【正文】 ． its customers C． its popular products [來(lái)源 :學(xué)科網(wǎng) ZXK] D． its advanced techniques B Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir （轟動(dòng)） in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars. Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farmer and a younger woman posed before a white house brought the artist instant fame. In 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, noticed a small white house built in the small southern Iowa town of Eldon. Wood was so fascinated by it that he decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he thought should live in that house. In the painting, the farmer is modeled on his dentist. Dr. Byron McKeeby. His younger sister Nan served as a model for the woman （ imagined to be the farmer’s wife or daughter ） . Wood wanted to give a description of the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork symbolizing hard labor. Each element was painted separately。 surprise. This is definitely duck, my friend said, while eating chicken. This soup, I declared, is carrot and coriander. Even the tooclose smell did not reveal the real tomato and cumin flavors. Dining in the dark changes everything: the sense of smell is heightened, manners go out of the window using your hands to feel around the plate bees normal and there is a strange thrill in being able to ignore your facial expressions. Best of all? You don39。t I think? 72 Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood． Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to take help from reading． Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you． 73 Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas． If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things, which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity． 74 Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words． So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading． 75 Go and get a book! A． Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary． [來(lái)源 :學(xué)*科網(wǎng)] B． Reading can help you make more friends, too． C． The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed． D． Why not do some reading while you are hungry? E． Now what are you waiting for? F． Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading． G． Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry． 笫三部分：英語(yǔ)知 識(shí)運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 45分） 第一節(jié) 完形填空（共 20小題；每小題 1． 5分，滿分 30分） 閱讀下面的短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（ A、 B、 C和 D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（ ），并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。 2．只允許修改 10處，多者（從第 11處起）不計(jì)分。開(kāi)頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。請(qǐng)你根據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)給澳大利亞朋友 Peterson 寫(xiě)一封信，請(qǐng)他屆 時(shí)前來(lái)給你們做一次講座。 修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。 Imagine falling towards the pla Earth at 61 awesome speed of 300 kilometers per hour. You start your fall from over four kilometers above the Earth. And you have less than one minute before you pull your parachute (降落傘） cord. You are falling 62 fast that just turning your head can send you off 63 a different direction. This is the wild side of a sport that has not found its limit— freeflying. Freeflying 64 (base) on the more traditional skydiving, 65 of which are eyecatching. However, it is more terrifying to watch freeflyers create formations and movements. Freeflyers, 66 the name suggests, enjoy the more spontaneous(即興的） thrill of doing their own things. The wildest trip for a freeflyers is falling ‘head down’. Falling ‘head first’ requires a great deal of control, which means 67 (travel) not only fast but also steadily. Even the 68 (slight) movement has a great effect on your direction. They wear the amusing jumpsuits, strange helmets and smaller parachutes. 69 (actual), their parachutes are about one quarter the size of the traditional skydiver’s parachutes. It is only in the last few years 70 freeflying has gained any real public acceptance. 第四部分寫(xiě)作（共兩節(jié)，滿分 35分） 第一節(jié) 短文改錯(cuò)（共 10小題；每小題 1分，滿分 10分） 假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫(xiě)的以下作文。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。ll take small steps forward, said Michael, the visually impaired(視力障礙的 ) server, in an East London accent. We three felt our way carefully bumping past heavy curtains before