第一节 完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Electricity becomes a part of our daily lives. In the homes, electricity works 1 of our labor 2 devices. It drives our washing machines and refrigerators. It cooks our food. 3 large companies, it works the lifts and escalators (电动扶梯) 4 giving services for lighting. In commercial offices, it works our computers 5 enable the work to be carried on more quickly and efficiently.
Physicians and scientists depend very often 6 electricity to give heat to 7 instrument for scientific experiment. It also provides us with amusements 8 radio and television at home, movies in the cinemas and various 9 of entertainments in the amusement park. All those are 10 by electricity.
At night ,roads are lit by electricity to enable people and traffic to move smoothly. Neo-lights (霓虹灯) 11 in advertising boards have become the characteristic of 12 modern city.
Nobody living in skyscrapers could 13 go up and down so many stairs, 14 there were no electricity to drive the lifts.
15 ,none of us seems to bother how electricity benefits us 16 it goes wrong. When an electricity plant in a certain area fails, everything in that 17 of the city would be at a standstill. Trams(电车)refuse to move, offices 18 to carry on with their work. If such incident occurs in summer, food will probably go 19 in refrigerators.
Yet when electricity resumes(恢复), 20 a person seems to think how important it is to us. 第二节 语法填空阅读下面短文，在空格处填入适当的单词或空格后括号内单词的正确形式，每空填写一个单词。
Robert: Oh, look at the sky, Betty! It looks like rain.
Betty: I hope it won't rain.
Robert: That's 1 the department was hoping for when they chose today as the date for the annual picnic.
Betty: We cannot have a picnic 2 good weather. We need sunshine for all the games and entertainment.
Robert: Yeah, sunshine— 3 not too much! Do you remember last year?
Betty: Surely I do. It was so hot that all we did was to look for shade and look for ways to 4 from the sun.
Robert: And no one wanted to participate in any of the games. All we wanted was cold drinks.
Betty: 5 there had been a little wind to cool us off...
Robert: But there wasn't. Just the burning sun and we nearly got 6 (burn).
Betty: 7 (obvious) we don't have that problem this year. Did you hear the weather forecast?
Robert: No. I was watching a football match and forgot to stop it for the weather forecast. Maybe it will only be a short shower, 8 cools things off a little. That 9 not be bad.
Betty: Wish 10 were true.Tim: Hi, Susan. I've been wondering when I'd run into you. What are you busy with?
Susan: Nice to meet you here, Tim. I'm buying some Christmas gifts for those 11 work with me, but it's really 12 headache.
Tim: Maybe I could give you some advice. Firstly, you should consider 13 (divide) them into different groups—who are the people that are your friends as well as your workmates and who are the people you don't know well 14 see pretty much daily.
Susan: OK, then 15 should I do?
Tim: For the friends, you can buy 16 some personal gifts. Chocolate, for example.
Susan: This is what I always give, but I know one of my friends, Mary, is 17 a diet.
Tim: Does she like fruit or coffee? Anyway, think of the gift that you know your friend likes.
Susan: Well, I think fruit is helpful to keep 18 (health). What about others?
Tim: You can send them cards.
Susan: Christmas cards?
Tim: Yes, you can afford them. More 19 (important), it reminds them that you're thinking of them.
Susan: Thank you for your 20 (suggest), Tim. You have helped me out. 
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