() 12. —I’m afraid I can’t finish the task in such a short time.
— Don’t worry. Can you finish it if you two more days?

A.will give
B.will be given
C.give
D.are given

12.D

() 13. What? Use all of your savings on one idea? You know you can’t , don’t you?

A.be too old to learn
B.burn the candle at both ends
C.put all your eggs in one basket
D.say the grass is always greener on the other side

13.C

() 14. My cousin hasn’t found out .

A.what’s wrong with his computer
B.how long he has borrowed the book
C.how should he deal with his broken bike
D.which was the way to the nearest bus stop

14.A

() 15. —Hi, Jack. We will go on an outing this weekend. Would you like to join us?
— . That’s the last thing in the world I ever want to do.

A.It depends
B.With pleasure
C.It’s up to you
D.No, thanks

15.D

二、完形填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
Dad and I disagreed with each other from time to time, and when I reached my teen years, our 16 really heated up. Our biggest fight was about my chosen 17 .
“People like us aren’t writers!” Dad would shout.
“Maybe people like you aren’t writers,” I would shout 18 , “but people like me are!”
I grew up in a nice house with a lawn (草坪) and lots of rooms. All I had to do was get good grades and stay out of trouble. Dad spent his youth living in an old building and 19 money to support his family. But he drew a curtain over his 20 , never speaking of his growing - up days. No one knew what he had 21 . But not knowing Dad’s past, I could never know what drove him to want so much safety for me.
As I insisted on writing, Mum told me Dad read and re - read 22 I got published, although he never mentioned my works to me. Instead, he continually tried to drive me into a career he considered 23 —nursing or teaching.
But in the last days of his life, Dad 24 . It was as if he suddenly realized that he should make the truth known. He talked about everything—how it felt to carry heavy baskets of coal upstairs and 25 one bathroom with five other families, and how worried he was that his family wouldn’t have enough warm clothes for winter. Dad told me 26 he’d wanted to protect me from poor life in order that I’d never have to 27 what he had. When he said sorry for trying to break off my wings, I told him that he was the very one who’d given me the chance to 28 . Dad smiled and tried to nod.
On the last day of his life, as Mum and I sat by him 29 his hands, he signalled to the nurse to come close. “You know my daughter,” he said with great 30 . “I just want you to know—she’s a writer.”
It was the proudest moment of my life.
() 16. A. discussions
B. arguments
C. movements
D. conversations
() 17. A. work
B. career
C. subject
D. topic
() 18. A. once
B. again
C. around
D. back
() 19. A. saving
B. sparing
C. wasting
D. earning
() 20. A. past
B. last
C. present
D. future
() 21. A. done
B. supported
C. suffered
D. achieved
() 22. A. something
B. everything
C. anything
D. nothing
() 23. A. safe
B. easy
C. special
D. challenging
() 24. A. stayed up
B. opened up
C. stood up
D. stepped up
() 25. A. handle
B. clean
C. share
D. build
() 26. A. how
B. what
C. when
D. where
() 27. A. organize
B. practise
C. write
D. experience
() 28. A. desire
B. live
C. fly
D. work
() 29. A. reaching
B. rising
C. holding
D. bringing
() 30. A. pains
B. help
C. pride
D. sadness

16—20 BBDDA 21—25 CBABC 26—30 ADCCC