第一节：单项选择( 共15小题，满分22分)
1. ---Do you mind if I open the window?
--- _____. In fact, I feel a little hot as well.
A. Please don’t
B. I’d rather you didn’t
C. Go ahead
D. Why don’t?
2. ---May I smoke here?
---If you _______, choose a seat in the smoking section.
A. should
B. could
C. may
D. must
3. Parents always _________ great importance to education. They will do their best to give their children that priceless gift.
A. attach
B. pay
C. link
D. apply
★4. I work in a business _________ almost everyone is waiting for a great chance.
A. how
B. which
C. where
D. that
5. Sir, you are not allowed to enter the building unless you get our manager’s__.
A. permission
B. connection
C. instruction
D. introduction
6. ---I’m sorry. I _________at you the other day.
---Forget it. I was a bit out of control myself.
A. shouldn’t have shouted
B. shouldn’t shout
C. mustn’t shout
D. mustn’t have shouted
7. When the thief found the police had already ______ him, he ran
away quickly.
A. realized
B. known
C. spotted
D. stared
★★8. The reason ______ he failed was _______ he was too careless
A. because; because
B. why; because
C. that; that
D. why; that
★9. I can’t find the recorder in the room. It ________ by someone.
A. may take
B. may have been taken away
C. must have taken away
D. needn’t have been taken away
★10. It is reported that two schools, ___________ are being built in my hometown, will be open next year.
A. they both
B. which both
C. both of them
D. both of which
11. _________ parents say and do has a life-long effect on their children.
A. That
B. Which
C. What
D. As
12. ________ you are interested in astronomy, you can read the book.
A. Even if
B. Now that
C. Unless
D. As soon as
★★13. It is reported that the United States uses ____ energy as the whole of Europe.
A. as twice
B. twice much
C. twice much as
D. twice as much
14. It has been proved _______ eating vegetables in childhood helps to protect you against serious illnesses in later life.
A. if
B. that
C. what
D. when
15. —What do you think of his opinion?
—None has given me ___________ piece of advice.
A. a better
B. a best
C. the best
D. the better
第二节：完形填空（共20小题，满分33分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的四个选项中，选择最佳答案。
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist(打击乐器独奏演员) though she was a disabled woman.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 16 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 17 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion(酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 18 . Doctors told me that the nerve (神经) damage was the 19 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 20 me.”
“My 21 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 22 to ‘hear’music differently from others. I play using my feet and can 23 the pitch
