ing   D. leave
25. ---Can you finish the forms today?   ---Sure. I’ve _______ half of them already.
   A. got through   B. got around   C. got down to   D. got away from
26. All the countries will join hands against terrorism, _______ was agreed to at the international conference.
A. that   B. it   C. as  D. what
27. The story goes _______Liu Xiang smashed the 13-year-old world record in men's 110-meter hurdle at a super grand prix in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 12.
A. when   B. where     C. what        D. that
28. The secretary asked her boss whether he had anything more _______ before she went back home.
 A. to type  B. typed       C. to be typed    D. has typed
29. In his opinion, shoes made in Ya’an are of high quality and _______ long.
A. are worn           B. are wearing       C. worn out      D. wear
30. Do you expect _______ to be a possibility that more and more students from poor families will be able to go to college?
A. this               B. that              C. it            D. which
31. ---Would you like to go to the cinema with me tomorrow afternoon?
---I’d like to, Mum, but I _______ to a party by Jane. It is her birthday.
A. am invited   B. was invited        C. will be invited  D. have been invited
32. ---Have you heard of Wang Meng?
---Yeah. She _______ have done better. She won China’s first gold medal at Turin.
A. should  B. might             C. needn’t       D. couldn’t
33. So fast        that it is difficult for us to imagine its speed.
   A. light travels                           B. light has travelled
   C. does light travel                        D. has light travelled
34. _______ giving a general introduction to computers, the course also provides practical experience.
A. In addition to      B. Except for         C. For the sake of   D. In spite of
35. A short thin man, _______ past middle age, visited the manager and applied for the position.
A. well             B. much              C. too             D. highly
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，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
   My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling   36   , but I always knew he was  37  . He never criticized us, but used  38   to bring out our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I   39   as a child I said something   40   about somebody, and my father said, “  41   time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best   42   people, I would get the best   43  . From then on I’ve always tried to   44  the principle in my life and later in running my company.
Dad’s also always been very   45  . At 15, I started a magazine. It was   46   a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a   47  : stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,  48  any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad   49   me to go into law. And I’ve   50   regretted it, I wanted to be a biologist,   51   I didn’t pursue my   52  . You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”
As   53  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national   54   for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad   55   me.
36. A. biologist   B. manager   C. lawyer        D. gardener
37. A. strict       B. honest       C. special            D. learned
38. A. praise       B. courage      C. power         D. warmth
39. A. think       B. imagine      C. remember        D. guess
40. A. unnecessary      B. unkind       C. unimportant