24. I was spending my holidays at the time, so I have no idea how it________
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A．was happening |
B．happened |
C．happens |
D．has happened |
23. ---________the new housemaid cook some supper for you, Tom?
---No, tell her I’ll eat outside tonight.
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A．Shall |
B．Would |
C．Will |
D．Could |
22. The Interactional Red Cross is______non-profit organization that cares for the wounded, sick and homeless in wartime, and victims________of natural disasters.
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A．the; the |
B．a; the |
C．the; 不填 |
D．a；不填 |
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21. ---Tom, it is your turn to give us an English lecture.
---I told one yesterday.
A. Are you kidding? B. Pardon? C. I can't agree more. D. Why not?
The way people hold to the belief that a fun - filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免的)brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (义务), self - improvement.
Ask a bachelor(单身汉)why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates（解放） time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .
A. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
2. Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ________ .
A. a rewarding task B. a thankless job
C. a moral duty D. a source of inevitable pain
3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from(由…造成)________ .
A. hatred B. ignorance C. prejudice(偏见) D. misunderstanding
4. To understand what true happiness is one must ________ .
A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime
B. be able to distinguish happiness from fun
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
5. What is the author trying to tell us?
A. It is important to make commitments B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain. D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
六. 完形填空（20分）
Chen Guanming has been carrying his home with him for the past seven years. He has done everything a man would to make it cozy.
The 53-year-old farmer has spent the hottest summers and severest winters cooking, eating and 1 in his mobile home: a shaky tricycle. Chen began his journey on the three-wheel rickshaw from his 2 Jiangsu province in 2001 after hearing the news that Beijing had won the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Of course, he did not forget to take his ID card, important 3 and some clothes before setting off on his mission (使命). Mission? What mission? “To promote awareness on health and the environment, just like what the Games has been doing,” he says. It may 4 funny, but make no mistake that Chen is dead 5 about it. “I'm a poor farmer I can't do much. But I have a healthy body. I want to use it to show the ___6 of the Chinese people and the spirit of the Olympics.” He would have _ 7 all of China except Taiwan when he reaches Beijing tonight. He speaks lively about his experiences in all the places on the mainland, ___8 _ about an incident in Chongqing in August 2003. “I was riding up a slope and my brakes failed my rickshaw and began sliding down and overturned,” he says. He had his legs broken but did not go to a hospital. Instead, he used herbs to stop the bleeding. And he 9 quietly for some days for his legs to rejoin. Looking at the man, you wouldn't want to believe he has crossed so many mountains and 10 in his tricycle. But you look at the piles of evidence and become a silent admirer of this determined soul.
1. A. working B. playing C. sleeping D. living
2. A. native B. familiar C. famous D. noble
3. A. equipment B. supplies C. furniture D. documents
4. A. seem B. sound C. look D. listen
5. A. serious B. careful C. practical D. optimistic
6. A. power B. energy C. strength D. authority
7. A. covered B. drove C. run D. walked
8. A. extremely B. especially C. actually D. exactly
9. A. slept B. sat C. rested D. lay
10. A. lakes B. rivers C. valleys D. road
