Ⅱ. 完形填空/Close (15分)
阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My father died when I was a few months old. After his death, my mother moved back to Louisville, Kentucky, where she had grown up. We lived in a small house with her older sister, Marion, and their mother. This was a time when being a single 16 was still considered unusual.
When I was small, there was a children's book called The Happy Family, and it was a real piece of work. Dad worked all day log at the office, Mom cooked in the kitchen, and brother and sister always had friends sleeping over. The image of the family in this book was typical (典型的) of the time. It looked 17 like my family, but luckily that wasn't the way I heard it. The way my Aunt Marion read it to me made the story really 18 .
Kind-hearted and open-minded, my aunt was the one who played baseball with me, who took me horseback riding, who took me to the father-son dinners and who gave me lessons on how to drive. Believing that anything 19 badly good for, she 20 to get a loan (贷款) so that I could go to Africa to work as a volunteer, which was my most important experience.
As a young girl, Aunt Marion always planned to have a large number of children of her own, but she never got married. This 21 that she was free to spend all her time taking care of me. Many people say we have a lot in common. She always 22 me to do my best. She never 23 to make me believe that I could do anything that I wanted with my life, if I only tried hard enough.
For more than sixty years, Aunt Marion didn't and still doesn't think of herself. 24 she is forced to come up to the front, my aunt will stand in the back in family photos, and she doesn't think that her efforts have made much 25 . I honor my aunt, who taught me the things my father couldn't. So every June for the past 40 years, in growing thankfulness to my Aunt Marion, I've sent her a Father's Day card.
16. A. man B. family
C. parent D. child
17. A. nothing B. anything
C. everything D. something
18. A. surprising B. boring
C. sad D. funny
19. A. interesting B. pleasant
C. impossible D. unusual
20. A. decided B. afforded
C. offered D. prepared
21. A. said B. meant
C. proved D. showed
22. A. allowed B. encouraged
C. offered D. forced
23. A. hoped B. agreed
C. stopped D. tailed
24. A. Unless B. Although
C. Since D. Before
25. A. difference B. progress
C. trouble D. sense
Ⅲ. 阅读理解/Reading comprehension（40分）
A
The computer is fast and hardly makes a mistake，while people are slow and make mistakes sometimes．That's what people often say when they talk about computers．For many years，scientists have been improving computers．Now a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs wonderfully．It is widely used in factories，hospitals，post offices and airports．A computer can report，decide and control in almost every field(领域)．With the help of a person，a computer can draw pictures，write music，talk with people，play chess，translate languages and so on．Many computer scientists are now thinking of making computers"think"like a man．Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel．Some people are afraid that one day computers will be too clever to listen to them．But scientists tell us that such thing will not happen．
26. The computer can work than people．
A. more wonderfully B．more slowly
C. more often D．All of the above is wrong
27. Computers can do for people．
A. few jobs B. all jobs
C. many jobs D. washing jobs
28. What will perhaps happen in the future?（ ）
A. Computers can think like men and women．
B. People will no longer use computers．
C. Computers will only be used to talk with people．
D. Computers can draw pictures.
29. The author of the passage mainly tells us something .
A. about the danger of the computer
B. about computer scientists
C. about the computer
D. about how to use the computer
30. Which of the following is right according to the passage?（ ）
A. People ale slow and full of mistakes when using computers．
B. Computers can translate languages without people's help．
C. Computers will never be cleverer than people．
D. Computers will listen to people.
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