In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory course about 20 years ago.
The professor the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans, and invited the students to how many beans the jar contained. After shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile，announced the answer, and went on saying, “You have just an important lesson about science. That is: “Never your own senses”
Twenty years later, the could guess what the professor had in mind．He himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting into all unknown world invisible to the , which can be discovered only through scientific . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be the . The professor, however, said that it was . He was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(替代). “I remember feeling small and ,” the woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do, I the course that afternoon，and I haven’t gone near science since. ”
A．art B．history C．science D．math
A．searched for B．looked at C．got through D．marched into
A．count B．guess C．report D．watch
A．warning B．giving C．turning away D．1istening to
A．ready B．possible C．correct D．difficult
A．1earned B．prepared C．taught D．taken
A．lose B．trust C．sharpen D．show
A．1ecturer B．scientist C．speaker D．woman
A．described B．respected C．saw D．served
A．voyage B．movement C．change D．rush
A．professor B．eye C．knowledge D．light
A．model B．senses C．spirit D．methods
A．hear B．make C．present D．refuse
A．suggesting B．beginning C．pretending D．waiting
A．believed B．doubted C．proved D．explained
A．growth B．strength C．faith D．truth
A．firm B．interesting C．wrong D．acceptable
A．task B．tool C．success D．connection
A．cruel B．proud C．frightened D．brave
A．dropped B．started C．passed D．Missed
第三部分：完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从46—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was going hunting along the motorway the other day when there was a sudden bang and I almost fell off my motorbike. It had a hole in the front tyre and it’s not easy to_46_ a bike without any air in the tyre.
I _47_ stop without falling off luckily, but I still had the problem of what to do with the hole. A motorbike isn’t like a car; you can’t just change a wheel and go on your way. Now, you have to take the wheel off, find the hole, cover it with a piece of rubber, and then put the wheel back together again. Usually it costs you a lot of time and you get very dirty. As I didn’t have any _48_, I set to work. It didn’t _49_ long to get the wheel off and it wasn’t hard to _50_ the tyre from the wheel. The fun really began when I had to put the wheel back on the bike. You have no_51_ how easy it is to _52_ small pieces of motorbike in the dark.
In the _ 53_ the bike was all together again but then I realized I hadn’t got a pump, so how was I going to blow up the tyre? Fortunately, a _54_ motorist saw me and pulled up. He lent me his pump and I was soon ready to start off again. Next time I am in the motorbike shop I really must remember to buy myself a small pump though I don’t know _55_ I am going to carry it on the motorbike.
46. A. drive B. start C. carry D .ride
47. A. tried to B. managed to C. did D. made an effort to
48. A. time B. choice C. chance D. tool
49. A. spend B. need C. take D. have
50. A. remove B. repaired C. change D . check
51. A. idea B. wonder C. fun D. sense
52. A. look for B. find C. put together D. lose
53. A .last B. meantime C. same time D. end
54. A. passing B. past C. passed D. pass
55. A. what B. where C. that D. why
第二节：完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—50各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In 1962, a Russian woman told her doctor that she could __41_ through her fingers. Certainly the doctor didn’t believe it 42 he saw with his own eyes. The doctor 43 her eyes with a large handkerchief and then put coloured papers and newspapers under her hands. She was able to 44 one colour from another and read the newspaper by 45 and feeling them. The doctor 46 her many times and was 47 with the examination, so he sent her to Moscow, in which she was further examined by 48 . Her unusual powers, in the end, were 49 .
The early research into these unusual powers has shown that 50 man trusts only his eyes, he will not be able to see outside the limits of time and into the space.
41 A. write B. draw C. sing D. see
42 A . after B. when C. until D. since
43 A .opened B. hid C .closed D. covered
44 A. see B .guess C. tell D. think
45 A. seeing B. singing C. touching D .checking
46 A. saw B .examined C. helped D. watched
47 A .satisfied B. strict C. busy D .very careful
48 A. nurses B. scientists C .blind people D. good teachers
49 A. examined B. believed C .known D. true
50 A. if B. whether C. because D. after
第二节完形填空 (共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—50各小题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Life on Land probably began about 430 millions years ago, though it has existed in the water for perhaps as much as 3,000 million years. When we think of the first thing on land, we probably think of strange ___41___coming out of the oceans, but in fact no animals could have been _42__ if plants had not been on land first. Plants had to be on land before animals arrived. They __43___ the first land animals with the surrounding and food necessity, since they, the plants are the only form of life that is able to get and store__44__.
The first plants to exist out of water were probably __45__ kinds of algae(海藻) which were __46__ by other plants that grow ___47__ to the ground and needed water in which to reproduce. Once the move to land h
ad been made, however, evolution (进化) took place quickly. By the end of 100 million years, plants had developed their __48__, and some had got tree-like forms since height was very important in gaining __49__. About 30 million years ago, much of the world was covered with forests of huge trees. In most ways they were like _ 50__ modern trees. They had roots, leaves, wood, but mostly they had not developed
seeds.
41. A. tree B. plants C. seeds D. animals
42. A. living B. making C. dying D. eating
43. A. offered B. supplied C. gave D. afforded
44. A. heat B. sunlight C. energy D. water
45. A. many B. little C. sure D. certain
46. A. followed B. made C. copied D. existed
47. A. close B. far C. strong D. tall
48. A. branches B. trunks C. roots D. leaves
49. A. weight B. sunlight C. soil D. water
50. A. modern B. ancient C. big D. small
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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Ted spent seven years as a prisoner of war. There he discovered the power of 36 . For more than half of that 37 he was in isolation (隔绝). He lived for ten months in total 38 . Those ten months was the longest of his life. When they 39 with wooden boards the window of his little seven-by-seven foot cell, shutting out the light, he 40 if he was going to make it.
Ted spent hours a day exercising and thinking. But at times he felt he could do 41 but scream. Not wanting to give his 42 the satisfaction of knowing they’d 43 him, he placed clothing into his mouth to lessen the noise 44 he screamed at the top of his lungs.
One day Ted got down on the45 and crawled (爬) under his bed. He found a hole that 46 air from the outside. As he approached the hole, he saw a47 ray of light. Ted put his eye next to the wall and discovered a small crack in the building. It allowed him to glimpse 48 , though all he could see was a 49 piece of grass. But when he saw this, he felt a surge of joy, excitement and 50 that he hadn’t had in years. “It represented life, growth and 51 ,” he later said. It was the small hope that helped Ted 52 this nearly unbearable experience.
The human spirit is53 . It seems to run forever54 nothing but a faint (微弱的) hope. Without it, you have nothing. With it, nothing else 55 — even the worst conditions.
36. A. thought B. scream C. support D. hope
37. A. prison B. war C. time D. month
38. A. happiness B. sadness C. darkness D. silence
39. A. strengthened B. fixed C. covered D. broke
40. A. reminded B. required C. wondered D. feared
41. A. something B. nothing C. everything D. anything
42. A. soldiers B. friends C. enemy D. army
43. A. wounded B. quitted C. satisfied D. broken
44. A. till B. since C. as D. after
45. A. window B. floor C. wall D. board
46. A. let in B. put out C. took in D. gave off
47. A. weak B. soft C. strong D. sharp
48. A. inside B. outside C. above D. below
49. A. very B. right C. specific D. single
50.A. gratefulness B. usefulness C. fulfillment D. establishment
51. A. courage B. perseverance C. choice D. freedom
52. A. by B. out C. over D. through
53. A. straight B. strong C. lucky D. interesting
54. A. against B. from C. on D. over
55. A. matters B. relates C. changes D. happens
二、完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
I had an interesting experience playing ping-pong last year. I was playing against a 16 opponent(对手). The score was 20 to 17 in her 17 . I won the next three points which made the score 20 to 20. I 18 my paddle on the table and thanked my opponent and began to walk away. She called me 19 and said we had to continue until one of us 20 .
“Look,”I said, “if we 21 , one of two events will take place, either you or I will win.If you win, I will begin to 22 my skill. If I win, you will be unhappy. Isn’t it better to know that we both pla
yed 23 , that we enjoyed the competition, and that we played an even(相等) score?” This was a 24 ending for my opponent and for the persons watching this contest. It made 25 to me to leave with a tie(不分胜负) game, an impasse(僵局): no winner, no 26 .
So, my friends, here is the problem 27 me. Our present technology makes it possible for nations to 28 other nations for retaliatory(报复) strikes. In such a nuclear time, there 29 be no winners, o
nly losers. Under these conditions, the only choice to 30 global destruction is glogal impasse. This would be a 31 “tie game” where no nation wins and no nation loses. An impasse reached through compromise(妥协). This is because compromise becomes the only means of 32 . We cannot destroy this beautiful planet by holding on to 33 understanding of victory. The 34 victory is in achieving a desirable impasse. No one wins, 35 no one loses either.
16.A.tiring B.poor C.fine D.brave
17.A.favor B.side C.lead D.place
18.A.threw B.placed C.stuck D.dropped
19.A.up B.over C.on D.back
20.A.lost B.won C.gave up D.tired out
21.
A.perform B.stop C.continue D.leave
22.A.doubt B.hate C.practise D.desert
23.A.hard B.fair C.poorly D.well
24.A.close B.surprising C.satisfying D.reasonable
25.A.progress B.room C.sense D.time
26.A.loser B.fighter C.success D.player
27.A.encouraging B.frightening C.shocking D.troubling
28.A.destroy B.attack C.seize D.rule
29.A.may B
.should C.can D.must
30.A.escape B.flee C.accept D.avoid
31.A.different B.small C.huge D.familiar
32.A.surviving B.living C.staying D
.pleasing
33.A.an old B.an unusual C.the same D.a complete
34.A.great B.only C.same D.equal
35.A.where B.but C.as D.since
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