【正文】 s coast. When shall 20 return to this body of water? People are still seeking the answer. 1. A. Attack B. Sink C. Control D. Drive 2. A. joined B. attended C. gathered D. united 3. A. return B. turn C. response D. favor 4. A. warships B. mercial ships C. fishing ships D. passengers ships 5. A. aiming B. targeting C. intending D. taking 6. A. fishing boat B. goods ship C. passenger ship D. oil tanker 7. A. out B. about C. off D. from 8. A. charge B. seize C. keep D. free 9. A. caused B. led C. did D. brought 10. A. reasonable B. unreasonable C. negative D. sensitive 11. A. about B. over C. around D. beyond 12. A. increase B. put C. make D. add 13. A. effect B. affect C. effort D. afford 14. A. away B. further C. about D. around 15. A. forced B. left C. captured D. broken 16. A. sea B. flow C. mass D. body 17. A. air B. naval C. land D. mixed 18. A. Avoid B. Protect C. Keep D. Guard 19. A. mixed B. bined C. fitted D. armed 20. A. war B. hijack C. peace D. conflict 56 Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. 1 the only girl in a family of 2 children, she often 3 she had ―seven fathers,‖ because her six brothers, 4 her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and 5 , she retreated into books. 6 her love of 7 , she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to take part in the activities in school. In high school, with the 8 of one particular teacher, Cisneros 9 her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to 10 because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a 11 . Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university‘s Writers‘ Workshop, 12 , she felt lonely –– a（ n） 13 American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different 14 Cisneros find her ―Creative voice. ‖ ―It was not until this moment 15 I considered myself truly different that my writing got a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn‘t think it had anything to 16 with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That‘s when I decided I would 17 about something my classmates couldn‘t. ‖ Cisneros 18 her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twentynine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl 19 up in a Spanishspeaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. 20 then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children‘s book, and a shortstory collection. 1. A. To B. For C. As D. By 2. A. Five B. Six C. Seven D. Eight 3. A. felt like B. looked like C. liked D. admired 4. A. beside B. except C. except for D. as well as 5. A. unimportant B. ambitious C. mature D. stubborn 6. A. Despite of B. In spite C. Despite D. Spite of 7. A. hiding B. reading C. crying D. feeling 8. A. praise B. guidance C. improvement D. encouragement 9. A. improved B. improvised C. increased D. developed 10. A. home B. college C. school D. library 11. A. friend B. teacher C. husband D. brother 12. A. but B. however C. and D. therefore 13. A. Canadian B. African C. German D. Mexican 14. A. assisted B. led C. helped D. caused 15. A. that B. when C. then D. why 16. A. do B. deal C. handle D. affect 17. A. concern B. know C. learn D. write 18. A. printed B. published C. invented D. punished 19. A. growing B. grown C. to grow D. is growing 20. A. Until B. Before C. Since D. After 57 It had been a pleasantly warm day, without much wind, and with enough cloud to prevent the heat of the sun being too great. Charles had spent a long time studying the 1 of the water in the boat, and had discovered that, by evening, it had 2 very slightly. This, it would seem, must mean that the boat was not 3 water, which was fortunate, because any attempt to empty it out suggested greater 4 than he felt equal to. One other immediate problem had 5 his thoughts for a few moments. This was the problem of Harcourt. Charles realized that he 6 put poor Harcourt in the sea. It should be simple matter and take no more than a few seconds. Charles arranged in his mind exactly 7 it could most easily be done, but his body did not react to the 8 of his mind. Charles told himself that it was his badly burnt hands that were the trouble. And there was nothing to be done about them except not 9 them. But then, suddenly, almost without knowing how he did it, Charles moved, stood up, bent 10 the body of poor Harcourt, lifted it and let it slip as 11 as possible into the sea. Afterwards he stood in the stern of the boat for a long time, watching the color of the sea 12 and the sky bee increasingly farther off with the ing of the night. In a curious way he felt strangely happy. The problem of his 13 had not yet begun to trouble him. After a time Charles‘s retu