12．I used to quarrel a lot with my parents，but now we ________fine.

A．look out B．stay up C．carry on D．get along

答案　D　[考查短语辨析。look out留神；当心；stay up熬夜；停留；carry on从事；进行；get along与......和睦相处；进展。]

13．________an important decision more on emotion than on reason，you will regret it sooner or later.

　　A．Based B．Basing

　　C．Base D．To base

答案　B　[考查非谓语动词。句意：在作出重要决定时，如果你更多地基于情感而不是理性，那么你早晚会后悔的。base...on..."以．..为基础"。主语为you，与动词base为逻辑上的主谓关系，因此用­ing 形式，所以答案为B。]

14．He began to take political science ________only when he left school.

A．strictly B．truly C．carefully D．seriously

答案　D　[take sth seriously严肃/认真地对待某事。]

15．________for the breakdown of the school computer network，Alice was in low spirits.

A．Blaming B．Blamed C．To blame D．To be blamed

答案　B　[blame为及物动词，后面必须跟宾语，blame与Alice成动宾关系，这里过去分词作状语表示被动、完成。]

Ⅱ.完形填空

It was a winter morning，just a couple of weeks before Christmas.While most people were__16__their cars.Trevor，my husband，had to__17__early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work.On arrival，he__18__his bike outside the back door as he usually does.After__19__10 hours of labor，he returned to find his bike__20__.

The bike，a black Kona 18 speed，was our only tool.Trevor used it to get to__21__，putting in 60­hour weeks to__22__his young family.And the bike was also used to get groceries，__23__us from having to walk long distances from where we live.

I was so__24__that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.Shortly after that，several people in our area__25__to help.One wonderful stranger__26__bought a bike，then called my husband to pick it up.__27__my husband had a way to get to and from his job.It really is a(an)__28__that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.People say that a smile can be__29__from one person to another，but acts of kindness from__30__are even more so.This experience has had a