二、完形填空。 （10%）

     I was riding my motorbike along a country road near Chilton on the evening of February 15. I 31 it was about 9:30. It was 32  and I couldn't see things clearly. So I was driving very  33  , but the road was bad and suddenly my bike  34  a stone, and before I could stop my bike, I was already  35  on the ground. My whole  36  hurt, especially （特别）my left arm. I knew I was bleeding （流血）, and I  37 get up. Luckily I was 38  by a policeman. He made a telephone call and I was taken to the 39 . There I was examined. I had a broken arm and lots of cuts. My arm was put in a cast （石膏绷带）and my cuts were 40 and bandaged （包扎） .

31. A. told B. said C. guess D. thought
32. A. dark B. far C. long D. later
33. A. fast B. well C. carefully D. carelessly
34. A. kicked B. hit C. beat D. touched
35. A. standing B. sleeping C. waiting D. lying （躺）
36. A. mind B. body C. head D. arm
37. A. couldn't B. didn't C. wouldn't D. might not
38. A. caught B. held C. led D. found
39. A. police station B. village C. doctor D. hospital
40. A. stopped B. repaired C. served D. cleaned

三、阅读理解。 （30%）

（ A ）

     A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.

     He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening by about two inches. Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sister were busy and none of them said anything.

But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son's bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.

     Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.

     The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she, too, remembered her brother's trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done.

     You can imagine the look on the young man's face when he put the trousers on the next morning.

41. The young man's trousers were ______ for him at first.
A. a bit too long B. very good C. not too long D. too short
42. The young man's mother and sisters didn't answer because they were busy ______ in the kitchen.
A. cooking B. making tea C. washing clothes D. washing cups, glasses and so on
43. His elder sister shortened the trousers ______.
A. in the evening
B. after lunch
C. as soon as she had finished the washing
D. after she came back from the cinema
44. The next morning the young man found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him.
A. two B. four C. six D. eight
45. We can imagine that when the young man put the trousers on the next morning,
he would feel________________.
A. happy B. surprising C. surprised D. thankful

（ B ）

     When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18 th century, people had different ideas about their use. Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause people to die.

     In Sweden （瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or not this was true. It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time. They were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been sentenced to death （判处死刑）. The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.

     Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83, the other died a few years later.

     Because of the experiment, tea and coffee got accepted （接受）and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today.

46. Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in ______.
A. the eighteenth century B. the eighteen century C. eighteenth centuries D. eighteen centuries
47. King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out ______.
A. if （是否）tea and coffee were harmful to people
B. if the twin brothers should be sentenced to death
C. if tea and coffee did harm to people's health and caused them to die
D. whether tea and coffee were useful or not
48. The King decided to let the brothers live ______.
A. if they wanted to obey his rules
B. if they agreed to drink tea and coffee every day
C. if one of them drink several cups of tea each day while the other had several cups of coffee
D. if they agreed to have several cups of tea every day
49. The brother who had drunk tea every day lived ______.
A. until he was over 83
B. until he was 83
C. until the other had been dead for several years
D. until he had drunk tea for a few years
50. Today the Swedish drink ______.
A. much more coffee than tea B. much tea and coffee C. little tea and coffee D. much tea but little coffee