III．完形填空（Cloze）：（共15小题，计15分）
A）阅读下面对话，根据上下文从所给的10个词语中选择7个并用其适当形式填入空中。
（be，have，friend，teacher，get，do，they，ask，week，forget，be）
Students in the United States are still enjoying their holidays．Christmas is over，but school（51） not begin again for another week．Before they return，there is till another important holiday—the first day of the New Year．It is the last night of the old year， however，that people celebrate the most．
Almost everyone is（52） to a party．It is nice to be with（53） when you say goodbye to the old year．The people at the parties are dancing and singing．Most of them look happy．They are wearing paper hats and making noise．It is（54） close to mid- night now and everyone cheers．A new year is beginning．Everyone is hoping for a very good New Year．
For many young Americans，like my English（55） son and daughter，this is a time for the year to think about the future．They make a list of things that they hope to do．They promise to stop smoking，to lose weight，to save（56） money or to do something else that is good． They call these promises resolutions（决心要做的事）．Some people remember their resolutions all year long，but many others（57） them．
B）在下面短文空白处填入一个适当的词，形式不正确不得分。
Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people．At one time school did not like their students to（58） with them． Perhaps it was too easy．Pens can leak（漏）and it is（59） to spill（溢出）the ink．And it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them．
Ladislao Biro（60） for a newspaper in Budapest．He spent all day at his desk．Day in and day out，he corrected（61） of thin ，cheap paper with a pen and ink ．He often had to stop to（62） his pen and it did not write well on the thin paper．He and his brother George began some experiments．They wanted a pen that did not leak，with ink that did not spill．Why not use a little ball at the end？
Two Englishmen ，Henry Martin and Frederick Miles ，liked the（63） ．It was the time the Second World War．The Air Force（空军）needed a non-leak，non-spill pen for the men to write with in（64） ．Martin and Miles（65） and sold many thousands of Biro“writing-sticks”to the Air Force．
参考答答：
51．does 52．asked 53．friends 54．getting 55．teacher's 56．their 57．forget 58．write 59．easy 60．worked 61．pages 62．fill 63．idea 64．planes 65．made
