1、1（共5页）完形填空（注：15-20和书上相同）1、Modern zoos are very different from zoos that were built fifty years 21 B：ago . At that time, zoos were places 22 D：where people could go to see animals from many parts of the world. The animals lived in cages that were made 23 C：of concrete with iron bars, cages that were
2、easy to keep clean. 24A：Unfortunately for the animals, the cages were small and impossible to hide in. The zoo environment was 25 D：anything but natural. 26 D：Although the zoo keepers took good care of the animals and fed them well, many of the animals did not thrive; they behaved in strange ways, a
3、nd they often became ill.In modern zoos, people can see animals in more natural habitats. The animals are given more 27 A：freedom in large areas so that they can live more 28B：comfortably as they would in nature. Even the appearance of zoos has changed. Trees and grass grow in the cages, and streams
4、 of water flow 29 B：through the areas 30 A：that animals live in.2、Fire can help people in many ways. Fire can heat water, 21 B：warm your house, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things too. Nobody knows 22 D：how people began to use fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very lo
5、ng time ago. He 23 C：went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down. Today people know how to 24 B：make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very 25 A：dangerous . Fire kills people every year. So you must be careful 26 A：about matches. You should als
6、o learn to 27 B：put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is 28 C：oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or a blanket. This keeps the air 29 D：from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with f
7、ire, and it might 30 B：hurt you.3、Paris, which is the capital of the European nation of France, is one of the most beautiful and 21 B：most famous cities in the world. Paris is called the City of Light. It is also an international fashion center. What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn b
8、y women 22 A：all over the world. Paris is also a famous world center of education. For instance, it is the headquarters of UNESCO（联合国教科文化组织）.The Seine River（塞纳河） 23 A：divides the city into two parts. Thirty-two bridges 24 C：cross this scenic river. The oldest and perhaps most well known is the Pont
9、Neuf, 25 D：which was built in the sixteen century. The Sorbonne（索帮大学）, a famous university, 26 C：is located on the Left Bank of the river. There are many other famous places in Paris, 27 B：such as the famous museum the Louvre（卢浮宫） as well as the cathedral of Notre Dame（巴黎圣母院）. However, the most famo
10、us landmark in this city must be the Eiffel Tower(艾菲尔铁塔).Paris is named 28 C：after a group of people called the Parisii. They 29 B：built a small village on an island in the middle of the Seine River about two thousand years ago. This island, called the Ile de la Cite, is 30 C：where Notre Dame is loc
11、ated. Today around eight million people live in the Paris area.4、Scientists have studied consumer behavior recently and found 21 A：that the look of the package has a great effect 22 D：on the“quality“ of the product and on how well it 23 B：sells , because “Consumers generally cannot 24 C： tell betwee
12、n a product and its package. Many products are packages and many packages are products,“ as Louis Cheskin, the first social scientist studying consumers feeling for packaging, noticed.Colors are one of the best tools in packaging. Studies of eye movement have shown that colors draw human 25 A：attent
13、ion quickly. Take V8 for example. For many years, the bright red color of tomatoes and carrots on the thin bottle makes you feel that it is very good for your body. And the word“green“ today can keep food prices 26C：going up .27B：Shapes are another attraction. Circles often suggest happiness and pea
14、cefulness, because these shapes are 28 B：pleasing to both the eye and the heart. Thats 29 D：why the round yellow M signs of McDonalds are inviting to both young and old.This new consumer response to the colors and shapes of packages reminds producers and sellers that people 30 C：buy to satisfy both
15、body and soul.5、For the first time in our marriage, I had decided to 21B：spend my holiday alone, without my wife. We had not 22 D;quarreled . My common sense told me that all habits - even good ones - should be 23 A：broken from time to time. Doing everything together with my wife had become very muc
16、h of a habit with me. So I had gone off to Italy 24 D：on my own to spend three weeks at a hotel at the seaside. I had hoped it would be nice and warm. But actually it was 35 in the shade, 25 D：hot enough to roast an ox. I walked about in shorts, my bald head 26 C： covered with a handkerchief, sweati
17、ng and thirsty. And all the time I had to 27D：think of my wife, who had gone to the mountains of North Wales and was doubtless 28 A：enjoying herself very much. Why had I, with my sensitive English skin, gone to Italy of all places? At night, I was kept 29 B：awake by two bands 30 D： playing like mad
18、in the bar downstairs.6、Nowadays most people decide quite early what kind of work they would do. When I was at school, we had to choose 21 C：what to study when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. “ 22 B：In the future , scientists will earn a lot of money,“ my parents said. For three years
19、I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the 23 C：end I decided that I would never be a scientist. It 2was a long time 24 A：before I told my parents that I wasnt happy at school. So my father said, “Well, the best thing to do now is to look for a job.“I 25 C：talked about it with my friends Fra
20、nk and Lesley. 26 B：Neither of them could suggest anything, but they promised that they would ask their friends. A few days later 27 C：while I was still in bed, someone phoned, “Is that Miss Jenkins?“ a mans voice asked. “I know your hobby is photography and Ive got a job that might interest you in
21、my clothes factory. My name is Mr. Thomson.“ I decided to see him. I was so excited that I almost forgot 28 B：to say goodbye to my mother.I arrived a bit early and when Mr. Thomson came he asked me if I 29 A：had been waiting a long time. I replied,“No, not long.“ After talking to me for about 20 min
22、utes he offered me a job - not as a photographer 30 D：but a model!7.Man cant go on increasing his number at the present rate. In the next 30 years man will face a period of crisis. 21 B：Some experts believe that there will be a widespread food 22 D：shortage .Other experts think this is too pessimist
23、ic（悲观的）, and man can prevent things 23 B：from getting worse than they are now.One thing that man can do is to limit 24 D：the number of babies born. The need for this is obvious, 25 A：but it is not easy to achieve. People have to 26 C：be persuaded to limit their families. In the countries of the popu
24、lation 27 B：explosion, many people like big families. The parents think that this 28 B：brings a bigger income for the family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look after them in old age.Several governments have 29 C：adopted birth control policies in recent years. Among them ar
25、e Japan, China. India and Egypt. In some 30 D：cases the results have not been successful. Japan has been an exception. People were encouraged to limit their families in the 1950s, which has effectively reduced the birth rate in Japan.、8、Human language is a system of symbols. No other animal has a co
26、mplex symbolic language that must be learned. Animal language is largely instinctive, 21A：while basic human language is learned speech, composed 22 C：of sounds that symbolize things, ideas, actions, and the like. We learn to read, often with considerable effort, by noticing or 23 B：being taught that
27、 groups of letters stand for the sounds that we already know 24 B：how to speak. We learn to write, with even 25 D：greater effort, by learning to form the letters, 26 C：which are symbols of sounds, and to put them together on paper so that others can read what we “say“. Since human language is a form
28、 of human behavior, 27 A：there is nothing absolute about it. It has 28 A：developed lowly throughout human history and will continue to develop. In the English language there are perhaps 600,000 29 A：sounds, Possibly more, but most of them are 30 D： known only to specialists and are rarely used. 9、A
29、person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real effort, because he feels that it would be useless. He wont go at a job with the confidence 21 B：necessary for success. He is therefore 22 C：likely to fail, and the failure will strengthen his belief in his incompetence.Alfred Adler, a fam
30、ous doctor, had an experience 23 D：which illustrates this. When he was a small boy he was poor at arithmetic. His teacher got the idea that he had no ability in arithmetic, and told his parents what she thought in order that they would not expect 24 A：too much of him. 25 B：In this way, they too deve
31、loped the idea, “Isnt it too bad that Alfred cant do arithmetic?“ He accepted their mistaken estimate of his ability, felt that it was 26 C： useless to try, and was very poor at arithmetic, just as they expected.One day Adler succeeded in solving a problem which 27 B：none of the other students had b
32、een able to solve. This gave him confidence. He 28 C：rejected the idea that he couldnt do arithmetic and was determined to show them that he could. His new 29A：found confidence stimulated him to go at arithmetic problems with a new spirit. He now worked with interest, 30 C：determination , and purpos
33、e, and he soon became extraordinarily good at arithmetic.10、Many Chinese students dont pay much attention to spoken English at school. They think it necessary to practice speaking English 21 C：in class. Here is a story to show you how important it is to speak the English language 22 C：freely in ever
34、yday life.A foreigner once got hungry and went into a restaurant in London. He sat down 23 A：at a table .When the waiter came, he opened his mouth, put his fingers 24 B：into it and took them out again in order to express that he wanted something to eat for he could not speak 25 D：English .The waiter
35、 soon brought a cup of tea. The man shook his head. The waiter then took 26 C：away the tea and brought a cup of coffee. The man again shook his head. The man tried again and again, but he wasnt able to make 27 B：himself understood. Finally another man came in. He spoke English 28 A：clearly and fluen
36、tly（流利地） . In a few minutes, there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table before him.So you 29 A：see a man often goes hungry if he doesnt 30 C：master a foreign language.11、In the eighteenth century, cities 21 B：became larger and larger. People moved from the countryside and small town
37、s to the 22 A：cities because there was 23 C：more work for them to do in the cities.On Sundays and holidays, they liked to 24 D：leave the cities and have a good time in the countryside. But not every 25 A：family 3had a horse or a wagon（四轮马车）. People needed a simpler means of transportation. 26 B：Inve
38、ntors in many countries tried to solve this problem.The first bicycle, which was very simple, 27 B：appeared in 1790. People called “the horse on wheel“. Then in 1861, after many improvements being made, the bicycle became a practical 28 C：means of transportation.People liked bikes because they weren
39、t as 29 D：expensive as horses and didnt need to be fed. They could go anywhere and were easy to 30A：ride .12、American people divide their days 21 C：into several blocks 22 B：oftime, and plan different activities 23 A：fordifferent times.American time is “on the dot“(准确地). If something is supposed to h
40、appen 24 A：at Eight oclock, it will begin at eight. Americans value promptness(准时)and may become angry if a person is more than 15 minutes late 25 B：without a good reason. If you know you are going to be late, call 26 D：in advance and let someone know. 27 C：If you arrive late, you should apologize a
41、nd explain why. Americans arrive 28 A：on time for doctors appointments. The doctor may keep you 29 B：waiting , but if you keep the doctor waiting, you may get a bill 30 B：with the doctors time!13、The Internet began more than thirty years ago, and its 21B：goal was to increase communication among univ
42、ersities, the government and some 22 A：major American businesses by linking their computers together. The Internet makes it easy for them to send large 23 A：amount of information quickly.As time passed, more people began using the Internet. In 1981, the Internet linked 213 computers. Only nine years
43、 later, it 24D： linked more than 350,000 computers. Today experts say there are about 300 million computers connected to the Internet.The Internet has changed the way people work. They can travel from place to place 25 C：while getting in touch 26 D：with their office all the time via the Internet. A
44、27 B：recent report in the America magazine, Newsweek, said more than 89 million Americana now use the Internet at work. Companies around the world now use the Internet. One can hardly imagine how business could be done 28 B： without the Internet.The Internet is becoming more 29 C：important than any
45、one had thought possible. And its importance is 30 C：expected to increase more in the future.14、Some kids have a hard time 21 D：adjusting to the new freedom that they acquire when they leave high school and come to college. Here you are able to choose 22 C ：whether or not you want to go to class. Ho
46、wever, this responsibility comes with a great price. If you do not go to class, you may miss an important lecture and these are very critical when it comes time for that test that is fifty percent of your grade. With this responsibility I have learned how to manage my time more 23B：efficiently . 24
47、A：Instead of hating every minute of school, I value it 25 C：as a time for me to prepare for the big test. This new schedule has also changed me in that now I 26 B：feel like school is worth my time. I do not dread（害怕）going to class. Yes, it is boring some of the time but since I only have two to four
48、 classes a day for only four days out of the week, it is not as 27 A ：unpleasant as high school. Also many of my courses require more in depth thinking. As an alternative to doing worksheets and 28 C：answering simple questions, college courses call 29 B： for analysis and thought. Almost all of my ho
49、mework now is writing papers and reading books. These essays most often entail（包括）an examination of a subject and what it means or what it reveals to me. Thanks to this routine, I have been able to investigate and recognize meaning more 30 D：readily and it has helped me in my thought process.15、There were once three sons of a wealthy businessman _21_B：whenever_ they met, the two eldest, who were twins, _22_B：used_t
