第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分40分)

第一节单项选择(共10小题；每小题l分,满分l0分)

1． My mother is English teacher in No. 2 Middle School.

A. a

B. the

C. an

D. /

2．When you don’t know a word, you can _________ in the dictionary.

A. look it up

B. set it up

C. give it up

D. pick it up

3．Thomas wants to know ______Nina lives.

A. where

B. who

C. what

D. if

4．He is the only one of the students who __________a winner of scholarship for three years. A. is B. are C. have been D. has been

5． It was a _______story, and we all got ________.

A. shocking; shocking

B. shocked; shocked

C. shocking; shocked

D. shocked; shocking

6．Only in this way ____to make an improvement in the operating system.

A. you can hope

B. you did hope

C. can you hope

D. did you hope

7．—What about ____ book?

—It’s too difficult ____ book for beginners.

A．the; a B．a; a C．a; the D．the; the

8． This classroom is __________ that one.

A. three times bigger as

B. three times as big

C. three times the size of

D. as three times big as

9． One reason Crystal has become so famous is that he is very quick thinking, and is often able to _____ new jokes about the people and things around him.

A. come up with

B. come across

C. come up

D. come to

10． Liu Xiang earned the respect from the whole world as he hopped down the track to the finishing line, ____ the last hurdle.

A. kissed

B. to kiss

C. having kissed

D. kissing

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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

My mother and I started our morning by rushing into the local grocery store. I waited in line at the Starbucks counter while she around to pick up a few things.

As I was there I noticed an elderly woman, wearing layers (层) layers of old torn clothing, moving behind me in line.

She had a few toiletries(化妆品)and seemed to want the Starbucks cashier to since our queue was shorter than the grocery store queues were.

At some point I became of her moving closer behind me –it was than I was comfortable with! I instinctively (本能地) a hand over my purse and drew it closer to me. My fear and imagination raced creating wild about this homeless woman who might try to from me.

Then it was my to order. As the cashier rang up my total I discovered I was 37 cents .