II. 完形填空（共10小题，计10分）

　　   阅读下面一篇短文，理解大意，然后从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答

　　案，使短文连贯完整。

　　    Tom is the son of a farm owner. One New Year's Day, when he was 15, his father  31  him to work on the farm for one year when he was free. Tom was  32  with his father' s idea. "That isn' t my job. I have   33   school work to do.  " Hearing this, his father said, "I promise (许诺) to give you the best present if you   34  finish one year's work.  " Tom thought for a while and   35  .

　　   Starting one Saturday, the boy got up early and worked   36   until evening, just like any other farmer. Time passed quickly. Tom' s crops (庄稼) grew well.    37   the last day of the year, the father called his son to him.  "I'm happy to see that you have worked very hard the whole year," said the father.  " Now, tell me    38    you want "

　　   The boy smiled and showed his father a big piece of bread made from his wheat (小麦). "I've already got the   39  present. No pains, no gains. I think this is what you wanted   40   to know." His father was quite pleased to hear that.

　　31. A. asked     B. let         C. made         D.  stopped           

　　32. A. happy     B. unhappy    C. excited        D. worried           

　　33. A. much too   B. so little    C. too much      D. a lot              

　　34. A. shall      B. must       C. need          D. can           

　　35. A. said      B. answered    C. agreed        D. began            

　　36. A. hard     B. hardly       C. slowly        D. difficultly         

　　37. A. At       B. On         C. In            D. By              

　　38. A. where    B. which       C. how          D. what             

　　39. A. least     B. worst       C. best           D. fewest          

　　40. A. mine     B. I          C. my            D. me             

　　III. 阅读理解（共15小题，计25分）

　　   A) 根据下面一篇短文的内容判断下列句子的正误，正确的用 "A" 表示，错误的用"B"表示。（共5小题，计5分）

　　                                  (A)

　　    Sally was fourteen. She studied in a middle school. She liked dancing and singing and spent a lot of  time on them. But she hated maths and even decided to give it up.  Her father was anxious (焦虑) about it.

　　   It was Sunday.  Sally's father gave a call to his sister who taught maths in another school.  He hoped she would come and tell his daughter how to learn maths. The woman came and said, " You are a clever girl, Sally.  I' m sure you will soon learn maths well if you do your best "

　　   "I'm afraid I can' t, Aunt," said Sally. " Girls can' t be good at maths. "

　　  "I don't think so," said the woman. "I was good at it when I was a girl.  You must do more exercises and try different ways to practise doing maths problems until you work them out or at least understand them better. Here is a maths problem. Please think it over and see if you can work it out. "

　　   "OK," said the girl. "Let me try. "

　　   About an hour later Sally took the exercise book to her aunt and said, "I've tried several times and worked out the problem at last!"

　　   "Well done!" her aunt looked at her answer and said happily, "Now you see, maths is not as difficult as you thought "

　　41. Sally tried her best to learn maths but could not learn it well.

    42. Sally spent much more time in singing and dancing than in learning maths.                

　　43. Her aunt didn' t think that girls could be good at maths. 

    44. The father asked his sister to teach his daughter how to learn maths.

    45.Sally worked out the problem at last