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A. in search of B. searching for C. to search forD. search for 第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A certain student passed all his examinations. Then he went to college to 36 his studies. There he wrote down his 37 for a course in English, but after the first 38 , he didn’t go to it any more. The English lecturer 39 this student was always absent (缺席的) and thought he had 40 to another course, so he was 41 when he saw the boy’s name on the list of students who wanted to take the English 42 at the end of this year. The lecturer had 43 a difficult paper, which followed his 44 closely, and he was eager (热切的) to see 45 this student would answer the questions. He 46 the boy’s answers would be very bad, but when they 47 him and he examined them 48 , he was able to find only one small mistake in them. As this surprised him greatly, he 49 the paper repeatedly but still couldn’t find more than one mistake, so he 50 for the student to question him about it. When he came and sat down, the lecturer asked him, “I 51 you came to my first lecture and you’ve been absent from all the others. But I’ve examined your 52 carefully and I’ve found only one small mistake in it. I’m curious (好奇的) to know your 53 .” “I’m very 54 about that mistake,” answered the student. “After the examination, I 55 what I should have done. I would not have made that mistake if I had not been confused by your first lecture.” 36. A. value B. continueC. improveD. begin 37. A. questions B. adviceC. problemsD. name 38. A. week B. lecture C. meet D. sight 39. A. astonished B. regrettedC. noticed D. believed 40. A. led B. devotedC. gone D. changed 41. A. surprised B. angry C. pleased D. unhappy 42. A. test B. subject C. note D. course 43. A. discovered B. preparedC. invented D. found 44. A. ideas B. senses C. lecturesD. texts 45. A. when B. what C. why D. how 46. A. hoped B. proved C. expectedD. wished 47. A. showed B. gave C. handedD. reached 48. A. carelessly B. carefullyC. slowly D. happily 49. A. enjoyed B. kept C. did D. examined 50. A. cared B. called C. sent D. looked 51. A. promise B. know C. advise D. guess 52. A. lessons B. paper C. notebookD. exercises 53. A. wisdom B. experienceC. method D. explanation 54. A. glad B. proudC. content D. sorry 55. A. realized B. understood C. remembered D. suffered 第三部分：阅读理解(共两节;每小题2分，满分20分) 第一节：阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph by showing we’re better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers，all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons — that is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else’s expense. Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes，especially those involving cruelty，are so popular with certain people. Besides，all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it’s different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant，depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool，we don’t laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in，the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh. 56. The underlined word “inferiority” (in Paragraph 1) means ______. A. something that is not as good as something else B. something that is better than something else C. someone that is not as good as someone else D. someone that is better than someone else 57. According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on ______. A. showing inferiority in another person or group B. resulting in a sense of success C. having a good opinion of other people D. making people laugh unexpectedly 58. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2? A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes. B. When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes. C. People who like jokes are usually cruel. D. To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes. 59. What will a good joke-teller always try to do? A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one. B. Make different things happen at the same time. C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation. D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place. 第二节：阅读下面短文，并根据短文所提供的信息完成表格。 Paul McCartney (保罗•麦卡特尼) is one of the greatest stars of the twentieth century. Paul comes from an ordinary family, but he is now the third richest man in Europe. He has worked at music for nearly forty years and today he is one of the world’s most famous musicians. He was born in Liverpool, England, on 18th June, 1942. He started to play the guitar seriously when he was fourteen. When he was fifteen he met and formed a band with another boy from Liverpool, John Lennon. This was perhaps the most important point in his life. In 1961, Paul and John helped to form “The Beatles”, which became the most successful band ever in the history of rock music. Their second song “Please please me”, went straight to the top of the British chart in 1963. During the 1960s “The Beatles” continued to make successful songs. But in 1970, after they had been playing together for ten years, the band broke up. In 1972, Paul formed a new band “Wings”, but it was never as successful as “The Beatles”. And it broke up after seven years. Since the 1980s Paul has written pop music and has worked on films. He has also opened a school in Liverpool. (责任编辑：admin) |