第三部分语言知识运用(共两节， 满分45分)
第一节(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A. B、C和ID四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Over the summer, one of my teenage son's high school classmates lived and worked in are mote country place. There she__ 41__ reliable Internet and phone service. Because it was__42__ to call or text his friend or reach her on social media, Will landed on an old-fashioned__43__ to stay in touch. Once a week, he tried to sit down and write a letter.
I haven't written a letter for years. When Will asked for writing materials to get_ 44__,I struggled to remember where we_ 45__ the paper and envelopes. But once we found the__46__ from a shelf and Will biked to the post office for__ 47__ ， he settled into a spot near the living room window and set to work. As my son_ 48__ letters, I just spent time in another corner of the house __49__ some essays of one of the world's greatest__ 50__ writers, Virginia Woolf.
Woolf, who died in 1941, worried in her own time that as__51__ became cheaper and easier, people would__ 52__ less about what they were trying to say. They would__ 53__ the dream of letters that were“the__54 __of phrases and the arts of the writing master.”
The__ 55__ and emails we now dash off by the dozen each day seem the fulfillment of Woolf' s __56__ I'm not giving up my smart phone and laptop, and I'd be__ 57__ without the convenience of connecting with masses each day with a few quick keystrokes.
But my 17-year-old ___58__me this past summer that in an age of__59__ communication, conventional mail still has its__60___.
41. A. changed B. lacked C. found D. rented
42. A. polite B. unnecessary C. hard D. convenient
43. A. alternative B. value C. brand D. bike
44. A. continued B. touched C. offered D. started
45. A. put B. lost C. bought D. swapped
46. A. necessities B. ideas C. phones D. essays
47. A. mailboxes B. envelopes C. stamps D. postcode
48. A. sent B. read C. tore D. wrote
49. A. setting aside B. dipping into C. improving on D. getting rid of
50. A. lecture B. anecdote C. letter D. idiom
51. A. communication B. judgement C. commitment D. journey
52. A. consult B. know C. think D. quarrel
53. A. take up B. give up C. make up D. call up
54. A. exchange B. process C. review D. polish
55. A. excuses B. problems C. chances D. texts
56. A. suggestions B. ambitions C. fears D. dreams
57. A. betrayed B. lost C. charged D. misunderstood
58. A. warned B. prepared C. awarded D. reminded
59. A. unbearable B. expensive C. instant D. permanent
60. A. virtues B. disadvantages C. criteria D. independence
第I卷
第二节(共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
In late April 2014, a violent storm swept through the southern United States, 61_______(destroy) more than $ 1 billion in property and killing 35 people. But a group of migratory(迁徙的) birds in eastern Tennessee sensed the oncoming mess and left long before the first clouds arrived. A year earlier, the team had tagged golden- winged warblers (莺) with leg trackers 62_______ ( study) their annual migrations to South America. Two days before the storms 63_______(strike)，five golden-winged warblers slipped away, traveling nearly 700 kilometers south to the Florida coast.
It's the first time that the birds which normally migrate with the seasons 64_______(observe) to slip away when a big storm hits. The researchers suspect this 65 _______(behave)occurs only when the threat of injury outweighs the energy costs of a long trip. But nobody knows 66_______ the birds guessed the storm's severity and left so soon._ 67_______ ( puzzle) by it,the scientists initially reasoned that delicate changes in weather---atmospheric pressure,temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, or rainfall 一signaled the upcoming disaster. Yet when they checked weather records, none of these factors waved 68 _______(significant) before the storm. Instead, the team assumes that the approaching storms created 69______ disorder of infra—sounds low-frequency sound waves that birds can hear, 70 _________humans can't.