"I didn't...I couldn't...answer. I just fell into his arms and he dropped his gun. He stayed with us for a month. We played all our old games again. Then he went back to the war, and never came back again. So I wrote the word on the photo."

8. How old was the storyteller when Harold came back for the last time?

A. Thirty-five B. Eighteen. C. Fifteen. D. Twenty-one.

9. When Harold came back home .

A. he changed a lot except for his eyes and smile

B. he made a shoot in front of the door

C. his sister could hardly recognize him

D. his sister had another quarrel with him

10. Harold never came back again because .

A. he didn't want to speak to his sister any more

B. he died in the war

C. his sister had not answered him when he came back

D. he went far away to the war

第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，共10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

It's not just women who wear skirts. 11 In Scotland, men wear a kind of skirt called kilt. The kilt is their national dress and an important part of their tradition.

A kilt is a colored skirt reaching down to the knees. It has checks（格子）on it with different colors, like red and blue. 12

13 There are many stories about it. One story is that kilt was invented in the 1720s by an English factory owner, Thomas Rawlinson.

Thomas Rawlinson had a number of Scottish workers in his factory and he thought their clothing got in the way of their work. 14

Today, most Scotsmen look the kilt as formal dress. They usually only wear them at wending or big dinner. 15

A. Each family in Scotland has it's own colors.

B. There are only a few men who still wear a kilt every day.

C. How did the Scots start to wear skirts ?

D. It was important for Scots to wear skirts at any time.

E. So he cut their long clothes into shorter skirts.

F. Wearing skirts is very beautiful for women.

G. Men can wear them, too.

第二部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并填在答题卡上。

When someone takes shoes to a shop to be mended, he is given a ticket with a number on it. Then, 16 his shoes are ready, he goes back to the shop, gives the ticket to the shoemaker, gets his shoes and 17 for them.

One day Mrs. Smith gave her husband a 18 of her shoes which needed mending and asked him to 19 them to the shop. Mr. Smith did so, and put the 20 for them in his pocket.