第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。

Tips to Become More Confident

Our confidence plays an important role in ability to achieve success and happiness. It affects our mental thought patterns, the way we speak and act, and the decisions we make in all areas of our lives. Confident people take more action, perform better, and are more likely to attain their goals.  16    Lucky for us, confidence can be built and strengthened until it becomes natural, just as any other habit. It simply takes a little time, some effort, and a bit of attention.

1. Fail More Often. 

The more challenges you take on, the more failures you’ll have, but learning that you can recover, get up and push forward builds confidence.

2.  17   

Keep a list of successes, big and small. It’ll help you to see your abilities in a more positive and realistic light.

3. Start a conversation.

When you find yourself in a social situation, don’t always turn to those people you’re comfortable with.  18    Eventually getting to know new people will become easier.

4. Don’t compare. 

Stop measuring yourself against others.  19    Making comparisons is a damaging and an inaccurate measure of success anyway.

Confidence helps you to be more secure in your abilities and more positive in your attitude. It also encourages you to be more assertive(坚定自信的) to take on more challenges, and to improve your skills.  20    The end result is a better outlook, more success, and a higher quality of life in all areas.

A.As an added benefit, you’ll attract like-minded people.

B.Track your accomplishments.

C.The result you get isn’t always real.

D.It may only do harm to them.

E.List your super abilities.

F.What’s more, confident people can take more joy from their accomplishments.

G.Talk to someone you don’t know very well.

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1.5分, 满分30分) 

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was eight, I wrote my first poem．My mother read and cried, "Buddy, you didn't really write this beautiful poem!"

    Shyly, but   21   ,I said yes．She poured out her   22  . "It was nothing short of talent!"

    “What time will Father be home?" I asked．I could hardly wait to  23  my work to him．I spent quite some time   24   for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest flourish（花体字）, drew a fancy border around it and  25  I placed it right on my father's plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able to  26   my poem.

    At almost 7 o'clock my father burst in. He seemed   27  .He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.

    Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. "What is this?" He was reaching for my poem.

    ¨Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. "And it's beautiful, absolutely amaz…”

    “If you don't mind, I'd like to decide for myself." Father said.

    I   28  my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of  29  .

    “I think it's terrible," he said.

    I couldn't look up. My eyes were getting   30  .

    “Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he's ever written," my mother was saying. "He needs   31  .”

    “I don't know why." My father held his ground. "Isn't there enough  32   poetry in the world already? "

     I couldn't   33  it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I  34    myself on the bed and cried the worst of the  35   out of me.

     That may have been the end of the story, but not of its   36  for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, "I think it's wonderful!" and a father who drove me to hear with "I think it's awful."

     Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all  37  flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that   38  ,"Watch. Listen. Review. Improve．"

     Those   39  voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of  40  and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course．

21．A. proudly      B. slowly     C. anxiously      D. honestly

22．A. praise           B. surprise   C. criticism        D. belief

23．A. recite          B. show    C. describe         D. introduce

24．A. waiting        B. planning         C. praying         D. preparing

25．A. quickly        B. confidently       C. nervously        D. casually

26．A. read          B. revise           C. appreciate       D. polish

27．A. upset          B. calm       C. tired          D. relaxed

28．A. shook         B. raised           C. lowered         D. turned

29．A. truth          B. struggle         C. decision            D. discussion

30．A. wet           B. wide      C. dark          D. bright

31．A. practice        B. judgment    C. instruction          D. encouragement

32．A. awful          B. elegant          C. fluent              D. controversial

33．A. hold            B. see             C. stand            D. control

34．A. seated         B. threw       C. left          D. kept

35．A. confusion        B. pressure     C. tiredness         D. disappointment

36．A. significance      B. development     C. difficulty         D. challenge

37．A. failure   B. honor    C. creation            D. improvement

38．A. orders         B. persuades        C. cautions           D. declares

39．A. conflicting       B. warning         C. disturbing          D. inspiring

40．A. confidence       B. confirmation      C. distrust           D. disapproval
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