完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
What are you waiting for? Live life to the fullest. We are not promised tomorrow, so enjoy today.
We believe that life will be 36 after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are discouraged that the kids aren’t 37 enough and we’ll be more pleased when they are. After that, we’re discouraged that we have teenagers to 38 . We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our 39 will be complete when we get a nicer car, when we have our 40 house, when we are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire, when we win the lottery.
The 41 is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, 42 ? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be 43 right now.
So, 44 every moment that you have. Recognize that each 45 you take is a gift and be 46 . Remember that time waits for no one. So stop 47 until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you 48 weight, until you have kids 49 the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get 50 , until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is 51 , until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you’ve have a drink, until you 52 , until you are born again--- to decide, that there is 53 better time than right now to be happy…
Happiness is a(n) 54 , not a purpose. So, work like you don’t need 55 , love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.
36. A. harder B. better C. prettier D. worse
37. A. young B. clever C. strong D. old
38. A. deal with B. look at C. take over D. grow up
39. A. work B. condition C. life D. society
40. A. hope B. wish C. dream D. love
41. A. business B. truth C. matter D. difficulty
42. A. when B. why C. where D. how
43. A. active B. healthy C. comfortable D. happy
44. A. treasure B. admit C. grasp D. consider
45. A. step B. breath C. action D. measure
46. A. helpful B. meaningful C. thankful D. wonderful
47. A. worrying B. keeping C. wondering D. waiting
48. A. lose B. get C. overcome D. reduce
49. A. clean B. leave C. afford D. enjoy
50. A. fired B. paid C. satisfied D. married
51. A. used up B. broken up C. paid off D. taken over
52. A. die B. succeed C. fail D. grow
53. A. little B. far C. always D. no
54. A. idea B. journey C. future D. fact
55. A. rest B. money C. comfort D. support
阅读理解
阅读下列短文。从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中.选出最佳选项。
A
As Yang Liwei returned from his trip aboard ShenzhouⅤto be a hero’s welcome, some people began to ask when a Chinese woman would get the chance to travel in space. This dream could soon be realized. Last week, China announced that it will recruit women astronauts for future space mission.
“China plans to recruit female astronauts sometime later in 2005, ” said Hu Shixiang, deputy commander of China’s Manned Space Mission on March 12, 2004. Women from everywhere in China, including Hong Kong and Macao, will have the chance to participate. While most astronauts are former air force pilots, anyone can apply to the space programme. “ Ordinary, healthy people can also match the requirements for astronauts after professional training,” added Hu.
But females who dream of a trip to space will probably have to wait at least two years to get their chance. It’s almost certain there were no women on board ShenzhouⅥ this year. Nevertheless, women have proved to be more than suitable for space flight. Studies show they are less likely to suffer from heart attacks, loneliness, cold, heat and pain.
Since Alentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman to travel in space in 1963, some 40 females have followed in her footsteps including Eileen Colins, the first woman to be a space shuttle commander. Born in 1937, Tereshkova’s experience in parachute jumping was the reason she was selected for astronaut training. Her big moment came on June 16, 1963 when she became the first woman to travel in space. Tereshkova spent almost three days in space, making 48 orbits of Earth. But she never returned there, choosing a career in politics instead. Eileen Collins was born in the US in 1956. She always wanted to become a pilot. When she was a child, her parents often took her to the airport to see the planes. After college she joined the US air force and became a pilot. Collins first went into space in 1991 and then became the first woman ever to pilot a space shuttle in 1995. Four years later, she made history once again as the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
1. _______can be recruited to be a woman astronaut after special training.
A. Only a former woman pilot
B. Only a former bus driver
C. A healthy woman
D. Any woman
2. Compared with men astronauts, women astronauts have _________.
A. disadvantages B. advantages
C. neither advantages nor disadvantages D. more problems
3. As still a child, _______wanted to be an astronaut.
A. Yang Liwei B. Valentina Tereshkova
C. Eileen Collins D. Hu Shixiang
B
Are the British people Europeans? This may seem a strange question to Africans and Asians, who tend to think of all white men as Europeans. But the British, when they are in Britain, do not regard themselves as Europeans. The Europeans, to them, are those rather excitable foreigners from the other side of the English Channel, who have never learnt how to speak English. Europe is “the Continent”: a place full of interest for English tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved. Thus, although geographically speaking Britain is a part of Europe, yet the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel very, very insular（具岛国性的). They feel, and in many ways are, different from the rest of Europe, and they sometimes annoy continental nations by failing to support them, or even to understand them, in time of need.
Where did the British people come from? This is an extraordinary interesting question, since they are a mixture of many different races, and all these races invaded Britain at various times from Europe. Nobody knows very much about Britain before the Romans came during the first century B.C, but there had been at least three invasions before that. The first of these was by a dark-haired Mediterranean race called Iberians. The other two were by Celtic tribes: first the Gaels, whose descendants(后裔) are the modern Scots and Irish, some of whom still speak the Gaelic language; and secondly the Britons, who gave their name to the whole island of Britain. These were the people whom the Romans conquered. The Romans gave the Britons a good deal of civilization, but they never settled in Britain in very large numbers, so the British race survived until the overthrow of the Roman Empire by the “barbarians”, i,e, the numerous Germanic tribes which overran the whole of Western Europe.
1. The purpose of the passage is to .
A. talk about Europeans
B. discuss the origin of British people
C. argue for the superiority of British people
D. compare the Europeans with Africans and Asians
2. It can be known from the passage that .
A. most people think white people are Europeans
B. there are many Africans and Asians living in Europe
C. white men are Europeans in the eyes of Africans and Asians
D. the British people think of themselves as Europeans
3. It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. Europeans are those who are unable to speak English
B. those who invaded Britain came from the other side of the English Channel
C. Britain is a place full of interest for those excitable foreigners
D. Britain is the source of almost all the wars in Europe
4. Why do the British people feel very insular?
A. They are different from those people in the Continent
B. They sometimes fail to support the continent countries in time of need
C. They are separated geographically from the Continent
D. They are considered difficult to understand
5. Which of the following is most likely to be discussed after this passage?
A. The Germanic tribes which invaded Britain.
B. The civilization the Romans gave Britain.
C. The Romans who did not settle in Britain.
D. The survival of the British people in the first century B.C.
Answers: 完形填空: BDACC BADAB CBABD CADBB
阅读理解: CBC BCBCA