lifting their populations above that line. But the opposite is true in some areas in Africa. Even though economic growth is developing across the continent, the number of extremely poor people actually increased over the last three decades.
The organization’s campaign, “Live Below the Line”, hoped for an even greater effect by actually having people eat the way that the world’s poorest have to do every day.
This year about 15,000 people worldwide joined in the campaign such as Ben Affleck and Josh Groban, as well as other notables, such as Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son. The campaign will raise up to $4,000,000 for various aid organizations working to help the world’s poorest.
37. The author mentioned Evans’ experience in his teens to _________. A. help him change his poor life B. warn him not to live a poor life C. show how he missed his teenage time D. show how the poor life influenced him 38. What do we know about Evans?
A. He is 44 years old. B. His home is in Australia. C. He lives in extreme poverty now.
D. He often does business in Manila.
39. What do the underlined words “the continent” in paragraph 5 refer to? A. Australia. C. Africa. 40. “Live Blow the Line” aims at_________.
A. making people know the reality of living in poverty B. making wealthy people donate all their money C. warning wealthy people not to waste food D. helping poor people save more money 第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（如果所用的答题卡没有E、F、G选项，则选E涂A、B，选F涂A、C，选G涂A、D）
Make the Right Choices
B. Southeast Asia. D. South America.
What is life’s greatest gift? 41 Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transforms us from dumb animals into artists. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo. Choice becomes nothing other than the tool we use to sculpt (雕刻) our life. The tool doesn’t come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 42 The reward is happiness.
Life is not still. It is a flow. 43 We constantly need to monitor where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what corrective measures can I take? What action will I take now to readjust myself to my goals? Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It is the creative power of life.
44 And your life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which gas station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are far more important than deciding where to shop. The more we appreciate the difference between minor and major decisions, the greater the probability that we will experience happiness and fulfillment.
All chess lovers realize that it isn’t necessary to win to enjoy the game. The pleasure is in the playing. Life is like a chess game. 45 If you live by this rule, you will always enjoy the game of life, regardless of its outcome.
A. It is free will or choice.
B. You have to make choices every day.
C. Make the best moves you can under the circumstances. D. But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return. E. Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals. F. Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are, the harder they get.
G. Choose to carry out responsibilities not because you have to, but because you want to.
第三部分 英语知识运用（满分30分）
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father died a month ago. He’d been as 46 as anyone could expect a 38-year-old man to be. He’d gone to 47 one night and just never got up in the morning.
My father always had a 48 smile and a kind word. When I was little, he’d take me fishing or to the park. We were 49 then, and I wanted to grow up to be just like Dad. Then things began to 50 . We used to argue a lot and I know it was I who usually 51 it.
He had never 52 to read and had to take a job in a car repair shop when very young. I often wondered why he would 53 late at night, and when I saw him the next morning there would be dark circle under his eyes. One night I got the 54 .
It was fiercely cold so I decided to get 55 blanket to warm up my bed. The kitchen light was still on and I went to turn it off. Looking 56 the corner, I saw my father at the kitchen table, with a 57 in front of him and a pen in his hand. He was talking slowly and 58 . After a while, I 59 the words as Dr. Seuss’s “Cat in the Hat”. I bought the book when I was little and had asked my father to 60 it to me. I remember how his face turned 61 as he handed it back to me and said, “Sorry, son.” Now, as I heard the familiar words coming from his lips, I was stunned(惊呆).
I never mentioned my discovery 62 I began to have more respect for my father. I often asked him for 63 and spent more time with him.
One summer day, just two months before his death, I came home to find a new car in our garage. “Hope you like it.” My father said. The 64 words were on the tip of my tongue, but I still could not tell him that I 65 him.
I wondered if he would have been happier, had I said those three words. 46. A. respectable 47. A. sleep
B. great B. hospital B. ready B. close B. continue B. settled B. learned B. go out B. solution
C. humorous C. work C. forced C. hopeless C. change C. ended C. wanted C. stay up C. idea
D. healthy D. heaven D. cold D. conflicting D. improve D. liked D. refused D. wake up D. proof
48. A. secret 49. A. anxious 50. A. happen 51. A. started 52. A. intended
53. A. come back 54. A. answer
55. A. more 56. A. through 57. A. lamp
B. some B. up B. cup
C. other C. around
D. another D. for D. book D. happily D. saw D. teach D. red D. until D. advice D. hard D. hated
C. dictionary C. shyly
58. A. quietly B. sadly
59. A. understood 60. A. pay 61. A. dark 62. A. so
B. recognized B. keep B. pale B. because B. money B. warm B. loved
C. discovered C. read C. blue C. but
63. A. permission 64. A. three
C. books C. short C. thanked
65. A. missed
第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题 共50分)
注意： 将答案写在答题纸上。写在本试卷上无效。
第四部分 基础知识（共四节，满分50分）
第一节 单词拼写（共１０小题，每小题1分，满分１０分） 1. She’ s very _________ (有创造性的) — she writes poetry and paints. 2. People are trying to make the once _________ (污染) rivers clean again. 3. For _________ (方便) , England is divided roughly into three zones.
4. He is changing his mind _________ (不断地) , which has made people around him not know what he will do next.
5. I have made an _________ (约会) with her, so I must keep it. 6. She cried just now and her eyes were watery and _________ (肿胀). 7. Paintings at that time were _________ (荒谬) and controversial.
8. There have been several _________ (交换) of views between the two governments. 9. It is stressed that smoking and drug abuse should be _________ (禁止). 10. Prices have risen _________ (平稳) during the past decade.
第二节 完成句子（共１０小题，每小题1分，满分１０分）
从下面的方框中选出适当的短语并用其正确形式填空（其中有两项多余）
