B

    In the 6th century BC, there was a war between the Romans and the Etruscans who lived north of Rome. The Etruscans raised a great army and marched toward Rome. At that time, Rome was just a small town, and the Romans did not have enough fighting men to protect their people.

     One morning, thousands of Etruscan horsemen and footmen were seen marching straight toward the wooden bridge over the Tiber River. Rome was in immediate danger!

     Among the guards at the bridge was a brave man named Horatius. He ordered the soldiers to cut down the bridge immediately. At the same time, he took two soldiers with him to the far side of it. There, the three brave men kept the enemy from taking the bridge.

     The soldiers tried to destroy the bridge as quickly as they could, and soon it was trembling, and ready to fall. Some of them ran across to call the three men back.

     Horatius yelled at the two others to cross first. At that moment the bridge fell with a great crash. Horatius fought the Etruscans by himself, and a dart (標(biāo)槍) entered his left eye. In great pain, he turned and jumped into the river.

     Horatius sank into the deep water but soon emerged, halfway across the river. He was greeted with shouts of joy, for he had saved the town. He gained a new name, Horatius Cocles, meaning the "one-eyed Horatius" and is remembered as one of Rome’s greatest heroes.

41. From the first paragraph we learn that Rome ________.

     A. did not have many brave soldiers

B. had sent most of its army away

C. was under the control of the Etruscans

     D. was once small and weak

42. What was Horatius’plan to save the city of Rome?

     A. To burn the road to Rome.

B. To drive the enemy into the river.

C. To cut down the bridge.

D. To kill the enemy horsemen first.

43. According to the passage, what happened after the two soldiers came back?

A. The bridge fell into the water.

B. Horatius was killed by a horseman.

C. The Etruscans won the battle.

     D. Horatius defeated the Etruscans by himself.

44. After the battle, Horatius was renamed "Horatius Cocles" because ________.

A. he was the wisest man in Rome

B. he had saved the town of Rome

C. he had shown great courage against the enemy

     D. his left eye had been hurt in the battle

45. Which of the following words could NOT necessarily be used to describe Horatius?

A. Fearless.      B. Honest.      C. Selfless.     D. Bright.

                             C

Thousands of jobs come into our Job Centre every week, but they get snapped up (搶購) quickly. So although we shall do all we can to help you, it’s important for you to do all you can to help yourself. This passage tells you how.

Registered for work

Once you have registered for work we will match you with available vacancies. If you want to claim unemployment benefit (失業(yè)津貼), you also have to get registered at our Job Centre. But you actually apply for and claim it at the local Unemployment Office.

Getting a job through self-service

Jobs that come in are put on self-service show as soon as possible. Half the people who find jobs through our Job Centre find them through self-service. You can call in at any time to look at the jobs shown.

Come to our Employment Advisers

If you want more help or advice, don’t forget that’s what we’re here for. Our Employment Advisers can help you with things like:

★thinking about the different sorts of jobs you could do and which are best for you.

★jobs available locally or elsewhere.

★whether you are suitable for a TOPS training course.

★funds to help you look for, and move to, work in other parts.

Even though you have a clear idea of the sort of job and pay you want, you may find that something different will suit you quite well. Keep this in mind when you are talking with Employment Advisers.

If you don’t find a job on your first visit

Go into self-service as often as you can to look at the jobs on show there. Good vacancies are coming in all the time just because you’ve been registered for work.

64.The purpose of the passage is to         .

      A. tell people how to become an Employment Adviser

       B. teach the unemployed people how to get registered for work

       C. give information about services available for the unemployed

       D. introduce the TOPS training course for the unemployed

65.The unemployed people can claim unemployment benefit from          .

      A. the Job Centre                B. all the Unemployment Offices

       C. the Employment Advisers   D. the local Unemployment Office

66.Employment Advisers can           .

      A. help you find out what kind of jobs suits you best

       B. help you register for work and use self - service

       C. help you claim as much unemployment benefit as possible

       D. help you find a job suitable for you on your first visit

67.The underlined word “vacancies” in the passage means           .

      A. jobs      B. benefits     C .suggestions        D. Services

第五部分：書面表達(dá)（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié)  情景作文

       你們班四月二日組織了一次爬山活動，請根據(jù)下圖內(nèi)容寫一篇日記，完整記述當(dāng)天發(fā)生的事情。

       注意：詞數(shù)不少于60。

April 2,2010-4-7           Friday

17．—Sorry we're late．We ______ the wrong turning．

       —That's all right．Come in, please．

       A．take       B．have taken       C．took        D．had taken

12．This statue was put up _________ Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

A. in the name of B. by the name of C. in place of       D. in memory of

35. Every weekend, Mrs Green asked her daughter to visit the museum in order to ________ her interest in science.

   A. grow      B. build       C. make        D. develop

B

Whatever our differences as human beings are, we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遺傳的）structure with the simple worm.

But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色體組.

To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（線蟲類的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.

What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.

Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.

60．Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has        .

       A．found that human beings are similar to the worn

       B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm

       C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body

       D．proved that cell death is programmed

61．People might be seriously ill if the cells in heir body        .

       A．grow without being instructed B．die regularly

       C．fail to follow people’s instructions  D．develop in the human body

62．The underlined word “they” (paragraph 5) refers to        .

       A．cell deaths       B．diseases    C．instructions      D．cells

63．What is the subject discussed in the text?

       A．The theory of programmed cell deaths.

       B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.

       C．The programmed human life.

       D．Dangerous diseases.

C. 寫作部分 

 一  閱讀短文，按要求填空（每空不超過3個詞）

     Dolphins are not fish; they’re mammals. They are warm-blooded like man and give birth to one baby called a calf at a time. At birth a calf is about 90—130cm long and grows to about 4m. They live up to 40 years. They are highly sociable animals.

     Their teeth are interlocking rows of hooks, suitable for holding slippery fish. They eat fish whole starting with head first. When they go wild they keep their mouth open and sometimes keep it nodding to express their aggression. Greater aggression is shown by violent jaw clapping. Dolphins breathe through their blowhole(呼吸孔) located at the top of their head. The dolphin’s eyes produce a special slippery secretion(分泌物) which protects the eyes from foreign objects and water friction.

     Dolphins use their powerful tail to move through the water. They also use their tail while hunting. They slap their tail rapidly when they get annoyed or when they want to indicate the sign of danger to alert other dolphins.

     The dolphin’s skin is completely smooth allowing the dolphin to move easily through the water, and also reduce heat loss. Their skin may bear rake marks from other dolphin’s teeth during play or mating, and can easily become badly sunburned if they strand(擱淺).

     Their bodies are very streamlined so they may swim at high speed through the water, and an

example of this is their ears. Dolphin’s ears are barely noticeable marked only by a small hole just behind the eyes.

     While sleeping, it shuts down only half of its brain, as its breathing is under voluntary control. Dolphins take short catnaps, floating just below the surface, and then slowly rising to breathe. Often dolphins are very active during night time, for some this is their main feeding time. Dolphins are able to dive to great depths, and also leap to great heights. They may leap to avoid predators or to show how powerful they are to females at mating time.

單項(xiàng)選擇：

1.The newly-built pavilion is _____ the old one.

   A. three times so big as                   B.  3 times bigger than

   C. as three times big as                   D.  3 times the big of

24. Children should be taught to share, ____________ the parents must attach a lot of importance.

A. in which    B. of which  C. on which    D. to which