Ⅲ 语法选择。
Pineda's story began in El Salvador, where he was born with ______ wrong with his mouth. He had great difficulty ______ speaking. At the age of 2, his family's house was burned down. Pineda was hurt seriously, and his legs needed to be cut. His mother died when he was 8, and he ______ years on the street before he was taken in by an orphanage (孤儿院).
Finally, at the orphanage, Pineda began to receive support and encouragement. He taught ______ to play the guitar. He began his ______ with other musicians. Then the group went to Chicago, where Pineda, then 18, caught the attention of many people, who wondered what they could do ______ him.
Pineda was lucky to get much help, but he knew that it would be a long way for him to ______.
1. A. something B. anything C. nothing
2. A. about B. for C. in
3. A. spend B. spent C. spends
4. A. he B. him C. himself
5. A. performance B. performer C. performing
6. A. help B. helping C. to help
7. A. success B. succeed C. successful

1. A
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. C
7. B

1. 根据语境，Pineda天生嘴巴有问题，表示某事有问题用"something wrong with..."，故选A。
2. 句子表达的是他在说话方面有困难，"have difficulty in doing sth"为固定搭配，但题目中给出的是"had great difficulty ______ speaking"，需要用介词"in"接动名词形式表示在某方面有困难，而"about"关于，"for"为了，均不符合，故选C。
3. 句子描述的是过去发生的事情，且主语为"he"，故使用一般过去时的实义动词"spent"表示"度过"，选B。
4. "teach oneself"为固定搭配，表示自学，此处指Pineda自学吉他，主语为"He"，故用反身代词"himself"，选C。
5. 根据语境，他开始与其他音乐家一起表演，"his"为形容词性物主代词，后接名词，"performance"为名词，表示表演，符合语境，而"performer"为表演者，"performing"为动名词或现在分词，均不符合，故选A。
6. 根据语境，人们想知道他们能为Pineda做些什么，此处用动词不定式"to help"表示目的，选C。
7. 根据语境，Pineda知道他还有很长的路要走才能成功，"to"后接动词原形，"succeed"为动词，表示成功，而"success"为名词，"successful"为形容词，均不符合，故选B。

Ⅳ 完形填空。
An old woman lost her only son. The sad woman went to a clever man and asked, “Is there anyway I can throw away my ______?”
The clever man said to her, “Go and bring ______ a seed (种子) from a home that has never known sadness. I will ______ it to drive the sadness out of your life.” The woman went off at once to look ______ that magical seed.
First, she came to a beautiful house, knocked at the door, and asked ______, “Excuse me, I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is this such a place? It is very important to me.”
They told her, “You're certainly come to the ______ place, ” and began to describe all the sad things that had recently happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is able to ______ these people that have had such sadness like me? ” She stayed to cheer them up ______ she went on looking for a home that had never known sadness.
But wherever she went, whether in the homes of the poor or the rich, she found one sad ______ after another. She became so busy helping other people that she ______ about looking for a seed that would magically end her own sadness. She even never realized that helping others had driven the sadness out of her life.
1. A. happiness B. kindness C. sadness D. illness
2. A. me B. you C. her D. him
3. A. push B. use C. lend D. lose
4. A. at B. up C. for D. after
5. A. politely B. happily C. proudly D. angrily
6. A. right B. wrong C. clean D. dirty
7. A. catch B. order C. hide D. help
8. A. before B. after C. when D. while
9. A. man B. woman C. story D. trip
10. A. knew B. worried C. thought D. forgot

1. C；
2. A；
3. B；
4. C；
5. A；
6. B；
7. D；
8. D；
9. C；
10. D。

1. 结合上文An old woman lost her only son.可知一个女人失去了她唯一的儿子，可推测她很悲伤，想要扔掉悲伤，故此处应选C. sadness（悲伤）。
2. 结合上下文可知，聪明人让女人给她拿一颗种子，此处应用第一人称宾格形式me，故此处应选A. me。
3. 结合上下文可知，聪明人要用种子驱赶女人生活中的悲伤，use sth. to do sth.为固定搭配，意为“用某物做某事”，故此处应选B. use。
4. 结合上下文可知，女人立刻动身去寻找那颗神奇的种子，look for为固定搭配，意为“寻找”，故此处应选C. for。
5. 结合上下文可知，女人礼貌地敲门询问，此处应用礼貌地，故此处应选A. politely。
6. 结合上下文可知，他们告诉女人来错地方了，然后开始描述他们最近发生的悲伤的事情，此处应用错误的，故此处应选B. wrong。
7. 结合上下文可知，女人自言自语道谁能帮助这些和她一样悲伤的人呢，此处应用帮助，故此处应选D. help。
8. 结合上下文可知，当女人继续寻找时她留下来让他们高兴起来，此处应用当……时候，故此处应选D. while。
9. 结合上下文可知，无论她走到哪里，她发现一个又一个悲伤的故事，此处应用故事，故此处应选C. story。
10. 结合上下文可知，她变得如此忙碌以至于忘记了寻找神奇的种子，此处应用忘记，故此处应选D. forgot。