三、 閱讀理解（共20小題，滿分40分）

第一節(jié)：閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A, B, C, 和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將該選項(xiàng)標(biāo)號(hào)涂黑。

As one approaches some crossroads, one comes to a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop (unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road); and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.

Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroads. It had a “Slow” sign, so he slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely.

At once he heard a police whistle, so he pulled in to the side of the road and stopped. A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and pencil in his hand and said, “You didn’t stop at the crossing.” “But the sign there doesn’t say “Stop”,” answered Mr. Williams. “It just says “Slow”, and I did go slow.” The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook and pencil away, scratched his head and said, “Well, I’ll be blowed. I am in the wrong street!”

1. Which of the following statements is correct? ?

A. Stop signs can be found at every crossroads.

B. At crossroads with a “Slow” sign, drivers never have to stop.

C. At crossroads with a “Slow” sign, drivers have to stop and then go slow.

D. At some crossroads, drivers needn’t stop or go slow.

2. What do you think the policeman would do in the end?

A. Fine Mr. Williams.                   B. Take him to the police station.

C. Apologize to Mr. Williams.                  D. Give Mr. Williams his notebook and pencil.

3. Which might be the best title for this passage?

A. Signs at the crossroads                 B. A careful driver

C. A policeman and a driver               D. Policeman in the wrong street

Most of us use the telephone several times a day to talk with friends or make social arrangements. These calls are usually quite easy and require little planning.

  Using the telephone for business purpose is different. In any organization the person on the telephone represents the company and gives an impression of the firm to the outside world.

  If you want to ensure good public relations, you need to master effective telephone techniques.

  You should try to give an impression of an efficient, friendly, progressive company eager to give good service.

  Before calling

  Choose the right time. Consider the cost, urgency and convenience. When calling overseas you need to consider the time difference.

  Check the number. A great deal of money is wasted each year on dialing wrong numbers.

 Plan your call. Make a list of points and questions to be raised.

 Be prepared. Gather any files, papers or information that may be needed during the call. It is unprofessional to have to say “Hold on while I look for that.”

 If you have to ask a caller to hold on, keep going back and assuring him/ her that you will be as quick as possible.

 Avoid interruptions. Call at a time when you are unlikely to be distracted.

  During the call

 Be courteous, polite. Make time for suitable greetings like “How are you today, Jim?” and “Did you enjoy your holiday?”

 Put a smile in your voice. Remember, your caller can’t see you, so use intonation to good effect and try to sound confident, decisive, helpful and interested.

 Check your notes. Look back at your notes to ensure that you have covered everything and quote figures and other data correctly.

 Obtain feedback. Make sure that caller understands the message correctly, especially where deadlines and actions that are involved.

 Be courteous. Finish by thanking the caller for his or her time and trouble.

  After the call

 Make notes. Let it become a habit to make notes of the call and place them in an appropriate file.

 Take actions. If you need to send a letter of confirmation or inform someone in your organization about any details of the call, do some immediately so that you do not forget important points.

1. What’s the main idea of this passage?

  A. Using a telephone for business has strict rules.

  B. While making a business phone call, you should be efficient first.

  C. It’s necessary to learn how to use your phone for work.

  D. The phone is playing a very important role in our daily life, especially in business.

2. Before calling, you have to ____.

  A. stay at your company only.        B. learn important data and figures by heart

  C. get things ready for the communication   D. choose the right time and place

3. What’s the meaning of the word “feedback”?

  A. information         B. present          C. greeting             D. reply

The film “Avatar” has received great popularity around the world. It turned out to be a great success. The film got ＄1 billion in ticket sales in a very short time. The story in the film happens on an alien planet called Pandora where many strange species live. Among the planet’s inhabitants(居民,棲息動(dòng)物)，the one that has the most similarities with humans is the Na’vi, and it is the struggle between the Ma’vi and human invaders(入侵者) that forms the story of the film.

As to the factors(因素) leading to the film’s success, many think that the entertaining feast(盛宴) for the eyes and the wonderful story shouldn’t be forgotten, but the new language invented especially for the film which provides audiences with a new experience also plays an important part.

In order to increase the truthfulness of an alien race（外星人）, the film’s director James Cameron asked an expert in languages from the University of Southern California to invent a language for the Na’vi. Professor Paul Frommer combined the languages spoken among Indians, Africans and mid-Asians and worked with James Caneron for four years to create the Na’vi language based on the original 30 words that the director had already come up with.

According to Professor Frommer, the most important characteristic of the Na’vi language is that it could be pronounced. “This is an alien language but obviously it has to be spoken by human actors and actresses,” Professor Frommer told the BBC, “it has to sound natural and it should make human beings comfortable when using it.”

The language has a vocabulary of around 1000 words but Progessor Formmer hopes to enlarge the vocabulary in possible follow-ups to the film and in video games. The professor hopes that one day his creation will be as successful as the Klingon alien language from the “Star Trek”films. “There’s a translation of Hamlet into Klingon and it has received great popularity among the audiences,” says Professor Frommer，“if anything like this happens to the Na’vi language, I’d be very happy.”

1. What do we know about“Avatar” from this passage?

A. The story in it is a moving love story.    

 B. It brings the producer ＄1 billion in total.

C. The story in it happens on an alien planet.

 D. It talks about humans and aliens’ friendship.

2. The director of “Avatar” James Cameron had a language invented for the Na’vi to     

A. make the film a whole mystery          B. make the Na’vi more believable

C. make the Na’vi different from humans    D. make the film have specific characteristics

3. Who first created the basic words of the Na’vi language?

A. Paul Frommer.        B. An Indian.    C. James Cameron     D. Hamlet.

4. The important feature of the Na’vi language is that      

A. it can be spoken by humans         B. it has just 30 original words

C. it has a vocabulary of 1000 words.    D. it is like the Klingon alien language

5. We can infer from the passage that       

A. James Cameron will produce follow-ups to “Avatar”

B. the Na’vi language is another kind of the Klingon language

C. the director believes the Na’vi language will be popular

D. Paul Frommer hopes to add new words to the Na’vi language

 — How are the things in your village?

  — Modern farming methods have been brought in and the villagers are ________ now than before.

    A. well off            B. better off           C. badly off           D. worse off

第二部分：語言知識(shí)及應(yīng)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié)：完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分，共20分）　

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21~35各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卷上將其該項(xiàng)涂黑。

What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I   21        an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against an average of 100, scored 160.

I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him — and he always   22                it.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man designed questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I’d prove myself a   23          . In a world where I have to work with my hands， I’d do poorly.

Consider my auto-repair man again. He had a habit of telling   24          . One time he said, “Doc, a deaf-and-dumb man   25           some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made         26          movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk         27          him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the next man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his   28        and asked for them. I’ve been   29           that on all my customers today, but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked.  “Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very   30           .”

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

21. A. failed                 B. wrote                C. received                   D. chose

22. A. fixed                 B. checked           C. drove                       D. changed

23. A. teacher               B. doctor               C. winner                         D. fool

24. A. lies                     B. jokes                 C. news                        D. tales

25. A. bought                B. tested                C. found                    D. needed

26. A. cutting                B. hammering        C. waving                     D. circling

27. A. brought                     B. packed                     C. sent                         D. sold

28. A. imagination         B. hand                 C. voice                       D. information

29. A. trying                 B. proving             C. practising                 D. examining

30. A. clear                   B. silly                  C. slow                        D. smart

She just looks like her sister _____ her sister has shorter hair.

A. besides         B. except                C. but for              D. except that

We don’t have to ________ every word that we don’t know when reading.

A. look up                            B. refer to                           C. look for                            D. look into

Into the dark apartment _______, who was quite surprised when everyone shouted “Happy Birthday”.

         A. did David walk               B. David walked                 C. David did walk               D. walked David

Let’s keep to the point or we ___________ any decisions．

A． will never reach  B. have never reached C. never reach   D．never reached

I began working in journalism when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.

         With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was supper time, I walked back home.

         “How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.

         “None.”

         “Where did you go?”

         “The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”

         “What did you do?”

         “Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”

         “You just stood there?”

         “Didn’t sell a single one.”

         “My God, Russell!”

         Uncle Allen put in, “Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickle(五分鎳幣). It was the first nickle I earned.

         Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence, and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.

         One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.

         “If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that, as soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.

         My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.

41．Why did the boy start his job young?

         A．He wanted to be famous in the future 

B．The job was quite easy for him.

         C．His mother had high hopes for him.  

D．The competition for the job was fierce.

42．From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.

         A．excited       B．interested        C．a(chǎn)shamed D．disappointed

43．What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?

         A．She forced him to continue.      B．She punished him.

         C．She gave him some money.           D．She changed her plan.

44．The phrase “this battle”in the last paragraph refers to       .

         A．the war between the boy’s parents

         B．the arguing between the boy and his mother

         C．the quarrel between the boy and his customers

         D．the fight between the boy and his father

45．What is the text mainly about?

         A．The early life of a journalist.         

B．The early success of a journalist.

         C．The happy childhood of the writer.  

D．The important role of the writer in his family.