II 语言知识及运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节 完型填空(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的四个选项(A、 B 、C和D)中， 选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Fred Smith was just 27 when he founded FedEx. Thirty-five years later, he’s 21 at the helm(舵). He owes the success of the company to leadership --- something he 22 from his family.
Smith’s grandfather 23 a Mississippi River steamboat; his father built the Greyhound Bus Line in the South, 24 his fortune along with the routes. Smith says he was just four when his father died. “ So he probably served as a role model for me.”
Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Smith says, “I didn’t know I wanted to go into 25 , but I knew I wanted a leadership 26 . That appealed to me.”
Actually, he loved flying. So as a student at Yale University, he helped set up the Yale flying club. But Smith never 27 looking for the “big idea”.
He thought he had found it when he wrote for an economics class a term paper, in which he outlined his 28 for overnight delivery of goods to major US cities. Yet the professor wasn’t impressed. But he knew it would be a while before he could turn his idea into 29 .
Fred Smith was 30 . Now thirty-five years has passed, and FedEx has become a $32 billion global transportation and logistics(物流) company, serving more than 220 countries and areas.
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A even
B still
C ever
D always
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A built up
B put up
C made up
D picked up
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A captained
B charged
C changed
D damaged
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A taking
B telling
C expanding
D searching
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A politics
B business
C work
D education
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A position
B condition
C situation
D reservation
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A risked
B ended
C stopped
D started
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A idea
B program
C article
D aim
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A dream
B use
C practice
D reality
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A wrong
B active
C right
D accurate
第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求， 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空， 并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40 的相应位置上。
As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some 31 (comfort) moments. Maybe 32 was the strange ways that things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that frightened me so much. There was never total darkness, as a streetlight or 33 ( pass ) car lights made clothes hanging over a chair take 34 the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. 35 tiny sound from the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. I was so frightened that 36 I could do was 37 (lie ) very still in order not to be discovered by the “ enemy”.
In addition, perhaps 38 of the worst fears of all I had as a child was of not being liked or accepted by 39 . Being popular was so important to me, and in the process of growing up I always put 40 in the first place.
