27．If you get a raise, you’ll _________ be expected to shoulder more

responsibility and work longer hours.

A．no doubt

B．no longer

C．no excuse

D．no chance

28．As an old sailor, he has ____________ in most parts of the world in his

time. He must be interesting to listen to.

A．knocked over B．knocked about D．knocked off

C

．

knocked

out

29．－What field will you son go into after graduation from the university?

－I’m not quite certain, but he __________- a good software programmer.

A．promises

B．becomes

C．makes

D．proves

30．Nowadays hospitals are quickly ________ the special needs of the local

people.

A．promises

B．becomes

C．makes

D．proves

31．A few days before its anniversary, the school decided to have the buildings

_____ clean as well as elegant.

A．look

B．to look

C．looked

D．being looked

32．She __________ be an equal to the famous model in some respects but she

does not like the profession.

A．could

B．should

C．must

D．may

33．All the people in that town, students or town folks, _______ the books,

records and magazines in our university’s library. They can even surf the internet there.

A．are allowed to C．have access to

B．are admitted to D．have approach to

34．Not until _________ did man accept that fact that all living things must die.

A．did many years pass

B．many years past

C．many years had passed D．many years have passed

35．You can enjoy __________ the full the drama performed by the famous actor. It is a real ____.

A．to; treat

B．at; appreciation

C．in; passion D．/;

from

第二节：完形填空（共20题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Engagement, wedding, and birth of a baby are the three steps of a new family. The Danes’ special ways of doing these things inform their native culture.

People in other places of the world usually give their lovers a finger ring or a bundle of flowers as a gift of engagement. 36 in some areas of Denmark, it is still considered 37

for a young man to 38 his fiancée with the wooden clappers once used to 39 clothes

40 in a stream. These clappers were engraved with love-poems, and 41 tradition, they ensured good fortune and happiness.

And their country weddings also show a tint of local convention(传统). Until recently, a Danish country wedding was an event which 42 all who lived in the surrounding 43 . Everyone was tacitly(不言而喻地) invited to celebrate with the young couple. Preparations for the wedding lasted for many days but were made 44 , because to show happiness openly 45 arouse the anger and jealousy of evil spirits.

46 the wedding morning the couple met in the courtyard of the bride’s house. The relatives and friend presented themselves to the couple, bowed and placed gifts at their feet. Every gift was 47 by good wishes recited in prose(散文) or in verse; 48 modest the gift the more elaborate(精致的) the wishes had to be. 49 who had neither the means to give 50

the imagination to make a speech were, as a sign of their goodwill, placed 51 guard over the presents and, in the evening, over the couple’s bed. 52 the conclusion of the ceremony a large jar of beer was taken to the courtyard. The hands of the betrothed(已订婚的) were joined over the jar and it was 53 into fragments(碎片). These pieces were picked 54 by the girls of marriageable age who were present, the girl with the largest 55 being destined to marry first. 36．A．However 37．A．a luck 38．A．send 39．A．strike 40．A．to wash

B．But B．luck B．present B．beat B．washed

C．Therefore C．lucky C．bring C．hit

D．So D．lucks D．give D．blow

C．to be washed D．washing

C．so far as D

．

in

41．A．according to B．with a view to addition to 42．A．stated 43．A．area 44．A．publicly 45．A．would 46．A．At 47．A．completed 48．A．much more 49．A．These 50．A．or 51．A．in 52．A．At

B．related B．district B．silently B．should B．In

C．concerned C．zone

D．considered D．region

C．unknowingly D．secretly C．must C．On

D．may D．To

B．accompanied C．accomplished D．matched B．the more B．Those B．and B．on B．In

C．any more C．People C．nor C．at C．To B．ruined C．on

D．more D．They D．then D．against D．For

C．crashed D．cracked D．at

53．A．smashed(弄碎) 54．A．out

B．up

55．A．part B．fragment C．section D．block

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） A

This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress management books have titles like “Stress Management in 60 Seconds”.

Canadian Classics Professor Margaret Visser points out that the perception that we have “no time” is one of the most strict concepts of Western culture. Visser says that “no time” is used as an excuse and also as a spur(刺激); it both stimulates us and forces us, just as a concept such as ‘honour’ did for the ancient Greeks. According to Visser, the feeling that Westerners have “no time” is abstract, quantitative, amoral(非道德性的), unarguable, bringing pressure on each person as an individual. At the same time, the “no time” excuse escapes censure by claiming to be a condition created entirely out of our good fortune.

Life offers “so many pleasures, so many choices”.

The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the “no time” trend. But more important, Visser says, is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component(成分) of our economy. Marketing of “time-saving” products causes people to buy more and work longer. So we eat out or buy prepared food to save time. The fax-it-to-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry. In our rushed and exhausted state, even the obligation(义务) to sit down to casual meal with family seems like a pressure. In comparison with the decision to act on a sudden whimz (一时的兴致) to consume a microwave mug of soup the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event. Being in one’s own personal hurry in the