—Oh, the manager said he no longer wanted to see me again; _____, I was fired.

A. above all

B. after all

C. in other words

D. in some way

29. So______that many parents are too worried to let their children travel alone at the beginning

of the new term.

A. is the distance great

B. great the distance is

C. the distance is great

D. great is the distance

30. Famous physicists from all over the world came to the US to ______the 100th anniversary of

Albert Einstein’s birth.

A. congratulate

B. celebrate

C. applaud

D.participate

31. When the clock ________ 11, I was about to leave for the supermarket.

A. knocked

B. hit

C. beat

D. struck

32. Do you prefer_____when your boss takes an interest in your personal life？

A. this

B.不填

C. that

D. it

33. These chairs may look good, but they’re very un-comfortable _____.

A. to sit on

B. to be sat on

C. sit on

D. sitting on

34. He ________ the exam, but he was too careless.

A. could have passed

B. couldn’t have passed

C. must have passed

D. may have passed

35. Nothing could be done, he_____ absent.

A. was

B. being

C. to be

D. be

第二节完形填空（共20小题，每题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中,选出最佳选项。

M y mother always says that I’m born to dance ballet．But that September when I was in a ballet 36 and went to do a turn，something just happened. I heard it and I surely 37 it．I went right to a doctor and got an MRI，which 38 a lot of damage to my knee-a（n） 39 injury for a dancer．I had to have a（n） 40 .