16.At the age of forty-five,my usually well-ordered life became full of changes.After twenty-two years of working in a (36)D,a plan to use less staff (37)D the unemployment of over one hundred people.I was one of them.
My once secure future became (38)B.However,I was not a single parent,(39)A the family did not depend only on my income (收入).My motto has always been"Change is good,change is progress,"but when it (40)Amy livelihood (生計),I had to change it to,"(41)Bchange and make the most of it."From the beginning,I (42)C to look on this matter not as (43)Bluck,but as a welcome opportunity.I refused to become sorry;(44)A,I actively planned to do something new and different.
Having a positive attitude made all the (45)C in the way I pursued (追求) the future.First,I decided to (46)D to college and graduate many years later than I should have.Doing this at my age took more than a little (47)B.Not being a graduate had  (48)B held me back in my career in the bank,but now it was a personal goal I longed to(49)C.With a lot of determination,I went to evening classes,and became an adult(50)D.In the class,I became more and more confident.During this time,I(51)Cthat no matter what life throws in our way,personal growth never stops.
The second thing I did to improve my inner self was to reevaluate (重新評估) my (52)A life.It used to be filled with endless and meaningless events.But now,my heart and life are
completely around people I (53)D.
The loss of my job led to some (54)C changes in my life.Revisiting the past made (55)Afor the future.I realize that I have accepted the change,and am making the most of it.
36.A.factoryB.companyC.schoolD.bank
37.A.made upB.took offC.set asideD.led to
38.A.clearB.uncertainC.boringD.bright
39.A.soB.orC.ifD.but
40.A.a(chǎn)ffectedB.improvedC.destroyedD.offered
41.A.MakeB.AcceptC.BringD.Collect
42.A.happenedB.consideredC.choseD.pretended
43.A.rareB.badC.goodD.special
44.A.insteadB.a(chǎn)nywayC.besidesD.however
45.A.effortB.useC.differenceD.decision
46.A.a(chǎn)ttendB.turnC.a(chǎn)dmitD.return
47.A.chanceB.courageC.timeD.risk
48.A.everB.neverC.a(chǎn)lwaysD.sometimes
49.A.a(chǎn)rriveB.findC.a(chǎn)chieveD.discover
50.A.monitorB.teacherC.managerD.student
51.A.hopedB.believedC.realizedD.suggested
52.A.pastB.dailyC.futureD.new
53.A.join inB.look atC.stand forD.care for
54.A.unsureB.confidentC.positiveD.normal
55.A.roomB.changeC.promiseD.progress.

分析 本文主要講述的作者失去了在銀行的工作之后,并沒有以消極的態(tài)度對待生活,而是樂觀生活.他重新回到了學校學習,積極面對困難和挑戰(zhàn),最終生活變得比以前更加的快樂了.本文讓我們知道了,只有我們保持了樂觀的態(tài)度,才能夠收獲生活中意想不到的驚喜.

解答 36---55 DDBAA     BCBAC      DBBCD      CADCA
36.D.名詞辨析.根據(jù)第三段中的"in my career in the bank"可知,作者曾在一家銀行工作.故選D.
37.D.短語辨析.由句意可推知,失業(yè)是裁員帶來的結果,led to"促成,造成",符合語境.故選D.
38.B.形容詞辨析.根據(jù)第一段講到作者失業(yè)和第二段首句中的"My once secure"可知,空處應填與secure有把握的,相反的詞,故B項正確.
39.A.副詞辨析.根據(jù)語境可知,I was not a single parent,我不是單獨的家長,the family did not depend only on my income 家里不僅僅依靠我的工資生活,空處前后兩句表示因果關系,用so.故選A.
40.A.動詞辨析.由句意可推知,此處表示作者以前的格言影響了他的生活,故A項正確.
41.B.動詞辨析.根據(jù)文章最后一句中的"I have accepted the change"可推知,作者的格言變成:接受并充分利用改變.故選B.
42.C.動詞辨析.根據(jù)上文作者的格言可以看出,作者從一開始就"選擇(chose)"把這次改變看作是一次機遇.故選C.
43.B.形容詞辨析.空處所在句考查了not…but…,根據(jù)but后的"welcome opportunity"可知,空處應填bad"壞的",故B項正確.
44.A.副詞辨析.根據(jù)語境可知,我沒有感到消極,而是積極準備新生活,選instead,表示"相反",故選A.
45.C.名詞辨析.由句意可推知,積極的態(tài)度在"我"追求未來生活的道路上起了很大的作用.make all the difference"大不相同,關系重大".故選C.
46.D.動詞辨析.根據(jù)本句中的"graduate many years later than I should have"可知,作者決定"返回(return)"大學,完成早該完成的學業(yè).故選D.
47.B.名詞辨析.結合常識并根據(jù)下文中的"With a lot of determination"可知,像作者這樣的年齡作出這樣的決定是需要很大的"勇氣(courage)"的.故選B.
48.B.副詞辨析.由轉折連詞but后面的"now it was a personal goal"可知,此句的意思是:沒有成為一名大學畢業(yè)生從未阻礙我在銀行的職業(yè)生涯,故選B.
49.C.動詞辨析.由句意可推知,但是現(xiàn)在,這是"我"期望"達到(achieve)"的個人目標,故選C.
50.D.名詞辨析.上文提到作者決定返回學校完成學業(yè),這里是指作者去了夜校,成為一名成人"學生(student)".故選D.
51.C.動詞辨析.由句意可推知,通過上課作者越來越自信,同時也"意識到(realized)",不管在人生的旅途中會遇到什么,個人的成長是永無止境的.故選C.
52.A.形容詞辨析.根據(jù)該句中的reevaluate和最后一段中的"Reviewing the past"可以判斷,作者改進內在自我的第二件事是重新評估自己"過去的(past)"生活.故選A.
53.D.短語辨析.由句意可推知,現(xiàn)在作者的心和生活完全圍繞著自己所"關心(care for)"的人.故選D.
54.C.形容詞辨析.通讀全文可以看出,作者把失業(yè)看成了人生的另一次機遇,失業(yè)讓作者的生活發(fā)生了一些積極的改變.第三段的"Having a positive attitude"也是提示.故選C.
55.A.名詞辨析.make room for意思是"為…騰出空間".作者通過回顧過去為未來作了更充分的準備.故選A.

點評 做完型填空考生需要在不看題目選項的情況下瀏覽完全文,了解文章大意,尋找文字間的邏輯關系.如果發(fā)現(xiàn)自己看不懂,不要慌張,因為這是必然的.閱讀第一段,遇到空時,看選項,把選項全部略讀一遍,找出一個最合適第一個空的.做完全文再檢查.

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Now the present of her desk told me,as she had never been able to,that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work.
Give me an answer,my letter ask,in any way you choose.Mother,you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

12.What did the writer fail to do when she was young?B
A.Have a heart-to-heart talk with her mother.
B.Have her mother's desk.
C.Have her mother's good habit.
D.Write a letter to her mother.
13.Why did the writer write to her mother?A
A.She missed her mother.
B.Her mother lived far away.
C.She asked her mother to forgive her.
D.Her mother couldn't speak.
14.What can we learn from this passage?C
A.Her mother talked too much in life.
B.Her mother received the letter.
C.The writer got the answer to the letter.
D.Her mother's act greatly influenced(影響) her.
15.Who was Elizabeth?D
A.A girl.B.The writer.C.The mother.D.The sister.

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5.假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文,請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文.文中共有10處語言錯誤,每句中最多有兩處.每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改.
增加:在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧),并在其下面寫出該加的詞.
刪除:把多余的詞用斜線(\)劃掉.
修改:在錯的詞下劃一橫線,并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞.
注意:1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞;
2.只允許修改10處,多者(從第11處起)不計分.
As we all know,the same body language may have different meaning in different cultures.If we don't use body language proper,we may be misunderstanding.
Last year I have a holiday in Thailand.I was walking in the street while I saw a boy fall down.I quickly ran over,helped him stand up and patted him head.Surprisingly he seemed very much angry and walked away.I had meant to comfort him with the way we Chinese usually do.Later,know that it's impolite to pat a child's head in Thailand,I felt embarrassed.
Obviously body language is important part of international communication.

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6.What is it that makes people laugh?More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定義) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph(勝利) 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.
 
21.According to Aristotle,all jokes depend mainly onA.
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
22.The underlined word"inferiority"(in Paragraph 1)meansA
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
23.What's the main idea of Paragraph 2?D
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.
24.What will a good joke teller always try to do?C
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.

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