--Sure, I will _________ I see her.
A. certainly
B. fortunately
C. probably
D. immediately
16. We' re so busy that no one in the office can _________ for any other work.
A. spare
B. be spared
C. share
D. be shared
17. He regards that book _________ one of the worst that he's _________ read.
A. to be, ever
B. to be, never
C. as, ever
D. as, never
18. --Did you get a job?
--No, I _________ , but it' s no use.
A. expected
B. tried to
C. managed to
D. planned
19. --Do you know that Jack _________ a postman for about six years?
--Yes, I see.
A. has become
B. has turned
C. has changed
D. has been
20. The girl must have been reading at this moment last Sunday, _________ she?
A. wasn't
B. didn' t
C. mustn't
D. hadn' t
Ⅱ.阅读理解/Reading comprehension(50分)
A
Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "If anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea. "
"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, so he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.
Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man tocome and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.
The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more. "
The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?"
"Burnt yesterday evening. "
21. Mr. Brown told his son that _________.
A. he would be away from home for four days
B. he would be back in seven days
C. he would be back in a month
D. he liked a cup of tea
22. Mr. Brown wrote the words down on _________.
A. the wall
B. the door
C. a piece of paper
D. his son's pocket
23. A man came to visit the boy's father on _________.
A. the second day
B. the third day
C. the fourth day
D. the fifth day
24. The man was very surprised because _________.
A. he thought the child's father was dead
B. the child didn't ask him to sit down
C. the child gave him a cup of tea
D. he couldn't find that piece of paper _________.
25. What was burnt?
A. The piece of paper.
B. Mr. Smith.
C. The visitor.
D. The boy.
B
Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men' s minds decline more thanwomen' s, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain' s files ( helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline (衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men : The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范围) as possible in the given time, e.g. "object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
26. The underlined word in the second paragraph means _________.
A. natural
B. great
C. obvious
D. absolute
27. According to the passage, which of the following can NOT be typed into the same category.'?
A. Cloud.
B. Sheep.
C. Trees.
D. Goose.