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Ⅰ.单项填空
1.I saw a woman running toward me in the dark.Before I could recognize who she was，she had run back in the direction ________ she had come.
A.of which B.by which
C.in which D.from which
2.The book was boring.It wasn’t________ to me.
A.benefit B.benefited
C.of little benefit D.of much benefit
3.Would it be________ for you to pick me up at four o’clock and take me to the airport?
A.free B.vacant
C.handy D.convenient
4.Alice，what are you arguing________the teacher?You should think highly of the teacher’s opinions.
A.about B.with
C.with about D.about with
5.The girls ________ into the company recently have to receive strict training before they start to work.
A.accepted B.accepting
C.admitted D.admitting
6.________ herself with routine office tasks，she had no time to attend to her children.
A.Occupying B.Occupied
C.Being occupied D.To be occupied
7.________ my hometown take on a new look，a sense of________ suddenly appeared in my mind.
A.Having seen;joy B.Seeing;happiness
C.While I saw;delight D.When I saw;pride
8.Not content________ her new car，Selina now wants a bike for trips into the city center.
A.with B.for
C.to D.about
9.I wrote him a letter to show my ________ of his thoughtfulness.
A.achievement B.agreement
C.attention D.appreciation
10.I’m really________ this weather—why can’t it be sunny for a change?
A.fed up to B.fed on
C.fed to D.fed up with
11.To deal with the global financial crisis，China has ________ a string of forceful measures over the past months.
A.worked out B.found out
C.turned out D.made out
12.I think I can come，but don’t________.
A.depend on B.rely on it
C.want it D.make it
13.After everyone ________，the meeting began.
A.instead of them B.took their place
C.took my place D.in their place
14.—Why didn’t you tell her about the appointment?
—She drove away________ we could say a word.
A.before B.until
C.when D.after
15.—Where did you find the wallet?
—It was at the stadium ________ I played football.
A.that B.where
C.which D.there
Ⅱ.阅读理解
Rachel Carson was born on May 27,1907 in Pennsylvania.Her mother bequeathed her a deep love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology.Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 and studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.She received her master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
She worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries，writing radio scripts during the Depression(经济大萧条) to increase her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun.She began a 15-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
She wrote books on conservation(保护) and natural resources and edited scientific articles，but in her free time turned her government research into prose(散文)，first as an article Undersea(1937)，and then in a book，Under the Sea-Wind(1941).In 1952 she published her prize-winning study of the ocean，The Sea Around Us，which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955.These books made up a biography(传记) of the ocean and made Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public.Carson resigned in 1952 to devote herself to her writing.
She wrote several other articles designed to teach people about the wonder and beauty of nature，including Help Your Child to Wonder(1956)and Our Ever-Changing Shore(1957)，and planned another book on ecology.In Carson’s writing，she expressed her view that human beings were only part of nature.
Disturbed by the overuse of chemical pesticides(杀虫剂) after World War Ⅱ，Carson changed her focus in order to warn the public about the long term effects of misusing pesticides.In Silent Spring(1962) she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government，and called for a change in the way humankind viewed the natural world.
Carson was attacked by the chemical industry，but she still called for new policies to protect human health and the environment.
Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer.
16.The underlined word in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.
A.passed on B.gave lessons
C.brought up D.set an example
17.What do we know about Rachel Carson during the Depression?
A.She was working as a full-time editor.
B.She wrote for radio stations.
C.She devoted most of her energy to writing.
D.She was in charge of the U.S.Bureau of Fisheries.
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