24. If we ____ now to protect the environment, we’ll live to regret it.

A. hadn’t acted    B. haven’t acted  C. don’t act          D. won’t act

25. Tony can hardly boil an egg, still ____ cook dinner.

A. less             B. little          C. much            D. more

26. Police have found ____ appears to be the lost ancient statue.

A. which            B. where           C. how             D. what

27. When I first met Bryan I didn’t like him, but I ____ my mind.

A. have changed     B. change          C. had changed     D. would change

28. The driver wanted to park his car near the roadside but was asked by the police ____.

A. not to do        B. not to          C. not do              D. do not

29. The door _____ open, no matter how hard she pushed.

A. shouldn’t           B. couldn’t       C. wouldn’t           D. mightn’t

30. At the last moment, Tom decided to _____ a new character to make the story seem more likely.

A. put up               B. put in          C. put on              D. put off

31. India attained ____ independence in 1947, after _____ long struggle.

A. 不填; a          B. the; a          C. an; 不填        D. an; the

32. There’s no way of knowing why one man makes an important discovery _____ another man, also intelligent, fails.

A. since            B. if              C. as                  D. while

33. “You can’t judge a book by its cover,” ______.

A. as the saying goes old                  B. goes as the old saying

C. as the old saying goes                  D. goes as old the saying

34. It was a real race ____ time to get the project done. Luckily, we made it.

A. over             B. by              C. for             D. against

35. The sunlight is white and blinding, ____ hard-edged shadows on the ground.

A. throwing         B. being thrown C. to throw        D. to be thrown

第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，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。

I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday”, which was to make us more   36   the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to “  37   a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some members,   38  , chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore sound-blocking earplugs（耳塞）or blindfolds（眼罩）.

Just sitting in the wheelchair was a   39   experience. I had never considered before how   40   it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my   41   made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not   42  . Then I wondered where to put my   43  . It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into   44  . I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of   45   for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary（临时的）   46  .

I tried to find a   47   position and thought it might be restful,   48   kind of nice, to be   49   around for a while. Looking around, I   50   I would have to handle the thing myself? My hands started to ache as I   51   the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the   52   of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n)   53   task.

My wheelchair experiment was soon   54  . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the   55  , both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.

36. A. curious about  B. interested in       C. aware of         D. careful with

37. A. cure        B. prevent&