Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from __4__.He looked very __5__， but he didn't cry.

　　That season, I __6__ all of Miller's records while he __7__ the home games from the bench. We went 10­1 and I was named most valuable player, __8__ I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller's __9__.

　　One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller __10__ going over a fence-which wasn't __11__ to climb if you had both arms. I'm sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept __12__ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I __13__ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally __14__ on the other side, he said to me, "You know, I didn't tell you this during the season, but you did __15__.Thank you for filling in for __16__."

　　His words freed me from my bad __17__.I thought to myself how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was __18__ ahead of me. I was right to have __19__ him. From that day on, I grew __20__ and a little more real.

1．A. cheering for B．beating out C．relying on D. staying with

2．A. coach B．student C．teacher D．player

3．A. practice B．show C．comfort D．pleasure

4．A. school B．vacation C．hospital D．training

5．A. pale B．calm C．relaxed D．ashamed

6．A. held B．broke C．set D．tried

7．A. reported B．judged C．organized D．watched

8．A. and B．then C．but D．thus

9．A. decision B．mistake C．accident D．sacrifice

10．A. stuck B．hurt C．tired D．lost

11．A. steady B．hard C．fun D．fit

12．A. praise B．advice C．assistance D．apology

13．A. let B．helped C．had D．noticed

14．A. dropped B．ready C．trapped D．safe

15．A. fine B．wrong C．quickly D．normally

16．A.us B．yourself C．me D．them

17．A. memories B．ideas C．attitudes D．dreams

18．A. still B．also C．yet D．just

19．A. challenged B．cured C．invited D．admired

20．A. healthier B．bigger C．cleverer D．cooler

四、短文改错

　　假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

　　增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

　　删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

　　修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

　　注意：

　　1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

　　2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

　　It was on Sunday so I didn't have to go to school as usually. My parents went to the countryside to see my grandparents, left me alone. After finishing my homework, I began to play football at home. All of a sudden, I kicked the ball so hardly that it flew right onto a vase and broke it. It was great favourite of my mother's. I decided to tell my parents it was the fault of the cat for fear that she should punish me. Therefore, when they got home, I hesitated for a moment and told them that had truly happened. Instead of punishing me, they just hoped that I will never make so a foolish mistake again.

五、阅读理解

　　April 4th was just another day on a Western Australian farm for Zac Mitchell, until it suddenly wasn't. In an unexpected accident, the cattle worker was feeding the animals in his charge when one bull cleaned him up and kicked his hand up against the rail, resulting in the thumb on his right hand being cut off. "My thumb was still hanging on the rail...when I got up off the ground，" Zac Mitchell says.

　　His co­workers tried their best to preserve the thumb for reattachment, placing it on ice in a cooler, but two surgeries to put Mitchell's thumb back in place failed. That's when doctors came up with another suggestion: Remove one of his big toes to where his thumb used to be.

Mitchell's lead surgenon, Sean Nichlin, understood the man's dilemma at first, calling it a "bit of a crazy idea"．After all, Zac Mitchell did not want to be injured in another part of his body. But as the thumb is incredibly important function­wise,