C. shamed D. sad
35. A. memory B. thinking C. thought D. idea
36. A. reading B. poet C. poem D. rhythm
37. A. success B. courage C. hope D. wish
38. A. gift B. present C. prize D. name
39. A. pleased B. upset C. worried D. depressed
40. A. insisted B. stuck C. persuaded D. liked
四、阅读理解（共20小题,每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答
题卡上将该项涂黑。
(A)
Every night before going to bed, Jasmine would take a bath. That was a good habit, but the problem was that Jasmine liked to take really long baths. So one day Jasmine’s mom said to her, “We won’t have stories anymore because you spend too much time bathing. We have no time to read the stories.” This made Jasmine a little sad, because she enjoyed the stories her mother read to her before she slept, but she enjoyed bath time more, so she gave up her story time. She still get out of the bathroom until her mom ordered her to.
A few days later, Jasmine’s mom told her, “If you stay in the bathtub (浴缸) too long you’re going to turn into a fish.” That didn’t sound bad to Jasmine. She thought that turning into a fish would be great because being a fish could stay in the water all the time.
One night Jasmine dreamed that she really became a fish. In her dream, she was playing in the bathtub like she always did when she suddenly became smaller and smaller until she turned into a little fish. Then Jasmine’s mom came in to tell her that it was time to go to bed, but she didn’t see Jasmine. Jasmine’s mom was happy. So she began to drain (使流走，放掉) the water from the bathtub, and then began to clean the bathroom. As the water started going down, Jasmine got scared. She shouted, but her mom couldn’t hear her. Then Jasmine started jumping out of the water trying to catch her mom’s attention. But her mom had already walked out the bathroom. Jasmine cried and she woke up. She was so happy when finding herself still a girl. Never did Jasmine waste time in the bathroom again.
41. From the first paragraph we know that ____.
A. Jasmine thought listening to stories was a terrible thing
B. Jasmine preferred taking long baths to listening to stories
C. Jasmine’s mother was happy that Jasmine bathed every day
D. Jasmine’s mother often read stories to her when she was bathing
42. Jasmine’s mother said “you are going to turn into a fish” to her in order to ____.
A. stop her from eating fish
B. teach her how to swim well
C. make her spend less time bathing
D. keep her away from the bathroom
43. In Jasmine’s dream, her mother was happy when she didn’t see her in the bathroom because ____.
A. Jasmine had cleaned the bathroom
B. Jasmine had become a little fish
C. she thought Jasmine had finished her bath
D. she thought Jasmine had gone to school
44. What made Jasmine have a change at last?
A. Her mother’s story. B. Her mother’s warning.
C. Her terrible dream. D. Her bath experience.
45. Which of the following happened according to the order of time?
a. Jasmine changed her bad habit.
b. Jasmine’s mother gave her a warning.
c. Jasmine was used to taking long-time baths.
d. Jasmine was told they would have no stories.
e. Jasmine became a fish in her dream.
A. cdbea B. cbdea C. ebcad D. bacde