but , in the end .the joke is on    54  . Every laugh is a culture     55   ; every laugh is my heritage (传统)fading away.

36        A. custorn      B. games    C .characters .            D. language

37        A. ahead       B. around    C. along                 D.aside

38        A. when        B.before    C.unless                 D.until

39        A.success       B.study     C.time                  D.attenmpt

40        A. aim         B. joke      C. nod                  D. stare

41        A. cared about          B. laughed at       C. argued with      D. asked after

42        A. right  now          B. from now        C. at times         D. in time

43        A. decision            B. Permission        C. information      D. preparation

44        A. repeated            B. reviewed          C. spelled         D. kept

45        A. farm              B. stand             C. pond            D. marked

46        A. guessed           B. forget             C. doubted         D. ignored

47        A. by               B. as                 C. with             D. from

48        A. second            B. effort             C. desire            D. movement

49        A. foreing            B.allowing             C. persuading        D. leading

50        A. bright            B. blank              C. pale             D. red

51        A.open-mouthed     B. tongue-tied    C. empty-handed     D. Broken-hearted

52        A. service           B. home              C. tisk             D. root

53        A. trade             B. deed               C. challenge       D. incident

54        A. it                B. us           C. me                D.them

55        A. thrown           B. lost            C. divided           D. reflected

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

  F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

  His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary :“ My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

  This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925,which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection lf short stories All the Sad Young Men.

  However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. while his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

56. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?

 A. 5            B. 6            C. 7              D. 8

57. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

a. He became addicted to drinking.

b. He studied at St.Paul Academy.

c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.

d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]

e. He failed to reorder his life.

f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

A.f-c-e-a-b-d       B. b-e-a-f-c-d        C. f-d-e-c-b-a      D. b-f-c-d-e-a

58. We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald            .

  A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

  B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army

  C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

  D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

59. The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about          .

 A. Zelda’s personal life

 B. Zelda’s illness and treatment

 C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

 D. Fitzg