第二节：完形填空阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项（本大题共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)Nancy Clark paced (11)______in the entrance hall of the theatre. Inside the hall her new play “A Laugh A Minute” (12)______.Nancy was too (13)______to watch it herself. This was the (14)______night for the play. She said to herself, “ If tonight’s audience thought the play was funny, it would probably become (15)______. But if they did not like it, the play would soon (16)______.Nancy listened hard. She was hoping to hear the audience (17)______. But she heard(18)______laughter the first act. When the first act ended, about forty people left the theatre.As Nancy watched the people (19)______, she knew that the future of the play(20) ______.11. A.up and down wardB.back and forthC.to and fromD.forth and to12. A.was about to beginB.was beginC.has begunD.began13. A.excited B.happyC.nervousD.frightened14. A.open B.openingC.openedD.opens15. A.success B.a successC.succeedD.successfully16. A.close B.be closeC.closedD.closing17. ughing ughing loudlyughing loudugh loudly18. A.very muchB.very littleC.a lot ofD.only a few19. A.leaveB.leftC.to be leavingD.to leave20. A.was decidedB.has decidedC.had been decidedD.was about to decide第三节：阅读理解题阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项(本大题共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)(一)The last part of this century will be an age of space exploration such as man has never known. There are eight planets, at least thirty moons, and thousands of small stars to be explored. Their total area is about 250 times that of the earth. Spaceships will not be able to land on some of them. But that still leaves to be explored an area ten times as great as the continents of the earth.Exploring space may seem terrifying to some people. No doubts explorers of the past were terrified by the great empty oceans that lay before them. They conquered their fears, crossed the oceans, and built the new world.In the past when explorers set sail into the unknown, they had to say good bye to everyone they knew at home. Space explorers will not face such great loneliness. Even when they travel far away from the earth, they will be able to send messages back.21. Farther exploration will ______.A. be more difficult than it was in the pastB. cover a larger area than any exploring done beforeC. be more dangerous than in the pastD. be more lonely than in the past22. If the land area of the earth is about 55 000 000 square miles, the area that can be explored in space is probably ______.A. 70 000 000 square milesB. 13 720 000 square milesC. 550 000 000 square milesD. 55 000 000 square miles23. Man will probably explore ______.A. all the land in spaceB. areas on which spaceships can landC. only the largest planets and moonsD. only a few of the large planets24. The writer thinks that this area will be explored ______.A. in the beginning of the next centuryB. at the end of the twentieth centuryC. at the end of next centuryD. in the far distant future25. The writer thinks that modern explorers ______.A. may be lonelyB. can’t conquer their fearsC. will keep in touch with the earthD. can’t have connections with the earth（二）D. H. Lawrence was born in a working class family in 1885 when England was at the full development of its industry. His father was a coal-miner, so they knew what it was like to be poor. But her mother struggled hard to help her children get better than their father. Lawrence became a teacher, and so escaped the mining world of his father. But he never forgot it. He wrote many stories about the miner’s family, including his most famous novel “Sons and Lovers”, which is a portrait of Lawrence’s own life. Many of his stories and novels are on men who work down the mines. He once said of the men in the coal-mines: “Here is this terrible hell, the men are most happy. ”He meant the comradeship of the miners, the fact that they lived simply, without wishes for power, without money, without wealth.26. D. H. Lawrence was ______.A.an English writerB.a miner’s son who didn’t like minesC. a teacher of EnglishD.anyone but a miner27. Thanks to ______ Lawrence could escape the mining world.A. his fatherB. his motherC. the minersD. his novels28. Lawrence wrote stories about the miners for he ______.A. once worked with themB. lived with themC. loved themD. both B and C29. In Lawrence’s opinion, the miners lived ______.A. a poor and sad lifeB. a rich and happy lifeC. a poor but happy lifeD. without any hope30. From the passage, we know that Lawrence s mother was ______.A. also a minerB. a housewifeC. a learned womanD. a hard-working woman非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。