知识运用(共25分)

四、单项填空。(共13分，每小题1分)

22. Taylor Swift is very popular now, and she is ____ favorite singer.
A. we                       B. us               C. our                D. ours

23. The Spring Festival is coming. It comes ____ January 23 this year.
A. in                        B. on               C. at                  D. for

24. The film was so____that the children couldn't stop laughing.
A. funny                   B. funnier         C. funniest          D. the funniest

25. I like cartoons,____ I didn't go to watch The Adventures of Tintin last week because of the test.
A. so                        B. and              C. but                 D. or

26. Although she added salt, it still wasn't____．
A. enouugh salt          B. salt enough            C. enough salty            D. salty enough

27. Jimmy is a kind boy.He____others fix up the bikes for ten years.
A. helps                    B. will help               C. helped                D. has helped

28. —When____you____reading the book Steve Jobs?
—It's hard to say. Maybe next week.
A. did; finish              B. have;finished         C. will;finish           D. do;finish

29. The microwave oven is used for____food.
A. heat                      B. heating                 C. heated               D. heats

30. We like making friends with the people____like helping others.
A. when                     B. where                   C. who                   D. what

31. By the time I got into the classroom, the teacher____the test papers.
A. had handed out       B. handed out           C. has handed out                 D. hands out

32. They hope____to London during the Olympics this summer.
A. to go                     B. go                        C. going                 D. gone

33. The mobile phone____by Martin Cooper in 1973.
A. invents                  B. invented                C. is invented           D. was invented

34. —Can you tell me____the old people's home?
—Last Sunday.
A. when they will visit
B. when they visited
C. when did they visit
D. when will they visit

五、阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。(共12分，每小题1分)

Mickey was a nice, cheerful and optimistic(乐观的)boy. No one could remember ever having seen him 35 ;he didn't mind whatever people said to him. He seemed unable to say bad words to anyone else. Even his teachers liked his good disposition(性格).

It is said that Mickey's goodness must come from some special 36 ；They asked Mickey so much that, one afternoon, he invited his favourite teacher, Mr. Anthony, to tea. When they had finished, Mickey showed Mr. Anthony around the house. When Mickey opened 37 bedroom door, the teacher froze, and a big smile spread across his face.The huge far wall was a unique collage(拼贴画)of thousands of colours and shapes! It was he 38 decoration Mr. Anthony had ever seen.

"Some people at school think I never think badly of anyone, "Mickey started to 39 ,"and that nothing at all bothers me, and that I never want to fight with anyone, but that's not true at all. I'm just like anyone else. I used to get angrier than all the other kids, 40 years ago，with the help of my parents，I started a small collage. I could 41 any kind of material and colour for it. With every little piece I put up，I added some bad thought or act."

It was true. The teacher looked closely at the 42 .In each one of the small pieces he could read, in tiny letters,' fool',' idiot', 'pain', 'bore', and a thousand other negative things.
"This is how I started 43 all my bad times into opportunities to add to my collage.Now I like the collage so much that, e ach time someone makes me angry, I couldn't be happier. They've given me a new piece for my work of 44 "That day they discussed many things, but what the teacher never forgot was how an ordinary boy had shown him that the secret to having a cheerful and optimistic character is to change the bad times into chances to 45 .

Without telling anyone, on that very day, Mr. Anthony began his own collage. He would introduce it so often to his students that, years later, they called that neighbourhood "Art Town". Each house contained its own magnificent works, made by those cheerful and optimistic 46 . 

35. A. angry                  B. sorry                   C. pleased                   D. excited

36. A. courage              B. secret                  C. idea                        D. culture

37. A．her                    B. our                      C. his                         D. their

38. A. ugliest                B. liveliest                 C. oldest                    D. latest

39. A. ask                    B. require                  C. suggest                 D. explain

40. A. But                    B. And                      C. Because                 D. Since

41. A. give                   B. make                    C. use                        D. find

42. A. table                  B. door                     C. window                  D. wall

43. A. looking               B. knocking               C. turning                   D. moving

44. A. art                     B. regret                   C. change                   D. painting

45. A. wonder              B. smile                     C. practice                   D. relax

46. A. friends               B. teachers                C. parents                   D. children